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Senthil Kumar has been elevated from his position at JWT Mumbai, where he was Associate VP and Creative Director. He is Chennai-bound as VP and Executive Creative Director at JWT India’s Chennai office, thus becoming the agency’s youngest Executive Creative Director at the age of just 33. Kumar joins Joono Simon, VP and Creative Director, and will continue to work on national and regional projects for key accounts of JWT India.

exchange4media Staff Sep 6, 2006 7:14 PM

French media and telecommunications conglomerate Vivendi has agreed to acquire BMG Music Publishing from Bertelsmann of Germany for about $1.6 billion euros ($2.05 billion), according to a source familiar with the situation. The acquisition will make Universal's music publishing holdings the largest in the world.

exchange4media Staff Sep 6, 2006 8:48 AM

Tom Freston is leaving Viacom, less than a year after the company split from CBS. Amid a lagging stock price – down 20 per cent since last January when it split from CBS – the Viacom CEO resigned. Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone issued a statement on Tuesday morning with the news. Freston, 60, will be replaced by a member of the board, Philippe Dauman.

exchange4media Staff Sep 6, 2006 8:47 AM

Public sector BSNL, the country's largest integrated telecom services provider, is about to go on a brand-building binge across its entire services portfolio to hold on to customers in the face of intense competition from rivals like Bharti Airtel, R-ADAG, Hutch-Essar and Idea.

exchange4media Staff Sep 6, 2006 8:46 AM

Faced with stiff competition from private labels and global giants such as Revlon and L'Oreal, Hindustan Lever (HLL) is rolling out a range of upmarket skin-care products under the Pond's brand name.

exchange4media Staff Sep 6, 2006 8:46 AM

Zee Kannada has appointed TV artist Malavika Avinash, popularly known as ‘Madhavi Patel’, as its Head, Programming. Avinash is an industry veteran with over two decades’ experience.

Judy Franko Sep 6, 2006 8:45 AM

Job portal Naukri.com has tied up with the Infomedia Group, one of the leading media companies, to power content in the form of relevant job listings for 17 magazines of the Group.

exchange4media Staff Sep 6, 2006 8:44 AM

My FM, Bhaskar Group’s FM channel in Jaipur, has been ranked the No. 1 FM channel there, according to an IMRB RADIator study. My FM has 51 per cent share of the market in Jaipur, compared to Radio Mirchi’s 33 per cent and 16 per cent for the other FM channels like Radio Tadka, Radio City and Pink City.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Sep 6, 2006 8:43 AM

Loksatta, the Marathi daily from the Indian Express Group, is launching a Delhi reprint of its Mumbai edition for the Maharashtrians in the National Capital from September 6.

exchange4media Staff Sep 6, 2006 8:42 AM

Dollar Company has roped in Fifth Estate Communications, a Chennai-based advertising agency, as its agency of record. The account has been pegged at around Rs 1.5 crore. The incumbent agency is Mediaedge:cia India.

Judy Franko Sep 6, 2006 8:41 AM

Punjab is emerging as the new print battlefield for Hindi dailies with Dainik Jagran launching its Amritsar edition on September 6, 2006 and Dainik Bhaskar slated to launch its Amritsar and Jalandhar soon. With this new offering, Jagran now has three editions from Punjab.

exchange4media Staff Sep 6, 2006 8:41 AM

The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has demanded that CDs being an integral part of the content nowadays, they should be treated as supplements given along with newspapers and magazines.

exchange4media Staff Sep 6, 2006 8:39 AM

Taking advantage of the Supreme Court judgment in Ten Sports’ case in which the apex court had ordered Prasar Bharati and the Centre not to interfere in the exclusive rights of Ten Sports for the India-Sri Lanka-South Africa Tri-series, Zee Sports has decided not to share its feed for the upcoming DLF Cup involving India.

exchange4media Staff Sep 6, 2006 8:38 AM

Nimbus Sports Broadcast has signed an exclusive deal with STAR India for distributing its forthcoming bouquet of NEO Sports channels. At the same time, it has appointed Shashi Kalathil as CEO of its sports broadcasting business.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Sep 6, 2006 8:37 AM