MUMBAI: The classic tale of the courageous and judicious King Vikramaditya and the clever ghost, Betal, is all set to make its world television debut on...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide the commercial arm of the BBC has published its Annual Review for 2004/05. It has announced record profits of £55 million for 2004/05,...
MUMBAI: Sahara India Entertainment Management plans to invest Rs 1 billion towards movie production over the next 18 months. The company is also stepping into international...
MUMBAI: Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) is introducing Vision Global, a product suite that integrates powerful media sales, scheduling, and digital asset management tools to bring a...
MUMBAI: Sudarshan TV has been granted the go ahead by the Information and Broadcasting ministry to launch its 24 hour news and current affairs channel. In...
MUMBAI: Jennifer Beals, whose series The L Word recently completed its second season, stars as a woman shattered by a dark secret in Lifetime Television’s movie...
MUMBAI: Finally, the verdict is out! The Channel [V]’s Get Gorgeous II winner is Priyanka Shah. Priyanka Shah from Pune competed with the other final contenders...
MUMBAI: It’s now official. Anuj Gandhi, senior V-P sales and marketing, has replaced Shantonu Aditya as president of SET Discovery. Confirming a development first put out...
MUMBAI: Monday’s total legal victory for Michael Jackson on charges of child molestation, conspiracy and other counts was a verdict that brought a huge cheer for...
MUMBAI: The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) and Unesco’s programme for creative content have announced a new partnership for the establishment of a branded section of audio...
MUMBAI: The first feature-length animated film ever made — Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — will premiere in Hindi on The Disney Channel on 25...
MUMBAI: The first feature-length animated film ever made — Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — will premiere in Hindi on The Disney Channel on 25...
MUMBAI: Batman Begins star Katie Holmes will feature in Abandon, a show that will premiere on 28 June at 9 pm on Lifetime Television. In Abandon,...
MUMBAI: Nokia has associated with the California-headquartered Apple Computers for developing an open-source web browser for its smartphone software, the Series 60 Platform. The project will...
MUMBAI: Another defection from NDTV to CNBC-TV18. Rajnath Kamath, NDTV Media’s vice-president ad sales, has put in his papers and is moving to CNBC-TV18 Network as...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has acquired a Russian reality show How to Build Your Love from Turner Network Television (TNT). This is the first...
MUMBAI: The Chinese government has approved plans to lay an undersea cable, to increase the speed at which internet users in the Northern region access overseas...
MUMBAI: Even as the government gives a green signal to the Tata-Star DTH venture — Space TV and Sun Network’s DTH platform, consumer electronics company Oscar...
MUMBAI: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has cleared Jagran TV and Bloomberg’s foreign investment proposals. Jargan TV proposal entailed offloading around 25.7 per cent stake...
MUMBAI: Nick’s Jadoo space challenge brought the summer vacations to a fitting close with action, magical spells, drama and outer space tricks. Jadoo and his team...
MUMBAI: US-headquartered Lucent Technologies has been awarded two wireless network optimization contracts by Tibet Mobile and Inner Mongolia Unicom, provincial subsidiaries of China Mobile and China...
BANGALORE: When Star Wars first hit movie theatres in 1977, the world had never seen a motion picture quite like it featuring massive space stations, intelligent...
MUMBAI: Britains regulator Ofcom has come out with a ‘digital television update’ for the first quarter of 2005. The report analyses data provided by the main...
MUMBAI: The BBC has acquired UK broadcast rights for the historical drama mini-series Into the West. Steven Spielberg is the executive producer of the series which...
MUMBAI: As part of a promotion activity of his latest production, Paheli, Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan will be hosting Ankahee Paheli, a half hour musical special,...
MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan will telecast a new Series titled Kashmir from 26 June, 2005. The Series will be telecast on Sundays at 9:30 pm on...
MUMBAI: Zee Smile, which is currently exercising in programming high drive, is planning to pick up some globally accepted comic formats. In this regard, the fun...
MUMBAI: Nielsen Media Research’s plan to introduce peoplemeters has upset several broadcast networks in the US including Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Their grouse: the metres will...
MUMBAI: Nick‘s Jadoo space challenge brought the summer vacations to a fitting close with action, magical spells, drama and outer space tricks. Jadoo and his team...
MUMBAI: Footwear maker Adidas has announced a new global advertising campaign with basketball as its core theme. The TVC featuring NBA All-Stars Kevin Garnett, Tracy McGrady...
NEW DELHI: The rules of the burgeoning retail market were being written and rewritten at the second day of the 7th KSA Retail Summit here today,...
The telenovela format is going from strength to strength in India and across the globe. RCTV International, the distribution arm of RCTV, which claims to be...
MUMBAI: The Samsung IIFA Awards, which was held at the Amsterdam Arena, will be broadcast on Star Plus on 26 June. The Samsung IIFA Awards was...
MUMBAI: Leaders in the kids’ genre, Cartoon Network and Pogo have once again delivered in the holiday season. The latest Tam ratings (4-14 CS, All India,...
MUMBAI: UK public broadcaster The BBC has announced an interactive initiative in the UK Wordhunt. This aims at rewriting the the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). BBC...
MUMBAI: The 78th Scripps National Spelling Bee Championship, which was held in Washington recently, will be aired on ESPN. Anurag Kashyap, a 13-year-old expatriate emerged as...
MUMBAI: Discovery Asia has appointed Tom Keaveny as its new executive VP and MD. He takes on the job from next month. He succeeds Neville Meijers,...
MUMBAI: Presently, Zee Smile is sporting a grin. What has buoyed the fun and entertainment channel is some good news on the ratings front. The channel...
MUMBAI: Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that the heaviest commercial satellite ever iPStar-1 satellite has arrived at the Arianespace spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. It is...
MUMBAI: Leaders in the kids’ genre, Cartoon Network and Pogo have once again delivered in the holiday season. The latest Tam ratings (4-14 CS, All India,...
MUMBAI: A guardian angel sent to earth to protect a girl! A woman and man trying to escape their suffocating existence! These are the themes of...
MUMBAI: The Nepalese government has lifted the ban on Indian news channels. The government took the decision in a cabinet meeting held on 8 June and...
MUMBAI: The head of the Paris-based fashion channel Fashion TV Michel Adams has been arrested in Israel on suspicion of indecent assault. Media reports have quoted...
MUMBAI: With crime reporting becoming an important ingredient for all the news channels, Hindi news Channel 7 has now created an exclusive band — Crime Band...
NEW DELHI: The Firm, a specialist marketing communications advisory agency has been launched in Delhi. The Firm has been founded by Parveen Ahluwalia, former...
When advertising and marketing professionals and trade publications talk about media independents in India, Media Direction is not a name that pops up first. It’s the...
Digital cable. Unique content channels. Broadband. These are the services we have to push forward. And we have to do it fast,” says Hathway Cable &...
Only properly structured and clearly legit and globally strong trademark holders would be able to protect themselves; the rest with generic business names based on dictionary...
MUMBAI: Discovery Networks Asia has appointed Patch Khan as VP, Network Operations based out of its regional headquarters in Singapore. An industry veteran with over 18...
MUMBAI: Astro All Asia Networks plc’s net profit has doubled to RM39.8 million ( $ 151.24 mn) in the first quarter ended 30 April 2005 on...

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