Date-wise News

Finally it is out in the open, Tarun Katial has indeed joined Sony Entertainment Television (SET) India. Katial has joined as the Executive Vice President-Programming and Response to oversee the channel’s creative content, programming and on-air promotions. Katial will report to Sunil Lulla, the Executive Vice President and Business Head of the channel. Two weeks back exchange4media.com had broken the story on Katial joining SET India.

exchange4media Staff Jan 7, 2004 11:49 AM

The cellular subscriber base in the second month of the unified access service licence regime has 1.69 million additions in December 2003 with the total number of mobile customers crossing 28.19 million across the country.

exchange4media Staff Jan 7, 2004 7:51 AM

Sports merchandising in India seems to be finally coming of age. Leading brewer United Breweries (UB) is formally teaming up with Reebok India to market souvenirs and memorabilia related to soccer. Reebok is taking this up as a commercial venture, while UB’s interest will be limited to brand promotion.

exchange4media Staff Jan 7, 2004 7:50 AM

Even as India formally achieved a teledensity (number of phone connections per 100 people) of 7 at the end of December 2003, 15 months ahead of its target of National Telecom Policy 99, Reliance Infocomm, the latest entrant into mobile telephony has emerged as the largest wireless service provider in the country.

exchange4media Staff Jan 7, 2004 7:49 AM

PR biggie, Porter Novelli, has entered a dual alliance with Bangalore-based The PRactice and Delhi-based PR Pundit. The two Indian firms have a long-standing alliance in themselves.

exchange4media Staff Jan 7, 2004 7:48 AM

Godrej Consumer Products Limited has extended a new variant of Godrej No. 1 Ayurvedic soap in the markets of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Hyderabad. Godrej No. 1 Ayurvedic, under the brand of Godrej No.1, comes with the promise of “true natural beauty with Ayurveda”.

exchange4media Staff Jan 7, 2004 7:45 AM

Creative minds from ad agencies across the country are slated to battle it out for the ‘Concerned Communicator Award’ organized by Rajasthan Patrika. Piyush Pandey is on the panel of judges.

exchange4media Staff Jan 7, 2004 7:42 AM

Sportiff India will be launching its branded sports goods shop christened “sports-locker” all over India, starting off with Chennai followed by Hyderabad and Bangalore. It has plans to cover other cities in the South like Coimbatore and Mysore before it proceeds North. About 45% of its sales will be spent in advertising and promotions of the stores. Focus will be more on in-store activities, events like a sports apparel fashion show, PR, outdoor hoardings and print initially. Sportiff will be on the look out for an ad agency around the same time for the new sports apparel launches.

exchange4media Staff Jan 7, 2004 7:42 AM

The buzz in the Indian media market is that Harmonic Inc, a US based provider of digital video, broadband optical networking and Internet protocol delivery systems has tied up with India’s Alliance Strategies Limited (a multi disciplinary consultancy services company) to capture the DTH segment in India.

exchange4media Staff Jan 7, 2004 7:40 AM

A year-end implies various highs and lows, but for news channels, the end of 2003 spelt bad news. The 52nd week of 2003 (Dec 20 to 27) reflects a fall for this niche. The phase was bad for all news channels. However, for different reasons, it proved more so for Headlines Today and DD News.

exchange4media Staff Jan 7, 2004 7:39 AM

Vikram Kaushik has resigned from the Board of Directors of Colgate Palmolive India. The company, in its notice to the BSE, said that Kaushik had resigned on January 5, 2004 as Whole Time Director and Director of the Company with effect from the close of business hours on December 31, 2003.

exchange4media Staff Jan 7, 2004 7:38 AM

From a small Jaipur court to Jaipur High Court, to Jaipur District Court... then to Delhi High Court, where a judgment was passed and then stayed. Now the NRS case has reached the Supreme Court of India.

exchange4media Staff Jan 7, 2004 7:38 AM

Well that is just the tip of the iceberg. A lot happened in the year 2003 - some of it good and some bad. It can be defined as the 'Year of Controversy' for Indian media and marketing industries. At least the Cola companies and NRSC would vouch for it. By the way do you know who was the biggest ripple maker in the year 2003? Take a guess!

exchange4media Staff Jan 7, 2004 7:37 AM