MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom has announced that Doug Herzog will be the new president of its male oriented network Spike TV. He also serves as...
NEW DELHI: Zee Turner, a joint venture between Zee Telefilms and Time Warner, is getting itself a chief finance officer (CFO) in the form of Arun...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan is aggressively attempting to recover dues to shore up its bottomlines, while continuing to programme acquisitions of events held outside India....
NEW DELHI: Fazed by high cost of acquisition, the Indian pubcaster Doordarshan has written to the government and the Indian Olympics Association (IOA) seeking intervention, if...
Corporations, which have heavily relied on graphic design, logos and too many colorful themes while ignoring the real names, are facing some new challenges. As the...
MUMBAI: China TV Media (CDM) claims to have notched a 100, 000 subscriber base mark within six months of its launch of its digital pay TV...
MUMBAI: Kkavyanjali, Star Plus’ newest property, has opened with monster ratings, paying rich dividends for Hindi entertainment television’s lead channel, which pulled out all the stops...
MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi, Radio City, Go 92.5 and Red FM are coming together for the first time on one platform for the Help! Telethon Concert to...
MUMBAI: National Geographic Channel International (NGCI) will take Expeditions To The Edge this year. NGCI has purchased the international rights to the 13 episode one-hour show...
NEW DELHI: DD Direct Plus, Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s DTH service, is gaining popularity with sales of set-top boxes zooming to over 700,000, according to latest figures...
MUMBAI: Today’s music lovers are being ushered to a transcedending digital music era. Napster, the biggest brand in digital music has announced the consumer release of...
MUMBAI: Three weeks into launch and NDTV’s business channel NDTV Profit asserts it has toppled market leader CNBC in viewership among business news channels. The channel...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster CBS has ordered the eighth and ninth installments of the reality show The Amazing Race. The Emmy winning adventure reality series pits teams...
MUMBAI: Yahoo! has launched beta version of a search engine tool that generates information related to content highlighted on a web page. The tool Y!Q provides...
MUMBAI: As the first anniversary of Janet Jackson’s exposure during the Super Bowl half time show approaches a study commissioned by media watchdog the Federal Communications...
MUMBAI: In a bid to spread its reach in Hong Kong, Bloomberg Television is going mobile. The business and finance broadcaster has signed a deal with...
MUMBAI: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Champion Triple H whose nickname is The Game will make a guest appearance on Fox’s sitcom The Bernie Mac Show. On...
MUMBAI: This initiative is a first in the history of television. US media conglomerate Viacom’s cable network Showtime Networks will target all voting members of the...
MUMBAI: This year’s MIPTV will see Sky Networks’ Dawn Airey, Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki and Intel’s Kevin Corbett deliver keynote speeches. MIPTV will feature MILIA this year....
MUMBAI: Home entertainment solutions provider TiVo has announced the resignation of Marty Yudkovitz as president of the company. He will remain with TiVo in a consulting...
MUMBAI: Zee News’ exit poll results revealed that the Congress would emerge the main gainer in the elections in all three Indian states called to the...
MUMBAI: ABC’s sitcom Desperate Housewives, which turned around the fortunes of the network, has won big at the Screen Actors Guild (Sag) awards held on Saturday...
As we enter 2005, one cannot help but reflect on the number of changes that this year brought about and the hope that 2005 holds for...
As we enter 2005, one cannot help but reflect on the number of changes that this year brought about and the hope that 2005 holds for...
NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket board is toying with the idea of handing over the telecast rights of the upcoming India-Pakistan home series to pubcaster Doordarshan,...
MUMBAI: February will see some major reshuffling in SaharaOne as far as the channel’s programming is concerned. The comedy band will see a time change, three...
MUMBAI: Ten Sports has renewed, for another five years, telecast rights for what has been its bread and butter mainstay since its launch in 2002 –...
MUMBAI: Star Movies has renewed the live and exclusive broadcast rights to The Annual Academy Awards for India and Taiwan from 2005 to 2010. NEW DELHI:...
NEW DELHI: Discovery Communications has announced a partnership with Northern Ireland independent Brian Waddell Productions Ltd. (BWPL) to co-produce a documentary on Steve Fossett’s upcoming attempt...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has approved Grey Worldwide India and B4U Multimedia International Limiter’s proposals involving foreign investment and changes sought in earlier clearances. B4U...
MUMBAI: Business and financial news network Bloomberg Television has launched its 24-hour business and financial news network in Thailand. The channel will now air on United...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment’s SET MAX channel is playing its “Deewana bana de” tagline to the core this February. To match the mood of the Valentine month,...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television India executive vice president Sunil Lulla has resigned. He is set to join the Times Group as chief executive news and business...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch owned News Corp. has reported second quarter consolidated revenues of $6.6 billion, which is an 18 per cent increase over the $5.6 billion...
MUMBAI: Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide (Ogilvy PR) has appointed Meenu Handa as national president, India. Handa will oversee and continue to expand Ogilvy PR’s national network....
MUMBAI: Zee Music has announced its VJ hunt– Kkalpes Patel VJ Banega Kya. In search of new faces the channel will conduct audition aspiring VJ’s in...
MUMBAI: Zee Music has announced its VJ hunt– Kkalpes Patel VJ Banega Kya. In search of new faces the channel will conduct audition aspiring VJ’s in...
NEW DELHI: In what can be termed disappointing news for Zee Telefilms, the Supreme Court today ruled that the Indian cricket board was not a ‘State...
MUMBAI: After Aaj Tak, it’s Star News’ turn to don a new ‘avtaar’. Come 3 February, and the latter will see a complete makeover in terms...
NEW DELHI: A Supreme Court verdict delivered today on cricket rights issue may have effected a body blow to the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms, but that...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to further extend its brand equity, multi-system operator Siti Cable has decided to hold city specific social and cultural festival fair...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has just added the biggest soccer property of them all to its draw card. The sports broadcaster has acquired exclusive telecast...
MUMBAI: Geo TV has ventured into the reality genre with a show titled George Ka Pakistan. As the concept of the show reveals, Geo follows George,...
MUMBAI: BAG films has posted a 82 per cent increase in its net profit at Rs 11 million for the quarter ended 31 December, 2004 ....
MUMBAI: As the first anniversary of Janet Jackson’s infamous wardrobe malfunction during the Superbowl approaches the Parents Television Council (PTC) in the US has released a...
MUMBAI: Star has created a new post to handle government and regulatory affairs. Joe Welch has been appointed as senior vice president government affairs, and will...
MUMBAI: Zee Movie Zone (ZMZ), thus far a distant third in English movie channel space to fierce rivals HBO and Star Movies, may just be about...
MUMBAI: In a bid to expand into the regional news space, Sahara India Entertainment & Media (SIME) has chalked out plans to launch a pan-Rajasthan channel...
MUMBAI: An emphasis on greater transparency, objectivity and accountability underpins the BBC’s new procedure for handling editorial complaints across its channels in the UK. This procedure...
Conventional, customary, commonplace… Certainly NOT words in the almanac of marketers who are looking to break away from the clutter as they strive to connect to...

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