Monday 1 August 2005

August 2005

Monday, August 01, 2005 -- Rajat jain joins Walt Disney International (India) and Walt Disney Company (India) as Managing Director and Vice president.



Friday, August 26, 2005Pritish Nanddy Communications is awarded the ISO 9001:2000 by SGS UK Ltd.
 
Wednesday, August 24, 2005Subhash Chandra, Chairman of Zee Telefilms makes a representation to TRAI officials, asking for accessibility to all popular channels in direct to home services.
 
Sunday, August 21, 2005Ravina Raj Kohli, President of Star News resigns.
 
Saturday, August 20, 2005Essel Shyam Communications Ltd. signs a deal to take care of the broadcasting and transmission activities of UTV’s kids channel Hungama and Bennett Coleman & Co’s non-fiction entertainment channel Zoom.
 
Saturday, August 20, 2005Delhi HC orders probe into piracy of Hollywood films following a complaint lodged by Motion Pictures Association.
 
Saturday, August 20, 2005Judy MCGrath is promoted to CEO of MTV.
 
Saturday, August 20, 2005The I&B Ministry announces that it held talks with BSkyB with an intention to launch its channels in the UK.
 
Friday, August 19, 2005Nucleus Satellite Communication announces it would shortly launch the only domestic DTH dish antenna.
 
Friday, August 19, 2005Star Group acquires 25 % stake in Balaji Telefilms through a preferential issue, and appoints two directors on the board of the software production company.
 
Thursday, August 18, 2005Zee Network extends its customised feed to HongKong, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Japan.
 
Sunday, August 14, 2005Swapnil Pednekar, a Mumbai-based lawyer, files a public interest litigation in the Bombay High Court against the tender process opened by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for cricket broadcast rights.
 
Saturday, August 13, 2005The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India clarifies that the cable price freeze which it had ordered as on December 26,2003 was exclusive of taxes.
 
Wednesday, August 10, 2005The Indian Broadcasting Foundation announces the setting up of a sub committee to look into matters relating to broadcasting .
 
Tuesday, August 09, 2005Star India buys out UTV Software Communication’s 44 % stake in Vijay TV, a Tamil channel for an amount of Rs 31 crores.
 
Monday, August 01, 2005Rajat jain joins Walt Disney International (India) and Walt Disney Company (India) as Managing Director and Vice president.

Source: http://cablequest.org/important-information/important-events/item/2371-august-2005.html

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