STAR snatched more awards than any other Asian broadcaster at this year‘s PROMAX and BDA (Broadcast Designers‘ Association) Awards in Los Angeles, USA, with 14 awards - 1 Gold, 4 Silvers and 9 Bronzes.
Over 3,000 entries from across the globe vied for top promotion, marketing and creative awards at the annual event. Awards won by Star‘s creative team are for work done for a range of channels: Channel [V], Star Movies, Star Sports, Phoenix Satellite Television and National Geographic Channel, a company release says.
"We‘re proud of the achievements of our dedicated on-air and off-air creative teams. Their award-winning works highlight the fact that Star continues to set the standards for the Asian television industry," Bruce Churchill, president and chief operating officer of Star said.

PROMAX and BDA are international associations of broadcast design and marketing professionals. They offer the world‘s premier educational conferences for promotions, marketing and design executives in electronic media. The two organisations are non-profit associations owned by their members.

Scientific-Atlanta has announced it is laying off 1,300 workers or 30 per cent of the workforce at its Juarez, Mexico facility.
The company says it was forced to make the move (necessitated after it discontinued the third shift) because the under the economic conditions prevailing, it no longer needs the last shift to satisfy demand.

Scientific-Atlanta did not rule out further staff cuts saying it was evaluating the need for any additional restructuring in other parts of the company due to reduced demand.

At a meeting of the Prasar Bharati board today in Delhi, it was decided that a panel headed by the pubcaster‘s CEO KS Sarma would be formed to look into the issue of the telecast rights of ICC designated cricket.

It may be recalled that last month Prasar Bharati chief executive KS Sarma had stated that the pubcaster was seeking the Indian government‘s intervention on the matter of telecast rights for sporting events to create a "level playing field in the larger interest of the viewing Indian public."
Prasar Bharati has already lost out on the live telecast of the just concluded Fifa World Cup and is also under severe pressure from World Sport Nimbus on the issue of rights of ICC-organised cricket matches, the cable and satellite TV rights which are held by Sony Entertainment TV for six years.

Also discussed at the meeting were some relatively minor programming issues. The pubcaster will soon be commissioning programming on Indian classics. While 75 per cent of the programmes will be produced in house, 25 per cent will be farmed out to private producers.