The beautiful Poonam Narula Goel is one of the few privileged actors on Indian television who has cut across channels and featured in major soaps and...
MUMBAI: Creative Eye Mamah Shivay Enterprises have entered the Limca Book of Records for producing the highest number of mythologicals by a single production house. It’s...
NEW YORK: The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced that veteran television broadcaster, Bob Costas, of HBO’s Emmy-winning On the Record with Bob Costas,...
MUMBAI: Seems like Sahara and glamour go hand in hand or rather hand in glove. After roping in the film stars for its entertainment channel, Sahara...
LOS ANGELES: News broadcaster CNN is undergoing a massive organisation reshuffle. It has announced that its international newsgathering operation and staff is being integrated with CNN...
SAINT-TRPOEZ: With foreign attendance on the rise, business was brisk at TV France International’s ninth edition of Le Rendez-Vous, the French TV Screenings held in Saint-Tropez,...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court today directed the federal government of India to file its reply latest by Monday, listing reasons for postponing the implementation...
LONDON : The BBC has announced the appointment of former Globecast executive Sarah Hayes as Head of Media Asset Management. She will be responsible for managing...
MUMBAI: A little over two and a half years have gone by since internet company America Online merged with Time Warner. Now the chickens have come...
MUMBAI: It is not merely a story but an epic saga! This is the tagline that MAX is using for its latest programme initiative. This will...
MUMBAI: After quite a while HBO has finally decided to start tapping its original series. The first one off the block is Sex And The City....
MUMBAI: CNN will devote more time and analysis to the Middle East region. It will launch a half hour monthly programme Inside the Middle East. The...
NEW DELHI: The Essel Group promoted ASC Enterprises Limited (ASCEL) has become the first company in India to finally receive and sign the licence agreement for...
NEW DELHI: Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea and the owner-publisher of the Anand Bazar Patrika (ABP) group Aveek Sarkar paid a courtesy call to senior government...
NEW DELHI: In an effort to further broaden its viewership and involve the audience more, Star News has decided to turn the common man into a...
MUMBAI: Princell Hair has been named US chief of CNN’s news operations, replacing Teya Ryan, who has quit the company after a long spell of speculation...
MUMBAI: After Sachin Tendulkar it is now the turn of Indian skipper Saurav Ganguly to feature on ESPN Star Sports (ESS) as a host. He in...
MUMBAI: At this rate, Sahara Manoranjan should be having all the Hindi film stars moonlighting as television actors. Close on the heels of Bollywood stars Karisma...
NEW YORK: With the popularity of auto and motorcycle racing growing, the time seems right for a show that allows viewers a peek into the lives...
NEW DELHI: Delhi girls Neeti Mohan and Vasudha Sharma, Jaipur’s Jimmy Felix and Mumbai’s Sangeet Haldipur, the band members of Coke [V] Popstars 2, visited the...
MUMBAI: The Indian film, Breaking Barriers, actually ‘broke barriers’ at The International Communications (Intercom) Film and Video Festival, Chicago. It was the only Indian film to...
MUMBAI: A US court on Monday directed Vivendi Universal to pay former chief executive Jean-Marie Messier 20.6 million euros ($23.6 million) in a severance deal, one...
WASHINGTON: A federal appeals court in Philadelphia refused to give up jurisdiction over a case that could decide the fate of new relaxed media ownership rules,...
LOS ANGELES: On Saturday night, The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) awarded the 2002-2003 Creative Arts Prime time Emmys for programmes and individual achievements....
MUMBAI: Richa Sharma, vice president, corporate affairs at Zee Network has joined the ITC group of hotels as general manager, corporate communications as on today. ...
MUMBAI: Business channel CNBC TV18 held an event ‘Managing India Brainstorm VII’, in association with Sun Microsystems and Wipro Infotech at Taj Westend, Bangalore today. The...
India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which oversees the functioning of Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR), has always been looked upon as a slumbering behemoth. ...
NEW DELHI: CAS is slowly degenerating into being a complete failure. A high-powered meeting of senior bureaucrats from four states where CAS (conditional access system) is...
Zee, DTH licence, ASC Enterprises, Subhash Chandra, Siti Cable, Space TV, Dish TVNEW DELHI: Even as Music Broadcast Pvt. Ltd. (MBPL) moved the courts today as...
NEW DELHI: The buzz is that Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP), controlled by the Sarkar family of Kolkata, is set to pick up 74 per cent equity...
MUMBAI: ATN International, which is poised to launch its new channel Ahimsaa on 2 October, 2003, has struck a deal with Fifth Avenue Media Services for...
MUMBAI: Eternal Dreams, the company that tried to turn the now defunct Tara Marathi’s fortunes around with a women-based distance education show, is now bringing the...
About 175 leading documentary filmmakers of the country have come together to sound off a clarion call against the censorship of Indian documentaries at MIFF 2004...
LOS ANGELES: MGM Networks has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement for the MGM Plus channel. This is a second branded network which will...
MUMBAI: Locations 2003, the world’s first film tourism event, which brought together the Indian film industry and global Locations organisations to promote film tourism, concluded yesterday...
MUMBAI: Not serials and not news. It is event based shows that is helping catapult Alpha Marathi, the regional offering from the Zee family, among the...
MUMBAI: Here’s an opportunity for television industry executives and technicians who have done path-breaking work to make life easier for the trade and the consumers –...
MUMBAI: Fashion TV launched FMen, a 24-hour channel dedicated to men’s fashion and lifestyle last Friday. FMen is a project which has been in the pipeline...
LONDON: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has announced the continued expansion of its global cable and satellite networks portfolio. Next month, the action-oriented AXN TV will launch...
MUMBAI: The just concluded Locations 2003 billed as the world first tourism event saw presentations by Germany and the Indian state of Chattisgarh. Chhattisgarh Tourism Board’s...
BANGALORE: McDowell’s Signature from the UB Group Spirits Division has announced the upcoming celebrity golf tournament in the garden city on 14 September. The McDowell’s Signature...
MUMBAI: The first of the juries to decide the 63 programming, technical and trade categories of The Indian Telly Awards 2003 finished their deliberations late this...
MUMBAI: Former cricketer and MAX brand ambassador Kapil Dev will be seen in Sony Television’s detective series CID sometime in mid-October. Telecast on Fridays at 10:30...
MUMBAI: While the number of new launches have dwindled in the past two weeks, the few upcoming programmes this week promise to be action packed. Continuing...
MUMBAI: Another session at Locations 2003 dealt with the manner in which films can help in promoting tourism. Australia of course is one of the best...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television India’s big hope for 2003 looks set to live up to the expectations that it has generated. SET’s new blockbuster drama Jassi...
MUMBAI: “We give and give. Yet the producer is taken for a ride throughout. Hopefully forums like this will help redress the situation.” Film producer Nitin...
MUMBAI: Shri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd’s chairman Gautam Adhikar released his 2000th episode today (Saturday). He has a total of 28 television programmes to his...
MSTERDAM: Irdeto Access, a subsidiary of a multinational media group Naspers, a world leader in content protection and management, today launched the Irdeto Delta Pay Per...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted ASC Enterprises, which has sought a licence from the Indian government to operate a KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service in India,...