The notification of 24 sports events that private broadcaster have rights for will henceforth be shared with Doordarshan. But for broadcasting these “events of national importanceâ€, Doordarshan is expected to “pass on 75 per cent of the revenue”. The issue has been settled with the consultation with the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs, Prasar…
Year: 2006
Geographic limitations
The bizarre trajectory of India’s media policy continues. This time it seems more on the sensible side of the debate. Apparently, Private FMs may not be able to join DTH platforms. Depending on which side of the fence one wants to belong to, this rule might be seen as progressive or regressive. I go with…
Mobile but smart
SMS cutting into voice usage, says a study from IDC India. In fact, no surprises here. But the fact that “user[s] sends 6 messages (SMS) in a day and receive 8,” on average, owing essentially to intrusive marketing, is evident. TRAI has to implement punitive measures to curb this annoying strategy by the hordes of…
What is a blog?
Listen to some biggies say what they think blogs are. Robin Good has a post on: Grassroots Collaborative Online Video Editing: TheWeblogProject Open-Source Movie Opens Up To Everyone For Remixing.
Where IOJ stands
From Webmaster Toolkit: Results for: http://www.indianonlinejournalism.org, searching for online journalism Engine Position Altavista Not in first 50 results Excite No results were found Google No results were found Yahoo No results were found HotBot Request timed out MSN No results were found WiseNut 19 All the Web Not in first 50 results Teoma No results…
Connecting the physical with the digital
Counts Media sounds like a company that’s doing some fabulous stuff. It claims that it’s expertise lies in “innovative theatrical experiences, interactive urban art, and the application of emerging technology to entertainment”. I’m sure whatever product comes out the crucible will be of relevance to the world of online journalism as well.
Monitoring e-mails
A company, Email Data Source Inc‘s business it to “analyze, organize, and archive thousands of daily email marketing messages” and, of course, make money by doing that. The website claims that Email Data Source’s “catalogue currently contains over 900,000 email marketing messages on 18,000 brands, sent by 14,000 companies, through more than 6,000 mailing lists”.
Sun TV’s debut on the bourses
On day one itself Sun TV has become the “second most valuable company in the media space”. The market capitalisation of the company stood at Rs 10,099 crores. Business Standard has a report.
Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards
My colleague Praveen Swami figures prominently in the list of awardees of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards. The full list