MUMBAI: DD Sahyadri is all set to host the prestigious Sahyadri Navratna Awards at the Doordarshan premises in Worli on 27 April 2003. The...
MUMBAI: Prashant Sanwal, director of all the Zee Network’s regional language Alpha channels, is moving on. Sanwal, who put in his papers at Zee on 31...
MUMBAI: B4U Television Networks, which runs B4U Movies and B4U Music channels in India and has a global presence in over 100 countries, is witnessing a...
MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati is vigorously pursuing its mission of making the transition from analogue to digital. Tektronix which claims to be the market leader in video...
MUMBAI: IBF members received a bit of a jolt on 23 April. Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati CEO and IBF chairman K S Sarma – the one...
NEW DELHI: A delegation of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) today made a strong pitch for some relaxation in the government-mandated deadline for implementation of conditional...
MUMBAI: Even as several factions in the cable and satellite industry are rueing CAS and try to defer 14 July, Hinduja-run MSO IndusInd Media & Communications,...
MUMBAI: Star World, the English entertainment channel, is making a conscious effort to become more India-specific and has announced a whole new programming strategy. ...
New Delhi: The direct-to-home (DTH) platform of Doordarshan, which is expected to initially have about 50 free-to-air television channels, will be on ‘C’ Band and not...
NEW DELHI:To lend some weight to those who are for quick implementation of conditional access, Zee Telefilms chairman and managing director Subhash Chandra has also accompanied...
MUMBAI: Now watch dinosaurs roar in Hindi. Star Plus will air the dubbed version of Jurassic Park on 27 April at 7 pm. Through the film...
MUMBAI: After some months of giving over the limelight completely to sister channel MAX courtesy the World Cup, Sony Entertainment India’s flagship channel SET is ready...
MUMBAI: The ever menacing threat of Aids shows no signs of letting up. And making a further bid at increasing awareness about the dreaded disease is...
Indian television takes a leap forward once every decade. While television entered into our country in the early seventies, the first major television revolution took place...
MUMBAI: With a slew of news channels entering the domestic television market, each of the new entrants wants to have an edge over the other. According...
MUMBAI : This is an initiative that aims at putting a European spin on news and currents affairs happenings. French media companies have submitted bids for...
HONG KONG: The pioneer of terrestrial television in Hong Kong in 1967 Robert Chua shows no signs of slowing down. The television producer’s game show Everybody...
MUMBAI:Trust MAX to experiment and innovate – that too in style. After the much-hyped Cricket World Cup that reaped fruitful returns for the channel, it is...
NEW YORK: The news continues to be good for Viacom Inc. The media powerhouse, parent company of MTV and Nickelodeon, today reported record results for the...
MUMBAI: Even as the the outlines of the basic tier in the conditional access environment are firming up (30 free to air channels at Rs 72),...
NEW YORK: Viacom Inc has announced today that it has reached an agreement with AOL Time Warner to acquire AOL’s 50 per cent interest in Comedy...
MUMBAI: MGM Networks, a unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has signed a distribution agreement covering an MGM-branded, movie-driven network in Indonesia. Under the agreement, the MGM...
NEW YORK: AOL Time Warner Inc may sell its 50 per cent stake in cable network Comedy Central for about $1.2 billion to joint venture partner...
MUMBAI: The 24-hour test-run of Kerala’s first round-the-clock news channel Indiavision started yesterday. Promoted by Dr M K Muneer, who is also the leader of...
MUMBAI: The Sun Network has hit back at Raj TV’s claims of having cornered the number two position in Tamil Nadu. Reacting to a...
NEW DELHI: The big daddies of the Indian broadcasting scene met under the aegis of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation here today to discuss various aspects of...
MUMBAI: Hinduja Group MSO INCablenet has lashed out at ESPN-Star Sports for switching off signals saying the sports broadcaster was resorting to “pressure tactics” despite “being...
NEW DELHI: The government is contemplating going in for revenue sharing with the licence holders of the second round of licences for FM radio. The...
MUMBAI: It has become a case of swim or sink for India’s beleaguered music industry. Over the past three years the industry has been battered and...
NEW DELHI: On one side the smiles have broadened, while on the other side the scowls have deepened. Broadcasters, specially those managing pay channels,...
SINGAPORE: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has announced the promotion of Adam Zecha from vice president to senior V-P, affiliate sales. Zecha was part of the...
NEW DELHI: Capitalising on the needs of the Indian television news segment, Norway-based Vizrt Limited, the world’s leading company in real-time 3-D graphics system for television,...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan is getting a makeover. With the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson (formerly known as HTA) having bagged its the brand management account for the...
MUMBAI: Sahara seems to be finally getting its prime time programming line up in shape. Apart from the star studded Karishma – The Miracle of Destiny...
MUMBAI: Sahara seems to be finally getting its prime time programming line up in shape. Apart from the star studded Karishma – The Miracle of Destiny...
MUMBAI: Sahara seems to be finally getting its prime time programming line up in shape. Apart from the star studded Karishma – The Miracle of Destiny...
Indian television takes a leap forward once every decade. While television entered into our country in the early seventies, the first major television revolution took place...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan Kashir will become a 24-hour channel from 15 August. The channel launched on Republic Day 2000, at present telecasts 14-1/2 hours of programmes...
MUMBAI: Insiders say that the battle has always been a perpetual war – recent incidents have only taken it from bad to worse. The reasons for...
MUMBAI: The tug of war between cable ops and broadcasters shows no signs of slowing down. ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has discontinued its service to Hinduja’s...
MUMBAI: The BSE sensex finished the week flat at 2985, after losing 3.2 per cent over the past one month. The week was marked by high...
MUMBAI: The news channel and the current affairs genre is seeing some major action. The new TAM data regarding the top 25 business show, put out...
BANGALORE: Online marketplace eBay India, formerly Baazee.com, has announced its first global transation since its recent launch. Dr. Vineet Srinivasan, Illusions India, a dentist with a...
ATLANTA: Scientific-Atlanta, Inc reported third quarter earnings of $26.8 million, or $0.18 per share, on sales of $382.6 million. Third quarter earnings declined $17.0 million, or...
NEW YORK: For some viewers, especially those with a history of phobias or anxiety, reality television may be unsafe! A study released in the US indicates...
MUMBAI: While MAX gave the country forty ‘mus’licks, etc prefers to rock the county with numbers from the home ground. With the etc Naach Meri Jaan...
MUMBAI: Movies – that magical formula to help viewers stay glued to the TV set – are swinging the pendulum in favour of Raj TV in...
MUMBAI: BBC World has made two key appointments to its Asian advertising sales teams. BBC World deputy director airtime sales Sunita Rajan was quoted as saying:...
MUMBAI: The broadcasting and cable fraternity is certainly not smiling. To add to their existing problems in an evolving market such as India, non-media companies are...
MUMBAI: Well, the results of big guns Wipro and Infosys may not have been inspiring, but business process outsourcing still evokes a lot of interest amongst...