LONDON: BBC World Service has announced the appointment of new regional heads for Africa, Eurasia, the Americas and Asia and Pacific region. The current head...
NEW DELHI: Where the Videocon group has failed till now, the financially beleaguered, but yet surviving Jain TV may just succeed. After a complete programming revamp,...
LONDON: Music has demonstrated its ability to cut across cultural barriers. Pan-Arab broadcasting group MBC is broadcasting its own version of the UK Top of the...
MUMBAI: At the stroke of midnight (give or take a few minutes) viewers settling down for some late night movie action across Mumbai and Thane were...
MUMBAI: They may not have the rights to the live telecast of the most important event in cinema The 75th Annual Academy Awards but that is...
BERMUDA: Intelsat a global satellite communications leader providing services in over 200 countries and territories has reported results for the fourth quarter and full-year ended 31...
It may not have the best of reasons to be complacent, but RED, the FM offering from the India Today stable, is gung ho about its...
He’s a recent entrant to the world of hysteria ridden Fridays , public adulation and screen glamour. Purab Kohli’ s venture into Bollywood with Bas Yun...
MUMBAI: The stage is set for Kalanithi Maran’s Sun Network to launch its Tamil FM radio station Suryan. Suryan will launch simultaneously in two cities in...
NEW DELHI: If the availability of set-top boxes (STBs) is one of the speed breakers to a smooth passage of implementation of conditional access system in...
NEW DELHI: With the latest buzz in the information and broadcasting ministry being self-regulation, it seems that former I&B minister Sushma Swaraj’s grand plans to have...
Hong Kong: Intelsat and Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) have struct an agreement to provide a new pay-television service for Hong Kong. Through the agreement, Intelsat will...
PARIS: Satellite operator Eutelsat, which claims to be the main capacity provider for TV and radio broadcasting in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, has...
MUMBAI: After the cricket World Cup what? That’s been the question regarding MAX. Well the broadcaster has chosen one of the biggest names in the music...
MUMBAI: The final session of the SCaT workshop on Wednesday had an optimistic note to it. The session was presided over by IndusInd Media and Communications...
NEW DELHI: News is now filtering out as to why the proposed news channel backed by the Videocon group of India still remains off air and...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports has appointed Charles Less as vice president, advertising sales for Southeast Asia. Leading the sales team of Justin Sampson, Dennis Lim and...
VIRGINIA: This is news that will cement the strong synergy that exists between the theme park and television characters. Paramount’s Kings Dominion in the US has...
MUMBAI: Greek legend has it that diamonds are splinters of stars that have fallen to earth. But, the truth is that even diamonds need a 360-degree...
MUMBAI: The Indian advertising industry has lost another stalwart with the demise of advertising guru Larry Grant. Grant, CEO of the Pune-based Larry Grant Communications, had...
MUMBAI: Post CAS, the cable trade will don the new mantle of building infrastructure for the convergence era. This is how MSOs and other experts are...
MUMBAI: What’s happening? A World Cup under way and none of the usual reports of rogue cable ops resorting to piracy and raids conducted to get...
MUMBAI: The All India Council for Technical Education has launched GD-3 an education channel, exclusively for technical education. The AICTE, has in a notice in...
MUMBAI: Zee Group cable arm Siticable is planning to unveil its HITS (headend in the sky) model in April. Zee also plans to leverage some kind...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Opus Arte, the Anglo-Dutch multimedia company and a leading player in the classical...
MUMBAI: “Subscriber management doesnt have to be boring. But it needs to be the best”. At the ongoing ScaT workshop in Mumbai, a large gathering from...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: It’s action time. And one is not referring to a particular brand of shoes, but the stage that has been set for...
NEW DELHI: Subhash Chandra companies Zee Telefilms and ASC Enterprises (which is implementing the Agrani satellite project), are preparing to launch a KU-band direct-to-home television service...
PARIS: One of Eutelsat’s major clients, GlobeCast has announced the launch of its new proprietary digital DTH platform on the Eutelsat Hot Bird satellite via its...
SINGAPORE: Hot on the heels of a successful awards function for the Asian region, MTV has announced that Frank Brown will take over as the president...
CALIFORNIA: Philip I Kent, a veteran senior executive at Turner Broadcasting System who last served as President of the CNN News Group, has rejoined Turner as...
MUMBAI: What’s happening? A World Cup under way and none of the usual reports of rogue cable ops resorting to piracy and raids conducted to get...
There is a lot of talk within the CATV industry currently on Analogue and Digital and different perceptions floating around as to the advantages and disadvantages...
MUMBAI: Pandora’s box is finally open. The CAS bill, which has thrown up more questions than answers at least for the present, was the subject of...
NEW DELHI: The broadcasters seem to have been cornered for the moment even as the MSOs, cable operators and the government took a strident stand over...
2002 will certainly be different. That was what the competition were convinced would be the case at the start of the year. And why not? Kaun...
NEW DELHI: The meetings that the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) panel had separately today with some of the MSOs in Delhi over various issues relating to...
MUMBAI: Private FM players have finally forced staid broadcaster All India Radio Mumbai out of its ennui. The two channels run by AIR, FM Metro and...
MUMBAI: Making good on his threat to made last Saturday to get after the television trade, BJP member of parliament (MP) from north-east Mumbai Kirit Somaiya,...
Touchtel, which claims to be Delhis first private fixed line service provider, has introduced a special Voice Portal value added service, to mark what it terms...
NEW DELHI: The meeting between the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) and the MSOs is continuing here on various issues relating to CAS and no concrete decision...
LONDON: BBC Showcase, the world’s largest television programme market hosted by a single broadcaster, will play host to more than 460 of the world’s top TV...
CALIFORNIA: Nickelodeon will once again give kids the chance to vote for their favourite movie and music stars when its 16th Annual Kids Choice Awards is held...
CALIFORNIA: Warner Bros. International Television Distribution has anounced a series of executive appointments. Ronald W Miele has been promoted to executive vice president, business affairs, operations...
MUMBAI: A series of invigorating promotional and marketing initiatives coupled with a localisation drive last year have paid action oriented channel AXN rich dividends. In...
MUMBAI: For all those who have fears about the Indian team getting the World Cup home, just logon to the mtvindia.com website to get their fears...
NEW DELHI: A new controversy threatens to rock the ongoing World Cup, the Indian cricket team especially, with the ICC (International Cricket Council) issuing notices to...
WASHINGTON, DC: Intelsat announced today that the Intelsat 907 satellite was successfully launched aboard an Ariane 44L vehicle at 2:00 EST . The satellite is expected...
MUMBAI: BJP member of parliament (MP) Kirit Somaiya is gunning for the television trade. Somaiya today announced that he is going to file a criminal, cognizable,...
MUMBAI: BJP member of parliament (MP) Kirit Somaiya is sending out a message that he means business. Apart from announcing on 15 February that he would...