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To create a single currency and improve the quality of data, TAM India has announced creation of a new service. This new service will combine data from ACNielsen/Kantar’s TAM Media Research and ORG-MARG’s INTAM. Coverage is expected to increase from nine

exchange4media Staff Oct 31, 2001 8:21 AM

TAM and INTAM have decided to merge their operations and evolve a single currency by middle of next year. Mr. LV Krishnan, CEO TAM India, will head the new entity.<br> Speaking to exchange4media, Mr. Krishnan confirmed the merger. He added that one of

exchange4media Staff Oct 30, 2001 3:17 PM

Doordarshan will telecast news bulletin every hour on its DD1 channel from January 2002. According to Information &Broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj, the ministry was planning more programmes based on news and current affairs. The slot for news and curre

exchange4media Staff Oct 30, 2001 7:45 AM

ESPN Star Sports will beam the NBA season live from 31 October. There will be a total of 77 regular season games on ESPN (49) and Star Sports (28). During the regular season, all games will be on ESPN every Wednesday and Friday, and every Saturday on Star

exchange4media Staff Oct 30, 2001 7:44 AM

The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) will now allow radio companies to become members. This was decided by the board of the IBF at a recent annual general meeting held in Mumbai.

exchange4media Staff Oct 30, 2001 7:44 AM

Tandberg, the Norwegian entertainment technology group and Hong Kong-based Chinese Television System (CTS) are joining forces to build Asia's first digital terrestrial television network, using the DVB-T standard. CTS becomes the first to adopt this standa

exchange4media Staff Oct 29, 2001 7:57 AM

All India Radio and Doordarshan have been brought into the service tax net, even though the state-run broadcasters will continue to be out of direct tax purview as envisaged in the Prasar Bharati Act.

exchange4media Staff Oct 29, 2001 7:55 AM

WorldSpace Corporation plans to launch their multi-media services in India by the first week of November. WorldSpace has tied up with about 50 content providers for providing contend for the multi-media service in India. The theme will be varied ranging fr

exchange4media Staff Oct 29, 2001 7:54 AM

The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has barred airtime sellers and production houses from becoming board members in the association. They will also not be allowed to become primary members, but will be allowed to function as associate members.

exchange4media Staff Oct 29, 2001 7:53 AM

Interpublic Group of Cos.' Lowe Lintas & Partners is dropping "Lintas" from its name and is adopting "Lowe" as its global identity. <P align= “Justify”>Interpublic Group of Cos.' Lowe Lintas & Partners is dropping "Lintas" from its name and is adopting

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2001 9:51 AM

ABC has signed a $25 million deal to promote the US Military Academy at West Point through television specials and commercials. ABC promised to run a prime-time special next June, Young America Celebrates West Point. The deal also includes other properties

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2001 9:50 AM

Doordarshan plans to launch a new edutainment channel ‘Bharati’ on 26 January 2002. The channel will cater to the needs of children, health, music, dance and fine arts. The channel will feature four hours of health programmes from 6 a.m., followed by six h

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2001 9:47 AM

If the industry sources are to be believed Zee Telefilms has given a quite burial to Subhas Chandra’s pet project to set up a channel advocating ancient Indian medicine, holistic healing, culture, meditation etc under the Organic or Chakra brand.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2001 9:46 AM

National Geographic will telecast Heroes for the Planet: A Tribute to National Geographic at seven p.m. on 16 November. The one- hour event was held to pay tribute to the channel, which is available in several countries as well as to celebrate the launch o

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2001 9:44 AM

Entertainment channels seem to be riding the music wave. Sony Entertainment Television (SET) started the trend by synergising with group company Sony Music, and recently, Zee has also decided to increase its focus on music by hardselling Zee Records.

exchange4media Staff Oct 27, 2001 9:43 AM

Bad news and bad news on black Thursday for WPP Group, the world’s number two advertising and marketing conglomerate. Coinciding with the revelation of a six per cent fall in Q3 revenues, Sir Martin Sorrell learned that Britain's Takeover Panel had rejecte

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2001 9:14 AM

Balaji Telefilms Limited registered a net profit of Rs 66.24 million on net sales of Rs 236.20 million in the results announced for the second quarter ended 30 September 2001.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2001 9:13 AM

Star Plus has signed a licensing agreement with BBC Worldwide for the format of the popular game show ‘The Weakest Link’. The Indian version will be Hindi and will be produced by BBC Worldwide in association with Synergy Production and Siddhartha Basu.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2001 9:12 AM

The Revenue Department has ruled that commission paid to advertising agencies will not be included in the value of taxable service in respect of broadcasting services. The Broadcasting companies had made a representation to the finance ministry claiming th

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2001 9:11 AM

Doordarshan has bagged the prestigious Commonwealth Programme Award 2001 for the Social Action Television programme for its leprosy awareness and prevention campaign that was carried out in 1999-2000.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2001 9:11 AM