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MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has added a dedicated Middle East beam to its geography-specific beams. With this, SET now has six localised feeds, one each...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Information Technology, which also looks into issues related to broadcasting and convergence, in its latest report, has made...
MUMBAI: Who says soaps are just about hankie wringing? In Taiwan, a hit soap is reportedly serving the immigration department to ferret out illegals. The Taiwan...
MUMBAI: Span Communications, a mid-sized agency has been empanelled for Directorate of Income Tax (RSP and PR) for the year 2002-03. The agency was ranked 22...
NEW DELHI: Mumbai-based e-marketing solutions company Virtual Marketing India bagged two gold, one silver and one bronze in the recently conducted Promotion Marketing Awards of Asia...
MUMBAI: Shringar Cinemas has announced the appointment of Ramesh Thondapi as its head for sales and marketing. Prior to joining Shringar Cinemas, Thondapi worked with Pepsi...
MUMBAI: NDTV World, the wholly owned subsidiary of Prannoy Roy’s New Delhi Television Ltd, is being amalgamated into the parent company. With this move, Dr Roy...
MUMBAI: Radio City plans to put more smile on the tiny tots faces this winter. Banglore’s radio station has picked up the cudgels to do some...
MUMBAI: The barometer 30-stock Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) sensex dropped 28.68 points on 18 July from the 11 July level (3,676.26) to settle at 3,647.58. The...
MUMBAI: Proud papa (come grandpapa) media giant Rupert Murdoch has become a father for the sixth time at 72. Murdoch with Chloe’s elder sister Grace Helen...
MUMBAI: As the mega serial Ramayan finds a place for itself in the Limca Book of Records, one cannot help remembering media moghul and patriarch of...
MUMBAI: Nearly 16 years after creating mass hysteria, media moghul and patriarch of Sagar Arts Dr Ramanand Sagar’s mega serial Ramayan has recently found place in...
NEW DELHI: Maybe it’s the lull before another storm. While the Indian broadcasters meeting with Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit, today, was cancelled and rescheduled to...
NEW DELHI: Norway-based Conax A S, a leading supplier of conditional access technology for digital TV, IP streaming and security systems for interactive gaming and e-payment...
NEW YORK: Internet advertising is expected to touch the $8 billion mark annually by 2006, according to a study conducted by eMarketer. The study also claims...
NEW DELHI: Triton, the Rs 1.6 billion agency, is debating the launch of a separate media independent. Speaking to indiantelevision.com recently, Triton executive director Vivek Srivastava...
NEW YORK: The 24th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Award nominees have been announced. The award ceremony takes place on 3 September at the Marriott Marquis...
MUMBAI: Star Movies may lay claim to being India’s number one movie channel but if one looks at the 2003 Asia Pay Television Operators’ Survey, then...
MUMBAI: Top DD (Doordarshan) producers who say they have committed software worth millions of rupees to DD-2 (Metro) are feeling cheated by the uncertainty that presently...
NEW DELHI: Political uncertainty over conditional access systems (CAS) notwithstanding, the government today made the right noises and, reportedly, conveyed to broadcasters and multi-system operators (MSOs)...
LOS ANGELES: The darkly amusing drama Six Feet Under and its parent network HBO, dominated television’s Emmy Award nominations. The 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will...
NEW DELHI: The second general conference of Asia-Pacific Institute of Broadcasting Development (AIBD) would be held in New Delhi from 22 to 25 July 2003. India’s...
NEW YORK: Sky Networks MD Dawn Airey and Paramount International Television president Gary Marenzi will serve as dinner co-chairs for 31st International Emmy Awards Gala. The...
LONDON: The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has announced it has concluded further television rights sales for the UEFA Champions League, carried out by UEFA’s...
CONNECTICUT: Panamsat, which claims to be one of the world’s top three satellite operators managing a global fleet of 30 satellites, has reported its financial results...
MUMBAI: The Zee Telefilms board of directors will meet on 29 July to record the financial results of the company for the quarter ended 30 June...
