If it works, it could well be the coup of the decade for the Indian film industry. In all likelihood, however, the deal between the cable...
Mumbai, January 18, 2006… STAR MOVIES, India’s No. 1 English movie channel, presents an exciting line-up of the best films created by India’s Favourite Hollywood Director...
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...
Mumbai, January 19th, 2006, In the presence of Mr. P. Chidambaram, Honorable Finance Minister, Government of India, Mr. Y. Miyauchi, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, ORIX...
Mumbai, January 03, 2006: Almost everybody has been stuck in an airport for a few hours… But try to imagine those hours stretching into days…weeks…and even...
Celebrates Army Day with special programming that resonates with the sounds of the Indian Army WorldSpace Satellite Radio, one of the world leaders in satellite-based digital...
The India Today group’s TV Today flagged off its 24 hour Hindi news channel Aaj Tak on 31 December. The channel was launched by Law, Justice...
The battle between Mumbai’s cable operators and ESPN-Star Sports is entering another phase. Cable operators are believed to have met the information & broadcasting minister Arun...
Fifty-something Prabhat Dabral may not look like an archetypal head of a clutch of news channels, but this former Doordarshan man has managed to climb to...
Eutelsat, one of the world’s leading satellite operators claims to have finished 2001 by clocking up over 1,000 television channels on its satellites. In 1983 channels...
Exactly a year ago on 31 December, 2000, 24-hour Hindi news channel Aaj Tak was launched by India Today Group. Today, the channel claims to...
The 29 December deadline for payment of license fees by private FM radio players in metros has been extended by eight months, costing the national exchequer...
As war rhetoric beams ever louder, Pakistan on Saturday issued orders to all cable TV operators in the country to stop relaying broadcasts of Indian satellite...
Yesterday music channel Channel [V] unveiled a new face – Pooja. She hosts her own brand new half-hour talk show What Women Want. Women celebrities from...
Nearing two months on air, Shop 24 Seven, the media commerce venture of the Hinduja Group’s convergence arm HTMT and US-based Planet E-Shop, has launched a...
B4U Music has completed directing and producing the Desi Boyz' new video Teri Galiyon Mein. The band's current album is called Desi Boyz.com. The song in...
The Gauls are coming to your drawing room. For the first time in Indian TV history, Asterix and his band will regale generations weaned on the...
When Zee TV announced its relaunch in August group broadcast CEO Sandeep Goyal had stated that what the Indian viewer wanted in the shows that she/he...
On New Years Eve Star Movies will show Enemy of the State with Will Smith and Gene Hackman. The film will be shown at 6:30pm with...
The 29th edition of the American Music Awards will be shown live on Star World on 10 January at 6:30 in the morning with a repeat...
There have been reports that television channels are ushering the new year on a low key note. Notwithstanding this Sony Entertainment Television's Max, which positions itself...
CEOs of some of the top cable operating companies in North America, all members of the CableLabs board of directors’ executive committee, are among more than...
Mir Muneer is a trendsetter. After writing Chunauti, Campus and Challenge– some of the most successful youth based serials on TV, Muneer re-wrote trends with Saans....
CNBC India has instituted the equivalent of the Oscars for the Indian automotive industry. The annual awards will reward excellence in car manufacturing in India and...
For those tired of the eternal “saas bahu” tangles, there’s good news from the action front. AXN claims that two of its reality shows currently being...
Reliability in the peoplemeter system is what the industry is crying for and US-based Arbitron Inc. is promising just that. It has successfully completed the first...
Television Eighteen India Ltd (TV18), is reorganising its operations and plans to retain office space only in the three metros of Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. According...
Doordarshan Kendra Mumbai asserted its might among its peers at the recently held Doordarshan Awards 2001 by walking away with the cream of the honours. It...
The newspapers are filled with reports about the ongoing slowdown in the infotech sector. Nonetheless Zee Interactive Learning Systems (ZILS), which is less than two years...
Agrani Convergence Ltd (ACL), the retailing arm of ASC Enterprises, an Essel Group company that operates telecom, information technology & learning, media & entertainment products and...
The soap brigade has elbowed its way into the top position in the 9 to 10 pm band as well. The waning KBC has helped Sony’s...
Popular bhangra pop singer Harbhajan Mann (not to be confused with cricket star Harbhajan Singh) is music channel etc's Pop Ki Aandhi for the second half...
If Saanjhi can do for Zee what Saans did for Star Plus, the beleaguered channel may have reason to smile. After Saans, Palchhin and Sonpari,...
The British Broadcasting Corporation and Discovery Communications have reached an agreement making BBC news material available on Discovery’s analogue cable channels in the US – The...
Radyne ComStream, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Armer Communications Engineering Services (ACES), has bagged a contract worth $1.1 million with leading sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports. This...
The Ramoji Rao owned Eenadu Television Network is all set to launch six new regional language channels next month. Interestingly, each of these will speak a...
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) and GlobeCast have signed a new lease agreement for half of a 36 MHz C-band transponder on AsiaSat 2. GlobeCast...
MUMBAI: Two new television public service announcements (PSAs) that discourage ethnic stereotyping of Arab and Muslim Americans have been released. This is a joint effort between...
Inmarsat Limited, the global mobile satellite communications company has signed a contract to become the first global sponsor of the World Rally Championship commencing next year....
Sound of Time, and Michael Neuman, director of Research Studios in San Francisco, have announced the introduction of The Sound of Time. It is a new...
For adults who think babies are too cute and something special Discovery has a treat. 'World Birthday' will premiere on the Channel on 1 January at...
ast night the Gloden Globe nominations were announced. In India it will be shown live on 20 January early in the morning on one of the...
The malaise of executive departures, which has hit other broadcasters such as Sony Entertainment, and Zee TV, seems to have made it to Star India’s doors...
Zenith Media has been adjudged the ‘Media Agency of The Year 2001’ in Asia Pacific by Media Magazine. A slew of key accounts in one of...
Last week ESPN. and Sports Capital Partners announced the creation of ESPN Classic Sport. This is a new network of European sports channels which will highlight...
Hong Kong based company SpeedCast has renewed the partnership agreement with Bloomberg Television, the global provider of financial information and business news. Speedcast is a leading...
With a longish nose and speaking style that is slightly high-pitched, Ian Diamond, senior vice president and general manager of Turner Entertainment Networks Asia Inc fits...
Mountain-biker, long-distance runner and traveller – AXN Asia managing director Todd Miller seems to extend the action aspect of the channel he runs to his out-of...
The second and concluding day of Qalam 2001 saw a variety of well known film and television personalities holding forth on a variety of issues related...
The third chapter of the Corporate Challenger Quiz organised by ESPN Star Sports took place last night in Mumbai. Earlier this month the event took place...