MEDIAAH!

The Mediaah! Dubious Achievement Awards 2012 Posted on 31 Dec,2012 | under MEDIA The Dubious Achievement Awards… for work done in the year that few others could manage to do

Mediaah!: What’s not right with Arnab Goswami Posted on 21 Nov,2012 | under MEDIA While Arnab Goswami may still be big on English news TV, he has stretched his nationalistic debates a bit much, writes Pradyuman Maheshwari.

Mediaah Report Card on Ambika Soni: 7/10 Posted on 30 Oct,2012 | under BLOGS While the former I&B Minister was successful in warding off complainants of television content, there were various measures that didn’t happen in her tenure

Mediaah! | Ratings controversy: Too little too late Posted on 21 Aug,2012 | under BLOGS The crisis thanks to NDTV taking TAM and its principals to court is the biggest that Indian commercial television has faced thus far. The six action points are too little, too late, writes Pradyuman Maheshwari

Mediaah! History will also record Zakaria as a plagiarist Posted on 13 Aug,2012 | under BLOGS Fareed Zakaria’s act of plagiarising from a New Yorker article is unfortunate, though not the first by a high profile editor

Mediaah! Dear Editor, Mint: It’s incorrect to damn TV news Posted on 31 Jul,2012 | under MEDIA Pradyuman Maheshwari is upset with the Mint editorial highlighting the ‘narrowness’ on television news. There are enough malaises that afflict newspapers too, he writes in Mediaah!

Mediaah! Pathetic performance at Cannes + Twitter stats + Medianama turns 4 Posted on 27 Jun,2012 | under BLOGS Pradyuman Maheshwari on India’s poor showing at Cannes Lions, #CannesLions stats and Nikhil Pahwa’s Medianama celebrating its fourth anniversary

Mediaah! Why Ambika Soni is to blame for the delay in digitization Posted on 21 Jun,2012 | under BLOGS The I&B ministry ought to have known that the June 30 sunset date for the four metros was unachievable, writes Pradyuman Maheshwari

Mediaah: Should Ambika Soni delay digitization? Posted on 08 Jun,2012 | under BLOGS The I&B minister is likely to take a final call on digitization today. Pradyuman Maheshwari believes it must be delayed by 2-3 months and subscribers should be incentivised if they switch in this period. And then there should be a final deadline of six months.

Mediaah!: Will cross-media restrictions force Star, Zee & Sun to exit distribution? Posted on 23 May,2012 | under MEDIAAH! The government has reportedly asked TRAI to review issues dealing with cross-media ownership. The question is if and when implemented, there could be a significant change in dynamics in media ownership.

Mediaah! Is media really a ‘sunrise’ sector? Posted on 22 May,2012 | under MEDIAAH! Aditya Birla group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla says the media is a sunrise sector from an investment point of view? Is it really?

Why media purists needn’t worry about Kumar Mangalam Birla’s 27.5 % in Living Media Posted on 21 May,2012 | under BLOGS More than the possibility of business empires exerting pressure after investing in the media, the worry is when the situation reaches oligopolistic proportions, writes Pradyuman Maheshwari