MUMBAI: With the football World Cup less than two months away one of Fifa’s global partners Adidas has launched the Adidas+ Challenge. The event is being...
MUMBAI: The first International Interactive Emmy Awards at MIPTV in Cannes will have many international talents as presenters. Television and film star Dennis Haysbert (24, The...
NEW DELHI: Further developing their world-class entertainment vision for Caesars Singapore, Harrah’s Operating Company, Inc (a subsidiary of Harrah’s Entertainment) and Keppel Land today announced they...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel Group has launched DMCL (Digital Media Convergence Ltd) as a company that will facilitate the availability of digital content in...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms, which is planning a restructuring of its businesses, is toying hiving off its distribution activities as a separate company....
MUMBAI: “It’s the end of TV, the way we know it.” That was Zee group chairman Subhash Chandra introducing his keynote at the plenary session today...
NEW DELHI: Now Mumbai denizens need not worry about cleaning their countless shoes at home or go looking for the friendly neighbourhood cobbler. A shoe laundry,...
ESPN-Star Sports has denied that it has any immediate plans to launch sports bars and theme restaurants in India. An ESPN-Star TV spokesperson said that the...
MUMBAI: Communications and new media executive Jim has been promoted to the newly created corporate position of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group Worldwide Strategic Promotions &...
MUMBAI: Tuning into the radio industry. The FM private radio industry is gearing up for a massive expansion. Radio Tuning in-Again, the session at the second...
MUMBAI: The Telugu television market is poised to become the new hot spot with superstars Nagarjuna and Chiranjeevi acquiring stake in Maa TV Network Ltd, the...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has turned down a request from the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) to extend the 180-day deadline for fulfilling newly-formulated downlinking norms...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) has appointed Eric Freeman as vice president, technology, with responsibility for the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Online. Freeman...
MUMBAI: Lack of adequate bandwidth with cable networks be damned. And, notwithstanding the lingering uncertainty over CAS despite a favourable court ruling, TV companies are gung-ho...
MUMBAI: Maintaining competitiveness and universality will be the key issue for public service broadcasters as terrestrial broadcasting loses its audience share and media influence to emerging...
MUMBAI: Soros Strategic Partners LP and Dune Entertainment II LLC, an affiliate of Dune Capital Management LP, have signed a definitive agreement with Viacom Inc. to...
Home Box Office (HBO) is all set to launch on 22 March, 2000. The channel which boasts to be the first one on cable television when...
MUMBAI: Imagine a digital world where new broadband networks scale up the present 500 channel universe to one that is 500,000 or even five million strong....
Mumbai based broadband company Skynet Web TV Ltd is set to tap the Indian bourses with an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of the size of Rs...
MUMBAI: Overall internet advertising revenues in the US for 2005 totalled $12.5 billion, a new annual record exceeding 2004 by 30 per cent, according to a...
MUMBAI: Credit card major Visa International has been awarded the regional official sponsorship rights for the ICC Champions Trophy to be held in India in October...
MUMBAI: Even as the framework of the digital landscape is being drawn by the various industry stakeholders, the most prepared seem to be cable TV and...
MUMBAI: One of the driving forces behind reality television and a visionary TV producer Mark Burnett and AOL chief Jonathan Miller headline the conference activities on...
MUMBAI: “My time is prime time. Today consumers want to watch television at their own time, place and convenience. The scenario is moving from a phase...
MUMBAI: The media and entertainment industry will be able to receive large doses of capital only after sorting out several issues, investment bankers at a seminar...
MUMBAI: The relationship between studios and independent filmmakers was a subject discussed at an afternoon session of Frames, the convention for the business of entertainment. The...
MUMBAI: The second Al Jazeera International Television Production Festival, under the patronage of the chairman of the board of directors, Aljazeera Network H E Hamad bin...
MUMBAI: This is a time when foreign entertainment firms are looking at ways to get a foothold into India. American film producer Ashok Amritraj is no...
MUMBAI: “Distraction is a one night stand, attraction is a marriage,” said Star Entertainment CEO Sameer Nair. Speaking at FICCI Frames on ‘Attraction in the age...
HONG KONG: The Hong Kong Asia Financing Forum co organized by the Hong kong Trade development Council(TDC) and Hong Kong Kowloon and New Territories Motion Picture...
MUMBAI: Subscription revenues will drive growth in the television segment, jumping 29 per cent compounded annually over the next five years, from an estimated Rs 86...
MUMBAI: With the world eye on India, more and more global companies are setting foot here in order to flourish in a nascent but booming market....
MUMBAI: A film co-production treaty between India and the UK was signed last year. 10 films are expected to be made in the first year.. This...
MUMBAI: Film entertainment business will see a wider revenue spread across its segments with faster growth coming from home video and overseas box office collections. The...
MUMBAI: The world’s audiovisual and digital content market MIPTV featuring MILIA announced the 24 finalists for the inaugural ‘Content 360’ international digital commissioning competition. Of these...
MUMBAI: Europe’s biggest telecommunications group Deutsche Telekom will use Microsoft software to power new internet-based television services it plans to offer in Germany before the end...
MUMBAI: Get set to pay more for your cable TV connection. The state finance minister Jayant Patil presented a surplus budget of Rs 305.85 crore for...
MUMBAI: The terms of reference of a law that will bring about a separate broadcast regulator are almost ready. This was revealed to Indiantelevision.com by Information...
NEW DELHI: The 14th Convergence India 2006, which was inaugurated yesterday by the minister of state for telecommunications Shakeel Ahmed, saw over 60,000 visitors on day...
MUMBAI: A keynote address on the first day of Frames, the convention for the business of entertainment, was given by Wipro’s Azim Premji. He spoke about...
HONG KONG: Another initative has been included for the Hong Kong Festival by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC). Seeking to provide an ideal business...
MUMBAI: The uncertainty over the implementation of conditional access system (CAS) is not over yet. The government will take a call on whether it should move...
MUMBAI: AOL Germany subscribers will soon be able to download music videos, thanks to the “Music2You” (M2Y) service from Siemens. M2Y is an innovative service for...
MUMBAI: The start of something new! That is what Viacom president and CEO Tom Freston is looking to achieve in India. The company is looking to...
MUMBAI: Speaking at the MIX06 conference in Las Vegas, the director of the BBC’s new media and technology division Ashley Highfield, outlined the public broadcaster’s online...
MUMBAI: With the upcoming World Cup, partners of football’s governing body Fifa are getting busy with their plans to leverage the event both globally and in...
BANGALORE: Scooter manufacturer Kinetic Motor has launched the first of its Italjet acquired models Italiano series with the sobriquet “Blaze in Bangalore, Pune and Goa”. A...
NEW DELHI: At a time when relationship between India and Pakistan are thawing a bit for the better, Indian and Pakistani cable operators have joined hands...
MUMBAI: “Distraction is a one night stand, attraction is a marriage,” said Star Entertainment CEO Sameer Nair. This rather strange turn of phrase was what Nair...
MUMBAI: The relationship between studios and independent filmmakers was a subject discussed at an afternoon session of Frames, the convention for the business of entertainment. The...

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