Multi-lingual portal Webdunia.com has launched a unique online poll to choose the most eminent Indians from the field of global citizenry, political leaders, cricketers, sports persons, film stars, as well as the best of Indian movies of 2007.
PIOTV.com has bagged the rights to telecast the Pravasi Bhartiya Divas 2008 (PBD 2008) live on the website. The programme is scheduled to be held on January 8 and 9, 2008, in New Delhi. This would be the first ever live webcast of the PBD since its inception in 2003.
Premier Entertainment & Media Pvt Ltd, publishers of English film magazine ‘South Movie Scenes’, recently unveiled another magazine, ‘Bangalore Happenings’. As the name suggests, the magazine is a comprehensive city guide of Bangalore, its hotels, restaurants, resorts, cultural institutes, airport and places of tourist interest.
NDTV Profit will launch a new show ‘The Unstoppable Indians’ that would focus on an outstanding Indian from myriad fields of business, sports, literature, entertainment, science and social activism, whose power, talent or moral example is transforming India. The show will premiere on January 8 at 8.30 pm.
Ramesh Srivats has put in his papers as Executive VP and Managing Partner at Rediffusion DYR Delhi. Srivats had been heading the agency’s Delhi operations since August 2006. He is setting up his own venture in the digital space.
Bharti Enterprises has signed a MoU with the All India Football Federation (AIFF) to create a comprehensive programme, National Football Development Programme (NFDP), for the development and globalisation of Indian football. AIFF is the official governing body in India for football, and Bharti would make substantial investments in the programme, which would be upwards of Rs 100 crore.
NDTV Convergence has launched ‘NDTV Answers’, a new online user-generated question answering service that offers rewards for quality answers. The service has been launched in beta mode in partnership with Ammas.com Ltd, an Internet leader in knowledge trading designs.
TRAI has released a draft recommendation on provisions for IPTV services. According to the draft, telecom service providers who have the unified access services license (UASL) and the cellular mobile telephony service (CMTS) license can provide IPTV service without requiring any further registration.
MTV’s marketing vehicle Viacom Brand Solutions has signed up with telecom service provider Vodafone to provide customised integrated marketing solutions targeted at the youth. Over the next 12 months, MTV plans to create interactive content that will play out across their screens. They will also roll out innovative consumer activation programmes using music as the underlying theme.
Hitting the television screen on January 21, NDTV Imagine has announced yet another show. The channel will launch the mythological series of ‘Ramayan’. Produced by Sagar Arts, the all-new series will premiere on January 21, and will be telecast from Monday-Thursday in the 9.30 pm time slot.
DNA has appointed Isshu Bhalla as Executive Vice President-Revenue, and will be based in Mumbai. Bhalla comes in from Pepsi Foods where he was Regional Head VP-Sales, Western Region, for the snacks business.
The Advertising Standards Council of India recently organised an interactive session with Jean Pierre Teyssier, President, European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA), along with officials from the I&B Ministry. The panel discussed the importance of self- and co-regulation as a tool for responsible commercial communication.