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AOL’s family friendly programming guides
MUMBAI: As a part of its longstanding commitment to providing family-friendly online services, America Online (AOL) in the US has introduced a new Family Friendly online guide.
The guide, which kicks off in the Moviefone and AOL CityGuide services, will be featured throughout AOL’s entertainment channels to help parents make entertainment selections appropriate for their children.
The services will both feature a Family Friendly section, highlighting hand-picked selections and key content information to help parents choose films, DVDs and events that are best suited to their families.
AOL senior VP programming Bill Wilson said, “We have long been an advocate for parents online. By offering this Family Friendly guide throughout our entertainment experience, we provide parents with a one-stop shopping activity guide to help inform their decision-making.”
Family friendly movies and DVDs — typically G or PG — will be handpicked by the editors of the Moviefone service. There will be aggregated information as to rating and age appropriateness from the MPAA and Common Sense Media. Common Sense media is an independent non-profit whose mission is to give parents a trustworthy resource for information about all media their kids consume.
The first new film to be designated Family Friendly is Because of Winn-Dixie from Twentieth Century Fox. It opens in US theatres on 18 February. The film is based upon a children’s novel about a 10-year-old girl’s adventurous summer in a new town with a new best friend – a dog named Winn Dixie.
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Tips Music CEO Hari Nair to step down
Girish Taurani and Sushant Dalmia to jointly steer the company as the hunt for a new chief begins
MUMBAI: A leadership shuffle is under way at Tips Music. Hari Nair, the company’s chief executive, will step down on April 30 as the music label begins the search for a successor.
The company said Girish Taurani, executive director, and Sushant Dalmia, chief financial officer, will jointly oversee operations during the transition while the board identifies a permanent replacement.
Nair joined Tips Music in 2023 and set about reshaping the veteran music label into a more digital, data-led enterprise. During his tenure, the company secured licensing and partnership deals with global platforms including Sony Music Publishing and TikTok, while renewing agreements with Warner Music Group.
Drawing on earlier experience in technology and entertainment, including a stint at ByteDance, Nair pushed the organisation towards a performance-driven culture. He built a brand partnerships division and introduced proprietary software systems aimed at strengthening digital distribution and data capabilities.
Kumar Taurani, chairman and managing director, credited Nair with embedding a data-led culture within the company and driving revenue growth in line with shareholder commitments.
In his resignation note, Nair said that after helping transition the label into a modern, digitally focused and process-driven organisation, the time had come to pursue his next leadership challenge.
The leadership change comes as the broader Tips Films group shows signs of financial stabilisation. In the third quarter of FY26 the company reported a net loss of Rs 2.86 crore, narrowing sharply from Rs 14.2 crore in the previous quarter. For the nine months ended December, losses stood at Rs 12.37 crore.
Yet revenue told a more volatile story. Income from operations slid to Rs 4 crore in Q3 FY26 from Rs 56 crore in the preceding quarter, taking total operating income to Rs 4.56 crore.
For a company built on a catalogue of more than 34,000 tracks and decades of Bollywood hits, the next chief will inherit both a digital engine and a volatile music market. The playlist may be familiar, but the next act at Tips Music is only just beginning.
