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 ‘Ownership’ 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… 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 [...] A special edition of The World Debate, one of the BBC’s flagship programmes, will be filmed on Thursday October 26 at the World Congress on Communication for Development in Rome, Italy. Entitled “Is a free media essential for development?” it will be broadcast on BBC World on 28-29 October, as well as made available online. Transmission [...] 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. Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi’s diatribe against media owners is not without merit. If the proposed Broadcasting Bill facilitates a discussion on the way the media function, we need to welcome it. 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, [...] Here’s what Susan Crawford thinks about Net Neutrality. She’s a professor at the Cardozo School of Law and on the Board of Directors of ICANN. The notification of 24 sports events that private broadcaster have rights for will henceforth be shared with Doordarshan. If public interest is the basis of media reform then the professional and economic independence of media practitioners is a yardstick to measure the scenario. Subhash Chandra, who started off as a vegetable oil manufacturer, now lords over the Zee-Essel group. The Bill of Media Rights ostensibly concerns the media situation in the United States. |
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