Date-wise News
Head of Sony Digital & Licensing Business, Sunil Lulla, has put in his papers. According to sources, he is slated to join The Times of India Group soon as the key in-charge of its news and business channel.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 1:48 PM
Supercomm India 2005, India's largest telecom event, kicked off in New Delhi on Wednesday with over 100 companies, including 35 overseas firms, participating. Over 20,000 business visitors are expected to attend the three-day event.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 1:34 PM
After bottled drinking water and cold drinks, it is the quality of branded which is suspect. Laboratory tests conducted on 20 brands of bread by a consumer rights NGO have revealed that only six conformed to the standards. Besides, as many as 12 brands did not carry the “best before” date.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 8:47 AM
Marico Industries Ltd, has got a clean chit from the MRTPC on charges of unfair and restrictive trade practices. A Delhi-based consumer had alleged that to promote and sell its `Saffola Gold' brand of oil, the company had aired some television and print advertisements, which recommended that even by leading a sedentary lifestyle and eating junk food cooked in the said oil, the heart can be protected and the cholesterol can be reduced.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 8:45 AM
National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) has announced that its annual event Indian Leadership Forum is scheduled to start from February 8, 2005.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 8:44 AM
MSN on Wednesday launched a new MSN Search in India, the first-ever search engine built by Microsoft. MSN Search will help consumers search more quickly and get precise answers.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 8:43 AM
Animal Planet’s new series, <i>In the Wild</i>, brings Hollywood’s biggest stars’ special passion for animals to viewers. Slotted on every Wednesday and Saturday at 10 pm, the one-hour programme will bring home Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, Goldie Hawn, Robin Williams and Anthony Hopkins and their favourite animals.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 8:42 AM
ESPN STAR Sports on Wednesday announced its acquisition of the sporting event, the 2006 FIFA World Cup for the Indian sub-continent. Under the terms of the agreement with Infront Sports & Media, FIFA’s exclusive television partner for the event, ESPN STAR Sports will provide full and exclusive coverage of the World Cup, including 64 matches, on its two channels, ESPN and STAR Sports.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 8:41 AM
Three leading ad agencies, O&M, Mc Cann Erickson and Lowe, is toiling hard on LG Electronics India Limited’s new campaigns. The company, which is targeting an annual turnover of Rs 9,000 crore this year, has planned its promotions for this season on a war-footing basis.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 8:40 AM
Prasar Bharati Board is meeting today (February 3) to discuss the crucial issue of bidding for the telecast rights of the forthcoming Commonwealth and Asian Games.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 8:39 AM
Zee Network has announced the appointment of R Ajay Kumar as Business Head of South Alpha Channels. Zee Network has recently launched Alpha Telugu, its first southern channel.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 8:38 AM
A five-judge Constitution Bench by a majority of 3:2 held that the BCCI was an autonomous body dismissing a writ petition filed by Zee Telefilms challenging the termination of contract awarded to it for telecast of cricket matches in India between 2004 and 2008 and to re-open the tender process.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 8:36 AM
First Aaj Tak and now it is STAR News. News channels are experimenting with looks to retain viewers if not increase them. It is repackaging time for STAR News and the channel is following a phased out transition, which began earlier this week, leading to a complete new look by February 5, 2005.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 8:34 AM
Astitva’s Dr Simran in ‘Reth’, ‘CID’ squad helping ‘Kkusum’ on Sony or ‘Kahiin To Hoga’s Sujal and Kashish attending the ‘K-Street Pali Hill’ gang’s party on STAR Plus – mass channels are using character crossover increasingly these days to keep their viewers hooked. Even though the objective is the same, the rationales for the players are different.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 8:33 AM
Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India Ltd’s Club Mahindra is in the process of launching a new product for its customers. The company had called agencies to present creative ideas to take care of the responsibility. And the decision has come in the favour of Ambience. The other agencies in the fray were Triton, Lemon Communications and Interface.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 8:32 AM
BBC’s reporting on the Indo-Pak tension is straight down the road. We are deeply sensitive to both sides. India and Pakistan cannot live separately…Our job is not to undermine Indian journalism and Indian media organisations. Our job is to be there as strongly as all other media organisations. People in this vast matrix of information have a choice; they have their favourite stations and their favourite channels that they go back to frequently because they feel comfortable with it.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 12:00 AM
India is an important market for us, which is why you see us indulge in various activities here. Even though in the present state-of-affairs, our presence here is not as much as it is in various other markets, it is growing at a good pace and we are expecting quite a lot from the Indian market.
exchange4media Staff Feb 3, 2005 12:00 AM