From being a junior minister to former information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj few years back, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has come a long way to become...
CANNES: MarVista Entertainment, a newly formed distribution and production company attending its first MIP has sold several of the company’s recent acquisitions at the ongoing MIP...
MUMBAI: Darcy Antonellis has been named to the newly created position of senior VP, worldwide anti-piracy operations Warner Bros. Entertainment Antonellis’ primary responsibility will be to...
Mumbai: Four out of five Americans say that there are too many reality dating programmes like The Bachelor on the air. And when it comes to...
MUMBAI: Two million movie lovers in Tanzania will see a BBC World Service ad filmed in Tanzania, when a mobile cinema visits their region. The advertisement...
The awards night – An excuse to arrive late, take credit for everything that has transpired, drink yourself silly, exchange dirty gossip about fellow professionals, roll...
MUMBAI: “Being the creative director of an ad agency is like combining Mahatma Gandhi and Mickey Mouse. There is no brain surgery involved just common sense....
Directors on Indian television have a long list of complaints. ‘Blame it on the production houses and the channels’, seems to be the majority viewpoint. Are...
MUMBAI: Singapore Exhibition Services (SES) and the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) have announced the Infocomm Media Business Exchange (imbX) which will be held from 14-18...
MUMBAI: Zee Group subsidiary Padmalaya Telefilms has reached preliminary agreement for co-production and licensing of cartoons with Italian animation major Mondo TV Group in a deal...
MUMBAI: One hundred TV productions of Francophonie countries of the South are participating at the MIP-TV in Cannes. The event which is starting on 29 March...
NEW DELHI: Smart businessman that he is, TV personality Rajat Sharma has decided to postpone the full-fledged launch of his news and current affairs channel to...
NEW DELHI: Smart businessman that he is, TV personality Rajat Sharma has decided to postpone the full-fledged launch of his news and current affairs channel to...
MUMBAI: With elections around the corner, it seems like a busy month ahead for the news channels. So while the channel have already churned out a...
MUMBAI: The Asian cable and satellite industry in 2003 accounted for almost 190 million multi-channel homes, up 40 million from 2002. 95 per cent of these...
MUMBAI: Satellite services company Globecast has announced that it has partnered with Brazilian telecommunications group Embratel to provide broadcast services, internet and telephony for Brazilian terrestrial...
NEW DELHI: Some of the news channels that had applied to the government seeking various clearances, have got an advantage by default. Because the general elections...
MUMBAI: It’s going to be a dazzling show in the desert. Celine Dion is performing at Las Vegas on Wednesday 31 March 2004. But for the...
MUMBAI : Comcast Corporation has finally bought Tech TV, thus finishing its long rumoured sale on 25 March 2004.G4, the Comcast-owned television network devoted to video...
MUMBAI: ARY Digital Network has bagged the Bollywood Awards and Bollywood Fashion Awards exclusive telecast rights. The network will be airing the ceremony to be held...
MUMBAI: Colour TV turned 50 on Thursday. It was on 25 March, 1954, that the Radio Corporation of America’s (RCA) plant in Bloomington, Indiana, produced the...
MUMBAI: The Football Association has concluded an agreement for ‘second party rights’ with sports marketing agency Sportfive. The rights extend to the right to broadcast England...
MUMBAI : Cartoon Network US has made announcements concerning new shows, new acquisitions, greenlights of existing shows and future programming events for its Adult Swim block....
MUMBAI: MTV has just taken the wind out of Channel [V]’s sails regarding next month’s Enrique Iglesias concert. In a deal that was stitched together last...
MUMBAI: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has announced that it expects world-wide Pay-Per-View (PPV) gross revenues for Wrestlemania XX to be between $40 million and $45 million....
MUMBAI: The legendary superstar of the sixties, Rajesh Khanna will be conferred Lifetime Achievement Award at the sixth Bollywood Award 2004 and the Lifetime of Glamour...
MUMBAI: Sahara Manoranjan may still be staggering along as far as consolidating its position in the Hindi entertainment stakes is concerned, but all that could well...
MUMBAI: Southern Spice (SS) Music channel has launched its last leg of The VJ Factor in Cochin which is the search for VJs for the new...
MUMBAI: MarVista Entertainment, the global production and distribution company, has signed a groundbreaking three series co-production and worldwide distribution agreement with Brookwell McNamara Entertainment (BME), one...
The sourcing for film financing for Hindi films is now seeing itself in a new avatar with a number of Hindi films being financed by organized...
MUMBAI: So what if government directives prevent cigarette brands from advertising in conventional media – high profile events may still be the solution! GTC Industries (formerly...
MUMBAI: For the first time in India, a live action event will be brought to the mobile device in near real time. Hutchison has launched the...
MUMBAI: The multiplex phenomenon in the country is going from strength to strength. PVR which works in the movie exhibitions and entertainment business unveiled its latest...
MUMBAI: Across the globe, ad agency specialists and media specialists are talking about the fact that traditional media will no longer continue its monopoly over media...
MUMBAI: With the ICC Cricket World Cup excitement mounting to a feverish pitch, KFC, fast food retail outlet is sending winners of the ‘Yeh contest hai...
NEW YORK: This is an alliance that AOL Time Warner is hoping will bring two of its leading assets even closer together for the US kids...
NEW DELHI: BBC World in India is seeing a remarkable increase in category advertising and finding new advertisers over the past year or so, the latest...
MUMBAI: Percept has officially announced that former Vibrant Advertising director Amit Ray has joined Percept Media as director, strategy. In response to recent reports of Tapan...
MUMBAI: While most of the times they are harmless and innocuous, the pop ups are nevertheless a constant irritant to net surfers. Yet the in-your-face ads...
MUMBAI: This is news that should make marketers sit up and take notice. A survey has indicated that the web is the leading media choice among...
MUMBAI: Elections still is the mainstay at news channels and the innovation is the order of the day. So after slew of the political satires across...
MUMBAI: Following close on the heels of the announcement made by the Congress Party to field Rahul Gandhi from Amethi, Star News decided to do some...
MUMBAI: In the wake of the upcoming elections, BBC Hindi service, radio and online, will bring in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the elections. The service, which...
NEW DELHI: Sensing that the Tata-Star combine, which got a green signal last week from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), for a joint venture company,...
MUMBAI: What had looked like a dead duck property —Sony Television’s broadcast rights for the recently concluded Under 19 World Cup in Dhaka, Bangladesh — has...
MUMBAI: In the wake of the upcoming elections, BBC Hindi service, radio and online, will bring in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the elections. The service, which...
MUMBAI: Looks like US broadcasters will have to be on constant standby to watch out for offensive language during live events. A few days ago the...
MUMBAI: On the heels of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stepping up its attack on indecent programming in the US the National Cable & Telecommunications (NCTA)...
MUMBAI: The issue of copyright infringement may be given short shrift in India but in the US news sites are doing their best to ensure that...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom is expanding in China. The company has announced several breakthrough partnerships, including a joint venture with Shanghai Media Group (SMG). This marks...

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