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BBC WORLD Indian elections The BBC will have more journalists covering the Indian elections than any other international news organisation. Dozens of correspondents and camerapersons will be reporting from across the country and the region on what the elections mean not only for India but for South Asia and the rest of the world. The BBC South Asia's Bureau Chief Paul Danahar says: "The outcome of the Indian elections will be a story of global importance and we'll be treating it that way. We plan to bring our special poll coverage across BBC World, BBC World Service and bbcnews.com of India's election results to more than 500 million people across the globe." The BBC coverage will range from minute-by-minute reporting for the Indian audiences listening in Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Bengali and English on BBC World Service radio and via online sites bbchindi.com, bbctamil.com, bbcurdu.com, bbcbengali.com and through to the wider international importance of the polls on the BBC’s global television news channel BBC World. There will be a huge interactive site on the BBC online news service, bbcnews.com which records 20 million page impressions every day. On BBC World, BBC World Service radio and BBC News Online South Asia facing site bbcnews.com/southasia the coverage will be led by BBC’s India correspondent Sanjeev Srivastava and South Asia correspondents Adam Mynott and Nick Bryant (South Asia Correspondents), with senior journalists joining them from London. Dozens more BBC World Service radio journalists will be involved in live coverage from across India in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil and Urdu. Specially commissioned reports and in-depth features will examine the political climate before, during and post elections. Asia Today, BBC World's flagship Asian news and current affairs programme, will run special India Elections broadcasts. These will feature interviews with key figures, psephologists, election pundits, political commentators and journalists analysing the incoming results and the initiatives of the new government. BBC World news programmes will explore electoral issues in special reports, features and interviews with key personalities throughout the month. There will be special election editions of Question Time India, BBC World's regular panel discussion show, presented by Dileep Padgaonkar. On radio, BBC World Service will broadcast news of the election to 150 million listeners globally, including 11.6 million people in India listening in English, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil and Bengali. Presenters and producers will be flying in from London to enhance the reporting network around the time of elections. The World Today, BBC World Service flagship breakfast newsprogramme, will be covering the whole election from polling to the expected final declaration, providing regular live and recorded reports throughout. Correspondents of BBC World Service language services in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil and Urdu will be filing live reports and interviews from different parts of India focussing on key issues, personalities and constituencies. There will be special programmes analysing the full spectrum of interests standing to gain and lose when the results are known. Live studio discussions will take place on the election results and formation of the new government, quizzing the representatives of key political parties about their manifestos. BBC News Online South Asia facing site bbcnews.com/southasia will offer comprehensive reporting, continually updated with background information, graphics, pictures and audio and video links to BBC's reports. The site will be an authoritative and fully interactive guide to the national elections in India, giving unrivalled coverage and analysis of what is the largest democratic exercise of its kind. bbcnews.com will also host a series of interactive debates on the elections giving users the chance to email their views and debate the key issues behind the vote. BBC WORLD/FASTTRACK FASTTRACK rails the low-cost airlines soaring across Asia This week FASTTRACK travels to Malaysia, taking a look at the low-cost airlines that have sprung up in the region. Lured by the rapid growth of Asia's consumer class, discount airlines are beginning to emerge in Malaysia and Singapore. The team finds out how it will impact on the tourism industry for South-East Asia. Take a tour around a former leprosy colony and prison, now transformed into an eco-tourism haven, with presenter Carmen Roberts, then sample some of the exotic fruits and local delicacies in one of Penang's markets and hear reporter David Soloman's tips for dating in foreign destinations. Each 30-minute edition of BBC World's FASTTRACK is presented by Akhtar Khan and features reports from around the globe, interviews with the industry's leading players, analysis of current trends in travel and tips for people on the go, either for business or pleasure. Tuesday 9th March @ 1900 IST, repeats Wednesday 10th March @ 2300 IST, Thursday 11th March @ 1300 IST – on BBC World Notes to Editors: BBC World, the BBC's commercially funded international 24-hour news and information channel, is owned