MUMBAI: Soft drinks giant Pepsi’s “Join the Huddle” consumer contest, which was launched just prior to the second One-Day International (ODI) match between India and Australia,...
NEW DELHI: With a bit of brashness, if one can term it that, and taking a swipe at critics, India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati today formally announced...
LONDON: BBC News Online has teamed up with MSN Nordic to provide headline content for MSN pages across Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The news feed, which...
CALIFORNIA: Hinduja TMT (HTMT) Ltd has acquired acquisition of controlling interest and management of the 930-seat call centre unit, Customer Contact Centre (c3), in Manila, Philippines....
MUMBAI: Mona who? That could well be the question on everyone’s lips when Sony Entertainment Television India unveils on Monday the face it hopes will spell...
NEW DELHI: There’s a pep in her voice and the strides are more confident. What’s more, Star News president Ravina Raj Kohli can also afford to...
MUMBAI: Good news for couch potatoes. With five new shows slated for a launch this week, there is something for absolutely everybody. Already, with the ‘guess...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: In the capital it has been buried but in the country’s commercial capital of Mumbai, as in the other two metros of...
MUMBAI: Seems like Zee Music — Zee Group’s as yet low-key music channel — has woken up and how! The channel had a big bash last...
MUMBAI: Star Plus is all set to launch another ‘K’ serial – Kahiin To Hoga – on 8 September adding to their already big buffet of...
NEW YORK: For all those lamenting the ever-increasing “crassness quotient” of many reality TV programmes, there is still hope. From 8 September US network NBC will...
MUMBAI: Tinseltown TV — the one-hour entertainment show featuring top Hollywood stars, has topped the charts on National Iranian Television (NITV) network. The show, produced by...
What happens when a US-based Hispanic model cum TV anchor dons of the role of Lara Croft, the beautiful sexy heroine of Eidos Interactive’s phenomenally successful,...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide will present over 600 hours of new programming, from across the full range of BBC output, at the Mipcom TV programme market in...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan would have a new director-general as the transfer orders of the present incumbent, Dr SY Quraishi, has finally been received by...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms has announced its intention to file an appeal in the CEGAT (Customs, Excise and Gold (Control) Appellate Tribunal) Tribunal against an order issued...
NEW DELHI: Well, the separation has been made official. Star newsperson Rajat Sharma would go off Star News from October-November; and the top-rated Aaj Ki Baat,...
NEW DELHI: Sony Entertainment Television India (SET) is all set to take the fight into the den of No. 1 Star Plus, with big ticket programming,...
HONG KONG: Asiasat and Connexion By Boeing, a business division of The Boeing Company have announced the signing of a lease agreement As per the arrangement...
MUMBAI: Televison and film Director Anant Balani is no more. He passed away on Thursday evening due to a massive cardiac arrest. Well known for his...
MUMBAI: An initial public offer (IPO) of Rs 14.86 crores (Rs 148.6 million) from production house B.A.G Films – a company promoted by Anurradha Prasad and...
MUMBAI: Get ready for some slick action! The action and adventure channel AXN, post the Hot ‘n Wild hungama, is gearing up to launch four new...
MUMBAI: After being in a state of hibernation for quite a while, Zee Music will soon be out with new plans. The channel is planning to...
BARBADOS: The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) executive board will have a meeting on 29 and 30 October in Barbados (local time). One of the main issues...
NEW YORK: UEFA has announced that ESPN International has been awarded the exclusive Pay and Terrestrial TV rights for the UEFA Champions League in North America....
LONDON: Sky Sports has won the rights to England’s tours of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The broadcaster will now air the tours in the UK. In...
With reference to two articles published yesterday, SET India looking to revive IPO plans and SET plans novel use of STBs SET India CEO Kunal Dasgupta...
MUMBAI: CNBC TV18, India’s premier business channel, has announced the introduction of three new feature shows targeted at its corporate viewers today. These include 55 Minutes,...
NEW DELHI: With the conditional access system (CAS) gone for a six at least in Delhi and Mumbai, Sony Entertainment TV (SET) India is looking at...
NEW DELHI: An air of uncertainty hangs over the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry as the cities, where conditional access system (CAS) is to be introduced...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today formally issued the revised eligibility criteria for uplinking of news and current affairs channels from India, which seek to make...
PARIS: Thomson, a worldwide leader in video and film technologies, products and services, has announced the acquisition of Cinecolor Lab. Thai company Cinecolor Lab is one...
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT (HTMT) Ltd informed today that it has appointed Partha Sarkar as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for its IT-enabled Services (IteS). Sarkar will...
NEW DELHI: With conditional access all but consigned to limbo bar an official announcement, television companies have started turning their attention to other issues. Sony Entertainment...
MUMBAI: The wait is finally over! After rigorous rounds of screening almost a thousand entries from various TV production houses and TV channels by special juries...
MUMBAI: Pakistan cable operators called off their three day agitation on Tuesday evening, and have decided not to press for the resumption of transmission of banned...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Well, it’s almost time to officially bid adieu to CAS (conditional access system) in Mumbai and, in all probability, in Kolkata too. Delhi was...
MUMBAI: The Foundation of Promotion of Film Arts and Crafts (FPFAC) honoured leading luminaries from the television industry for their significant contribution to the media and...
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Nirupam is scheduled to meet information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad at 3 pm today. The meeting will discuss...
NEW DELHI: The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) has directed Star, Sony and ESPN Star Sports to provide signals to the Zee-promoted HITS platform...
NEW DELHI: The reason of an existing `great divide’ amongst stakeholders of the broadcast and cable industry – that the government uses to continue playing the...
MUMBAI: Opentech Inc, a Korean company, that produces high end digital satellite broadcast receivers of DVB-S and MPEG-2 standards, is planning to set up a liaison...
SOUTH AFRICA: The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has announced that it has secured the exclusive rights in the country to become the official broadcaster of...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi based Cable Network Association, an organisation of cable operators has filed a case in the Delhi High Court against the government on...
NEW YORK: It has been two months since Vivendi formally invited bids for Vivendi Universal Entertainment. Initially, the company had claimed that the bids came in...
MUMBAI: Techniche Media has re-positioned itself to exploit the opportunity that exists in offering consultancy services to ad agencies, radio channels and advertisers. Percept Advertising’s division...
NEW YORK: A study by BIGresearch and the US based Centre for Media Research concludes that the growth of simultaneous media usage should have direct impact...
WASHINGTON: Here is a piece of information that should make people in the business of telemarketing goods and services sit up and take notice. Two-thirds of...
NEW YORK: For the fourth year in a row and the sixth time in the last nine years, Sony has been chosen as the number one...
NEW YORK: Saatchi and Saatchi has won the mandate of creating a new global branding campaign for the International Olympic Committee (IOC). An Adage report says...