Director General of Doordarshan News S M Khan launched the webcasting of news bulletins of Doordarshan here today.DD News bulletins can now be viewed at www.ddmalayalam.org or www.ddktvm.gov.in under the icon of Malayalam News. The pioneering work of Regional News Wing of Doordaeshan here makes it the first vernacular edition of Doordarshan's bouquet of 40 odd channels to be available one the web.DD...
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24-hour news channel STAR News will soon be renamed ABP (Ananda Bazar Patrika) News, Media Content and Communications Services (MCCS) announced Monday.MCCS is a joint venture (JV) between Kolkata-based ABP group and STAR India. The company owns two more 24-hour news channels -- Bengali STAR Ananda and Marathi STAR Majha. The two regional news channels will be renamed as ABP Ananda and ABP Majha.The...
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The 24-hour news channel STAR News will soon be renamed ABP (Ananda Bazar Patrika) News, Media Content and Communications Services (MCCS) announced Monday.MCCS is a joint venture (JV) between Kolkata-based ABP group and STAR India. The company owns two more 24-hour news channels -- Bengali STAR Ananda and Marathi STAR Majha. The two regional news channels will be renamed as ABP Ananda and ABP Majha.The...
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STAR News — the popular Hindi news channel — will soon be christened as ABP News.Two other regional news channels — STAR Ananda and STAR Majha — will also be renamed as ABP Ananda and ABP Majha, respectively.The rebranding of the three 24-hour news channels, owned by Media Content and Communications Service (India) Pvt Ltd, comes after STAR India Pvt Ltd and the ABP group agreed to discontinue the...
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Editor of All India Radio's Regional news unit, M D Sikhamani, died of ill-health, here yesterday. He was 48. He is survived by wife and two daughters.Mr Sikhamani worked as news editor in Dooradarshan Kendra in Hyderabad and he was transferred to Vijayawada air station. He was due to assume charge as news editor tomorrow.Family sources said he had been ill for a couple of months. His funerals took...
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400 jobs are set to go in local broadcasting across England as part of the BBC's plan to reduce its budget by 20% over the next five years.It will mean stations sharing some afternoon, evening and weekend programmes - with one pan-England programme from 19:00 until 22:00.Another 100 jobs will go in regional current affairs, online, local weather and regional news.The BBC licence fee of £145.50 was...
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Partners have struck a deal to offload their 80% stake in Hyderabad-based Associated Broadcasting Company Pvt Ltd (ABCL), which runs the TV9 chain of regional news channels, to a national media house and a US fund in a deal estimated at over Rs 500 crore.The new investors will be picking up a controlling stake in ABCL and plan to expand the broadcasting company into the regional GEC (general"A non...
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Review by the BBC Trust says web services have improved, but coverage of regional news is 'not particularly comprehensive'A BBC Trust report has said online services have improved since its last review in 2008, but local coverage needs to be developed.has been told to up the standard of its online local news and look to mine more personal data from users of its website network, but otherwise its web...
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GAYA: Virtually succumbing to the pressure mounted by shopkeepers and vendors, theto the resistance offered by the encroachers, shopkeepers and vendors went on the offensive on Saturday, forcing the closure of shops and assaulted mediapersons capturing the GB Road vandalism. The vandals targetted a local news channel journalist and the cameraperson of a 24x7 regional news channel. The camera was smashed...
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Senior news reader of All India Radio here, K Subba Rao died of cardiac arrest, while being operated upon Nijam Institue of medical Science (NIMS) in Hyderabad today.Subba Rao had been suffering from heart related problems for a long time. While doctors were performing the surgery he developed a cardiac complication and died.He had been in the Regional News Unit since 1982. Subba Rao won accolades...
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