MUMBAI: While in India there may be much uncertainty around how conditional access will affect business, for cable ops, satellite platform operators, equipment suppliers and content...
MUMBAI: If there was an element of speculation earlier it is now official. A watered down version of French fashion channel FTV will be what is...
From actor to scriptwriter and teacher to CEO of a multifaceted production house, Akash Khurana stands out as a rare example of talent and passion married...
NEW YORK: Nickelodeon in the US is showing no signs of letting up its dominant position, with a hold on 47 out of 50 top shows...
NEW DELHI: Mudra Communications has appointed Hemant Misra, as its president, North & East.. Based in Delhi he will now be spearheading the operations of the...
NEW DELHI: McCann Healthcare India, the healthcare communication division of McCann Erickson, has rolled out a new print advertisement, a part of mega campaign for vaccine...
MUMBAI: It was bound to happen. The idiot box is increasingly losing out to silicon – aka the computer. Specially as far as the youth are...
MUMBAI: SSC&B Lintas Bangalore has appointed G S Shridhar as creative director and branch head. Shridhar, who has over two decades of advertising experience, has been...
indiantelevision.com’s Media, Advertising & Marketing Watch Williams signs Budweiser to Formula 1 deal The Indiantelevision.com Team (18 July 2003 3:00 pm) LONDON :...
MUMBAI: The three and a half year old Trivandrum based animation firm Toonz is looking to expand its content scope. With this in mind, it is...
NEW DELHI: Chennai-based TI Cycles of India has launched a new television commercial (TVC) for its new bicycle BSA i Bike, designed by I.D.E.A Institute, Turin...
NEW YORK: DoubleClick has announced the results of its Q2 2003 Ad Serving Trend Report. The data reveals that rich media usage continues to grow quarter...
indiantelevision.com’s Media, Advertising & Marketing Watch Reliance is India’s most admired business house The Indiantelevision.com Team (28 July 2003 5:00 pm) MUMBAI: Reliance...
NEW DELHI: Maruti has been allotted its entire AOR business to Initiative Media. The annual ad spends of the recently listed company is estimated to be...
MUMBAI: MediaCom India, the media independent unit of Grey Worldwide India, has won the Agency of Record (AOR) business of Modi Lottery account. MediaCom India senior...
CHICAGO: Blackbelt TV which claims to be the world’s first and only 24-hour martial arts entertainment cable network has announced a programming coup. This includes an...
Ronit Roy is riding the crest of the wave right now. An assortment of jobs later, this Ahmedabadi boy had just settled into Bollywood when his...
NEW DELHI: Consumer Coordination Council to information and broadcasting ministry: the conditional access system (CAS) is still not consumer friendly and should be implemented only after...
MUMBAI: CNBC goes vroom vroom, this time with consumer angle in mind. Starting today, 10 June at 10:30 pm, the business channel will be getting behind...
NEW DELHI: Taking a cue from renowned fable Panchatantra, Moving Picture Company (India) Ltd is producing its first long format 3D animation series Jungle Tales. The...
MUMBAI: It is boom time for ad buyers and media planners who had earlier opted for the current surprise toppers on Star Plus. For the third...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports bossman in India Manu Sawhney has been promoted and is moving to Singapore. Sawhney, currently ESPN Software India Pvt Ltd managing director,...
MUMBAI: Friday the 13th. A lot riding on that date for Subrata Roy’s Sahara TV because that is when the copywrite infringement case brought against its...
MUMBAI: ETC Networks’ channels etc Music and etc Channel Punjabi will remain free-to-air post 14 July 2003. According to a press release, the company has made...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The government today offered a significant concession to the pay broadcasters on the issue of their channel pricing by giving them some...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports bossman in India Manu Sawhney has been promoted and is moving to Singapore. Sawhney, currently ESPN Software India Pvt Ltd managing director,...
MUMBAI: There is good news for Mediaturf Worldwide, the online specialist consultancy wing of EuroRSCG India, even as the firm gears up to celebrate it’s third...
MUMBAI: The ad industry’s emphasis on cutting costs seems to be having an impact on the creative aspects of TV (or radio) commercials (TVCs) or background...
LOS ANGELES: The annual five-year entertainment and media forecast by accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers concludes that advertisers faced with continued economic and political risk will opt for...
NEW YORK: As radio airplay becomes harder to secure and music channels focus on reality television, record labels are looking at online promotions as a viable...
LONDON: It looks as if UK-based agencies are taking a leaf out of Indian agencies such as Mudra. Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), the advertising agency famous...
MUMBAI: “Kids today are no different from what we were. The differences are only minute and so the manner of communication is important.” This was one...
MUMBAI: MTV has announced that it has extended the voting period for the 2003 MTV Asia awards to 15 January. The awards will take place on...
MUMBAI: Colour TV sales during the World Cup season are likely to touch the two million mark. This market estimate should come as specially good news...
MUMBAI: The World Cup cricket mania will soon become sweet music that cricket fans can lap up! Nirvana Music, a division of Nimbus, will be launching...
MUMBAI: Movies should evolve as brands to provide multiple revenue opportunities. That is the message that came from UTV CEO Ronnie Screwvala while speaking on “Marketing...
MUMBAI: The “last mile” syndrome seems to be catching up with the sales teams of the MAX-SET combine. The efforts that were initiated in May 2002...
indiantelevision.com’s Media, Advertising & Marketing Watch MAX takes out press ads to set ‘record straight’ on cricket coverage The Indiantelevision.com Team (15 January 2003...
NEW DELHI: Brooke Bond Bru which claims to be the country’s largest instant coffee brand has come out with the Just Go offer for Delhi. An...
MUMBAI: Beverage conglomerate PepsiCo has turned blue for next months cricket World Cup in South Africa and must be hoping that the move will leave the...
These days information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad does not look uncertain as he did some months back when he was allocated the I&B ministry...
MUMBAI: It was time for the backroom professionals in the glamourous business of advertising, television and radio to take centrestage at the 28th RAPA (Radio &...
MUMBAI: Last year in a BBC poll, 1.6 million UK viewers voted for Sir Winston Churchill as the “greatest Briton”. Now, the survey broadens it’s reach...
MUMBAI: The head of BBC’s Hindi Service Achala Sharma has been awarded the World Hindi Honour at the seventh World Hindi Conference held in Surinam a...
MUMBAI: The amount of children’s TV programming has tripled in the UK since 1997, says research published by the Broadcasting Standards Commission and the Independent Television...
CHICAGO: With cable customers gradually realising its benefits high definition television (HDTV) is rapidly spreading its wings across the US. Cable customers in 78 of...
MUMBAI: Playwin Infravest’s newest online game on the block, Keno, kicked off without much fanfare and promotions yesterday. From the Karnataka online state lottery...
MUMBAI: Now fans of the bat and ball game can place their bets on test cricket. Interactive Systems Worldwide (ISWI) has announced that ukbetting , a...
NEW YORK: Wieden & Kennedy has managed to pip Omnicom group siblings BBDO Worldwide and DDB Needham to the finishing line. AOL Time Warner’s America Online...
MUMBAI: This is an ad campaign that should make the likes of Playboy and Hustler sit up and take notice. The 30 second television commercial (TVC)...