The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Thursday said that an industry-led body should be responsible for the operational issues of television rating agencies. The regulator has issued draft recommendations on policy guidelines and operational issues for television rating points (TRPs), the Times of India has reported. TRAI has recommended that the industry initiative - Broadcast Audience...
Crime has outrun cricket and cinema in the battle for Television Rating Points (TRPs), at least as far as the brutal twin murders of 14-year-old schoolgirl Aarushi Talwar and domestic help Hemraj are concerned. According to Television Audience Measurement (TAM), a company which rates television programmes, news channels scored nine points for the telecast of the Noida twin murder case as compared...
Times Online has rolled out an elaborate digital newspaper archive stretching back more than 200 years. The archive includes more than 20 million articles from every edition of the Times except for a small number of damaged issues from 1785 to 1985, says a Guardian report. It includes the Thunderer's coverage of events such as the Battle of Waterloo, the first convicts arriving at Botany Bay and...
Young adults experience news fatigue from being inundated by facts and updates and have trouble accessing in-depth stories. The Context-Based Research Group, an ethnographic research firm, has found that the news consumption behaviour of younger readers differs profoundly from that of previous generations. The research project, commissioned by the Associated Press in 2007, analysed the news
A new study on the media habits of young people in three countries found that television continues to be the most important source of news and information for the young, despite the rise of the internet—and newspapers can win their attention as well. The survey of 3,500 young people between 15- and 29-years old in the United States, the Netherlands and Finland found that young people get their...
The BBC has dropped plans to create a "licence fee" option for users of its international news website who were outraged by the introduction of advertising last year, says a Guardian report. "We did look into it, but all the evidence from commercial operators is that what ever people say about wanting a subscription, it is not the case," BBC World managing director, Anne Barnard, said Thursday. "A...
Those might have been bad times for press freedon in Pakistan. The number of newspapers and other periodicals in the country has decreased rapidly, but circulation has doubled from 1997 to 2006, the Daily Times has reported. According to a survey conducted by the Statistical Department of Pakistan over a period of ten years, there were 4,455 newspapers and other periodicals in all languages spoken...
Nearly 70 per cent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey. Two thirds of Americans — 67 per cent — believe traditional journalism is out of touch with what Americans want from their news, a new We Media/Zogby Interactive poll has shown. The survey also found that while most Americans (70...
Newspapers are now fighting it out over the Hindi news space. Mint has an exclusive report on the scene: The list of companies includes Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd (BCCL), Business Standard Ltd, Amar Ujala and Jagran Prakashan Ltd and Television18 India Ltd (the last two have partnered to launch a local language business daily). Numbers show the vernacular business news market is underserved...
Kazakhstan will become the first ex-Soviet state to assume the chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev passes by the guard of honor during a welcoming ceremony before his meeting with his Hungarian counterpart Laszlo Solyom, not seen, in Budapest, Hungary Friday, November 23, 2007. Nazarbayev arrived to Hungary...
