MUMBAI: Oh the ways of advertising! There really seems no limit or bar on the places one can advertise their brands. The latest is that Internet...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Just over 15 days to go but the CAS picture seems to be still stuck in pause mode. The second meeting today...
MUMBAI: “A record end to a record year. The most profitable fourth quarter ever and the most profitable year in our company’s 80 years of existence.”...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: One query that had been raised in the capital’s corridors regarding the the government’s “going after Star News” was: Why has the...
NEW DELHI: India’s defence ministry came to the defence of another government outfit, the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry – in a manner of speaking. As...
MUMBAI: Tsk, tsk! Rupert Murdoch’s media platforms are masters at dishing it out, but are more than a tad touchy when on the receiving end. Murdoch’s...
BOSTON: Discovery has released the digital facial reconstruction image of the mummy believed to be Nefertiti. It was in June that indiantelevision.com reported Discovery’s announcement that...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is examining complaints regarding Music Broadcast Pvt. Ltd. (MBPL) being indirectly promoted and controlled by the Rupert Murdoch-owned Star Group. This...
LOS ANGELES: Arnold “Terminator” Schwarzenegger’s decision to run for the post of California Governor could see local television channels in the state pulling the plug on...
NEW YORK: The world’s largest media company will officially drop “AOL” from its name on Thursday, returning to the name “Time Warner Inc.” “AOL” was added...
NEW DELHI: In a written reply in the country’s Lower House of Parliament (Lok Sabha) today Prasad said that officers of the I&B ministry had visited...
NEW DELHI: Innovative ways of protests are not new in India and with the pressure of work increasing in the sector of media suicide threats too...
CANNES: For those who believe that India’s cable industry is not really organised, it would be advisable that they think again. For the past four days...
PARIS: The winners of the winners of the sixth Hot bird TV awards were announced at a ceremony in Venice, last week. An annual event to...
NEW DELHI: Even as Zee News, from the Zee Telefilms stable, maintained there was nothing “official” about it, media reports indicated that the government is no...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company tried to make a break for it nearly two years ago, but in the end had to wait till the contract...
NEW YORK: Here is a show that combines the real with the fake. It claims to be the ultimate reality show but has just one real...
MUMBAI: Coca-Cola India has issued a statement welcoming the the Kerala health minister’s assertion that “Coca-Cola does not contain toxic materials.” “The tests conducted by the...
NEW DELHI: Rediff.com India Limited (Nasdaq: REDF), a premier worldwide online provider of news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services for Indians, today announced its financial...
NEW YORK: The second anniversary of the events of 9/11 is expected to be a quiet affair for American television networks. While there will be news...
SINGAPORE: The action oriented AXN is growing viewer cachet in the Far East. According to Nielsen Media Research, the channel from Sony Pictures Television International’s (SPTI)...
PARIS: Satellite operator Eutelsat and Eurovisioni, the international festival of cinema and television have announced the schedule for the Hot Bird TV Awards 2003. Initiated by...
BEIJING: People who thought that the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis was behind them would do well to take another look. The Volvo China Open...
MUMBAI: “The work of a researcher has undergone changes in the television age. While the scientist or researcher himself is not as important as his discoveries,...
MUMBAI: Software giant Microsoft and the Ambani’s Reliance Infocomm have announced that they plan to work together to jointly create, test and deliver next-generation Internet Protocol...
CHICAGO: Media conglomerate Viacom’s president and COO Mel Karmazin will be inducted in the Radio Hall of Fame. Inductees were selected through a ballot process in...
NEW DELHI: Indian radio pubcaster, All India Radio (AIR), mopped a record net revenue of Rs. 113.26 crore in the year 2002-03 and has kept a...
LOS ANGELES: With the upcoming California governor elections having candidates from the terminator Ah-nuld (Arnold Schwarznegger) to a ‘has-been’ singer Mariah Carey, the time is ripe...
MUMBAI: “What’s a marriage? Let’s ask the wise of the ages… Shaadi ek aisa laddoo hai, joh khaye who pachtaye, jo naa khaye, woh pachtaye (Marriage...
NEW DELHI: The government feels that the case of Radio City should have been taken into consideration earlier while giving the licence to Music Broadcast Pvt...
NEW YORK: It was two and a half years ago that the Internet service provider AOL merged with Time Warner. Now that relationship as well as...
MUMBAI: GO 92.5 FM is all set to hook young collegian ears this August through October. The FM radio channel has planned a lineup of on-air...
MUMBAI: Malaysian media magnate Ananda Krishnan’s pay TV company, Astro All Asia Networks, has raised $526 million (M$ 2 billion) through its Initial Public Offering (IPO)...
NEW DELHI: Now Zee News is going in for barter advertising deals with print publications and has extended a similar relationship to Mumbai’s tabloid Mid Day...
NEW DELHI: Even as Noida Software Technology Park Ltd (NSTPL) becomes the fifth applicant for a direct-to-home (DTH) television service licence, Dish TV, a DTH venture...
MUMBAI: It was a befittingly glitzy affair in the city yesterday as Indian cinema’s biggest brand Amitabh Bachchan marked his 61st birthday by relaunching ABCL as...
MUMBAI: B4U Music will be launching five new shows before the end of September. The channel, which is making an effort to boost its popularity, recently...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad doesn’t tire from saying there is life beyond and apart from conditional access system (CAS),...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: There is just no let-up for the team handling the Indian operations of Rupert Murdoch’s Star TV. After Star News, the latest...
MUMBAI: Advent Computer Services Ltd will soon introduce its interactive TVs to the market, according to a press release dated 11 August. With this people can...
NEW DELHI: Star News can breathe easy as its temporary extension for uplinking from India would continue till the time a group of ministers (GoM) takes...
NEW YORK: EchoStar IX/Telstar 13, a powerful multi-band satellite built for EchoStar Communications Corporation and Loral Skynet by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), was successfully launched. The satellite,...
LONDON: British Sky Broadcasting, the UK satellite TV platform controlled by News Corp, won exclusive rights to broadcast games from the Premier League for three more...
KUALA LUMPUR: Binariang Satellite Systems (BSS), the owner and operator of the MEASAT satellite network, is looking to provide satellite services to the South Asian market...
MUMBAI: Just under seven months after they first conceived the idea, Bollywood actress Rani Mukerji and brother Raja Mukerji’s TV production is set to start rolling....
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is contemplating whether pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which manages the affairs of Doordarshan and All India Radio, can be given some concession...
MUMBAI: The Radio Broadcast Policy committee, set up by the ministry of information and broadcasting (I&B) to formulate policy to govern the opening up of phase...
CANNES: In news from Mipcom in Cannes, US-based non-profit educational programming producer Sesame Workshop announced that it had promoted Renee Mascara to vice-president international TV distribution....
LONDON: Most of the UK consumers would be unwilling to give up television – the most preferred news and entertainment medium in the country. These are...
CALIFORNIA: The outlook within many US creative departments may be increasingly optimistic. Around 42 per cent of advertising and marketing US executives polled said morale at...