It now appears that efforts are on to discredit the ratings system further. Industry sources say that recently two individuals claiming to be the representatives of...
With latest addition to the family Vijay TV firmly in tow, Star India today gave notice it was ready for a long haul battle with undisputed...
For cable operators focused on increasing new services and capacity within their existing networks, Scientific-Atlanta and Pacific Broadband Communications (PBC) have announced the launch of two...
When information technology minister Pramod Mahajan was given additional charge of the telecommunications ministry on 1 September in a cabinet reshuffle it was seen as a...
Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra today warned investors that the overall negative market scenario prevailing was going to impact on financials as companies cut back on...
Radio City, the Star India-managed private FM radio station that has had a successful debut in Bangalore, plans to open its next station in Lucknow in...
Hallmark, which claims a viewership base of 8.2 million in India, is pushing hard to become the channel that the whole family can enjoy. Hallmark is...
Following close on the heels of its tie-up with the RPG-owned HMV Saregama, Etc has linked up a deal with Sony Music for joint marketing of...
CNN International Networks president Chris Cramer is livid. The reason. “Respected news organisations such as CNN and Reuters have become a target of a war of...
The race to be numero uno among television channels is hotting up what with tumbling TRPs, declining ad revenues and bumbling repetitive programmes. Over the past...
This is a channel, which is crackling – crackling with electrifying programming. And if it does not regain its rightful place at the top of the...
Entertainment music channel etc has signed a strategic deal with RPG owned music company Saregama HMV. Under this agreement, Saregama HMV and etc will jointly present...
Star host Naseeruddin Shah couldn’t make it but there were two legends from the cricket world – Sunil Gavaskar and Geoffrey Boycott – on hand to...
The MSOs are moving into Mysore. Zeenext.com, the cable ISP from the Zee Network stable, launched its Internet over cable TV services in Mysore on Wednesday...
Sony Entertainment Television, which joined Star India and Zee TV as a completely pay-driven bouquet when its flagship channel became fully encrypted on 1 September, expects...
After winning three medals at Taiwan’s 4A Advertising Awards in April, ESPN STAR Sports has gone one better at the prestigious China Times Advertising Awards. Its...
Mukesh Sharma is not the kind of guy you would expect to find in a government job. Suave and with filmstar like good looks, Sharma has,...
The news does not seem too good. Today’s speculative leak that DD News is to be shut will come as a shocker to many. Especially to...
The only television serial on the life of Maharashtra’s warrior king Shivaji – off the air for the last two weeks due to a dispute between...
It’s all about the power of television. The four blind mice of American TV – ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC – are not scrapping with each...
Reports that there was a dispute between Star India and Balaji Telefilms over the Tamil reworking of the hit soap “Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi...
The winner takes it all is an adage that Star India is using to its advantage and how. The industry is bracing itself for another hike...
Some 63 of Star Plus’ shows figure in The Top 100 TAM ratings chart for the week ended 8 September 2001 for samples taken from the...
The toothless tiger is attempting to bare its teeth. The Indian Broadcasting Foundation – a representative body of a small but powerful interest group of...
Adib Contractor ventured into TV production in 1992. Almost a decade later, he has to his credit some 800 hours of software produced for different private...
It was a meeting that was most talked about – one that would help smoothen, ease and clear some of the issues relating to viewership ratings....
It’s a krackjack of an idea. Cookies (biscuits in India) and kids go together. Ditto with kids and Cartoon Network in India. The channel has an...
There’s a glut of daily soaps. Here’s another joining that rash. Choti Maa Ek Anokha Bandhan, a remake of the super successful Tamil soap Chithi (it...
Southern Spice is headquartered in Chennai and beams a mix of Tamil (40 per cent), Telugu (30 per cent), Kannada (10 per cent), Malayalam (10 per...
The alleged TRP scam has literally become a case of the right hand not knowing what the left is up to. Chaos reigned when the TAM...
National broadcaster Doordarshan and the Vietnam Television have entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in exchange and co-production of television programmes in cultural, educational,...
It’s been 10 days since business channel CNBC India, part of the Sony bouquet, “broke” a story that it had the complete lists of all the...
CNBC’s revelations on possible “rating fudge” are significant since priorities of television in India are set by Television Rating Points (TRPs). “Stunned”, “shocked” and “damaging” are...
In the aftermath of Tuesday’s horrific multiple terrorist attacks on America’s institution’s of military and financial might, literally all eyes have been and are on the...
A poll run on indiantelevision.com over the past seven days has revealed that industry believes that all is not okay with the ratings delivered by Intam...
Swar Ratna – Shri Sudhir Phadke, the doyen of Marathi light music, is one of the most popular music directors and singers of our time. Born...
The debate between the two CNN network heads lasted ten seconds. “Is it appropriate for us to use the phrase America Under Attack on the screen?”...
Digital multimedia technology will be a significant theme at Gitex 2001 to be held from 14 – 18 October, 2001, at the Dubai World Trade Center...
Horrific. Ghastly. Dastardly. Inhuman. Unbelievable. Catastrophic. Deadly. Words that have been used to describe the airplane attacks on the World Trade Centre I and II –...
BBC News 24 and BBC World began rolling live coverage of the terrorist attacks just before 2 pm yesterday, shortly after the first plane crashed into...
Today was the day after as national broadcaster Doordarshan’s Metro channel turned the clock back a year after HFCL Nine Broadcasting took up the three-hour prime...
The attack on Manhattan’s World Trade Centre Tower I and II and the Pentagon was timed to get maximum viewing audiences globally. 9 am in New...
Some 62 of Star Plus’ shows figure in The Top 100 Intam ratings chart for the week ended 2 September 2001. 19 shows each of Zee...
Zed Career Academy, which is a division of Zee Interactive Learning Systems, will offer the ‘Genius’ software course in conjunction with Sterling Infotech and Carnegie Technology...
TV France International (TVFI), a firm which promotes the production of French Television programmes abroad, kicked off the seventh edition of its international marketplace Le Rendezvous...
The ESPN School Quiz 2001 kicked off in Mumbai last Thursday at the Shanmukhananda Hall in central Mumbai with over 3,000 schoolchildren from 150 schools in...
The Media Research Users Council (MRUC), in its response to the controversy surrounding the leakage in television panel lists in Mumbai on Monday and subsequently in...
Channel Guide, which started beaming its test signals four months ago, was formally launched earlier this week at the Club in the northern Mumbai suburb of...
The latest TAM ratings are out. And the entire industry is agog about one revelation: not one of Zee TV’s new shows figures on the Top...
The latest TAM ratings are out. And the entire industry is agog about one revelation: not one of Zee TV’s new shows figures on the Top...