NEW DELHI: Outstanding dues owed to Doordarshan by private parties have increased to a whopping Rs 1648.2 million as of 31 October 2002. As regards All...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Give this to SET India CEO Kunal Dasgupta – he does not lack for dogged determination. Today Dasgupta pulled another rabbit out...
MUMBAI: Lily Patel the veteran Gujarati stage actress, popular as Dadima of Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii has replaced Dina Pathak as Badima in Khichdi. Dina Pathak,...
MUMBAI: Some of Cartoon Network’s best and brightest toon stars danced like the night would never set in at the Toon Yatra in Mumbai on Sunday....
MUMBAI: Jalandhar Kendra walked away with the best Doordarshan Kendra award at the second edition of the DD Awards held at the Goregaon Sports Club in...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has done it. The Cable TV Network (Amendment) Bill 2002, which aims at facilitating addressability in Indian cable homes...
MUMBAI: News channel CNN has announced that one of the major programme highlights for December will be a live interview with Jimmy Carter. Carter is the...
MUMBAI: Wham! Bam! Choke slam! After six years the World Wrestling Entertainment came back to the city and boy did they get a reception. The fans...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the BBC, has been recognised for its Outstanding Export Achievement in the Trade Partners UK-backed International Business Awards....
MUMBAI: Percept Advertising has launched a new division – Percept Customer Lifecycle Management (PCLM). Harsh Vardhan will be heading PCLM, which will have customer relationship management...
MUMBAI: The master of quiz, Siddharth Basu is slated to return to Doordarshan with a unique game show shortly. Basu, who made quizzing popular in India...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: It can only be termed a calculated gamble. ESPN Star Sports today announced a 33 per cent hike in its monthly package...
NEW DELHI: The government has issued guidelines for permitting 26 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in news and current affairs publications in a venture subject...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry today is understood to be pushing ahead for the issue of conditional access system (CAS) to be included in...
MUMBAI: After DD Jaipur, Doordarshan Mumbai has become the second Kendra in the country to have launched its own website. www.ddmumbai.com or www.sahyadritv.com was launched on...
Sports marketing major IMG today announced the appointment of Ravi Krishnan as the new managing director of IMG/TWI South Asia. Krishnan, an Australian of Indian origin,...
CONNECTICUT: ESPN has selected Los Angeles to host the next two X Games, the original and definitive multi-day action sports competition, starting with the ninth annual...
LONDON: BBC’s international news strengths are being promoted in a new joint global advertising campaign by BBC World, the BBC’s 24-hour international news and information television...
NEW DELHI: Satish Jacob, who is the BBC Delhi deputy bureau chief and BBC News’ longest serving correspondent in India, has announced his retirement from the...
LOS ANGELES: Entertainment Tonight (ET), which claims to be the number one entertainment newsmagazine in the world, has received renewals for its weekly half-hour entertainment news...
NEW DELHI: News channel Aaj Tak is going from strength to strength. Recently it won the award for Best News Channel at the Indian Telly Awards....
MUMBAI: Brilliant. As innovative promotional campaigns go, this will certainly take some beating. Last night saw the last act of a three city-tour of the country...
LOS ANGELES: The Reader’s Digest Association signed an agreement with the William Morris Agency to expand its brands into new entertainment distribution channels, including television, radio...
MUMBAI: When Subhash Chandra relieved Sandeep Goyal of the Zee Group broadcast CEO’s post, the question was what would marketing director Partha Pratim Sinha have in...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to push through a proposal to have a headend in the sky, the Subhash Chandra-promoted ASC Enterprises Ltd., which amongst other...
MUMBAI: BBC World and IN Mumbai, the news and events channel of Hinduja Group MSO INCableNet, today announced a content sharing agreement that allows for the...
NEW DELHI: India may soon realise its dream of being the second country in the world to have a legislation in place for the convergence era,...
MUMBAI: CNBC India, in partnership with TVS, Nippon and Shriram Piston will organise a high – powered forum for the automobile industry. The CNBC Auto Evolution...
NEW YORK: Innovative US network HBO is using the immense popularity of its crically acclaimed gangster series The Sopranos to raise funds for a worthy cause....
NEW DELHI: Continuing to be bullish on the Indian market, BBC World feels that the subcontinent still offers the channel great potential in terms of revenue...
KOUROU (French Guiana): Arianespace’s first increased-lift Ariane 5, that was to lift off for its inaugural flight with two satellites Thursday failed to take off from...
NEW DELHI: The first television telecast may have actually happened sometime early last century, but it is 21 November which is celebrated as World Television Day...
MUMBAI: IOL Broadband has decided to increase the authorised share capital of the company from Rs 500 million divided into 50 million equity shares of Rs...
MUMBAI: India cricket does not come onto ESPN Star Sports till next month’s tour of New Zealand, but before that the channels have a double dose...
MUMBAI: Star, Rupert Murdoch’s Asian pay TV platform, has declared a 27 per cent reduction in quarterly operating loss for the quarter 1 July to 30...
CALIFORNIA: Plantronics which claims to be the world leader in lightweight communications headsets and the exclusive headset partner for MGM Pictures and Eon Productions’ new James...
LONDON: BBC’s international news strengths are being promoted in a new joint global advertising campaign by BBC World, the BBC’s 24-hour international news and information television...
MUMBAI: When Subhash Chandra relieved Sandeep Goyal of the Zee Group broadcast CEO’s post, the question was what would marketing director Partha Pratim Sinha have in...
MUMBAI: After touring five cities in round one, MAX’s Gully Cricket will be in Mumbai for the second round on 30 November with brand ambassador Kapil...
MUMBAI:Car owners may not turn out to be the largest audience segment for radio in the country, but they are the ones that advertisers are most...
MUMBAI: Yesterday’s fuddy-duddy channel is now hip and happening. Hindi movie channel Star Gold, which donned a new look and attitude on 1 November, appears to...
MUMBAI: US cable pioneer John Malone’s Liberty Media said yesterday it has terminated its agreement to buy Dutch cable TV operator NV Casema from France Telecom...
MUMBAI: Latest Hindi films seem to have become the way to the audience hearts for all mainstream channels. After Zee and Sony, it is the turn...
NEW DELHI: Amongst all the news channels, Doordarshan is way ahead of others even if all TV homes and cable and satellite homes are taken into...
NEW DELHI: Paul Anderson is to be the new Islamabad Correspondent for BBC News. Anderson, currently a reporter on BBC World TV, is one of the...
MUMBAI: The telecast of the Indian Telly Awards 2002, organised by indiantelevision.com was as big a success as the ground event had been on 1 November....
ATLANTA (Georgia): Scientific-Atlanta announced yesterday it had expanded its data strategy with the acquisition of software, technology and other assets of ChanneLogics Inc., a software developer...
MUMBAI: Diwan Arun Nanda, chairman and MD of Rediffusion DY&R brand communications and co-chairman Dentsu Young & Rubicam/Wunderman, Asia-Pacific, has been appointed to the global leadership...
MUMBAI: The much delayed Maharashtra chapter of the Playwin saga is about to unfold finally on 2 December. Slated to begin earlier this quarter, after the...
MUMBAI: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has identified 53 Foreign Satellite Channels for relay distribution through cable TV network operations in Pakistan. These channels...