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The entertainment industry plans to put in place a legal entity -- jointly owned by the industry -- to fight piracy. Expected to be up and running by early next year, the company would be run on a no-profit basis. It would represent the interests of variou
Information & Broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj at the State I&B Minister Meet organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) said that the entertainment tax could be limited to 50-60 per cent. The Centre can only propose
Two-tier uniform taxation formula that would help the government cover the 33 million cable subscriber base, a ban on the video channel of cable operators, and an anti-video piracy cell are to be debated at the state information ministers conference today
Two months after launching 26 new programmes, Zee continues to trail in the third position, behind Star TV and Sony. As per the TAM ratings for the week ended October 27, 2001, Zee has lost the maximum audience this week with its channel share dropping fro
B4U Television Network plans to takeover its UK-based parent LMB Holdings ahead of its proposed initial public offering (IPO) next year. The reverse merger will lead to the integration of B4U's worldwide operations with the Indian company. The company has
WPP Group has decided to discontinue its efforts to abandon its $639 million bid for U.K. media buying group Tempus. Contrary to its stated intentions last week, WPP has told the U.K. Takeover Panel-the non-statutory body that it will not appeal against a
According to a preliminary report prepared by the Confederation of Indian Industry, the Indian entertainment industry has the potential to grow by 27 per cent in the next five years, with music and radio having the highest potential of growth of 55 per cen
BBC World will go digital on December 1, but will remain a free-to-air, unencrypted channel across South Asia. The company is hosting road-shows in four cities-Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and Kolkata in the month of November to announce this transition and ce
To counter Star’s new game show -- The Weakest Link -- Zee TV announced the launch of new reality adventure show -- Romance, Adventure Aap Aur Hum (RAAAH). The show is slated to start by the end of the year, is expected to challenge the physical, mental an
The World Health Organization is urging governments around the world to enforce stricter curbs on tobacco advertising, only weeks before new discussions in Geneva on global regulations for the substance’s control.
FTV's plans to switch to an encrypted feed appear to have gone awry and it has now set 1 December as the new date for this to happen. As per the original plan, 1 November was to see the channel becoming an encrypted feed.
STAR is keen on Hathway Cable & Datacom to reach a truce with rival multi system operator (MSO) INCablenet in a bid to increase revenue collection from cable operators.
Seeing recessionary economic trends, Television Eighteen (TV 18) has let go some 25 employees in the last few months and frozen new recruitment. TV 18 revenue declined by 15 per cent in during the first half of the year (April-September). Net profit for th
Doordarshan’s new edutainment channel, DD Bharati, to be launched on January 26, 2002, plans to do things differently. A niche channel focussing on health, children and music-dance components, DD Bharati is making a determined effort to rope in all section
According to a recent Goldman Sachs-Kotak Securities media report, television penetration is seen to be increasing 42 per cent to 110 million homes by 2005 from current level of 79 million. Cable connectivity, estimated by the NRS to be at 38 million is se
STAR has started talking with some of the big multi-system operators (MSO) proposing to cut subscription rates to 50 per cent for its eight-channel bouquet if the cable networks, as a quid pro quo, report subscription revenue closer to the real connectivit
As part of a consolidation of its $1.9 billion advertising business, Swiss food giant Nestle has decided to align several of its global categories into five of its multinational agency networks.
After an organisational revamp, Sony Entertainment Television has set sight on a programming review. It has set a time frame of six months - a period over which it plans to bring in an assortment of a dozen new programmes that include soaps, game shows, ev
RMG David is targeting Rs 30 crore billings next year. It claims to have already won business worth Rs 20 crore in the first year of its existence. RMG David was set up in India to handle the conflicting businesses of Ogilvy & Mather.
The news of the merger of TAM and Intam has evoked mixed reactions in the advertising agency. While on one hand, the industry is happy that finally there will be a single currency to deal with, on the other it is apprehensive about the creation of a monopo
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