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Star In Talks To Acquire Asianet; Balaji In Talks To Exit Star - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 06 Aug 2008 01:53 PM PST

-- Starry few days for Rupert Murdoch, the man who made Tony Blair doesn’t seem to have lost his appetitite for a heady cocktail of politics and media, even in…

News Corp. Investing $100 Million In TV Channels Across India - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 04 Aug 2008 08:15 AM PST

News Corp (NYSE: NWS). will spend $100 million to start six regional TV channels in India over the next year, WSJ reported. The channels will be part of News Corp.’s…

T-Series Issues Notice To Guruji.com Amongst Others - 6 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 17 Jul 2008 11:39 AM PST

Sure enough, the days without incident were indeed numbered. T-series has issued a notice to Guruji.com amongst other websites including MSN, MySpace and Bharatstudent. It has accused them of allowing…

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Star May Divest 25.9% Stake In Balaji; A Look At Production Houses - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Fri 13 Jun 2008 01:43 AM PST

The general entertainment channel wars are hurting the mass entertainment conglomerates hard. Mint reports Star India, a News Corp (NYSE: NWS). subsidiary, is mulling divesting 25.9% of its stake in…

Indiagames Acquires Multiple Rights For Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 27 May 2008 01:55 PM PST

Indiagames has acquired rights for mobile, PC and interestingly Interactive Television (DTH and IPTV) rights for Star’s Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain (Are You Smarter Than A Fifth…

Cleartrip Ties Up With PLUS! - 2 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 26 May 2008 12:27 AM PST

Cleartrip has tied up with Star India’s mobile application PLUS, to deliver travel related information to users. The service allows users to access travel information and make reservations via the…

@NDTV NMC: Old Media Evolves With Consumers; Regulation Biggest Bottleneck; Who’s The Consumer? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 09 May 2008 08:00 AM PST

For some reason, at the NDTV New Media Congress, the session focusing on mass media companies taking to the Internet digressed down the New Media vs Old Media path. Kevin…

MySpace India Launched: 500,000 Users In India; Tie-Up With Saregama; Events Planned - 7 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 17 Apr 2008 06:38 AM PST

MySpace India, which as been live since January, has finally been “officially” launched: there’s a gig today in Mumbai featuring Pentagram, The Super Fuzz, Them Clones, followed by an after-party…

Star India In Distribution JV With Digital Entertainment Networks - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 14 Jan 2008 09:24 PM PST

STAR India and Digital Entertainment Networks (DEN) have formed a 50:50 joint venture to distribute television content using IPTV, MMDS (Wireless Cable), DTH and HITS, reports Television Point. Variety adds…