Media - Broadcast

Some guys much older than Prince — remember that kid from Haryana — also fell into a hole this week. Although they too were on TV, summoning help for them seemed out of question. Some guys much older than Prince — remember that kid from Haryana — also fell into a hole this week. Although they too were on TV, summoning help for them seemed out of question. They didn’t know they were in a hole. So...

The wall-to-wall coverage of the dramatic rescue of five-year-old Prince from a 60-ft deep pit in Haryana’s Kurukshetra town has taken television coverage to a new and disturbing low. Sure, it was a poignant story that merited coverage with the boy falling into a shaft and lying trapped there for 50 hours with soldiers from an engineering regiment working overnight, scooping out drums of mud and...

NEW DELHI: Imagine a law where no single company can sell more than one variant of a soap brand or any other product or service. Since most marketers like to sell to a majority, all that consumers have, is duplication of the same variant, albeit with different brand names from different marketers. Moreover, no one company can sell its one soap brand variant across the country in keeping with the...

The representatives of some of the country’s top media houses today urged the government to withdraw the restrictions on cross-media holdings and preferential carriage for Prasar Bharti from the draft broadcast Bill. The group, under the aegis of Indian Media Group, also protested the media policing provisions, calling them “stringent”, and suggested that all news media be brought under the Press...

Although 75% of households in Morocco own a satellite dish, 93% still tune into terrestrial TV, indicating that local terrestrial channels still have a strong foothold in the country. A new Arab Advisors Group comprehensive survey of GSM users across Morocco provides deep insights into the media usage patterns and habits of this major North African market. The survey reveals that while satellite...

The Reliance group has put its proposed entry into the television news business on the fast track. Barely a month after giving Ernst & Young the mandate to study the financial feasibility of the proposed venture, the Mukesh Ambani-controlled group has appointed Prateek Basu, a former Disney hand, to spearhead its initiative to launch three media channels. The Observer Research Foundation will be...

BEIRUT: Rarely have Western news organisations wooed Arab hearts and minds so avidly — or with so little certainty of political or commercial reward. Freed by satellite television and the Internet from the dreary monopoly of state media, Arabs already get news in their own language from a plethora of local and foreign sources. Western media outfits, most with public funding and partly political...

SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Nielsen's famous TV ratings are getting a serious shakeup - one that people in the advertising industry say is long overdue. While Nielsen has already made partial moves to the electronic measurement of TV audiences in the largest television markets, in smaller cities - which make up more than half of the U.S. population - it still depends on household...

The Discovery Channel is the number one Media Brand in Overall Quality for the tenth consecutive year, and the number one Television Network Brand in Overall Quality for the fourteenth consecutive year according to the 2006 EquiTrend; brand study by Harris Interactive. In addition, the number of high quality Discovery Communications brands in the study exceeds all other media companies. This year...

The Information and and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B Ministry) has issued 150 show cause notices in the last two years to different television channels for violation of programme and advertising codes. Of these, six television channels, NDTV India, Sahara One, Star One, Fashion TV, India TV and Cine World, have been warned by the ministry mostly. The ministry has issued a warning to these channels...