The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has appointed Uday Shankar, CEO, STAR India, as its President. Shankar succeeds Jawahar Goel, who had held the Chair for four consecutive years. TV Today’s CEO G Krishnan is the Vice President and Times Television Network’s CEO Sunil Lulla is the Treasurer.
UNITV commenced its live feed service from the Congress headquarters in delhi on September 3, 2010 with Sonia Gandhi’s first address to party workers after becoming the Congress President for the fourth time in a row. From here on, UNITV will be providing daily live feed to all its clients from 24, Akbar Road in the National Capital.
Digital interactive agency Webchutney has added a creative spin to ESPN-STAR Sports’ digital marketing for the upcoming Airtel Champions League Twenty20 tournament with the launch of a new contest – ‘Commentweeter’.
The Department of Information Technology has invited proposals in two covers from agencies for empanelment for the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) ‘umbrella’ campaign, including outdoor activities.
A seminar held in Delhi this week brought together I&B Minister Ambika Soni, television industry stalwarts and some other political leaders to thrash out myriad issues plaguing the broadcast industry today. The I&B Minister emphasised on the need for digitisation of the Indian TV broadcasting industry as the way ahead. The conference was organised by the Indian Television Academy.
“Content (in India) is already quite fluid and there is a culture of creativity and ideas which might not exist everywhere else. Often, with big countries implementation becomes so important that strategy becomes less important. India and China to a certain extent are exceptions. The other opportunity here is the database, because there is a lot of data and a lot of information and we have been talking about how we can address this as a business,” says Mel Varley, Chief Strategy Officer, Global, Mediaedge:cia.
Stage is set for the sixth edition of Indian Magazine Congress, being presented by the Association of Indian Magazines (AIM) in Mumbai on September 6-7. The two-day event will have several eminent names from the media and advertising world like Nicholas Brett and Aroon Purie speaking at the event.