and operated by BBC World Ltd, a member of the BBC's commercial group of companies. Reaching 260 million households in over 200 countries and territories worldwide (113 million 24-hour homes) and nearly one million hotel rooms, BBC World launched in its present format in 1995 and is funded by advertising and subscription. BBC WORLD/Hard Talk MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI, Georgian President - with Tim Sebastian In January, Georgians inaugurated their new 36-year-old President, Mikhail Saakashvili as Europe's youngest head of state. Outspoken, energetic and known to Georgians as Misha, Mr Saakashvili led the Rose Revolution that ousted President Eduard Shevardnadze. He tells HARDtalk that his Government's priority is to expand democracy and introduce market reforms. After years of corruption in Georgia, to what extent will the West listen to the appeal he is making this week for financial aid for his impoverished country? HARDtalk can be seen on BBC World on Mondays at 1000, 1700 and 2100, Tuesdays to Fridays at 0100,1000, 1700 and 2100 – all timings IST. Notes to Editors: BBC World, the BBC's commercially funded international 24-hour news and information channel, is owned and operated by BBC World Ltd, a member of the BBC's commercial group of companies. Reaching 260 million households in over 200 countries and territories worldwide (113 million 24-hour homes) and nearly one million hotel rooms, BBC World launched in its present format in 1995 and is funded by advertising and subscription. BBC WORLD/Clickonline Master a foreign language As fluency in foreign languages becomes an increasingly important business skill, Click Online looks at how technology is being used to take some of the tedium out of learning a new language. The team also investigates how the latest crop of pop stars is using cutting-edge technology to make even the most vocally challenged sound note perfect. Plus, presenter Kate Russell rounds up some of the week's hottest websites, and reporter Rob Freeman helps decipher some of the viewers' techie complaints. Monday 8th March @ 2200 IST, Tuesday @ 1400 IST, Wednesday @ 1900 IST BBC WORLD/Adworld Inside AdvertisingEver wondered what really goes on behind the scenes in the glamorous world of advertising? BBC World gives viewers the chance to find out in Ad World, a new seven-part series which takes an original look at the stories, the myths and some of the brains behind India's best-known advertising campaigns. Ad World, part of BBC World's India Business Report programme strand, begins on Sunday, 7th March at 1100 IST. The series launches with an overview of India's advertising sector, before exploring sometimes controversial issues in each of its following six episodes: Episode One (Sunday, 7th March): The Indian advertising industry - never had it so good? The industry has seen phenomenal growth since the liberalisation of the Indian economy and markets are expanding. But the size of the industry, compared to other developing countries, is still quite small. The episode also gives an overview of Indian advertising over the last fifty odd years. Episode Two (Sunday, 14th March): Ad war or cat-fight? Those celebrated brand rivalries such as Coke-Pepsi and Ariel-Surf Excel and their advertising clashes. Are campaigns becoming more `in-your face' to gain attention? Episode Three (Sunday, 21st March): Woman Power: selling to women – and using women to sell to men. This episode will also look at the effects of this phenomenon from the point of view both of the advertising community and of the social scientist. Episode Four (Sunday, 28th March): When is advertising not advertising? The ethics and pitfalls of advertising law and how to avoid them. The episode goes inside the mind of a media planner, whose role is critical in navigating difficult issues such as cigarette and alcohol advertising. Episode Five (Sunday, 4th April): Make mine Indian-style – how have the multinationals and their agencies coped with having to adapt to the famous `Indian Conditions' - or perish? Episode Six (Sunday, 11th April): Big money, big names - why are big stars chosen to endorse different brands? And are their high fees justified? Episode Seven (Sunday, 18th April): Great campaigns and creative gurus – views from some of the creative brains behind India's best-loved campaigns, such as Amul butter, Bajaj scooters, and Raymond. Narendhra Morar, Commissioning Editor, BBC World says, “For many people in India, the advertising industry still seems like a mysterious world. This series, the first review of the state of the industry, now aims to arm businesspeople with the information they need about the world of advertising and bust a few myths along the way.” Ad World is produced by Miditech Television and can be seen on BBC World on Sundays at 1100 IST with a second chance to view on the same day at 2200 IST. |
