NEW DELHI: While the high-profile TV channels have come under the scanner for “depicting woman in a vulgar manner” and airing “programmes against Indian culture”, closer...
NEW DELHI: While the government and the industry keep grappling with the issue of CAS, a vacation bench of the Delhi High Court has asked the...
NEW DELHI: Its official and confirmed. The Prannoy Roy family-controlled NDTV has decided to give CNBC TV 18 business channel some competition by ramping up business...
NEW DELHI: Though the much-touted community radio project till now is a non-starter, the government today said that 39 institutions, including universities, have applied for licences....
NEW DELHI:Fazed by criticism and non-cooperation from the industry, Indias federal government is preparing the ground for calling for a review (read, near-junking) of conditional access...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today set the cat among the pigeons by stating in the Parliament’s Upper House (Rajya Sabha)...
NEW DELHI: With Prasar Bharati’s annual revenue on the slide as the gap between earnings and spending has increased over the years, a proposal has been...
MUMBAI: Ten Sports is looking to spice up its coverage of horse racing with a new show. The Winning Post is produced and hosted by Mohit...
MUMBAI: Fast food giant McDonald’s has chosen DDB Worldwide, led by DDB Chicago to develop a worldwide French fry advertising campaign next year. McDonald’s executive VP...
MUMBAI: Columbia Records and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) have joined forces to unleash WWE Originals. The music album consists of the WWE’s superstars performing numbers and...
MUMBAI: Paris 2012, the organisation behind the Paris bid to host the 2012 Olympics, has launched an international tender for one or more world class Public...
NEW DELHI: With a dual objective of providing viewers a better movie viewing experience and bringing value to the advertiser, Star Movies has decided to cut...
By VINAY KANCHAN The office party – commonly mistaken by most as an excuse to get drunk at the boss‘ expense. However that is as far...
MUMBAI: Automobile major Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) has crossed the 100,000 vehicle production milestone in India. The automobile manufacturer has announced the launch of a special...
Having made quite a few appearances on television, she is now getting noticed and getting her dues. Shy and reticent, this psychology graduate from Mumbai's Mithibai...
People at NGC India, especially managing director for south Asia, Zubin Jehanbux Gandevia, these days chant the history mantra more than geography. And, why not? The...
The new Lodestar report examines the performance of the news channels from different angles. It throws up interesting findings, apart from how the public perceives news...
NEW DELHI: Change, they say, is the only truth. And Zee TV president Apurva Purohit felt that it was time for a switchover, time to move...
MUMBAI: An HBO presentation, the six-hour mini-series Angels in America, the Mike Nichols adaptation of Tony Kushner’s play about AIDS during the Reagan administration, walked off...
MUMBAI: Cable television majors Viacom Inc and Comcast Corp. have signed a five-year landmark distribution contract, agreeing to broadcast Viacom’s CBS affiliates and national cable networks...
MUMBAI: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has okayed News Corp’s takeover of DirecTV and Hughes, but has imposed certain conditions on the $6.6 billion deal. The...
MUMBAI: The South is the driver for the growth in television sets with a 33 per cent share in colour television sets. Marketers need to note...
MUMBAI: Oral care products provider Colgate-Palmolive has announced its partnership with Warner Brothers to promote the film Loony Tunes: Back in Action in India. The film...
NEW DELHI: With Star Plus entering its fourth year as India’s top Hindi entertainment channel, the channel is still leaving no stones unturned to keep the...
NEW DELHI: A day after information & broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad rubbished Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit’s charge that there was a whole load of...
MUMBAI: Its time for centenary celebration at Taj Group, and they are making a film to commemorate it. Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces, along with NDTV...
NEW DELHI: If the consumer bodies and average consumers of Delhi, especially the south zone of the capital, were thinking that the court would come to...
MUMBAI: A nine-count criminal complaint was formally filed yesterday against pop icon Michael Jackson. The case concerns him allegedly molesting a cancer patient. Alcohol was apparently...
MUMBAI: The European Commission’s competition services have reached a provisional agreement with the Football Association Premier League (FAPL) regarding the joint selling of the media rights...
MUMBAI: Radio City 91 FM has shortlisted ten Delhi children, including a visually impaired girl, Ambika Khattar, in the first phase of its Junior RJ Hunt ....
MUMBAI: The nominations for the 61st Golden Globe Awards were announced last evening. In India, the show will air live on Star World on 26 January....
NEW DELHI: The Alva brothers promoted Miditech, a TV software production house, is looking at joining hands with a broadcaster (like the one TV 18 had...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms may see another round of churning at the top with Zee TV president Apurva Purohit having put...
NEW DELHI: At the end of the second day of the IPO today, the TV Today Network issue was oversubscribed 4.37 times. Orders for 63.5 million...
MUMBAI: Regional catches up Alpha Marathi, the local language channel from the Zee stable now is running a neck to neck battle with leader Star Plus...
BANGALORE: South India-based Balan Natural Foods (P) Ltd (BNFL) announced an all-India ad campaign for their B Natural, Miruana YO and Mougli brands. So...
MUMBAI: Integrated communications agency J Walter Thompson (JWT) swept the Impact 360 degrees Advertising Awards 2003 organised and hosted by the Advertising Club Calcutta. The agency...
MUMBAI: Sports communication agency Nimbus Sport which is a division of Nimbus Communications and batsman VVS Laxman have announced an alliance. As per the agreement, Nimbus...
NEW DELHI: A software engineer from Bangalore has won the BBC World’s Wheels Viewers’ Choice Awards contest even as the channel announced the winning cars and...
MUMBAI: Zee TV is raising the tempo as far as “media noise” is concerned. The “letting content speak for itself” proposition, a line that Zee had...
MUMBAI: After roping in actor Raveena Tandon and cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle for Zydus Cadilla’s Sugar Free; Rediffusion DYR and Ravi Shastri’s joint venture Showdiff Worldwide...
MUMBAI: Ab Cold Drink Out! That is the tagline that the UB Group has introduced for its latest product London Pilsner Pint. At Rs 16 the...
MUMBAI: Godrej has announced that its two tea brands, Godrej Noble House and Godrej Chai House are making aggressive steps in the value added packaging segment...
MUMBAI: Music channel etc has scored a lead over recently revamped sibling Zee Music as well as other channels in the arena by grabbing a channel...
NEW DELHI: The federal government has thrown the CAS ball back into the state’s court by saying, it would be unwarranted to conclude that the Union...
NEW DELHI: Broadcasters, mostly operating pay channels in India, are slated to meet India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj in the first week of January...
MUMBAI: Two ad agencies have predicted better tidings for global advertising next year. The growth in adspend will be fuelled by the August Olympic Games in...
MUMBAI: Market research majors TNS Mode and NFO MBL India will merge their operations in India and Sri Lanka from 1 January 2004. The new entity...
NEW DELHI: After producing several memorable campaigns including the Pulse Polio commercial featuring Amitabh Bachchan, one for Human Organ Procurement and Education Trust (Hope) for organ...
MUMBAI: Group M Asia Pacific (Maximize and MindShare) bagged three awards at the annual Media Magazine Advertising & Media awards ceremony last week, including the 2003...

