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MUMBAI: KV Sridhar, fondly known as “Papa”, currently creative consultant for Lowe, is rejoining Leo Burnett India as national creative director. During his earlier eight-year stint...
MUMBAI: Global Customer Management & Billing (CM&B) solutions provider MagnaQuest Solution has been chosen to provide its subscriber management system (SMS), MQSubscribe, to BroadBand Pacenet. ...
MUMBAI: Every merger and acquisition brings with it a slew of pink slips. The media sector is no exception. Comedy Central, which claims to be the...
MUMBAI: During the 2002/2003 season there were 1 086 new programmes, almost as many as last year (1095). The broadcasters took more time to put in...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today gave permission to Media Content & Communication India Pvt Ltd, in which Star holds 26 per cent equity stake, to...
PHOENIX, ARIZONA: Antenna Technology Communications which provides satellite communications systems has announced that Nielsen Media Research has selected the ATCi Simulsat C/Ku Multibeam antenna solution. ...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is not averse to the idea if the main channels, including the sports and entertainment ones like Star Plus, Zee TV,...
LONDON: This could be the way India goes in a post-CAS environment – free to air channels leading growth in the satellite TV market. Multichannel and...
MUMBAI: At a time when content service providers are focussing their attention on laying fibre optic networks, electrical and communications cables manufacturer Finolex is offering coaxial...
ENGLAND: This is an initiative through which Serena Williams, Kim Clijsters and company are seeking to create more awareness about the appeal of women’s tennis. The...
NEW DELHI: SSC&B Lintas has created a new advertising campaign for the new water dispenser-enabled WaterMatic refrigerator range from Videocon International Limited. The `WaterMatic’ campaign comprises...
MUMBAI: The SARS epidemic has dealt a body blow to the Asia Pacific travel and tourism industry. Now a $1 million global TV and print campaign...
MUMBAI: HTMT’s board at its meeting held today recommended a total dividend of Rs 7 per share (70 per cent) for approval by its shareholders in...
MUMBAI: News Corp’s Hong Kong-based Star Group has set up a new arm in Dubai Media City. Star will be using its Dubai Media City facility...
MUMBAI: While the talent hunt cum reality show Mission Everest has gone well with the audience, National Geographic is launching yet another reality show – Darkside...
NEW DELHI: The chorus against conditional access system (CAS) has reached the office of deputy prime minister LK Advani. On the pro-CAS side, the information and...
PARIS: TV France International is organising the fifth breakfast on documentary coproduction during Sunny Side of the Doc at the hotel Sofitel Marseille Vieux Port on...
MUMBAI: Is it that the Indian audience is finally ready to embrace reality sports! Few years back, a Zee venture RAAH did not manage to catch...
MUMBAI: Zee proposed and the government disposed. When the Zee Network made its request on Saturday seeking a waiver on declaration of individual channel rates in...
MUMBAI: Its raining awards at MTV. In the 25 edition of the Promax & BDA design awards that took place at Los Angeles on 4-6 June...
MUMBAI: While product placement in a movie isn’t really a new formula, the concepts are certainly becoming more innovative. The latest is the tie up between...
MUMBAI: CNBC India’s business strategy show Lessons In Excellence is now available on CD. Hosted by management guru Prof Sumantra Ghoshal, Dr Gita Piramal and CNBC...
HONG KONG: Media research & publishing company Media Partners Asia (MPA) has released an independent research report that provides background and perspective to the key issues...
MUMBAI: MTV has announced a one-hour special Mandela: A Staying Alive Special to be aired in July. The former South African President, Nelson Mandela, has been...
MUMBAI: Vissa TV, the Telugu channel from the Raj TV fold, launches today. Marred by hiccups and delays ( it was earlier scheduled to launch a...
MUMBAI: MTV India’s pay-driven sister Nickelodeon was the first to declare its rate. Now B4U Movies has announced it will remain a pay-channel after CAS at...
NEW DELHI: After the turn of KU-band DTH, print media and satellite uplinking, it’s the turn of foreign news agencies to be under the scanner of...
MUMBAI: Temptation Island may not have worked in an Indian context for Star, but AXN seems confident its localised version of the Are You Hot show...
MUMBAI: More on the worry lines for the pay broadcasters over conditional access and its implications. A new report by international ratings agency Fitch estimates that...
