The BBC has announced that Capita has been formally appointed to deliver field and call centre operations for TV Licensing for the BBC. An official release...
MUMBAI:LinkShare Corporation, which claims to be a worldwide leader in pay-for-performance affiliate marketing programmes, claims to have strengthened its market position by introducing LinkShare MediaTracker Technology....
Representatives of the entertainment industry, led by information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj, held their first ever pre-Budget meeting with finance minister Yashwant Sinha on 16...
The ongoing political stand-off between India and its neighbour has put paid to Sony Entertainment Television’s plans to launch in Pakistan for the foreseeable future. But...
Sony Entertainment Television Pictures, which had bought the overseas distribution rights of Lagaan, can look forward to a boost in earnings with the Oscar nominations announced...
Just 29, Kaushik Ghatak is already a veteran director on Indian television. A hundred episodes of Kyunkii Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, a few of Sanskriti...
The world is a communications village. And television is one of the media for facilitating that communication. Today it is no surprise to see the same...
Cartoon Network’s offline initiatives continue to be innovative. Last week, the channel threw a bash to celebrate the birthday of Natallia Khaniejo, the Mumbai nine year...
B4U is branching out into avenues less trodden. The company has developed an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that offers integrated software solutions to media companies. ...
It seems to be Sony’s turn to ride the crest of the Balaji wave. Kkusum and Kutumb, both family soaps from the Balaji stable have peaked...
News channels are girding their loins as they get ready to fight for viewership during the assembly elections in four states scheduled this month. While Sahara...
MUMBAI:Its Leo Burnett’s tool to fight recession. Leo Activation, the two-month-old division of the ad agency, has launched a slew of promotions, loyalty programmes, events, ground...
Indian television has not been able to boast of many gorgeous women. And when the few that are, disappear from the small screen, it invites curiosity....
The Ark Trust, an American non-profit animal protection organisation and presenter of the annual Genesis Awards, will salute the award-winning John S Hendricks, founder, chairman and...
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) today imposed special margins on 35 scrips, including three media shares. The media firms included in the list of companies on...
If anyone had doubts regarding the value of Zee TV’s alliance with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, these numbers might be worth taking note of (Zee MGM is the English...
One of themes at ICT 2002 was India as the new international hub for animation. Pointing to the scale of the business, CEO UTV Net Solutions...
The four-day Information Communications and Technology (ICT) 2002 symposium that concluded on Saturday emphasised the need for the IT and entertainment industries to interconnect through synergetic...
At 32, Shridhar Raghavan already has a wealth of experience tucked away. A computer science graduate turned journalist, he started off early in life – contributing...
MUMBAI: Toyota has inked a deal with ESPN Star Sports for sponsoring the Asian X Games Qualifier and the ESPN Junior X Games in 2003 and...
Everyone in television is talking movies. If not making them then promoting them. After the 2002’s biggest blockbuster by a mile, Gadar, Zee Telefilms is now...
After the corporate and auto awards, CNBC India, the country’s fast growing dedicated business news channel, today announced the Mutual Fund awards of the year, in...
After the launch of Insat 3C, another homegrown satellite gets ready for launch in March this year. Insat 3A will join the Insat family in space...
ESPN Software today apparently decided to go after the big boys in its ongoing tussle with the Hinduja Group’s cable arm InCable Network. Industry sources say...
B4U Network has cancelled plans to launch operations in Australia and New Zealand and is instead looking to North Africa as its next area of coverage....
MUMBAI: In a joint presentation to agency and corporate advertising executives, the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the MSN network of Internet...
Television and the Internet are the only media that have consolidated their reach in India in the period between December 2000 and June 2001, according to...
India’s new multi-purpose geostationary satellite, Insat 3C, has reached its designated orbital slot at 74 degrees East longitude. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro),...
Aaj Tak, the Hindi news channel that has forayed into the UAE with a tie-up with a cable operator late last year, plans to cover the...
Sony Entertainment Television’s top rated show, the daily drama Kkusum from the Balaji Telefilms stable, has notched a TRP of 8.9 on 24 January among all...
One of the Beeb’s best known faces, George Alagiah has joined BBC World to present a new weekday news programme that has started airing from 22...
Pop singer Shaan and playback duo Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik brought home a slice of the action from the first ever MTV Asia awards that...
Last year was a tough one for most networks. One of the honourable exceptions of course was Star India and it enters 2002 the clear leader...
Another war erupts…this time it’s the film industry vs the TV. And it’s taking place down south. Tamil film makers have started a round of fisticuffs...
Fifteen months after big-time film financier and diamond trader Bharat Shah was incarcerated due to his alleged connections to the underworld, the Supreme Court garanted him...
The outlay for the I&B ministry in the 10th Five Year Plan has been recommended at Rs 85,500 million, of which the broadcasting sector gets the...
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) latest multi-purpose geostationary satellite, Insat 3C, has been successfully maneuvered to move it into geo-stationary orbit. The satellite will be...
Award to honor exemplary work in the field of Water Conservation and Management Follows World Water Day where Union Water Minister Prof. Saif-Ud-Din Soz released film...
ETC Networks Limited announced its Q-3 results for the year 2001-2002 with net profit going down by 63 per cent from Rs 3.8 million in Q2...
SABe TV continues on its promise of providing ‘relief’ to viewers with the launch on 25 February of a new sitcom Sajan Tu Jhoot Mat Bol. ...
No pay no gain. That could well sum up the general sentiment in the industry that in the long run it is only the pay mode...
The year that was in television 2001: it was a year of upheaval for the Indian television industry. A year that was characterised by: *deflating ad...
MUMBAI: Moody’s Investors Service will time the entry of its mutual fund rating service in India with a collaboration with CNBC India on the Mutual Fund...
MUMBAI: Divinity, unlike human frailty is more consistent at producing tangible results, at least for television production houses. Ask Creative Eye. The production house that has...
Moody’s Investors Service will time the entry of its mutual fund rating service in India with a collaboration with CNBC India on the Mutual Fund of...
Divinity, unlike human frailty is more consistent at producing tangible results, at least for television production houses. Ask Creative Eye. The production house that has an...
It’s all about getting the combinations spot on. In these times of rising tensions between broadcasters and cable operators, networks are offering various combinations of the...
NDS Group, a News Corporation company, has announced that China Network Systems (CNS), Taiwan’s leading cable TV service provider, has selected NDS to provide systems integration...
One more piece of the big picture that media mogul Subhash Chandra has envisioned for his group of companies has been fit into its slot. Elder...
It’s a cable industry versus broadcasters battle that promises to be long drawn if the government does not intervene soon. The Cable TV Equipment Traders and...