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'The demand for an alternate to soaps and movies
has never been felt more'
Deepak Shourie - Discovery India manging director
(
26 Dec 2005 ) |
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'When I first came to push 'Idol' I heard things
like India is not a solo singer market. It is a Bollywood market'
Indriena Basarah - FremantleMedia Asia GM
(
19 Dec 2005 ) |
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'Adlabs will become one of the largest film
entertainment companies'
Manmohan Shetty - Adlabs Films chairman and managing
director
(
12 Dec 2005 ) |
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'Zee TV presently in investment mode'
Punit Goenka - Zee Telefilms director and Zee
TV business head
(
5 Dec 2005 ) |
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'Star India should outpace industry growth'
Michelle Guthrie - Star Group CEO
(
29 Nov 2005 ) |
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'Prasa r Bharati has potential to turn into profitable
organisation'
KS Sarma - Prasar Bharati chief executive officer
(
22 Nov 2005 ) |
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'Digital compression has changed economics for
channel distribution on a satellite'
Peter Jackson - Asiasat CEO
(
21 Nov 2005 ) |
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'In terms of revenue, we are growing at just
under 300% per year'
Niret Alva - Miditech president
(
14 Nov 2005 ) |
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'Zee’s three English channels in the black
in FY ’06'
Neil Chakravarti - Zee Telefilms senior VP and
business head of English channels
(
10 Nov 2005 ) |
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' The CNN deal came through in a meeting of minds'
Raghav Bahl - Television Eighteen managing director
(31
Oct 2005 ) |
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'The scale of our movie business will give us
an edge that we will use to build synergies with television'
Shantonu Aditya - Sahara India Mass Communications
CEO
(
24 Oct 2005 ) |
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'We are taking reality television into the digital
domain'
Amar K Deb - Channel [V] head honcho
(
17 Oct 2005 ) |
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'Challenge for cable ops is to offer additional
services at a reasonable price'
Faizal N Syed - International equity investor
and chairman of EMC, Taiwan's largest cable company
(
10 Oct 2005 ) |
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'We expect valuations to go up, there will be
cash available to build the market'
Simon Dewhurst - CLSA's media and entertainment
investment banking head
(
3 Oct 2005 ) |
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'India far less regulated than most developed
nations'
S K Arora - I&B secretary
(
28 Sep 2005 ) |
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'Movie acquisitions for entire network will
now happen from India'
B L Gautam - B4U COO
(
26 Sep 2005 ) |
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'There are several properties, both on the events
and TV side, in the pipeline'
Ravi Krishnan - IMG/TWI - South Asia managing
director
(
24 Sep 2005 ) |
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'News channels don’t sell themselves correctly'
Chintamani Rao - India TV CEO
(
20 Sep 2005 ) |
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'Proper placement for a news channel will only
come after payment so one is left with no choice'
Laxmi Goel - Zee Telefilms news director and
head of news group (
12 Sep 2005 ) |
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'Satellite-based communications still has an
advantage and can reach to areas where fibre leaves gaps'
N Sampath - PanAmSat India managing director
(
5 Sep 2005 ) |
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'This market is growing at 25-30%. It's a good
time for kids' business at large'
Rajat Jain - The Walt Disney Company (India)
Pvt Ltd managing director
(
30 Aug 2005 ) |
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'Isro is sizably increasing number of transponders
for various DTH operators'
SB Iyer - Isro contract management & legal
services director
(
22 Aug 2005 ) |
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'Advertisers and us need to rethink how we work
together'
Ricky Ow - SPE Networks Asia GM
(
16 Aug 2005 ) |
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'We are targeting around 60 to 70 % topline
growth this fiscal'
Joy Chakraborthy - Zee Network executive V-P
Network Sales
(
8 Aug 2005 ) |
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'An increase in C&S penetration doesn't
necessarily mean we need to increase sample size'
LV Krishnan - Tam India chief executive officer
(
2 Aug 2005 ) |
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'Our revenue runs neck & neck with general
news players'
Haresh Chawla - CNBC TV18 CEO
(
25 July 2005 ) |
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'India is a very competitive market'
Gary Lovejoy - Zee Sports COO
(
19 July 2005 ) |
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'More and more local production is the way forward'
Bhaskar Dutt - Radio City 91FM - Bangalore VP
& station head
(
12 July 2005 ) |
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'We see the kids' space as a marathon race and
not a sprint'
Frank Brown - MTV Networks Asia-Pacific president
(
11 July 2005 ) |
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'India is probably the toughest in terms of
getting the deal and sustaining it'
Gavin Wood - Fremantle Media director of operations
India
(
4 July 2005 ) |
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'NRS numbers have clearly separated the men
from the boys'
Peter Mukerjea - Star India CEO
(
27 June 2005 ) |
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'First year target is to achieve 15-20% market
share'
Siddhartha Gupta - Jagran TV Pvt Ltd’s director
(
21 June 2005 ) |
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'Cable has to raise its standards to compete
with DTH'
Jawahar Goel - Zee Telefilms additional vice-chairman
(
14 June 2005 ) |
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"Telenovelas are now more like a multi-story
showcase"
Jose Escalante - RCTV International GM &
VP
(
13 June 2005 ) |
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'MSOs need to have an integrated revenue model'
K Jayaraman - Hathway Cable & Datacom CEO
(
6 June 2005 ) |
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"Exchange of TV software is the primary
objective"
Cho Kyu Sang - Korean Broadcasting Commission
director general, media policy bureau
(
2 June 2005 ) |
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'Star is actually trying to copy us; they will
fall further'
Kunal Dasgupta - Sony Entertainment Television
India CEO
(
30 May 2005 ) |
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"Space TV is bullish on the Indian pay TV
market and expects it to grow rapidly"
Vikram Kaushik - Space TV CEO
(
25 May 2005 ) |
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'Marketing is an area we are looking to improve'
Pradeep Guha - Zee Telefilms Ltd CEO
(
23 May 2005 ) |
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'It is important to find plots that drive characters
forward'
Dr Neal Bear - 'Law and Order' executive producer
(
16 May 2005 ) |
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'Parentage of Star News lends a vision; we'd
convey it editorially'
Uday Shankar - MCCS' chief executive
(
10 May 2005 ) |
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'We’ve introduced more content around our
major live sports – but we are aware of the dangers of
overkill'
Peter Hutton - Taj Television V-P programming
(
2 May 2005 ) |
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'Only 10% kids watch programmes made for kids.
