@ World Newspaper Congress: Someone Please Save a Newspaper Instead?
I arrived in a muggy but cool Hyderabad, India this evening, for the World Newspaper Congress, organized by the newly merged WAN & IFRA orgs… Read more »
News Roundup: Star CEO Uday Shankar On Pay TV Leakages; Sainath On ‘Paid News’
While the grouse is not new, it’s not everyday that a CEO of a large network lashes out against the powerful cable operators. Star India CEO… Read more »
Lachlan Murdoch To Bid For Nielsen Mags Including Hollywood Reporter and Billboard This Week
Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert’s son, has decided to participate in a joint bid for the b2b magazines and events properties held by Nielsen Busines… Read more »
How Your Favourite Newspapers And Magazines Fared In The Readership Survey
The results of the latest round of Indian Readership Survey is out and here’s a compilation of how some of the most popular English newspape… Read more »
Rethinking The Ad Agency Model: Partners In Business, Rather Than Service Providers
Alok Kejriwal is a digital entrepreneur based in Mumbai. He is the CEO and co-founder of games2win.com.
Whenever I see the success of Vodaf… Read more »
Pakistan’s Daily Times Editor Najam Sethi And Senior Staffers Quit: Report
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Prominent Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi, winner of the World Association of Newspapers’ 2009 Golden Pen Award, has resigned from the edit… Read more »
Sun TV Network Raises Ad Rates By 9-33%
Sun TV Network Ltd today said it was raising ad rates on its flagship Tamil channel by 9-33% w.e.f 1 January 2010.
It has also raised ad r… Read more »
Bloomberg UTV CEO Shantonu Aditya Stepping Down; MK Anand To Take Additional Charge
Shantonu Aditya, CEO of Bloomberg UTV (formerly UTVi), is stepping down, a person familiar with the development said. This is said to be Adi… Read more »
New In Rajya Sabha: Journalist H.K. Dua, Ananda Bazar Patrika Chairman Ashok Ganguly
President Pratibha Patil last week nominated senior journalist H.K. Dua and former Hindustan Unilever chairman Ashok Ganguly to the Rajya Sa… Read more »
Dish TV Raises $100 Million From PE Firm Apollo Management
Direct-to-home service provider Dish TV Ltd today said it is raising $100 million through an issue of global depository receipts, or GDRs, t… Read more »
Sabina Solomon, Head Of The Agency Behind Indian Readership Survey, Quits
Sabina Solomon, general manager at Media Research Users Council, the agency that carries out the important Indian Readership Survey, has res… Read more »
IRS 2009 Round 2: Dailies Continue To Grow, Periodicals Decline
After a rather long delay, the much awaited Indian Readership Survey Round 2 data has been released. For readers unfamiliar with this biannu… Read more »
TV18 Undertakes Major Restructuring; About 200 Staffers To Get Laid Off
Television Eighteen is laying off 12% of its permanent staffers (about 200 people, according to a company source) as part of a major restruc… Read more »
‘This Partnership Will Help Us Grow In The Lifestyle Space’: NDTV Networks’ Vikram Chandra
NDTV Networks CEO Vikram Chandra, also a key anchor for the group’s news channels, spoke to contentSutra from New York shortly after his com… Read more »
Scripps Networks Acquires 69 Percent Stake In NDTV Lifestyle For $55 Million
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Indian broadcaster NDTV Ltd and US-based Scripps Network Interactive today said they were forming a strategic alliance in the lifestyle broa… Read more »
Corrected: AOL International Cuts Coming But Looking For Partners; ICQ For Sale
AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Tim Armstrong did a hurried Q&A session at the Paley Center this afternoon and then had to rush off to being the IPO roa… Read more »
Internet Users In India Grow 17% Y-o-Y To 35.8 Million; Growth Rate Lower Than Asia-Pac Average
In September, India had 35.8 million Internet users (excluding visits from net cafes and handhelds), up 17% year-on-year, according to web m… Read more »
HT Media Demerges Hindi Business; Unlocking Value In Growing Regional Print Media
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HT Media Ltd, publisher of newspapers such as Hindustan Times, Hindustan and Mint, has decided to demerge its Hindi business. HT Media will… Read more »
Prem Panicker, One Of Rediff’s Earliest Employees, Leaving To Join Yahoo India As Managing Editor
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Well-known cricket writer Prem Panicker, one of Rediff.com’s earliest staffers and the editorial director of the company’s US-based newspape… Read more »
Nachiket Pantvaidya To Become MD At Fox TV Studios India
Fox Television Studios India is hiring Nachiket Pantvaidya as managing director, a person familiar with the development said. An announcemen… Read more »
Korea’s GS Home Shopping Invests $18.5 Million In HomeShop18, Valuing The Firm At $123 Million
South Korea’s GS Home Shopping, the world’s third largest home shopping network (as per this release), will invest $18.5 million in HomeShop… Read more »
PVR Buys DLF’s DT Cinema For Rs52 Crore In Stock & Cash; Separate Stake Sale To Thailand Firm
Multiplex chain PVR Ltd is buying realty major DLF Ltd’s cinema chain DT Cinemas, which currently runs 26 screens in Delhi, Gurgaon and Chan… Read more »
Rohit Bansal Steps Down As COO At India TV
Rohit Bansal, COO at Independent News Service Pvt. Ltd, which runs India TV, has stepped down. Bansal, who has worked at the firm for five y… Read more »
Subhash Chandra Assumes An Active Role In DNA’s Operations; Delhi Edition Soon?
