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Big TV bets on MDUs to gain DTH subscribers
 Big TV's next big offensive in gaining subscribers is via MDU installations; targets 40% of this market.

DQE inks deal with Disney for three TV animated series
 DQ Ent. inks 3-year licensing deal with Walt Disney for TV series Ratman, Sandra, and Twisted Whiskers.

Executive Dossier
'The mad race to get cricket rights has created a bubble'
 Interview with WSG South Asia CEO Venu Nair

Lessons from the terror front: Comments
Samir Kale, managing director, CMCG India
Anil Wanvari, editor-in-chief, Indiantelevision.com
Amit Khanna, chairman, Reliance Big Entertainment

I&B to meet news broadcasters on 10 December

Colors to beef up weekends with two shows

ICC not for cricket menu in Commonwealth Games

Tribune files for bankruptcy

Jay Leno to appear at 10 pm in new deal with NBC

NBC restructures network & studio programming divisions

BBC to showcase new adaptation of Diary Of Anne Frank

Bender Media acquires Latin American shows

Endemol CEO Ynon Kretz to deliver keynote at MipTV

ESPN to comply with Trai's pricing norms

ibibo to launch 'Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi' application

Intelsat forms JV for satellite biz in Africa

Fox selects Motorola for HD transition

Court orders NDS to pay Echostar $8.3 mn

BBC's 'Good Food' finds taste with online video viewers

Disney deepens ties with UTV, sources film distribution to Indian partner

Warner Bros unveils slate of four Bollywood films

NDTV Imagine Film Company partners with Wide Angle Creations to produce Tamil film

HT shifts creative duties to Lowe

Disney-Pixar to premiere 3D short film 'Tokyo Master' in theatre on 12 December

Juhi and Kapil Sharma to host Chhote Miyan
Pak artistes flee India
Nausheen loses dad
Umer Sharif cancels India visit
Gitanjali - Sikandar are proud parents
'I'm not as boring as I was shown in Bigg Boss' - Debojit Saha

News Releases
'Heroes:Season 3' premiering on Dec 16,2008 exclusively on Star World

TV Ratings
Top 10 Programmes (23/11/2008 to 29/11/2008)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes

Top 100 Programmes (23/11/2008 to 29/11/2008)
Neo Cricket
MAX
Sun TV
Colors
Gemini TV
Aaj Tak
Zee Cinema
Zee Marathi
Maa Telugu
Star News
Zee TV
Zee Telugu
Sony Entertainment TV
DD1
Star Plus
ETV Marathi
India TV
Udaya TV
Kalaignar TV
Cartoon Network
Ten Sports
Star Gold


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Today's Newsbreakers.......India News
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    UTV sole distributor for Disney movies in India

    • ESPN agrees to comply with TRAI guidelines on pricing

    Source: Economic Times
     
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    Colors to offer new TV shows

    • I&B Ministry to meet TV broadcasters

    • UTV to sell Walt Disney movies

    Source: Hindu Business Line
      
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    ARN Operates Hotline for Digital TV Conversion Assistance

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    TV.com Announces Preliminary Results of the Best of 2008 Awards

    Source: IT News Online
     
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    Big TV shows up on the road

    Source: IT Examiner
      
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    PIL demands removal of country's images from Google Earth

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    Google gobbling up $7bn of taxpayers' money every year: Study

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    Sony to cut 8,000 jobs amid global downturn

    Source: Times of India
      
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    YouTube Attracts 100 Million US Online Video Viewers

    Source: Media Newsline
     
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    Big TV launches MDU service

    Source: CIOL
     

    • DQE in exclusive content deal with Walt Disney

    • Discovery lines up new shows for 2009

    • Envirofit to tie up with local players

    • 7Seas in pact with US firm for ad-based mobile games

    • Finance ministry to look into 3G slot matter

    • Kolkata movie theatres hit by terror fears

    Source: Business Standard
     
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    ESPN to slash rates for DTH operators

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    Miley Cyrus, Obama items hot online sellers in 2008

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    Yahoo considering Arun Sarin: WSJ

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    ‘Death of Bear, Lehman means Wall St finished’

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    Sony set to cut 16,000 jobs

    Source: Financial Express
     
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    ICC to draw up anti-racism code

    • Temasek, India Equity Partners deal with Lokmat off

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    Upcoming film is not an biographical: Akshay

    • No sequel for Quantum of Solace: Craig

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    Lindsay Lohan 'nuzzles' Sean Penn at a private party

    Source: DNA
     
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    Legal issues over the telecast rights of Naan Kadavul

    Source: Chennai Online
     
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    'Arun Sarin being considered for Yahoo top job’

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    Reality, not television

    Source: Indian Express
     
    International News
    		• Salmon becomes BBC's director of north
    		• BBC 'could share iPlayer with ITV, C4'
    		• TalkSport fined £20K over Whale breach
    Source: Digital Spy
     
    		• Jay Leno takes his act to prime-time TV
    Source: Yahoo News
     
    		• ABC, ABC Studios Feeling Urge to Merge?
    Source: TV Week
     
    		• TAIWAN: President Ma reaching out to media hostile towards him
    Source: Asia Media
     
    		• ITV Global announces Britannia High licences
    Source: Licensing
     
    		• Cablecom slashes workforce
    Source: Advanced Television
    		• Cablevision eyes network DVR rollout in U.S. in 2009
    Source: Guardian
     
    		• Netflix Instant Viewing on TiVo launched today
    Source: CD Freaks
     
    		• IPTV's 'hybrid' future for Asia
    Source: Zdnet Asia
     
    		• John King, Wolf Blitzer re-up with CNN
    Source: Hollywood Reporter
     
    		• Mega TV Wins Seven Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards
    Source: News Blaze
     
    		• Microsoft to power BSkyB's Sky Player
    Source: CBR Online
     
    		• Brioche brand teams up with family animation
    Source: Brand Republic
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