MUMBAI: Hyundai i10 and Bajaj Pulsar 220 DTS FI has been awarded the ‘Car of the Year’ and ‘Bike of the Year’ respectively at the annual...
For the radio industry, 2007 was a year that started off with several distinct lacunae; with concerns such as differentiation, measurement, talent and regulation top of...
MUMBAI: B.A.G Films and Media Limited has announced the appointment of Rajesh Jathar as regional head (corporate advertising sales, West and South) of its broadcasting arm...
When I was asked to do a round up for the year gone by, only one word resonated in my mind – 2007 was the year...
MUMBAI: Hyundai i10 drove away with the Car of the Year award at the 7th edition of the CNBC-TV18 Autocar Auto Awards in New Delhi. In...
Lights flashed, cameras rolled, news was created and records made. With no sure route to success, the tussle for bragging rights in the Hindi news space...
India TV CEO Chintamani Rao says, “For India TV, it has been a good year. Two years ago we were number six or seven in the...
MUMBAI: The heads of BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, Radio France Internationale, Radio Netherlands Worldwide and the Voice of America have called upon governments to honour...
MUMBAI: Sir David Attenborough concludes his epic overview of life on earth with new perceptions of cold-blooded animals in the show Life In Cold Blood. The...
NEW DELHI:The year just ended, 2007, was the bloodiest and most difficult year for the journalists in South Asia, according to the South Asia Media Commission....
The year 2008 holds great promise for the MVAS industry in India. Two key focus areas of this year will be the launch of 3G and...
Looking at the larger perspective, what have been the big challenges the broadcast sector faced and will face, going forward? The pathetically slow pace of digital...
For Sony Entertainment Television (Set) India CEO Kunal Dasgupta, the big wish for 2008 is to throw up that one hit narrative show that would get...
MUMBAI: NDTV Convergence’s financial news website ndtvprofit.com is organising ‘The India Financial Summit – 2008’. The first round of summit will be held in Mumbai on...
The media space has always been explosive over the past years but this year, in my opinion, has been the second most significant year in the...
Here’s a year that barely was! When someone writes the history of 2007 they will find it difficult to find the right catchphrase to define an...
Television news industry was faced with a dilemma and consequently a huge challenge in the year 2007 – content. Numerous questions were raised on the kind...
So, as one captain of the industry says, if the advertisers stay with the credible, then some channels will die out and TAM would have to...
For noted media columnist Shailja Bajpai, her wish-list for 2008 includes cleaning up the news channels and getting back to ‘news as news should be. Or...
Why has phenomenon of unrestrained inputs developed is one question that if answered well, will rid us of taking moralistic positions. In this the points made...
I will describe this year as one of the lowest points in Indian TV journalism. This has been the year with the most serious crisis of...
I t is easy to say that only those channels that got low ratings are criticising the ratings system. But no one can deny that many...
But, television viewer has only one option, to change the channel, if he/she doesn’t find the content interesting. Because TV viewers don’t have the option of...
Man, it’s been an eventful year if you have been faithfully stuck to the couch lapping up everything offered on the tube. So much happened on...
over the past two years the radio industry has moved beyond AIR with private FM stations lapping up the airwaves. The three policy initiatives from the...
Community radio is the latest addition the FM radio bandwagon in the country. With the great radio story just beginning to happen this year, it’s not...
Its an amazing feeling when you sit back at the end of the year and think of what ACTUALLY happened during the year and in most...
The floodgates opened in 2007. The year gone by was a time when years of hard work and patience finally paid off for the radio industry...
Sports in India today is no longer a leisure activity to be played or watched at one’s own convenience. With an increase in exposure through television...
The curtains have fallen on 2007, the all important data is also out — that of the Top 10 categories of advertisers on television, print and...
Count of Advertisers and Brands. Count of new programmes on different channel genres General entertainment channels recorded the maximum launch of new programmes to hold...
The curtains have fallen on 2007, the all important data is also out — that of the Top 10 categories of advertisers on television, print and...
Before embarking on a discussion about the marketing strategies used by Indian TV channels in 2007, it will be worthwhile to see what the picture could...
Make no mistake about it, 2007 was a b-a-a-a-d year for the industry. That’s no doomsayer sounding the deathknell for the music industry, but one of...
MUMBAI: The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the year’s AFI Moments of Significance.These seven noteworthy events were determined to have had an impact on the...
MUMBAI: New Delhi Television Ltd’s founder-promoters Dr Prannoy and Radhika Roy have paid around Rs 1.92 billion to buy 7.73 per cent stake from GA (General...
It’s that time of year, for the annual tea leaf-reading ritual, as the media pundits herald a new round of trends. Looking back, 2007 was an...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC will introduce a new policy this week to bring greater clarity to audiences in the way programmes which use premium rate...
We all sleep differently. Some sleep tight, like a baby. Some sleep light, like the mother of a newborn. No matter how we sleep, most of...
Let’s go back a little in time. Hosting was all about propah quiz masters and news readers. A Siddarth Basu or a Luku Sanyal is still...
As 2007 comes to a close, Reliance Entertainment president Rajesh Sawhney is an apt choice for our year-ending interview, not necessarily in the context of what...
You will start your television business with film channels. With more movie channels coming in what affect will this have on rights prices? We are working...
As they bid goodbye to 2007, our telly stars look forward to the New Year with great hope and expectation. But what’s in store for them...
Much has happened this year and yet not a lot has happened. For India TV it has been a good year. Two years ago we were...
If there’s anything more challenging than predicting the media scene in India, it’s reviewing them a year later. It does feel good though if you are...
Much has happened this year and yet not a lot has happened. For India TV it has been a good year. Two years ago we were...
MUMBAI: Finding original drama for a younger audience remains an ambition for UK pubcaster the BBC. It has invited a range of in-house and independent production...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has announced that the road show The Blue Planet Live! which is based on the BBC documentary The Blue Planet, returns to the...
MUMBAI: CNBC TV18 is closing 2007 with a bouquet of special programmes that will recap the biggest happenings of the action-packed year. The programmes will picture...
The curtains have fallen on 2007, the all important data is also out — that of the Top 10 categories of advertisers on television, print and...

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