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Piyush Shah, Head of Internet, mobile strategy and technology, HT Media, has put in his papers. Sources close to the development have confirmed the news. They added that Shah might start his own Internet venture or take up bigger opportunities in an Internet company. At HT, the former Microsoft hand was heading the media house’s Internet ventures and mobile platforms.

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 6:20 PM

Sahar Elhabashi has been made CEO of Discovery Networks International. She will be based in London and will manage the day-to-day operations of the company's international business, which distributes 15 media brands to 781 million cumulative subscribers in more than 170 countries across Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Elhabashi joins Discovery from MTV Networks International, where she has served as Executive VP, Strategy & Digital Media, since 2001. Elhabashi joined MTV Networks International in 1992 as Manager, New Business Development, for MTV Europe. Prior to joining MTV, she worked as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 1:51 PM

Convergys Corporation, a global company dealing in customer care, human resources and billing services, has appointed Sukant Srivastava as Managing Director and Country Manager for Customer Care operations in India. He will be responsible for overseeing the operations of Convergys' eight contact centres and nearly 11,000 customer care employees in India. Prior to joining Convergys, Srivastava served in a variety of global leadership roles with Keane, Inc. His most recent assignment was as MD of Keane's Indian operations.

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 1:50 PM

Amit Sharma has joined American Tower Corporation as Executive VP, Asia. American Tower is a leading owner, operator and developer of broadcast and wireless communication sites. Sharma will serve as head of Asian operations and will be based in New Delhi. He moves to American Tower from Motorola. Since 1992, Sharma has led country teams in India and South-east Asia for Motorola, including as Country President, India, and Head of Strategy, Asia-Pacific. Sharma has also served on Motorola's Asia Pacific Board. Prior to Motorola, he was with GE Capital, and before that with McKinsey, New York.

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 1:48 PM

Nikhil Gupta, Deputy Manager, HT Media Ltd, has joined Media Transasia India as Senior Manager-Sales. He would be responsible for all-India sales of Media Transasia publications. Gupta has more than eight years of sales & marketing experience at various levels. He started his career with Kid Stuff promos as Executive-Events & Promotions. He was with HT Media for more than six years. He was in-charge of Central & West Delhi Sales. Prior to that he was in-charge of sales in North Delhi, NCR and Haryana.

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 1:47 PM

NBC Universal Sees Value in Setting Prices for Each Platform

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 10:29 AM

First Reorg Under New CRO Rooney as Regional Managers Gain Responsibilities Across Media

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 10:25 AM

Sibling Atmosphere BBDO Also on Board to Handle $150 Million Account

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 10:23 AM

O&M has elevated four of its Group Creative Directors – Sumanto Chattopadhyay, Abhijit Avasthi, Rajiv Rao and Anup Chitnis – as ECDs for its South-Asia operations. The move comes close on the heels of Sagar Mahabaleshwarkar’s exit from the agency.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Sep 7, 2007 10:19 AM

With an eye on the coming festival season, Cadbury India has set about highlighting the appeal of chocolates as the ‘universal special gift’. The confectionary major has launched a new TVC titled Tohfa’ for its Celebrations range of chocolates. The campaign has been created by Contract Advertising.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Sep 7, 2007 10:16 AM

INX Network has inked a deal with Ideal Systems under which the latter will provide systems design and integration services for news and playout facilities for INX’s channels. Through this deal, the Network plans to forge ahead and launch three more channels in India.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Sep 7, 2007 10:15 AM

Mudra has appointed Sanjay Menon as Executive Creative Director to head its Ahmedabad creative team. Prior to this appointment, Menon was with Grey Worldwide, Bangalore.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Sep 7, 2007 10:14 AM

Following a surge in circulation over the last three months, Mid-Day Multimedia has announced an increase in advertising rates for all its products. Moreover, the cover price of Mid-Day Mumbai on Fridays has also been hiked by a rupee.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Sep 7, 2007 10:13 AM

The European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA) has launched the EASA Blue Book, which is released on a tri-annual basis. The EASA Blue Book, launched in Brussels, is designed for marketing communications practitioners to understand the codes of practice and systems as well as to give regulators a comprehensive overview of self-regulatory systems around the world.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Sep 7, 2007 10:13 AM

Zapak Digital Entertainment, a Reliance ADAG venture, is planning to roll out 250 Zapak cafés, called ‘Gameplexes’, across India by the end of this financial year. Phase I of this rollout will include the launch of Gameplexes in eight cities – Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chandigarh.

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 10:11 AM

ESPN-STAR Sports announced a new four-year contract for the exclusive rights to broadcast Cricket Australia’s domestic and home international matches across various platforms, including television, the Internet, mobile and radio, covering the entire Asian region.

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 10:10 AM

The three-day Ifra India 2007 conference came to an end on September 6 in Chennai. While Jim Chisholm, Joint Principal, iMedia, France, in his closing address pooh-poohed the threat to the newspaper industry from the Internet, it remains a fact that the digital inroads being made into the newspaper space is going to change the industry forever.

Judy Franko Sep 7, 2007 10:09 AM

Saregama India has launched digital kiosks to facilitate downloading music for a price. These kiosks have already been installed in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai with a library of close to 30,000 music tracks.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Sep 7, 2007 10:08 AM

Even as the India Retail Forum 2007 drew to a close on September 6, the Forum left several paradoxes unanswered. However, many solutions came to the fore, which, if implemented, could see the Indian retail industry growing stronger in the coming years.

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 10:05 AM

Kolkata-based Sun Infomedia is foraying into the radio space with the launch of two 24-hour FM stations in Siliguri, slated to go on air by the last week of September.

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 10:04 AM

The Statesman has discontinued its afternoon edition from September 1. The move follows an internal revamp wherein it was decided that the focus should be on the flagship The Statesman. The Statesman Afternoon Edition was launched in mid-2002.

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 10:03 AM

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has sought consultation paper on provisioning of IPTV services. In a statement, the telecom regulator said that currently there was lack of clarity on who could provide IPTV services.

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 10:02 AM

SimplyMarry.com has taken posting profiles to the next level of simplicity. The matrimonial website as become the country’s first such website to adopt the Web 2.0 technology.

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 10:01 AM

NDTV Convergence has inked a deal with Japan’s The New Media Group, a digital media platform developer and operator in the Asia-Pacific region, for syndicating its bouquet of television channels – NDTV 24x7, NDTV Profit and NDTV Good Times. The content would also be made available through Video on Demand.

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 9:59 AM

"One big thing is that we have come to a comfort level with our own language and our own culture, and now we are doing it with pride. There was a lot of restrain in the early '80s, when people were following the West and sometimes people even thought that being too Indian was being downmarket. Today, people are doing it with pride. Indian advertising has its own look and feel. The other change is that from the mid-90s, advertisers have become a lot more open to fresher and newer advertising ideas, than pure information-based ideas that were the norm in the '80s."

exchange4media Staff Sep 7, 2007 12:00 AM