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MUMBAI: Jakks Pacific, Inc. has signed a worldwide licensing agreement with MGM Consumer Products to develop, manufacture and distribute a line of toys based on the...
MUMBAI: The competition is heating up in US broadcaster UPNs drama reality show Americas Next Top Model. 13 finalists fight for their fairy-tale ending. This season,...
MUMBAI: Investor Carl C. Icahn and Time Warner Inc announced that they have reached an agreement regarding specific actions the company will take to improve its...
MUMBAI: The Banff World Television Festival and Canadian broadcaster CTV are teaming again to host the CTV Canadian Documart. This is an annual competition offering development...
MUMBAI: A day after Nimbus Communications clinched a $612.18 million (Rs 27.24 billion) global media rights deal for cricket to be played in India for the...
MUMBAI: Zee Sports will telecast the tennis extravaganza in the Middle East – The 2006 WTA Dubai Women’s Open live from 20 February. Taking place at...
MUMBAI: BBC America has given Google the rights to premiere an episode from the third season of Footballers’ Wives. Media reports indicate that the first episode...
BANGALORE: Discovery is looking to make a sustained push this year as far as local production is concerned. A few days ago it had announced an...
MUMBAI: French media group Lagardere agreed to pay $624 million to Vivendi and transfer its 34% stake in CanalSat to get a 20% stake of Canal+...
MUMBAI: Following encouraging on-air ratings and increases in mobile downloads, viewer-submitted video uploads, and VSpot mobile streams, US broadcaster VH1 and IFilm have announced plans to...
MUMBAI: Ahead of the Union budget session, Star News has lined up a bouquet of budget programmes. Star News brings forth a Budget Special — Ab...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports has launched a soccer based show called Kick Off. The game show based on a quizzing format features two popular ex-EPL players;...
MUMBAI: Lifestyle channel Zoom is all set to launch Pond’s Banungi Main Miss India (BMMI), a 12-episode reality series based on the Pond’s Femina Miss India...
MUMBAI: Singapore’s MediaCorp TV is inviting 2,000 users to be part of the Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) trial group for its new video-on-demand service – MediaCorp...
MUMBAI: Enraged by the television media’s alleged negligence of serious issues in the North East region, cable TV operators in Assam have blacked out three national...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that it has selected BPO firm Capita as its preferred supplier for a ten-year HR services contract. The deal...
MUMBAI: Animax is all set to woo teens with a whole lot of gaming. Three new shows are set to launch on the channel. Starting 18...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Now that telecast rights to India cricket for the next four years have been sealed and delivered (though the signing on the...
MUMBAI: Discovery has launched its first direct-to-consumer Wap portal in the UK This allows consumers to access content via Wap, mobile TV and i-mode platforms across...
MUMBAI: Indias satellite broadcasting and telecommunications industries gave renewed support to optimising regulations for satellite services within India. A meeting attended by members of the VSAT...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has appointed David Bainbridge to lead the marketing of its digital and new media services. Bainbride is currently YooMedia’s business-to-business arm...
MUMBAI: The Indian cricket board announced today that Nimbus Communications Ltd has won the telecast rights to India cricket for the next four years after putting...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster NBC has extended the sitcom The Office through 11 May 2006. The network will add an extra original episode plus other encore broadcasts...
MUMBAI: Tata Sky Ltd has joined hands with Thomson for set-top-boxes (STBs) to support the launch of its direct-to-home (DTH) service in mid 2006. Thomson, well...
MUMBAI: Dora the Explorer won her second T.O.T.Y (Toy of the Year) Award as “Most Popular Property” of the Year by the Toy Industry Association. As...
MUMBAI: Playtex Secrets and Desperate Housewives star Alfre Woodard (Betty Applewhite) have got together to unearth secrets of American housewives. The findings of the survey revealed...
MUMBAI: Star India has deputed Star One programming head Ravi Menon as Vijay TV general manager. Harsh Rohatgi, who had been heading the channel as deputy...
MUMBAI: International television and media group FBC has entered into a strategic partnership with US independent producer Bunim-Murray Productions enabling exploitation of both entities formats. The...
MUMBAI:The US-based CDMA Development Group (CDG) has reported that the CDMA2000 subscriber base reached 225 million users worldwide at the end of 2005, a 25 million...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company, Cisco Systems and Intel Corporation, through its leading investment arm Intel Capital have invested in MovieBeam, Inc., a newly formed digital...
MUMBAI: Zee Studio is all set to celebrate the Foreign Language Film Festival. The channel will premiere movies nominated to represent their respective countries in the...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan and the Prannoy Roy-promoted NDTV, amongst others, bagged the Commonwealth Broadcasting Awards 2006, which were announced today here. Other winners included...
MUMBAI: Trudy Corporation has inked a deal with Sesame Workshop for a new publishing license focusing on book and audio CD formats. The license territory includes...
MUMBAI: Fear is the key? Fear of losing out on a piece of the India cricket telecast pie could well decide just how high the bids...
MUMBAI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan (DD) will be using MediaSentinel to protect their content distribution in a three month trial program. DD would be among the first...
MUMBAI: It is finally peace between Zee Network and Shiv Sena. Kaka Mala Vachva, the play shown during the Zee Marathi Gaurav Awards was discussed today...
MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corporation joint venture The CW, which is scheduled to launch in August this year has named Paul McGuire as senior...
MUMBAI: Turner Brodcasting has announced that it has acquired the network premiere rights from NBC Universal for King Kong, with broadcast slated for 2008. TBS and...
MUMBAI: This summer, MTV US will launch three new series out of its News & Docs division. This follows the success of the True Life series....
MUMBAI: Fox is launching a reality game show, Unan1mous, in which nine strangers will be locked in a bunker until they unanimously vote on which one...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation has petitioned the government to remove the disparity between the electronic and print media by seeking exemption from service tax...
MUMBAI: Indias readiness to embrace new technologies, opposed to Chinas cautious approach, makes the former a more attractive market for suppliers of broadcast and related technologies,...
MUMBAI: Zee Trendz will telecast the 22nd Annual Miss Hawaiian Tropic International Pageant Finals on 18 February at 9:30 pm with repeats on 19 February at...
MUMBAI: The music channel arm of Star India, Channel [v] brings back the third season of glam reality show — Get Gorgeous. The show will premier...
MUMBAI: The Prannoy Roy-promoted NDTV Ltd is set to make its next big move in the news space by launching a news channel that will primarily...
MUMBA: The second edition of the conference on sport and technology will be held on 23 February in London. The event will be held in association...
MUMBAI: The official song of the 2006 Fifa World Cup in Germany will be Time of Our Lives by the vocal group Il Divo. Il Divo’s...
MUMBAI: The Chennai-headquartered regional television broadcaster Sun TV Ltd has filed the red herring prospectus with Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for its proposed Initial...
MUMBAI: The consumer channel Awaaz has lined up its budget-programming, that questions the relevance of the budget for the Indian consumer. Awaaz will make a trip...
NEW DELHI: The government’s going radio ga GA looks like. Information & broadcasting secretary SK Arora today said that the government is exploring phase three after...
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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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