NEW DELHI: Even as the government today said it is examining a proposal involving Star News submitted last Friday, the company that would be the content...
MUMBAI: When the cable industry committed on Saturday to provide all channels (pay and FTA) available for a total monthly tab of Rs 222 (exclusive of...
MUMBAI: Nimbus Communications has announced the formation of a new subsidiary, Nirvana Television, which will produce ‘top quality television software that is bold, cutting edge and...
MUMBAI: The political tango around the introduction of conditional access in India just refuses to simer down. The Delhi Government on Saturday opposed the implementation of...
LONDON: The litigation between News Corp’s NDS and Canal Plus may have been resolved earlier this year but Rupert Murdoch still has a fight on his...
NEW DELHI: Amorettos Retail Private Limited has shifted the advertising account of its chain of juice bars `Amorettos Juice Café’ from Euro RSCG to Triton Communications,...
MUMBAI: To build up a brand in a cluttered marketplace companies at times feel the need to go beyond the familiar and at times boring hoardings,...
LONDON: BBC Magazines will launch what it claims is the UK’s only parenting magazine aimed at parents of children aged from one to 12. BBC Parenting...
MUMBAI: US pay TV platform DirecTV and Twentieth Television, DirecTV’s ad sales partner, announced the expansion of their current ad sales agreement. This will...
MUMBAI: The ubiquitous and inexpensive short messaging system is firing the imagination of advertisers. SMS based services have progressed to the next frontier beyond merely providing...
LONDON: Shareholders of the struggling British advertising network Cordiant Communications Group removed top executives from the board before approving a buyout by Martin Sorell’s WPP Group....
MUMBAI: The newly developed All India Radio (AIR) packages might be something ad agencies and advertisers should have a closer look at. Percept Picture Company division...
MUMBAI: One of the world’s largest accounting and consulting organisations, BDO International, is the naming rights partner of the 11th women’s Champions Trophy hockey tournament. The...
MIAMI: Royal Caribbean International received the New York American Marketing Association’s Silver EFFIE Award a few days ago for its Alaska Get Out There advertising and...
MUMBAI: The prodigals return. Two executives who’d left Publicis Groupe owned Starcom Worldwide for other opportunities have “returned to the fold.” CR Mallikarjunadas, currently with Asian...
CHENNAI: The “Dewmobile” is ready to roll. Carrying forward the success of Pepsi’s Mountain Dew since its launch in Chennai, the unique, neon-coloured drink is doing...
MUMBAI: SAUVvuex Foundation, an NGO recently held an all India cartoon contest titled ‘What Makes News’. A panel of judges comprising Barkha Dutt of NDTV, Rajinder...
MUMBAI: Plan India’s aim of giving kids born to difficult circumstances in India the chance to have their voices heard has paid off handsomely. Its documentary...
MUMBAI: The barometer 30-stock Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex continued its ascent and closed at 3,499 on 20 June, the best close in the last 14...
NEW DELHI: CAS is indeed turning out to be better than any of the soaps that most entertainment channels air with unexpected twists and turns. ...
MUMBAI: Bid for all or nothing! that’s the message from media conglomerate Vivendi Universal. The deadline for receiving bids is just two days away and...
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Communications leader exits after three years spanning MD office strategy and media outreach.
Cricket star named face of Delhi Khel Mahakumbh to fuel youth talent hunt.
Kolkata-based beverage maker reports stronger revenues and profits for December quarter.
A crime thriller steps out of the shadows as Telugu storytelling claims centre stage.
From boards to bytes, chess readies for a nation-first showdown in Riyadh.
Leadership change follows layoffs, protests and a bruising battle over trust.
Revenue rises 4.3 per cent to Rs 10,209.33 crore while deferred tax gain lifts bottom line sharply
Akshay Kumar and stars launch awards at NSCI Dome on Feb 28
Merger creates one-stop hub for content, digital, and delivery
NEW DELHI: Hamdard Laboratories gathered a cross-section of India’s achievers in New Delhi on Friday, handing out the Hakeem Abdul...
MUMBAI: For decades, creative storytelling has been the cornerstone of brand communication. The “big idea” amplified through catchy jingles, striking...
MUMBAI: Zepto has elevated Ahmad Muneeb to vice president – HR centre of excellence, placing him at the helm of...
