NEW DELHI: With a bit of brashness, if one can term it that, and taking a swipe at critics, India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati today formally announced...
MUMBAI: Seems like Zee Music — Zee Group’s as yet low-key music channel — has woken up and how! The channel had a big bash last...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: In the capital it has been buried but in the country’s commercial capital of Mumbai, as in the other two metros of...
MUMBAI: Good news for couch potatoes. With five new shows slated for a launch this week, there is something for absolutely everybody. Already, with the ‘guess...
NEW DELHI: There’s a pep in her voice and the strides are more confident. What’s more, Star News president Ravina Raj Kohli can also afford to...
MUMBAI: Mona who? That could well be the question on everyone’s lips when Sony Entertainment Television India unveils on Monday the face it hopes will spell...
What happens when a US-based Hispanic model cum TV anchor dons of the role of Lara Croft, the beautiful sexy heroine of Eidos Interactive’s phenomenally successful,...
MUMBAI: Tinseltown TV — the one-hour entertainment show featuring top Hollywood stars, has topped the charts on National Iranian Television (NITV) network. The show, produced by...
NEW YORK: For all those lamenting the ever-increasing “crassness quotient” of many reality TV programmes, there is still hope. From 8 September US network NBC will...
MUMBAI: Star Plus is all set to launch another ‘K’ serial – Kahiin To Hoga – on 8 September adding to their already big buffet of...
What happens when a US-based Hispanic model cum TV anchor dons of the role of Lara Croft, the beautiful sexy heroine of Eidos Interactive’s phenomenally successful,...
NEW DELHI: Sony Entertainment Television India (SET) is all set to take the fight into the den of No. 1 Star Plus, with big ticket programming,...
NEW DELHI: Well, the separation has been made official. Star newsperson Rajat Sharma would go off Star News from October-November; and the top-rated Aaj Ki Baat,...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms has announced its intention to file an appeal in the CEGAT (Customs, Excise and Gold (Control) Appellate Tribunal) Tribunal against an order issued...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan would have a new director-general as the transfer orders of the present incumbent, Dr SY Quraishi, has finally been received by...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide will present over 600 hours of new programming, from across the full range of BBC output, at the Mipcom TV programme market in...
With reference to two articles published yesterday, SET India looking to revive IPO plans and SET plans novel use of STBs SET India CEO Kunal Dasgupta...
LONDON: Sky Sports has won the rights to England’s tours of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The broadcaster will now air the tours in the UK. In...
NEW YORK: UEFA has announced that ESPN International has been awarded the exclusive Pay and Terrestrial TV rights for the UEFA Champions League in North America....
BARBADOS: The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) executive board will have a meeting on 29 and 30 October in Barbados (local time). One of the main issues...
MUMBAI: After being in a state of hibernation for quite a while, Zee Music will soon be out with new plans. The channel is planning to...
MUMBAI: Get ready for some slick action! The action and adventure channel AXN, post the Hot ‘n Wild hungama, is gearing up to launch four new...
MUMBAI: An initial public offer (IPO) of Rs 14.86 crores (Rs 148.6 million) from production house B.A.G Films – a company promoted by Anurradha Prasad and...
MUMBAI: Televison and film Director Anant Balani is no more. He passed away on Thursday evening due to a massive cardiac arrest. Well known for his...
HONG KONG: Asiasat and Connexion By Boeing, a business division of The Boeing Company have announced the signing of a lease agreement As per the arrangement...
The mast mast Raveena Tandon has almost everything a woman could ask for — a plush home, loving parents, successful career, awards, adulation. Close on the...
NEW DELHI: With the conditional access system (CAS) gone for a six at least in Delhi and Mumbai, Sony Entertainment TV (SET) India is looking at...
MUMBAI: CNBC TV18, India’s premier business channel, has announced the introduction of three new feature shows targeted at its corporate viewers today. These include 55 Minutes,...
MUMBAI: The wait is finally over! After rigorous rounds of screening almost a thousand entries from various TV production houses and TV channels by special juries...
NEW DELHI: With conditional access all but consigned to limbo bar an official announcement, television companies have started turning their attention to other issues. Sony Entertainment...
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT (HTMT) Ltd informed today that it has appointed Partha Sarkar as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for its IT-enabled Services (IteS). Sarkar will...
PARIS: Thomson, a worldwide leader in video and film technologies, products and services, has announced the acquisition of Cinecolor Lab. Thai company Cinecolor Lab is one...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today formally issued the revised eligibility criteria for uplinking of news and current affairs channels from India, which seek to make...
NEW DELHI: An air of uncertainty hangs over the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry as the cities, where conditional access system (CAS) is to be introduced...
MUMBAI: The Foundation of Promotion of Film Arts and Crafts (FPFAC) honoured leading luminaries from the television industry for their significant contribution to the media and...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Well, it’s almost time to officially bid adieu to CAS (conditional access system) in Mumbai and, in all probability, in Kolkata too. Delhi was...
MUMBAI: Pakistan cable operators called off their three day agitation on Tuesday evening, and have decided not to press for the resumption of transmission of banned...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi based Cable Network Association, an organisation of cable operators has filed a case in the Delhi High Court against the government on...
NEW DELHI: As one of the major milestones in Ficci Frames’ initiatives to bring Indian Media and Entertainment industry to a world platform, the Cable &...
SOUTH AFRICA: The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has announced that it has secured the exclusive rights in the country to become the official broadcaster of...
NEW YORK: It has been two months since Vivendi formally invited bids for Vivendi Universal Entertainment. Initially, the company had claimed that the bids came in...
MUMBAI: Opentech Inc, a Korean company, that produces high end digital satellite broadcast receivers of DVB-S and MPEG-2 standards, is planning to set up a liaison...
NEW DELHI: The reason of an existing `great divide’ amongst stakeholders of the broadcast and cable industry – that the government uses to continue playing the...
NEW DELHI: The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) has directed Star, Sony and ESPN Star Sports to provide signals to the Zee-promoted HITS platform...
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Nirupam is scheduled to meet information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad at 3 pm today. The meeting will discuss...
NEW YORK: It has been two months since Vivendi formally invited bids for Vivendi Universal Entertainment. Initially, the company had claimed that the bids came in...
MUMBAI: Techniche Media has re-positioned itself to exploit the opportunity that exists in offering consultancy services to ad agencies, radio channels and advertisers. Percept Advertising’s division...
NEW YORK: A study by BIGresearch and the US based Centre for Media Research concludes that the growth of simultaneous media usage should have direct impact...
WASHINGTON: Here is a piece of information that should make people in the business of telemarketing goods and services sit up and take notice. Two-thirds of...
NEW YORK: For the fourth year in a row and the sixth time in the last nine years, Sony has been chosen as the number one...