MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati chief executive K.S. Sarma has asked the pubcaster’s regional channels to come up with innovative concepts. Speaking at the inauguration of DD Sahyadri’s...
NEW DELHI: Media Research Users Council (MRUC), which conducts the Indian Readership Survey, is in the process of initiating several improvements in the whole on-going survey....
NEW DELHI: Monsterindia, the Indian arm of a leading global online careers network- Monster, received record traffic in January 2004, attracting 4.49 million unique visitors and...
MUMBAI: Germany’s Telcast Media Group which provides a range of services for broadcasters across the globe is moving aggressively in the marketing arena by expanding its...
MUMBAI: In India broadband is an area that could experience explosive growth once convergence kicks in through the likes of Reliance. In the US the business...
MUMBAI: Channel [V] is all set to play the role of a fairy Godmother as it gets ready with a contest presented by LG CDMA. The...
MUMBAI: Germany’s Telcast Media Group which provides a range of services for broadcasters across the globe is moving aggressively in the marketing arena by expanding its...
NEW DELHI: The latest findings from the Zee News TALEEM opinion poll offers no drastic change in opinion from the last round of results and the...
MUMBAI: Seems like wave of digital radio broadcasting will soon engulf Bangkok. Next month, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) is all geared to promote introduction of digital...
Channel V has adapted a new strategy to lead the market (or is it for survival?). The earlier confused channel will now refocus itself and concentrate...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), has issued a consultation paper on the second round of opening of the FM...
MUMBAI: Business should be soon booming on television. During the Mipcom ’04 MIPTV/MILIA, which took place 29 March – 2 April ’04 in Cannes, it was...
MUMBAI: Looks like the Western is turning out to be a shaky bet for movie studios. Last year The Missing turned into a loss making proposition...
MUMBAI: HBO US has announced that production has begun on the new comedy series The Entourage. The show will start airing in the US in July....
MUMBAI: Media companies will survive or fail in 2010 based not just on content but also on creative intelligence they are able to gather about their...
MUMBAI: The beeb is looking to enhance its presence in the Arab online world. With this mind it has announced the finalisation a deal. This will...
MUMBAI: A business venture set up by film actors Suniel Shetty, Sanjay Dutt and film producers Nitin Manmohan, Sohail Maklai and entrepreneur Hamed Saberi, Shades –...
MUMBAI: Viacom’s US broadcast network CBS has announced that two of its reality shows Big Brother and the Emmy Award-winning The Amazing Race will kick off...
MUMBAI: Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms is all set to launch a new magazine for its subscribers of the Hindi and English Asian television network. The aim...
NEW DELHI: Radaan Mediaworks is gearing up for a host of new production initiatives, including a mystery-based one-hour weekly thriller serial Sivam Deva Ragasyam, scheduled to...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has renewed a deal for one of its key tennis properties – Wimbledon. ESS has renewed the rights for another...
MUMBAI: Southern Spice (SS) Music, which was launched on 14 April 2001 has turned three today. The Chennai based channel’s focus now is to compete with...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today decreed that no political advertisement would go on air on TV channels before being cleared by the Election Commission and...
MUMBAI: Nokia and Idea Cellular have signed a $24 million agreement for the supply of Nokia GSM/GPRS network equipment and multimedia services nationwide in India. With...
MUMBAI: A Saatchi & Saatchi team has been adjudged the winning team in the national contest held by the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) recently....
MUMBAI: Team Percept won Mumbai edition of the ESPN Star Sports Corporate Challenger Cricket Cup defeating Syntel India by 57 runs in the final. Percept, who...
MUMBAI: AirTel recently announced a unique initiative in India to provide the “Anywhere” mobile bill payment facility to all its customers. AirTel customers across...
MUMBAI: Music channel Etc registered an increase in profits in the financial year 2003-2004. According to a press release, Etc made a profit after tax of...
MUMBAI: Completing a year to the day of launching two news channels (launched 14 April 2003), the Prannoy Roy-promoted NDTV had its first roadshow event for...
MTV India has announced a new Director Communications. The former Good Relations (India) employee Charlotte Lester has replaced Hemant Kenkre. Charlotte will report directly to the...
MUMBAI: High definition programming is not coming – it’s already here. Since the beginning of 2004 Euro 1080 has been broadcasting a daily schedule of music...
This Sunday Star World brings the forever-young Dev Anand in rendezvous with Simi Garewal. Recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke award, this handsome and suave actor is one...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney Co. expects fiscal 2004 earnings from continuing operations to increase by more than 40 per cent this year – a more optimistic view...
Egmont Imagination India has tied up with Vijayta Films for the launch of an entire range of products based on its forthcoming film – 23rd...
MUMBAI: To strengthen its strategic emphasis on ‘360 Degree Branding’ Ogilvy & Mather Advertising has launched Ogilvy – Signscapes. The new division will cover the entire...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Dish TV, the country’s first KU-band direct-to-home television service has signed exclusive deals with five international channels. The deals, signed...
MUMBAI: Clear Channel Outdoor today stepped up its commitment to creating innovative opportunities for advertisers with the announcement that long-time digital media strategist Michael Hudes has...
MUMBAI: AOL UK has announced the launch of its ?20 million multimedia advertising campaign for the latest version of its online service, AOL 9.0. The product...
NEW DELHI: Malaysian television commercial director Farouk Al Jouffrey is currently touring India to work on a new Bajaj Pulsar TVC, in conjunction with Ogilvy &...
MUMBAI: The road shows for the initial public offer (IPO) that the Prannoy Roy-controlled NDTV is opening on 21 April are set to kick off throughout...
MUMBAI: There is some major churn happening at Star Group’s head office in Hong Kong. Three senior executives – Digital Platforms Group president Altaf Alimohamed, advertising...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today indicated to the Election Commission that if the latter could not find out a suitable way to monitor political advertisements,...
BBC World’s flagship interview programme, HARDtalk, will have an Indian special starting 12 to 16 April. BBC's presenter Tim Sebastian will travel to India to meet...
MUMBAI: Samar Khan, the man behind Bollywood Tonight on Zee Cinema has quit Applause Entertainment and will be joining UTV shortly. Khan started his career as...
MUMBAI: While there still may not be a clear leader among the music channels, etc continues to hold sway, although not always with its music shows....
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms today announced that it would be publishing its audited accounts for the year ended 31 March 2004 within three months of the close...
MUMBAI: Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will turn 10 years old on 14 April 2004 in the US. TCM celebrated with a new star on the Hollywood...
With beauty contests now available dime to a dozen, if a contest is touted as one of the most awaited ones, then it sure seems like...
MUMBAI: Insight Communications president and CEO Michael Willner and Cablevision Systems’ executive VP Sheila Mahony will be recognised with top 2004 Vanguard Awards for distinguished leadership...
MUMBAI: Fox will replace their popular music themed reality show American Idol with another reality themed showThe Casino which is being filmed in HDTV. The show...

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