NEW DELHI: CRISIL, India’s leading rating agency has awarded P1+ rating to TV Today Network Limited (TVTN) for Rs 150 million Commercial Paper programme. This is...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms has clarified with the National Stock Exchange that media reports claiming that the company’s promoter group had placed a part of its stake...
NEW YORK: FMCG major Procter & Gamble (P&G) is banking on a cartoon character named “Droppy” to promote its dishwashing liquid Joy in the US. The...
NEW YORK: For those selling DirecTV and have customers begging for a digital video recorder in their home theatres, there’s a contest that could win some...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch is snapping at Indian shores again. Murdoch’s News Corp has announced that it would make an open offer to acquire 20 per cent...
MUMBAI: Bollywood is going to the unlikeliest of places. Nimbus Communications CEO Dr Akash Khurana is in South Korea at the moment representing Indian cinema at...
NEW DELHI: In case people have forgotten, today was when CAS was supposed to have become effective as per the original deadline. ‘Indian broadcasters’ marked the...
MUMBAI: Real Image Media Technologies, a leading technology enabler in India in the film, audio and video industries in the areas of production, post-production and delivery,...
NEW DELHI: Even as the cable fraternity is on the warpath, though for reasons of its own, the government appears to be out of its depth...
MUMBAI: After the revamping the English entertainment channel- Zee English’s look, next in the line for image makeover is the news channel. The Subhash Chandra promoted...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has furnished statistics that show that the channel performs better than Zee TV on all day and prime time shares in...
MUMBAI: Looks like its spring time at the pubcaster. Doordarshan is sprucing up its content, and first step is to get in new shows. So joining...
MUMBAI: CNN is looking eastwards. It will be beefing up the Asian programme content with a new addition to the prime-time evening news program, Asia Now,...
MUMBAI: Here is good news for the discerning music listener in Mumbai fed up of the non-stop Hindi pop being dished out on FM radio stations....
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The clock is ticking for the latest uplinking extension given to Star India for its news channel and it runs out Wednesday...
NEW YORK: Northstar Media, a new and strategically diverse New York-based television programme distribution company, has positioned itself to serve as a comprehensive source of programming...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan’s sports channel, DD Sports, has managed to break out of the Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) grip, which was contracted to distribute it,...
MUMBAI: Sanjay Dhar has been promoted to executive director advertising sales, at Turner International India. He previously held dual positions of director – advertising sales (western...
NEW DELHI: Gillette India Limited is gearing up to launch a nationwide print advertisement for MACH3 ‘Super Value Offer’. The advertisement, that will be supported by...
MUMBAI: Come Lakme India Fashion Week (LIFW) and diamonds will be prominently visible at the Jamshed Bhabha auditorium, NCPA complex in Mumbai. Sparkling diamonds are all...
MUMBAI: A little over eight months after Star India filed a civil suit in the Bombay High Court seeking to enforce its contract against enstranged head...
CALIFORNIA: International Satellite and Communication Exchange (ISCe) which claims to be the premier West Coast satellite and communications conference and expo, for the commercial and government...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has fired a twin salvo at Star News. The information and broadcasting ministry today maintained that Media Content & Communication Services...
MUMBAI: In what could be the first instance of a television software production house producing an out-and-out English film, Creative Eye has signed up Academy Award...
LONDON: Digital Destinations, a multimedia project developed by the BBC World Service Trust in collaboration with BBC News Online, BBC Science Radio Unit, World Service Education...
WASHINGTON: BT Broadcast Services has announced that it has finalised an agreement with Crown Media International to become the cable network operator’s primary provider of broadcast...
MUMBAI: IndiaVision, which claims to be the first exclusive television news channel in Kerala, is to simultaneously launch today from Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Kozhikode and the United...
NEW DELHI: Getting first off the blocks, Siticable Network Limited, the cable subsidiary of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms, has begun seeding set-top boxes in the...
MUMBAI: The board of directors of ETC Networks will meet on Monday, 21 July 2003 to consider, inter alia, unaudited financial results for the quarter ended...
MUMBAI: First came the articles questioning the Star News equity structure in India Today and later in The Times Of India. It was followed up by...
MUMBAI: The ministry of communications and information technology’s Electronics Regional Test Laboratory (ERTL) has quality tested the digital set top box of Celetron, which will be...
MUMBAI: The content remains serious business as usual, but TV18 is slowly including the woman executive in its purview as well. From lighter weekend programming to...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the BBC has announced the broadcast of its flagship entertainment channel, BBC Prime, in Serbia and Montenegro for...
It may just all be finally coming together for UTV group CEO Ronnie Screwvala. His organisation has regrouped in the last year and there is clarity...
MUMBAI: Brand placement within the premises of theatres or entertainment centres or even ‘hotspots’ will become more prominent now. The newly launched QJam – promoted by...
MUMBAI: Andheri (East) resident Sunil Gomes is the Mumbai zone winner of the Samsung Britain Sportzyatra contest launched by ESPN Star Sports (ESS). Sunil has won...
MUMBAI: In the near future, it looks as if cinema might give television a run for its money and lure audiences away from their home. Mukta...
MUMBAI: Channel Guide India Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs 721,000 for the year ended 31 March 2003 as against a loss of Rs...
MUMBAI: Cable operators in Mumbai are up in arms and have rejected the 11 July 2003 government notification that sought to modify the manner in which...
MUMBAI: Preparations for the most important event in the Indian fashion calendar – the fourth Lakme India Fashion Week (LIFW) to be held between 18-24 July...
MUMBAI: The barometer 30-stock Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex continued its ascent; gained 53.92 points (weekly gain) to settle at 3,676.26 as compared to 3,622.34 on...
MUMBAI: Even while Star News is living from week to week as far as permission for uplinking its content is concerned, come media reports that Kumarmangalam...
BANGALORE: Nagging doubts over Siti Cable’s ambitious headend in the sky (HITS) project — through which it is seeking to implement the conditional access in the...
MUMBAI: Bhishm Sahni noted writer of the acclaimed television series Tamas passed away on Friday 11 July at New Delhi after a heart ailment. He was...
MUMBAI: Former Zee TV president and Doordarshan longtimer Madhavi Mutatkar is back to her first love, content creation. Mutatkar has launched an independent production company, Impact...
MUMBAI: ETC Networks, in which Zee Telefilms has a 51 per cent stake, has received the requisite permission to be listed on the National Stock Exchange(NSE)....
MUMBAI: Sports broadcasting in high definition (HD) television has started growing in popularity in the US. Disney’s ESPN has a 24 hour HD service. In its...
NEW DELHI: The usage of animation in the domestic entertainment sector continues to rise. After movies, television programmes and advertising films, it is the turn of...
MUMBAI: Worldwide president of advertising agency Lowe since 2001, Tim Lindsay has quit the organisation after eight years in the practice. London based Lindsay is...
MUMBAI: The Prasar Bharati marketing team has created a record by selling the ad inventory for the upcoming domestic fixtures of the Indian cricket team in...