This is an interesting story. It doesn’t come as a surprise. After 8 years of Bush’s dirty tricks, what does one expect.Obama choices for FCC chairman haven’t been very reassuring though.
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Archive for the ‘Business’ CategoryTurner International, a unit of Time Warner Inc, has recently bought a minority stake in the Indian production firm Miditech Pvt Ltd, which makes regional-language general entertainment channels. Turner operates the Cartoon Network and Pogo channels for kids. CNN-IBN news channel is it’s venture with Global Broadcast News Ltd. India’s TV industry revenues [...] Steve Yelvington’s got it right:  Read the full post here… Here’s something that should bring cheer to a very few people in this country: BSNL has the highest minutes of mobile usage across 10 circles, <<Read on>> technorati tags:BSNL, Telecom ESPN buys Wisden’s Cricinfo Pantaloons becomes title sponsor of Femina Miss India Pantaloons and BCCL have a new relationsphip now. technorati tags:ToI, BCCL Rural India is no more back of beyond. There’s a brand new fortnightly magazine Grameen Today that will focus on providing “a comprehensive knowledge of technorati tags:media, magazine, rural, india, news It is uncommon to hear of journalists involving themselves in helping out the management about the future of a newspaper. I’ve heard only of ownership of newspapers by journalists’ collectives and so on. Here’s a new one: The Los Angeles Times “is dedicating three investigative reporters and half a dozen editors to find ideas, at [...] I don’t quite get what this is all about. A 60 per cent stake? Something to keep an eye on… Essel may take 60% stake in UNI Media West, an investment company promoted by Subhash Chandra’s Essel Group is close to picking up about 60 per cent stake in the news agency United News of India (UNI) [...] Clickz.com has a report on the “Top 15 Online Populations and Web Properties Worldwide”, and for a change India is listed. For a worldwide population of unique online visitors at 713 million India with 1.8 million comes a lowly ninth yet is there. The point that needs mention here is that “visitors exclude traffic from public [...] The Audit Bureau of Circulations, which has 411 publishers of national and regional importance, 151 advertising agencies, 51 advertisers and 20 new agencies and associations connected with print media and advertising as its members released the National Readership Survey (NRS). Television Eighteen India Ltd is emerging as a serious player in the Indian internet space. This “new” media group has its internet properties under Web18. Exchange4media reports that Web18 has acquired Cricketnext.com and Compareindia.com. The group boast of news website such as IBNLive.com, which should make it a serious contender as a vertical portal what [...] It was a pleasant surprise to happen upon a newsletter on the Indian media by Chronosphere’s CEO Bhupesh Trivedi “personally”. Trivedi’s been bringing it out since May 2004, all the more surprising that I found out only now. No surprise here. The churn in the newspaper business is getting more interesting. The Pioneer too is a candidate when the FDI norms ease. India takes on offshoring naysayers HT Media Q1 net up 212% to Rs 30.6 cr HT Media on Friday reported a whopping 212 per cent increase in its profit after tax at Rs 30.6 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2006, against Rs 9.8 crore in the corresponding period previous year. Mid-day Multimedia Ltd is to invest upto Rs 100 cr in its radio business. This is another media organisation that has gone to the market. The numbers, again, are small but this is a company to watch out. Something closer home: they are to start a radio channel in Chennai. Mid-day to invest in radio biz Though the market cap is not a huge figure the company is in for some good times given the fact that its political fortune is currently shining brightly, and may do so for a few years more. Sun TV PAT jumps 70% in FY 06 Sun TV Ltd on Thursday reported a 69.65 per cent increase in [...] The number of Internet Service Provider (ISPs) in the country has decreased from 189 in March 2004 to 153 in March 2006 owing to the steady capturing of market share of ISPs by telecom companies. VoIP, according to Himanshu Dhomse, is one technology that’s helping ISPs fight back. The report by Dhomse in the Business Standard says [...] Vijayanand Printers (VPL), with Vijay Times with 10 editions and two Kannada newspapers Vijay Karnataka and Usha Kiran, are now firmly in the Bennett, Coleman & Co (BCCL) stable. BCCL with the acquisition enters the fast-growing regional media market. Apparently “readers, advertisers, employees and business associates have all played a vital role in building these brands.” [...] Now that’s an offer one can’t refuse! MTNL is offering unlimited surfing for its broadband subscribers and for free. The offer is: no monthly rental, subscribers pay only for the data downloaded. MTNL plans to provide cable TV channels to its broadband subscribers — an issue that might raise the hackles of some in the broadcasting [...] The big news is that blogging is very desi now. The Economic Times and JuxtConsult’s India Online 2006 survey has this surprise for us. A good 86 per cent of the respondents are active blog readers. Thomas K Thomas reports in the The Hindu BusinessLine today that Net Telephony usage outpaced the international long distance market. Taking a swipe at BSNL or the public sector is standard practice these days. So the late arrival of Net Telephony is, obviously, because of the highly regulated licence regime. And the good thing about Net [...] According to hardware industry association MAIT, PC sales in India crossed the 5-million mark. What’s significant about the report is the growth of PC sales in smaller towns. The growth rate is 35%. According to the news report in ET:”Aggressive pricing from brand players cannibalised the market for assembled personal computers.” The desktop PCs had registered Rs.8,884 [...] A Reuters report by Jeremy Pelofsky says: “The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approved sweeping communications reform legislation on Wednesday that would make it easier for telephone companies like AT&T Inc. to offer subscription television to consumers.But the panel narrowly rejected attempts by some lawmakers to strengthen safeguards on Internet service, which had pitted high-speed Internet, [...] The notification of 24 sports events that private broadcaster have rights for will henceforth be shared with Doordarshan. The bizarre trajectory of India’s media policy continues. This time it seems more on the sensible side of the debate. Apparently, Private FMs may not be able to join DTH platforms. Depending on which side of the fence one wants to belong to, this rule might be seen as progressive or regressive. I [...] A company, Email Data Source Inc’s business it to “analyze, organize, and archive thousands of daily email marketing messages” and, of course, make money by doing that. On day one itself Sun TV has become the “second most valuable company in the media space”. The market capitalisation of the company stood at Rs 10,099 crores. Indiantimes’ latest “strategic alliance” is with Legalpundits.com. Another ace indeed. Indiatimes takes the cake and eats it too, followed, of course, by the old warhorse rediff, and, finally siffy. But when it comes to tipping the hat for e-commerce in India, the Indian Railways deserves it the most. The times are such. The news that “Internet advertising will account for 10 percent of total U.S. ad dollars” is something to celebrate about, although we’d have to wait for 2010 for that to happen. Have you tried Google Base? Gary Price has a post on it at Search Engine Watch. |
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