Telling the world

Star World is all set to make women’s day extra special for its audiences with a special marathon session of everyone’s favourite independent ladies, Caroline and Max of the hit TV series, 2 broke girls. On the 8th of March viewers will get to sit through their favourite episodes of the show from 1 pm right uptil 7pm.

Advertising spends on sporting events in India almost doubled in five years and while cricket accounted for most of it, other sports are on the rise.

Uday Shankar, Chairman, Ficci M&E committee said, “2013 has been an extraordinary year for the media and entertainment sector - a year of challenges and significant change which saw the industry dealing with a host of issues. Television saw the implementation of the 10+2 advertising cap and significant progress in seeding of set top boxes in DAS 1 and II – setting the stage of revenue growth and expansion in genres. The film sector continued to mature on the back of multiplex expansion and a wid