Developments at the global level in Grey Worldwide which is in the process of being integrated with WPP is showing its effects on the media side of the agency’s business as well. MediaCom is all set to become a GroupM company, effective January 1, 2006. The transition is taking place worldwide and will be applicable in India as well.
Rajiv Mishra has been appointed Director of International School of Media and Entertainment Studies (iSomes), based at Noida, promoted by BAG Films in collaboration with the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, USA. He will also spearhead the company’s New Media business (mobile value added) initiatives. Mishra brings a rich experience of over 16 years in the field of media. Some of his earlier assignments include working for Digital Media Entertainment Inc. as Sr. VP-Programming; Reliance Infocomm as GM; TV Asia as Sr. VP; and Star TV (DTH) as Sr. Manager.
Natasha Malhotra, who was MTV Asia VP-Content based in Singapore, has been promoted to head MTV Indonesia. She joined MTV in 1997 and was in India till 2003.
Sunder Gopal, after 16 years with The Times of India in Mumbai and Bangalore, had moved to The Indian Express (Mumbai) group as Space Marketing head in Chennai in June 2005.
Anish Daryani has moved from O&M, Kolkata, to Rediffusion DYR, Kolkata, as Account Supervisor
Alka Adhikari has joined Rediffusion DYR, Kolkata, as Creative Group Head. She has moved from Bates, Kolkata, after a four-year stint
Dr. V. Sumantran has resigned from Tata Motors to pursue other interests. He had joined Tata Motors as Executive Director, Passenger Car Business and Engineering Research Centre, in November 2001.
While Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan have been stealing the headlines, the body copy and the sound bytes for the past few months, Bollywood star Aamir Khan has been fairly low profile. Everything has changed prior and post the release of ‘Mangal Pandey – The Rising’.
The CNBC TV18 Story Board-DNA hosted interactive panel on the steaming subject of 'News vs. News: Will Indian Consumers Get The Best Of Both Worlds?' The panel comprised L. V. Krishnan, Vikram Sakhuja, Rajdeep Sardesai, Gautam Adhikari and Uday Shankar
Ending weeks of speculation, Grey Worldwide on Thursday announced that Euro RSCG Chairman-CEO Jim Heekin would become Chairman-CEO of the WPP Group-owned network effective September 6.
Contests2win (C2w) has announced its latest venture – a casual games portal called Games2win. C2w claims it to be India’s first causal games site, which is a 100 per cent owned new venture, and is aggressively promoting on its website.
In an event organised by RAPA (Radio & TV Practitioners’ Association of India), legendary commercial broadcaster Ameen Sayani and theatre wizard Bharat Dabholkar shared their respective creative journeys, which were laced with passion, humour and information on radio, press and other media.
Zee Telefilms has tied up with IBM to develop end-to-end digital media asset management solution called ZAMS to deliver content to emerging mediums like Internet Protocol TV, High Definition TV, Video on Mobile and Video on Demand.
The Sangbad Pratidin ‘Srijon Samman’ Awards for Excellence in Bengali Advertising this year has attracted over 2,000 entries, including Bangladesh. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony to be held in Kolkata on August 20.
In its latest drive to reposition itself and to further expand its appeal, the National Geographic Channel, which recently came out with the “Think Again” tagline, is launching an innovative programme, ‘Mission Udaan’, in collaboration with the Indian Air Force.
Public sector banks have not been able to enjoy their freedom for long. Within months of giving them autonomy, the finance ministry has asked these banks to route all their advertisements through the department of advertising and visual publicity (DAVP).
As part of its exercise to strengthen its news team in view of the group’s expansion plans, Aaj Tak has recruited former Editor, News, Zee TV, Sailesh for the newly created key post of Executive Producer (Copy Desk).
Sahara One Filmy has finally announced its launch date. Following the formation of the teams, the channel will launch on October 25, 2005. A key deal already in place from the channel is the acquisition of satellite and Pay TV broadcast rights worldwide.
CNBC TV18 and DNA hosted a special interactive panel discussion on Thursday to debate the multiple dimensions of a new revolution sweeping the Indian media scene through the launch of newspapers and announcements of multiple general and business news channels.
Should newspapers be classified on the basis of sexually explicit material contained in them similar to censor board categorising films for viewers? A PIL raising this question was today taken up for hearing by the Supreme Court and a Bench comprising Chief Justice R C Lahoti, Justice G P Mathur and Justice P K Balasubramanyan issued notices to the Centre, Press Council of India, news agencies - PTI and UNI, and leading dailies 'Times of India' and 'Hindustan Times'.
Media stocks rode high in today’s trade as all the scrips ended the day with hefty gains. Deccan Chronicle Holdings, up about 19 per cent to Rs 337.55, led the pack.
To ease operations of private FM radio channels, FICCI has suggested removal of anomalies and glitches in the policy for radio broadcasting by private channels. The suggestions include modifications in eligibility criteria, norms for revenue collection, time frame for transfer of shares and co-location of transmission facilities.
WPP group agency RMG David has appointed Kumar Subramaniam, vice-president, O&M India, as its new president and partner to national chairman and creative head, Josy Paul.
TV Today will officially be launching its third Hindi news channel – Tez – in the coming week, said G.Krishnan, Executive Director and CEO. The 24-hour channel is positioned as ‘fast, crisp and extremely slick’ and will be a perfect media vehicle for those looking to target busy working professionals constantly on the move.
<p align=justify>“The focus very clearly is to work with a select group of large brands/companies so there are some 18 or 20 big brands that we handle as opposed to signing up everything that comes our way for a lakh of rupees. We definitely are not interested in small businesses, small billing businesses because it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work for the client it doesn’t work for us, can’t add enough value in terms of the repertoire of services that we have to offer.”