International News

Around 500 media personnel from across the world have descended in this heritage city with latest gizmos to cover the historic Vajpayee-Musharraf summit scheduled for Sunday. All the national television networks have set up studios in the hotel, wh

exchange4media Staff Jul 14, 2001 8:15 AM

Mr. James Murdoch, executive vice-president of News Corp and chief executive officer of Star said that, Star was still undecided on making a foray into the domestic DTH.

exchange4media Staff Jul 14, 2001 8:11 AM

Interpublic Group of Companies’ (IPG) in India, which includes McCann-Erickson, FCB-Ulka and Lowe Lintas & Partners, will soon consolidate their entire media buying under one brand name, Magna Global. The new unit is expected to handle Rs 1,800 cro

exchange4media Staff Jul 14, 2001 8:10 AM

Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, New York, won AT&T Wireless' $400 million advertising account after a grueling four-month-long review process. The agency was pitted against formidable talent -- Omnicom Group's TBWA/Chiat/Day, Playa del Rey, Calif., and

exchange4media Staff Jul 13, 2001 9:25 AM

Zee Network has appointed the former director (operations) of Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL), Amitabh Kumar, as the head of its technology division. Kumar will be in charge of the media network’s satellite and uplinking operations.

exchange4media Staff Jul 13, 2001 9:23 AM

Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Ltd., (Becil) has signed a contract with two broadcasting companies -- Entertainment Network of the Bennett, Coleman & Company and Music Broadcast Pvt. Ltd. of the Ispat Group, for setting up their FM radio s

exchange4media Staff Jul 13, 2001 9:16 AM

The national broadcaster, Doordarshan is banking on woman power and special programming to beat competition in covering President Pervez Musharraf’s visit. It has announced its plans to air ‘Taj Mahal’, the movie and ‘Sporting ties with Pak’. DD will have

exchange4media Staff Jul 13, 2001 9:13 AM

Prasar Bharati has asked private producers to bear the expenses of the publicity of their programmes on DD News. This will also be one of the criteria for the continuance of programmes on DD News. DD News' annual budget of Rs 30 crores is being see

exchange4media Staff Jul 13, 2001 9:11 AM

Subhash Chandra has sold 50 lakh shares in Zee Telefilms (ZTL) to a US-based institutional investor, to pay back his outstanding liabilities with the group flagship which stand at around Rs 160 crores. The shares represent 1.3 per cent of ZTL’s pai

exchange4media Staff Jul 13, 2001 9:07 AM

Malayala Manorama Group plans to diversify into production of national soaps, and increase its regional language entertainment content. The group is setting up a production studio in Kochi at an initial investment of Rs 5 crores. It is also weighi

exchange4media Staff Jul 13, 2001 9:05 AM

In a bid to meet the financial communication needs of its clients, the Rs 100-crores Publicis (India) Communications, has floated its financial division called ‘Publicis Financial’. The agency is also planning to launch a healthcare division by the

exchange4media Staff Jul 12, 2001 8:49 AM

Raj Television Network plans to launch a 24- hour Telugu entertainment channel. This will be in addition to Raj TV and Raj Digital Plus, the network’s Tamil channels.

exchange4media Staff Jul 12, 2001 8:44 AM

The Chennai-based Intelivision, a subsidiary of Pentamedia Graphics plans to launch Splash Channel. Targeted at the age group of 4-18 years, the channel will go on air on August 15. The channel will have a mix of education and entertainment progr

exchange4media Staff Jul 12, 2001 8:41 AM

The leading multi-system operator (MSO), INCablenet, has yet to sign the agreement with Zee Network for distributing its flagship channel Zee TV, a month after it went pay. Zee is asking INCablenet to agree on Star’s subscriber base, the Hindujas

exchange4media Staff Jul 12, 2001 8:36 AM

AXN India has decided to step up its Indian content in order to strengthen its presence in the Indian market. The channel plans to have 10-15 per cent of programme content from India.

exchange4media Staff Jul 12, 2001 8:33 AM

ORG-Marg has decided to part ways with the Indian Readership Survey (IRS). Confirming the news Mr. Ashok Das, president, ORG-Marg said that the company has resigned from the next contract beginning July 1, 2001 and ending June 30, 2002.

exchange4media Staff Jul 11, 2001 8:30 AM

Even as an economic slowdown invades the Indian advertising industry, leading advertising agencies are aggressively launching new divisions in a bid to meet the evolving needs of their clients.

exchange4media Staff Jul 11, 2001 8:28 AM

The effect of the global slowdown has finally begun to take its toll. India’s largest advertising agency, HTA and Contract have frozen salary increments till September.

exchange4media Staff Jul 11, 2001 8:27 AM

James Murdoch, chairman and CEO of the Hong Kong-based Star Group Ltd., is in India to review Star’s operations and the proposed KU-band direct-to-home TV service.

exchange4media Staff Jul 11, 2001 8:24 AM

ETC Networks is setting up a ‘commercial teleport’ and will offer uplinking facilities to Indian channels wanting to set up satellite links from Mumbai. The network has been given permission by the Union information & broadcasting ministry to set up an ear

exchange4media Staff Jul 11, 2001 8:23 AM