MUMBAI: The tag line from Reid & Taylor – ‘Bond with the Best’ has a new face. S Kumars, the makers of luxury clothes Reid and...
MEXICO CITY : Walter Rodriguez has been named Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI’s) regional director advertising sales in Mexico City. According to a press...
NEW DELHI: Integrated Communication is a key to experiential marketing, says marketing guru and professor Dr. Bernd Schmitt. Defining experiential marketing as a tool for the...
MUMBAI: Time Warner has announced that its corporate responsibility VP is Lisa Quiroz. In the newly created position, Quiroz will be responsible for overseeing all of...
MUMBAI: After a nearly six-month delay, the Miditech produced Saara Akash finally goes on air on Star Plus on 8 August. The weekly, that will replace...
LONDON: Hughes Network Systems (HNS), has reported an 8.1 per cent increase in the overall 2003 second quarter revenues amounting to $2.37 billion, compared to $2.192...
MUMBAI: MAX, the premium movies and events channel, has notched up an average Television Rating (TVR) of 5.2 for its blockbuster offering, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...
LONDON: The consolidated revenues for fixed satellite services (FSS) companies in 2002 has actually dropped, says Euroconsult’s latest analysis. In the 10th edition of its World...
NEW DELHI: Considering that cable television is the cheapest form of entertainment in India, a Morgan Stanley (MS) research on conditional access system (CAS) estimates that...
MUMBAI: Maharashtra state food and drugs administration minister Anil Deshmukh has emphasised the need for a censor board for screening advertisements. He stated that the government...
NEW YORK: Discovery channel has launched a promo campaign around the new tagline “Entertain Your Brain”. The tagline seeks to remind viewers that they can have...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide’s review for the financial year 2002/03 reveals a record cash flow return to the BBC of ?123 million for investment in programming and...
MUMBAI: NumTV.com, one of the largest 24-hour live online multilingual entertainment portal for international Asians, has offered EAS (Easy Access System) to Indian broadcasters who are...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has sent off another set of queries to Media Content & Communication Services India Pvt. Ltd (MCCS), which has...
NEW DELHI: Setting at rest speculations and playing safe, Media Content & Communications Services India Pvt. Ltd, which has applied for a licence to uplink content...
NEW DELHI: Playing it safe, Media Content & Communication Services India Pvt. Ltd, which has applied for a licence to uplink content for Star News, has...
BERMUDA: Intelsat, the global satellite communications leader, has announced that it has signed a $ one billion definitive asset purchase agreement with Loral Space & Communications...
HYDERABAD: Conditional Access Systems (CAS) company, Eastern Electronics from Taiwan and the Hyderabad-based customer management and billing solutions provider MagnaQuest Solutions have announced a strategic partnership...
MUMBAI: Creative Eye’s mythological series Om Namah Shivay, which is currently running on the Sony afternoon band after a two year-run on national broadcaster Doordarshan’s DD1,...
MUMBAI: All Television channels – except Sony Entertainment Television – will be bound by restrictions during the fourth edition of Lakme India Fashion Week with Liberty...
MUMBAI: The Living Media group owned RED FM is the official radio partner for Lakme India Fashion Week with Liberty (LIFWL). All other radio stations will...
CALIFORNIA: The Chinese government has granted final approval for Paradise Warner Cinema City. This is Warner Bros International Cinemas’ multiplex theatre in Shanghai, a joint venture...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The ongoing conditional access soap opera ended another day on an inconclusive note. Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had an...
NEW DELHI: Current uncertainty over conditional access system notwithstanding, all stakeholders of the game, barring the local cable operators (LCOs), will financially benefit (details later in...
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NEW DELHI: Hamdard Laboratories gathered a cross-section of India’s achievers in New Delhi on Friday, handing out the Hakeem Abdul...
MUMBAI: For decades, creative storytelling has been the cornerstone of brand communication. The “big idea” amplified through catchy jingles, striking...
MUMBAI: Zepto has elevated Ahmad Muneeb to vice president – HR centre of excellence, placing him at the helm of...
