Google’s Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton G Serf is regarded as one of the fathers of the internet. While in Bangalore, he shared his...
While Viacom’s smallest wonder, Nick India wants to be synonymous with fun and laughter, the network seems to have found the perfect fit in Nina Jaipura...
The radio industry is poised to make its next big leap as radio stations gear up to implement the Phase 2 licenses. The metros have been...
The NGO Broadcast Engineers Society is holding its 13th Expo this year from February 1 to February 3 at Delhi’s Pragati Maidan. It is a much...
Times Now CEO, Sunil Lulla has been associated with the business of television over the last two decades. His strength lies in building brands from scratch....
Media research agency Tam is in an expansion mode. Recently, it increased the number of peoplemeters from 4800 to 6917. And as direct-to-home (DTH) and conditional...
With user generated content (UGC) on the rise globally,UK-based Cellcast is betting that its Sumo.TV platform for broadcasters would catch on in India and other parts...
Saregama, India’s oldest music company, is in makeover mode. Having slipped into the red with a net loss of Rs 211 million in the nine-month period...
Cable TV is in the midst of transition. We are seeing Cas being just implemented. Consumers are wanting set-top boxes (STBs) so that they can see...
Subhash Chandra is betting big on his cable TV business. Wire & Wireless Ltd (WWIL), the demerged entity of Zee Group, plans to invest Rs 7.14...
The cable TV industry is on the cusp of change. The multi-system operators (MSOs) have chalked out plans to roll out digital cable, a transition that...
Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, Inc. senior vice president and general manager Ian Diamond is gearing up for the challenge. He realises Walt Disney is in aggressive...
With conditional access system (Cas) coming in next year and DTH already in, the time is right for television technology firms to take a serious look...
This year the Indian film industry has entered the spotlight with release after release that has caused a stir in the media. Amidst all this, there...
Riding motorbikes and jumping over walls was the norm for actress Niki Aneja until she chose to take up modelling and acting, instead of aspiring to...
It has been an eventful time for Max. It recently aired the champions Trophy. Having successfully shored up its share on the weekend due to its...
Television Eighteen has been on the acquisition mode for a while now to create more revenue opportunities for its shareholders. After creating a new division for...
It was in June that media conglomerate Interpublic combined its Draft and Foote Cone & Belding (FCB) units around the world to create a channel-neutral agency...
Sony Entertainment Television India’s chief creative director Sandiip Sikcand is the newly appointed man in the newly created position, tasked with the job of scripting a...
MUMBAI: The Pusan International Film Festival from 12 October to 20 October 2006 in Korea, will screen its first Bollywood movie, Krissh during a program called...
These are busy times for Sony in the English entertainment space. Earlier this year it launched an English movie channel Pix. It also revamped Animax which...
From the world of advertising to the world of television. That’s exactly what Sony Sab senior vice president and business head Vikas Bahl has done. Now...
Early this year in February, Nimbus shook up the sports broadcasting sector by bidding $ 612.8 million for the rights to India cricket. Driven by the...
MUMBAI: Celebrating sales of 1 million Activa scooters, Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) president and CEO Yukihiro Aoshima awarded the winners of ‘Honda Activa Happy...
Cricket, cricket and cricket. That is the exciting scorecard SET India will have for display in the fiscal 2006-07. A lineup of eight sponsors that is...
Other rights like ICC come up for grabs. Is Nimbus chasing these properties or is India cricket sufficient with other smaller properties? We will evaluate all...
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has laid out a fertile ground for digital cable TV take off. The formula is simple: price everything low...
MUMBAI: Coming off the back of recently announced ex-Nimbusite Sunil Manocha’s appointment by Neo Sports as senior VP – advertising revenue, is the appointment of yet...
Worldspace VP Global Programming William Sabatini has more then 22 years of major market radio experience working at radio stations in New York (WNBC-AM, WXRK-FM and...
Arun Poddar is an industry veteran with an enriched experience and excellent track record of over 23 years in sales and distribution. He brings with him...
MUMBAI: US network MTV has agreed to acquire the remaining interest in joint venture MTV Japan from private equity firm H&Q Asia Pacific (H&QAP). This will...
Anupam Kher is an extremely angry man. And he has been speaking out openly in the media against Zee TV’s decision to drop him as co-anchor...
MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel today announced the signing of an estimated $ 1 billion network expansion contract with Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson. The contract will enable...
Amrita Enterprises Pvt Ltd (AEPL), promoted by a group of investors closely associated with Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, launched Amrita TV in 2005 April on an initial...
Discovery Lifestyle Networks VP Aditya Tripathi began his professional career with Living Media India Ltd., and has worked in senior positions with some of the biggest...
Shekhar Suman served a shocker to the television industry by announcing yesterday that he was bidding au revoir to Sony Entertainment Television’s talk show Movers &...
Live the Story! With the aim of competing better in the English entertainment space The History Channel is pursuing a new strategic direction in India. The...
The transition from cricket to acting has never been easy. Several willow-men have tried it, rather unsucessfully. Among these: Salim Durrani, Sunil Gavaskar, and Sandip Patil....
Playing the lead in Choti Maa.. Ek Anokha Bandhan, Vaishnavi Mahant or Macdonald finds herself on totally new ground. The big budget and strong team aside,...
For both Sesame Workshop and its newly-appointed executive director for Indian operations, Sashwati Banerjee, India is a big challenge. The US-based Sesame Workshop might have revolutionized...
His is a tale that is not just about multiplexes. E-City Investments and Holdings chief Atul Goel is hooking up a film exhibition, distribution and digital...
Joy Chakraborthy took charge of Zee Network as ad sales head in early 2005, at a time when Zee TV was going through a crucial phase....
He is credited with having stitched some lucrative deals for NDTV — rather it’s said that the so-called one-sided deal that NDTV had with Star for...
After establishing its digital platform 2525 with a slew of activities in 2004, Sony India’s 2005 plan was to take it to the next level to...
If news channels are largely described as niche, then Awaaz is a niche within the niche. Positioned as a consumer Hindi news channel, it breaks the...
Viewers love to hate her, and yet can’t wait to get back home, tune in to the idiot box and relish watching choti bahu...
BBC World Service on-air editor Steve Martin has been responsible for the present on-air image that BBC’s English Radio Network holds, be it the sound identity...
For the last six years, Viren Popli has been an integral part of the Star India system. As the international business senior VP, Popli reported to...
Indian television has not been able to boast of many gorgeous women. And when the few that are, disappear from the small screen, it invites curiosity....
Laxmi N Goel, director Zee News Ltd and the second of the three brothers of Essel Group chairman Subhash Chandra, is not given to hype and...

