Radio City has launched the first and biggest reality talent hunt on radio – RC Live. The month-long national talent hunt will look out for India’s best Hindi band.
MediaE2E, which runs a TV programme guide service, has announced a strategic pact with Veveo Inc, a technology company that delivers the full power of Internet video discovery to users, to offer its vTap web video application as a service in its Indian TV programme guide website, Zipzap.com.
Following the success of ‘Somoy’, a Bengali literary compilation launched especially for the Pujas in September 2007, The Times of India, Kolkata now plans to expand it into a quarterly affair. Renamed ‘Amar Somoy’, the seasonal literary compilation will hit newsstands on January 31, 2008.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- When the American Association of Advertising Agencies this afternoon confirmed Nancy Hill as its new president-CEO, Ms. Hill did something no other 4A's head has ever done: She updated her status on her Facebook page.
Big Bazaar, the largest retail chain of Future Group, is eyeing a turnover of Rs 8,000 crore by the next financial year.
Close on the heels of launching its comedy show ‘Bhaago KK Aaya’, SAB has launched another show ‘Acting ki Funshaala’, which is a reality-based format show with the component flavour of comedy to it. The show will be aired on Fridays at 8:00 pm from February 1, 2008. Vodafone comes on board as the presenting sponsor.
HIT Entertainment, independent children’s entertainment producer and rights owner, has announced another strategic partnership with Turner International India. This agreement will extend their existing association of television rights to include licensing representation of the company’s popular pre-school properties ‘Bob the Builder’ and ‘Thomas & Friends’.
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) has reported third quarter consolidated revenues of Rs 518.2 crore, representing a 24.1 per cent growth over the corresponding period in the previous fiscal. The net profit stood at Rs 113.5 crore, a growth of 18.4 per cent over the corresponding period last fiscal year.
Asia Pacific Advertising Festival (AdFest) President, Jimmy Lam, has announced the selection of four new directors as the ‘Fabulous Four’, tabulated from the voting of the seven juries of the inaugural New Director Lotus. The objective of the Fabulous Four is to act as a platform for exposure and recognition of talented new directors in the region.
CRY (Child Rights and You) has decided to follow the virtual path with an office on Second Life. The virtual world created by Linden Labs already boasts of several Indian users and even an office from Wipro.
NDTV has yet again emerged as the channel with the best talent in journalism and media technology. NDTV Labs Ltd has been awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) Award for 'Innovative Engineering', while NDTV's Features Editor, Sutapa Deb, was declared CBA-Thomson Foundation Journalist of the Year at the CBA Broadcasting Awards for 2008 presented in Nassau, Bahamas.
Inext, the bilingual compact daily from Jagran Prakashan Ltd, has launched its Dehradun edition on January 28, taking the total number of its editions to seven.
Nimbus Communications Ltd, the Mumbai-headquartered media, sports and entertainment company, has appointed K Digvijay Singh as CEO with immediate effect. Prior to this appointment, Singh was based in Singapore as CEO of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Nimbus Sport International Pvt Ltd.
DMRC Chairman E Sreedharan, the man who brought the Metro project to light in the National Capital, was declared CNN-IBN Indian of the Year for 2007 at a well-attended ceremony in Delhi on January 29, 2008. Sreedharan also received the Indian of the Year award in the public service category.
The Nielsen Company and the Mobile Entertainment Forum have announced their future plans at the NATPE Mobile++ at Las Vegas. The Nielsen Company’s arm, Nielsen Mobile is rolling out its mobile data in 12 countries, and India would see this data by May 2008. The MEF has announced a code of best practice for Participation TV, and subsequently, this too would have learnings for India.
The NATPE announced the Top 12 companies that had made some ground breaking initiative in the mobile domain at the NATPE Mobile++. Some of the winners included InterSport, MediaFlo, Local Wireless, LoopMobile, Zannel, mPulse Media, Cellufun, GestureTek, and Comedy Central.
The NATPE Mobile++ that precedes the NATPE Conference 2008 reiterated the global digital revolution, and the fact that India is seeing its share of action. From expected new age applications and gadgets to monetisation of the new media and new trends to creation of communities, the event had a bit of everything.