Meridian has elevated Rensil D’Silva as ECD. N Ramesh too continues to be ECD at Meridian. Bates David Enterprise’s Kumar Subramaniam has been roped in as President of Meridian Communication. INX Media and INX News have also been added to the Meridian kitty.
Synergy Media Entertainment Ltd (SMEL), a fully owned company of the Bhaskar Group, is on an expansion spree. The station has recently appointed Bharat Sharma, Nilesh Kadam and V.P Singh for its radio venture, 94.3 MY FM.
Euro RSCG Advertising has won the Bank of Baroda Centenary campaign account. The campaign, which will commence with the 100th anniversary celebrations of the bank, will see a 360-degree marketing plan being implemented.
Perspectrum, the integrated marketing communications (IMC) arm of Percept Holdings, has announced the win of new accounts worth around Rs 10 crore. The accounts include Zicom, Idea Cellular, Himalayan Ski Village and Nissan LCV.
O&M India has been ranked third in the worldwide WPP ranking. The ranking is a combined tally of the offices of Ogilvy Mumbai, Ogilvy Delhi, Ogilvy Bangalore and Ogilvy Kolkata. There is no Indian WPP company in the top 19, other than O&M India.
The industry word has it that media company Miditech is all set to compete with players in the Hindi general entertainment space. Even as Miditech officials didn’t offer any comments on the development, sources informed that Miditech was already looking for a CEO for the channel.
Grey Worldwide COO, Ashutosh Khanna, who had put in his papers, is leaving for a new address that takes him away from his advertising career. He is joining Korn/Ferry International as Partner in India.
Chennai-based services creative solutions company Brand Portrait along with Network Advertising has won the end-to-end communications business for Star Health and Allied Insurance. The media budget is pegged at around Rs 4-5 crore in the first year, and is likely to increase in years to come.
Mumbai will host Asia’s first exclusive digital signage show on November 21 and 22 this year. The two-day event will comprise a convention featuring panel discussions, and an expo that will showcase cutting-edge solutions available in the digital signage space.
TDSAT has directed Tata Sky to pay Zee Turner the total outstanding amount due of around Rs 9 crore or face disconnection. The sum amounts for the period during which Tata Sky has aired 32 channels of Zee Turner at the rate of Rs 75 per subscriber per month, as was fixed by TDSAT.
The International Public Relations Association (IPRA) has announced the winners of its 2007 Golden World Awards for excellence in PR. From India, Corporate Voice ½ Weber Shandwick has won in the category of NGO campaign.
STAR Majha, the new Marathi channel, is ready with its mass media campaign, which will break by the end of this month. The campaign, created by Mudra Communications, seeks to break all stereotypes with the tagline ‘Nanachi Tang’.
Equus Red Cell, Delhi has recently won the creative duties for Forest Essentials, a brand of Mountain Valley Springs India Pvt Ltd. Equus would also be responsible for forming the marketing strategies for the brand.
CNN-IBN swept away some of the biggest award categories at the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards 2006-07 ceremony that was held in the Capital. Rajdeep Sardesai, Nilanjana Bose, Bahar Dutt and Rohit Khanna were among the winners.
ACNielsen has acquired San Francisco-based Telephia Inc, a consumer research company for the telecom and mobile media. This transaction will accelerate ACNielsen’s strategy to provide clients with the accurate analysis of consumer behaviour and media.
In a recent development, V Shantakumar and S Ghosh, who own 20 per cent stake in Saatchi & Saatchi India, have decided to offer their share to the Publicis Groupe. The Publicis Groupe already has 80 per cent stake in Saatchi & Saatchi India operations. Publicis is yet to revert with their agreement on this offer.
The famous Jagannath Rath Yatra commenced in Puri from July 16. And this time, along with the usual television and Web coverage, FM stations in Bhubaneshwar are also celebrating the nine-day festival with a wide variety of programmes.