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MUMBAI: Time Warner Inc. has announced that Mathias Dopfner has been elected to join its Board of directors. Dopfner is chairman, CEO and head of the...
MUMBAI: Looks like AXN’s decision to do an initiative around Bollywood is paying dividends. The channel has announced that it received with over 200,000 votes for...
MUMBAI: US kids channel Nickelodeon has announced that Noggin its commercial-free, educational network for preschoolers goes ‘Blue’ this month. The network invites American kids and their...
MUMBAI: Discovery will launch DMax in Germany in September 2006 in place of XXP, a free-to-air channel that the company acquired earlier this year. The fact-based...
MUMBAI: It has been a period of transition for Hallmark. The international division was sold to a group of investors by Crown Media last year for...
MUMBAI: The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) in the UAE, has acquired rights to 225 digital channels at the recently concluded ITU Regional Radio Communication Conference (RRC)...
MUMBAI: Soccer fans around the world logged on to FIFAworldcup.com, the official website of the recently concluded 2006 Fifa World Cup in Germany, in large numbers....
MUMBAI: Animal Planet has announced a new initiative Safari Sunday. This will air every Sunday from 7 am to 7 pm. The aim is to give...
MUMBAI: Marketing agency IEC in Sports has been appointed by China Open Promotions to handle worldwide television distribution for the ATP China Open tenis event for...
MUMBAI: Turner Broadcasting Systems has hired digital rights company Premium TV to provide a broadband TV service in the UK for its flagship kids’ channel Cartoon...
MUMBAI: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has formally cleared the application filed by Sri Adhikari Brothers News and Television Network Limited (the name has changed...
MUMBAI: Dragons, mega builders and science fiction are just a few of the themes that Discovery will tackle over the coming months. Dragons: A Fantasy Made...
MUMBAI: Vh1, the international music and lifestyle channel has line-up with the celebreality show Hogan Knows Best and Cribs as well as two Vh1 specials Live8:...
Zee Telefilms will be launching its sports channel on October 1. The channel is temporarily christened Zee Sports. Zee was counting on the bagging of the...
MUMBAI: A new study by global market research firm Ipsos indicates that as many as one in five Americans over the age of 12 now own...
MUMBAI: US cable television company Adelphia Communications Corporation has completed the sale of all of its assets to Time Warner Cable and Comcast Corporation for the...
MUMBAI: Freeing of cash flow and focus. That primarily is what the split of Viacom into two entities at the beginning of the year means in...
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT Ltd. (HTMT) will be divesting its entire 5.11 per cent stake in Hutchison Essar Ltd (HEL) to Hutchison Telecommunications (India) Ltd. for $450...
MUMBAI:AOL announced the nominees for the 2006 TV’s Top 5! Viewer Awards honouring television’s most talked-about moments from the past year in unique categories such as...
MUMBAI: MobiTV, Inc., a global player in television and digital radio services for cellular, WiFi and broadband enabled devices, has announced the immediate availability of the...
MUMBAI: MTV US and Apple have announced that new television programming from Spike TV, Nick at Nite, TV Land, Logo, MTV and The N is now...
MUMBAI: The US-based Interactive Television Networks, Inc., a global player in Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), has announced the launch of its ITVN Asia service. “We are...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan director-general Navin Kumar will be the interim CEO of Prasar Bharati till a selection panel zeroes down on a full time candidate for...
MUMBAI: Now that the month-long soccer World Cup has reached the quarterfinal stage, only eight of 32 teams remain in contention for the trophy. World Cup...
MUMBAI: Soccer’s governing body Fifa’s marketing agency Infront has been collating data for television audiences for the ongoing 2006 Fifa World Cup in Germany. And, it...
MUMBAI: US kids channel Nickelodeon says that its in the top spot for the 11th consecutive year. The channel says that it led basic cable as...
NEW DELHI: With the government yet to decide on a chief executive for pubcaster Prasar Bharati, an information and broadcasting ministry official is slated to take...
