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Indian Idol‘s finale has done for Sony Entertainment Television (SET) what no other show has done for it till date. The year on year monopoly of...
Sex sells. Not that the Indian media and policy makers alike are waking up to the fact only now. Over the last few years the issue...
By VINAY KANCHANThe Headhunters – a noble tribe that gets us all a better deal. Sworn to secrecy and acting with the utmost discretion they...
MUMBAI: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Atas) in the US has announced that it will organise a seminar on 23 March 2005 in California....
NDTV's Jai Jawan will feature this March Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor over the Holi weekend. The episode will air on NDTV India, NDTV 24X7 and NDTV...
MUMBAI: The West Wing has been re-elected to a seventh term by NBC. The White House drama will return for the 2005-06 season. In India the...
MUMBAI: Indian Idol delivered for Sony Entertainment Television (SET) and FremantleMedia is ecstatic. With record ratings for the final episode of the hit format, FremantleMedia has...
MUMBAI: The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) will be held from 22 – 24 March 2005 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)....
MUMBAI: Silver Pictures which was responsible for the $3 billion-grossing Matrix franchise, has signed Joss Whedon, creator of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series. Whedon...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that Alison Hindell has been appointed as its head of radio drama. Hindell is currently senior producer for Radio Drama Wales....
MUMBAI: Viacom has announced that Herb Scannell and Bill Roedy have been appointed as vice chairmen of MTV Networks. The London based Roedy is currently...
The next episode of CNN's chat show Talk Asia on 19 March at 9:30 am will feature The United Nations' Children Fund's (Unicef) executive director Carol...
BBC's film based show Bollywood Bosses profiles directors Madhur Bhandarkar and Vishal Bhardwaj on 19 March at 10 pm. The show will highlight the changing market...
Star TV India is on the prowl for a dot com chief. The company is scouting around for an individual who will steer its forway in...
Indiantelevision.com’s Seema Pherwani spoke to India TV editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma, in the eye of a controversy following the series of ‘sting operations’ his channel has conducted...
Sex for survival, sex for jobs, sex for promotions (in the Indian Air Force the phrase is sex-for-stripes), sex for sex sake. And now, following the...
MUMBAI: With action hotting up on the news channels front, what with India TV unleashing a string of sting operations relating to sex offenses and the...
Encounters, murders, kidnapping, child swapping and eve teasing… it's all happening rampantly in Mumbai. Touted as one of the safest cities in India, Mumbai seems to...
The news channel space is getting more competitive in India. Recently NDTV, Zee and CNBC launched business news channels. The Times Group is also planning a...
MUMBAI: One case that the media is following closely is pop icon Michael Jackson’s trial in front a California judge. But regardless of the outcome of...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: It’s been five years since media mogul Rupert Murdoch last visited India, and much has changed in the interim. The biggest of...
MUMBAI: The nominations are announced for the popular, Jury and technical category for the 8th Annual Zee Cine Awards 2005, which has been bagged by Dhoom...
NEW DELHI: The government has come under pressure on the issue of FM radio policy with a telecom and broadcast tribunal, TDSAT, asking it to come...
MUMBAI: The tug-of-war continues in the business news channel space. CNBC-TV18 asserts it has retained the leadership position in the business news genre. Quoting TAM figures,...
MUMBAI: The hefty cash bonus that the revenue-losing media outlet Reuters lavished on CEO Tom Glocer last year is greater than the value of cuts in...
MUMBAI: Division for shareholders benefit and further unlocking of value! That is what media conglomerate Viacom chairman and CEO Sumner M. Redstone is looking to achieve...
MUMBAI: Disney has not yet opened its theme park in Hong Kong but already that country’s legislators have started asking awkward questions. Hong Kong Disneyland is...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment and NDTV India have tied up to bring out a special episode on the make-over of the Sony’s popular television programme Jassi Jassi...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast regulator Telecom Authority of India (Trai) has said that details of commercial dealings filed with it could be kept confidential, but a service...
MUMBAI: UTV Software Communications Ltd’s IPO (initial public offering), which closed on 25 February with a total demand for 26.12 times the issue size of approximately...
