MUMBAI: Coca Cola’s soft drink brand Fanta is all set to take on the summer season. Apart from acquiring an innovative fun-filled shape called Fanta Spin,...
MUMBAI: The BBC has launched its first ever marketing campaign across the West Bank, promoting the availability of BBC Arabic on partner station, Radio Bethlehem 2000,...
MUMBAI: Greetings major Archies has tied up with Entertainment One’s forthcoming movie Waqt and will be introducing the character of Geri Giraffe in the same. Archies...
BANGALORE: After Akshay Kumar, who promoted Ruff & Tuff, one more Bollywood star is getting into apparel endorsement. Arvind Brands has appointed Saif Ali Khan as...
MUMBAI: Malayalam general entertainment channel Asianet is greeting the New Year on 14 April with a variety of special programmes, in addition to its regular shows....
MUMBAI: Vijay TV is presenting an interesting line-up of shows for the Tamil New Year’s day, 14 April. The channel has a mix of film-based shows...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network seems to be on a high. The channel has unveiled some new shows, acquired original programming franchise and acquisitions at 2005 Kids Upfront...
INDIANS STAND OUT WHEN HEARD & SEEN THAT IS The Indian presence may not be overwhelmingly visible (an understatement if ever there was one) but when...
NEW DELHI: Aimed at liberalising the regime, information and broadcasting ministry has cleared 20 per cent FDI for the private FM radio sector, but stuck to...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms is finally unveiling its 2D animation film Bhagmati mid June this year. Zee has plans to tap the international market by going for...
MUMBAI: Raj TV conducted a star studded event on 9 April to honour the doyen of the South Indian film industry K Balachander. The event was...
MUMBAI: NDTV, which launched the business channel NDTV Profit along with the 24-hour news channel NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India, has decided to go the pay...
CANNES: Average daily television viewing time increased on all continents during 2004, with the exception of Asia, according to Eurodata Worldwide data released on Monday at...
CANNES: Going by the opening day of MIPTV, one would be excused for thinking that the big advertising issue of today is whether TiVo (and technologies...
MUMBAI: The Kyunki’s and Kasautii’s of Indian television are not just helping Indian channels stay on top of the ratings charts, they seem to be helping...
MUMBAI: Star One’s ready to tickle your funny bone. Considering the fact that reality seems to be the flavour of the season, Star One’s latest endeavour...
BANGALORE: Internet connections would increase from 5.45 million in December 2004 to 18 million by 2007. By this time, broadband connection is targeted to touch nine...
CANNES: Digitisation of the programmes showcased at MIPDOC this year helped the number of screenings made onsite shoot up by 2.5 times over that of last...
MUMBAI: Star India’s top management seems to be on the move. Considering the expanding business plans of the leading network, Star India is looking at infusing...
CANNES: The weather has been kind to Cannes on Monday morning. The light drizzle that marked the two-day long MIPDOC 2005, has given way to clear,...
MUMBAI: There is a good reason why Buena Vista International Television Asia Pacific, the distribution arm of Walt Disney Television International, is confident that it will...
MUMBAI: The protest in the US against outsourcing is getting louder and angrier. A few days ago US employees of news organisation Reuters protested the outsourcing...
MUMBAI: Expo Communications in the US has announced a multi-platform affiliation agreement with broadband firm Bresnan Communications for the rollout of Expo TV. This is the...
MUMBAI: Star India has clarified that it supports industry’s stand on self-regulation and some parental control as far as content regulation is concerned. Making his stand...
MUMBAI: American media organisation Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has announced that it has named Sally Preston as Martha Stewart Living Magazine senior VP and publisher. Preston...
MUMBAI: Some new parting shots from the leading Hindi news channel Aaj Tak of TV Today network. Sahara news group, which is on a poaching spree,...
MUMBAI: Hallmark Channel has added yet another feather to its cap by enhancing its already varied bouquet of offerings. The channel will now be launching a...
MUMBAI: The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) has partnered with Cartoon Network for OMSI’s new Animation international touring exhibit slated to debut on the...
CANNES: Reed MIDEM is expanding the MIPCOM DVD Awards to include three new competitive categories. Organised in partnership with the DVD Association (DVDA, USA) and the...
CANNES: The Indian documentary duo of ‘Harry’ Amarpal Singh Bal and Rishi Rana Bharadwaj has won a fiercely contested pitch at the MIPDOC co-production challenge held...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks Europe (MTVNE) has announced that it will launch kids’ channel and web site Nickelodeon in Germany on 12 September 2005. This will be...
MUMBAI: The ministry of company affairs has not come out openly in support of the information and broadcasting ministry’s contentions on Space TV. Preferring to lob...
MUMBAI: MSN Video which provides streaming video content online, and IFilm a video entertainment destination on the Web, are joining forces to deliver IFilm content to...
MUMBAI: MGM has announced that a consortium comprising Sony America, Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Comcast and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners has completed its acquisition...
MUMBAI: Girls just wanna have fun. So, they are picking up more gaming equipment in the US. This fact came to light in a Nielsen benchmark...
MUMBAI: HBO, Cinemax and BBC America have won multiple Peabody awards in the US. The Peabody Award is considered to be very selective and prestigious and...
MUMBAI: The Subrata Roy promoted Sahara group has another news channel in the offing. This time the group is targeting the southern market with the new...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has stemmed its declining radio audience in India, according to an independent audience survey. The survey was commissioned by BBC World Service...
CANNES: Day Two of REED Midem’s documentary market Mipdoc opened to chill winds and a continuous drizzle, but that couldn’t dampen the high that one felt...
MUMBAI: Discovery Communications has announced it has created a consolidated global new media group to leverage the strength of its distinctive real-world media and entertainment brands,...
CANNES: What’s hot in docs? The same as is to be expected if truth be told. Good content allied to the creative use of the latest...
CANNES: Reed Midem’s two-day documentary market that precedes the annual MipTV in sunny Cannes this weekend continues to prosper with an increasing presence over preceding years....
CANNES: Six television production companies from five French speaking countries in the South and five national television networks from African Francophone countries are promoting their offerings...
BANGALORE: Manufacturers Association for Information Technology (MAIT) conducted a National Seminar on Wi MAX (Worldwide interoperability of Microwave Access) New wave for Broadband Connectivity, in Bangalore....
BANGALORE: A division bench of the Karnataka high court, comprising justices A M Farooq and A B Hinchgeri, reserved its orders on Tuesday on a petition...
MUMBAI: Forbes has released its Global 2000 annual ranking of the world’s biggest companies. No media company has made it into the top 50. Time Warner...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television India seems to be in an overdrive on the film acquisition front. Making a clean sweep of all the Yash-Raj films released...
MUMBAI: Veteran American cable television executive Betty Cohen has been named Lifetime Entertainment Services president and CEO. Media conglomerate Disney has a 50 per cent stake...
MUMBAI: As Sony prepares to seal the deal on its $4.8 billion acquisition of MGM, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has realigned its domestic and international television...
MUMBAI: Sansani, the daily crime show on Star News has completed 100 episodes. The channel claims to have redefined primetime news on Indian television. The crime...

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