Kunal Dasgupta has just completed eight years as chief executive of Sony Entertainment Television India, which makes him the longest serving professional CEO in the television...
NEW DELHI: The government has announced that there is no specific time frame to set up the Broadcasting Regulating Authority of India. I&B Minister Ravi Shankar...
NEW DELHI: Media baron Subhash Chandra crossed another milestone today. The information & broadcasting ministry today cleared his Essel group’s letter of intent to operate a...
NEW DELHI: Provisions of Rs 1705.5 million and Rs 3805.5 million have been kept for All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan, respectively in the 10th five-year...
NEW DELHI: NetGuru India, a division of the Nasdaq listed NetGuru, is working on a new 2D animation VCD series based on two poems of Rabrindranath...
HYDERABAD: IDEA Cellular has tied-up with www.betsetgo.com to provide access to information on Horse Racing through SMS for the Idea subscribers of Andhra Pradesh. Now,...
MUMBAI: Pepsi is providing a national platform to budding painters in the country through Tropicana. The beverage conglomerate’s natural fruit juice brand has kicked off a...
When CNBC India, now rechristened CNBC TV 18, launched its Indian operations in the late 1990s, it needed to have adequate data support.In Keeping with its...
NEW DELHI: The government constituted inter-ministerial group (IMG) comprising officials from the information & broadcasting ministry, the law ministry and the department of company affairs met...
MUMBAI: Fans of Friends star Joey have reason to cheer and jig the Friends way. Friends may be packing up for now but Joey is staying...
MUMBAI: “Mission ‘CAS’hmir”! This rather quaint turn of phrase about sums up the concerted effort the major MSOs will be making in the coming month to...
MUMBAI: The revised zonal conditional access deadline of 1 September is just over a month away, and the tune has changed somewhat from the earlier doom...
MUMBAI: After a fall of 190 points in four sessions running, the market on Friday got the bull by its horns. The barometer 30-stock Bombay Stock...
MUMBAI: Star Plus is trying out a completely new treatment for two of its shows, which are not doing too brightly (by its standards) on the...
NEW DELHI: Zee English may have been taken away from Cutting Edge Media, but Reality TV, part of the Zee Turner bouquet, has now appointed the...
NEW DELHI: The government has constituted a committee to make recommendations for the second phase of opening up FM radio broadcasting to the private participation. The...
LOS ANGELES: US cable network HBO has launched a new division under its HBO Films label. The company which has produced critically acclaimed content such as...
MUMBAI: After its convergence adventure, Zee is cleaning up after its sports quest too. To pay off the dues of Zee and Essel Propack, Subhash Chandra...
NEW DELHI: A team from the United States’ regulatory body, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), held discussions at the information and broadcasting ministry on 24 July, mostly...
NEW YORK : Teenagers and young adults in the US spend more time on the Internet than watching television. This denotes a shift in media consumption...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad got off comparatively lightly in the Lok Sabha today when the Opposition’s bid to corner the government...
MUMBAI: UEFA chief executive, Gerhard Aigner, has welcomed the decision of the European Commission to approve a formal ‘exemption’ granting UEFA the right to maintain its...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s special audience channel, DD Bharati, is participating in an international children’s environmental project, in partnership with Japan’s broadcasting corporation, NHK and five other...
NEW DELHI:The ministry of information & broadcasting will take steps to evolve Model Cinema Regulations, which could be adopted by the States. A delegation of the...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The so-called swadeshi lobby is getting active and aggressive too. Having successfully made the Star News case as a swadeshi vs. videshi...
MUMBAI: MTV Roadies are in town. The hunt for seven lucky bikers is in its last lap. After completing the audition rounds in Pune, Bangalore, Chandigarh...
NEW DELHI: Hugo Boss, the international fashion and lifestyle company, has appointed Starcom India as its full media services agency. The account will be serviced by...
NEW DELHI: Confluence Communication has been appointed by G. K. Dairy & Milk Products, the makers of Gopaljee brand of packaged milk, ghee, paneer, and other...
He is a man who is passionate about movies, music and cricket and is lucky enough to be handling all three. Sony Max senior VP and...
NEW DELHI: The promoters of Essel Group have placed 12,375,000 shares (three per cent of the equity share capital) of Zee Telefilms Limited (Zee) out of...
NEW DELHI: BBC World will showcase the famous quiz show University Challenge in search of the best talent from the country’s top universities and colleges. If...
MUMBAI: Media giant Viacom reported a 10 per cent increase in second quarter revenues to a record $6.42 billion, up from $5.85 billion for the same...
MUMBAI: Padmalaya Telefilms has posted a net profit of Rs 50.72 million (up 14.67 per cent) for the quarter ended 30 June 2003 as compared to...
MUMBAI: Looks like Sahara Manoranjan has big plans in the run up to Independence Day. The channel has a bunch of new launches lined up for...
MUMBAI: indiantelevision.com and The Indian Telly Awards founder Anil Wanvari has been unanimously elected by a majority vote as an Associate of the International Academy of...
MUMBAI: Aparna Sen’s award winning Mr and Mrs Iyer on Star Movies pitted against Erin Brokovich on HBO walked away with the TRP honours last week....
MUMBAI: The numbers for Hinduja TMT are in. Total income and net profit for the quarter have travelled north by 42 per cent and 21 per...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government, while giving a two-week extension to Star News for uplinking, indicated today that it may take slightly over a month before...
NEW DELHI: Sagar Enterprises, Prannoy Roy’s NDTV, Nimbus Communications, along with the likes of Creative Eye, Multichannel, Sanjay Khan’s Numero Uno and Balaji Telefilms figure in...
NEW YORK: Admen in the US are actually performing their social responsibility duties by creating ads revolving around visually impaired people. A Chicago Tribune report points...
NEW DELHI: Swiss watchmaker Swatch group company Tissot has introduced TXL Moon Phase and Round Alarm in the Indian market. This new watch-line from...
NEW YORK: Most of the top “influentials” in the US are web junkies and prefer the Net to any other medium. Research agency RoperASW coined the...
Her gentle demeanour masks her grit, determination and risk taking abilities. Meet Prasar Bharati director marketing Vijaya Laxmi Chhabra. Originally from Orissa, Chhabra spent the formative...
NEW DELHI: A “substantial” part of the revenues of ESPN India, as too with other pay broadcasters, is likely to get affected in the post-conditional access...
TOKYO: AXN is steadily spreading its wings throughout Asia. Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) and Jupiter Programming (JPC) have announced that they have entered into an...
MUMBAI: This should be a good test of whether Indian broadcasters have the gumption to look beyond Sachin and Saurav. London’s RayMedia which has all TV...
NEW DELHI: The government is determined to keep Star News on tenterhooks as it did not take a decision on its uplinking even today. A senior...
NEW DELHI: A delegation of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the regulator for Internet, telecom and broadcasting in the US, will discuss with Indian government officials...
PARIS: Media conglomerate News Corp’s president and COO Peter Chernin will receive the 11th MIPCOM ‘Personality of the Year’ award at a gala dinner for industry...
PARIS: From today Playin’TV which claims to be the leading interactive games channel in the world, starts on TPS (channel 55/Bandiagara), France Télécom Câble (Channel 41)...