MUMBAI: Faced with a decline in ratings, US broadcaster NBC has decided to take the bull by the horns. NBC Entertainment has announced a major re-structuring...
MUMBAI: Sports Entertainment Enterprises, Inc’s CKX Inc., the control of which was recently acquired by Robert F X Sillerman, announced that it had acquired UK based...
MUMBAI: The Banff World Television Festival wil examine the far-reaching scope of news and documentary programming. The event takes place in June 2005 in Banff, Canada....
MUMBAI: Persistence pays. After initially being given the cold shoulder by the India-pakistan cricket series telecast rights holder Prasar Bharati, ESPN Star Sports secured a daily...
NEW DELHI: On a day when the information and broadcasting minister was dwelling on the need to set up a regulatory body for the broadcast sector...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: A delayed response if ever there was one. More than a day after ESPN Star Sports announced that it had secured a...
MUMBAI: In a bid to expand its reach in the Hindi entertainment space Sony has entered into a deal to acquire Sab TV for $ 13...
MUMBAI: UTV Software Communications debuted today on the stock market, scaling to 30.8 per cent in early trade on its listed price of Rs 130. ...
MUMBAI: Fox has announced that the fourth season of its music based reality show American Idol climaxes in May at the Kodak Theatre. This is the...
MUMBAI: This is an attempt by UK broadcaster BBC One to fulfill its committment to engage and entertain the widest possible audience with Shakespeare’s stories in...
MUMBAI: US media watchdog The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the agenda of its satellite forum. The event, which takes place on 21 March,...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that the first round of plans to transform the organisation will release ?139 million a year by 2008 to reinvest in...
NEW DELHI: Flushed with the success its free DTH service (over 2.5 million subscribers claimed) is enjoying, national broadcaster Doordarshan is now toying with the idea...
NEW DELHI: With service providers mushrooming all over the country claiming to provide broadband services, the government today cautioned such service providers not to mislead people....
MUMBAI: FICCI Frames, the biggest convention in Asia on the business of entertainment, is back and this year the theme is ‘Entertainment – It’s Happening.’ Frames...
MUMBAI: Big Brother will soon be watching. All that goes on in TV that is. Speaking in Parliament today, information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy said...
MUMBAI: Over the years music channel Etc has reached its audience through interactive platform of events and live shows. In the past it has done events...
MUMBAI: Last year they rocked Dubai, this year London will sizzle as the Zee Network takes the Zee Cine Awards to the land of the Queen!...
MUMBAI: UK broadcaster the BBC and the Corporation of London will host a major one day conference BBC Africa 2015 on 18 March 2005, at The...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster Fox has announced that Ford Motor Company, Coca-Cola and Cingular Wireless will return as sponsors of its reality based show American Idol. ...
Platforms get three years to add features for hearing and visually impaired
Strong word-of-mouth turns Pongal satire into remake pick
Streaming giant bets on a seasoned marketer who helped build Amazon and Netflix into household names
Communications leader exits after three years spanning MD office strategy and media outreach.
Cricket star named face of Delhi Khel Mahakumbh to fuel youth talent hunt.
Kolkata-based beverage maker reports stronger revenues and profits for December quarter.
A crime thriller steps out of the shadows as Telugu storytelling claims centre stage.
From boards to bytes, chess readies for a nation-first showdown in Riyadh.
Leadership change follows layoffs, protests and a bruising battle over trust.
Revenue rises 4.3 per cent to Rs 10,209.33 crore while deferred tax gain lifts bottom line sharply
Akshay Kumar and stars launch awards at NSCI Dome on Feb 28
Merger creates one-stop hub for content, digital, and delivery
NEW DELHI: Hamdard Laboratories gathered a cross-section of India’s achievers in New Delhi on Friday, handing out the Hakeem Abdul...
MUMBAI: For decades, creative storytelling has been the cornerstone of brand communication. The “big idea” amplified through catchy jingles, striking...
MUMBAI: Zepto has elevated Ahmad Muneeb to vice president – HR centre of excellence, placing him at the helm of...
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