[HCDX] Dxers Guide?28406

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Dxers Guide?28406
Weekly Media Scene in India.
Published by Ardic DX Club, India.

FM radio to fill the air across the country soon	

Radio listeners across the country never had it so
good with about 280 new FM channels in the offing to
air their choices tunes, signalling a revival of the
medium that has been losing to television. Seeking a
share in the lucrative FM radio pie, media
heavyweights like HT Media Limited, the Anil
Ambani-controlled Adlabs, Times group's Entertainment
Network India Limited (ENIL), South Asia FM, Sun TV
and Radio Mid Day -- a joint venture between BBC and
Mid Day Multimedia -- made aggressive bids for 338
radio stations in 91 cities and towns

-Webindia.com 05/02
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FM bidding separates smarter players from rest	

The recent bidding war for FM radio frequencies has
created many winners and losers, but some winners may
have won only pyrrhic victories, having bid too much
for their stations. An analysis by DNA Money shows
that while the Sun TV group of Tamil Nadu bagged the
maximum number of FM radio frequencies, the Anil
Ambani group-backed Adlabs appears to have bid the
smartest.

-Dnaindia.com 05/02
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DD, BBC use Bollywood stars to talk about HIV	

?Haath Se Mila? will be the first mass media
initiative of its kind for HIV/AIDS awareness.
Produced by the BBC World Service Trust (BBC?s
charitable arm), in association with Doordarshan and
the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), the
reality series will feature ?yuva? (young) stars who
have made an outstanding contribution to creating
awareness about HIV/AIDS.-Agencyfaqs.com 08/02
WorldSpace launches all-sports radio station, ?Play?
WorldSpace satellite radio has teamed up with global
content providers, including BBC World Service, TWI
and Radio Mid-Day, to launch an all-sports satellite
radio channel, Play. Play will feature comprehensive
cricket coverage as well as coverage of sports like
Formula One racing, tennis, rugby, football, hockey
and golf. Programming will include news, live call-in
shows with Indian sports experts and sports
information such as top-of-the-hour reports, celebrity
appearances and ?sports desk? programmes. 

-Business Standard 09/02
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News Corp brings OOH arm to India; Sumantra Dutta to
head operations	

News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch is now prowling the
out of home (OOH) advertising market in India wanting
a slice of the Rs 9.24 billion pie. News Outdoor India
(NOI) will be the local arm of News Corp?s OOH
subsidiary News Outdoor Group (NOG) and will be headed
by a former senior executive of Star India, Sumantra
'Sumo' Dutta.

-Indiantelevision.com 03/02
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FM radio phase II bidding end. 	

The phase-II expansion of FM radio by inviting bids
from private players ends, with the government
scheduled to put 64 radio stations on the block in 19
?B?, ?C? and ?D? class cities in south India. The
government is selling a total of 338 radio stations
across 91 cities as part of phase II and so far sold
frequencies in cities across northern, western and
eastern parts, apart from A and A-plus cities (which
are densely populated) of South India.

-The Financial Express 03/02
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Rare tapes from radio archives	

Prasar Bharati has dipped into its rich archives to
come up with a collection of discs and tapes featuring
Rabindrasangeet and other musical performances.Minutes
after information and broadcasting minister Priya
Ranjan Das Munshi released a set of five new compact
discs (CDs) and cassettes of Akashvani Sangeet at the
Kala Mandir auditorium today, people flocked to the
Prasar Bharati stall at the Calcutta Book Fair.

-The Telegraph 02/02
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Dish TV launches Movie on Demand service	

Parking the advent of next-generation TV broadcasting
in India, Dish TV, the country's first Direct-to-Home
service, will launch its movie-on-demand (MOD) service
that will feature latest Bollywood blockbusters where
two movies are made available for a week, allowing
viewers to control which movie they want to watch, and
when, right in their living room. The launch of the
first on-demand movie service offers a unique
opportunity to the customers to order movies directly
from their remote control, and watch it right away.
With the introduction of MOD, Dish TV makes quality
films more accessible than ever in the most popular
format worldwide desired by a growing base of movie
enthusiasts in India.

-The Hindu 02/02
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Internet radio fails to get the right click	

Even as India is witnessing a revolution in the
terrestrial radio sector, several FM players are
learnt to be keen on starting internet radio service,
too. But, most private FM companies that DNA spoke to
pointed out that the revenue model for internet radio
is yet to be firmed up.According to Phonographic
Performance Ltd (PPL) CEO Vipul Pradhan, there are two
types of internet radio: simulcasting terrestrial
radio online and setting up standalone online radio
stations. While simulcasting would mean broadcasting
the same content as on the terrestrial or FM channel
in a free-to-air mode, a standalone online station
would ideally have a subscription-based model.

-Dnaindia.com 02/02
++++++++++++++

Only private FM player to have licences for all cities
with a population of more than 20 lakh	

Radio Mirchi has bagged licences for all the nine
cities it bid for in the Phase II bidding for West
Zone. ENIL' has added new networks like Aurangabad,
Nashik, Kolhapur in Maharashtra, Chattisgarh capital
Raipur, Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal, Goa capital
Panaji, and the cities of Vadodara and Rajkot in
Gujarat.In the earlier rounds of Phase II bidding,
Radio Mirchi had bagged additional licences for
Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Nagpur, Kanpur,
Surat, Jalandhar, Varanasi and Patna. With this, Radio
Mirchi would be present in 26 cities and be the only
private FM player to have licences for all cities with
a population of more than 20 lakh.

-Televisionpoint.com 02/02
+++++++++++++++++++

Official Press Release on Foreign Content On
Television	

Media scene in the country has changed drastically
over the last decade, ever since the dish and
satellite signal systems took over. The consequent
ease and facility of downlinking/broadcast resulted in
proliferation of TV channels. Transmission signals are
now available from all over the globe for telecast.
Hitherto, the Cable and Television Network
(Regulation) Code 1995 was the only provision
available to regulate downlinked TV signals in the
country. With a view to ensuring that TV channels
operate responsibly and content provided to the
viewers is healthy and conforming to times,
downlinking guidelines were imperative.-Indlawnews.com
02/02
Radio Mirchi marches into south India	Radio Mirchi
marched into the southern states of Karnataka, Tamil
Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala on Friday as the
curtain came down on the second phase of bidding for
private FM radio. With the final round of bidding,
government has sold about 280 radio stations across 91
cities, assuring it of revenues of around Rs 1,100
crore.

-Times of India 04/02
+++++++++++++++

Sun TV network emerges biggest FM radio bidder	

After completion of the five-leg financial bidding
process for the 337 frequencies in second phase of
expansion of private FM radio, Sun TV network emerged
as the single largest group claiming 67 frequencies at
an estimated investment of over Rs 80 crore. The
government has managed to raise Rs 906 crore by way of
one time entry fee (OTEF) from 280 stations being
allotted against 337 available frequencies.

-Financial Express 04/02
+++++++++++++++++

India to offer TV on mobile	

India has joined the select group of countries that
are experimenting with live or real live TV on mobile.
So far, South Korea is the only country in the world
to have launched satellite-based mobile television
after it pioneered the mobile TV business by
developing special chips that enable mobiles to
receive satellite TV signals. In India, however, the
country?s second largest mobile operator Reliance
Infocomm has started offering near real-time
television by video-streaming the live telecast of two
news channels - Aaj Tak and NDTV.

-Screen India 03/02


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