MUMBAI: Former Miss India and MTV VJ Nafisa Joseph died last night. The former VJ apparently committed suicide over what reports say were problems with her...
MUMBAI: Anthony Salz has been appointed as BBC’s vice-chairman and Richard Tait as a BBC governor. Meanwhile, Dermot Gleeson has been re-appointed for a second...
MUMBAI: Who thought our kids are so eager to run a TV channel? Hungama, UTV’s much awaited kids’ channel has received 100,000 plus entries from kids...
MUMBAI: The three trade shows for the broadcast and telecom sectors in Asia BroadcastAsia, CommunicAsia and EnterpriseIT have all manged to achieve their exhibitors objectives of generating...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom’s co COO Tom Freston has announced reorganisation of operations under his leadership. This includes the company’s book publishing, theatrical exhibition, music...
MUMBAI: BBC World is looking to Bollywood to strengthen its general entertainment lineup. From tomorrow 31 July at 10 pm, BBC World is introducing the first...
MUMBAI: Showing aggresive intent, Star India’s Hindi movie channel Star Gold has an eventful August-September planned out. Taking off on the Nimbu mar ke campaign of...
MUMBAI: After music and sports-based themes, the reality genre is poised for broadening its horizons in the US but through animation. Viacom’s Comedy Central has announce...
NEW DELHI: The radio broadcast industry has to wait for some more time before the broadcast and cable regulator comes out with its recommendations, which would...
MUMBAI: Zee TV, in its endeavor to reach out to Asian audiences, took a step forward with a special beam for Singapore to get interactive with...
MUMBAI: The Asian Golf Tour, the body for professional golf in Asia has launched the Asian Tour Weekly. The television magazine show aims at giving a...
MUMBAI: The latest acquisition by Star India, The Apprentice, launches on Star World, in six weeks. The NBC produced reality series that tests competitors’ survival...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks International (MTVNI) has announced that it has signed a deal with CiTV in the UK for the broadcast rights to its sister channel...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate News Corp has announced that its president and COO Peter Chernin has signed a new, five-year employment pact. Chernin has been News Corps...
MUMBAI: August 2004 is special for the Advertising Club Bombay as it completes 50 years. The club plans on celebrating this in a fitting manner at...
MUMBAI: Events and movies channel Max’s latest innovation Hollywood Hungama has hit the bull’s eye. The first movie off the block Anaconda that aired on 27...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment has launched its animation channel Animax on Hong Kong Cable. The channel is seen on five dedicated services in Taiwan, Hong Kong,...
MUMBAI: Music may still be the soul of FM in India, but that isn’t stopping FM stations from toying with different genres for that edge over...
MUMBAI: At a workshop held at last month’s BroadcastAsia 2004, techniques of protecting and restoring audio heritage material in the region were discussed by three experts....
MUMBAI: TV Today Network Limited declared their unaudited financial results for the first quarter ending June 2004 in which the company’s total income stood at Rs...
NEW DELHI: Zee Telefilms Limited today reported first quarter consolidated revenues of Rs 3207 million, a 10.8 per cent growth over the corresponding period in the...
MUMBAI: Gailtel the telecommunication service wing of gas company Gail has announced that its sales have increased to Rs 200.50 million in 2003-04 from Rs 110.71...
MUMBAI: Essel Propack, laminated tubes manufacturer head quartered in India and promoted by Essel Group, today announced the un-audited consolidated global results for the first half...
MUMBAI: The board of Padmalaya Telefilms has announced its financial results for the first quarter results ended 30 June 2004. The company has posted a net...
MUMBAI: Thomson has announced that it is acquiring a major stake in Nokia/CITIC Digital Technology (NCDT). Thomson delivers integrated solutions (technologies, equipment and services) for the...
MUMBAI: Zoom, the television offering from the Times Group, has bestowed the duties of selling exposure slots to DS Mittle & Sons, the publicity and advertising...
MUMBAI: Rediffusion DYR today announced that KS Chakravarthy (aka Chax) would be taking over as the agency’s national creative director. Chax returns to the ad world...
MUMBAI: Satellite operator Panamsat has announced the promotion of Mike Antonovich to executive VP global sales and marketing. Antonovich will continue to aggressively lead the company’s...
MUMBAI: Come next year and the Kingfisher brand will take to the skies. Kingfisher Airlines from Indian alchohol beverage company The UB Group promises a unique...
MUMBAI: L V Trading India Private (“LV Trading”), an independent, non exclusive distributor of Louis Vuitton Malletier, a world luxury brand has opened its second Louis...
MUMBAI: Production house Creative Eye that has been having a good run with its dubbed mythological serial Sri Maha Ganapathy on Asianet in the Sunday morning...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide the commercial arm of the BBC has announced the launch of BBC Motion Gallery. This will provide direct access via the Internet to...
MUMBAI: FremantleMedia’s Catherine Mackay and CBS Broadcast International’s Armando Nu?ez Jr, have been named as the Dinner Co-Chairs for this year’s International Emmy Awards Gala, which...
BANGALORE: After a string of allegations and counter allegations that the past week witnessed, the Bangalore cable tragedy episode seems to be on the right track...
MUMBAI: What better way to propagate a social message than by weaving and blending it into the storyline of a popular primetime serial? More and more...
MUMBAI: The Publicis Groupe chairman and CEO Maurice Levy will be giving the keynote speech at this years Mipcom television and entertainment market, which will be...
MUMBAI: The Hinduja group has appointed Mark Silgardo as president – corporate finance. Silgardo comes in at a position created recently, says an official spokesperson....
MUMBAI: Sony’s biggest show of the year, Indian Idol, a music-based reality show kicks off in October for which a marketing blitz has also been lined...
MUMBAI: Discovery Networks International has appointed New York-based Heller Communications to develop the brand identity for its upcoming launch of lifestyle channels. Three channels devoted to...
MUMBAI: The churning in the news channels continue. CNBC TV-18’s Ashu Dutt, an established anchor on the business channel has called it quits. When contacted,...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan, proposing to launch its free KU-band direct-to-home television service on 15 August, expects to seed the market with over 10,000 boxes before...
MUMBAI: Sab Kuch Bhula De! (forget everything). That is Sony’s tagline for its biggest show of the year, the reality-themed music event Indian Idol. As reported...
MUMBAI: Zee has decided to pull its Sunday-Wednesday 8 pm comedy show Hum Sab Baraati off air around mid-August due to faltering TRPs. About three-and-a-half months...
MUMBAI: Kaahin Kissii Roz (KKR), the long-winding social thriller which morphed into a supernatural drama somewhere along the way, is finally coming to an end. Come...
MUMBAI: The US-based communications & networking research and consulting firm Yankee Group has predicted that pay-TV subscriptions in the Asia Pacific region will increase to $22.1...
NEW DELHI: Having successfully established itself in both the English and Hindi language news markets, the two channels from the NDTV stable are now looking at...
NEW DELHI: Acceding to representations made by the industry, the government has decided to include non-feature films produced on digital/video formats for the Indian Panorama and...
MUMBAI: Announcing its foray into the film distribution arena recently, Zee Network, UK has also made known its decision to take up production and distribution of...
MUMBAI: American independent cable channel Anime Network moves from a strictly video-on-demand (VoD) format to a 24×7 national network from today (27 July). The network has...
MUMBAI: News Corp’s technology solutions provider NDS Group announced today that CJ CableNet had selected NDS as the conditional access provider for the launch of digital...

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