Next year UK broadcaster BBC will launch the connecting-with-consumers digital campaign. This will go along with its launch of eight new digital TV and radio services....
Grab your opportunities with both hands. That’s exactly what the recently launched Star Vijay TV appears to have succeeded in doing in its bid to give...
Veteran, established and aspiring scriptwriters from all over Mumbai converged in a meeting of minds at India’s first ever TV scriptwriters’ workshop Qalam 2001, in Mumbai’s...
Action television channel AXN, in collaboration with Pepsi and indiatimes.com, begins the Mumbai leg of their Action Movie Festival from tomorrow at the Central Plaza theatre...
BBC World, which had shifted its India-specific programming to the weekend slot following the events of 11 September, is switching back to the old schedule from...
Crown Media Holdings, Inc. has announced the issuance of $265 million of 6.75 per cent subsidiary trust preferred securities and contingent appreciation certificates in a private...
Predominantly music channel etc is starting the New Year with a special on singer Shubha Mudgal. Shubha will be appearing as etc's Pop Ki Aandhi for...
The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced nominations for its first ever awards event. The show will be broadcast live from the Beverly Hills Hotel on...
The reality show on action channel AXN travels to India in the next fortnight. The Amazing Race teams' endeavors in the country are chronicled in two...
Channel [V]’s getting serious about increasing its value within the Star bouquet with a clutch of new shows. After the AIDS concert on 1 December and...
Tazos, the little plastic discs that took the younger generation by storm a few years ago, are back with Cartoon Network entering into a promotional licensing...
The first ever TV commercial to be filmed entirely in space will be aired in Japan from 1 January 2002. The ad has been created by...
Sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has signed an agreement with Tai Chiang International Corporation (TCIC) to be the new distributor of both its ESPN and...
ESPN Star Sports may finally have some decent competition. There has been talk in the industry for a while now that a sports channel – backed...
DD National is hoping to counter competition from satellite channels, at least on the programming front. The national broadcaster has invited programme producers to offer their...
Nickelodeon is practically absent from the viewerscope of Indian viewers. Nonetheless the channel, which claims to be available in over one hundred million homes in Asia,...
"I'm 42 years old, and in less than a year I'll be dead. Of course, I didn't know that yet. In a way, I'm dead already."...
'Laughter is the best medicine' or so the popular saying goes. Zee English is focussing on the comedy band. The channel has been running the 'Simply...
Maharishi Channel Cable Network (MCCN) has notched up a first by becoming the only channel to adopt the Ku-band platform in India. The channel has reportedly...
It‘s a reality show that‘s been unfolding behind the Indian TV screens for quite a while now. While the booming industry makes strides on the technology...
There‘s good news round the corner for the Indian ad industry. The annual forecast of global advertising expenditure till 2004 released by Zenith Optimedia Group this...
Controversy notwithstanding, Sabe TV will go ahead with the scheduled telecast of the Zimmedar Kaun? episode featuring the hawkers-Bombay Municipal Corporation fracas tomorrow at noon. Sabe...
Yesterday Zee Telefilms and Turner International India (a 100 per cent subsidiary of AOL Time Warner) announced a joint venture with Zee holding a 74 per...
For the second successive year movie channel HBO has done well in Television Asia’s regional survey. Fans from India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Hong...
For the flagship channel of the Star network, it could be a tall order retaining a hold on audiences in the 9 PM slot after 9...
National Geographic starts a programme from tonight 14 December at 9 pm called 60th Anniversary of Pearl Harbour. Tonight's episode is called Sea Power. It examines...
Kingsley Holgate an explorer travels through Africa tomorrow 15 December at 11pm His role model is Dr. David Livingstone an explorer and missionary doctor from the...
This Christmas Star World is coming out with a bouquet of programs which will help the idiot box usher in the yuletide season. The action kicks...
Zee Telefilms Limited and Turner International (India) Private Ltd, an AOL Time Warner Company, today announced an agreement to form a joint venture company, Zee Turner...
The Indian television industry’s first ever Scriptwriters Workshop and Forum, Qalam 2001, will be held in Mumbai on 20-21 December. Conceived by Indian Television Dot Com...
As predicted by indiantelevision.com, ESPN Star Sports today announced an upward revision in their package subscription price from the current Rs 16 to Rs 24, effective...
From January Viacom will integrate the UPN and CBS Broadcast Networks under CBS Television Unit. CBS Television also includes Viacom’s 34 stations; CBS Entertainment, CBS News,...
Technology has been as much at the battlelines in Afghanistan as the journalists who reported in the foreground of the bomb-scarred skyline. Stratos, a satellite communication...
Next year AXN the action channel will continue exploring the boundaries of reality based shows. A spokesperson for the company said that the channel was into...
A few days ago MTV Films announced that it, along with Amaru Entertainment, will present a first of its kind feature documentary. It closely examines late...
This month the top two teams in test cricket Australia and South Africa will do battle on Star Sports to see which team is the best. ...
This Saturday 15 December at 9:30 pm HBO the channel which claims to be Simply The best will show Liar Liar. Back to back golden Globe...
This Saturday 15 December at 10 pm BBC World's programme Face to Face will feature Tamil movie star Radhika. The show will be repeated on Sunday...
The contentious issue of service tax on broadcasters is expected to figure prominently on the agenda of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation, which holds its annual general...
There’s more in store for lovers of shooting stars. After last month’s spectacular Leonid meteor showers, the Geminid showers will make their way through Earth’s orbit,...
Well it may not have a strategic partner as yet but something is certainly cooking at the Subhash Chandra promoted Zee Telefilms Ltd. The company informed...
India has done itself proud at the recently concluded PROMAX&BDA Asia 2001 by bagging the largest number of Awards (Gold and Silver). Indian operators Channel [V]...
Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports claims that the recently concluded Major League Baseball World Series drew excellent ratings on ESPN. Major League Baseball programs are...
Awesome. That about sums up the scale of the plans the Star Group has charted out to take Channel [V] to the top of the music...
And now get ready for an Urdu version of KBC. ARY Digital, which is all set for a mid-January 2002 launch, has secured the Urdu rights...
Some heavy duty action on the programming front is what the Sony group’s AXN channel has lined up for its viewers with a slew of new...
Britain’s leading broadcaster, Channel 4 Television has been adjudged the best for ‘Content Management Project’ at the Information Management 2001 Awards announced recently. The Information Management...
B4U Music brought some cheer for India at the PROMAX Awards given away in Singapore on 5 December when it took away nine trophies. Nearly 9,000...
Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) has signed a new lease agreement with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). This will give C-band more capacity on AsiaSat 2 and...
Comedy perfomers in the field of film and television will take their bows on Zee English on 30 December, when the 15th Annual American Comedy Awards...