MUMBAI: Alan Bergman has been promoted as president of the Walt Disney Studios (TWDS), it was announced by TWDS chairman Dick Cook. In his new role,...
MUMBAI: For Anil Ambani, it has been the hardest part of the game. The last mile, crucial for offering triple play services, has so far been...
NEW DELHI: Asked by a young guy on a chilly December Thursday evening what was the secret of making money and leading a good life, pat...
MUMBAI: Nickelodeon from the stable of Viacom International Inc. will air a special edition of Ten Things Wrong With Television on the Nick News show. This...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms’ lone southern player Zee Telugu has completed six months. The channel, originally soft launched in September 2004, was re-launched in May 2005 with...
MUMBAI: Charter Communications, JVC, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc., NBC Universal, Samsung and Sun Microsystems have come together to form HANA, the High Definition Audio Video...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced results of 2005 Annual General Meeting elections in Singapore to the CASBAA Council of...
MUMBAI: Inspired by the good show Bollywood has put up this year, the Hero Honda 12th Annual Star Screen Awards 2006 is being planned in a...
MUMBAI: When football fans in Germany enjoy the matches of the 2006 Fifa World Cup on giant screens, SOS Children’s Villages will benefit too. Infront Sports...
MUMBAI: Adlabs Films Ltd is seeking shareholders’ approval, by way of postal ballot, to borrow money up to Rs 10 billion. The company has recently raised...
MUMBAI: Reed Business Information (RBI) Asia has announced changes in the management and editorial teams of Television & Entertainment Group (TEG) with the departure of publishing...
MUMBAI: Nick US’ hit show SpongeBob SquarePants is set to launch in Mandarin on China’s pubcaster CCTV’s dedicated kids’ network on 28 January 2006. It will...
MUMBAI: SYS-Con Events, which produces i-technology conferences and expos, will host the first internet TV conference. The event, Internet TV Conference & Expo 2006, will take...
NEW DELHI: E-City Ventures, part of the $5 billion Essel Group, which is promoted by Subhash Chandra, today announced a Rs 2.5 billion expansion of business...
MUMBAI: French electronic vendor Thomson has announced an agreement to acquire the Thales Broadcast & Multimedia (TBM) business unit, which provides IPTV services (TV services over...
MUMBAI: Sahara One’s thriller Kohinoor, which is loosely based on The Da Vinci Code, will be completing its run tomorrow (15 December). The channel is planning...
MUMBAI: The second editon of the on-going Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), organised by the Dubai Media City, was attended by Viacom chairman and chief executive...
MUMBAI: Al Jazeera International, the 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel has appointed Amanda Palmer to head the entertainment department. Palmer will write, produce and...
MUMBAI: Animal Planet has commissioned Oxford Scientific Films to produce an hour-long documentary about a former game warden and his family who rescue and raise a...
MUMBAI: The International Hockey Federations (IHF) drive to increase the global exposure of hockey continues with the launch of WorldHockey.tv, an Internet television channel. WorldHockey.tv is...
MUMBAI: Multi-platform music network in the US Music Choice has announced that its on demand content on American cable television company Comcast has surpassed 200 million...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC is marking the first anniversary of the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004 with some specially commissioned programming. On Radio 4, the...
MUMBAI: The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Sirius Satellite Radio in the US have announced a multi-year agreement. This expands upon their current broadcast arrangement and...
MUMBAI: BBC World has been recognised with a special award for excellence in news at the Hot Bird TV Awards, the pan European ceremony to recognise...
MUMBAI: Sunday Telegraph associate editor and former Financial Times financial editor, Robert Peston, has been appointed as the BBC’s new business editor. He takes up this...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) is looking at further expanding its presence in Asia by launching its anime channel Animax in Korea in the second...
MUMBAI: Preparations have begun to create and launch the new English language website for Al Jazeera International headquartered in Doha. The company has signed an agreement...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks and Microsoft Corp. have collaborated on the design and development of MTV Networks’ new digital music service called ‘Urge’. Set to debut domestically...
MUMBAI: Let bygones be bygones! That’s the attitude kids channel Nick is currently sporting. Not among the kids’ hot favourites, the channel is looking at upping...
MUMBAI: With a view to expanding mobile messaging in India, MSN and Mobile 365 have further signed up with five local mobile service providers. These include...
MUMBAI: Madan Mohapatra, who recently quit Universal McCann, is all set to join OMS as head of the Delhi office. Confirming the development to Indiantelevision.com, OMS...
MUMBAI: The otherwise low profile Tata Teleservices head of media, Anjali Kasbekar is in the news. And for all the good reasons. Kasbekar, a long-standing professional...
MUMBAI: WorldSpace the satellite-based digital radio services has unveiled its new logophone, an audio signature of the company’s broadcast identity phrase, ‘WorldSpace Satellite Radio’. The exercise...
MUMBAI: Cablevision Systems Corp. and Sesame Workshop, have launched Sesame Street Games, a new subscription interactive games service featuring the Muppets from Sesame Street available to...
NEW DELHI: The telecast rights of the Commonwealth Games 2006 have been bagged by pubcaster Prasar Bharati, beating competition from a pay TV operator that had...
MUMBAI: E! Entertainment Television crowned the five actors from Desperate Housewives -Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria and Nicollette Sheridan – and the show’s...
MUMBAI: The year of the Desperate Housewives, it is turning out to be on American television. All four of the main cast of Desperate Housewives are...
MUMBAI: With North American broadcasters on board for its new 2-D animated comedy Grossology, Nelvana will be on the hunt for toy partnerships at Toy Fair...
MUMBAI: A little over a year has gone by since lifestyle channel Discovery Travel and Living (DTL) launched in India. The channel has announced that it...
MUMBAI: Russia Today has resumed broadcasting after a day’s disruption . It presents round-the-clock news about Russia in English. The channel had stopped broadcasting on 12...
MUMBAI: Al Jazeera’s English-language satellite news channel service has inducted Elizabeth Filippouli as their Doha news anchor. With the aim of servicing the international audience, the...
MUMBAI: India’s communication payload Insat-4A has been installed atop its Sylda multi-payload dispenser system ahead of its 22 December launch onboard an Ariane 5 generic launcher...
MUMBAI: International production and distribution company Cableready has picked up the international rights to more than 100 hours of additional programming from New York Times Television....
MUMBAI: CBS and UPN have teamed up with mobile entertainment provider Ampd Mobile to bring television programming related content to the Ampd members broadband enabled wireless...
MUMBAI: Leading cable companies in the US like Time Warner and Comcast are planning to offer family-friendly programming packages early next year, thus giving parents a...
MUMBAI: ThompsonConnect Worldwide (TCW), the relationship marketing division of JWT, will soon be re-christened RMG Connect, as part of a global initiative by JWT to add...
MUMBAI: Remember Burt Reynolds bring muscle cars back to life with the movie Smokey and the Bandit, thus igniting America’s love of muscle cars. This winter,...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC did well for itself at the Royal Television Society’s prestigious Technology Awards a few days ago.The RTS Technology Awards seek to...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has said that the terms of a committee looking into the financial restructuring of pubcaster Prasar Bharati has been extended till...
MUMBAI: Crown Media, which owns and operates Hallmark US has said that it has been approached by several parties regarding the acquisition of Hallmark. Earlier this...

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