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At the Asian Television Awards, which were held in Singapore, BBC 'Hard Talk' presenter Karan Thapar got the 'Best Current Affairs Presenter' award. NDTV and UTV also made their mark at the awards.

exchange4media Staff Dec 3, 2005 2:31 PM

India is going to see a slew of launches by top notch German car makers like Porsche, Audi and BMW next year. These companies hope to grow at least 35 per cent in the country in 2006.

exchange4media Staff Dec 3, 2005 9:19 AM

Improved consumption levels in both urban and rural areas have helped the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) segment maintain its growth rate in October '05 at an upbeat 6.1%. Categories which innovated the most, thanks to the entry of fresh competition, continue to record good growth rates.

exchange4media Staff Dec 3, 2005 9:18 AM

Pizza Hut, a brand of Yum! Restaurants International, is riding a high as it closes its financial year with 127 restaurants across the country. It opened 19 outlets in November alone, to scale up its presence to 32 cities.

exchange4media Staff Dec 3, 2005 9:08 AM

AME Info, the leading provider of business information in and around the Middle East, is looking at big growth from India's business community where it completed its first year of operations.

exchange4media Staff Dec 3, 2005 9:07 AM

With subscriber addition drying up in older cellphone markets in Western Europe and North America, the bigger players in the mobile phone industry are turning to the emerging markets – India and China to keep growth rates high

exchange4media Staff Dec 3, 2005 9:06 AM

Nick, the TV channel for kids, has launched a whole new destination for kids – the NickToons block from 4-6 pm. On weekdays, the block features Rocket Power, CatDog, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron and Chalkzone, while on weekends, it’s All Grown Up, Fairly Odd Parents, SpongeBob SquarePants and The Angry Beavers.

exchange4media Staff Dec 3, 2005 9:05 AM

Recova cream is ready with its new campaign. While the first ad highlighted hos using Recova can help one regain one’s beauty and fresh looking, the second campaign deals with the sensitive issue of price, with the stress being no price is too high to regain your youthful looks.

exchange4media Staff Dec 3, 2005 9:04 AM

'Toon Cricket', Cartoon Network's signature marketing event, has been specially conceptualised by Cartoon Network for Indian kids will take centrestage on December 4 In Mumbai.

exchange4media Staff Dec 3, 2005 9:03 AM

Reliance Infocomm, which is in the process of a brand overhaul, is scouting for nearly 50 people in the marketing, branding, customer management and communication space. The company will unveil its new brand identity shortly with a multi-media campaign.

exchange4media Staff Dec 3, 2005 9:02 AM

RK Swamy BBDO has gained yet another international recognition. This time the agency’s work has been selected for the prestigious One Show Rx exhibition, hosted by The One Club. The exhibition features pharmaceutical work that has been marked as best from around the world.

exchange4media Staff Dec 3, 2005 9:01 AM

If you cursed yourself for having a mobile service provider on which you could not participate in KBC2, then here is good news for you. TRAI is now mulling to allow access to all such services, including free phone or toll free numbers, tele-voting services, premium numbers like services offered by astrologers to customers of all service providers.

exchange4media Staff Dec 3, 2005 9:00 AM

Amitabh Bachchan’s recent brush with ill health has left not just his numerous fans anguished, but also sent advertisers and STAR Plus into a tizzy. STAR has rejigged KBC 2’s schedule, from three days a week, the game show will now air only on Fridays and Saturdays.

exchange4media Staff Dec 3, 2005 8:57 AM

<p align=justify>The fact that we’ve just produced a number of original productions in India – Music, Art and Dance, Bam Bam Bam Gir Pade Hum, which are two of the top rating shows on POGO – goes on to show the knowledge we have on the content that clicks. We’re obviously doing something right. And I put a lot of it down to experience. You have to put in your apprenticeship. You have to do your homework. You get a degree after three years at a university, not just in a month. Groundwork is important and our strength there is working for us.

exchange4media Staff Dec 3, 2005 12:00 AM