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Turner International (Turner) and TV18 Group Company’s Global Broadcast News (GBN) have partnered to launch a 24-hour English-language general news channel in India. The service, CNN-IBN, will build upon TV18's newsgathering experience and CNN's extensive global news network. Prominent TV journalist Rajdeep Sardesai will head GBN's foray into the general news space as the Editor-in-Chief of the service.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2005 9:11 AM

Samsung is moving the portion of its $200 million global branding assignment handled by WPP Group’s Berlin Cameron and JWT to Publicis Groupe’s Leo Burnett Worldwide without a review, according to executives familiar with the matter.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2005 7:49 AM

Nipuna Services Ltd, Satyam’s BPO arm, has forged a business partnership with Spirit Media, a part of the Hyderabad-based Ramanaidu Studios. The partnership has bagged three special animation projects in the last few days.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2005 7:48 AM

When it comes to advertising, Dove has made a place for itself in the soap category by bringing in testimonials of everyday women and making the line – ‘Is it Love? No it’s Dove’ – timelessly popular. The brand is now exploring the Internet to reach its core TG, and has released the Real Beauty campaign across the South East Asia market.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2005 7:47 AM

With films forming a major diet of Indian viewers, television channels are promoting them in a big way. The latest to create a buzz about a to-be-aired movie is Zee Cinema, which has tied up with Media2win for the Akshay Kumar-Kareena Kapoor-Priyanka Chopra starrer ‘Aitraaz’. The movie will be aired on the channel on October 30.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2005 7:46 AM

The Government was in the process of evolving a roadmap for implementation of Internationalised Domain Names under the Devnagari and Dravidian scripts, Dayanidhi Maran, Minister of Communications and IT said while inaugurating HCL’s initiative to integrate domain and e-mail infrastructure globally under the .IN domain name.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2005 7:45 AM

In offering complete solutions to client’s problems, one needs to ensure that the OOH agency suggests appropriate sites, innovations and help the client execute them, says Sridharan, VP, Diamond Publicity.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2005 7:44 AM

The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) on Wednesday restrained Korean electronic major LG Electronics India Pvt Ltd from releasing any false, misleading or deceptive advertisement relating to its gift scheme in any form and in any Indian media until further orders, according to an official release.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2005 7:43 AM

We take children engaged in domestic work for granted, hardly moved by their plight and the cruelty they often have to face. Working for their cause is the NGO National Domestic Workers’ Movement for Underage Workers. Mudra has unveiled the second phase of its campaign for the NGO to sensitise Mumbaiites to this issue.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2005 7:42 AM

Filmmakers and broadcasters in India have realised the potential of making good quality films and programmes for children. Popularising entertainment for kids is being done not just by aggressive advertising, but also by constantly churning out innovative ideas for promoting creativity that will immediately enchant children.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2005 7:41 AM

The proposed new ‘views’ channel, Janmat, from Shri Adhikari Brothers has postponed its October launch, Harish Gupta, Director, News & Current Affairs, informed exchange4media. According to sources, the channel, whose test signal is already on, would be launched on November 7.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2005 7:39 AM

Action is coming full flow from the SET stable, where the network is showing the first signs of serious concentration on the recently acquired channel SAB TV. The channel has roped in Contract’s Vice-President Vikas Bahl as Senior VP and Business Head. Bahl will report to SET COO N P Singh.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2005 7:38 AM

In the wake of a number of new initiatives to beef up its content and marketing, Doordarshan is hoping to garner commercial revenue of Rs 800 crore in this financial year, up from last year’s earnings of Rs 665 crore.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2005 7:36 AM

<p align=justify>‘Not a newspaper but a movement’. We have been following, what I would call, civil society journalism. The paper has always given voice to the people. We have managed to stay in touch with our readers through initiatives like Aap ke Dwar (At your doorstep) and Pathak Manch (Readers’ Forum). Over the years, ever since I took over as editor 15 years ago, people have come to associate Prabhat Khabar as a newspaper giving information about their surroundings. We have a loyal readership base.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2005 12:00 AM