MUMBAI: Talk show host Oprah Winfrey plans to enter into the reality space with two shows tentatively tilted Oprah Winfrey’s The Big Give and Your Money...
MUMBAI: Americans spend more time watching TV, listening to the radio, surfing the Internet and reading newspapers than anything else except breathing. Data released by the...
MUMBAI: Kid’s television behemoth Disney is approaching its second anniversary in India on 17 December and with this, the channel is signing off 2006 with a...
MUMBAI: 4Kids Entertainment Inc., global children’s entertainment and merchandise licensing provider, has announced the formation of two subsidiaries, TC Digital Games, LLC, a trading card company,...
MUMBAI: Global revenue from online video sales, rentals or subscriptions will total just $298 million this year, but will grow to nearly $1.5 billion by the...
MUMBAI: CrickeM, which positions itself as the World’s first social video network for Cricket has been launched. A community network that is intended to motivate people...
MUMBAI: At the television trade event Natpe next year in Las Vegas television format creator and distributor FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) will offer big brand shows and...
MUMBAI: Nominations for the 64th edition of the Golden Globes have been announced. ABC’s hospital soap Grey’s Anatomy and Showtime’s Weeds got four Golden Globe nominations,...
MUMBAI: News broadcaster CNN has announced that its show Quest seeks out magic. The show’s host Richard Quest seeks to discover the truth behind the dark...
MUMBAI: Dentsu and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), governing body of the Asian Games, have inked an agreement under which Dentsu will maintain its position...
MUMBAI: Global sports, entertainment and media company IMG has announced that Tim Rothwell and Bruno Maglione have joined the company as executive VPs and Co-MDs of...
MUMBAI: Zee News Ltd. (ZNL), the demerged company of Zee Telefilms which houses the news and regional channels, is targeting 25 January as the launch date...
MUMBAI: The Indian Telly Awards has hit the sweet spot yet again on the ratings front for Sony. The three-hour awards show had a 3.54 TVR...
MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM has entered the Limca Book of Records with its radio film Kuch Kuch Sunta Hai. Earlier this year the radio station...
MUMBAI: Disney and Excel Home Videos kicked off a DVD Film Carnival on 11 December, that will continue through the festive season till 31 December, at...
NEW DELHI: President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam stressed the need to assess and debate issues relating to invasion of privacy while inaugurating “India Telecom 2006” here...
NEW DELHI: The controversy over Cas (conditional access system) does not seem to end. If the broadcasters have taken shelter in the various legal courts, consumers...
MUMBAI: Prannoy Roy’s NDTV has pulled off a market positioning coup with the unveiling this morning of BSE Broadcast, a joint initiative between the news media...
MUMBAI: The European parliament has backed the proposals to overhaul the 1989 Television without Frontiers Directive, last updated in 1997 and which has failed to keep...
MUMBAI: Mobile communications service provider Nokia has announced a tie up between its sub multimedia brand Nokia Nseries and the Indian Music Industry (IMI) for a...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC’s commercial arm BBC Worldwide has sold the show Charlie and Lola to CCTV, the Chinese national broadcaster. The pre-school animation show...
MUMBAI: Disney Channel has been launched in Papua New Guinea on HiTron, television and data service provider. Commenting on their entry in a new market, Walt...
MUMBAI: As two billion Christians prepare to celebrate the Christmas season, news broadcaster CNN offers a broad-ranging documentary on the tumultuous early years of Christianity –...
MUMBAI: Reed Midem, which organises the television markets Mip TV and Mipcom in Cannes, France, has announced that European entertainment network RTL CEO Gerhard Zeiler will...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company (Asia Pacific) Limited and Cathay Pacific Airways have joined hands to offer exclusive Disney in-flight merchandise starting 1 January 2007. This...
MUMBAI: Following its attendance at the recently concluded Asia Television Forum (ATF), television format creator and distributor FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has announced a number of deals...
MUMBAI: Tourism Australia and US broadcaster Discovery are partnering to bring Orange County Choppers’ Paul Teutul Sr and his sons Paul Jr and Mikey – the...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has started a small closed technical trial to test some of the technologies around Push-VoD to digital video recorders in the...
MUMBAI: Alfred Haber, founder of Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. (AHDI), has announced that the company is heading to The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE)...
MMUMBAI: Bennett Media Worldwide (BMW), the worldwide distribution arm of The Bennett Group, has acquired global television distribution rights to two location action-adventure series from extreme...
MUMBAI: Deals worth $47.1 million were concluded at the Asia Media Festival. This involved the Asia Television Forum, Asia Film Market Conference and Asia Animation Conference....
MUMBAI: The direct-to-home (DTH) space is set to get more crowded in India with the telecom majors planning to join the fray in addition to their...
MUMBAI: Organisers for Broadcast Asia 2007 have revealed that the show will increase its presence for Comgraphics and Animation 2007. Over 80 per cent of exhibition...
MUMBAI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has announced its strategic direction for 2007, as well as the results of 2006 Annual general...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan today announced the telecast of its new serial, Agaaz, from 8 January. The serial will be telecast on Mondays at 9 pm on...
MUMBAI: Netherlands has pulled the plug on transmission of free to air analogue television, becoming the first nation switching completely to digital signals. Fewer than 75,000...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Limited (ZTL) today said that the demerged shares of the company would start trading on the stock exchanges from 18 December. This follows...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks’ senior vice president (content and creative) Cyrus Oshidar has put in his papers. After ten years, Oshidar who formed one of the Old...
MUMBAI: China Central Television (CCTV) partnered with partnered with China Mobile and China Unicom has launched its mobile TV service. CCTV will provide live broadcasting and...
MUMBAI: Worldspace Satellite Radio , a satellite-based digital radio services has laucnhed the first ever 24-hour national Gujarati radio channel, Radio Umang. Channel No 111 on...
MUMBAI: The US Consumer Product Safety Commission, in co-operation with the firm named below, have announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. It has...
MUMBAI: South Korea expects to have 21 million users of mobile TV by 2012, based mostly on free-to-air terrestrial DMB, followed by a slowly growing base...
MUMBAI: Nickelodeon US has signed on a new animated series titled Mighty B, for which Saturday Night Live’s Amy Poehler will lend her voice and be...
MUMBAI: The BBC has started a technical trial to test some of the technologies around Push-VoD to digital video recorders. Working in partnership with Cabot Communications,...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network premiered its first-ever original live-action and animation movie, Re-Animated recently scoring double-digit delivery and ratings gains across key demos in the US and...
NEW DELHI: Sony Entertainment Television has announced its latest soap Kulvadhu, to be telecast from 25 December. The soap will air Monday to Thursday at 8:30...
MUMBAI: Nickelodeon US has signed on a new animated series titled Mighty B, for which Saturday Night Live’s Amy Poehler will lend her voice and be...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks (MTVN), a unit of Viacom has announced the formation of a Global Inclusion Strategy advisory committee. Drawn from across MTV Networks’ brands and...
MUMBAI: 2006 has not been an easy year for the English movie genre. Firstly there was the order from the Mumbai High Court, which saw HBO...
MUMBAI: Intelsat has announced that it has renewed and expanded its agreement with the National Basketball Association (NBA) for international distribution of the league’s games. The...

This will close in 10 seconds