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After many months of speculation, negotiations and uncertainty it’s official now. WPP Group has agreed to increase its share holding in India’s largest advertising agency, HTA from 60 per cent to 74 per cent. exchange4media has come to know through industr
ZEE Telefilms (ZTL) promoters, who had kept the buyer a secret, appear to have sold 25 lakh of their shares to the Singapore-based foreign institutional investor (FII), Alliance Capital. This is part of their effort to repay to ZTL Rs 220 crore which they
Pentamedia Graphics Limited (PGL) is planning to launch its children’s channel Splash in the second week of September. The company has already started test transmission from August 17. It will be a free-to-air, 24-hour digital channel.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma Swaraj informed the Rajya Sabha that the government has asked the Paris-based FTV to adhere to the cable programme code following complaints raised by the Parliamentary Consultative Committee. Swaraj told the
Following the success of it’s recently concluded ‘India Teen Queen Pageant’, Zee Telefilms is looking at foraying into yet another unexplored arena: beauty pageants. The company is now coming up with two more innovative pageants: the Cutie Pageant, aimed a
Replying to supplementaries during question hour, Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma Swaraj said that there would be a common broadcasting code for all, including the private players, wanting to enter the Indian broadcasting sector and Rs 158 cro
Cartoon Network launched two 3D-animation shows produced by Pentamedia —Pandavas and Sinbad—at a press conference on Tuesday. The two shows will be aired on the channel beginning September 8.
The Turner Group is exploring opportunities but does not have any immediate plans to bring back the TCM movie channel to the Indian viewers. The company is looking at distribution opportunities in the country for Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and may stage a
Zee TV, as part of its new-look mantra, “Naye Andaaz Mein Zee TV—Nahi Dekha to Kya Dekha,” the channel will be unveiling 24 new programmes and a new logo from August 27. The new programming line-up is being introduced by the channel after extensive researc
WPP Group reported August 20 revenues up more than 3% in constant currency in the first half of the year. WPP reported pretax profit up 80% to #247.6 million ($356 million) in the six months to June 30, on 65% higher revenue of $2.87 billion compared to th
The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has approved the proposal of Broadcast Worldwide to issue fresh equity shares totalling Rs 3.6 crores to the Mauritius-based Crombie International. The Rs 10 shares will be placed with Crombie International at
Information and Broadcasting Minister, Sushma Swaraj, while replying to Parliament question, said that over 50 companies owe a total of Rs 182 crores to Doordarshan as on July 31, 2001. Prominent among them are, ABCL, Nimbus, Pritish Nandy Communications,
Zee TV will be relying on a host of daily soaps, game shows and Ekta Kapoor’s women-oriented serial at 9.30 p.m. on weekdays as it re-launches the channel. The channel plans to spend Rs 15 crores, spread over a month on promotion of new programmes.
The National Geographic Channel will present a week long special television event called ‘Ballard: Detective of the Deep’ from August 20. The programmes in the series will include Secrets of the Titanic, Search for the Battleship Bismarck, Treasures of the
Prasar Bharati, for the first time, has decided to go for cross-channel promotion of its programmes and linking the continuance of a serial/entertainment programme to TV rating points (TRPs). These initiatives are aimed at making viewers aware of the progr
All India Radio’s FM news channel would finally go on air in the first week of September at the four metros Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkatta and Chennai. To begin with, the channel will have around 35 per cent news content with the remaining being infotainment prog
Doordarshan will be the sole broadcaster of the first Afro-Asian Games, to be held in New Delhi from November 3 to 11. Doordarshan bagged the right to telecast the games for Rs 2 crores. Even as the Afro-Asian Games Organising Committee was eyeing a much h
To give competition a run for the advertising money, Amar Ujala and Hindustan (Hindi) alliance has offered a few cost-efficient packages. The most interesting one, according to exchange4media analysis based on NRS 2001 readership figures, appears to be UP
Zee Telefilms promoters on Friday sold 25 lakh shares at an undisclosed price to a foreign institutional investor (FII) to repay funds borrowed from the company for acquiring shares of B4U and AB Corp. The deal of 25 lakh shares was done on the National St
The standing committee of Parliament on information technology has pulled up the Prasar Bharati Corporation for its poor marketing efforts. The committee pointed out that the agency earned just Rs 11 crores revenue from its prime time slot of 7-9 p.m. on D
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