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  • UTVi to do specials on ‘Vote for Growth’

    UTVi to do specials on ‘Vote for Growth’

    MUMBAI: UTVi is set to air special programmes from 13-16 February under the umbrella brand ‘Vote for Growth’. These programmes will examine the growth of the economy and the industry during the last five years of the UPA rule.

    The programmes will also look ahead and set the agenda for elections and the new government that will take charge after the elections. The last interim budget by the UPA government will be announced this month, which will chart the future course of the economy and prepare the ground for the new government.

    The shows being planned are – The Great UPA Update, Eye On The Week, Speak Up Special, Young In India and Reading Between The Lines. These shows will feature minds from politics, government and the industry sharing their ideas for India.

    UTVi Business News CEO Shantonu Aditya said, “The ‘Vote for Growth’ programmes touch on the most important and interesting aspects that the vote on account will impact.”

  • Indian news broadcasters fix reporting guidelines

    Indian news broadcasters fix reporting guidelines

    NEW DELHI: Facing criticism following the Mumbai terror coverage, Indian news broadcasters have chalked out guidelines on reporting of such events.

    The regulations, outlined by the News Broadcasters Association (NBA), cover a wide spectrum ranging from national security to accuracy and sting operations.

    The new code says live interviews with terror suspects should not be aired by broadcasters. They should not disclose technical details of ongoing operations involving national security.

    The guidelines were finalised after a meeting of NBA authority under the chairmanship of Justice (Retd) JS Verma held on 10 February.

    The regulations also extend to coverage of issues relating to law and order and crime and violence. According to the guidelines, the content should not glamourise or sensationalise crime or condone criminal actions, including suicide.

    Content should also not depict techniques of crime that may tempt imitation, especially with reference to terrorism and suicide. Reports on crime should not amount to prejudging or pre-deciding a matter that is, or is likely to be, sub-judice. And no publicity should be given to the accused or witnesses that may interfere in the administration of justice or be prejudicial to a fair trial.

    Identities of victims should not be disclosed in cases of sexual crimes and violence on women and children. Close-ups of dead or mutilated bodies should not be shown, the guidelines state.

    Violence must not be depicted solely for its own sake, or for its gratuitous exploitation or to pander to sadistic or other perverted tastes. Moreover, scenes with excessive violence or suffering such as close-up shots of persons being subject to brutality, torture or being killed and visual depiction of such matter should be avoided.

    The guidelines specify that subjects promoting horror, supernatural, superstition, occultism, exorcism, divination, and the paranormal which may be frightening to children, should be avoided. And belief in superstition, occultism, exorcism, divination and the paranormal should not be promoted.

    Regarding sting operations, the code states that it should only be conducted in public interest and when no other means is available to obtain the requisite information, without any illegality or inducement and subject to the legitimate right to privacy.

    Broadcasters should resort to sting operations only if editorially justified, for exposing wrong-doing, particularly of the public facets of people in public life. Also no sting operation should be conducted except with the concurrence of the person overall in-charge of editorial function; and the Managing Director and/or the Chief Executive Officer of the broadcaster should also be kept fully informed of any sting operation. Further sting operations should be so conducted as to obtain ‘evidence’ of an offence but not to induce ‘commission’ of an offence.

    The guidelines insist on providing privacy while reporting sensitive issues. For example, broadcasters should exercise discretion and sensitivity when reporting on distressing situations, on grief and bereavement. Also, people should not be featured in content in a manner that denigrates or discriminates against sections of the community on account of race, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation¸ occupation, religion, cultural or political beliefs. Content that would cause unwarranted distress to surviving family members, including by showing archival footage, should be avoided.

    Additionally no information relating to the location of a person’s home or family should be disclosed without permission from the concerned person. Surreptitious recording of any person or event should only be made without committing any illegality and if editorially justified. And, finally, interviews of the injured, victims or grieving persons should be conducted only with prior consent of the persons or where applicable their guardian.

    The guidelines also specify on how to report on sex and nudity and how to protect children’s interest while airing content which might disturb or alarm them.

  • Bloomberg UTV sends defamation notice to CNBC TV18 managing editor

    Bloomberg UTV sends defamation notice to CNBC TV18 managing editor

    MUMBAI: Bloomberg UTV has sent a defamation notice to CNBC TV18’s managing editor Udayan Mukherjee, asking him to apologise on air for allegedly defaming the English business news channel.

