Zee TV’s Programming Head Ashwini Yardi is joining Viacom-18, the JV between Viacom and TV18, as Head of Content and Creative of the proposed general entertainment channel of the JV. Yardi is still serving her notice at Zee.
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Oneindia.in, a portal developing regional content, has launched OneBookmarks.in, claimed to be the first bookmarking website with language options in English and five Indian languages – Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.
The MBD Group, a publishing house with over three decades of experience in the field of education, has launched ‘MBD Alchemie’, a new interactive affordable online academy.
Cartoon Network’s new live action series ‘Sazer X’ debuts in the action packed programming block ‘Toonami’. The show was launched on July 3 and is currently being aired from Monday to Saturday in the 6 pm time slot.
Putting an end to all speculations, Ronald D’Mello, CEO, UTV-UK, has put in his papers. D’Mello, who had held several key positions at UTV – from Director-Operations and Finance to COO – was recently put in charge of UTV-UK as its CEO.
OgilvyOne, the direct marketing and digital division of Ogilvy & Mather India, has appointed Mihir Unakar and Harshad Hardikar as Business Directors for Bangalore and Mumbai respectively.
Contract Advertising has bagged the creative duties for the entire range of Dabur Vatika products. The pitch took place between the two agencies that used to handle the creative duties previously -- Mudra and Contract. The estimated account size is around Rs 20 crore.
Nokia has announced the launch of the industry’s first vernacular news portal with Malayala Manorama. With this offering, all Nokia GPRS enabled handset users in Kerala will be able to get national and international news in Malayalam across various categories of news.
After a stint of six years with MOMS, the outdoor unit of Madison Communications, Soumitra Bhattacharyya has resigned as CEO to join Laqshya Outdoors as CEO.
RK Swamy BBDO has bagged the Suguna Poultry Group account following a multi-agency pitch that also involved O&M, Contract and Orchard. The account size is pegged upwards of Rs 10 crore.
PDM-Entertainment has announced the launch of its entertainment property ‘India Music Week’ at the recently concluded ‘London Calling’ festival held in Earls Court, London. The IMW is intended to unify various talents in the music industry, and create a body that keeps a close eye on the local music industry.
Big FM has announced its partnership with the fourth International Military Sports Council Military World Games to be held from October 14 to 17, 2007 in Hyderabad. To mark the approach to the 100 days, grand celebrations have been planned by CISM in Hyderabad from July 8 onwards.
Though the Live Earth concert won’t be held in India, Delhi and the NCR can tune in to the global concert on HIT 95 FM from 8 pm onwards on July 7 till 5 pm on July 8.
Alka Saxena, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, MH1, has put in her papers. Following this development, Pradeep Gangal, MH1 Group CEO, has taken over the additional responsibility of Saxena’s role.