26 July 2008Newsletter Subscription Email this Page Volume 23 - Issue No: 30







 

Headlines







DTH operators to submit quarterly performance report: Trai
 Trai orders DTH operators to submit quarterly performance monitoring reports to the I&B ministry.

Trai sends cable TV restructuring draft to MIB
 Trai sends final recommendations on restructuring of cable TV to ministry of Information & Broadcasting.

Music India to show Punjabi news for UK viewers
 Music India ties up with Punjabi news channel PTC News; to show Punjabi news to its UK viewers.

Sab to launch comedy show 'Taarak Mehta Ka...'

Zoom to kick off reality show Bollywood Club

ICL launches youth mobilisation initiative

Thomson Reuters to launch biz news channel

Clear Channel shareholders approve $17.9 bn buyout

UTV to fortify new media biz

India adds 8.94 million wireless subscribers in June: Trai

Online casual gaming emotionally, physically engaging

Dark Knight garners $222 million at box office

MGM signs Aronofsky & Self for movie venture


CN to launch massively multiplayer online game

Anchal ousted; Abhijeet apologises on Ek Se
Going places Ashish Vidyarthi
Real weapons in Arslaan
Another event based show for Jay

News Releases
Harman Baweja & Priyanka Chopra gifts a brand new LG Scarlet to BIG 92.7 FM on-air contest winner, amidst much fanfare
Hyderabad's Radio City 91.1FM concludes 'The Great Biryani Eating Competition'
Lord Krishna’s entry on 9X’s Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki

TV Ratings
Top 10 Programmes (06/07/2008 to 12/07/2008)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes

Top 100 Programmes (06/07/2008 to 12/07/2008)
Star Cricket
Star Plus
Zee TV
DD1
Sun TV
NDTV Imagine
Sony Entertainment TV
9X


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Today's Newsbreakers.......India News
    		• UTV Motion Pictures makes it to US top 20 distributors
    		• Cable cos get 5 years to switch to digital mode
    		• I'd do anything for Amitabh Bachchan: Akshay Kumar
    Source: Economic Times
      
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    TRAI ask cable operators to upgrade to digital mode in 5 years

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    TV Today Network surges 18% on buyback plans

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    About 8.94 m wireless users added in June: TRAI

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    DoT offers sops to operators for rural rollout

    Source: Hindu Business Line
      
    		• Three firms bid for Arasu Cable TV’s digital control room
    		• Tete-a-tete with radio jockeys
    Source:The Hindu
      
    		• BMC's Rs 50 cr plan to make Mumbai WiFi-enabled
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    BCCL picks up stake in Naaptol Online

    Source: Times of India
      
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    DISH Network and DIRECTV Applaud House Judiciary Subcommittee Vote

    Source: TechWhack
      
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    The promise of mobile television

    		• mjunction launches Hindi version of its e-portal
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    Madison scouts for acquisitions in creative advertising, PR space

    Source: Financial Express
      
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    Asian Star Q1 PAT up by 55% to Rs 11.91cr

    Source: Moneycontrol.com
     
      
    		• MTN may target other Indian telcos, media reports
    		•  Anti-dumping duty slapped on colour TV picture tubes
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    Television`s big cheese

    		• The artist as an entertainer
    Source: Business Standard
      
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    Trai issues final cable TV guidelines

    		• BCCI stumped as Sachin’s ICL link revealed
    		• ‘Web films are the next big thing for us’
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    Rajni starrer 'Kuselan' goes to Tokyo film festival

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    Rajiv Khandelwal pitches permanent tent

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    Bale urges media to respect his privacy

    Source: DNA
      
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    Israel embassy launches Urdu, Hindi website

    		• BCCI takes objection to Richardson’s IPL comments
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    Kerry good, ICL bad?

    Source: Indian Express
      
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    The state of our sports

    Source: Livemint
     
    		• Telecom watchdog calls for digitisation of cable television
    		• Ghaziabad's city TV channels banned
    Source: Smash Hits
      
    		• Trai wants cable TV industry to be fully digitalized within 5 years
    Source: TelecomTiger
     
    International News
    		• Jeremy Kyle joins TalkSport
    		• BBC Trust claims £2,026 expenses for Sky
    Source: Digital Spy
     
    		• UK DCMS to regulate VOD services
    		• XM and Sirius go ahead in principle
    Source: Advanced Television
     
    		• ABC Studios Reups 'Dirty Sexy' and 'Samantha' Execs
    		• TLC's Shapiro-Mathes Out; O’Neill Takes Over
    Source: Media Week
     
    		• Emmy Hosting to Be Group Effort
    Source: TV Week
     
    		• Actors guild brass forms own campaign coalition
    Source: San Jose Mercury News
     
    		• CBS and Stephen King Scare up Mobile Video
    Source: Redherring
    		• Thomson Reuters To Launch Business TV News Channel
    Source: Wall Streetpit
     
    		• Paramount Pictures cutting 60 jobs
    		• BASIS POINT-LS Cable borrowing $400 mln for acquisition
    		• Sony to close TV assembly plant in Vietnam
    Source: Reuters
     
    		• Vivendi second quarter sales lifted by telecoms, pay TV operations
    Source: IHT
     
    		• XM Satellite Radio, Sirius agree to pay $19M in fines
    Source: Biz Journals
     
    		• BBC trustees claim expenses for watching Sky channels
    Source: FT
     
    		• Digital information system partnership launched
    Source: Engineering News
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