MUMBAI: Scopus Network Technologies which supplied digital platforms to FIFAs 2002 World Cup has announced that national broadcaster Doordarshan, has once again selected Scopus’ digital broadcast...
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey: Tyra Banks will be felicitated at the Bollywood Movie Awards even as she gears up to produce new reality show on UPN....
MUMBAI: Cindy Burbridge, a former Miss Thailand and Miss World 1996, will soon feature on Channel [V]’s show The Juice sometime in the first week of...
MUMBAI: Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited today announced an important revitalisation of Colgate Dental Cream with a new fresher taste and significantly improved germ fighting performance. These improvements...
MUMBAI: The cricket World Cup has wrecked havoc on the listed television companies, particularly because none of them had the rights to telecast the greatest cricketing...
MUMBAI: A century on air and counting. Kagaz Ki Kashtti (KKK), a daily soap which airs on Sahara TV, completed 100 episodes yesterday. Shrishti Entertainment, promoted...
MUMBAI: Venture capitalists (VCs) haven’t changed their outlook on the entertainment industry despite the recent sops offered by union minister of law & justice, commerce &...
MUMBAI: Zee’s beleaguered Sunday morning show Kanhaiyya continues in suspended animation for another week. The Supreme Court, which was to deliver its final verdict on Friday...
MUMBAI: After news channels, its time for radio! Sahara Swar, the first satellite radio in Mumbai’s suburban trains, will start by July this year. ...
NEW YORK: If adults across the globe are polarised by the ongoing Iraq conflict, can one expect anything different from kids? The answer is no if...
MUMBAI: TV and film actor-turned-producer Kunika Sadanand Lall announced that her first product ‘Strivers and Achievers’ is ready to hit the tube on 13 April. The...
MUMBAI: A female protagonist starts from scratch after her husband ditches her. This is the theme around which Hallmark’s new series Family Law revolves. The show...
MUMBAI: News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch looks to be within touching distance of becoming arguably the most powerful media magnate on the planet. The...
NEW DELHI: Ad agency Promodome has acquired a new account from EFY Group, in addition to its already existing ones like Fuji, Intel, Kaff, Super Cassettes...
MUMBAI: Joining the bandwagon of international news channels like CNN, BBC World will be a French news channel. According to a report in The...
MUMBAI: Buoyed by the enthusiastic initial response to its news channels, Sahara intends to adopt a novel strategy of pulling in day time viewers with interesting...
MUMBAI: CNN is beefing up its content to ensure that its discerning viewers are exposed to a wide cross-section of viewpoints and opinions related to the...
LONDON: Uefa has announced that the first deals have been concluded in its sale of wireless rights for the Uefa Champions League seasons 2003-2006. An official...
NEW YORK: Media conglomerate AOL Time Warner and market research firm, Marketing Evaluations have signed a multi-year corporate contract. Marketing Evaluations’ Q Score services are the...
MUMBAI: Yahoo! India has tied up with Ceat to promote the Ceat International Cricket Rating on its website www.yahoo.co.in. Cricket fanatics can now track the performance...
MUMBAI: It’s not just hack attacks on its website that it has to confront. Al-Jazeera – “the mouthpiece of the Baghdad regime” (as the US-British establishments...
MUMBAI: It could be the fact that the US-led invasion of Iraq is not quite according to script, but viewers in America seem to be losing...
NEW DELHI: TV Today Network’s new English channel Headlines Today is all set to make its appearance on Monday, 7 April 2003. Headlines Today,...
NEW DELHI: Time to pop the double bubbly at Essel/Zee, it seems. First HITS, now DTH! It is learnt from government sources that the file relating...
MUMBAI: Kanta Advani, who headed ad sales at Zee TV for a while, has just joined SABTNL (Shri Adhikari Brothers Television Networks Ltd). Advani, who had...
MUMBAI: Sagar Arts is now gearing up to realise the family’s dream of creating another epic Durga – the third in the trilogy, following Ramayan and...
MUMBAI: AOL Time Warner has announced that its Mandarin-language China Entertainment Television Broadcast (CETV) channel has won a limited nationwide broadcast licence. CETV will be...
PARIS: The concern over the Iraq conflict saw a drop in attendance for the 40th anniversary edition of MIPTV (International Television Programme Market) . The Cannes...
LONDON: The casualty line up on account of the ongoing Iraq conflict is not restricted to military personnel and civilians. The broadcast fraternity is also losing...
MUMBAI: India’s latest satellite INSAT-3A, will be launched by the Ariane-5 vehicle of European Space Consortium Arianespace in the early hours of 9 April from Kourou...
LONDON: BBC may be making gains due to the Iraq conflict but its reach has been dealt a blow in Israel. The Jewish state’s three cable...
BRUSSELS: The European Union has given Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp the go ahead for buying Italian pay-TV firm Telepiu from Vivendi Universal. A new entity Sky...
MUMBAI: NHK, a pioneer in HDTV, is broadcasting environmentally focused programming from the Showa base in Antarctica back to households in Japan. An official...
MUMBAI: Cults. They are common as gardens in India and globally. Almost every few years a cult crops up, balloons into a movement, only to diminish...
JAIPUR: “Shock and awe.” To an ad man, that could well have represented the Ad Asia 2003 organising committee’s thematic motif on Monday...
LOS ANGELES: Ever wonder why the media goes into a feeding frenzy over the weird and wacky ways of reclusive pop icon Michael Jackson? It could...
WARWICK, UK: Millward Brown has acquired Sadek Wynberg Research, one of the UK’s most innovative and best respected qualitative research agencies to create one of the...
MUMBAI: This is an endeavour through which major corporate houses such as Pepsi, Cadbury India try to make a difference to the lives of underprivileged children....
MUMBAI: Versatile Shekhar Suman who has hosted popular talk shows like Movers & Shakers and Simply Shekhar, has been chosen as the host for the Bollywood...
MUMBAI: With so many news channels being launched all at once, the race will definitely be for- who breaks the news first,sabse aagey, sabse tez and...
MUMBAI: While other broadcasters are humming and hawing about the pricing mechanism for their pay bouquets in a post-CAS scenario, Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms has decided...
MUMBAI: The question was never whether the World Cup would deliver monster ratings, just how high could it go? TVRs for the ICC World Cup 2003...
NEW DELHI: The government is finally getting it right. It’s involving the industry where its diktat had failed, especially where surrogate and objectionalble advertising on various...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The great thing about Zee is that it cannot be far behind from what others have done and this time round it...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: “The Ball’ed and the Beautiful”. That would be an apt tag line for the latest (and surprisingly unheralded) programming initiative from Star...
MUMBAI: AXN is going about its mission of providing thrills through the critically acclaimed espionage drama 24. Kiefer Sutherland plays a counter terrorism unit agent trying...
NEW DELHI: Close on the heels of the government giving a 90-day reprieve to Star News under a Transitory Arrangement clause in the new guidelines for...
MUMBAI: IndusInd Media & Communications Limited has been awarded the ISO 9001certification (for Quality Management System) by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance, 5making it the only multi-service...
MUMBAI: BAG Films’ afternoon soap Kumkum – ek pyaarasa bandhan has beaten the veterans of the soap genre with its unprecedented success in the mid-day slot....
MUMBAI: Doordarshan (DD) seems to be banking on the Bollywood formula to woo viewers during the afternoon slot on the last Saturday of the month. Starting...