Date-wise News

The poor performance by the ‘Men in Blue’ has dimmed the enthusiasm of the cricket lovers, but not enough to celebrate Mumbai Cricket Association’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations. On offer is the Mumbai Cricket Festival that takes India’s favourite game to the grassroots.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 8:01 AM

Telecom companies, including mobile phone makers and service providers, are targeting the 'ABCD' market. No, we are not talking about the American Born, Confused Desis here, rather the 'Ayah, Bai, Carpenter, Driver...' market.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 8:00 AM

Jaya TV has successfully wooed Illayaraaja – the man who has been the musical identity of the Tamil film industry for many decades now – to perform live. The maestro, who has avoided live performances for several years, will break the silence with his orchestra on October 16.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 7:59 AM

Radio City 91 FM for the first time in the history of FM in India is getting not one, not two, but 21 of India’s best singers live on air for 21 days on a trot. Beginning October 3, 2005, Radio City brings to its listeners ‘Musical-e-Azam’, a mega line up of 21 star singers live and unplugged at its studio.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 7:58 AM

The property/real estate category has witnessed consistent growth in ad spends in print since 2000. Significantly, these advertisers have shown an overwhelming preference for newspapers. Royal Palm Estates has been the biggest advertiser this year.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 7:57 AM

Emami, the Kolkata-based cosmetics and personal care products company, has launched ‘Fair and Handsome’, a fairness cream for men, which has been developed after intensive research and contains specially developed ingredients to work effectively on men’s skin.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 7:56 AM

Backed and supported by Ozone group of companies, Fourth Dimension Media Pvt Ltd has chalked out ambitious plans for its Hindi monthly magazine ‘4th D Meri Sangini’. Launched in July this year, the women’s magazine has plans to achieve 1.50 lakh circulation by the end of March 2006.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 7:55 AM

The winners of the India Business Leader Awards for 2005 were declared at a glittering awards ceremony, organised by CNBC TV 18 in association with Airtel, on October 1. Subir Raha, Debu Bhattacharya and Satish Reddy were some of the industry stalwarts felicitated at the awards ceremony.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 7:54 AM

Outdoor is a seven-word, seven seconds medium. The advantage is that you have the widest canvas to communicate your ideas. The television has a frame, press may have a page, but the sheer size of outdoor makes it a special medium. Apart from that it is also the cheapest – making it a favourite of advertisers.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 7:53 AM

‘Unish Kuri’, a fortnightly Bengali magazine for college goers from the ABP Group, is set to formally launch its merchandise under the label of ‘UK’ in the first week of October. The launch will be marked with a three-day fashion carnival on October 2-4 at a club in Kolkata.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 7:51 AM

Theirs is an organisation that has defied all conventional management logic. Their’s is an organisation that has successfully applied the Six Sigma principles. They are Mumbai’s ubiquitous dabbawalas. And their’s was the organisation chosen by Saffola to spread the ‘Healthy Heart’ message in a unique way on World Heart Day.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 7:50 AM

JWT, Delhi Vice-President Alok Lal has put in his papers. He will be joining Saatchi & Saatchi as the Delhi branch head from Ocober 3. Lal, who was with JWT for 15 years, was primarily looking after brands like PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay and Reckitt Benckiser.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 7:49 AM

In a surprise move, Zee Sports has acquired the rights to telecast the Challenger Trophy One-Day Series starting from October 10. This comes in the heels of the channel acquiring the telecast rights of all domestic football matches for 10 years and Zee Telefilm Chairman Subhash Chandra declaring that he did not have any interest left in cricket.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 7:48 AM

Sony Entertainment Television is seeing a good run in the 8.00 pm to 9.00 pm band with programmes like ‘Kaisa Ye Pyaar Hai’ and ‘Fame Gurukul’ delivering. However, the channel’s overall primetime share hasn’t increased. Here’s a look why.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 7:44 AM

The Hindi news segment is abuzz with action. This segment can be divided into two sets – Group A with top four channels (Aaj Tak, NDTV India, STAR News and Zee News) and Group B with the next rung. The recent weeks have seen STAR News perform well in Group A, while Channel 7 has done the same in the Group B channels.

exchange4media Staff Oct 3, 2005 7:43 AM