Essel Group chairman Subhash Chandra, part-owner of Mumbai-headquartered broadsheet Daily News and Analysis, or DNA, has assumed an “active… Read more »
Govt Announces HITS Policy; Foreign Investment Upto 74% Allowed
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The Union Cabinet today approved information and broadcasting ministry’s guidelines on Headend In The Sky (HITS), a technology that enables… Read more »
NDTV Imagine EVP Harsh Rohatgi Leaving To Join National Geographic Channel As MD
Harsh Rohatgi, executive vice president at NDTV Imagine, is leaving the company to join National Geographic Channel as MD, a person familiar… Read more »
Well Known Sports Journalist Ayaz Memon Quits DNA As Editor At Large
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Noted cricket journalist Ayaz Memon has quit DNA newspaper, where he has been working since 2005. He was editor-at-large at the paper run by… Read more »
M&E At The WEF India Economic Summit: Room For Growth, Monetization Challenges, Protectionist Voices
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Four themes more or less dominated an interesting panel discussion on media and entertainment at the India Economic Summit of the World Econ… Read more »
News Roundup: Cable Licensing In Haryana; Times Group Videos On Vuclip; Barkha Dutt Domain Dispute
The Haryana government is planning to auction rights to run cable services in the state, Business Standard reports. The move might lead to a… Read more »
Zed-Tanla JV Hires Pancham Endlaw As Country Manager
TZ Mobile Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between Spain’s mobile content firm Zed and Hyderabad-based telecom software producer Tanla Solutions, ha… Read more »
Google To Acquire Mobile Ad Network AdMob For $750 Million In Stock
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has agreed to acquire AdMob, a mobile ad network, for $750 million in stock. Release.
At that jaw-dropping price, it ma… Read more »
I&B Ministry Proposes Higher FDI, News In FM Radio; Phase III Licensing Soon
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The ministry of information and broadcasting has floated a cabinet note on the fledgeling FM radio sector, recommending an increase in forei… Read more »
Rediff Losses Widen Even As It Invests In ‘Improving Customer Experience’
Nasdaq-listed Rediff.com (NSDQ: REDF) India Ltd today said net loss for the quarter ended 30 September widened by 84% to $2.61 million, from… Read more »
Prabhash Joshi, R.I.P.
Veteran journalist Prabhash Joshi died of cardiac arrest yesterday. He was 72.
Joshi was the founder editor of Hindi daily Jansatta, a pub… Read more »
News Roundup: Intel’s Wimax JV, AFaqs’ Telecom Portal; Cricket Ratings; Nick’s 30-Min Blank Out
Business Standard reports that chip making giant Intel Corp. (NSDQ: INTC) is considering participating in bids to form joint ventures with s… Read more »
Changes At Star: COO Sanjay Gupta To Handle Star Plus, GM Keertan Adyanthaya Moved To Eng Channels
In what is seen as a fallout of ratings performance, Star India has made changes to the management of flagship general entertainment channel… Read more »
Roshan Tamang Quits Web18 As VP; Headed To Indiatimes?
Roshan Tamang, VP for news, sports and entertainment at Web18, has resigned. This is his last week at the Network18 Group firm. Tamang confi… Read more »
Government Amending Press Act Of 1867; Draft By March 2010
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The government is working on “drastically amending” the Press and Registration of Books Act of 1867, which regulates the print media in the… Read more »
Google Centralises Privacy Control
By Mercedes Bunz: With the new Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Dashboard, the personal data and product settings of different Google products are combin… Read more »
Bloomberg.com May Charge Up To $1,000 A Year For News Feeds
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All aboard the paid content bandwagon: having signaled that its newly acquired Businessweek.com may raise the paywall for certain types of c… Read more »
