MUMBAI: International media personality and Tinseltown TV founder CEO Sheeraz Hasan was named Global Ambassador for humanitarian interest group – Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI)...
MUMBAI: India TV’s Most Wanted, the crime show on India TV with Suhaib Ilyasi as host has been steadily climbing the popularity charts among viewers. What’s...
MUMBAI: The kids’ channel Pogo will be introducing Pogo Amazing Kids Awards coming December. The award empowers kids to voice their choice by voting for their...
BANGALORE: An attack on media persons covering a protest at a city multiplex unfolded one of the ugliest episodes in the Kannada filmdom ‘soap opera’. Media...
MUMBAI: BBC World claims that it sustains the greatest audience loyalty post-Iraq war. Quoting the latest results from the Pan Asia Cross Media Survey (PAX), BBC...
MUMBAI: Kalasa Entertainment Media Private Limited (KEMPL), the Chennai-based company into digital delivery of movies in the southern states of India, has claimed that it successfully...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service Trust has appointed Julia Moffett as director of strategy. The new position was devised recently to help direct the future work and...
BANGALORE: Posing as viewers to avoid the police detection, the Kannada Rakshana Vedike activists struck two theaters in the city, which was screening a new release,...
MUMBAI: Kids channel Nick has acquired rights to ‘Jadoo’, a famous character from the film Koi Mil Gaya, as part of its drive to expand local...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s global commercial service BBC World has roped in filmmaker and author Michaek Moore for one of its US election shows. The filmmaker’s documentary...
MUMBAI: Alpha Marathi is all geared to unviel the result of the third and the final phase of the opinion poll conducted by them. The poll...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corp, has announced the creation of BBC Japan. Local Japanese broadcaster Japan MediArk will be distributing...
MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18 has rolled out a four part feature series called Awakening Giants that will look at the emerging new world economies like China, India, Russia...
NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket board can function as usual as the Supreme Court today stayed a Madras High Court order restraining office-bearers from taking over...
BANGALORE: Filming of the Jackie Chan – Mallika Sherawat starrer The Myth was stopped at the world famous Virupaksha temple by the Archeological Department of the...
MUMBAI: The Sahara Group is in talks with Asia Star Broadcasting Inc. to acquire TV Asia, an entertainment and information channel for South Asian audiences in...
Maharashtra is abuzz with the state elections, which is just a day away.The national news channels have already started their election special programming along with the...
MUMBAI: Navratri special on Vijay TV is festival of dance. Vijay TV has organised a dance recital ‘Natyanjali’ at Image auditorium on 9, 10, and 11...
MUMBAI: Asiasat and Satlink Communications have launched a Multiple Channels per Carrier (MCPC) digital platform on Asiasat 2 satellite’s C-band coverage beam. Satlink provides end-to-end solutions...
MUMBAI: Star Movies and HBO are going the mini series route in a bid to improve channel share. While the latter recently commenced airing Carnivale the...
MUMBAI: The Sarvakar symposium on “Next gen cinema & TV: Digital all the way” held on 9 October addressed topics ranging from digitisation of media to...
MUMBAI: Dora The Explorer has navigated her way to the top of the American music charts. The companion CD to the preschool show television debuted at...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks US chairman and CEO Judy McGrath has announced key executive appointments. Van Toffler who was formerly MTV, MTV2 and MTV Films president is...
MUMBAI: In two weeks time Gurinder Chadha’s latest film Bride and Prejudice hits cinemas across the country. For the uninitiated, the film updates the Jane Austen...
MUMBAI: The dominance of CNBC in the US business and financial news landscape has claimed a victim. CNN has announced that it will close its financial...
MUMBAI: Led bySpiderman 2 Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has crossed the $1 billion mark overseas for the third year in a row. The company had earlier...
Globalization is at a crossroads, and businesses are now entering into a major war. We must take some very aggressive action because at this very second,...
MUMBAI: The generational leap forward — a programming ploy oft used by Hindi entertainment television’s lead channel Star Plus to take the plots of its “saas-bahu”...
NEW DELHI: The cable and broadcast regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, today reiterated an earlier stand that content should not be denied to any platform...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television will telecast Indra Kumar’s Masti on 10 October at 9 pm. Also there is this show Dhoom Macha De which showcases the...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms’ youth based Hindi fiction daily (Mon-Thurs) Kitni Mast Hai Zindagi will launch on MTV from 25 October. The time slot has not yet...
BANGALORE: Defying the seven week moratorium for release of non-Kannada films recommended by the government headed and Karnataka Film Producers Association (KFPA) loaded Pandey committee, a...
Fun loving, passionate, young and dynamic is how one can define UTV’s COO of four months. A veteran in the advertising arena with 16 years of...
What do you do when you are finding it hard to push your digital set-top boxes (STBs) and broadband Internet service? Bundle them. That is what...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Indian cricket team — or should it be called the BCCI XI? — was left staring at a humiliating defeat in...
NEW DELHI: The broadcast and cable regulator, which was slated to issue an order on inter-connect agreements late this week, has held it back owing to...
MUMBAI: Sahara Sangeet Awards 2004, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, will be shown on 10 October at 7:30 pm on SaharaOne channel. The...
MUMBAI: The latest Pan Asia Cross Media Survey (PAX 2003/04) results, released on 8 October, says CNN is the leader among international news and business channels...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s director of strategy and distribution and architect of Freeview, Carolyn Fairbairn has decided to leave the organisation after seven years. BBC DG Mark...
MUMBAI: Talk about strange ironies. A little over a week after he was turned away, at the door as it were, from overseeing the elections to...
NEW DELHI: Making a strong pitch for broadband, a senior government official said that adequate solution to the vexed issues of carrier and content will have...
MUMBAI: Bangla channel Tara Bangla will present the Zandu Panchrishta Jatin Lalit live in concert on 9 October at Science City auditorium from 6 pm to...
MUMBAI: Come 2005, and the Indian news genre will witness a dedicated crime news channel from the Star News pad. With a tentative launch...
MUMBAI: So you want to be a TV presenter? Journalist? Scriptwriter? Web producer? Radio DJ in the UK? Step this way. Hundreds of media industry hopefuls...
MUMBAI: The war in the reality genre in the US is heating up. Fox has announced a reality show that looks to skew NBC’s hit The...
MUMBAI: Actress Kristin Davis, who made her name with Sex and the City will guest-star in a November sweeps episode of NBC’s Will and Grace. The...
MUMBAI: News provider Reuters plans to increase it’s head count from the present 340 at Bangalore to about 1200 by the end of 2005. A formal...
Insurance companies are heavily into advertising these days. A new name that comes to mind is that of Chola General Insurance and its new TVC that...
The problem: Horlicks was perceived to be a fuddy-duddy brand amongst kids and it sought to transform itself into an exciting and vibrant brand. Research showed...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television India has deferred the acquisition of sister company SET Singapore as its proposed initial public offering (IPO) is unlikely to happen for...

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