The collapse of the Indian Premier League (IPL) pack of cards is identical to the unravelling of the Satyam fraud in 2009, from a media perspective. Namely, no media organisation—newspaper, magazine, TV station or internet website—saw it before it happened. Or wanted to see it coming. The player auctions, the franchise bids, the television rights,…
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Gandhi for the goose ain’t Gandhi for the gander?
Mail Today, the tabloid newspaper published by the India Today group, has launched a smart print and outdoor campaign in New Delhi. With the tagline “The world has changed”, the campaign pits the past with the present. Kapil Dev, in his classic bowling action, but with cheer girls in the background. The new maharaja of…
Allen J. Mendonca: Here’s looking at you, kid
CHETAN KRISHNASWAMY writes from Bangalore: Allen Mendonca slunk away in sleep, gently tip-toeing into the darkness never to return. This time, his flamboyance was missing. The swagger was not there. There were none of the histrionics either. 49 is no age to exit out. Yet, he chose to do it his way. He never did…
All the news fit to print, all the booze fit to air?
“NDTV Good Times” is a lifestyle television channel that is the result of a collaboration between India’s leading English language television network NDTV, and India’s leading liquor manufacturer, United Breweries (UB). On the face of it, “NDTV Good Times” may seem like a good idea for M/s Mallya & Roy. For UB, the channel’s name…
Rupert Murdoch eyeing print space in India?
There have been persistent rumours of it for a while now. Now Business Standard reports that Rupert Murdoch‘s Star group is indeed planning a foray in the print media in India. Top executives of Star are believed to have visited Bangalore and held talks with liquor baron Vijay Mallya for a possible joint venture. Mallya…
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