Broadcaster Star India has now bagged telecast rights for the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics for all South Asian countries. This comes after winning the bid for BCCI rights in 2012 for Rs 3,851 crore.

Advertisers have threatened to withdraw advertising contracts unless broadcasters revert to the weekly TAM reporting system.

Thanks for the fine report on StarTV (Master of His Game, July 7). Star TV could be the game changer in sports broadcasting in India. Already it is an established entertainment channel.

Chaitanya Kalbag talks about the big stories in the latest edition: why Star India's CEO Uday Shankar is making a Rs 5,000 crore bet on sports; innovations from India that changed the world; why Anil Ambani's Sasan Power has run into controversy; and the return of Narayana Murthy to Infosys.

Shankar, a quiet, stocky man with close-cropped hair whom you would pass on a busy street without a second glance, has built a formidable TV entertainment empire for News Corp's Rupert Murdoch over the past six years. He opened up with rare candour over two long conversations with me and Senior Editor Shamni Pande.

Uday Shankar, CEO of Star India, spoke about the company's plans in sports broadcasting, his problems with TAM ratings and the mistakes that taught him valuable lessons during two extensive conversations with Chaitanya Kalbag and Shamni Pande.

Star India's Uday Shankar, already top dog in general entertainment, wants to prove his mettle again in sports TV. The hardnosed drive into sports is expected to add fat revenues at Star India.

With cable digitisation underway and subscription revenue soon to contribute significantly to their kitty, the loss for broadcasters may not be as much as they fear.

Dish TV had increased its set-top box prices twice in February and with the increase in monthly subscription fees, it expects average revenue per user (arpu) to touch Rs 180 next fiscal.

With approximately 70 to 75 per cent seeding of STBs achieved on an average in areas chosen under the second phase of digitisation drive, analogue cable signals would be switched off in over 30 cities from Monday onwards.

Arshad Warsi-starrer Jolly LLB, a satire on India's legal system, continues to do well at the box office, notching another Rs 1.75-2 crore in collections on March 18.

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.

After realty firm DLF ended its five-year-long association with the IPL as the title sponsor in August, the BCCI has formally started looking for a replacement.

STAR is said to have pre-sold around 80 per cent of the show's ad spots even before it went on air. It earned sponsorship revenues of around Rs 5.3 crore per episode.

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.

MCCS said Hindi news channel, STAR News, will be rechristened as ABP News. Similarly, Bengali news channel STAR Ananda will be renamed ABP Ananda and the STAR Majha will be called ABP Majha.

Just when it seems to be in decline, cricket manages to bounce back. One victory changes everything and all the bad memories are wiped clean.

With IPL broadcaster SET MAX continuing to charge a premium on advertisements, the T20 league is becoming a game of a select big advertisers with others looking for alternate options elsewhere, according to marketers and media buyers.

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.