MUMBAI: Fair & Lovely Career Baatein, a program on careers aimed at empowering young people, especially women, towards economic self-sustainability is being launched on national broadcaster...
BERLIN: Intelsat yesterday launched its broadband service that provides direct Internet access via satellite up to 10 times faster than dial-up in Europe. The broadband service...
MUMBAI: Fresh off a World Wrestling Entertainment event in India after a gap of six years which met with an excellent response, Ten Sports, which commenced...
MUMBAI: Meeting of Minds, the show hosted by Vir Sanghvi on SABe TV has been replaced with his new chat show Faces & Names, as of...
MUMBAI: The Indian Parliament took a small progressive step forward with the Lok Sabha (Lower House) approving the ‘Freedom of Information’ Bill yesterday. The Bill, first...
SINGAPORE: Impressive! Thats all one can say about the remarks of Singapores Singapore’s acting minister for the ministry of information, communications and the arts David Lim...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan today took a pot shot at the TV rating points saying “manipulations” are common, even while maintaining that efforts should still be on...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan is confident that it will reach its revenue target of about Rs 6,250 million by the time the current financial year comes...
MUMBAI: Satellite service provider Eutelsat has successfully launched its W5 satellite and it is being positioned at 70.5 degrees East, an orbital position that allows Eutelsat...
SINGAPORE: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has released the latest figures and forecasts for Asia Pacific’s pay-TV industry. The figures can be...
In a continuation of its press-the-panic-button-react-in-a-kneejerk manner Zee TV has given veteran actor Anupam Kher marching orders from its game show Sawal Dus Crore Ka. The management...
Zee Telefilms has responded to the charge that it has asked Sawal Dus Crore Ka co-anchor Anupam Kher to go as part of its revamp. According to a...
MUMBAI: In what could be turn out to be a masterstroke in public perception management, the Star Network is likely to reduce its network rate price...
MUMBAI:Star News India has won the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) Award conferred jointly by UNICEF and International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (IATA...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television, which walked away with the Best TV Channel Packaging trophy in the Trade and Technical Categories at the Bajaj Boxer Indian Telly...
SINGAPORE: Intelligent Enterprise Asia conferred the 3rd Annual Intelligent20 Awards to the region’s top 20 enterprises that use infocom-related technologies to drive new levels of operational...
MUMBAI: Indian television viewers definitely have a penchant for fortune telling sessions! Billed as the complete show on astrology, etc’s Kahani Kismat Ki is completing a...
MUMBAI: Faruq Masudi, writer and director of successful Hindi soaps like Dastan, Chattan and Kasak, is now reportedly planning a series based on Quranic verses in...
LONDON: Associated Press Television News (APTN) Library will begin archiving Sports News Television (SNTV) programming from January 2003. APTN will be archiving SNTV’s daily output of...
NEW DELHI: French Fashion TV has run into rough weather with the Indian authorities again. This time it has been denied membership to the Indian Broadcasting...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television, which walked away with the Best TV Channel Packaging trophy in the Trade and Technical Categories at the Bajaj Boxer Indian Telly...
MUMBAI: Multi-system operators (MSOs) have been working overtime (or should we say overnight) as the 10-day grace period given to Mumbai’s cable operators (by the I&B...
CALIFORNIA : Sony Pictures Digital and AT&T Wireless have announced that content from the library of Sony Pictures Entertainment is now available to AT&T Wireless mMode...
MUMBAI: Viva is going full steam ahead, the loss of one member notwithstanding. The music channel from the Star stable Channel (V) has announced that it...
NEW DELHI: The Upper House of Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) has not been able to take up the issue of conditional access system today as of...
LOS ANGELES: CBS has won the November sweep in viewers and households, according to Nielsen ratings through Wednesday night’s preliminary affiliate based ratings. The victory was...
PARIS: Eutelsat, one of the worlds leading satellite operators has brought new capacity into service for broadband Internet access and direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television broadcasting in...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj told Parliament that it was not possible to indicate as to when KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) service will...
SINGAPORE: The venue for SuperPitch 2002 is Singapore’s Shangri-La Rasa Sentosa Resort on the picturesque Sentose island. It’s late in the afternoon and six different producers...
The acquisition of a 20 per cent equity stake in top notch production house Balaji Telefilms is just the first of many partnerships that the Kerry...
MUMBAI: Shaw Wallace has launched a new campaign for its flagship whisky brand Royal Challenge, titled What’s life without Royal Challenge. The new communication seeks to...
Despite consistent lobbying by a clutch of broadcasters right from Zee TV to Star TV to Prasar Bharati chief RR Shah, the government is not going...
MUMBAI: And then there were three. After Sikkim and Karnataka, Subhash Chandra’s online lottery venture added Maharashtra to its portfolio with the launch last night of...
It was an ominous email sent out to staffers by CNN News group chairman Tom Johnson and president Phil Kent: expect aggressive changes in the news...
LONDON:The Situation Room, a reality drama on BBC based on a hypothetical scenario involving India and Pakistan, has grabbed media attention with its conclusion which shows...
MUMBAI: Pubcaster Prasar Bharati has invited tenders from firms and manufacturers for vital installations like TV studios, radio studios and transmitter for the supply, installation, testing...
MUMBAI: Om Namah Shivay , a mythological series that had a two year-run on national broadcaster Doordarshan’s main DD1 channel, is taking a bow on Sony...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms is certainly not letting any grass grow under its feet following the defection of movie channel HBO from...
Doesn’t it seem a lot like deja vu? The Convergence Bill may finally not make its way to Parliament in the Winter session which is on...
MUMBAI: A spectacular new office reflecting Leo Burnett India’s vision. Modern, bigger than what it is today and ready to face the challenges of the future....
The faceoff between ESPN-Star Sports and Mumbai’s cable TV trade continues as cable operators are adamant that they will continue to hold their ground and are...
Star TV India is on the prowl for a dot com chief. The company is scouting around for an individual who will steer its forway in...
The ad industry seems to have no qualms about the recent budget. Industry professionals believe that the recent excise hike that the budget imposed on several...
The Rathikant Basu promoted Broadcast India has planned to launch four encrypted regional channels–Bangla, Punjabi, Gujarati and Marathi. The channels are expected to be on air...
The 40 year old Kermit Channel which entered India in 1999 has drawn up strategies for the year 2000. The Jim Henson Company’s and Hallmark Entertainment...
Infosys tecnologies was voted the most admired company according to a survey conducted by The Economic Times. Infosys beat heavyweights such as Hindustan Lever, Reliance Industries, Larsen...
DD is all set to launch its new 24-hour Tamil channel, Podhigai, on January 15. The channel will be an addition to the already existing private...
NEW YORK: Sony Music and Pepsi Cola have unveiled plans for a multifaceted, global marketing campaign that will span the worlds of radio, television and retail....
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network is all set to inject fun ‘n’ frolic into the lives of kids who go wild at Dexter’s crazy antics in the laboratory...
MUMBAI: MagIndia, a division of Mudra Communications has launched a paid marketing and advertising reference service (MARS). MARS will deliver breaking advertising and marketing news for...