MUMBAI: Conditional access could bring in inventory pressures for free to air channels if demand for their air-time explodes. This is the conclusion drawn by TAM...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government may open up FM radio sector to news and current affairs programming as also the content being provided by a foreign...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today further tightened the screws on the broadcast and cable industry on conditional access system (CAS) by issuing a notification that...
MUMBAI: ATN International is planning to launch a satellite channel, Ahimsaa from 15 August 2003. The company has informed the National Stock Exchange that the board...
MUMBAI: The board of directors of Nimbus Communications Ltd has announced the appointment of Dr Akash Khurana as MD and CEO with immediate effect. Khurana succeeds...
MUMBAI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), which has been riven recently by persistent reports of major rifts between pay and free-to-air lobbies within it, sought today...
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena supremo and an important ally of the NDA government, Bal Thackeray, has warned the government that it will find its decision to go...
MUMBAI: Now this is what is called reel life awards. In possibly a first for television anywhere in the world, India’s lead entertainment channel Star Plus...
MUMBAI: The announcements made around the management restructuring at United Television had left out one name. Ashish Redij, currently with Sahara TV, is joining the Ronnie...
MUMBAI: There are two new faces coming into Star India’s executive hierarchy. Joining India’s lead broadcaster when Star India’s financial year opens on 1 July...
NEW YORK: Frito-Lay company executive Cammie Dunaway has taken charge as the chief marketing officer of Yahoo!. today named Frito-Lay Co. She will report to COO...
MUMBAI: With racing mania at it’s peak, a garment exporter has bagged the mandate of selling Michael Schumacher official licensed products in India. Fusion International, a...
MUMBAI: Percept Advertising has stepped up efforts to get new accounts and all it’s divisions have added several new ones in the last few months. The...
MUMBAI: The battle for outdoor advertising channels like bus-shelters, kiosks and hoardings is intensifying with World Cup on the anvil. Another major revenue driver in this...
MUMBAI: The music industry is cashing in on World Cup cricket fever. Nirvana Music, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nimbus Communications, yesterday announced the launch of Khel...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: An irreparable loss was the common refrain among marketing and media professionals today to the passing away of industry doyen Shunu Sen. Said Suhel...
NEW DELHI: CNBC India and Auto Car have announced the winners of the second CNBC Auto Car Auto Awards, the Oscars of the Indian automobile industry....
MUMBAI: The seventh international Ceat cricket rating awards ceremony, held on 28 January 2003 at Mumbai’s Police Gymkhana grounds was a star-studded “cricketainment” affair with cr?me...
NEW DELHI: Angshuman Chowdhury has joined brand consultancy firm Shining Emotional Surplus Pvt. Ltd. as President. Shining specialises in aligning corporations for end-user benefit. An official...
MUMBAI: Television channels are realising that FM Radio is an effective way to create and build up brand awareness about their programming. Star World and Hallmark...
MUMBAI: The Ad Club Mumbai has some action-packed itinerary for the new year 2003. The dates for the annual Ad Club events have been announced by...
indiantelevision.com’s Media, Advertising & Marketing Watch Super Bowl scores for advertisers: Ipsos-ASI The Indiantelevision.com Team (29 January 2003 4:00 pm) CONNECTICUT, US: Research...
MUMBAI: “Watch our Kahaani Terri Merri nine-thirty pm daily on Sony TV… send this message to three people or you experience three years of bad TV...
MUMBAI: If the “Lagaan World Cup Eleven” contest held on Republic Day during the screening of Aamir’s Khan cricket-related movie on Sony’s MAX is any indication,...
MUMBAI: With limited advertising options at their disposal, liquor brands are examining all the possible opportunities to piggy-back on cross-marketing tie-ups. UB group’s flagship brand McDowell’s...
MUMBAI: Mountain Dew may have been pitched as Pepsi’s new energy drink, but indications are that the beverage major may soon be launching the internationally popular...
HONG KONG: NDS Group plc, a News Corporation company and a leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced the appointment of Christopher Yap...
LOS ANGELES: FPBA Group a provider of advertising tools for online publishers, and Grokster a provider of peer-to-peer file-sharing technology have announced the results of a...
LONDON: The Office, I’m Alan Partridge, Delia’s Vegetarian Collection, Life of Mammals, Fimbles,Tweenies were among BBC Worldwide’s top-sellers last Christmas. Sales of BBC2’s sitcom The Office...
MUMBAI: Fears about a second-string Indian team representing India at the World Cup have been laid to rest. All the 15 members of the Indian World...
BANGALORE: The Advertising Agencies’ Association of India (AAAI) organised a three day creative and strategy workshop between 23-25 January 2003. Several participants travelled from other cities...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government wants to ensure a smooth rollout of conditional access system (CAS) in the first phase in the four metros — maybe...
MUMBAI: The television business is all a matter of perception and Discovery is well aware of this. The broadcaster is trying to boost desi content through...
MUMBAI: There is a buzz going around Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book what with the sequel to the 1967 film currently running in theatres. Now Hindi general...
LONDON: The BBC has chosen Intelliseek’s Enterprise Search Server (ESS) technology to power a research portal for BBC journalists, producers and researchers who need single-point access...
MUMBAI: Star Movies’ Sunday night 9 pm hook of English films with a “desi” touch is giving way to Steven Spielberg blockbusters for the rest of...
MUMBAI: The repeat telecast of the Indian Telly Awards 2002 on Star Plus, an event organised by www.indiantelevision.com managed to hold it’s own against the much...
MUMBAI: In order to provide an in-depth perspective of the current issues affecting our lives, BBC World will debut The Talk Show from 5 June. ...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms is very bullish on certain aspects of conditional access system (CAS) and feels that it is rightly positioned to...
CALIFORNIA: TiVo which creates television services for digital video recorders (DVRs) has announced a new audience measurement tool. The tool will give broadcasters and advertisers the...
NEW YORK: Bill Gates software major Microsoft and media conglomerate AOL Time Warner have announced an agreement to collaborate on long-term digital media initiatives that will...
MUMBAI: Cable Quest, a cable and satellite publication, has announced a seminar CAS Myth & Reality in The Park Hotel in New Delhi on 6 June....
NEW DELHI: Not satisfied with passing a law, the Indian government now wants to do micro-management of the implementation of the law. Especially when it comes...
MUMBAI: ISRO’s latest satellite INSAT-3A, which was launched on 10 April has taken over the Satellite Aided Search and Rescue services that were being provided by...
SINGAPORE: Nokia and Castrol have teamed up with ESPN Star Sports (ESS) on the sports broadcaster’s live coverage of the new English Premier League (EPL) season....
MUMBAI: Rediffusion DY&R, Mumbai has been awarded the Cannes cyber national diploma for the Daikin monkey animation. Designed by RDYR Interactive, the ad campaign was designed...
NEW YORK: Nielsen//NetRatings which claims to be the global standard for Internet audience measurement and analysis has launched AdRelevance 4.0. The product provides advertising and media...
LONDON: A study conducted by Nielsen Media Research, UK, has some good news in store for the advertising business. The advertising in the UK has grown...
MUMBAI: Mediaturf Worldwide, the leading specialist online advertising agency which has a presence in India, is celebrating it’s third anniversary on 5 June 2003. The agency...
MUMBAI: The board of directors of Britannia Industries Ltd has passed a resolution to terminate the employment of Sunil K Alagh as managing director of the...