Asian Cricket Council (ACC), the apex body for management of cricket in Asia, has awarded the worldwide rights for telecasting the 9th Asia Cup to ESPN-STAR Sports. Rights include global exclusive TV broadcast of the tournament, radio broadcast and on-ground sponsorships.
Chantal started her career as a music video director and producer before joining MTV International where she launched MTV affiliates in Germany, Italy and Australia. She was in India during the recent MTV Lycra Style awards 2005. Excerpts from an interview…
All four radio channels present in Mumbai are in fact, very different; from their positioning to their programming. A. P. Parigi, Apurva Purohit, Abraham Thomas and Shariq Patel throw some light on the radio wars…
MIPCOM has announced 11 winners of the second MIPCOM DVD Awards. The international trophies were presented on October 17 during the 21st edition of MIPCOM, the world’s audiovisual content market.
Weeks after a public address in which he called female creative directors “crap”, WPP Group’s Worldwide Creative Director, Neil French, is leaving the holding company, according to executives familiar with the matter.
Cricinfo, a Wisden Cricinfo Company, is partnering with Hitbox Professional (from WebSide Story) for web measurement and analysis. The objective of the tie-up, according to Cricinfo, is to help optimise its web initiatives, and help advertisers analyze their options better.
Eminent broadcast journalist and former India correspondent of BBC World, Satish Jacob, has been roped in by Sahara TV to do a weekly travelogue show on Delhi, ‘Dill Jo Ek Shahar Tha’, for its NCR channel, Sahara Samay NCR.
Ogilvy Activation was launched in the middle of 2004 to offer seamless out-of-home solutions and deliveries to the clients. The organisation believes that they have achieved this to a great extent with certain businesses. However, as the need of the hour is to accelerate the process, a few changes have been undertaken.
Wunderman Mumbai, a part of the Young & Rubicam Group, has won the coveted ‘Echo Leadership’ award at the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) International Echo Awards, 2005, in New York for its work on the mailer for ICICI Prudential’s SmartKid.
Zee Sports has signed up Alchemist as the title sponsor for the 27th edition of the Federation Cup football. The ‘Alchemist Federation Cup’, as it is termed, has 16 matches and is shown live and exclusive on Zee Sports.
Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms and Aroon Purie-promoted TV Today on October 20 announced their second quarter results ending September, with both declaring profits, though the former saw its profits declining.
Optimum Media Solutions (OMS) has roped in N K Machaiah (Mac) to head the ADAE business as Business Director. He moves from Denstu Communications-Bangalore, where he was Associate Vice-President, Media.
While marketers tend to focus most of their attention on the metros and mini-metros, the growing clout of semi-urban markets can no longer be ignored. Increased purchasing power, awareness levels of products and brands, and the desire to improve their living standards have a lot of Buntys and Bablis waiting to be tapped in small towns.
Dainik Jagran will be launching its 28th edition from Dharamsala on October 24. The edition is slated to cover seven of the 12 districts of Himachal Pradesh – Kangra, Kullu, Chamba, Mandi, Bilaspur, Hamirpur and Una.
The Cabinet today cleared the decks for allowing 74 per cent foreign investment in basic and mobile phone service companies. The Cabinet also cleared a proposal to allow foreign news broadcasters to air India-specific advertisements and content. It proposed a similar move for the Indian editions of foreign news publications.
Doordarshan has bagged the telecast rights for the upcoming India-Sri Lanka and India-South Africa One-Day cricket series. The decision to award the telecast rights to the public broadcaster was taken by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) at its marketing committee meeting on October 20.
What’s going on? Almost every news channel is numero uno these days! At least that is what the deluge of communication from channels for the past five to six weeks would have us believe. Matters have become more interesting with players like NDTV and Zee TV now using aMap data, in addition to TAM numbers at times, to claim pole position.