| CNN What are the major challenges on reporting the tech and business trends? Imagine telling your mom and dad a story about how hackers us scanning software to search for unprotected Wi-Fi access points... And they understand every singel word. That's my challenge. Everyday, I have to distill a new, complex technology into a two-and-ahalf- minute TV story that will appeal to a wide, general auidence. How do you catch up with the fast moving tech news and bring the news to CNN's worldwide audience? I rely on a variety of sources from business dailies and local papers, to online sources like Slashdot, to specially magazines like New Scientist. Since relatively little tech news is reported out of Asia. I have to rely heavily on local industry contacts to tap into the emerging trends here. Another source of Tech Watch fodder -- the gizmo shops! When I'm in Hong Kong or abroad, I like to step into electronics stores to gawk at the gadgetry on display, and study who is buying what. Which is the most impressive gadget that you've come across so far? It's got to be Honda Asimo -- a child-sized humanoid robot that can walk and climb Stairs with exceptional grace. At Honda's Tokyo headquarters last spring, I flirted with the latest version -- a model that can read gestures and movements thanks to camera in its bubble-shaped head. What is the most hi-tech gadget that you always carry in your briefcase? A 5 megapixel digital camera with optical zoom. I have a 128 megabyte memory stick tucked in there in case I'm shooting a series of high resolution stills or want to take a stab at filming an event using the MPEG format. What is the most interesting event/interview/story since hosting Tech Watch? It's been a fascinating experience to cover the counter Microsoft movement as it unfolds here in Asia. Though Microsodr is without doubt the dominant player in the region, emerging I.T. Giants like India and Chinad are keen to develop their own software industry and wean themselves off of the Windows platform. I constantly talk to both Microsoft as well as Chinese and Indian software houses to get a pulse on Asia's I.T.landgrab. This will continue to be a huge story: Can Asian software entrepreneurs accomplish what their Western conunterparts have failed to do -- unseat Bill Gates as the sultan of software? And how ill Mr. Gates prevent that from happening? Tech watch airs every weekday during NEWS BIZ Today (03.30-07.00) Weather bulletins air regularly throughout the day on CNN No matter where you are on this planet, you can never escape the weather. But whether you life with storms or snow, sunshine or sleet, CNN is able to bring you the latest reports, in forecasts every hour on air or online at weather CNN's international weather team have displayed their dedication by keeping audiences updated with the latest weather news. In the past couple of months, the team has reported on several lifethreatening weather changes from across the world, including hurricane Isabel that hit the coasts of North Carolina and Virginai, causing immense flooding in those areas; typhoon Dujuan Maeki that swept across South Korea, killing over 50 people and forcing thousands of people to leave their homes. Two of CNN's weather anchors share with viewers how they see weather: Mari Ramos says, "What really amazes me is how the world's weather is connected. A typhoon that gives us a scare in Hong Kong, causes flooding in the Philippines and just misses western Japan, eventually zooms through the Northern Pacific, no longer as a typhoon, but still as a poerful storm that eventually marks landfall in the North Western U.S. These weather patterns are repeated over and over all around the world and they truly amaze me. They make me feel so small as I watch and follow them on their global trek and I try to learn as much as I can about them. After all, how lucky am I that I get to share my fascination with weather with the whole world. Jenny Harrison adds, "The last four years at CNN have made me increasingly aware of the true impacct weather has on lives worldwide. Drought, floods, hurricanes, cyclones, mudslides and much more, are all a result of the power of weather. When you are covering the world, you are covering these conditions on a daily basis and you realize that they are directly affecting someone's life. It's not envough to give an accurate forecast, the viewer has to trust you too-and to gain the trust, it to understand the impact of the information you are about to impart. CNN's World Weather Centre is the perfect vehicle for the anchors to provide live coverage of weather information both regionally and globally. With a live format and high tech imagery to show details in vivid high resolution, anchors can communicate up to the minute date to CNN's global viewership. New transmission times for 'Larry King Live' 'Larry King Live' has new airtimes in November Dubbed 'The mast of the mic' by time Magazine Larry King has been asking questions of the great and the good on CNN for eighteen years. In 45 years in the business, he has interviewed more than 40,000 guests and newsmakers. King's guests over all these years have included kings, presidents, prime ministers, peacemakers, the cream of Hollywood and the music business. From former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to actress Sharon Stone, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to actor Sean Penn, from Senator Hillary Clinton to music icon madonna from Nelson Mandela to Sir Elton John, King has spoken to everyone that matters. Tune into CNN and meet The King of Talk and his guests evey day. Larry King live airs daily at 14.30 |
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