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Cricket telecast rights: High Court asks for fresh bids; Zee to respond Tuesday?blur=25

The action on the BCCI cricket telecast rights hasn’t ended yet. Following ESPN’s move challenging the BCCI’s decision to award the cricketing rights for all international cricket played in India in the next four years to Zee, the Mumbai High Court on Thursday morning suggested ESPN-STAR Sports and Zee Telefilms submit fresh bids to the Registrar General of the court.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 3:50 PM

Airtel bags top honours at Voice & Data 100 Awards?blur=25

Bharti Cellular, which owns the Airtel brand, has won the coveted Voice & Data 100 Award as the "Top Cellular Service Provider of the Year" for 2004. Sister company Bharti Teletech, which manufacturers fixed-lines telephone instruments under the 'Beetel' brand name, bagged the "Top Telephone Manufacturer of the Year" award.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 8:16 AM

Mobile subscriber base closing in on fixed line — BSNL adds 6.2 lakh customers in August?blur=25

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has created a record by adding 6.2 lakh mobile subscribers in August, making it the highest month-on-month addition by any GSM operator ever since cellular telephony was introduced in the country.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 8:15 AM

International: BBC invites talks to sell Worldwide?blur=25

BBC has invited Time Warner, Bertelsmann and Walt Disney to discuss possible bids for BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial sales and publishing arm.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 8:14 AM

Henkel Spic extends Pril brand to glass cleaners?blur=25

Henkel Spic India Ltd has extended its dishwash brand Pril to glass and surface cleaners and is phasing out the Brisk brand of glass cleaner.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 8:13 AM

Got a business idea? Play it on television?blur=25

Have a business plan in mind and no money to back it? Not to worry. You can not only get it fully funded but become a celebrity, thanks to Zee Telefilms latest reality show Business Baazigar.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 8:12 AM

Scooter leader Honda Motorcycles enters Indian motorbike market with Unicorn?blur=25

Honda Motorcycle & Scooters plans to add 15 new models of motorcycles and scooters over the coming few years, MD & COO Yukihiro Aoshima said while launching Unicorn, the company’s first motorcylcle in the Indian market.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 8:10 AM

Nissan 'test-driving' the Indian market?blur=25

Nissan Motor Company of Japan is test-driving the Indian market with its sports utility vehicle 'X-Trail'. The company will decide its future strategy for the Indian market depending on the performance of the X-Trail.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 8:09 AM

BCCI: Zee likely to name partner today?blur=25

Zee Telefilms is expected to announce its production partner on Thursday, for broadcasting cricket matches to be played in India between October 2004 and 2008.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 8:08 AM

Euro RSCG bags Adrenalin account?blur=25

Euro RSCG, Chennai, has bagged the creative account of Polaris' associate company Empower Works Ltd, which provides human resource management software under the Adrenalin brand name.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 8:06 AM

Ad agencies: Image makers or brand sustainers??blur=25

Nothing much has changed in the last 15 years or so regarding what a client expects from an advertising agency. What has changed, however, is the way agencies have evolved themselves to ensure that the right things are done to support the client’s business.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 8:05 AM

Real estate major Senior Group to launch Hindi news channel?blur=25

The Rs 2,500-crore Delhi-based Senior Group of Companies engaged in the real estate business is launching a 24-hour Hindi news and current affairs channel called S1. Noted print and television journalist Santosh Bhartiya is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 8:04 AM

Zee's sports channel to be called Zee Sports?blur=25

Indian media and entertainment conglomerate Zee Telefilms today announced the name of its new sports channel. Zee Network will formally launch Zee Sports celebrating the 12th anniversary on October 2.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 8:03 AM

Star plans re-launching <i>Khulja Sim Sim</i>, BAG to handle production?blur=25

A few weeks back STAR India decided to air around 85 new episodes of 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' (KBC) beginning in April 2005, and now, the group is re-launching its popular game show 'Khulja Sim Sim' that went off air last October.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 8:03 AM

Tata&#8217;s Westside looks for media partner to handle Rs 10-12-cr account?blur=25

Tata Retail Enterprises (Trent) - the company operating under the brand name 'Westside', is looking out for a media partner. The group has called for a pitch and is evaluating agencies for the same. However, the account is pegged at Rs 10 to 12 crore.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 8:01 AM

Gitanjali Puri, Head-Advertising and Marketing Communications, Xerox Modicorp?blur=25

We do not have a photocopying proposition as such; the Xerox of today is quite different from the Xerox of the past. Like every great brand, Xerox had to redefine itself. We have transformed from analog to digital; copying to printing; and from products to services.

exchange4media Staff Sep 9, 2004 12:00 AM