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Aaj Tak, Headlines Today and Tez have turned pay in non-CAS areas. TV Today Network Ltd,
exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2007 2:36 PM
Wagh Bakri Tea Group has appointed Nisan Salian as Executive VP of Sales and Marketing for Mumbai operations. He will report to Director Parag Desai. Salian brings with him 20 years of experience. Prior to this, he was associated with Colgate-Palmolive for 10 years, and with Godrej for 10 years before that.
exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2007 1:05 PM
Santanu Datta will be joining the Jharkhand Edition of The Telegraph as Resident Editor from December 1. His last assignment was with The Indian Express, Mumbai. Datta had earlier worked with The Telegraph as Assistant Editor, News Desk.
exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2007 1:04 PM
Rana Basu Thakur, who is with Reliance Telecom (GSM), has been promoted as Deputy General Manager-Marketing, Kolkata. Basu Thakur has been with Reliance Telecom for the last six years and had started out as Product Manager. He has handled the brand right from its inception in 1996. He has earlier worked with advertising agencies like Mudra and Response. He has also worked with E-Bay and 123 India.com prior to joining Reliance Telecom.
exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2007 1:02 PM
Anish Daryani, who was with Rediffusion DYR, Kolkata, has recently moved to O&M, Mumbai, where he will work on the tea vertical of the Unilever business. At Rediffusion he worked as a Brand Partner, and headed the Airtel account for all East circles, and won many new businesses such as Linc Pens, Haldiram Bhujiawala, Austin Powerply, healthcare brands Calcutta Medical Research Institute and BM Birla Heart Research Centre. In his previous stint with Ogilvy lasting two and a half years in the Kolkata office, he worked on Hutch, Tea Board, Apeejay Finance and the AIDS awareness campaign ‘Buladi’.
exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2007 1:00 PM
John Ford to Helm Discovery as Company Creates Investigation Discovery
exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2007 6:47 AM
Videocon has launched a new TVC bringing two of India’s youth icons together. Titled ‘Whatever role life gives you, play it big’, the TVC features Shah Rukh Khan and MS Dhoni, with the concept of role reversals. O&M is the creative agency behind the TVC, with ECD Sumanto Chattopadhyay having worked on it.
Tasneem Limbdiwala Nov 30, 2007 6:40 AM
Prasoon Joshi, Executive Chairman, McCann Worldgroup India, and Regional Creative Director, Asia Pacific, has joined the Board of Reliance Entertainment as Non-Executive Director.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Nov 30, 2007 6:38 AM
Hindustan Unilever Ltd has appointed O&M as creative agency for Lakme Skincare. Publicis Ambience is the incumbent agency, and will continue to be the agency for the Lakme Colour Cosmetics business. Lowe will continue to handle the Lakme Hairnext business.
exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2007 6:36 AM
The post-lunch session of FMCC and CBM’s conference on ‘Monetising your new media platforms’ had FIPP’s Donald D Kummerfeld predicting the end of print media in five years.
exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2007 6:35 AM
FMCC and Cross Border Media (CBM) had organised a conference on ‘Monetising your new media platforms’ in the Capital on November 29. The conference commenced with a keynote address by Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of ‘Technology Review’.
exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2007 6:33 AM
In a recent move to strengthen its senior team, Rediffusion DY&R has brought on board Chandana Agarwal as Business Head and Ashutosh Karkhanis as Creative Director in their Mumbai office.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Nov 30, 2007 6:30 AM
The Bhaskar Group has unveiled ‘Revelations’, a unique series of research findings of its markets. The first series of Revelations, ‘Understanding the Women of Rajasthan’, was launched in Delhi and Mumbai on November 28 and 29, respectively.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Nov 30, 2007 6:28 AM
FMCC and CBM had organised a conference on ‘Monetising your new media platforms’ in the Capital on November 29. Eminent speakers at the day-long conference voiced their opinions on opportunities new technology offers to the media, advertisers and clients, as well as new challenges for traditional media and advertising models.
exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2007 6:25 AM
Procter & Gamble, one of the largest advertisers in India, has decided to finally review its media duties after a gap of seven years. P&G has invited four agencies to make a pitch. These are Madison, Starcom Worldwide, MediaCom and Carat. With the exception of Madison, the rest are P&G’s roster agencies globally.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Nov 30, 2007 6:23 AM
After a stint of almost five years, Manish Porwal, Managing Director, West and South, Starcom Worldwide, has put in his papers. Porwal would be at Starcom Worldwide till the end of this year. Nikhil Rangnekar, who was recently elevated as ED for West, will take formal charge on December 1, 2007.
Noor Fathima Warsia Nov 30, 2007 6:21 AM
C R Mallikarjundas has joined Madison Communications to head Madison Media Research Centre. Prior to this, he was with Tata Interactive as Deputy Practice Head, Simulations.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Nov 30, 2007 6:19 AM
The English general news channels genre has been luckier than others, given the significant growth that it has seen in 2007. Players have different strengths to their credit – Times Now is a strong player in the metros and one million plus markets; CNN-IBN sees its share of audiences despite being pay in CAS markets of Mumbai and Delhi, while NDTV 24x7 has not made it easy for anyone else to stay on the numero uno slot.
Noor Fathima Warsia Nov 30, 2007 6:17 AM
It has been over a year since the I&B Ministry inducted the ASCI Code in the Cable Television Networks Rules Act as a guideline for advertisements. However, the Ministry is of the opinion that channels, advertisers and agencies are not yet conforming to the Code, and has issued a reminder stating that complying with the ASCI code is mandatory.
Noor Fathima Warsia Nov 30, 2007 6:13 AM
Tanla Solutions Ltd, a Hyderabad-based telecommunications software and services provider with worldwide operations, has awarded its branding, creative and digital requirements to RK Swamy BBDO following a multi-agency pitch.
exchange4media Chennai Bureau Nov 30, 2007 6:03 AM
Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd (SIEPL) has kicked off its Olympic programme for the Beijing Olympic Games 2008, and has announced a scholarship programme ‘Samsung Olympic Ratna’, to support seven Indian sportspersons to prepare for the games.
exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2007 6:00 AM
<div align=justify>"I have been hands-on right from the funding stages. What has worked for me is that I have been a viewer all my life, and hence not been so close to the woods. This is one reason why I have been able to make the channel fresher. I know as a viewer what causes fatigue. When you have been in the system, you come back with the same mindset, and you make different versions of the same thing."
exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2007 12:00 AM
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