MUMBAI: Fox’s musical reality show American Idol is going from strength to strength in the US. Looking to expand the reality genre the Murdoch network is...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The alliance between Mumbai Mid-day and Zee News is coming to an end as per an agreement this month. The alliance for sharing content...
MUMBAI: BBC’s acting DG Mark Byford committed himself to defending the BBC’s independence, which he described as “non-negotiable”.He recently delivered a lecture to the foreign press...
NEW DELHI: Known for its exploits in the edutainment genre and production of the adaptations of the international formats, Synergy Communications is all set for one...
MUMBAI: Marking its first volume programming distribution deal with a Chinese broadcaster, Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) has concluded a multi-year, television deal with China...
LONDON: Controversy is not new territory for Britain’s Channel 4. Earlier it drew the ire of UK authorities through shows like the Brass Eye paedophile special,...
MUMBAI: This is a scheme that gives Indian sports buffs the chance to fly to Greece for the Olympics. Visa has announced an offer for all...
MUMBAI: The couch potato just can’t seem to get enough of it. Television that is. Viewers worldwide spent 15 minutes more per day glued to their...
MUMBAI: Prannoy Roy’s NDTV channels have just completed a month on air on Pehla, the DTH platform in the Gulf targeting viewers from the subcontinent. Pehla...
CANNES: French gaming and interactive TV software developer Visiware has won accolades at the second AFDESI ITV Awards ceremony that took place last evening at the...
MUMBAI: Summer vacations are round the corner and capture kids’ attention, Hallmark has planned a summer full of horror, laughter, suspense, adventure and excitement for the...
MUMBAI: Who says it’s all about cut throat competition and politics among rivals! In a first of sorts, on April Fool’s Day, radio broadcasters Win 94.6...
CANNES: We have heard of direct to home television. Move over, its now time for direct to mobile television. News Corp senior vice-president content and marketing...
CANNES: The clouds lifted and the sun peeped out. But the drizzle continued for the first part of the day giving way to a good bright...
In her second column for bbcnews.com leading Bollywood star Priety Zinta has hit out at 'eve teasing'. Detailing her own experiences of sexual harassment she wonders...
MUMBAI: Radio broadcaster 93.5 Red FM is all geared up for the Samsung IIFA Awards. This is the second consecutive year that Red FM has been...
MUMBAI: The Indian Hockey Federation (IHF), India’s apex hockey body, today announced that the proposed domestic hockey league it is setting up in association with Kolkata-based...
CANNES: US independent distribution company International Broadcast Communications (IBC) has sold its “Famous” series to A&E Network’s Biography channel in the US and the UK. The...
For the next eight weeks BBC World’s Question Time India will be presenting a series of in-depth discussions of the major topics that lie at the...
Channel Nine chief Kerry Packer had a very busy India visit last week. He announced that he was very firm on making India his numero uno...
MUMBAI: Television Eighteen India Ltd (TV18), India’s premier business news broadcaster and a leading media content provider, informed Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) that the Delhi High...
MUMBAI: With Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, Friday nights are going to get action packed week after week during this April with Star Movie’s Friday Night Premiere. ...
MUMBAI:Channel [V] unleashes masti, madness and mayhem with a Phone Call from today. Answering a phone call can be a different experience this April with channel...
CANNES: Zee TV group outfit Padmalya Telefilms will be developing a kids channel as part its relationship with Italian firm Mondo TV. The channel called Space...
NEW DELHI: The Empire strikes back? Seems so. And with a vengeance too as news market leader Aaj Tak lures back people to its fold. Among...
CANNES: Zee TV group outfit Padmalya Telefilms will be developing a kids channel as part its relationship with Italian firm Mondo TV. The channel called Space...
NEW DELHI: For the new Star News director of news and editor Uday Shankar, the channel can almost run on an autopilot with its format and...
MUMBAI: Tam India has reason to celebrate. At the fourth Esomar Asia Pacific Conference which concluded yesterday in Shanghai, Tam’s paper on Product Placement was selected...
MUMBAI: Blame it on Titanic! A potent mixture of risk and glamour, travel in luxury liners is such a great lure that makers often push themselves...
MUMBAI: There are those in the industry who say this was a case that Star India and Zee Telefilms were bound to lose and so it...
MUMBAI: Gay television will shortly receive a shot in the arm. Media conglomerate Viacom is said to be interested in developing a homosexual themed channel for...
MUMBAI: Zee seems all set to tickle that funny bone. The next big launch to buttress the line-up is Sanjay Chhel Telefilms Pvt Ltd’s Hum Sab...
CANNES: Day Two of MipTV in Cannes was unpredictably wet, soggy and well chillingly cold.. Sales of umbrellas simply soared as savvy roadside touts exploited the...
MUMBAI: US broadcast network NBC has signed on talk show host Jay Leno for a further four years. Leno hosts The Tonight Show. The earlier contract...
MUMBAi: SET Asia continues its association with sport with the fifth edition of the annual 5-a-side football cup to be held next month. Drawing on the...
MUMBAI: Convergence in the country is going to be a reality sooner than later. Broadband services provider Broadband Pacenet is coming out with its latest project...
MUMBAI: Viacom’s US broadcast network CBS has announced that it placed first in viewers, households, men 18-49, men 25-54 and second in adults 25-54. This was...
MUMBAI: There are those in the industry who say this was a case that Star India and Zee Telefilms were bound to lose and so it...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is contemplating contensting the Andhra Pradesh high court order quashing a ban on political advertisements on the electronic medium. Reason: to...
CANNES: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, producers of the International Emmy Awards, will now enable their 500 judges to screen this year’s award...
CANNES: International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has announced Special award recipients for the 32nd International Emmy Awards. The winners of three special awards, which...
MUMBAI: It has balle-balle’d’ its way to top, or so it claims. India’s first 24-hour non-stop Punjabi music channel- Balle-Balle, launched on 14 October 2002, claims...
MUMBAI: Number 13 seems lucky for Walt Disney Co. A 13-year legal battle that the Little Big Mouse has been fighting to protect its proprietership over...
MUMBAI: It’s a union for a nobel quest. The ARY Digital network and Stardreamz entertainment USA, today announced the Music Mela 2004 – The India /...
MUMBAI: Zone Vision has inked an exclusive five-year carriage agreement with Cross Current in Pakistan to broadcast the company’s flagship Reality TV channel. Amongst the special...
CANNES: Former UTV international partner Firdaus Kharas and south African Brent Quinn’s brainchild- 20 animated safe-sex public service announcements (PSAs), which tickle the funny bone, were...
CANNES: Reed Midems MipDoc appears to have done many shades better this year as compared to the 2003 edition. Held over 27-28 March in Cannes at...
MUMBAI: Veteran BBC broadcaster Alistair Cooke, who authored Letter From America for 58 years, died today at his New York home. He was 95. Cooke died...
MUMBAI: BBC Two channel’s controller Jane Root is to leave BBC to join Discovery Networks as executive vice president and general manager of the Discovery Channel...
MUMBAI: Zee telefilms subsidiary Padmalaya Telefilms signed up a $ 14 million deal with Mondo TV for the co-production and licensing of animation, at the ongoing...

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