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Stage is set for the industry to come together to felicitate the ‘impact Person of the Year for 2008. The ‘impact Person of the Year 2008’ would be announced at a ceremony to be held in Mumbai on Friday, February 20, 2009, at Taj Lands End. In its fourth year now, ‘impact Person of the Year’ is an initiative of impact magazine, the advertising, media and marketing weekly from the exchange4media Group.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 19, 2009 6:56 AM
The Indian media and entertainment industry stood at Rs 584 billion in 2008, a growth of 12.4 per cent over the previous year. Over the next five years, the industry is projected to grow at a CAGR of 12.5 per cent to reach the size of Rs 1,052 billion by 2013, says a FICCI & KPMG report on the sector release on the first day of FICCI Frames 2009 that got underway in Mumbai on February 17.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 18, 2009 7:24 AM
If one thought that the Indian media and entertainment industry is going through a bad patch, the FICCI Frames 2009 forum was all about ‘just how bad’ it is. Experts from the industry were not only candid in stating that this was one of the worst recessions to have hit the global economy, but they also discussed implications and steps to brave the year ahead.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 18, 2009 7:01 AM
Real, the new Hindi entertainment channel from Real Global Broadcasting, would be launched on Monday, March 2, 2009. Being a 50:50 joint venture between Alva Brothers Entertainment and Turner International, Real will be part of the Zee Turner bouquet and will be available across the country on cable systems and digital platforms.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 14, 2009 7:13 AM
FM stations are going all out to celebrate Valentine’s Day – while Red FM’s RJ Malishka goes ‘deewana’, Radio City is associating itself with Force India. Radio Mirchi is out to get together all the ‘single and ready to mingle’ people, while My FM is airing romantic songs from the 70s through 2008, and Fever FM has its own ‘Fever Romeo’.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 14, 2009 7:11 AM
Real, the new Hindi entertainment channel by Real Global Broadcasting would be launched on Monday, March 2, 2009.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 13, 2009 2:25 PM
ICL on February 12 postponed its Grand Championship tournament, which was scheduled for March 2009 to October 2009. With this postponement, ICL has packaged the World Series Twenty20 and the Grand Championship to October-November 2009, the reason being the absence of the Pakistani players of Lahore Badshahs and the current economic slowdown.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 13, 2009 7:13 AM
Malayala Manorama is moving to its new office in Mumbai – from its current rented premises to a new fully-owned office in Lowe Parel. Though the media house hasn’t planned any publicity for this ‘move’, all are pretty excited about the new office.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 12, 2009 7:21 AM
Ten Sports will exclusively broadcast 109 days of international cricket from South Africa under a new multi-year agreement between Ten Sports owners, Taj Television, and Cricket South Africa. The agreement includes India’s three tests, five ODIs and one T20 international in South Africa during 2010 and 2011, and represents an extension to the short term arrangement between the parties for 2008.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 11, 2009 7:02 AM
The inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2008 created as much news for its international player cast as it did for the exorbitant bidding amounts for these players. Season 2 of IPL is no different. With the auctioning process of players over, English players like Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff have emerged as the most expensive.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 7, 2009 7:07 AM
Vodafone Essar has announced that its Chief Executive, Asim Ghosh, would retire on March 31, 2009. Marten Pieters, who was earlier CEO of Celtel International BV, would succeed him. However, Ghosh would continue as a non-executive member on the Board of Vodafone Essar.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 7, 2009 7:05 AM
The position left vacant by Mahesh Chauhan’s elevation as Group CEO has finally been filled. Rediffusion Y&R has appointed Rohit Misra as President. His responsibilities will include leading the creative agency nationally in India as well as its Sri Lankan operations. He will be based out of Mumbai.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 4, 2009 7:21 AM
Rajasthan Royals on February 3 announced that Raj Kundra, CEO, Essential General Trading LLC, and actress Shilpa Shetty, who is also CEO of S2 Global Productions Pvt Ltd, have bought a 12 per cent stake in the Indian Premier League (IPL) team and the champions of the inaugural IPL tournament in 2008.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 4, 2009 7:19 AM
Saurabh Gupta, Co-founder of Phonethics Mobile Media, was awarded the Young Communications Entrepreneur (YXE) Award. Arvind Agrawal, principal shareholder and CEO of Atherstone Investor Communications Ltd received the runners up award.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 4, 2009 7:18 AM
‘Pitch’, a monthly magazine from the exchange4media Group, felicitated India’s top 50 service brands at a ceremony held in Mumbai on February 3, 2009. The top honours have gone to the old faithfuls – LIC, Indian Railways, SBI, besides Bharti Airtel, Vodafone among non-media brands. Among top media brands were Radio Mirchi, The Times of India, Star Plus and Sony Television, among others.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 4, 2009 7:14 AM
