MEDIAAH!

More Mediaah!: Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta & Co send notice to Open, Vinod Mehta. Demand Rs 500 cr as damages Posted on 16 May,2012 | under BLOGS The Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta and 3 others have sent a legal notice to Vinod Mehta, Open magazine and its key employees asking for them to apologise for an interview and pull it off the Web. Plus Rs 100 crore each as damages

Mediaah! Thank you, Star Plus. Thank you, Aamir Khan Posted on 07 May,2012 | under MEDIAAH! Pradyuman Maheshwari is all praise for Satymev Jayate and says how in one masterstroke, Aamir Khan, Uday Shankar and Star India may have silenced detractors who say broadcasters are irresponsible given the kind of content aired

Mediaah! Is our media free to report the truth? Posted on 03 May,2012 | under MEDIAAH! On World Press Freedom Day, Pradyuman Maheshwari says the real problem with the media is not just governmental bullying, but pressures from business interests and often journalists crawling when they can run

Mediaah! | 6 ways to make Goafest 2013 bigger, better & more purposeful Posted on 01 May,2012 | under MEDIAAH! It’s been a week since Goafest 2012 concluded. Pradyuman Maheshwari offers some tips on how the next year’s edition could be bigger, better and more meaningful

Mediaah! The business of Akshaya Tritiya & the plot to shift Mother’s Day to make money! Posted on 30 Apr,2012 | under BLOGS In Mediaah!, Pradyuman Maheshwari recounts a story on how some marketers had once wanted to shift the Mother’s Day date and comments on Siddharth Varadarajan’s outburst in The Hindu, Hoshie Ghaswalla’s advice to his editors and how Taproot ought to have won the Grand Prix at Goafest for Airtel.

Mediaah!: So what let to the Star-ABP split? Will Star start a new news channel? Posted on 17 Apr,2012 | under MEDIA Differences have been simmering between the ABP and Star India groups with the latter choosing to opt since it couldn’t exert control without majority shareholding

Mediaah! What did Turner imagine a GEC wud do? Posted on 13 Apr,2012 | under IMAGINE TURN-OFF Pradyuman Maheshwari believes that Turner should’ve shut the channel the moment Sameer Nair exited last year

Mediaah! Sad that one more small giant got gobbled up Posted on 03 Apr,2012 | under MEDIAAH! While he’s happy to see Jagran grow, Pradyuman Maheshwari is upset to see yet another regional big get gobbled up by a biggie

Mediaah! Network 18 bags 39 news TV awards, MCCS 24 Posted on 29 Mar,2012 | under BLOGS Network 18 group channels shine at the NT Awards with 39 awards as MCCS bags 24 for awards presented to channels and professionals in Telugu, Marathi, Hindi and English news channels + on Anant Rangaswami on afaqs

Mediaah! Morparia moves from Mid-Day to Mirror, Weekend tweets, The Monday Psssst! Posted on 26 Mar,2012 | under BLOGS A piece of news that’s going to generate much sound and angst. Hemant Morparia, one of India’s foremost editorial cartoonists, has moved from Mid-Day to Mumbai Mirror.

MxMIndia Comment: 101 days to digitization Posted on 22 Mar,2012 | under DIGITIZATION July 1 is when television distribution in the four metros of Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi is required to go digital. The MxMIndia countdown will focus on the state of readiness and how digitization will impact the business

MxMIndia Comment: Let market forces decide ad duration Posted on 21 Mar,2012 | under MEDIA Pradyuman Maheshwari on why the TRAI proposal on ad duration and display need to be rubbished and how market forces must decide on what’s right