Uday Shankar, CEO of Star India, who is also the Chairman of the FICCI Media and Entertainment Committee, and Karan Johar, the Co-Chairman, spoke to Business Today's Ajita Shashidhar in an exclusive interview. They held forth on the current state of the media and entertainment industry.

NDTV's lawsuit against TAM Media Research's New York-basedparent companies Nielsen and Kantar Media Research has put the spotlight on TVaudience measurement system.

Indian Premier League organizers spent big on the opening ceremony for the upcoming season, hoping fans will regard the return of the rich Twenty20 series as a welcome distraction from the struggles of the national team rather than a reminder of them.

He has also stepped down from the boards of auctioneerSotheby's and GlaxoSmithKline PLC but remainsdeputy chief operating officer of News Corp.

The buzz was certainly missing at the opening session of the 13th edition of FICCI-FRAMES 2012 held at Mumbai's Renaissance Hotel in Powai.

All the major indicators for Bihar are up, but the state is still at the bottom of key development indices.

Media experts say that Murdoch's India business is completely insulated from what is happening in the UK and the US, events that have pushed the group into crisis in Western markets.

The STAR Network of channels says it has emerged the largest in India, for the first time. But the big breakthrough will be if Rupert Murdoch's Indian operations can lead the country's media and entertainment pack. He's getting there, fast.

From Facebook to LinkedIn, Twitter to Orkut, corporates are beginning to use various forms of social media to reach out to consumers, employees and partners, writes Kushan Mitra.

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