NEW DELHI: Triton, the Rs 1.6 billion agency, is debating the launch of a separate media independent. Speaking to indiantelevision.com recently, Triton executive director Vivek Srivastava...
NEW YORK: Internet advertising is expected to touch the $8 billion mark annually by 2006, according to a study conducted by eMarketer. The study also claims...
MUMBAI: The Zee Telefilms board of directors will meet on 29 July to record the financial results of the company for the quarter ended 30 June...
CONNECTICUT: Panamsat, which claims to be one of the world’s top three satellite operators managing a global fleet of 30 satellites, has reported its financial results...
LONDON: The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has announced it has concluded further television rights sales for the UEFA Champions League, carried out by UEFA’s...
NEW YORK: Sky Networks MD Dawn Airey and Paramount International Television president Gary Marenzi will serve as dinner co-chairs for 31st International Emmy Awards Gala. The...
NEW DELHI: The second general conference of Asia-Pacific Institute of Broadcasting Development (AIBD) would be held in New Delhi from 22 to 25 July 2003. India’s...
LOS ANGELES: The darkly amusing drama Six Feet Under and its parent network HBO, dominated television’s Emmy Award nominations. The 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will...
NEW DELHI: Political uncertainty over conditional access systems (CAS) notwithstanding, the government today made the right noises and, reportedly, conveyed to broadcasters and multi-system operators (MSOs)...
MUMBAI: Top DD (Doordarshan) producers who say they have committed software worth millions of rupees to DD-2 (Metro) are feeling cheated by the uncertainty that presently...
MUMBAI: Star Movies may lay claim to being India’s number one movie channel but if one looks at the 2003 Asia Pay Television Operators’ Survey, then...
NEW YORK: The 24th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Award nominees have been announced. The award ceremony takes place on 3 September at the Marriott Marquis...
MEXICO CITY : Walter Rodriguez has been named Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI’s) regional director advertising sales in Mexico City. According to a press...
MUMBAI: The tag line from Reid & Taylor – ‘Bond with the Best’ has a new face. S Kumars, the makers of luxury clothes Reid and...
NEW DELHI: Integrated Communication is a key to experiential marketing, says marketing guru and professor Dr. Bernd Schmitt. Defining experiential marketing as a tool for the...
Smart, young and handsome. One look at Ravindra Gautam and you wonder why he didn't want to have a tryst with acting. But then, you can't...
NEW DELHI: Considering that cable television is the cheapest form of entertainment in India, a Morgan Stanley (MS) research on conditional access system (CAS) estimates that...
LONDON: The consolidated revenues for fixed satellite services (FSS) companies in 2002 has actually dropped, says Euroconsult’s latest analysis. In the 10th edition of its World...
MUMBAI: MAX, the premium movies and events channel, has notched up an average Television Rating (TVR) of 5.2 for its blockbuster offering, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...
LONDON: Hughes Network Systems (HNS), has reported an 8.1 per cent increase in the overall 2003 second quarter revenues amounting to $2.37 billion, compared to $2.192...
MUMBAI: After a nearly six-month delay, the Miditech produced Saara Akash finally goes on air on Star Plus on 8 August. The weekly, that will replace...
MUMBAI: Time Warner has announced that its corporate responsibility VP is Lisa Quiroz. In the newly created position, Quiroz will be responsible for overseeing all of...
Any time you meet her, Vandana Malik exudes infectious enthusiasm, a trait that marks most of the software her company, Television 18, creates for entertainment television...
NEW YORK: Discovery channel has launched a promo campaign around the new tagline “Entertain Your Brain”. The tagline seeks to remind viewers that they can have...
MUMBAI: Maharashtra state food and drugs administration minister Anil Deshmukh has emphasised the need for a censor board for screening advertisements. He stated that the government...
A silent revolution is taking place in the world of cinema while the television industry has tied itself up in knots over conditional access system (CAS).When...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms has clarified with the National Stock Exchange that media reports claiming that the company’s promoter group had placed a part of its stake...
NEW DELHI: CRISIL, India’s leading rating agency has awarded P1+ rating to TV Today Network Limited (TVTN) for Rs 150 million Commercial Paper programme. This is...
NEW DELHI: Current uncertainty over conditional access system notwithstanding, all stakeholders of the game, barring the local cable operators (LCOs), will financially benefit (details later in...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The ongoing conditional access soap opera ended another day on an inconclusive note. Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had an...
CALIFORNIA: The Chinese government has granted final approval for Paradise Warner Cinema City. This is Warner Bros International Cinemas’ multiplex theatre in Shanghai, a joint venture...
MUMBAI: The Living Media group owned RED FM is the official radio partner for Lakme India Fashion Week with Liberty (LIFWL). All other radio stations will...
MUMBAI: All Television channels – except Sony Entertainment Television – will be bound by restrictions during the fourth edition of Lakme India Fashion Week with Liberty...
MUMBAI: Creative Eye’s mythological series Om Namah Shivay, which is currently running on the Sony afternoon band after a two year-run on national broadcaster Doordarshan’s DD1,...
HYDERABAD: Conditional Access Systems (CAS) company, Eastern Electronics from Taiwan and the Hyderabad-based customer management and billing solutions provider MagnaQuest Solutions have announced a strategic partnership...
BERMUDA: Intelsat, the global satellite communications leader, has announced that it has signed a $ one billion definitive asset purchase agreement with Loral Space & Communications...
NEW DELHI: Playing it safe, Media Content & Communication Services India Pvt. Ltd, which has applied for a licence to uplink content for Star News, has...
NEW DELHI: Setting at rest speculations and playing safe, Media Content & Communications Services India Pvt. Ltd, which has applied for a licence to uplink content...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has sent off another set of queries to Media Content & Communication Services India Pvt. Ltd (MCCS), which has...
MUMBAI: NumTV.com, one of the largest 24-hour live online multilingual entertainment portal for international Asians, has offered EAS (Easy Access System) to Indian broadcasters who are...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide’s review for the financial year 2002/03 reveals a record cash flow return to the BBC of ?123 million for investment in programming and...
NEW YORK: For those selling DirecTV and have customers begging for a digital video recorder in their home theatres, there’s a contest that could win some...
NEW YORK: FMCG major Procter & Gamble (P&G) is banking on a cartoon character named “Droppy” to promote its dishwashing liquid Joy in the US. The...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan’s sports channel, DD Sports, has managed to break out of the Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) grip, which was contracted to distribute it,...
NEW YORK: Northstar Media, a new and strategically diverse New York-based television programme distribution company, has positioned itself to serve as a comprehensive source of programming...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The clock is ticking for the latest uplinking extension given to Star India for its news channel and it runs out Wednesday...
MUMBAI: Here is good news for the discerning music listener in Mumbai fed up of the non-stop Hindi pop being dished out on FM radio stations....
MUMBAI: CNN is looking eastwards. It will be beefing up the Asian programme content with a new addition to the prime-time evening news program, Asia Now,...
MUMBAI: Looks like its spring time at the pubcaster. Doordarshan is sprucing up its content, and first step is to get in new shows. So joining...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has furnished statistics that show that the channel performs better than Zee TV on all day and prime time shares in...