French group Lagardere is planning to launch a 24-hour interactive computer and video game channel, Game One from mid-December over Asia. The channel, which will be...
NEW DELHI: Taking a leaf out of private satellite broadcasters’ strategy book, India’s Prasar Bharati is contemplating hiring the services of a top notch advertising professional...
NEW DELHI: Some members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT and Telecom, which recently submitted its report on the Communication Convergence Bill 2001, have expressed...
MUMBAI: The addition of English movie channel HBO to the Sony Entertainment bouquet has led to some corporate restructuring within SET. Rohit Gupta, executive V-P sales...
MUMBAI: Teachers of English as a foreign language around the world will have a new online resource from 5 December. The result of a joint initiative...
MUMBAI: Joshua Chan is a man with a mission. The business & Asean marketing manager – entertainment imaging of Kodak Singapore is keen to bring digital...
India would take about 10 years to catch up with China as a market, but the political and social vibrancy of the country and the zeal...
Technical Director of the Asia Pacific Broadcast Union, Om Khushu has 40 years of experience in broadcasting. At Doordarshan he rose to become engineer-in-chief. During his...
MUMBAI: We’ve heard of advertising in between programmes on television. Now fathom this… advertisements in VCDs and DVDs, and legally at that. It was two months...
NEW DELHI: After an exciting spell of selling sports and movies, Sanjay Reddy left Sony Entertainment TV India to join Rajat Sharma’s company to sell and...
Anjan Shrivastava is your ordinary neighbourhood Joe. With a difference. The man has fought against the odds and made a mark for himself in the theatre...
NEW DELHI: India will have to wait for at least six months before having a legislation to regulate and govern the convergence space encompassing the sectors...
MUMBAI: Erring on the side of abundant caution? Maybe, maybe not. Sony Entertainment’s One Alliance Network, which has just added premium movie channel HBO to its...
NEW DELHI: There is a big gap between running expenses of India’s pubcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio and the revenue being generated by the organisation,...
MUMBAI: You can’t fault Coudert Brothers partner Edward S Labowitz for spending time in Asia these days. Based in Los Angeles, he chairs the firm’s Entertainment...
The Standing Committee on telecom and IT, which submitted its report a few days ago to Parliament, has highlighted the fact some people who had deposed...
NEW DELHI: It may sound contradictory, but the government has admitted in Parliament that “market forces” guide the subscription fee of pay channels and at present...
MUMBAI: When the going gets tough, the tough get going. That’s an oft-quoted adage. And it’s most relevant to the once-ruler of Indian TV land –...
Very few writers begin their foray into TV writing with a soap as popular as Kkusum. Bharavi Shah, who does the screenplay of Sony’s flagship soap...
MUMBAI: Universal Communications has entered into an alliance with Onyx Webtech for exclusive promotions of their clients on the Internet. The web needs of all the...
MUMBAI: The launch of Arianespace’s first increased-lift Ariane 5 has been given the “green light” following the successful readiness review conducted at the Spaceport. The upgraded...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Despite her comments to the contrary, consensus continues to elude I&B minister Sushma Swaraj on the passage of the Cable TV Regulation...
MUMBAI: When premium movie channel HBO launched in India two years ago, it had set itself a goal of breaking even within three to five years....
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Cable TV Regulation Amendment Bill 2002 was again listed in the agenda of Rajya Sabha (the Upper House of the Indian...
CALIFORNIA: Sony Pictures Entertainment has formed the Digital Policy Group, a new corporate level organisation designed to address the challenges and opportunities arising with the digital...
NEW DELHI: It is not just television channels that are planning to use music to spread the message about the mesage of the menace of aids....
The Indian leg of the Hong Kong AXN Challenge organised by the Hong Kong Tourism Board and AXN took place on Saturday in South Mumbai. Senior...
Think of Mukesh Khanna and the image of ‘Shaktimaan‘ springs to mind. Or is it ‘Bheeshma Pitamaha‘. He is one of those rare actors who lives...
WASHINGTON: Intelsat has announced the acquisition of Intelsat Global Service Corporation and its affiliates of the World Systems business unit of Lockheed Martin. “The closing of...
HONG KONG: News Corp technology arm NDS today announced the opening of its set-top box (STB) testing and integration laboratory in Seoul, South Korea. The lab...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry managed to cross one big hurdle today. Get the Cable TV Network (Amendment) Bill 2002, which aims at facilitating...
NEW DELHI: India will have to wait for at least six months before having a legislation to regulate and govern the convergence space encompassing the sectors...
MUMBAI: For the first time ever, Doordarshan has agreed to telecast one of music channel MTV’s concerts, in a prime time 90-minute weekend slot on DD...
MUMBAI:Although the rights to the World Cup have been bagged by MAX, ESPN and Star Sports are hoping to cash in on cricket fever with a...
Young Turks. The third in indiantelevision.com’s series profiling the brightest and the best among the youth brigade in the Indian television industry, focuses this time on...
A alumnus from the National School of Drama, B M Vyas has experience of more than 15 years writing for film and TV. Also associated with...
MUMBAI:Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Limited (SABTNL) will start work on its second feature film in January next year. The movie which is yet to be...
NEW DELHI: Outstanding dues owed to Doordarshan by private parties have increased to a whopping Rs 1648.2 million as of 31 October 2002. As regards All...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Give this to SET India CEO Kunal Dasgupta – he does not lack for dogged determination. Today Dasgupta pulled another rabbit out...
MUMBAI: Lily Patel the veteran Gujarati stage actress, popular as Dadima of Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii has replaced Dina Pathak as Badima in Khichdi. Dina Pathak,...
MUMBAI: Some of Cartoon Network’s best and brightest toon stars danced like the night would never set in at the Toon Yatra in Mumbai on Sunday....
MUMBAI: Jalandhar Kendra walked away with the best Doordarshan Kendra award at the second edition of the DD Awards held at the Goregaon Sports Club in...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has done it. The Cable TV Network (Amendment) Bill 2002, which aims at facilitating addressability in Indian cable homes...
MUMBAI: News channel CNN has announced that one of the major programme highlights for December will be a live interview with Jimmy Carter. Carter is the...
MUMBAI: Wham! Bam! Choke slam! After six years the World Wrestling Entertainment came back to the city and boy did they get a reception. The fans...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the BBC, has been recognised for its Outstanding Export Achievement in the Trade Partners UK-backed International Business Awards....
MUMBAI: Percept Advertising has launched a new division – Percept Customer Lifecycle Management (PCLM). Harsh Vardhan will be heading PCLM, which will have customer relationship management...
Jonathan Howlett, global director of airtime sales of BBC World, is no stranger to India. He has come to the sub-continent often and is a keen...
MUMBAI: The master of quiz, Siddharth Basu is slated to return to Doordarshan with a unique game show shortly. Basu, who made quizzing popular in India...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: It can only be termed a calculated gamble. ESPN Star Sports today announced a 33 per cent hike in its monthly package...