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    Submitted by ITV Production on Apr 29, 2002

    The Center for Advocacy and Research (CFAR) is organising a discussion on ‘The Cable Industry and the Viewers: Setting New Norms and Standards‘ tomorrow, 30 April.

    The two-hour debate to be held at the Indian Women Press Corps (IWPC) office in New Delhi, plans to be the beginning of a series of interventions the centre has planned around the issue. CFAR hopes to initiate a process through which various stakeholders in the television industry come together and share their experiences and vision for the future.

    Television technology has become the main concern among all its stakeholders, says CFAR. While viewers have been expressing their concern on rising subscription charges, the indifferent attitude of cable operators towards quality of service, little or no impact of digitisation on quality of images, other stakeholders (broadcasters, MSOs, cable operators and policy makers) have their own share of concerns and grievances, it notes.

    As the shift from the present system to the Conditional Access System is being planned, the centre plans to initiate a process through which the stakeholders come together to find some common solutions. CFAR regularly conducts public interest research with a focus on gender and development issues, and has over the last six years, built up a consumer response to media content in the form of an audience collective called the Viewers Forum. It operates out of Delhi, Ahmedabad and Lucknow and in Nadwasarai village at Mau District in Uttar Pradesh.

     

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  • Indiantelevision.com marks another milestone as Sahyadri Navratna Puraskar 2002 a grand success

    Submitted by ITV Production on Apr 27, 2002

    Nine eminent personalities who have helped shape Maharashtra in fields as diverse as sport and social work were feted at the first ever Godrej No 1 Sahyadri Navratna Puraskar 2002 held in Mumbai on Saturday, 27 April.

    The venue of the honours was the Poolside, Juhu Centaur Hotel, Mumbai.

    Organised by Mumbai-based television information and services company Indian Television Dot Com Pvt. Ltd., the Sahyadri Navratna Puraskar 2002 are the first of their kind instituted to recognise nine outstanding Marathi achievers from different walks of life such as film, music, theatre, television, sports, social work, business and media. DD Sahyadri supports these awards.

    Those felicitated were -

    Swar Ratna (for excellence in music) - Shri Sudhir Phadke
    Chitra Ratna (for excellence in films) - Smt Sulochana
    Seva Ratna (recognition of work rendered to the cause of people) - Shri Baba Amte
    Ratna Darpan (for excellence in media) - Shri D B Karnik
    Natya Darpan (for excellence in theatre) - Shri Vijay Tendulkar
    Ratna Saurabh (for excellence in sport) - Shri Nandu Natekar
    Ratna Vahini Yogadaan (recognition of outstanding Marathi television channel) - DD Sahyadri
    Ratna Sharada - (recognition of achievement by a woman in any field) - Smt Prema Purao
    Vaibhav Ratna - (recognition of outstanding achievement in industry/ business - Shri Rahul Bajaj

    Former sheriff Nana Chudasama presented Baba Amte‘s award to Shri Ramesh Kacholia, who handles Anandvan operations in Mumbai. Rahul Bajaj‘s nephew Anant Bajaj accepted the Vaibhav Ratna on his behalf from Sabe TV vice chairman Markand Adhikari. Renowned film personality Rohini Hattangady accepted the Natya Ratna on behalf of Tendulkar, who was unable to attend the function due to ill health. Pt Jasraj presented the Swar Ratna to Sudhir Phadke, while the Chitra Ratna was presented to Sulochanabai by film producer Ramanand Sagar. Five retired directors of the Mumbai Doordarshan Kendra were present to give away the Ratna Vahini Yogadaan award to DDK Mumbai director Mukesh Sharma.

    Former India cricket captain Ajit Wadekar presented the Ratna Saurabh to Nandu Natekar, while the Ratna Darpan was presented by newly appointed sheriff Kiran Shantaram and Maharashtra Times editor Bharatkumar Raut. The Ratna Sharada was awarded to Prema Purao by Maharashtra government cultural secretary Govind Swarup.

    The three-hour ceremony was interspersed with entertainment programmes that highlighted the cultural and folk traditions of the state. The shows included typically Maharashtrian dance shows, mimicry items, and excerpts from the hugely popular music show on DD Sahyadri, Tak Dhina Dhin.

    The show was hosted by well known television personalities Pradeep Bhide and Mrinal Kulkarni. The highlights of the evening were a lavani show by Pune based Shefali Lahoti and her group, typically Marathi shows like the Powada, Waghya Murali, Vasudev and Bharud and a farmers‘ group dance as well as a scene enacted from the Dashavtar.

    An esteemed jury panel of industry professionals and experts helped in short-listing the nominations for the various categories. The jury included -

    Former India cricket captain Shri Ajit Wadekar
    Maharashtra Times editor Shri BharatKumar Raut
    Maharashtra Government Cultural Secretary Shri Govind Swarup
    Theatre personality Shri Kamlakar Sontakke
    Sabe TV Vice Chairman Shri Markand Adhikari
    IMPPA President and Mukti Foundation President Smt Smita Thackeray
    Film and TV personality Shri Sachin Pilgaonkar.

    The award ceremony will be aired on May 1, 2002 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on DD-Mumbai terrestrial Marathi.

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