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MUMBAI: Global media giants have suddenly got serious about internet. The mood is reflected in the recent buys News Corp and Viacom have done, gobbling up...
MUMBAI: Complementing Disney’s latest animated feature film, Disney Store is offering a wide selection of Chicken Little merchandise. A variety of Chicken Little themed small and...
MUMBAI: Malayala Manorama Limited is planning to launch a news channel, strengthening the growing trend of print media companies expanding into television business. Malayala Manorama’s top...
MUMBAI: Cablelabs in the US is teaming with Cox Communications and the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce to host the second annual US-Israel Broadband Business Exchange. The...
MUMBAI: US media firm NBC Universal Cable Entertainment will launch a crime cable network Sleuth in January 2006. The upcoming entertainment cable channel will be dedicated...
MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Entertainment has fired 250 to 300 employees at its Burbank studio in california in an effort to cut costs. Media reports indicate that...
MUMBAI: BBC, along with computing and disability charity AbilityNet, has launched a new site designed to help people with disability to get the most out of...
MUMBAI: British independent sports producer Sunset + Vine has won an award at Sportel Monaco for its cricket coverage. At the recent Sportel International Television Convention...
MUMBAI: In an effort to add variety, the action oriented AXN has announced a new programming initiative Sports Disasters. The show will air every Monday at...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Time Warner has announced results for the third quarter ended 30 September 2005. Revenues rose by six per cent over the same period...
MUMBAI: UK pay TV platform BSkyB has announced results for the first quarter ended 30 September 2005. Revenue increased by eight per cent to £1,023 million...
BANGALORE: Shaw Wallace Breweries (SWB) has roped in popular Kannada actor Darshan as the new brand ambassador for the beer brand Knock Out. In his role...
MUMBAI: Zee Network will be launching three of its channels on the Direct to Home (DTH) platform in Nigeria. Zee TV, Zee Cinema and Zee Music...
MUMBAI: Zee Network will be launching three of its channels on the Direct to Home (DTH) platform in Nigeria. Zee TV, Zee Cinema and Zee Music...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: An optimistic Prasar Bharati says that it would end up netting revenues to the tune of Rs. 1.5 billion from the one-day...
MUMBAI: UTV is in talks with Kalanithi Maran’s Sun Network to jointly launch a Tamil language kids channel. As per the discussions conducted thus far, UTV...
MUMBAI: BBC World chairman Michael Grade has announced that BBC World News, the international news and information channel, will be launched in the US. The channel...
MUMBAI: US pay TV platform DirecTV has reported third quarter net income of $95 million compared with a net loss of $1.01 billion last year and...
MUMBAI: Fremantle International Distribution (FID), the distribution arm of global production outfit FremantleMedia, has licenses The Story of 1 to US pubcaster PBS. The Story of...
MUMBAI: As football’s governing body Fifa embarks upon a new era in the field of TV, the organisation has announced that it has secured a long-term...
MUMBAI: BBC Film Network (bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork) – the interactive showcase for new British short film-making talent has been launched as a full service with new features and...
NEW DELHI: Concerned about slow uptake of broadband in the country, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today suggested that the government review some of...
MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18 business news channel has announced a fresh new lineup of market hour shows, including mid-day market updates. The new segments between 12 noon and...
BANGALORE: Aiming for an aggressive growth in the urban retail market, Levi Strauss’ Dockers has launched its newest offering ‘Never Iron’ – the 100 per cent...
BANGALORE: Mobile services provider Tata Indicom (Tata) has announced their new initiative ‘Non Stop Mobile’ with a catchy phrase ‘Chal Chala Chal’. This scheme, applicable across...
MUMBAI: Merchandising and licensing have been setting the cash registers ringing for kids’ channels internationally. However, in India this alternative source of revenue has just about...
CHICAGO: Omnicom Group is the top global ad organisation and the J. Walter Thompson unit of the WPP Group is the largest core US agency brand...
MUMBAI: Looks like television channels are adapting to the film industry’s formula of creating sequels to popular movies. Zee TV launched the second part of one...
MUMBAI: CNN has made three appointments in Atlanta , London and Baghdad to boost the network’s international newsgathering and anchoring operation. it has hired Isha Sesay...
MUMBAI: Revenue earned from streaming subscription and download media in the US is forecast to reach $1.378 billion in 2005, up 109 per cent over 2004....
MUMBAI: The second edition of the Pogo Amazing Kids Awards, the first-ever Indian television award programme dedicated exclusively to kids has announced nominations for the various...
MUMBAI: Fans of Broadway musicals are in for a treat! In an effort to add variety, English general entertainment channel Zee Café will air the special...
MUMBAI: India TV has asserted that its primetime news show Breaking News made it big on 19 October night when it telecast visuals of actor-turned MP...
MUMBAI: UK’s commercial broadcaster ITV and 3, the UK-based mobile media company, have announced a far reaching output deal that delivers Britain’s most popular shows to...
MUMBAI: HBO US has concluded an exclusive two-year television deal with Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball to develop and produce original programming for the network....
MUMBAI: MTV Networks has announced Michael J. Wolf the former managing partner of McKinsey & Company’s has been named as the president and chief operating officer....
MUMBAI: Veteran journalist and celebrated author V K Madhavan Kutty died in New Delhi due to a massive heart attack. He was 71. Kutty, who was...
MUMBAI: Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) and Shaw Communications are partnering to make Turner Classic Movies (TCM), the channel that celebrates the golden age of the movies,...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom, which owns MTV, Nickelodeon and Paramount among other properties, has reported results for the third quarter ended 30 September, 2005. Revenues increased...
MUMBAI: Within weeks of a new movie hitting cinema screens across the UK a BBC Inside Out West investigation discovered pirate DVDs of the new animated...
MUMBAI: Online music fans in the US who love digital music have a new place to ‘tune in’ to discover, sample and buy music on the...
MUMBAI: Interactive Television Networks (ITVN) which deals with Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has created an independent film network. This will launch next month. The Indie Film...
MUMBAI: US satellite television operator DirecTV is all set to launch its first original programming series. The weekly show CD USA will debut in 2006 January....
MUMBAI: Zee-Turner, the distribution joint venture between Zee Telefilms and Turner International India, has appointed Arvinder Singh Chopra as the senior vice-president – sales of Zee-Turner...
MUMBAI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has informed Tata-Sky Ltd, the 80:20 joint venture between the Tatas and Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group, that the launch...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has commissioned a drama series The House of Saddam. Focussing on the lives of Saddam’s closest family and an elite few,...
MUMBAI: Market research firm Research and Markets has come out with a study FM Radio in the Arab World 2005. The Arab World is undergoing an...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has announced that its office in Tashkent is being suspended and all local staff withdrawn with immediate effect. The office will remain...
MUMBAI: The launch of Vietnam’s first telecom satellite Vinasat has been put on hold till 2008 instead of the original time in 2005 due to unfinished...
MUMBAI: News Corporation announced that Stanley S Shuman has resigned from the company’s Board of Directors. Shuman, who is managing director of Allen and Company LLC,...
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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.
From boards to bytes, chess readies for a nation-first showdown in Riyadh.
Leadership change follows layoffs, protests and a bruising battle over trust.
Revenue rises 4.3 per cent to Rs 10,209.33 crore while deferred tax gain lifts bottom line sharply
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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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