Balaji Telefilms seems set to continue its winning streak with a clutch of new serials this year, three of which will premiere on Zee and Sony...
India’s leading fast moving consumer goods company Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) has said that it is increasingly focusing its marketing spends on a core group of...
ESPN-Star Sports is facing a bit of a hiccup in Mumbai. The reason: Brisca, an association of leading Mumbai cable operators, has started an agitation against...
The clock is ticking for the entry of a new ratings currency. Market research agency ORG Marg’s Intam data, the older of the two established ratings...
Sahar Elhabashi has been promoted to Executive V-P, MTV Networks International. In her expanded role, Elhabashi will direct strategy, operations and business development for MTV Networks’...
Yes, Balaji Telefilms has done it again: turned out enviable financial results at a time when other media firms are struggling to match last year’s performances....
The BBC is launching the first ever live, interactive Olympic Games from Salt Lake City, Utah next month. From 8 to 25 February, digital interactive viewers...
Zee Telefilms Ltd today issued a notice to the Bombay Stock Exchange that it has scheduled a meeting of its board of directors for 1 February,...
As part of on-going initiatives to enhance the value of Asian pay television as an advertising vehicle, the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa)...
Crown Media International, which operates the Hallmark Channel outside America, has announced the signing of a three-year regional contract with ACNielsen Media International. AC Nielsen claims...
We promised you more on her, and here it is… the second part of the interview with the young UTV creative director Monisha Singh. In the...
Weather need no longer remain at the fag end of news shows. The first ever interactive weather channel using terrestrial digital television (DTV) spectrum has recently...
Scientific-Atlanta has announced that over 30 per cent of the MSO systems using its digital platform and interactive set-tops are carrying some form of interactive television...
Despite filing an urgent application before the Bombay High Court, InCable lawyers today requested for the postponement of the hearing of the case, an ESPN Software...
It’s got the look. A peek at the new face that Max, the digital movies and events channel from the Sony Entertainment stable, will be presenting...
Even as Indian officials hem and haw over promulgating broadcasting regulations, its neighbour and arch rival Pakistan has gone ahead and issued an executive order to...
More than two years after promising to open the floodgates to private TV channels, General Musharraf this week approved an ordinance that allows private sector television...
At 29, Sourabh Narang is one of the youngest and most sought after directors on TV today. The critically acclaimed Haqeeqat, Shhh… Koi Hai and Kagaar...
The much-delayed Indian satellite Insat-3C is now all set for a 23 January liftoff. According to satellite launch partner Arianespace, the Ariane 4 rocket, which will...
It’s been a fairly quiet ride in the FM radio arena till now but the slugfest looks about to begin in real earnest. After having to...
Jewels in the Balaji crown, Kyunki and Kahaani may have hit a plateau, but its other soaps are keeping the company on a winning growth graph,...
If a show takes up the time slot occupied earlier by the celebrated gameshow Kaun Banega Crorepati, it better be BIG! That seems to be the...
Take Percept Advertising into the Top Ten in the next five years. That is the brief that former Sony Entertainment No: 2 and new CEO Rajesh...
Two can play at the game. With the Bombay High Court expected to issue a ruling tomorrow on the ongoing spat between the Hinduja Group MSO...
Chitraarth is one of the first directors to have patronized television in India way back in 1985. His Wah Janab, which launched Shekhar Suman and Kiran...
Zee Telefilms Ltd today announced its third quarter results (ended December 31, 2001). The Income from sales and services has gone down by 18 per cent...
PanAmSat Corporation, which claims to be the premier provider of global video and data broadcasting services via satellite, has reported total revenues of $870.1 million for...
MTV Networks International has announced that next month US secretary of state Colin Powell will participate in an international global forum through the channel. The 60-minute...
Intelsat LLC has announced that it has signed two launch services contracts – one with Boeing Launch Services for a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL vehicle and the...
A post-graduate in Business Management from XLRI, Sankara Pillai started his career in Market Research at IMRB in 1984. He spent 8 years with IMRB specialising...
ESPN Software today claimed a major victory in its tussle with the Hinduja Group MSO InCableNet when it announced that most cable networks across Mumbai city...
Restructuring and revised strategies seem to be working for TV18. The TV 18 Group (consolidated) has posted a net profit of Rs 1.954 million for Q3...
Border tensions are calling for some hasty programming changes in the subcontinent. The Beeb has voluntarily put on hold its reality series Commando on the Indian army, bowing...
Justice Patil of the Bombay High Court today posted for Friday the hearing of the contempt case filed by Hinduja Group MSO InCableNet against ESPN Software...
Viewers can now spice up their breakfasts with business and technology news from around the world with CNN’s new breakfast show that goes on air from...
It’s a tie-up which has ample scope. Crown Media, the parent company of made for TV movie channel Hallmark, has signed on media sales company the...
Star Plus, the flagship channel of the Star group, seems determined to tap all genres in the slew of new programmes it is unleashing in 2002....
MTV Asia, which claims to be the most wanted music channel in the region, has announced that Ronan Keating lead singer of the pop group Boyzone...
Big. Very big. That is what the third edition of the annual global convention on the business of entertainment, Ficci Frames 2002, promises to be. The...
It’s no Prisoner Of War but India’s first homegrown reality show in the action genre is finally launching on the Zee Network. Last year Zee TV...
The Star Network made a big step forward in convincing cable operators in the country to accept its new subscription regime after RPG Netcom in Kolkatta...
The Sahara India Group’s ambitions to become a major media powerhouse was taken to a whole new level today as it announced plans to launch a...
It’s taken long to arrive at a decision, but the Indian I&B ministry has finally decided to invoke special legal powers to crack down on cable...
In a bid to connect further with the viewer ETC Punjabi has started a unique one of a kind countdown show. Sadda Top 10lets music lovers...
ISRO has signed a cooperative agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA). This renews the arrangements for cooperation between the two agencies in the peaceful uses...
Punjab Today, a 24 hour digital news channel hits the airwaves on Monday. The new channel floated by STV Enterprises claims to be an attempt to...
The Delhi-based National Cable and Telecommunications Association, representing a section of cable operators in the north, says it will switch off retransmission for ESPN Star Sports...
The third edition of the Survivor series, Survivor Africa on AXN, draws to a close next Friday. And in what is becoming familiar terrain for the...
MAK TV, so far shrouded in secrecy and some spicy speculation, will fill the small screens very soon. The 31 December deadline that was being talked...
It may be down, but it’s not yet out. Broadcast Worldwide, which promotes regional language channels Tara is planning to beef up its news programming to...