Early Edition, the series, commenced telecast on Hallmark since September. The hero, Gary Hobson ,is a man who gets the newspaper one day in advance, courtesy...
As the mobile continues growing as a source of entertainment, companies are looking at ways in which they can enhance the value that this medium provides....
Cable and direct-to-home (DTH) is where Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) chairman Subhash Chandra is planning to put the accelerator on. Wire and Wireless India Ltd (WWIL),...
Hungama TV has recently touched the number two position in the kids' channels space and the channel's chief operating officer Zarina Mehta is in an ecstatic...
IMG Fashion Asia Pacific MD Simon P Lock, the man who thrust Australian fashion onto the world stage, is in town for the Lakme Fashion Week,...
Having been in the country for nine years now LG Electornics is for the first time using a Bollywood star as its brand ambassador. It has...
He has been associated with a wide variety of assignments in the domain of media planning and broadcast management. Now he’s buried into hardcore research. ...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS), a monopoly in satellite sports broadcasting for years, has found challengers like Ten Sports, Max and Zee Sports with cricket content being...
MUMBAI: Summer is just around the corner and no doubt kids’ channels have a lot of programming goodies up their sleeves. Movies, live action, animation, contests...
The moment Ram Kapoor opted out of playing ‘Rahul’ in Sony Entertainment Television’s daily soap Ghar Ek Mandir, it marked the beginning of viewers’ disinterest in...
Wong Kar-wai believes that the culture and language of films in Hong Kong and mainland China share much in common. With the opportunities made possible by...
IMG Fashion Asia Pacific MD Simon P Lock, the man who thrust Australian fashion onto the world stage, is in town for the Lakme Fashion Week,...
It’s been a long haul back on the upward curve for Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms but things are certainly moving north for his network (including the...
MUMBAI: Fun Technologies Inc. has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, SkillJam Technologies Corporation has acquired WorldWinner.com, Inc. for $23 million. This acquisition further consolidates the...
After joining Sahara One Television in April last year as COO, Purnendu Bose has been able to steer the channel through a period of growth and...
MUMBAI: Lifestyle is no longer the uncharted frontier on television. Discovery Travel and Living launched in October 2004, amidst speculation that a 24 hour lifestyle channel...
The world of market research in India is growing. Both channels and advertisers are seeking more clearer understanding of the consumer and his/her evolving media behaviour....
As the mobile continues growing as a source of entertainment, companies are looking at ways in which they can enhance the value that this medium provides....
With the government having completed the process of awarding the second round of FM radio licences, there’s a huge buzz in the industry. Coming soon to...
Mandira Bedi had the long Shanti, the evergreen Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and the never endingKyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi to her noteworthy credit, but...
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...
Taking into account the time factor, won’t this whole process detract from the primary goal of running the business? In today’s day and age the CMO...
India is increasingly becoming an attractive destination for foreign television firms wishing to do business. Some of them are looking to set up shop. The latest...
As OgilvyOne Worldwide Asia Pacific CEO, Kent Wertime is responsible for 16 offices in 12 countries in the region. That’s quite a wide geographical swathe that...
Making an entry into a genre that has three firmly entrenched channels – Zee Cinema, Max and Star Gold – will be Filmy on 12 February....
In the world of music companies that put out original work one firm that is unique is Silva Screen Records (SSR). Among other activities it puts...
In a competitive market, CNN-IBN’s editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai believes that journalism has to be a collective enterprise. He also strongly feels that stories that are in...
“I have the worst in both worlds, but I do have the best in both, as well.” This reflection on life was made by actress Deanne...
At a time when the Indian media industry is again buzzing with activities, information and broadcasting minister Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, who took over from Jaipal...
..continued from Page 1 Relationships are built, they are time based and there are certain comfort levels and understanding that come into play, even in...
Group M is aiming big in India this year. Areas such as branded entertainment on television, sponsorship management for sporting events, developing search capabilities and expanding...
These are busy times for sports marketing firm Total Sports Asia (TSA). A little over a year has gone by since it launched operations in India...
After a 14-year stint with JWT, Unilever Business, Albert Almeida took up his first job in television as Sony Entertainment Television senior vice president marketing. In...
Richa Arora comes across as a marketing professional who knows her onions or rather her peppers. Britannia’s marketing head is excited about a new brand called...
A decade milestone crossed, Turner International's kids channel Cartoon Network is gearing up for the next 10! More competition in the space or not… the channel...
In the 1980s, when Siddharth Basu used to go to Delhi’s INA market shopping for vegetables on a scooter on Sundays, people looked at him curiously;...
This year a slew of channels are celebrating ten years of existence in India. One of them is Discovery. The channel has evolved in its programming...
It has been a busy time for FremantleMedia in India. The company earlier this year finished co-producing the first season of Indian Idol. It is now...
Adlabs Films Ltd is Anil Ambani’s first big catch in the entertainment arena: Rs 3.6 billion for a 51 per cent stake. Moving rapidly to arm...
When Zee Telefilms director Punit Goenka was appointed Zee TV business head in September this year, the industry by and large considered it a conscious decision...
Two years is a good time to take stock. It’s been just a little more than that since Michelle Guthrie, to the surprise of many a...
Two years is a good time to take stock. It’s been just a little more than that since Michelle Guthrie, to the surprise of many a...
As a career bureaucrat, KS Sarma is neither a stranger to the Indian political system nor the opportunities that it throws up if one wants to...
For Asian satellite service provider Asiasat, the past year has been a period of expansion in a tight market. It recently announced the establishment of a...
Think Miditech and flash comes the image of the two Alva brothers. While Nikhil started the company in 1992; brother Niret, who was a journalist, was...
Zee Telefilms has been undertaking a restructuring for its English channels over the last six to seven months. One of the results of this is that...
For Raghav Bahl, MD of the publicly traded Television Eighteen India Ltd (present market cap: Rs 7,300 million), it has been a long trek from his...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati has obtained an interim injunction from a Delhi court against TV channels using more than the set limit of cricket...
When Subroto Roy announced last year his commitment to infuse a whopping Rs 15 billion for a makeover of his entertainment and media business, he was...
Reality talent hunt is one of the success pillars of Channel [V]. The music channel from the Star stable has launched a series of them –...