    The channel, through counsel AZB Partners, accuses Mukherjee for making “inflammatory, derogatory and defamatory” statements during its segment Bazaar on 4 March.

    In its notice to Mukherjee, Bloomberg UTV has demanded Rs 5 billion as damages, for the “injury” the channel has “sustained and will continue to sustain” because of his (Mukherjee’s) “malicious acts”.

    The notice also accused Mukherjee of debasing Bloomberg UTV by saying “(Bloomberg ko) apni auqaat nahi bhoolna chahiye”.

    Mukherjee, in his show, had said that for the tenth year running, CNBC TV18 leads across all categories in the genre, and had remained the number one channel on the Budget day, based on Tam data. Earlier, Bloomberg UTV had given full page adverts and run a campaign, claiming leadership on Budget day viewership based on another monitoring agency aMap.

    Mukherjee was not available for comment till the time of filing this report.

  • Zee News to drop ads during 9 pm bulletin

    Zee News to drop ads during 9 pm bulletin

    MUMBAI: How often have you been bugged by the commercial break which crops up just as the news anchor on prime time is about to take you over to a correspondent in another city? Pretty often enough for the Zee News management to take advantage of the irritation that viewers might experience.

    The channel has announced Nonstop@9 a prime time 9 pm news bulletin from 9 February which will offer “rapid-fire break-free and non-stop” news. All the important news stories of the day will be crisply wrapped up in 24 minutes without any commercial breaks, claims the channel.

    Zee News Ltd CEO Barun Das says: “Non-stop news at 9 is an effort to cater to the hard nosed news viewer by redefining the set parameters of news presentation. We have always believed in providing content which is not only informative but also presented in a unique format. Nonstop@9 is yet another approach from the Zee News stable to update its viewers about the happenings in a short and comprehensive format.”

    Will viewers sink their teeth into the new news offering? Well, we will find out after the commercial break.

  • CNN-IBN & IBN7 to air special series on cricket’s ‘Golden Generation’

    NEW DELHI: CNN-IBN and IBN7 will telecast a six-episode special series on Indian cricket called Golden Generation, from 7 February onwards.


    The series will telecast every Saturday at 7.30 pm on CNN-IBN and at 10 pm on IBN7 with a a repeat telecast at 10:30 pm on CNN-IBN.


    Says IBN18 Network editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai, “Golden Generation is a special documentary that acknowledges and admires the six rare talents of Indian cricket. The show is an attempt to bring for its viewers their journey of these legends and their heroic triumphs.”


    The show’s first episode depicts the journey of former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly from childhood to becoming few of India‘s greatest cricketers. The final episode will focus on Sachin Tendulkar. The series will also interview coaches, friends and families of these players to explore the unseen side of the them.


    According to the channel, Golden Generation will feature the legacy left behind by these great cricketers and the huge mark they continue to make on Indian cricket and the ‘men in blue’.

  • CNN-IBN & IBN7 to air special series on cricket’s ‘Golden Generation’

    CNN-IBN & IBN7 to air special series on cricket’s ‘Golden Generation’

    NEW DELHI: CNN-IBN and IBN7 will telecast a six-episode special series on Indian cricket called Golden Generation, from 7 February onwards.

    The series will telecast every Saturday at 7.30 pm on CNN-IBN and at 10 pm on IBN7 with a a repeat telecast at 10:30 pm on CNN-IBN.

    Says IBN18 Network editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai, “Golden Generation is a special documentary that acknowledges and admires the six rare talents of Indian cricket. The show is an attempt to bring for its viewers their journey of these legends and their heroic triumphs.”

    The show’s first episode depicts the journey of former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly from childhood to becoming few of India’s greatest cricketers. The final episode will focus on Sachin Tendulkar. The series will also interview coaches, friends and families of these players to explore the unseen side of the them.

    According to the channel, Golden Generation will feature the legacy left behind by these great cricketers and the huge mark they continue to make on Indian cricket and the ‘men in blue’.

  • NDTV ventures into media education biz

    NDTV ventures into media education biz

    MUMBAI: Following on the steps of other media houses like Aaj Tak, Times and Zee, NDTV is foraying entering into the education business space with ‘NDTV Broadcast Training Programme’. The company has join hands with Macaw, the advertising and marketing solutions providing entity of the INCL (India Mews Communications Ltd) Group as the communication agency for creative and media buying services in introducing the broadcast training programme.

    The company is firm that the association of faces like Pronnoy Roy, Barkha Dutt, Vinod Dua and Pankaj Pachauri along with NDTV credits, will add mileage to their programme thereby drawing in large number of candidates.

