MUMBAI: Punit Pandey, head of ad sales at Radio Mirchi, Mumbai has put in his papers. Pandey, who has been in the industry for over 14...
MUMBAI: MTV, Nickelodeon, Pepsi and MAX have announced the Pepsi Badaa Shikari Hunt which gives six kids the chance to lead the Indian team onto the...
MUMBAI: Heena, one of the longest running soaps on Sony, has just completed four years on air. The serial produced by Rakhee Tandon, is a story...
MUMBAI: CricketNext.com, the Walchand Capital Group driven Internet portal has bagged the rights for the mega ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa commencing 8 February....
NEW DELHI: About 1000 radio stations are likely to be set up this year in the country by the educational institutions like the Universities, IITs, IIMs...
MUMBAI: Star and Zee have both decided to strengthen their weekend programming lineup on their respective English entertainment chanels with some wrestling action. Star World will...
MUMBAI: The Xavier Institute of Communications (XIC) will confer the second Fr Parmananda Divakar Memorial Communication for Peace Award on Mumbai-based activist, environmentalist, journalist and filmmaker...
Professional marketing in the business of entertainment is the need of the hour! That was the core theme at the Ad Club’s one-day seminar on ‘value...
MUMBAI: With its advertiser base declining steadily, public broadcaster Doordarshan has dropped its ‘unwritten’ clause requiring software producers to buy additional spot buys. While this has...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj today asserted that the rollout of conditional access in the first phase should be done by 14...
MUMBAI: The great Indian soap just got a whole lot bigger. Sony Entertainment Television announced the launch today of a “mega family entertainer” Kahani Terri Merri,...
MUMBAI: In a meeting with all the major Multi System Operators (MSOs) and independent cable operators today, information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj has set a...
MUMBAI: In a bid to liberalise its broadcasting policy, the Pakistani government is not only allowing the formation of private radio and television stations, but may...
MUMBAI: The much hyped and talked about sitcom which marks former cine star Sridevi’s debut in a television series, will go on the floors in the...
NEW YORK: CNN News,a division of Turner Broadcasting System will have a new chief executive officer in the next four months. Current chief executive officer Walter...
MUMBAI: While speaking at the Advertising Club Bombay’s Value Creation seminar on marketing entertainment and their growing inter-dependence, Star India COO Sameer Nair stated that successful...
MUMBAI: While speaking at the Advertising Club Bombay’s Value Creation seminar on marketing entertainment and their growing inter-dependence, Banyan Tree Communications CMD Anish Trivedi reiterated that...
MUMBAI: While speaking at the Advertising Club Bombay’s Value Creation seminar on marketing entertainment and their growing inter-dependence, creative consultant Rekha Nigam urged that advertising agencies...
MUMBAI: The Advertising Club Bombay’s Value Creation seminar on marketing entertainment and their growing inter-dependence gave glimpses of the future of film production in India and...
When you lose in television news you lose big time! TV news, 24/7, is a huge, hungry, unforgiving animal that will swallow up every paisa you...
The new technologies are accelerating a shift of power away from traditional voices of authority in journalism and politics. However, new media designers predict that the...
Music television channels and Radio FM will need to face the ‘music’ resulting from the salvo that has been fired by the Indian Music Industry (IMI)....
MUMBAI: ETC Networks has reported a profit after tax of Rs 123.6 million (up 663 per cent) for the nine months ended 31 December 2002 as...
MUMBAI: Sony may have managed a programming coup of sorts on the last day of 2002 by slotting Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (K3G) at prime time,...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Sony Entertainment Television India reacted with outrage today to an announcement by Harish Thawani’s Nimbus Communications that national broadcaster Doordarshan (DD) has...
NEW DELHI: As a part of an amicable settlement, the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms is likely to offer Prasar Bharati some serials in lieu of Budha...
Swedish company Volvo Aero has acknowledged that an engine nozzle it supplied for Ariane-5 might have been the cause of the European satellite launcher’s failed maiden...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s Digital Curriculum, a new public service, will provide interactive learning materials via the internet to support the school curriculum. The BBC will now...
MUMBAI: Media focus in the run-up to the ICC Cricket World Cup has been on ambush marketing. Maybe “ambush programming” also needs to be considered. That...
BBC World in the year 2002 successfully completed the ongoing process of digitalisation of the channel in South Asia, which began in October 2001 with the...
*Religious channels don the mantle of commercialisation *Target audience profile changed to include the younger ones *Attempt to woo advertisers with the “value for money” promise...
*NDTV, Star announce decision to part ways from April 2003 *TV news viewership more than doubles in two years *NDTV, Aaj Tak announce Hindi, English channels...
If I look back on the year 2002 I don’t see anything major having happened. From the policy point of view I would like to point...
BBC World in the year 2002 successfully completed the ongoing process of digitalisation of the channel in South Asia, which began in October 2001 with the...
COLORADO: EchoStar Communications Corporation has announced that it has acquired exclusive television, radio and internet distribution rights for the International Cricket Council (ICC) 2003 Cricket World...
MUMBAI: While other mainstream Hindi channels have often been accused of dishing out fare that has a sameness about it, SABe TV has managed to carve...
MUMBAI: It was “womens’ day out” as the second edition of indiantelevision.com’s scriptwriters workshop Qalam – that provides an ideal platform for the convergence of the...
NEW DELHI: Ethnic media is an important and credible medium for communication between India and its diaspora on one hand, and the Indian public and foreign...
NEW DELHI: The Manufacturers Association of IT (MAIT) has revised its growth projections revised from the earlier 15per cent to 20 per cent and the sales...
COLORADO: EchoStar Communications Corporation has announced that it has acquired exclusive television, radio and internet distribution rights for the International Cricket Council (ICC) 2003 Cricket World...
NEW DELHI: With Star, Sahara, Zee and Aaj Tak announcing the launch of additional news channels, public broadcaster Doordarshan seems to have taken an initiative to...
LAS VEGAS: A “single, seamless platform across AV, PC and mobile devices, with TV at the centre” is at the core of Sony’s global strategy to...
MUMBAI: The fears about the a second-string Indian team representing India at the World Cup have been laid to rest. All the 15 members of the...
Qalam, a three day television scriptwriter’s workshop conducted at Time & Again Banquets in Mumbai’s Lokhandwala Complex in Andheri ran to a packed house on the...
BEIJING: Bloomberg Television has been awarded one of the two fresh licenses issued so far this year by the Chinese broadcast regulator, to distribute its English-language...
MUMBAI: Sony has appointed World Sport Nimbus (WSN) to handle production on Extraaa Innings – the two-hour pre-match and one-hour post-match programming that MAX has developed...
MUMBAI: The Mumbai horse racing season has come alive for the first time for Indian viewers courtesy Ten Sports. The event has been made possible due...
MUMBAI: Sahara Samay Mumbai, one of the Sahara news channels, claims that it is ready and raring to go. Sahara Samay Mumbai head Rajiv Bajaj says...
MUMBAI: The board of directors of Balaji Telefilms will meet on 30 January 2003 to consider and approve amongst the other items on the agenda, the...
*Gets Rs 1 billion for fresh programming *Successfully markets the India-Windies cricket series itself; seals ICC cricket terrestrial telecast deal *Puts in place strategies to augment...