NEW DELHI: The government has issued guidelines for permitting 26 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in news and current affairs publications in a venture subject...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry today is understood to be pushing ahead for the issue of conditional access system (CAS) to be included in...
MUMBAI: After DD Jaipur, Doordarshan Mumbai has become the second Kendra in the country to have launched its own website. www.ddmumbai.com or www.sahyadritv.com was launched on...
Sports marketing major IMG today announced the appointment of Ravi Krishnan as the new managing director of IMG/TWI South Asia. Krishnan, an Australian of Indian origin,...
CONNECTICUT: ESPN has selected Los Angeles to host the next two X Games, the original and definitive multi-day action sports competition, starting with the ninth annual...
LONDON: BBC’s international news strengths are being promoted in a new joint global advertising campaign by BBC World, the BBC’s 24-hour international news and information television...
LOS ANGELES: Entertainment Tonight (ET), which claims to be the number one entertainment newsmagazine in the world, has received renewals for its weekly half-hour entertainment news...
NEW DELHI: Satish Jacob, who is the BBC Delhi deputy bureau chief and BBC News’ longest serving correspondent in India, has announced his retirement from the...
NEW DELHI: News channel Aaj Tak is going from strength to strength. Recently it won the award for Best News Channel at the Indian Telly Awards....
MUMBAI: Brilliant. As innovative promotional campaigns go, this will certainly take some beating. Last night saw the last act of a three city-tour of the country...
LOS ANGELES: The Reader’s Digest Association signed an agreement with the William Morris Agency to expand its brands into new entertainment distribution channels, including television, radio...
MUMBAI: When Subhash Chandra relieved Sandeep Goyal of the Zee Group broadcast CEO’s post, the question was what would marketing director Partha Pratim Sinha have in...
The National Geographic Channel is slowly but surely trying to carve a niche for itself by introducing different genres of programming. The latest initiative challenges the...
MUMBAI: BBC World and IN Mumbai, the news and events channel of Hinduja Group MSO INCableNet, today announced a content sharing agreement that allows for the...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to push through a proposal to have a headend in the sky, the Subhash Chandra-promoted ASC Enterprises Ltd., which amongst other...
NEW DELHI: India may soon realise its dream of being the second country in the world to have a legislation in place for the convergence era,...
NEW YORK: Innovative US network HBO is using the immense popularity of its crically acclaimed gangster series The Sopranos to raise funds for a worthy cause....
MUMBAI: CNBC India, in partnership with TVS, Nippon and Shriram Piston will organise a high – powered forum for the automobile industry. The CNBC Auto Evolution...
NEW DELHI: Continuing to be bullish on the Indian market, BBC World feels that the subcontinent still offers the channel great potential in terms of revenue...
KOUROU (French Guiana): Arianespace’s first increased-lift Ariane 5, that was to lift off for its inaugural flight with two satellites Thursday failed to take off from...
NEW DELHI: The first television telecast may have actually happened sometime early last century, but it is 21 November which is celebrated as World Television Day...
MUMBAI: IOL Broadband has decided to increase the authorised share capital of the company from Rs 500 million divided into 50 million equity shares of Rs...
MUMBAI: India cricket does not come onto ESPN Star Sports till next month’s tour of New Zealand, but before that the channels have a double dose...
MUMBAI: Star, Rupert Murdoch’s Asian pay TV platform, has declared a 27 per cent reduction in quarterly operating loss for the quarter 1 July to 30...
MUMBAI: When Subhash Chandra relieved Sandeep Goyal of the Zee Group broadcast CEO’s post, the question was what would marketing director Partha Pratim Sinha have in...
LONDON: BBC’s international news strengths are being promoted in a new joint global advertising campaign by BBC World, the BBC’s 24-hour international news and information television...
CALIFORNIA: Plantronics which claims to be the world leader in lightweight communications headsets and the exclusive headset partner for MGM Pictures and Eon Productions’ new James...
MUMBAI: After touring five cities in round one, MAX’s Gully Cricket will be in Mumbai for the second round on 30 November with brand ambassador Kapil...
MUMBAI:Car owners may not turn out to be the largest audience segment for radio in the country, but they are the ones that advertisers are most...
MUMBAI: Yesterday’s fuddy-duddy channel is now hip and happening. Hindi movie channel Star Gold, which donned a new look and attitude on 1 November, appears to...
MUMBAI: US cable pioneer John Malone’s Liberty Media said yesterday it has terminated its agreement to buy Dutch cable TV operator NV Casema from France Telecom...
MUMBAI: Latest Hindi films seem to have become the way to the audience hearts for all mainstream channels. After Zee and Sony, it is the turn...
NEW DELHI: Amongst all the news channels, Doordarshan is way ahead of others even if all TV homes and cable and satellite homes are taken into...
NEW DELHI: Paul Anderson is to be the new Islamabad Correspondent for BBC News. Anderson, currently a reporter on BBC World TV, is one of the...
MUMBAI: The telecast of the Indian Telly Awards 2002, organised by indiantelevision.com was as big a success as the ground event had been on 1 November....
ATLANTA (Georgia): Scientific-Atlanta announced yesterday it had expanded its data strategy with the acquisition of software, technology and other assets of ChanneLogics Inc., a software developer...
MUMBAI: Diwan Arun Nanda, chairman and MD of Rediffusion DY&R brand communications and co-chairman Dentsu Young & Rubicam/Wunderman, Asia-Pacific, has been appointed to the global leadership...
MUMBAI: It’s an incentive that could well help upgrade the quality of programmes on Doordarshan, not to mention encourage talent that usually goes unnoticed in the...
MUMBAI: For both Sony Entertainment Television (SET) and Zee TV, movies appear to be the safest bet to make some impact on the ratings listings overwhelmingly...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has extended by a year an agreement to telecast all football matches held under the aegis of the All India Football Federation...
NEW DELHI: Even as the fight for the non-fiction genre of programming hots up in India, Discovery India, quoting TAM figures, says it has a viewership...
MUMBAI: The annual Doordarshan awards for 2002 are to be given away at the Goregaon Sports Complex, Mumbai on 23 November. Aimed at selecting and promoting...
NEW DELHI: The much-awaited Cable Networks (Regulations) Amendment Bill 2002, which aims at facilitating addressability in Indian cable homes through conditional access system (CAS), has not...
MUMBAI: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has identified 53 Foreign Satellite Channels for relay distribution through cable TV network operations in Pakistan. These channels...
MUMBAI: The much delayed Maharashtra chapter of the Playwin saga is about to unfold finally on 2 December. Slated to begin earlier this quarter, after the...
PUNE: It may not figure in the top recall music channels bracket, but CMM is trying to revamp its image. The music channel is following in...
FRANCE: Both satellites for Ariane 5’s first mission in the 10-ton payload lift version are undergoing final preparations for the 28 November launch date. The decision...
MUMBAI: “Last year was a disaster,” admits InHouse Productions CEO Uday Sinhwala. The production house, once known for its commitment to the studio show format, lost...
MUMBAI: It may not be music to the ears of Kavi Pradeep’s descendants, but the Mumbai High Court has upheld Creative Eye’s rights to use the...
MUMBAI: In an effort to add a different dimension to mobile marketing for its client Lee, Maxus Interaction, the digital media arm of Maxus, is conducting...