Even as it gears up to celebrate its third birthday on 26 August, ETC Networks is working at re-inventing itself with a host of new programmes...
The buzz around the annual international film festival of India (IFFI) is getting louder. NFDC brings in Film Bazaar 2007, a platform to promote Indian films...
Just in his mid 40s, Kaushik Roy has a wealth tucked away in his mixed bag of experiences. His return to Mudra last year as executive...
Music channel MTV is all set to stir up some buzz on the Hindi film scene.Its first venture into the world of movie making, Bas Yun...
Tony D’Silva is an old hand in the distribution business. And when Star India hired the former head of international operations at Zee Telefilms, as executive...
It has been a relatively quiet period at B4U Television Networks since last October when its B4U Entertainment was relaunched as B4U Movies. B4U has been...
Ravi Kemmu took the plunge in TV direction in 1995, when satellite Indian television had just started to come of age. He debuted with a romantic...
The print media scene in the country is set for exciting times ahead. Recently the Financial Times of London announced that it picked up a 13.85...
KS Sarma, the 50-something chief executive of Prasar Bharati, overseeing the functioning of Doordarshan and All India Radio, is not new to the system. A few...
Ronnie Screwvala promoted UTV has been in the media business for over 20 years, pioneering cable TV in 1981. The content business is just one part...
He is one of the few writers in the Indian television industry who took up scriptwriting out of choice, not chance. Irshad Kamil started writing for...
Dr Akash Khurana’s single-point agenda is to transform Nimbus over the next three years into a creative powerhouse with multiple corporate and creative leaders. Dr Khurana’s...
“Last year was not good for all channels except one,” Markand Adhikari, vice-chairman and managing director, SABe (Sri Adhikari Brothers Entertainment) TV, has been quoted as...
“As far as 2002 is concerned, we are very confident and very well positioned. We have had strong distribution growth of 46 per cent in the...
His stint on television started nearly eight years ago, but his claim to fame came only recently with a controversial rape scene in the Balaji saga...
Manish Goswami turned television producer in 1993 with the successful Zee serial Parampara. In a span of nearly a decade, he went on to produce several...
A man who happened to chance upon advertising, an individual who stands by his beliefs in this very pseudo world of advertising. A die hard Ilyaraja...
Yahoo! India is completing four years of existence in the subcontinent and is raring to go. What with competition heating up among the big portals with...
Sony Entertainment Television has secured the cable and satellite television rights for all ICC-designated One-Day cricket for the next seven years, which includes the next two...
Noted filmmaker Subhash Ghai had a 20-year dream: to set up an international film and media institute in Mumbai. Whistling Woods International Ltd (WWIL) came up...
Cafe culture is the latest trend to take the nation by storm. It joined the race simultaneous with the satellite culture. Although not as big, the...
Roshan Abbas is one of the more popular hosts seen on the small screen today. Roshan first shot into fame as anchor of Public Demand, one...
Very few writers begin their foray into TV writing with a soap as popular as Kkusum. Bharavi Shah, who does the screenplay of Sony’s flagship soap...
Hasratein was his ticket to fame in the heady early days of satellite television in India. The effective, empathetic portrayal of the other woman was a...
Barely seven to eight episodes after she was introduced as the third-generation bahu Damini in Kyunkii Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (on Star Plus), Riva Bubber...
Chris McDonald has seen it all in sports television in Asia and India. He was one of the key senior professionals in launching sports TV services...
Rakesh Sarang is one of the few cameramen in the industry who have made the transition to direction effortlessly. The fact that his work has been...
James Paul Marturano is the executive vice president, HBO Asia and managing director of HBO South Asia. As executive VP of HBO Asia, Marturano heads the...
Friday the 26th! The first episode of Sony Entertainment Television’s long awaited gameshow “Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke” (JCPK) will go on air and the clock is...
Prem Kishen, along with Sunil Mehta, started the TV production house, Cinevistaas, nearly 17 years ago. After producing scores of successful serials – including the hugely...
Looks can be deceptive…take for instance, the just-over-a-year old media company- K Sera Sera’s managing director Parag Sanghavi. Although Sanghavi looks like a pucca Delhi babu,...
The two fields are as diverse as chalk and cheese. But Sheel Kumar, director of Shreya Corp is as determined to make a mark in television...
When Rohit Gupta joined Sony Entertainment Television as executive vice-president, sales & revenue management on April 15 this year, the question in the industry was what...
A few days ago, Star News completed three years of operation under a new regime after the divorce from its long-standing content partner, NDTV, which has...
Taking over at a time when issues like the conditional access loomed large over the pay channels’ horizon and Sony Entertainment’s tom-tomming over the cricket World...
Zee’s English movie channel Zee Studio has lined up two special flicks to air on Woman’s Day, 8 March. The channel will air the Reese Witherspoon...
He forayed into television with Kavita Chaudhary’s path breaking Udaan. Sanjay Upadhyay’s career flight, which took off with directing Saaya, Aatish, Tum Pukar Lo and Hum...
Broadcast Worldwide Business Development director Pradipto Sircar refuses to be cowed down by rival regional satellite channels that are stealing viewers, while the four Tara channels...
Just 29, Kaushik Ghatak is already a veteran director on Indian television. A hundred episodes of Kyunkii Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, a few of Sanskriti...
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....
If anyone had doubts regarding the value of Zee TV’s alliance with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, these numbers might be worth taking note of (Zee MGM is the English...
At 32, Shridhar Raghavan already has a wealth of experience tucked away. A computer science graduate turned journalist, he started off early in life – contributing...
Last year was a tough one for most networks. One of the honourable exceptions of course was Star India and it enters 2002 the clear leader...
Till recently, Aditya and Abhimanyu Singh were known more as siblings of film actor Chandrachur Singh. No more. Today, they have carved a niche for themselves...
We promised you more on her, and here it is… the second part of the interview with the young UTV creative director Monisha Singh. In the...
At 29, Sourabh Narang is one of the youngest and most sought after directors on TV today. The critically acclaimed Haqeeqat, Shhh… Koi Hai and Kagaar...
Chitraarth is one of the first directors to have patronized television in India way back in 1985. His Wah Janab, which launched Shekhar Suman and Kiran...
Vivek Agnihotri is one of the most modern minds in the Indian entertainment industry today. An advertising and Harvard background have laid the foundation for a...
Fifty-something Prabhat Dabral may not look like an archetypal head of a clutch of news channels, but this former Doordarshan man has managed to climb to...
Mir Muneer is a trendsetter. After writing Chunauti, Campus and Challenge– some of the most successful youth based serials on TV, Muneer re-wrote trends with Saans....