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  • Judging process for Indian Telly Awards concludes

    MUMBAI: The jury meetings of the programming and technical categories of the fifth Indian Telly Awards concluded late last night, (2 September).
     
     
     

    The process, of judging commenced on 29 August with the programming jury viewing 16 categories over five days in Mumbai’s Hotel Sea Rock. The technical category juding commenced on 31 August Some 17 professionals were brought together to constitute the two juries, evaluating about 1700 entries in all the categories.

    The Indian Telly Awards is divided into six categories: trade awards, technical awards, channel awards, programming awards, popular awards and special awards.

    Under the popular category, there are 26 awards, while there are 22 technical sub-categories. The programming category covers 15 awards. (Click here for details: http://www.indiantellyawards.com)
     
     

    The jury for the programming awards category included distinguished names from the industry – Dharam Gulati, Lekh Tandon, Rathikant Basu, Rakesh Sharma, Mona Kapoor, Ruby Bhatia Suchitra Pillai, B.M.Vyas, Mahabanoo Mody Kotwal, Ishan Trivedi, Goldie Bhel and Priya Singh Paul.

    The jury for the Technical Awards consisted of Yunus Bukhari, Hansal Metha, Dharam Gulati and Gayatri Rao.

    Members attending the jury meet offered mixed reaction. Jury member Dharam Gulati was rather disappointed about the lack of innovations in ideas and concepts on TV.

    “It is disheartening to see that, despite room for improvement, there is hardly any visibility of change in ideas, concept and format on tube in comparison to last year. TV programmes haven’t kept up to the improvement today’s films have recorded,” he says.

    Gulati however pins his hopes on the churning happening on the television front with more channels planning their entry.

    Ruby Bhatia on the other hand added: “I insist that channels and producers should send in more entries and also take care about what they send in as we are compelled to see and judge what has been sent. It is worth taking the pains to win the honour and recognition.”

    Kiran Joneja however had a fun time judging the entries, “As there is no pre-selection process, it does make our work very taxing. But that however gives a fair chance for everybody. Certain categories are mundane, while several other categories echo attempts of excellence and hard work,” she said.

    Mahabanoo Mody Kotwal expressed her concern about the sub-standard programmes. However she considers the awards as a medium of inspiration for TV professionals: “Awards are mainly for recognition of quality work, it is mainly to encourage creative professionals to propel their ideas and bring the best work on screen.”

    By the end of the week, the judges seemed all exhausted but satisifed about of a job well done!

  • Disney board battles allegations on CEO selection process

    MUMBAI:The independent members of The Walt Disney Co. board on 12 May issued a strong rebuke to two former members who have challenged the process used to select Robert Iger as the company’s new chief executive.

    The 10 non-management members of the 12-member board call the charges “baseless and inaccurate”.
     

    The statement came one day after the company reported a 30 percent rise in earnings for the second quarter according to agency reports.

    Earlier in the week, ex-board members Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold filed a lawsuit against a few sitting board members, alleging that the process used to name a successor to longtime CEO Michael Eisner was biased in favor of Iger and did not adequately consider outside candidates.

    The lawsuit has seeked to have the election nullified and in turn ask a Delaware court to prevent the company from modifying Iger’s or Eisner’s contracts.

    The lawsuit interestingly did not name four board members as defendants. The implication if interpreted was that there was a dissension on the board and that the selection of Iger, though ultimately unanimous, was not initially supported by the full board.

    The board statement defended the selection process as “thorough, careful and reasoned.”

    “At the end of the process, we unanimously concluded that Bob Iger was the best choice to lead the company forward as CEO,” the company statement says. “The performance of the company in the period leading up to the selection and since that time only underscores our confidence in the selection we made.”
     
     

    Iger has called the lawsuit “completely without any basis.” He also said Disney employees were “just plain fed up with all this.”

    Disney shares rose 8 cents to close at $25.75 on the New York Stock Exchange.

  • IAMAI introduces credit policy/accreditation process for digital agencies

    MUMBAI: The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the not-for-profit industry body, has introduced a credit policy and accreditation process for all agencies dealing with online advertisements.

    The policy claims to have garnered the support of leading online publishers in India including Rediff.com, Yahoo! India, Indiatimes.com and Sify.com.

    IAMAI president Dr Subho Ray is hopeful that the new policy will bring in some norms and standards to the relationship between online publishers and agencies which is currently bilateral and haphazard.

     
    According to an official announcement the policy consists of three aspects:

    a) A common credit policy for all accredited agencies
    b) An accreditation process
    c) A process of recovery of over due payments from agencies

    Under the Policy, a 60 day credit would be extended by affiliated publishers to all accredited agencies with a 30 day window for negotiation, reconciliation and settlement. The process of accreditation has been deliberately kept simple and gratis to encourage agencies to be a part of this process. The policy comes into force from 28 March 2007 after the one-month window given to agencies for accreditation expires.

     
    While the online advertisement business is very small as compared to other media, it has been estimated that dues over 90 days amount to 25 per cent of the revenues in some cases leading to a cash flow problem for online publishers. It was, therefore felt prudent to establish some basic “housekeeping” norms for the benefit of all the stakeholders in the value chain of online advertisement business, adds the release.
    As it exists today, the policy would regulate the relationship and payment schedules between online publishers and agencies only much like the process followed by the INS. However, if the policy works out successfully in the first stage, IAMAI would seriously consider taking the next step of setting up certain norms supporting the agencies’ recovery from advertisers.