Tag: North & East region

  • Mindshare onboards Prashant Nandan as digital lead for North & East

    Mindshare onboards Prashant Nandan as digital lead for North & East

    Mumbai: GroupM’s flagship agency Mindshare on Wednesday announced the onboarding of Prashant Nandan as digital lead for the North and East region. He will be based out of Gurgaon and will report to Mindshare India senior vice president – North and East Ruchi Mathur and Mindshare South Asia digital head Gopa Menon.

    In his new position, Nandan will be responsible for digital strategic direction and leadership within the digital group to deliver the most effective and innovative communications plans. His role will focus on building a high-growth business and driving revenue strategy for Mindshare India, said the statement.

    The appointment is key to Mindshare as digital is on the rise and this will help the agency to achieve higher levels of business performance, innovation, and digital solution-led strategies for the clients.  “The shape of our business is changing. While we continue to partner with our existing clients in their transformation journeys, we are also seeking new clients from the brand new world,” commented Ruchi Mathur. “Prashant with his experience and passion will play a key role in driving this new, seamless and good growth narrative for us. Extremely excited to have him on board and look forward to getting into 2022 with a bang.”

    “Prashant comes with diverse experience in digital marketing, media planning and trading. He will play an important role in driving the digital growth for Mindshare North and East,” said Gopa Menon. “As Mindshare now re-orients its business around the pillars of Acceleration, Outcome and Good Growth, I am looking forward to working with him to shape the continued phase of growth and transformation for our clients.”

    Nandan comes with over 13 years of extensive industry experience in multiple strategic roles. Before joining Mindshare, he was associated with dentsu International as VP – digital trading and buying.

    “I am incredibly thrilled and happy to be part of the Mindshare family and take it to greater heights with the combination of media, data, commerce and technology,” said Prashant Nandan on his new assignment. “It is critical to map, plan and build the right tools of communication in this ever-evolving digital space for our clients to thrive into the future. I look for to building on Mindshare’s reputation of delivering the best results for its clients.”

  • Broadcasting to get Rs 475.5 crore in Annual Plan 2016-17 of MIB

    Broadcasting to get Rs 475.5 crore in Annual Plan 2016-17 of MIB

    NEW DELHI: There is a provision of Rs 390 crore as grant-in-aid for Prasar Bharati for the year 2016-17 which includes Rs 50 crore for the north east region.

    In addition, there is a grant-in-aid of Rs 60 crore including Rs 8 crore for the north east region, according to the annual plan of the Information and Broadcastng Ministry for 2016-17.

    In addition, Doordarshan will get Rs 125 crore and All India Radio will receive Rs 75 crore for development of new content.   

    A sum of Rs 12 crore has been set aside for strengthening the Electronic Media Monitoring Cell which will soon increase its capacity to monitor all TV channels in the country.

    A budget of Rs 4 crore has been set aside for supporting community radio stations which includes Rs 20 lakh for the north east region.

    Infrastructure Support Cell in the ministry renamed as Digitisation Mission has a budget of Rs 5 crore in the annual plan, while Rs 4.5 crore has been set aside for automation of the broadcasting sector.

    Thus the total budget in the annual plan for the broadcasting sector is Rs 475.50 crore including Rs 58.2 criore for the north east.  

  • Broadcasting to get Rs 475.5 crore in Annual Plan 2016-17 of MIB

    Broadcasting to get Rs 475.5 crore in Annual Plan 2016-17 of MIB

    NEW DELHI: There is a provision of Rs 390 crore as grant-in-aid for Prasar Bharati for the year 2016-17 which includes Rs 50 crore for the north east region.

    In addition, there is a grant-in-aid of Rs 60 crore including Rs 8 crore for the north east region, according to the annual plan of the Information and Broadcastng Ministry for 2016-17.

    In addition, Doordarshan will get Rs 125 crore and All India Radio will receive Rs 75 crore for development of new content.   

    A sum of Rs 12 crore has been set aside for strengthening the Electronic Media Monitoring Cell which will soon increase its capacity to monitor all TV channels in the country.

    A budget of Rs 4 crore has been set aside for supporting community radio stations which includes Rs 20 lakh for the north east region.

    Infrastructure Support Cell in the ministry renamed as Digitisation Mission has a budget of Rs 5 crore in the annual plan, while Rs 4.5 crore has been set aside for automation of the broadcasting sector.

    Thus the total budget in the annual plan for the broadcasting sector is Rs 475.50 crore including Rs 58.2 criore for the north east.  

  • DD Direct Plus sets to be installed free of cost in low terrestrial density

    DD Direct Plus sets to be installed free of cost in low terrestrial density

    MUMBAI: Targeting the areas wherein the terrestrial coverage is negligible, the free-to-air direct-to-home (DTH) service of Doordarshan — DD Direct Plus will soon be available to states including — Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, North-East Region, Rajasthan and Uttaranchal.

    The Information & Broadcasting and parliamentary affairs minister P R Das Munshi has announced that 10,000 DTH receive systems including the dish and the set-to-box (STB) will be distributed free-of-cost.

    In an official statement issued, the free distribution of DTH sets is targeted to the states where the terrestrial coverage is lower than national coverage.

    This was done through public institutions viz. Anganwadis, Schools, Public Health Centres, Panchayats, Youth Clubs, Cooperative Societies, etc. The free distribution of DTH sets is targeted to the States where the terrestrial coverage is lower than national coverage.

    So far, 8,465 DTH receive units have been installed in the uncovered villages of above States and North-East Region.

    The DD Direct Plus platform includes the Doordarshan channels, private TV channels and audio channels of All India Radio. Prasar Bharati will provide 100 television channels and 50 radio channels by the end of this year (2006). The service is available on the high power transponders of NSS-6 satellite.