Wednesday 23 November 2011

Stories on 23rd November

There's plenty happening at the JWT office as the agency restructures to bring in three NCDs. Also, a quick interview with Bobby Pawar

Subhash Chandra, founder of Zee Group, has received the 2011 International Emmy Directorate Award. Mr Chandra made history by becoming the first ever Directorate Award recipient from India.

Viacom18 entries led the tally at the PromaxBDA Asia held on Tuesday, followed by Star, MSM, Zee, UTV, Turner, MCCS and the BBC.

MXM India is the web partner for Stratagem’s fourth Media RHYTHM training event, to be held on December 2 and 3 in Mumbai.

The Anchor: 8 key aspects of Phase III that radio companies need to address
Licenses, bidding, alliances… the world of radio is complex – and remember, there is going to be a phase 4 one day. E&Y Associate Director Ashish Pherwani on Phase III must-dos

Naming no Names, the mid-week column where novelist, columnist and counsellor Gouri Dange presents her tongue-in-cheek view of our world.

While the good thing that could come out of this incident is that the media will hopefully be more careful in the future, there is no denying that the rather harsh punitive action against Times Now has alarmed all of us in the media.

Hotmail’s original founder Sabeer Bhatia and Yogesh Patel have announced the launch of JaxtrSMS, a cross-platform, open texting application that would enable users to send SMS to anyone in the world for free.