Last month, Viacom tried to make Nickelodeon an interactive experience for viewers. The company did this by using an NDS Group product NDS Value@TV through which...
Caravan, a song-based show hosted by actress and pop singer Rajeshwari Sachdev, is set to hit the tube next Tuesday, 13 November, at 8 pm. The...
The Technology Experiment Satellite (TES), launched on 22 October by ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C3) from Sriharikota in southern India, is functioning well, according to...
Creative Eye has shelved its plans of making programmes for all of national Doordarshan’s 13 regional channels. The Dheeraj Kumar promoted production house had earlier this...
When the DTH notification was issued by the information & broadcasting (I&B) ministry this week, it was not clear whether the 20 per cent restriction was...
Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj has said that cable operators will have to compulsorily build in conditional access systems (CAS) into their networks. In an...
It’s Pakistan ahoy for Star TV. The network was granted the first pay TV licence by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) earlier this week. Following this,...
Scripting 50 hours of TV programmes in a month is no mean achievement. Anjana Sood does exactly that, with the help of her brother, Vicky Chandra....
CNN's chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, chairs this week's edition of 'International Correspondents'; CNN's weekly look at how the world's media cover the war on terror...
Shaun Pollock was selected Super International Performer in the first edition of ESPN Star Sports interactive show ' Super Selector'. The show is hosted by media...
Jain Studios Ltd chairman Dr J.K. Jain is keen on setting up a DTH platform and would do so, within three months of finding a partner....
B4U Multimedia which has built up a successful music channel in B4U Music says it is interested in investing 20 per cent in a DTH platform,...
The first technical awards for excellence in digital technology for films and television in India were given away as part of the Broadcast India exhibition and...
French fashion channel FTV’s plans to switch to an encrypted feed appear to have gone awry and it has now set 1 December as the new...
It has been a topsy-turvy year for the movers and shakers of Indian television. While some enjoyed windfall profits in the year gone by, more saw...
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa), a regional trade group, has met Taiwanese pay-TV regulators the Government Information Office (GIO) and the Fair...
Over the next month and a half corporate bigwigs from companies will take part in 'The Brand Equity Quiz 2001' which is being organised by business...
CNBC's top-drawer lifestyle oriented show Trend Mill completes one year of telecast on Sunday. The channel will celebrate the show's anniversary with a 'Trend Mill celebration...
G.S.R. 18 (E) in exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 and 7 of the Indian Telegraph Act 1885 (13 of 1885) and sections 4...
It came somewhat like manna to travellers lost in the desert. The Union Cabinet’s decision on 2 November 2000 to lift the four-year ban on DTH...
Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) announced yesterday that it was setting up a DTH television joint venture with Sterling group’s C.Sivasankaran. According to sources, the actual vehicle...
India’s space segment will be a satellite poorer with the instability of Insat 2B, a seven year old satellite which has possibly is going through the...
Modi Entertainment Network and Percept Advertising have joined hands to form a television software production company that will ‘produce quality content and develop stylised promotions’. The...
It’s all happening at Sony Entertainment television. Close on the heels of the launch of its new serial Kutumb on Monday, the channel is all set...
ETC Networks Limited announced its Q-2 results for the year 2001-2002 with its net taking a 71 per cent dip to Rs 3.8 million from Rs...
Industry leaders on 22 October gathered at the Taiwan Cable Summit in Taipei (organized by Media Partners Asia: MPA) to evaluate the potential of two-way digital...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has announced ESPN Star Sports Scholarships for Hong Kong's Young Athletes. The three-year scholarships worth HK$15,000 each will be awarded to two...
HBO is targeting kids this month. The movie channel has initiated 'Wonder Kids' a package of four adventure films, including three Ninjas Knuckle Up, Harriet the...
Urmila Gupta, one of the last executives brought in by former Star TV India head honcho R. Basu, has quit the company. Gupta was in charge...
The group of ministers is once again meeting and discussing the opening up Ku-band DTH television even as this copy is being posted on indiantelevision.com on...
DTH Regulations worldwide Country Foreign Equity restriction Cross-media ownership Restriction Licence period Domestic uplink requirement Australia Limited to 35% in total; no individual to own...
DATE EVENT December 1996: The United Front Government under Prime Minister Deve Gowda issues a notification saying that a licence has to be obtained for Ku-band...
BBC and Star News – eat your hearts out. CNN looks set to win the viewership battle around the US elections coverage amongst upscale English speaking...
Cable TV addressability has been brought out into the open. Earlier this week, an Andhra Pradesh high court has said that all subscription channels should stop...
Star TV Had set up ISKyB with a team of 300. When government decided to ban it, it hung on to the team for nearly two...
Direct to Home Television Service refers to distribution of Multi Channel TV programmes in Ku Band by using a satellite system by Providing TV signals direct...
The Union Cabinet has cleared all the hurdles in the way of Ku-band direct to home television. The GoM had met earlier this week and this...
Broadband player Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd (HFCL) chairman and managing director Mahendra Nahata has announced that his company is not interested in getting into Direct to...
The rights to the telecast of cricket matches played in Sri Lanka are likely to be decided before 6 November. The Sri Lankan cricket board has...
If popularity is the index of a director’s success, Partho Mitra should surely rank as one of the best directors on TV today. Partho, who started...
Professionals of broadcast, film and multimedia industries from all over the city converged at the Y B Chavan auditorium to participate in the 11th Broadcast India...
From today NRI’s and other Asians in America who feast on television programming that they can identify with have a new channel to look forward to....
DD has sought bids from Indian and foreign production houses for live television production of these cricket matches to be conducted under the aegis of the...
The Internet is constantly redifining the medium of entertainment. The popular gaming site contests2win.com which claims to have 700,000 registered users is bringing the concept of...
Four television artistes were among those from the film industry felicitated by the Cine and TV Artistes’ Association at its 43 rd annual general meeting held...
Sandeep Goyal, group broadcasting CEO of Zee Telefilms has been elected director of the International Council of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The...
Now that News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has had to bow out of the race to acquire to DirecTV from General Motors, it may well be...
ESPN STAR Sports will launch its first joint venture led dedicated sports cable channel in Korea on November 1. Known as MBC-ESPN Sports, the channel...
Bowing to a long-standing demand from the industry that there should only be one rating system, market research agencies AC Nielsen’s TAM Media Research and ORG...
Hoping to turn conventional wisdom as to what sells in India in the movie business on its head, HBO tonight premieres its $ 120 million epic...