MUMBAI: A Motilal Oswal Inquire Indian Equity Research (MOSt Inquire) report on impact of CAS has forecast that local cable operators (LCOs) could eventually lose their...
MUMBAI:The Motilal Oswal Inquire Indian Equity Research (MOSt Inquire) report dated 20 December 2002 has stated that CAS is unlikely to have any financial impact on...
NEW DELHI: Broadcasters operating in India have sought relief from the government, including tax sops. They met information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj recently under the...
NEW DELHI: Starting tomorrow, news channel Aaj Tak has a comprehensive programmes lined up for a quick recap of the year 2002. The finale Flashback Aaj...
MUMBAI: MTV India will bid farewell to 2002 with a rundown of the year’s greatest musical hits from all genres of music on MTV Top 100...
MUMBAI: With Indian filmdom, gradually getting a modicum of corporatisation, the coming year is going to see a gaggle of film funds to take it further...
MUMBAI: It is the sheer numbers that must have come as a shock to even the most hopeful – that somehow the 1 June ruling of...
Militancy is not the only worry of the people of Jammu. Currently a vicious tussle is on between the Zee Telefilms’ owned cable network Siticable and...
HONG KONG: The Star Group has signed an agreement to form a strategic alliance with Hunan Broadcast Group. The agreement represents a framework for joint financing...
TOKYO : Japanese television viewers will be able to see their own exclusive CNN channel with the launch of CNNj in March 2003. CNN and Japan...
NEW DELHI: It’s a classic case of so near, yet so far. The debate over open architecture set top boxes continues even as broadcasters twiddle their...
NEW DELHI: The Prasar Bharati Corp, overseeing the functioning of India’s pubcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio, has sought the government’s approval to start KU-band transmission...
MUMBAI : Doordarshan this year has special musical fanfare arranged for the new year. The National pubcaster DD will bring in the new year with Yeh...
MUMBAI: The Hindi general entertainment scene will see serious action at the start of 2003. First, Star unperturbed by the upcoming World Cup hoopla announced that...
Doordarshan has deferred to December 27 the launch of its channel catering to India’s northeastern states. The channel was earlier to be launched on Saturday...
Indian information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj again resorted to some political speak yesterday on the convergence bill. She said that she was not aware that...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj said in the morning today that the government will consult the industry and other stake holders before forming...
The courts have decided for the present but the battle lines are still drawn between peeved actor Anupam Kher and Zee Telefilms over his summary dismissal...
Kermit Channel has ceased transmission in India, the only market where the children’s channel was still distributed in Asia. Crown Media Holdings, the Los Angeles-based...
Convergence is the new buzzword. But you wouldn’t know it by the urgency shown by government ministers to thrash out issues related to the matter. ...
Sony Entertainment Television’s Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke (JCPK), which is set for launch in January, is generating a tremendous response from the public with over 900,000...
MUMBAI: The Advertising Club of Mumbai is organising a seminar on 11 January 2003 at The Oberoi Hotels. The theme is Value creation —Growing interdependence of...
MUMBAI: CNBC‘s “The Entertainment Industry: Taking The Big Leap” brainstorming session held on 19 December in Mumbai, resulted in a lot of soul-searching amongst industry experts...
MUMBAI: All TV and no play makes Jack a dull boy. That’s a modern adage that Milestone Interactive Software Ltd (MISL) is hoping to cash in...
MUMBAI:They’re hoping this will prove to be their magnum opus. Opus Planet promoters Tarun Chopra – Omung Kumar have set up a first-of-its-kind studio, Opus Luxury...
MUMBAI: CNBC’s “The Entertainment Industry: Taking The Big Leap” brainstorming session held on 19 December in Mumbai, offered some insights into how the entertainment business had...
MUMBAI : This is an initiative which promises to take visual, audio creativity of music buffs to a level previously unseen on the telly. MTV Asia...
MUMBAI: CNBC’s “The Entertainment Industry: Taking The Big Leap” brainstorming session held on 19 December in Mumbai, offered some insights into why films and the music...
MUMBAI: CNBC’s “The Entertainment Industry: Taking The Big Leap” brainstorming session held on 19 December in Mumbai, offered several solutions to the woes of the constituents...
MUMBAI: CNBC’s “The Entertainment Industry: Taking The Big Leap” brainstorming session held on 19 December in Mumbai, offered some insights into the new emerging avenues in...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj does not foresee any “bottlenecks” in the implementation of conditional access systems (CAS) in the country and...
The Mumbai High Court on Wednesday quashed film actor Anupam Kher’s hopes of getting back at Zee Telefilms for the summary way in which he was...
MUMBAI : After Sony’s disastrous foray into matrimony based programming, it is private radio station Radio City 91 FM’s turn to play matchmaker. The MBPL promoted...
NEW DELHI: India’s Information and Broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj today said that the government would consider providing more powers to the Press Council of India, including...
NEW DELHI: The Sahara India Parivaar is set to unleash a countrywide media blitzkrieg on the group’s launch of new media products, including TV news channels,...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has so far earned a total revenue of Rs 1550.12 million from open auctions of FM radio stations, which includes earnest...
MUMBAI: A Salomon Smith Barney report has stated that Zee Telefilm’s 3QFY03 is likely to see a significant jump in revenues and profitability due to the...
MUMBAI: A Salomon Smith Barney report estimated that Zee Telefilms would not fare well 4QFY03. The forthcoming World Cup cricket 2003 in February and March might...
NEW DELHI: D-day, finally, seems to be just around the corner. The Subroto Roy-promoted diversified Sahara group has targeted the launch of the first two of...
MUMBAI: MAX executive vice president and business head Rajat Jain has lashed out at the viewership claims made earlier this week by DD-Nimbus for the Champions...
LOS ANGELES: HBO has received 26 Golden Globe nominations, twice as many as any other television network this year, and the most in HBO history, for...
NEW YORK: DoubleClick, which claims to be the leading provider of marketing tools for advertisers, direct marketers and web publishers has released the results of its...
Music Broadcast Pvt. Ltd, a company promoted by the Mittal group, has signed a licence agreement for operating FM channels. It is one of 16...
MUMBAI :Marketing companies Procter & Gamble, Ernst & Young LLP and Pepsi have become the first to annouce their deal with the Ad-ID (Advertising Digital Identification)...
MUMBAI: Lowe Lintas’ Initiative Media (IM) executive vice president and Linterland general manager Suresh Balakrishnan will be joining The Hindustan Times group as vice president, media...
MUMBAI : It’s turning over a new leaf with the new year and almost going against the grain. While some channels would prefer to tread cautiously...
Production company Nimbus Communications has postponed the launch of its entertainment channel, ShowBiz TV, by two to three months. Uday Sinhwala, Nimbus’ Head of Television,...
NEW DELHI : MetLife has announced today that Snoopy would be their brand ambassador for another 10 years. MetLife and United Media has signed a new...
Leading sports channel ESPN-Star is set to hike its package rate by 8.5 per cent to Rs16 per subscriber home from 1 January, 2001 The rates...
NEW YORK: The Associated Press (AP) and Yahoo have announced the release of AP Archives, a fee-based news archive on Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com). An official release...