    The eligibility criteria to apply to the programme is that one should be graduate and below 27 years of age. The first batch will be started from March second from July. The course curriculum, it claims, is career oriented and focuses to groom the aspirants with both theoretical and practical aspects of broadcast media.

  • Madhavan Nair & team named CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 08

    Madhavan Nair & team named CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 08

    NEW DELHI: The third edition of CNN-IBN Indian of the Year award held in the capital witnessed G Madhavan Nair and team Chandrayaan being declared as the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2008.

    G Madhavan Nair and Team Chandrayaan also bagged the award in the category of Public service sector.

    Says Network 18 managing director Raghav Bahl, ” The year 2008 was an extraordinary year in terms of global economic crisis. The year taught everybody from politicians to policy makers to businessmen lessons on how to manage crisis. For businessmen 2008 was a year to stop running on bloated balance sheets and begin fresh management of accounts while for policy makers it was time to check the policies again in order to save the Indian economy from further effects of economic crisis as the time when the crisis had begun the country was relatively safe as compared to other economies.”

    Meanwhile veteran Hindi cinema actor Dilip Kumar was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award and New Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit was conferred with Special Achievement award.

    Assistant sub inspector late Tukaram Omble and the Mumbai Police who fought bravely at the time terror attack on 26 November, 2008 were bestowed with the award of Extraordinary Service to the Nation.

    “CNN-IBN Indian of the Year award recognises the outstanding contributions of Indians in various categories. This initiative is an attempt to recognise the contribution of individuals who stood first amongst equals,” adds IBN18 Network editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai.

    Earlier on 30 January, CNN-IBN had announced the category-wise winners which included Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar in Politics, while Olympic Gold medalist-Abhinav Bindra was declared the winner in Sports category. The category of Business saw HDFC Bank MD Aditya Puri as the winner and Aamir Khan was announced as the winner in the Entertainment sector.

    Finally, the Global Indian award went to AR Rahman.

    The winners were chosen through a four-tier election process, where the IBN 18 editorial board drew the list of nominees; followed by voting of the electoral college and the citizens of India and the jury having ratified it. The process was audited by Ernst & Young.

  • CNN expands to Afghanistan, China, UAE with new appointments

    CNN expands to Afghanistan, China, UAE with new appointments

    MUMBAI: In a bid to expand its coverage and reach across Asia and the Middle East, CNN Worldwide is adding three new international correspondents in Afghanistan, China and the United Arab Emirates.

     

    The announcement was made by CNN senior VP president international newsgathering Parisa Khosravi.

     

    Over the past 12 months, CNN has appointed more than a dozen correspondents in seven new locations as part of an aggressive content ownership strategy. These latest hires boost CNN’s international newsgathering locations to 33.

     

    Khosravi says, “The resources available to CNN’s international newsgathering team have never been more robust. By adding correspondents in these three strategic areas, CNN underscores its international newsgathering heritage.”

     

    In Kabul, Afghanistan, Atia Abawi will serve as correspondent. He will be responsible for covering the country and the on-going war there. Abawi, a former assignment editor and producer for CNN’s international desk in Atlanta, joined CNN in 2004 and has worked on a number of stories including the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the Afghanistan-Korean hostage situation and Youssif, the young Iraqi boy burned by insurgents in Iraq.

     

    Meanwhile, Stan Grant has returned to CNN after spending two years in Australia and will take up the new post of UAE-based correspondent. He will serve to cover both the UAE and the surrounding region from his base in CNN’s new Abu Dhabi newsgathering and production center slated to open later this year. Previously, Grant served as a Hong Kong-based anchor for CNN International and later as the network’s Beijing-based correspondent, where he gained recognition for his exclusive coverage of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the South Asian tsunami.

     

    Emily Chang, who joins John Vause as the second correspondent in Beijing, boosts CNN’s presence in China at a time when many media outlets are reducing their coverage in the post-Olympic climate. Chang has already reported on a variety of stories including the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the tainted milk scandal and the effects of the global financial crisis on China.

     

    Over the past year, CNN has also announced the opening of newsgathering operations in Chennai, India; Lagos, Nigeria; Mumbai, India; Nairobi, Kenya; and Santiago, Chile, where CNN Chile launched late last year. In addition, CNN has placed correspondents in Istanbul, Turkey; Islamabad, Pakistan; Johannesburg, South Africa; London, Great Britain and Tokyo, Japan.