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The Information & Broadcasting Minister, Jaipal Reddy, announced that the bidding process for 336 private FM radio stations will start from next week. Addressing the Indian Magazine Summit organized by the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) in the Capital today, the Minister said that expansion of radio is going to be an exciting phenomenon.

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 12:47 PM

Hindustan Lever's performance may never have attracted more attention than it does now with its share price reflecting a change in investor expectations. Sales grew by 0.8% in May'05 against a decline of 0.4% in April'05 and a 3.2% growth in the first quarter of CY05.

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 8:29 AM

Kwang-Ro Kim, the LG Electronics India CEO, who might leave early next year, has an unfinished agenda, to make the company number one in GSM handsets in India.

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 8:28 AM

Buy two get one free, seems to be the philosophy of the organised retail sector. Globally, big retail chains have captured the markets by offering attractive schemes and heavy discounts, offering stiff competition to the unorganised sector. And that's turning out to be the case in India as well.

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 8:27 AM

BC Web Wise, a part of Clearship Group of Companies, has a successful flagship portal Tips4me.com. Chaya Brian Carvalho, CEO, speaks about the company’s future plans and of winning the MSN India Cannes Cyber Lions Award.

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 8:26 AM

Zee Telefilms Ltd has recorded a 24.5 per cent growth in the first quarter over the corresponding period in the previous fiscal, while the consolidated operating profit has shown a 1.8 per cent growth at Rs 998 million, excluding Padmalaya.

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 8:25 AM

FM radio proved its worth when everything else seemed to be drowning. It provided a vital link - offering information, relaying messages, providing live status reports and generally comforting people.

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 8:23 AM

'The key to grab viewers' interest is interactivity': This is the new mantra that the nine-month old channel Zee Business is adopting. The channel is introducing three new interactivity-based programming, which will be aired in August 2005.

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 8:22 AM

Rediff.com India Ltd, one of the leading online providers of news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services for Indians, has recorded 53 per cent growth in its revenues in the first quarter this year.

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 8:21 AM

Thinking Caps, a creative shop, is all set to launch itself in the Bangalore market in mid-August. The new initiative, to provide 'complete communication solutions', is being set up by two young former communication professionals.

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 8:20 AM

Ten Sports has taken on Maruti Suzuki as their exclusive sponsors for their cricket rating property for the next two years. Titled 'Maruti Suzuki Cricket Ratings', the deal will break on the channel starting with the first match of the Indian Oil Cup Tri-series on July 30.

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 8:19 AM

In this campaign by Equus, it’s the resilient Indian cricketer who is going to be advised by everybody on getting the ‘right stroke’. Through cricket, Max New York aims to communicate what a ‘safe life’ can offer.

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 8:18 AM

Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment has signed a five-year, first-look production and distribution deal with Hollywood’s 20th Century Fox to produce 15-20 titles for the studio over the next five years with aggregate budgets in excess of $ 400 million.

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 8:17 AM

Bangalore-based MAA Group’s retail solutions company, RAMMS India, has announced its client wins in Q1 FY 2005-06. Among its acquisitions are VIP Luggage, Parryware, Adishwars India, Archies Cards, D’ Mart Supermarket and CISCO.

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 8:16 AM

<p align=justify>“The ambition is to establish a sports channel and sports is not just restricted to cricket. However, Zee Network does not regard the cricket issue as finished but it did give us a great deal of thinking time on alternatives to supplement cricket. We got more creative and more innovative. The idea is to bring certain sports, which Indian teams or Indian individuals succeed in, to the fore and if we latch on to one of those sports effectively, we can probably ride our way to success.”

exchange4media Staff Jul 29, 2005 12:00 AM