Indiantelevision.com's TV Linx Reporter dated 11 July 2009 - links to broadcasting, cable, satellite, media, TV, television related news stories from India and abroad !

11 July 2009

Volume 26 - Issue No: 12

Headlines

UTV Movies to acquire 25 films from Reliance

Deal with the Reliance ADAG company is pegged at around Rs 140 mn; UTV Movies to premiere 20 of these films.

Star Plus to launch Sach Ka Saamna, Indian version of the game show, on 15 July; sets Rs 10 million as prize money.

Big FM launches its 45th station with the start of operations in Shimla; is India’s first private FM to enter Himachal.

News Releases

TV Ratings

Top 10 Programmes (28/06/2009 to 04/07/2009)

Source: www.indiantelevision.com

Today's Newsbreakers.......India News

	Entrepreneurship programmes on TV soon
	Reliance Digital to roll out 31 stores
	Launch of WordSmith Publications
	Source: Hindu Business Line

	Reliance Big TV launches iStock
	Source: Hindu

	Sindhi film industry striving hard to revive fading culture
	'Kambakkht Ishq' grosses Rs 1 bn in first week
	Michael Jackson's father suspects "foul play"
	Do social networks like Twitter belong to media?
	Badshah of Bollywood is now Dr Shah Rukh Khan
	Source: Economic Times

	SAB TV announces 'Sab Dekho Sab
	TIMES NOW unsurpassed for 6 months in a row
	Source: TV next

	China Digital TV announces smart card shipment
	Source: Media Newsline


	Start-ups give Google thumbs-up over MS
	After strike & IPL blues, Bollywood finally has 2 hits
	Source: Financial Express

	Beating estimates, Infy raises hopes
	Source: Livemint

	China Digital TV Provides Business Update
	AUDIO from Medialink and mcafee: How Hacking Hits Home
	Microsoft Launches Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 NBC Sports
	Audiovox Corporation Reports Fiscal 2010 First Quarter Results
`	Source: IT News Online

	Russian channel cuts Putin scene on 'South Park'
	Source: Indopia

	Economists and ceos on news TV
	Source: Indian Express

International News

	MTV Boards the Big Train in New Coming-of-Age Series, Follows ‘Hung’s’ Footsteps
	NBC Universal’s Zucker: The Marketplace Has Bottomed Out
	Source: TV Week

	IDS signs TRESemme to sponsor Living's Make Me A Supermodel
	Source: Media Week

	NXP and TSMC Deliver Industry's First 45nm Single-Chip Digital TV Platform
	Source: Soccentral

	Digital TV migration will cost you
	Source: My Broadband

	Sky ditches DT
	French senate votes through three strikes law
`	Source: Advanced Television

	IOC criticizes US Olympic officials for launching TV network
	Source: Salt Lake Tribune

	UTV signs agreement with Dish TV for UTVi
`	Source: Stock Watch

	Big media seek 21st century business models
	Source: Reuters

	Apps a nail in broadcast mobile TV coffin
	Source: CIOL

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