MUMBAI: Rose Audio Visuals headed by the brother-sister duo of Goldie Behl and Shrishti Aryais is set to get an added boost with the addition of...
MUMBAI: Whistling Woods International Institute (WWI) for film, television and media arts, the upcoming institute promoted by Mukta Arts, has announced its international advisory board. Among...
MUMBAI: Dr Prannoy Roy promoted New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) has re-appointed Infosys chairman and chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy and Price Waterhouse Coopers chairman...
MUMBAI: Inox Leisure Ltd, has announced its entry into film distribution. The company has acquired exclusive distribution rights to heavyweight titles such as Garam Masala,...
MUMBAI: After six years at the helm, Malayalam language network Asianet’s COO Mohan Nair is moving on. Nair, who put in his papers last week, is...
MUMBAI: Nickelodeon director business and operations head Pradeep Hejmadi, who was re-designated as MTV Networks India research head only recently, has decided to call it a...
NEW DELHI: Having spun a success story in India with National Geographic Channel (NGC), it’s time for the organisation’s MD Zubin Gandevia to move ahead to...
TV Pulse 2005, the annual research initiative put together by the Joint Industry Body (JIB) and Tam Media, series continues with the paper – set2view:who‘s watching...
MUMBAI: MTV has announced that after a long tenure of 18 years with the company, Frank Brown has decided to leave his post as MTV Asia...
By VINAY KANCHAN Business Lunches – a pleasurable diversion for some, but for those considerably lower in the food chain (no pun intended), an experience equivalent...
MUMBAI: Martha Stewart has announced that she will tap her daughter Alexis Stewart and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) board chairman Charles Koppelman, to be her...
MUMBAI: Ashok P Hinduja has been made executive chairman of the board of directors of Hinduja TMT Limited with effect from 1 October 2005. Approval of...
MUMBAI: After months of speculation in the market, Star India has finally appointed a revenue management head in Paritosh Joshi. This was confirmed to Indiantelevision.com by...
MUMBAI: B.A.G. Films Ltd has appointed Rajiv Mishra as the director of International School of Media and Entertainment Studies (iSomes), based at Noida. Somes...
MUMBAI: Sharp Corporation and Sharp Laboratories of Europe have developed a new LCD panel, which can simultaneously display different information and image content in right and...
A few decades back, nobody would have imagined that the Rs 5 billion Jagran Prakashan, headqaureted in the north Indian industrial town of Kanpur, would straddle...
NEW DELHI: Dish TV, India’s first direct-to-home (DTH) service, has got itself a new managing director in Rajiv Garg. Garg, who has been with the Essel...
The procrastinator – a tribute to those who convert the fine art of taking a simple decision into a 52-episode soap opera (pending DD approval and...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom has appointed Michael J. Dolan as its executive VP and CFO. Dolan will report to Viacom chairman and CEO Sumner Redstone. Dolan...
MUMBAI: Essel Group’s 24-hour interactive and gaming channel PlayTV, managed by Dakshin Media Solutions, is now on air. The channel, which was soft-launched on 1 April,...
MUMBAI: IPC Media, which claims to be UK’s largest consumer magazine publisher, has launched Britain’s very first compact paid-for TV Listings weekly TV Easy. Backed by...
MUMBAI: Forbes has released its Global 2000 annual ranking of the world’s biggest companies. No media company has made it into the top 50. Time Warner...
MUMBAI: Veteran American cable television executive Betty Cohen has been named Lifetime Entertainment Services president and CEO. Media conglomerate Disney has a 50 per cent stake...
MUMBAI: We all know it’s a mad ad world out there. But, going by what was said at the concluding day of FICCI Frames in Mumbai...
MUMBAI: Has the main and traditional media lost its mojo? The answer is a definite no. However advertisers would do well to consider alternative platforms like...
Let me start with a question? If it rains in Mumbai, why is there is no campaign for ice cream in the rest of India?If there...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: After reporting news, media companies are making news. Literally. The Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel group and Bhopal-based Bhaskar group have dragged the big daddy of...
MUMBAI: Yes Bank today announced the appointment of Munish Dayal as president – business banking. He will be responsible for planning, directing and steering the business...
MUMBAI: After an eight-month sabbatical, Rajeev Chaurasia former MTV India associate director programming has joined Optimystix as project head. Chaurasir, who formally joined recently, would oversee...
MUMBAI: Former BBC director-general Greg Dyke is believed to have been approached to head The Netherlands-based Endemol, which owns 500 different TV formats including Big Brother....
By VINAY KANCHANThe Headhunters – a noble tribe that gets us all a better deal. Sworn to secrecy and acting with the utmost discretion they...
MUMBAI: Abraham Thomas, who recently resigned as ad sales head of MTV India, is joining Red FM, the India Today Group’s radio arm, as chief operating...
MUMBAI: A watch to measure ratings from a cross section of mediums without being obtrusive! That is the latest innovation from the Swiss based technology company...
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT subsidiary IndusInd Media & Communications will have a new chief executive officer, even as the company has decided to de-merge its information technology...
By VINAY KANCHAN The escape artist: – the ad industry‘s tribute to Houdini, the great American magician, most famous for his escape acts. Over...
MUMBAI: Atlas Media, a leading NY-based independent television producer, has signed a deal with London-based ID Distribution for worldwide television distribution rights, excluding North America, for...
MUMBAI: Media moghul Rupert Murdoch has joined a list of high profile people that are donating millions of dollars to help the victims of the Tsunami...
MUMBAI: While every channel prepares to recap the events on the past one year as part of their year-end programming strategy, Headlines Today has its eyes...
MUMBAI: BBC World will feature a special programme named World Review 2004 that will review and analyse the main events of 2004. The show will also...
MUMBAI: This year BBC World Service Hindi’s annual radio drama Race is a three-part look at how the market forces are dictating news content and journalism,...
MUMBAI: BBC World will be airing two special year-end one-hour episodes – Review 2004 and India: The Year Ahead. These specials will take a hard look...
MUMBAI: On 31 December, Aaj Tak turns four and the news channel has rolled out an anniversary contest for its viewers. The contest started on 20...
MUMBAI: The Prannoy Roy-promoted NDTV Ltd has finally got permission from the government to uplink its proposed business channel from India. A government source confirmed the...
MUMBAI: BBC News is joining forces with ITV News to commission a joint exit poll at the next general election. The poll will be jointly undertaken...
MUMBAI: Earlier this month the BBC announced major organisation restructuring in the UK. As per the plan it will let go off of thousands of employees...
MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18 and the SAS Institute Inc organised an interactive panel discussion on Corporate Governance: The Cornerstone of an Intelligent Enterprise in Mumbai on 9 December....
MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18 and Infosys Technologies undertook an initiative to reawaken the State and Central Government to meet the Infrastructure demands of Mumbai by organising the second...
MUMBAI: DirecTV, Inc. today announced that it had expanded its South Asian programming lineup with the launch of Aastha Broadcasting Network, which is India’s most prominent...
MUMBAI: The second edition of the CNN Young Journalist Award (YJA) 2004 saw Zee News’ Rahul Agarwal and Businessworld’s Vikas Dhoot bagging the coveted award. On...
MUMBAI: The BBC has finalised an online agreement with ETtoday.com a news website in Taiwan. The BBC will provide news headlines and features from the BBC’s...