MUMBAI: Dow Jones & Company has announced it is ending its international partnership with CNBC. The company, however, has no plans to alter the Dow Jones...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Sahara One Motion Pictures is planning to start its own music and home video labels as a natural extension to Sahara’s ambitious...
MUMBAI: Viacom Inc and News Corp-controlled DirecTV have announced a long-term carriage agreement. This will ensure carriage for Viacom’s bouquet of channels like CBS, UPN, BET,...
MUMBAI: FremantleMedia has rolled out a new content division called New Platforms. FremantleMedia Enterprises CEO Catherine Mackay has been promoted to CEO of this new business....
MUMBAI: “Aap shaadi-shuda hai?”…. “Nahi meri shakal hi aisi hai.” “Taxi meter chalta hai kya?”….. “Kyon, meter pe baith ke jaoge?” “Mera naam Geeta hai”…. “To...
MUMBAI: Hollywood movie studio Columbia Pictures has announced that it will release the film Monster House in July 2006. What makes this film unique is that...
MUMBAI: A Rwandan student has won the BBC’s talent competition for best radio report in French. Nicolas Gatambi has been awarded the Grand Prix – a...
MUMBAI: Malayalam Television Network Asianet is all set to launch its third channel, Asianet Plus. The entertainment (movies & music) and lifestyle channel will go on...
MUMBAI: The Viacom Inc.- owned CBS has its gameplan in place to battle ABC’s super hit series Desperate Housewives. The channel has lined up a series...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster CBS and The Recording Academy have signed a new five-year extension that will keep the annual Grammy Awards on CBS till 2011. This...
MUMBAI: International media company Celador International has announced the development and launch of a pre-school animated comedy (not so) Scary Monsters. Once completed, this new series...
MUMBAI: New Delhi Television Ltd first-quarter result ended 30 June witnessed a dip in the net profits. The company’s profit fell 99 per cent; this fall...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster ABC has announced that production work has begun on the drama series Commander In Chief. The show will star Oscar winner Geena Davis...
MUMBAI: AXN – the action and adventure oriented channel celebrates the 50th anniversary of the The Guinness World Records. Starting this Wednesday, 20 July at 9...
MUMBAI: Broadcast News, the newly-floated television company by Television Eighteen Ltd in association with Rajdeep Sardesai and Sameer Manchanda, has managed to lure away one of...
MUMBAI: The Disney Channel is going the whole nine yards as far as the Kim Possible Code Tod contest is concerned. Walt Disney Television International (India)...
The Pakistani model cum actor Ali Zafar is making waves in the music industry with his debut album Huqa Pani. Channel [V] 's Pop Diaries will...
MUMBAI: Pop princess Britney Spears is all set to take television’s reality genre to newer heights. Reportedly, the singer has decided to film herself giving birth...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks is aiming at growth through acquisitions, both in the music and the kids’ space. It has, however, put its plans to acquire Chennai-based...
MUMBAI: China-based mobile media solutions provider EyeMail Technologies, Inc. (ETI) and the California-based TruVideo, which provides patented technology products and end-to-end services for enabling multimedia on...
MUMBAI: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) has entered into a partnership with Thompson to jointly explore opportunities, to provide new technologies to the Indian media and...
MUMBAI: If CNBC could come here and set up a JV news channel, what’s to prevent someone from India doing the reverse? That seems to be...
MUMBAI: The nominations for the 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards for the period of 1 June, 2004 through 31 May, 2005, were announced today by the...
MUMBAI: Chennai-based Raj TV Network (RTN) is going the e-commerce way to sell its content online internationally. The portal www.amazingraaj.com will be used to sell video,...
MUMBAI: American broadcaster KTSF-TV, which caters to the Asian expatriate community has said that it opposes legislation that would federally regulate TV ratings. The aim of...
MUMBAI: IndusInd Media & Communications (IMCL), the holding company of leading MSO IncableNet, has promoted Manoj Matwani to president of the company, giving him operational responsibility...
MUMBAI: BBC chairman Michael Grade and director-general Mark Thompson have moved up, dislodging News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch off the top position of MediaGuardian...
MUMBAI: The worldwide retail value of all Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) Set Top Boxes (STBs) will blast off next year. It will power drive up to...
MUMBAI: Moving Picture Company India Ltd has informed BSE that it has signed orders worth Rs 260 million. The company has entered into an agreement with...
MUMBAI: American tennis icons Venus and Serena Williams will give TV viewers a sneak peek into their private lives with their new reality TV show –...
MUMBAI: Fast Track Entertainment Ltd has announced the signing of exclusive agreement with cable provider Bodvod, New York for programming, syndication, distribution and marketing of South...
MUMBAI: Zee Cinema has launched a fan search – Superfan – Amitabh’s Biggest fan, to find out big B’s most genuine fan. Superfan is integral to...
MUMBAI: Sahara One Television looks to be perking up. The channel’s viewership increased 27 per cent from 63 to 80 GRPs in the week ending 9...
MUMBAI: The star of US broadcaster NBC’s sitcom Will And Grace Sean Hayes and his producing partner Todd Milliner have come up with a unique concept...
MUMBAI: Zee’s South Asian feed, Zee TV South Asia has completed one year. From August 2004, a separate feed for Asia Pacific was initiated and now...
MUMBAI: The Norway-headquartered Mobile Media Company, one of the global providers of wireless interactive entertainment services and marketing applications, has acquired the UK-based Rubberduck Media Lab...
MUMBAI: Amidst the hurly-burly of the news channel business, another one has been lined up to further crowd the airwaves. This time, it’s the Rajat Sharma-promoted...
MUMBAI: A group of global companies have formed a consortium led by Mumbai-based Hinditron Services Pvt Ltd. to provide telecom companies turnkey solutions for IPTV (Internet...
MUMBAI: This is an initiative through which Discovery Asia is looking to promote excellence in filmmaking in China. The broadcaster in partnership with the Shanghai Media...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network US has announced that it will air the action series Ben 10 next year. In the show the main protagonist is a 10-year-old...
NEW DELHI: Bowing to the industry’s reluctance to publish individual rates of pay channels, the broadcast regulator has now decided to only list on its website...
MUMBAI: FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide (FLW), which is the licensing division of format creator FremantleMedia has announced the appointment of Andrew Piller as the international brand manager...
MUMBAI: Star India’s urban upscale channel Star One seems to be finally making its mark on the ratings charts. The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, the channel’s...
MUMBAI: Pond’s brings to you the Googly Woogly Contest for the second time. Last year Nitasha Bhateja from Chandigarh won the hearts of the Pond ‘s...
MUMBAI: Disney’s once-in-a-lifetime fundraising event held aboard the Disney Magic cruise ship last night generated more than $1 million for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. After Disney...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch had put big bet on China, a market which he fancied would soon take over as the fastest-growing in the world with its...
MUMBAI: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, hosted by Emmy award-winner Meredith Vieira, is teaming with Netflix, the world’s largest online movie rental service, to find...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate News Corp has announced the formation of an online unit Fox Interactive Media (Fim). The new unit will leverage the strength of...
MUMBAI: After the remarkable box office success of Kya Kool Hai Hum, soap factory Balaji Telefilms is ready with its next ‘K-toned’ offering Koi Aap Sa....
MUMBAI: Broadcast Worldwide’s Bangla Television network Tara has its seven telefilms nominated for the prestigious Kolkata Telefilm Festival at Nandan. The festival gives an opportunity to...

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