Star Movies will premiere One Hour Photo, a thriller on 21 January at 9 pm. The movie stars Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Dylan Smith,...
MUMBAI: Documentaries in digital format will be the highlight of MIPDOC 2005, to be held in Noga Hilton, Cannes from 9 April to 10 April. The...
NEW DELHI: India’s broadband cable and satellite TV industry, a $2.7 billion revenue opportunity in 2004, is in a state of flux as uncertainties surrounding market...
MUMBAI: The market has seen some interesting purchases in media stocks recently. HDFC Mutual Fund has acquired 88,555 shares amounting to 0.53 per cent of the...
MUMBAI: How’s this for broadcaster-filmmaker synergy? After Ab Tak Chappan and Masti, MTV has taken innovation in film promotion to a higher level partnering exclusively with...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney Television International (India) (WDTI-I) has putting its ad sales team in place. The latest to join is Star India’s manager Swati Shetty who...
MUMBAI: Madison Media continues its dream run and has ended the 2004-05 year end by winning the Tata Tea AOR. The media buying and planning AOR...
BANGALORE: Cauvery and Vaibhav, the two theaters that had sought an interim order from the Karnataka High Court (HC) against the three week moratorium on non-Kannada...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Buoyed by the success of its free Ku-band direct-to-home TV service, Indian pubcaster now plans to hold parleys next week with television manufacturers urging...
Mumbai: HBO has announced that the Ang Lee action adventure film Hulk will be the first film to air in 2005 under its Big One block....
MUMBAI: Channel [V] has roped in A. R Rahman for the auditions of the final phase of Samsung [v] Super Singer. The maestro will be judging...
MUMBAI: The movie awards season is in full swing. Star World will air the British Film and Television Academy (Bafta) awards on 20 February at 10...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network’s Megatoon Movie will celebrate Republic Day on 26 January by featuring back-to-back animated movies through the day beginning 9 am. Quest For Camelot...
ETC Music will telecast Olposoba in Concert, an event featuring Shankar Mahadevan, on 24 January from 9 pm onwards. Besides Shankar singing Breathless, a Jugalbandi by...
CANNES: Mobile TV is not a guy or girl thing. More than anything else it is a young thing. And, the young have the capacity to...
BANGALORE: Bagpiper Whisky, the flagship brand of the UB Group Spirits Division, has signed Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt as its brand ambassador. Dutt joins a select...
MUMBAI: Hollywood icon Richard Gere’s experience with a group of 21 year old Indians is not one which he will forget for a long time. On...
MUMBAI: The annual Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) brings a lot of excitement among the huge Malayali population in the Middle East and Malayalam channels capitalise on...
NEW DELHI: Allow full triple play to all rural broadband service provider; throw in some tax sops and ensure development of appropriate content in regional languages....
MUMBAI: After Fraiser and Friends another popular sitcom bids adieu. US broadcaster CBS has announced that the family comedy Everybody Loves Raymond which has been on...
NEW DELHI: British news major Reuters is planning to launch television channels in India and China, according to the media company’s CEO Tom Glocer, who said...
MUMBAI: This is a move that should give CNN International more cachet among Taiwanese viewers. The new broadcaster has moved to Channel number five on cable...
MUMBAI: America may be the most sophisticated and complex country when it comes to the growth of media. However Americans often do not put much faith...
NEW DELHI: Rapid changes in the competitive environment for video and broadband services, the development of new technologies and the emergence of new forms of content...
MUMBAI: According to a recent study by the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society (SIQQS), the time spent by the average internet user in...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry is now firmly of the view that regulation of content should be separate from carriage and is working on...
MUMBAI: It is the turn of the film exhibition and distribution companies to go public. Shringar Cinemas Ltd, which operates a chain of multiplexes and distributes...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan has finally admitted that there was a proposal to re-start DD Metro channel, which could not be carried out due to...
MUMBAI: Earlier this month music broadcaster MTV Asia had announced that its awards show which will take place on 3 February in Thailand would be renamed...
MUMBAI: It was a night when the show, that to a degree turned American television on its head Desperate Housewives was honoured. The show which galvanised...
MUMBAI: Siti Cable vice president operations Tapas Roy has put in his papers and is all set to join Sahara as vice president operations (North and...
MUMBAI: International communications technology company Harris has announced that it has been awarded a three-month $22 million contract by the Iraqi Media Network (IMN). The contract...
MUMBAI: Sirius Satellite Radio has entered into a deal with Microsoft to launch a video service for automobiles. The service is expected to launch in 2006....
NEW DELHI: First Discovery did it with its leisure and travel channel. And, now Nat Geo is doing it: use India as an incubating market to...
MUMBAI: National Geographic Film Library in the US has signed a licensing deal with Microsoft Game Studios. Microsoft will be provided with a limited-edition, interactive DVD...
MUMBAI: Photo agencies in the UK have been requesting copies of the BBC series Paparazzi – to give their own snappers some tips. Paparazzi ends its...
BANGALORE: Jayateertha Narayanrao Kamalapur, who headed the Bangalore DD Kendra during its initial years — 1983 to 1984 — passed away in Bangalore. Kamalapur who...
MUMBAI: Raj TV has undertaken major restructuring for its top mangement. The first step is the re-appointment of B Shankar, who joins as vice president sales...
MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM conducted the audition of its third radio jockey hunt, which was inaugurated by bollywood actress Isha Koppikar at Cross Roads, Haji...
MUMBAI: One television genre that is catching on in the country is the lifestyle brand. Last year Discovery had launched the Discovery Travel and Living channel....
BANGALORE: Doordarshan’s Bangalore Kendra director R Venkateswarlu is moving to New Delhi to the Prasar Bharati directorate. Venkateswarlu, who was relieved from 5 January, will be...
BANGALORE: Tickets prices for films running in multiplexes are set to be lowered as the state government cabinet exempted them from the payment of entertainment tax...
MUMBAI: The mobile phone is the name of the game for broadcasters seeking to broaden revenue sources. A case in point is MTV Networks US which...
MUMBAI: From Jakarta to New York and Baghdad to Paris, more than two million Muslims are expected to take part in this year’s Hajj pilgrimage to...
MUMBAI: Who is the greatest American ever? Discovery Channel US and America Online have teamed up to answer that question with a campaign that combines on...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney Television International (India) has appointed Amitabh Srivastava as director affiliate relations for Disney Channel and Toon Disney. As reported by Indiantelevision.com earlier, Srivastava...
MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18 in association with Autocar magazine today announced the winners of the fourth CNBC-TV18 Autocar Auto Awards 2005, which was held in Mumbai. Hyundai Getz...
MUMBAI: It is the second time in less than four months that Intelsat’s global fleet of communications spacecraft has suffered a satellite malfunction. The second accident...
MUMBAI: Encouraged by the success of its reality show The Osbournes MTV US has announced a new initiative that will follow yet another music superstar. ...
MUMBAI: Sesame Workshop and Turner International India have teamed up to co-produce Sesame Street in India. The development phase of the Sesame India was provided through...

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