The position left vacant by Mahesh Chauhan’s elevation as Group CEO has finally been filled.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 3, 2009 10:07 AM
Businessworld on January 29 launched the 5th edition of its Marketing Whitebook, a handbook for all marketing professionals. The launch also saw a high-powered panel discussion on one of the most topical issues today, ‘Building Brands in a Slowdown’.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 31, 2009 7:01 AM
Pioneer Book Company Pvt Ltd has recently developed an innovative concept of advertising in the print media, inspired by musical greeting cards. To demonstrate the same, Pioneer used an ad of ‘Meri Saheli’ in a recent edition of the women’s monthly in Hindi along with a pre-recorded audio chip bearing a jingle about the magazine.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 31, 2009 6:59 AM
The results of the much awaited Pitch-Madison Media Advertising Outlook 2009 are out. After a double digit growth for over a decade, the study cautions the media and advertising industry honchos to prepare for a major slowdown in growth and projects a growth of only 2 per cent in 2009. This low growth projection must be viewed against the backdrop of a fall in advertising markets (negative growth) around the world.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 31, 2009 6:58 AM
Grey India has announced the promotion of Jishnu Sen to Chief Operating Officer. As COO, Sen, who takes charge of his new role with immediate effect, will be in charge of the strategic and operational leadership of the agency’s business. He will report to Nirvik Singh, Chairman, Grey Group Asia Pacific.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 29, 2009 6:56 AM
The third edition of Disney’s KidSense has unveiled the new tween ‘codes’ that are replacing the old tenets for tweens in India. These emerging codes are visible in the three Cs of tweens’ lives – Culture, Clan and Core. Disney’s KidSense 3, the qualitative study, attempts to ‘sense’ the truth and trends of the tweens.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 29, 2009 6:54 AM
Entertainment Network India Ltd (ENIL), which operated private FM stations under the Radio Mirchi brand, has reported a 39.6 per cent drop in its standalone Q3 net profit to Rs 4.86 crore as against Rs 8.05 crore in Q3 of FY08. The standalone revenues also fell 11.5 per cent from Rs 67.8 crore to Rs 60.0 crore in Q3 ended December 31, 2008.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 29, 2009 6:51 AM
The Young Communications Entrepreneur Award (YXE) is the latest in the British Council’s series of programmes aimed at supporting young entrepreneurs working in the creative industries in developing markets. The winners will get a chance to attend events organised by D&AD.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 28, 2009 7:19 AM
Close on the heels of acquiring the global commercial rights of the India-Sri Lanka cricket series 2009, Nimbus Sport has closed its sponsorship and perimeter deals. Hero Honda and Jaypee Cement have been signed on as official sponsors for the series for which IDBI Fortis has already been signed on as title sponsor.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 27, 2009 7:14 AM
India Inc got together to honour the achievements of the best in Corporate India at the CNBC-TV18’s India Business Leader Awards, presented by Accenture and held in Mumbai at a well-attended ceremony on January 22. exchange4media.com was the online media partner for the event, while impact was the trade partner.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 24, 2009 7:28 AM
Nimbus Sport, which has bagged the telecast rights for the India-Sri Lanka series commencing from January 28, 2009, has signed on IDBI Fortis as the title sponsor for the series. Neo Cricket was paid approximately Rs 14 crore by IDBI Fortis for the title sponsorship. The sports channel is eyeing around Rs 80 crore in revenues from the series.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 24, 2009 7:26 AM
DishTV has reported a 23 per cent drop in its Q3 net to Rs 1,181 million as compared to the second quarter of FY09. The DTH company’s Q3 gross sales and operating revenues stood at Rs 1,927 million as compared to Rs 1,121 million in the corresponding quarter of FY08, representing a 72 per cent growth.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 23, 2009 7:14 AM
Mid-Day Multimedia on January 21 announced the elevation of Vineet Singh Hukmani to the post of Managing Director of Radio One. Hukmani is also set to join the Board of Directors of Radio One. Prior to the elevation Hukmani was CEO of Radio One.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 23, 2009 7:12 AM
Amid the slowdown gloom Radio One has something to cheer about. The FM player has reported a 72 per cent growth in revenues for the period April to December 2008 as it declared its Q3 results on January 20, 2009.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 21, 2009 7:22 AM
Lintas Media Group (LMG) has announced senior management changes. NP Sathyamurthy has been promoted to President and COO, and would be in charge of the Group’s Western Region operations and the Digital Collaborative. Sudha Natarajan takes over as President and COO, in charge of the Group’s Northern operations in addition to its Southern operations. She will be relocating to Delhi. Amit Ray will join the Group as President with specific charge of the ITC Collective and the Kolkata Collective.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 20, 2009 7:13 AM
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