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Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL) is reviewing its Rs 500-crore direct-to-home (DTH) project. The company has appointed a leading consultant to chalk out detailed marketing, customer availability and other plans. Based on recommendations, VSNL will take the deci
Sony Entertainment Television will air Walt Disney’s ‘Honey, I shrunk the kids,’ on 11.00 a.m. Sunday 7 October 2001. The 65 episodes of the one-hour family adventure syndicated television series are dubbed in Hindi and Tamil. The Tamil version will be air
Prasar Bharati plans to merge the news divisions of AIR and Doordarshan in a bid to create synergy between the two and improve their news content. According to sources the plans of merger has already started with the appointment of Harish Awasthi as direct
Broadcasters have been demanding a level playing field and their rightful share in the Convergence Bill 2001, which was introduced in the Parliament recently. The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), the apex body for broadcasters, has put down its recomm
B4U Entertainment Channel has been re-launched as B4U Movies. The channel will be encrypted by November and will go in pay mode by January 2002. The channel will be using Smart-card from Nagravision as the encryption module with IRD’s from Eurostar. The B4
Encouraged by the advertising agencies' quick response in clearing their dues towards TV channels after the embargo, the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) is now calculating the outstandings between April and July 2001.
The Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI), plans to set up an internal committee to deal with the issue of credit, non-payment of dues and other legal aspects related to its contracts with the advertisers.The committee will be headed by Bates In
ESPN Star Sports’s interactive game show ‘Super Selector’ claims to have received a record number of entries, beating other sites who run such online games across the world, particularly on football. ESPN has got over one lakh fans selecting their teams in
Prasar Bharti has floated a second tender within two months to seek distributors for foreign markets. As the previous tender for DD World, which was floated around two months ago, did not attract even a single bidder, Prasar Bharati has now come out with a
Pentamedia Graphics has dropped plans to consolidate its entertainment business controlled by its recently-acquired subsidiaries, Media Dreams, Mayajaal and Krish Srikkanth Sports. According to the merger plan announced in May, Mayajaal and Krish Srikkanth
The Jasubhai Digital Media (JDM) has decided to shelve the launch of Information Week, one of the leading global magazines on technology in India. The launch was initially scheduled for October.
It seems that Mumbai will have to wait for some time, even as the metro cities of Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata are getting ready for the launch of private FM radio stations before December 29, 2001.
Essel group chairman Subhash Chandra has promised shareholders of Zee Telefilms that the promoter group will return the balance Rs 90 crores out of Rs 220 crores borrowed earlier from the media company within next 30 days. The promoter group, which had bor
Two weeks after the meeting between the rating agencies and broadcasters on the controversial people-meter panel leak, the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has set up a committee to investigate the issue. The IBF committee will have to submit a detaile
Coca-Cola Cos. is reassigning advertising responsibilities for some of its top brands among advertising agencies. Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, Ore., is losing its Diet Coke and recently awarded $60 million Powerade business. Bcom3 Group's Leo Burnett USA, C
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etc joins hands with Sony Music and Dainik Jagran to release one of the biggest non-film music album by the legendary Lata Mangeshkar. Titled Jagraata, this two-volume album includes bhajans and geets of Mata Sherawali – the symbol of “Shakti”.
Turner International plans to terminate its distribution contract with SABe TV for non-payment of dues for the last six months. According to the agreement, Turner was to receive payment every month from SABe TV for distributing the Hindi entertainment chan
Kairali channel served marching order to a sizeable section of its staff, who had been serving the channel since its inception. The retrenchment and redeployment were part of the attempts to streamline the channel’s functioning and run it more efficiently
Vijay TV will showcase a range of new programmes from the first week of October. It includes daily and weekly soap operas, comedy shows, film-based programmes, mythologicals, news and current affairs.
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