Shailaja Bajpai : Articles

BY Shailaja Bajpai| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/09/2010

Hindi news channels cover most of north India. But barring a few stories on water logging in Panipat, Ambala and Agra (oh my god, not the Taj!), they behave like local Delhi TV.

The secret realm of business TV

BY Shailaja Bajpai| IN OPINION |19/02/2008

At least one influential business TV anchor, in his newspaper column last Monday morning, "guess"d that Reliance Power shares would "possibly settle around Rs 500-550 in the near term".

Watching a show or watching an ad?

BY Shailaja Bajpai| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |18/04/2002

Watching a show or watching an ad Watching a show or watching an ad? Ekta Kapoor, producer of Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki and Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi on Star Plus, uses her daily soaps to promote her other productions as well. And the channel thinks this is perfectly acceptable. How far should a channel go..

Soccer Mania on sports pages

BY Shailaja Bajpai| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |18/04/2002

Soccer Mania on sports pages Soccer Mania on sports pages Why do Indian newspapers devote so much space to European soccer ? When Indians readers turn to the sports page of their daily newspapers, what do they expect to find? Cricket. And more cricket. The expectation is based on years of habit. Cricket has dominated the Indian press much in..

MRTPC versus satellite TV channels, versus cable operators, versus consumers

BY Shailaja Bajpai| IN LAW AND POLICY |10/04/2002

MRTPC versus satellite TV channels, versus cable operators, versus MRTPC versus satellite TV channels, versus cable operators, versus consumers i Without regulation in place, the MRTPC`s efforts to restrict satellite TV channels from increasingly their subscription rates arbitrarily will get nowhere. The problem with governments and broadcast policy is that the former always talks about the latter but..

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.