Turner General Entertainment Networks India Ltd. (TGEN) has aggressive growth plans for India. In keeping with its strategy it has appointed Saurabh Tewari as Head of Programming – Fiction of its flagship Hindi GEC, Imagine.
Colors is sprucing up its programming team and has brought in Siddharth Bahuguna to head Non-Fiction Content. Besides this, the fiction content on the channel will be divided into four time blocks, with each block having a separate fiction team, which will report to Ashvini Yardi, Programming Head, Colors.
“The radio industry as a whole is going through a very bad phase due to music royalties, high infrastructure costs and licensing fees. We hope some positive changes will take shape this year. Once these issues are sorted, we are planning for expansion. We will look forward to have more stations in West Bengal and the North East,” says Nishant Mittal, CEO, Radio Misty.
Bangalore-based Brand-comm is gearing up to start the second edition of ‘brandware’, a comprehensive brand management course that will be led by Ramanujam Sridhar. Sridhar has specially designed the second edition to help practicing managers learn newer aspects of branding and also simplify branding for professionals.
The new TVC for Paramount Cables takes the humour peg to get the message across that its wires are lead-free wires. The ad supports Paramount’s claim of launching India’s first lead-free wires, which do not harm one’s health.
Almost everyone has a vision, but execution of that vision is what is vital. Passion is something that needs to be alive in young people to move ahead in life. These were some of the takeaways from the Young Leaders’ Conclave, held in Mumbai on June 8, 2010. The objective of the Conclave was to foster a positive environment for the emergence of young leaders.
Much has been written about the burgeoning growth in the OOH industry. Heavy investments are being made in the latest technology. However, the industry is marred by lack of proper regulations and guidelines in place, which make this growth amoebic at best. Some leading OOH industry players share their views on bringing in regulations, collections, dealing with government authorities and more…
The exchange4media Conclave 2010 gets underway in Delhi today at the Taj Palace hotel. The theme for the Conclave this year is ‘Rebooting the Indian media and advertising industry’. Amid the several sessions in the day-long Conclave is a Power Panel, moderated by veteran journalist Vir Sanghvi, that would discuss at length the lessons of the decade gone by, especially the slowdown period.