A new season is ahead and BBC World has lining up a whole new series of programmes for the next three months. In its special India-specific...
The Brief, a fortnightly published by the Mumbai-based Mid-Day group, and BBC World are organising a two-day media seminar on 28 June and 29 June called...
Confirming reports that pubcaster Prasar Bharati had decided to offer fresh bids for slots on Doordarshan’s Metro Channel, advertisements appeared today in national newspapers inviting tenders...
Continuing its push to localise content for India, kid’s channel Cartoon Network has acquired the television rights of two animation films: Pandavas – The Five Warriors...
Gajra Kottary started out as a journalist with The Statesman. She first shot into prominence in 1996, when her book – Fragile Victories – a collection...
HFCL-Nine Broadcasting India Ltd (HNBIL) today closed the chapter on what has been an acrimonious relationship and declared it would not bid for the prime time...
It’s been a busy week for the young team at Singapore and now India-based digital music distributor Soundbuzz. On 19 May, the company announced a clutch...
The Ronnie Screwvala-promoted UTV Entertainment – which produces two of CNN International’s “made in India” programmes – has extended its production contract for CNN indiadotcom for...
A day after the industry’s nyet to Prasar Bharati’s efforts to attract bidders for Doordarshan’s Metro, a leading business daily reported that the pubcaster was planning...
Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) appears to be unhappy with the degree of compliance (or lack of it) by cable operators regarding carriage of national...
Industry sources however, say a bid has been put in for the 11:00 PM to 12:30 PM slot by the Delhi-based Moving Pictures Company (India) Ltd...
Sharkstream.com, UTV Interactive’s wholly owned subsidiary which offers broadband content for users in Singapore, has become a subscription service. The service, priced at S$ 4.99 per...
Zee TV has won three awards in the TV Programmes category at the 26th RAPA awards (Radio & TV Advertising Practitioners’ Association of India) held on...
Zee English launched Children's Hour on 17 June (Sunday) from 9:30 am to 10:30 am. The hour long kid's block will showcase two of the most...
The Raghav Bahl-promoted Television Eighteen India Ltd, a television software producer and broadcaster which holds 49 per cent stake in CNBC India, has just signed a...
As an ideal bahu (daughter-in-law) and caring member of a joint family that most “traditional” Indian women can easily relate to, actress Saakshi Tanwar, who plays...
In what is claimed to be a unique concept for the media and entertainment sector, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organising on 7 and...
Daily sports news programming during prime time is not proving as difficult as some feared for ESPN-Star Sports (ESS). Sportsline on Star Sports and the Hindi-language...
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) will formally launch the Casbaa Satellite Group on 18 June in Singapore with a one-day conference featuring...
The French music channel Channel MCM is shifting from Asiasat 2 to Intelsat 704, a release issued today says. The dual illumination has started from 8...
The NDS Group, a News Corporation company and leading provider of conditional access systems and interactive applications for digital TV, announced recently it had been selected...
SABe TV and Sony Entertainment Television have won three and two awards respectively at the 26th Annual RAPA Awards (Radio & TV Practitioners’ Association of India)...
Suhail Tatari’s Breast Cancer, a story depicting the trauma of a woman suffering from this debilitating disease, has just won the Screen Videocon award for the...
The Mumbai High Court, in an interim order passed this afternoon, directed InCablenet to pay ESPN Software India for 175,000 subscriber homes. InCablenet, in its...
Bollywood Bazaar, hosted by industry critic and editor of the film weekly Trade Guide Taran Adarsh, is completing its second successful year on etc. This unusual...
The Zee Network, which had initially been quite cool to making a bid for slots on national broadcaster Doordarshan’s Metro Channel, now says it is interested...
Star India this evening switched off all its feeds to IN Cable in Mumbai city over what it said were unpaid payments going back three months...
Zee Telefilms’ effort to migrate the free to air (FTA) analogue Zee TV to pay TV digital mode is facing teething problems. At the time of...
Balaji Telefilms’ creative director Ekta Kapoor is in the news again, and how. Indian television wonderkid’s hold on the popular pulse has been acknowledged by Asiaweek...
CNBC India has just launched a new series called 'Digital Revolution', presented in association with Infosys Technologies Limited, the leading IT consulting and software services company....
The market has been awash with the canard that with the arrival of the AIADMK in the corridors of power in Tamil Nadu, Sun TV is...
Continuing a programme push that began in April, AXN TV, the action channel from Sony Entertainment Television, is launching seven action series over the next two...
The ace Indian doubles pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi has stormed into the finals of the Men Doubles tournament in French Open tennis 2001....
The Zee bouquet of channels, which was expected to go pay from 1 June, will become fully encrypted from 10 June, official sources in the channel...
Is information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj listening to the pleas of wannabe players that the country should not take the open architecture route on the...
Star Plus continues to reign supreme on the TRP charts. The top eight slots across all satellite channels belong to it, a company release states, quoting...
Vivek Agnihotri is venturing where no Indian director has gone till date. He is taking a plunge into reality television, producing Prisoner of War for Zee...
InHouse Productions – better known for its big budget large format shows – will be getting down to producing more of the regular bread and butter...
As BBC World‘s deputy airtime sales director (a position she was promoted to in March 2001), Sunita Rajan provides the strategic direction for the 24-hour news...
A new broom – on most occasions – sweeps clean in most corporations. And Discovery Communications CEO Deepak Shourie believes in this in toto. He has...
The Zee Group’s Internet portal company, Econnect India Ltd, has announced its plan to restructure its business strategy. Econnect India, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of...
Scientific Atlanta, better known in India as a supplier of high quality set top boxes, has been the first mover to make a pitch to etc...
Scientific Atlanta, better known in India as a supplier of high quality set top boxes, has been the first mover to make a pitch to etc...
The Delhi-based Media Foundation has recently launched a website The Hoot which aims to track the media in the Indian subcontinent. With initial support from UNESCO...
Starting tomorrow, Sony Entertainment Television will be showcasing "King of Hearts – The Yash Chopra Film Festival. Featuring 14 films created by Yash Chopra under his...
Zee Telefilms never ceases to surprise you. And its latest financial results for the year 2000-2001 must be surely making many an industry watcher shake their...
Zee Telefilms never ceases to surprise you. And its latest financial results for the year 2000-2001 must be surely making many an industry watcher shake their...
Prasar Bharati has released its DD Metro tender document. It can be picked along with application forms along with general instructions/terms and conditions free of cost...
HBO will be showcasing best-selling Latin female artist Christina Aguilera’s “My Reflections”, a stage performance by the winner of the Best New Artist at 2000 Grammy...
Hours ahead of an announcement by Zee Telefilms regarding its 2000-01 financial results, market analysts were cautiously optimistic about Zee’s expected performance for the year. While...