NDTV Lumière, the initiative to bring contemporary cutting edge world cinema to India, has announced its acquisition of the rights to films by well-known director Aki Kaurismaki. The library contains over 10 critically acclaimed films by Kaurismaki such as ‘Juha’, ‘Leningrad Cowboy Meets Moses’, ‘Take Care of Your Scarf’, etc.
With Karnataka gearing up for the Assembly elections, Kannada channel Suvarna News, too, is in poll mode with ‘Karnataka Kurukshetra’, a special election programme claimed to be the first in Kannada television to provide a definitive breakdown on the Assembly elections.
Microsoft and NDTV Media have begun advertising on social networking site Facebook in India through its new advertising platform, which was launched in India in February 2008. The ad platform was launched to simplify digital advertising and create a larger eco-system connecting advertisers and publishers.
Rajat Dawar of Rediffusion DYR and Shakoon Khosla of TBWA are among 12 finalists at the Clio Future Gold Young Creatives Program. Dawar and Khosla would be the Indian representatives for copywriter and art directors, respectively.
The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has finally come up with a comprehensive Code of Ethics and broadcasting standards to cover the broadcast industry. The broadcast industry has off late run into several controversies and opposition from both the Government and common people regarding the type of programmes being aired and responsibility and accountability of reporters and the media.
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With an eye to the large and growing market for their products, Indian auto component and tyre companies are making a beeline to set shop in Europe (especially Eastern Europe).
INX News, which recently launched English news channel NewsX, has now ventured into the online domain with the website NewsX.com. In keeping with NewsX channel’s philosophy of providing intelligent and thought-provoking news to global Indians, the website has an added advantage of ‘self-customised’ news.
Indian Oil Corporation has empanelled four agencies – DraftFCB Ulka, Rediffusion DYR, McCann Erickson and Grey Worldwide – for its creative duties following a multi-agency pitch. Meanwhile, Madison and Lodestar Universal would be handling the media duties. Industry sources have pegged the account size at around Rs 120 crore.
Aditya Tripathi, VP-Lifestyle, Discovery Networks, has put in his papers. He has been with Discovery for seven years and was responsible for the launch of Travel & Living in November 2004. He was also Head of Programming for Discovery’s channels.
Sharat Jain has quit as CEO of Dentsu Communications’ media entity Dentsu Media after two-year stint. He is planning to set up his own venture. Dentsu Media controls group-wide media buying as well as acts as custodian of Dentsu’s proprietary media tools and database such as Valcon, ContactPoint Management, D-VAST, and VextMiner in India.
Farid Kureshi, who had quit Times OOH as COO in February 2008, has decided to set up his own venture, Via OOH. Via OOH would have Shamik Talukder as Founding Member, who would be based in Mumbai. Via is operational now in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore, and has signed on important assets in key markets.
Sanjay Sipahimalani, popularly known as Sanjay ‘Sippy’ in the industry, has put in his papers at Vyas Giannetti Creative as Executive Creative Director. Confirming the news, Sippy has said that he is joining Bates David Enterprise in a similar capacity.