The space is
under-served'
Nachiket Pantvaidya - Walt Disney Television
International (India) head of programming & production
(
26 April 2005 ) |
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'Not yet decided whether it'd be a content company
or a channel'
Rajdeep Sardesai - Broadcast News editor-in-chief
director
(
19 April 2005 ) |
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"Reed will be providing only the seed money
for the project"
Nikhil Alva - Miditech CEO
(
14 April 2005 ) |
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'TV, as a medium, has to go through its own
catharsis'
Anurradha Prasad - B.A.G. Films Ltd managing
director
(
12 April 2005 ) |
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'Innovation's key to success in music biz'
Bharat Ranga - Zee Music & Zee Cinema business
head
(
6 April 2005 ) |
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'The Hindi language channel will be only in 2006'
Kalanithi Maran - Sun Network chairman and managing
director
(
28 March 2005 ) |
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'South accounts for less that 25 per cent of
the overall advertising market'
R Krishna Mohan - O&M South President
(
27 March 2005 ) |
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'China market is 10 years ahead of India'
Rupert Murdoch-
News Corp chairman
(
21 March 2005 ) |
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'The accountability agencies used to hold is
going down and that's worrisome'
Anita Nayyar-
Starcom Delhi executive director
(
21 March 2005 ) |
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"Just wait and watch there are many more
in the pipeline"
Rajat Sharma-
TV editor-in-chief
(
17 March 2005 ) |
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'The bottomline will increase significantly
as we are de-risking SABTNL from the broadcasting business'
Markand Adhikari-
SABTNL vice chairman
(
14 March 2005 ) |
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'We will get much more into entertainment and
sports marketing'
Dominic Proctor -
MindShare Worldwide CEO
(
14 March 2005 ) |
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'SET will grow for at least three years before
it consolidates'
Tarun Katial -
SET business head
(
7 March 2005 ) |
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'I don’t consider others as competition.
They are partners in spreading the coffee culture in India'
Riyaaz Amlani -
Mocha CEO
(
1 March 2005 ) |
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'Agencies today are only valued for their creative;
all the rest has stagnated'
Santosh Desai -
McCann Erickson president
(
28 February 2005 ) |
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"Indian business people have got a very
shrewd and sharp mind"
Graham Halesh -
Interbrand UK strategic director
(
24 February 2005 ) |
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'Projects like Miramax and Fox have come to us
because of our distribution network in the US'
Ronnie Screwvala-
UTV chief executive officer
(
21 February 2005 ) |
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'The attempt and game plan is to have anchor-led
shows and an anchor-driven channel'
Rajat Sharma -
India TV chairman
(
15 February 2005 ) |
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'While multiplexes will grow our existing business,
local movies will allow us to progress faster'
Uday Singh -
Sony Pictures Releasing of India managing director
(
7 February 2005 ) |
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'Prefer reality to the unreality of soaps...'
Siddharth Basu -
Quiz master & Synergy Communications MD
(
31 January 2005 ) |
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'When we first came in people were unaware of
the concept of licensing'
GP Singh -
Licensing Plus India director
(
24 January 2005 ) |
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'Don't spend a scanty 2 per cent on POP, spend
at least 10 per cent'
Harish Bijoor -
POP ASIA 2005 chairman (Steering Committee)
(
22 January 2005 ) |
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'POP works best when used with other mediums
but it has to be cohesive'
Martin Kingdon -
Point of Purchase Advertising International UK
& Ireland director general
(
22 January 2005 ) |
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'Visual merchandising isn't understood in India'
Martin M Pegler -
Author and lecturer
(
22 January 2005 ) |
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"We should achieve a growth of another 10
- 15% this year"
Hans-Michael Huber -
DaimlerChrysler India CEO and MD
(
17 January 2005 ) |
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''The attempt to reach
the top is our target but without being emotional about the
numbers game"
Subhash Chandra - Zee Telefilms CMD
(
13 January 2005 ) |
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'Insight is not just about GRPs but returns for
our clients'
Raj Gupta - Insight president
(
8 January 2005 ) |
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'A few media agencies in the fray are in this
desperate volume building at any cost game'
Andre Nair - Mediaedge:cia Asia Pacific chairman
and CEO
(
5 January 2005 )
"It's in India and China, growing laterally
or geographically, where we'll remain most focused"
(Part II)
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12 January 2005 )
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