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Headlines







Bhojpuri GEC Mahuaa TV launched
 India's first Bhojpuri GEC Mahuaa TV launches; gets star director Prakash Jha's Bahubali as driver show.

INX Media partners with AsiaSat to distribute 9X and 9XM
 INX Media partners with AsiaSat for the distribution of 9X and 9XM across the Asia-Pacific.

India best place in world for news channels: Purie
 NT awardwinners on news being brought back on the agenda and need for unity amongst channels.

Executive Dossier
'We are not a business model-oriented channel'
 Interview with Lok Sabha TV CEO Suneet Tandon

IBN channels & sites plan special I-Day programming

114 mn viewers tune in to NBC on first two days of Olympics

Time Warner 2Q revenues up five per cent to $11.6 bn

ESPN to telecast AFC Cup final

BBC Magazines to launch Lonely Planet title

MobileStore unveils scratch-and-win promotion

Nab launches BroadcastPublicService.org

Spice Mobile India launches gaming gadget

Madhur Bhandarkar honoured with "Pride Of India" award

Cinemax launches multiplex in Faridabad

Dilip Marathe joins Percept/H as creative head

Makaan.com launches new viral campaign

Future TV launches new programme to celebrate Olympics


Nickelodeon taps Lyons to host sports competition series

Shabbir actually
Shweta Tiwari goes international
Shocking elimination on Waar Parriwar
Balaji actors in C KKompany
No more character roles for Dimple
Simple Kaul to counsel co-actors

News Releases
Times Now brings the Battle in Beijing to your living rooms

TV Ratings
Top 10 Programmes (13/07/2008 to 19/07/2008)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes

Top 100 Programmes (13/07/2008 to 19/07/2008)
Star Plus
Zee TV
Sony Entertainment TV
Sun TV
NDTV Imagine


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Today's Newsbreakers.......India News
    		• Holy cash cow, Batman! Content makes comeback
    		• 'Reliance Entertainment may seal DreamWorks deal this week'
    		• DreamWorks, ADAG seen as close to a deal

    • 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' is fun though forgettable

    		• Cameron Diaz is Hollywood's top-earning actress
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    AirMedia Q2 earnings rise; 2008 sales outlook strong

    Source: Economic Times
      
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    3G auction modalities by Sept

    • Television Eighteen India (Rs 249.1): Buy

    • Bhojpuri entertainment channel

    • Radio taxi

    Source: Hindu Business Line
      
    		• Catch the Olympic Games on the Internet

    • DD captures the moment, then disappoints

    		• Shaadi.com aims 300 million users by this fiscal end
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    3G spectrum auction process to be finalised

    Source:The Hindu
      
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    Autodesk Launches Toxik 2009 Visual Effects Software

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    'Big Time Spender' Celebrates Milestone of 400 Million Viewers

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    Roxio Launches Online Storytelling Platform

    Source: IT News Online
      
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    TV channel airs cash-for-vote tapes

    Source: Times of India
      
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    SeaMobile® Enterprises and Subsidiary Wave Entertainment Network

    Source: TechWhack
     
      
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    DreamWorks India team to work on NBC series

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    UTV Software: creating a diversified media offering

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    DoT tells Idea to surrender one of its licences; no refund

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    Bindra’s gold may shoot up India’s Olympics viewership

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    Funny ads target savvy young voters

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    Cartier joins MySpace in an appeal to young consumers

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    3G Spectrum auction by Sept

    Source: Financial Express
      
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    David Dhawan gets the jitters too

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    I am a primitive man: Salman

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    Saina had Bill Gates in the audience

    Source: DNA
      
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    DD records low Olympics viewership

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    IPL, Olympic gold will spawn professional sports managers

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    Idea must give up one licence for merger, says DoT

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    Cash-for-vote scam: TV channel telecasts tapes

    Source: Business Standard
      
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    Star, 2 other cos to launch home shopping channel

    Source: Livemint
      
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    Briatore pockets US $11m for F1 TV rights

    Source: MSN India
     
    International News
    		• ISI promoting TV channel in Bangladesh
    Source: Andhra News
     
    		• NBC Universal off to fast start with Olympic ratings
    		• `Hee Haw' reruns to air on RFD-TV
    Source: Yahoo News
     
    		• Record six months for commercial TV
    		• KT: 710 billion won for IPTV
    Source: Advanced Television
     
    		• Rolling Stone Shifts to Standard-Size Format
    Source: Media Week
     
    		• Global to sell stations including BRMB
    Source: Digital Spy
     
    		• Nat Geo Campaign Earns Emmy Governors Award
    		• Discovery Communications Sales Rise
    Source: TV Week
    		• Mobile TV in downward spiral in Germany and Japan
    Source: Into Mobile
     
    		• Jeff Frost minds Sony TV biz
    Source: Hollywood Reporter
     
    		• EC readies European satellite wireless spectrum
    Source: Zdnet Asia
     
    		• SBS To Launch 9 Digital Radio Channels & Online Streaming
    Source: Smart House
     
    		• Al Jazeera reports sharp growth in mobile services
    Source: The Peninsula Qatar
     
    		• PTV Peshawar to broadcast Kehkashan today
    Source: Daily Times
     
    		• Foreign Media Critical of US Edwards Coverage
    Source: ABC News
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