MUMBAI: Star has promoted Uday Shankar to CEO and Jadgish Kumar as COO of Star India. The announcement was made by Star CEO Paul Aiello, who has also been serving as CEO of Star India....
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Walt Disney appoints J&J’s Samant as MD
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company (India) has appointed Mahesh Samat as the managing director. Samant replaces Rajat Jain who quit the company in March this year. The announcement was made by Walt Disney International president...
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SRK upgrades Redchillies.vfx studio set up
MUMBAI: Actor – producer Shah Rukh Khan’s new state-of-the-art visual effects studio Redchilles.vfx has deployed unified network storage company BlueArc Corporation’s BlueArc Titan 2000 network storage system for its post production facility. By deploying...
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RED FM launches social awareness campaign
MUMBAI: Red FM has launched a campaign ‘Red FM Dilli Ke Chamakte Sitaare’ as per which the radio channel plans to approach serious issues in a fun way, wherein it will promote social awareness...
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Bindass contributes towards Aids awareness
MUMBAI: The Three Amigos, a series of twenty (20) multi-award wining Public Service Announcements (PSA’s) spots designed to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, have been airing on the youth channel, Bindass. Bindass is playing...
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Zapak partners Apollo for tennis game
MUMBAI: Zapak.com and Apollo Tyres have partnered for an online tennis game to promote tennis among young Indians. As a part of this promotion Zapak Digital Entertainment has created a property called Apollo Tyres...
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BIG FM Bangalore facilitates Podcast service
MUMBAI: BIG 92.7FM Bangalore has become the first radio station to Podcast on-air shows on its website. Through this new offering, Kannadigas from anywhere in the world can catch up with their favorite radio...
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CASBAA Convention to focus on content
MUMBAI: The Convention 2007, organized by the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) is themed ‘It’s all about Content!’ and aims to shed light on how content is the key driver behind...
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Aamir Khan backs ad agency for social cause
MUMBAI: Aamir Khan has tied hands with ICOMO Advertising for a social cause to get Manju’s message across. Manjunath Shanmugam was an IOCL employee, who was murdered on duty, for protesting against adulteration of...
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Star takes Nach Baliye to fitness centre
MUMBAI: Star has associated with fitness chain, Talwalkars to design a dance cum fitness program that will boost the show by providing viewers a program to experience what the jodis on air do –...
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Bunty Walia ties up with K Sera Sera’s offshoot
MUMBAI: Bunty Walia’s GS Entertainment has tied up with a new production house Funky Buddha, which is an offshoot of K Sera Sera Productions. The details of the tie-up could not be ascertained. ...
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Jackie Chan’s office branches out in the US
MUMBAI: Action star Jackie Chan has opened his first United States based management company – JC Culture USA, on 19 October in the City of Santa Clarita. Chan announced his new venture during...
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MySpace-Oberon Media unveil gaming channel
MUMBAI: Social networking website MySpace has inked a partnership deal with multi-platform casual-games company Oberon Media to create a new gaming channel on MySpace. MySpace Games, which will launch in early 2008, will...
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OSO hits the ramp at Lycra MTV Style Awards
MUMBAI: Lycra MTV Style Awards has tied up with Shah Rukh Khan starrer – Om Shanti Om as per which SRK, director Farah Khan, debutant actress Deepika Padukone, Shreyas Talpade and Arjun Rampal will...
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Google’s GNET rolls $100 mn online contest
MUMBAI: GNET.COM, powered by Google, has announced a $100 million prize giveaway for its online contest. GNET.COM Corporation CEO Masud Osman informed, “The prize gets people’s attention and people talking. Along with a...
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Nat Geo creates global media group
MUMBAI: National Geographic has formed a new global media group composed of its film, music, magazine, book publishing, television, radio, digital media and maps units. Tim Kelly, 51, president and CEO of National Geographic...
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Universal Pictures promotes Fogelson & Egan
MUMBAI: Coming off of a summer which saw four of its domestic motion picture releases each exceed $100 million at the boxoffice, Universal Pictures today recognized the achievements of two of its senior marketing...
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Columbia Pictures ups Kadin as SVP production
MUMBAI: Jonathan Kadin has been promoted to senior vice president, production at Columbia Pictures and will continue to report to Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of production. Jointly commenting on the announcement,...
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Star makes new appointments in its team
MUMBAI: Star has made new appointments in its production and programming team as per which Todd Lituchy has been nominated as President, Entertainment, David Searl as Senior Vice President, Production and Donovan Castillo-Mohlman as...
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MPAA lauds anti-counterfeiting trade deal
MUMBAI: The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) applauded the announcement by United States Trade Representative (USTR) Susan Schwab that the United States and a group of key trading partners will launch negotiations...
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Mahindra mulls media & entertainment foray
MUMBAI: After the entry of corporate companies like Anil Ambani’s Reliance ADAG Group, Anupam Mittal’s People Group and Ratul Puri’s Moser Baer into the filmed entertainment space, now another corporate giant Mahindra and Mahindra...
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