This follows the industry's dissatisfaction with the current data provider, TAM Media Research, which has allegedly not been able to deliver data on all the 70 million cable and satellite households.
Leveraging the popularity of their cartoon characters, all the top Indian children's channels - Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Disney - are getting aggressive in the area of publishing for children as well.
Three leading general entertainment channels - Star India, Zee TV and Sony Entertainment Television - together may lose Rs 11 crore (Rs 110 million) from the underwear ads, which will soon be off air.
Flush with cash and stung by the rising value of the rupee against the US currency, Indian information technology companies are venturing into diverse geographies -- from Brazil to Ecuador.
Walt Disney finds another platform for its cartoons -- your mobile.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, in popular parlance, Harry Potter 5 may not be opening with the same fanfare as the super hit Spiderman 3.
Optical storage maker Moser Baer is extending the price war in the home video market to new titles and films.
With growing viewers TAM Media Research's top 100 TVRs (during June 3 to June 9), both Zee's and Star's show share the 14th position with a rating of 6.4 each, while Sony's show ranks 33 with a rating of 5.3, on June 8.
Chopra is planning to buy single-screen theatres and convert them into multi-screen theatres, depending on their viability.
Media and advertising agency Madison will acquire a majority stake in cricket's "little master" Sunil Gavaskar's sports management company, Professional Management Group.
"Software patents are a killer for the economy in the end". It's natural to be surprised at this statement when most major global and Indian information technology firms -- right from IBM, Microsoft, Sun to Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipr
Even as conflicts between rival brands increase in India, industry experts find the trend encouraging.
Maruti Udyog Ltd surpassed Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Hindustan Lever to emerge as the country's largest sports advertiser on television in 2006.
Television Audience Measurement Media Research, in association with Nielsen Media Research and IMRB International, is set to launch a new division, Radio Audience Measurement to track radio listenership.
With over 700 stations spanning across the country and mobile penetration on the rise, FM players are now reaching out to listeners via the visual radio route too.
The overseas market for Indian films continues to be growing rapidly.
Last week, lunch boxes delivered by Mumbai's formidable army of dabbawallas (delivery boys) came with a small tag.
Broadcaster Nimbus Communication, which operates sports channel Neo Sports, is in talks with banks to float an initial public offer for nearly Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion).
Distributors of Hollywood films are lining up English blockbusters, dubbed in Indian languages, in the next few months.
If the deal goes through, it will be Lachlan's first investment through which he will take on his father Rupert Murdoch directly in the broadcasting space.
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