MUMBAI: Ten Sports announced an agreement with News Corp controlled digital television platform DirecTV to offer live action from each and every international cricket match played...
HONG KONG: The Indian presence at Filmart has largely been on the distributor side. A number of small Indian companies essentially into selling of film, video...
NEW DELHI: The government today exhorted the telecom equipment manufacturers to ramp up their capacities to meet the burgeoning demands of the country’s telecom industry. ...
HONG KONG: Warner Home Video has launched a joint venture video operation with China Audio Video (CAV), marking the first time that a US studio has...
MUMBAI: The business news and information network CNBC Asia Pacific today announced a new appointment to its management team with Anne Pappas taking on the role...
HONG KONG: The biggest trade mission at the convention has come from France, which is aggresively looking at pushing their film and television content across the...
BANGALORE: Starting 21 March 2005, Karnataka’s Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) began transmitting live sessions through ISRO’s satellite Edusat across its 100 affiliated colleges in Karnataka. Earlier...
BANGALORE: SAB TV’s Bangalore based VP Sales Madhusudan is migrating to the Telugu channel Maa TV as marketing & sales head. He will be joining the...
HONG KONG: It’s action stations Filmart at the first Entertainment Expo Hong Kong (which runs from 22 March to 6 April). Season Nine of Filmart, Asia’s...
MUMBAI: The UK based publication Asians in Media (AiM) which looks at how Asians are faring in the UK media space has launched two new forums...
HONG KONG: Filmart continues to grow exponentially both in terms of scope and visitor numbers. After over 1,000 visitors passed through the gates on the opening...
MUMBAI: BBC DG Mark Thompson has announced savings of ?221m a year in the organisation’s content and output areas by 2008. This will be reinvested back...
MUMBAI: The Indian entertainment industry will grow yearly at the rate of 18 per cent to reach Rs 450 billion in 2009. This data is contained...
BANGALORE: ISRO’s INSAT-3A and KALPANA-1 satellites in alliance with Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) have signed an agreement with Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of the Department...
NEW DELHI: Affordability. Connectivity. High Speeds. Value. Four things that the impending broadband revolution in India needs to focus on to become a reality. Chaired by...
MUMBAI: The Big Picture! The entertainment industry, currently valued at Rs 222 billion, is expected to grow to over Rs 580 billion by 2010. The main...
MUMBAI: An independent cable operator in Navi Mumbai was shot dead today afternoon, possibly bringing to surface the dirty face of cable wars. Sanjay Gupta was...
HONG KONG: Interest in India comes from the oddest places. How does Argentina sound as a location for Indian TV and film productions? That’s just the...
MUMBAI: BBC’s smash hit Strictly Come Dancing will debut in the US following a new production agreement between BBC Worldwide and ABC. The US version of...
MUMBAI: Asian satellite operator Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (Asiasat) and Pakistan’s Recorder Television Network have signed a lease agreement. As per this the Pakistan company...
NEW DELHI: News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch today held one of the longest meetings with a representative of the Indian Government, information and broadcast minister Jaipal...
BANGALORE: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be launching many satellites including Healthsat for tele-medicine. Also figuring in the list are OceanSat II, Radar Imaging Satellite,...
MUMBAI: There are no two ways about the fact that sports, especially cricket is a driving passion in our country. Now with Sania Mirza and Narain...
NEW DELHI: News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch flew into Delhi today evening on the second leg of his five-day India visit, even as certain parts...
NEW DELHI: The buzzword today is IPTV. Telecom companies like Reliance Infocomm have already expressed their intention to get into the arena. Now it is the...
NEW DELHI:Multinational telecom major Motorola launched today its wireless broadband solution here. The company introduced products at a time when the broadband segment is set...
MUMBAI: With new channels launching in the country almost every month, gone are the days when only Doordarshan had a stronghold in the country. While the...
MUMBAI: Its kid’s time at FICCI Frames 2005. ‘Catch them young’ has always been the mantra of brand pundits who are experimenting anything and everything that...
NEW DELHI: If any media czar could whip up the appetite of the media, it certainly is Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, the fifth largest...
MUMBAI: The film industry needs to pay more attention on training and education if it has to grow, according to CII national entertainment committee chairman and...
NEW DELHI: The government today said that it was not opposed to foreign direct investment (FDI) in the media, including print and electronic. Speaking at a...
MUMBAI: The CII-KPGM report has identified ten action points for the entertainment industry and the government. The aim is to drive home the point that growth...
MUMBAI: When everything you do, see, say means business! Broadcaster Zee has tied up with Frames 2005, which claims to be the largest convention in Asia...
MUMBAI: Now in its 18th year Nickelodeon US’ Kids Choice Awards (KCA) will dazzle with megastar wattage. Some of the hottest entertainers around join the host...
MUMBAI: Having drawn in new audiences with Indian Idol, Sony TV is now warming up to the task of retaining them. An early prime time launch...
NEW DELHI: The Government has promised to encourage private players in broadband. Speaking at the 13th Convergence India, the I&B minister Jaipal Reddy said, “We welcome...
NEW DELHI: In what could be termed a moral victory for Zee Telefilms, the Madras high court today ruled that the cancellation of the tender order...
NEW DELHI: ATM, ethernet, RPR, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, satellite… What next? In this age of consumerism, it is not only content and marketing that are consumer driven,...
HONG KONG: Waiting to exhale. That could well describe the story for the Star Group’s having to exercise Buddha-like patience over the Indian government’s lack of...
MUMBAI: A mistake in the on-screen graphics took place during an episode of US broadcaster Fox’s music based reality show American Idol. As a result the...
MUMBAI: FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) CEO Tom Gutteridge has put in his papers. FMNA is the LA-based production business of international content creator FremantleMedia. Gutteridge...
MUMBAI: In India, the once ubiquitous vulture, is now on the brink of extinction. Over a decade, their numbers have dropped by almost 90 per cent....
HONG KONG: Shah Rukh Khan at Filmart 2005? Believe it or not, the Indian superstar and his blockbuster Kal Ho Na Ho was used to promote...
NEW DELHI: Loral Skynet, subsidiary of the US-based Loral Space & Communications, is now targeting India with its IP-led services and feels that the country’s DTH...
MUMBAI: The Indian animation industry is currently growing at the CAGR of 30 per cent. Kids channels are likely to explode with more players and result...
MUMBAI: While in India copyright is sometimes interpreted as the right to copy, abroad this issue is taken very seriously! This piece of news is a...
MUMBAI: This is a piece of news that will make content makers and providers in the US sit up and take notice! The research firm Research...
MUMBAI: UTV’s Hungama TV has acquired a host of new Japanese and French animated series to strengthen its various time bands. The channel has also tweaked...
MUMBAI: Marking the 10th anniversary of it’s parent company, Yahoo! India today announced the Yahoo! Mobile Megafest, an offer for mobile users across the country. Staring...
MUMBAI: Close on the heels of a humungous account win from Kishore Biyani’s Future Group, Starcom Media Vest Group has unveiled an independent agency called FutureWorks...

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