Raman Kumar needs no introduction. He is one of the most successful personalities on the tube today. Indeed personality would be the right way to describe...
It’s not just cricket series that SET MAX, the movies and cricket channel from the Sony Entertainment stable, is lining up for viewers. Launching tomorrow, every...
Participants also got an insight into the legal aspects of scriptwriting from Film Writers’ Association’s Rajendra Singh, who spoke of the problems faced by Indian scriptwriters....
India’s next generation communication satellite Insat-3C, which was scheduled for launch on 11 September on an Ariane 5, is likely to be lifted into orbit only...
Yet another family drama targeted at the Indian housewife (or should that be North Indian housewife) hits the small screen today with the launch of “Kangan”...
Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) Television was in the process of working out a plan to increase ad sales for the French channel Fashion TV CEO Rajan...
US-based Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the India launch of Adobe After Effects 5.0, a new version of the company’s motion graphics and visual effects software....
ESPN Star Sports yesterday introduced an Asian version of the popular sports news show Sportscenter. SportsCenter will be Asia’s first live half-hour sports news programme...
B4U Networks has terminated its distribution deal with Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) blaming it for what it says is the surreptitious manner in which the channel...
Sports in India means cricket, cricket, and only cricket. To the world at large however there is far more to sport and that is what ESPN...
Rajan Shahi has directed just two serials independently. And already both of them have left a strong mark on the much cluttered idiot box. Dil Hai...
One of the recurring themes in the just-concluded Enter Media 2001 conference organised by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) in Mumbai was the issue of...
Watch out Femina Miss India, there is competition on the horizon. The Zee Network has announced plans to foray into one as yet unexplored arena –...
Fresh off the success of last years desi adaptation of Who Dares Wins AXN is all set to unveil its first local adaptation of the year...
National broadcaster Doordarshan has invited fresh sealed tenders to market and distribute DD-World and DD-News channel in the UK and rest of Europe on the DTH...
National broadcaster Doordarshan, in its efforts to give impetus to its own sports channels, is looking for fresh sports programmes and inviting proposals from producers under...
The battle to gain control over the cellular service market is getting hot. To face competition from MTNL’s Dolphin and Hutchison Max, BPL Mobile has entered...
The The convergence bill may be a long way away but it was very much on the radar screen as the two-day Enter Media 2001 conference...
The battle for the No 4 slot in the general Hindi entertainment channel sweepstakes is hotting up. Sahara TV has refocused itself and is readying for...
Television software major TV18 came out with miserable results showing the down turn in media sector. The Net profit has gone down by more than 69...
Star Group Limited and UTV announced in Chennai today the formation of a joint venture which will oversee Tamil regional language channel Vijay TV. Star has...
As ad spend becomes increasingly more difficult to access, channels are having to innovate to make sure the ad rupee goes as long a way as...
The Entermedia 2001 conference kicked off in Mumbai’s western suburb of Andheri today with the issue of addressability forming the core of discussions at the session...
The two-day Entermedia 2001 conference was flagged off today in Mumbai by chief minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh who announced that the state government would not...
The sports television juggernaut rolls on. Come 15 August 2001, ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) broadcaster is going to launch two new services Star Sports Southeast Asia...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) and Hong Kong pay-TV operator Cable TV have reached an agreement for non-exclusive distribution of ESPN and Star Sports channels in Hong...
Star India and Ronnie Screwvala’s UTV are set to formalise a deal to hand over control of the Tamil language channel Vijay TV it owns to...
Business news network CNBC Asia has incorporated cellular phone short message service (SMS) into its programming. Viewers can now send questions and comments to analysts, market...
The Broadcast Worldwide-promoted Tara regional channel bouquet has recently launched a collection of Hindi and Punjabi songs in partnership with Milestone Entertainment. The audio cassette has...
Three months into his position as head of Discovery Communications in India, managing director Deepak Shourie today announced a new programming strategy – ‘My Time on...
Ashok Pandit shot into prominence with Filmi Chakkar – one of the more successful comedies on satellite TV. Soon after he made Tere Mere Sapne, a...
Go digital. That seems to be the mantra amongst Indian TV channel managers these days. ETC Networks Ltd’s etc channel is taking the same tack. The...
The stage is set for the Enter Media 2001 conference to be held in Mumbai on 7 and 8 August. The seminar for the media...
Star India’s new programming strategy for Friday nights has hit the right notes from Day 1 itself, as per information provided by the company. Market...
ETC Networks Ltd, which owns music heavy Hindi channel etc and etc Channel Punjabi, has announced its Q-1 results for the year 2001-2002. The network has...
The media has been pretty critical of the performance put up by Zee Telefilms in Q1 of FY 2001-002. And it has also been going hell...
Sony Entertainment Television and the Rajan Raheja-owned Hathway Cable & Datacom are hopeful that their ongoing dispute over paid connectivity will be resolved in a day...
Balaji Telefilms Ltd has announced its financial results for the quarter ended ended 30 June 2001 which show impressive growth as well as a strong bottomline....
In a reflection of the importance that the Ronnie Scewvala-promoted UTV attaches to the “nonfiction area”, it has formed a separate division (set up a month...
He's wanted in eight states and has committed crimes under 50 names. His total convictions add up to 117 years and has escaped from nine different...
Today, August 1, marks a red letter day for MTV. It completes 20 years of existence in the US. And to celebrate the unique occasion, it...
The media has been pretty critical of the performance put up by Zee Telefilms in Q1 of FY 2001-002. And it has also been going hell...
Zee Telefilms continues to surprise you. Just when everyone was writing its obituary and investigations were proceeding against the firm and his group, chairman Subhash Chandra...
Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd (SABTNL) today announced its financial results for the quarter ended 30 June 2001. SABTNL, which runs SABe TV and is...
Zee Telefilms has appointed Mega Magic, a group company of the WorldCall Telecommunications Group, to provide legal distribution of Zee TV to be broadcast in Pakistan....
Celebrating Baishakhi, Bhangra can’t be far behind. Doordarshan will celebrate Baisakhi with a Specail telecast of the biggest Bhangra Music Concert in the World – World...
A series of fast, flash cuts. A sepia-tinted photograph -you see a father, mother & young son about 5 years old. A separate photo -same father,...
FLESHING OUT THE CHARACTERS The weak… woman as revealed later on in the series is a forensic psychiatrist ,trying to combat and overcome the loopholes in...
Scriptwriting for Thrillers Scriptwriter Sridhar Raghavan, who spoke on developing thrillers as a genre, regaled audiences with his experiences in the field, and also gave some...
S T A R G o l d is the classic Hindi movie channel in India showcasing the golden moments in Hindi cinema from the 1940s...