MUMBAI: National Geographic’s Strange Days on Planet Earth, a four-part series will premiere on PBS, Wednesday 20 April 20 and 27 April 2005 from 9 pm...
MUMBAI: Intelsat announced that at an annual general meeting held in Paris today, its shareholders approved the proposed acquisition of the company by Zeus Holdings Limited....
MUMBAI: Bigger is better! It was a decade ago that Star Movies launched as India’s first pay channel. The Rupert Murdoch owned broadcaster is showing no...
MUMBAI: With every new show that Star Plus adds to its platter, the format seems to be veering evermore towards an urban and contemporary look and...
MUMBAI: Saddled with bad debts and a “dud” investment on conditional access system (CAS), leading multi system operator IndusInd Media & Communications (IMC) has done a...
MUMBAI: Robert Chua has been appointed to the advisory board of the Rose d’Or, the world’s premier festival for television entertainment. The Rose d’Or advisory board...
MUMBAI: Doodarshan News has invited tenders form experienced agencies for professional TV programme presentation format. The set is for presentation of news and current affairs programmes....
MUMBAI: One of the biggest news worthy events of this year the US Presidential election is approaching soon. On 2 November Americans go to the polls...
BANGALORE: Radio Sparsha – the 24-hour Kannada channel – has lined up two celebrity interviews for listeners on Dussehra day 23 October. On the programme Inchara...
MUMBAI: Dame Pauline Neville-Jones who has served as the BBC’s International Governor since January 1998, has decided to stand down from the Board of Governors a...
MUMBAI: The number two Hindi entertainment channel is going in for a makeover. Although Sony Entertainment Television isn’t looking at changing its logo, what it will...
MUMBAI: The Champions Trophy for cricket which was held in September and aired on Max and DD was considered a let down by many followers of...
MUMBAI: Darlene Investments a minority shareholder in DirecTV Latin America has filed a lawsuit against the Rupert Murdoch owned News Corporation, The DirecTV Group and their...
MUMBAI: There is some good news for the BBC following the criticism that its digital television channels got several days ago. An independent review has praised...
MUMBAI: National Geographic US’ four part special Strange Days on Planet Earth has been honoured by the Wildscreen 2004 film festival. It won a Panda Award...
MUMBAI: Hindi movie channel Zee Cinema’s latest production, the two-minutes movie paap ka Anth is complete. The movie will be released on 22 October in 56...
MUMBAI: It is not just Sony Entertainment Television India’s flagship SET that is gearing up for a new look and feel come 24 October. Sibling movies...
MUMBAI: Music channel ETC attempts bring its viewers the essence of pooja utsav with a variety of entertainment programmes. The channel says it has ensured the...
MUMBAI: Following up on his threat to sue CPI (M) general secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet for allegedly describing him as an “RSS man”, noted actor and...
MUMBAI: Zee TV’s Punjabi channels ETC channel Punjabi and Alpha TV Punjabi will present a music show Rangla Punjab live. The show, which will be held...
MUMBAI: The stage is set for the 1 November launch of StarOne, the most ambitious channel offering from India’s lead broadcast network. With StarOne’s launch, the...
MUMBAI: CNN.com has being ranked as the no 1 news organisation website for July 2004, according to Nielsen/NetRatings’ Home and Work Panel, as stated in an...
MUMBAI: Crime shows on television seem to be the cynosure of attraction lately with high TRPs on the cards be it Sony’s Crime Patrol, India TV’s...
MUMBAI: A meeting of the National Readership Studies Council (NRSC) held on 24 September in Mumbai has elected The Times of India Group president Pradeep Guha...
MUMBAI: With the US going to the polls next month to elect a president Nickelodeon US will run a Kids Pick the President initiative.. They can...
BANGALORE: The Karnataka Film Exhibitors Association (KFEF) has announced its plans to promote Kannada films. “We’ve (the KFEF) unanimously decided to promote Kannada language during a...
MUMBAI: Recently CG centric films like Spiderman and Shrek 2 have given stiff competition to our Hindi heroes. Now, we have Disney’s The Incredibles not competing...
MUMBAI: While the general Lok Sabha elections exit polls proved disastrous for all news channels, the Maharastra assembly elections have seen a definite improvement on the...
MUMBAI: In an attempt to combat music piracy the Indian Music Industry (IMI) has recommended a two-point programme.. The programme advocates the setting up of an...
MUMBAI: Television production house TWI has appointed Carlton Content’s former commercial director Martin Baker to take on a similar role with it. His responsibilities will include...
MUMBAI: Uefa has invited tenders for the TV rights for the European Football Championship (Euro) 2008. In India ESPN Star Sports had aired Euro 2004 a...
MUMBAI: At the forefront of the interactive TV (ITV) experience is the sport genre. ITV shows great potential in enriching the sports viewing experience and deepen...
MUMBAI: Viacom has announced that Oracle president Charles E. Phillips, Jr has been elected to its board of directors. Phillips will serve on the audit committee...
BANGALORE: Dr. DK Rabha, the serving director Doordarshan kendra Guwahati, died probably due to heart failure, at the Bangalore airport on 17 October at 5 am....
MUMBAI: ESPN is looking to build its brand further in China. The sports broadcaster will launch a Chinese-language monthly magazine in December. It will target the...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms’ net profit fell 21 per cent to Rs 112.83 million for the quarter ended 30 September 2004, from Rs 142.34 million a year...
MUMBAI: While the general Lok Sabha elections exit polls proved disastrous for all news channels, the Maharastra assembly elections have seen a definite improvement on the...
MUMBAI: Current perceptions of India worldwide seem to be dominated by it’s IT prowess. “It is time that the world sees India’s other strengths, be it...
MUMBAI: It was a colourful circus last night at the MTV Lycra Style Awards, which honoured the fashionable and stylish people in television, film, music, sports...
MUMBAI: To grab its due share from the Middle East region which has a significant Malayalam speaking population, regional language news channel Indiavision has taken some...
BANGALORE: The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) plans to launch broadband internet service by December-end or January 2005 all over India. The public sector corporation plans...
MUMBAI: Even as Walt Disney is working overtime to have everything in place for what now looks increasingly like a year-end coming out party for its...
MUMBAI: The news channel hopping game continues. The Times Group has lured another two executives for its soon to be launched business and news channel. ...
US based Jupiter Media Metrix has introduced a new media planning tool – Audience Insite Measures (AiM) – that will provide advertising agencies, advertisers and media...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms today announced the official launch of three specialist movie channels – Premiere, Action and Classic Cinema – on cable networks. Aimed at being...
NEW DELHI: DD Direct Plus, the Indian pubcaster’s proposed KU-band direct-to-home television service, just can’t seem to get going. Assertions to the contrary notwithstanding, the information...
MUMBAI: ‘We are making headlines!’ Or so claims Headlines Today. India Today’s English news channel claims that they have been providing relevant information in a format...
MUMBAI: A film partnership that lasted a decade and brought lots of Oscar awards may be coming to an end. Disney is said to be looking...
MUMBAI: Sahara India Entertainment Management, a joint venture company created to look after Sahara’s media and entertainment businesses, will be funded entirely by the Sahara Group....
BANGALORE: The Karnataka chief minister has requested the Karnataka Film Exhibitors Federation (KFEF) to refrain from defying the seven-week moratorium on the release of non-Kannada films,...

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