Multiplex owners demand uniform entertainment tax MUMBAI: The multiplex owners in India are looking forward to uniformity of entertainment tax in the union budget...
MUMBAI: Given that the radio industry is still at its infancy and has great employment and media opportunities in the semi-urban and rural markets,...
Music industry seeks protection of IPR, enforcement of laws MUMBAI: Riding high on technological changes, the music industry and its affiliates in India are...
NEW DELHI: National industry body Ficci has demanded that the government must give several tax exemptions and holidays to let the animation, gaming and VFX industries,...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation, the largest body of television channels in the country, has urged the Finance Ministry to exempt CVD, cess charges...
NEW DELHI: The measures suggested in the budget proposals for 2007 and the latest government notifications issued on 1 March, will not only make manufacturing...
NEW DELHI: Amidst an overwhelming sense of dismay, all three industry bodies are lining up their lobbies to get the demands of the entertainment...
MUMBAI: Finance minister P Chidambaram‘s `no nothing‘ offer to the media sector came as no surprise except in the area of set-top boxes (STBs) where one...
NEW DELHI: Even as the grant-in-aid to Prasar Bharati in the budgetary allocations for the Information and Broadcasting Ministry for 2007-2008 has come down, there has...
NEW DELHI: In the initial reactions to the 2007-08 budget proposals by Union Finance Minister, the media industry seemed distraught that none of the reliefs it...
NEW DELHI: The Government today announced its proposal to enhance the allocation for e-governance from Rs. 395 crore in the year 2006-07 to Rs....
NEW DELHI: The president of Ficci, H Khorakiwala, I congratulated the finance minister’s “terrific budget” on the social sector front, but said he has...
NEW DELHI: Digitalization of cinema is vital in controlling the distribution and exhibition of cinema in digital format and safeguarding intellectual property since the Indian...
NEW DELHI: Acknowledging that the major hurdle in digitization presently is the absence of digital receiver sets and the fact that about 45 per cent...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Federation has sent several pre-budget demands to the ministry of finance, including the expansion of the definition of Industrial...
NEW DELHI: Broadcasters have expressed the hope that the government will ease the taxation structure for the initial three to five years and introduces policies...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has take up the demands of stakeholders in the broadcasting industry and recommended to the...
NEW DELHI: While demanding various reductions and exemptions of taxes and duties that would be beneficial for the media and broadcasting industry in general,...
NEW DELHI: With the annual budget coming up, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) is lobbying for a 10-year tax...
MUMBAI: Frost and Sullivan’s Automotive and Transportation Practice South Asia and Middle East will be hosting an analyst briefing webinar on 15 December from 11 am...
SINGAPORE: There’s nothing that attracts money more than money itself. As in any sphere, finance is of utmost importance in media too. In order to be...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms Ltd’s net profit rose 50.81 per cent to Rs 170.16 million in the quarter ended 30 September 2005 as against Rs 112.83 million...
MUMBAI: 28 October, the last day of the three-day Casbaa conference in Hong Kong, saw Tam India presenting a paper on gauging the success of product...
MUMBAI: UTV Software Communications Limited has posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 47 million on a turnover of Rs 405 million for the quarter ended...
MUMBAI: British market research organisation National Statistics has published data regarding Britain’s film and television industry. In 2004, exports of all services by the UK film...
MUMBAI: Indian firm CyberMedia, which claims to be South Asia’s first and largest speciality media house, has announced that its total income rose by 26 per...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms today reported higher consolidated revenues of Rs 3,359 million for the quarter ended 30 September, but a 38 per...
MUMBAI: Print media is riding on high valuations and will witness a wave of consolidation over the next few years, investment experts said on Tuesday at...
MUMBAI: UK-based private equity and venture fund 3i is acquiring around 33 per cent stake in Mumbai-based Nimbus Communications for $45.50 million (approx Rs 1.97 billion),...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch-controlled British Sky Broadcasting Plc (BSKYB) has posted a net profit of ?425 million for the last quarter ended 30 June 2005, an increase...
MUMBAI: Star Plus has rejuvenated the 9-10 pm slot. Just when its four one-hour weeklies were slipping in ratings, the channel launched two dailies to draw...
MUMBAI: SET India’s events and movie channel Max has reasons to celebrate. The channel, quoting TAM figures, claims that the premiere of Spiderman I has won...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms Ltd has posted a 36.4 per cent decline in net profit to Rs 93.46 million for the quarter ended 31 December 2004, as...
MUMBAI: Raghav Bahl promoted Television Eighteen has posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 82.5 million (excluding Forex gains/losses and deferred tax adjustment) in the quarter...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms’ net profit rose 4.52 per cent to Rs 384.10 million for the quarter ended 31 December 2004, as against Rs 367.50 million a...
MUMBAI: Etc Networks delivered a strong performance during Q3 ended 31 December 2004. The company has posted a net profit of Rs 28.74 million as compared...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd has decided to exit from Padmalaya following the controversial transfer of shares in Padmalaya Telefilms Ltd (PTL). That is if the deal...
Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms today announced a revenue growth of 10 per cent, EBITDA growth of 30 per cent and profit after tax growth of 16...
Animation major Pentamedia Graphics Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs 987.40 million for the financial year ended 31 March, 2002 as compared to Rs...
Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms, which has been on the lookout for a strategic investor to Zee for a while now, plans to raise its overseas holding...
Television Eighteen India Ltd, 49 per cent stakeholder in CNBC India, has has called a meeting of the sub-committee of the company board of directors on...
Hinduja TMT Ltd today announced a net profit of Rs 464.02 million for the year ended 31 March, 2002 as compared to Rs 420.66 million for...
MUMBAI: Divinity, unlike human frailty is more consistent at producing tangible results, at least for television production houses. Ask Creative Eye. The production house that has...
Zee Telefilms Ltd today announced its second quarter results (ended September 30, 2001). It comes as no great surprise that even though the income from sales...
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...
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....
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...