MUMBAI: Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is targeting to launch Insat -4C in the second week of July, the latest in the Insat 4 series. The...
MUMBAI: This would be right up Sony Entertainment Television India’s street, more so considering the fact that reality television and cricket are such key programming ingredients...
MUMBAI: Ups and downs are a part of each and every one’s life and such is also the case with Hungama TV. While a couple of...
MUMBAI: Thomson, the provider in digital video technologies, has entered into an agreement with Astro, the satellite TV operator in Malaysia to provide a new set-top...
MUMBAI: Disney Online, part of the Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG), will offer public libraries free subscriptions to Playhouse Disney Preschool Time Online, a safe, ad-free...
MUMBAI: Verizon has inked a deak with IMF: The International Music Feed Network. It is the 24-hour music television network featuring hit music from the United...
MUMBAI: Rajshri Media has tied up with humorists, Shailesh Lodha and Navneet Hullad, for the creation and development of humour content for telecom networks. The company...
MUMBAI: In a bid to strengthen its foothold in India, the German pubcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) has enterted into an agreement with DD Direct+, the pubcaster...
MUMBAI: Dow Jones & Company has named Ann Sarnoff president of Dow Jones Ventures, a new position charged with expanding the reach of Dow Jones brands...
MUMBAI: CBS reality show Big Brother: All Stars will premiere on 6 July with a strong online backing. With its seventh season, CBS has teamed up...
MUMBAI: TNS, a provider of TV and radio audience measurement (TAM) services has announced a renewal of the agreement with Viasat Broadcasting for the provision of...
MUMBAI: Bollywood is increasingly turning to news channels for in-film placement. The latest in line is Times Now. The English news channel has joined hands with...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company has elected independent Disney director and former Procter & Gamble chairman and CEO John E. Pepper, Jr., to serve as non-executive...
MUMBAI: After launching the one-hour weekly drama Vaidehi in the 10 pm slot on Mondays, Sony Entertainment Television (SET) India will now launch a thriller cum...
MUMBAI: Nokia has announced a new commercial DVB-H pilot in Stockholm with Teracom in Sweden, wherein it will be supplying the Nokia Mobile Broadcast System 3.0...
MUMBAI: Ten Sports will launch its third original World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) show of the week with the start of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). The other...
MUMBAI: Cable operators in Kerala went on a ‘6 am to 6 pm’ strike demanding rollback of the five per cent luxury tax proposed in the...
MUMBAI: Star and MediaCorp Studios, the production arm of MediaCorp TV Holdings, have announced the joint production of Angel Lover, a multi-million dollar high-definition modern romance...
MUMBAI: In a one-hour special, US broadcaster NBC will celebrate the 80th birthday of the legendary singer Tony Bennett. The special Tony Bennett: An American Classic...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide, UK pubcaster BBC’s commercial arm, has published its annual review for 2005/2006 and announced record profits of £89.4 million for 2005/2006, a year...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has appointed Zoya Trunova as the online editor for its Russian service. She will be heading a team of journalists, working to...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster NBC and online video destination YouTube have announced a strategic partnership that will combine NBC’s programming with YouTube’s vast audience to enhance the...
MUMBAI: Since the 2006 soccer World Cup began on 9 June, around 11 million fans have celebrated at the official ‘Fan Fest’ sites in Germany in...
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Cricket star named face of Delhi Khel Mahakumbh to fuel youth talent hunt.
Kolkata-based beverage maker reports stronger revenues and profits for December quarter.
A crime thriller steps out of the shadows as Telugu storytelling claims centre stage.
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NEW DELHI: Hamdard Laboratories gathered a cross-section of India’s achievers in New Delhi on Friday, handing out the Hakeem Abdul...
MUMBAI: For decades, creative storytelling has been the cornerstone of brand communication. The “big idea” amplified through catchy jingles, striking...
MUMBAI: Zepto has elevated Ahmad Muneeb to vice president – HR centre of excellence, placing him at the helm of...
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