NEW DELHI: 11 November, 2002 marks the centenary of recorded music in India. In celebration of the 100 years of recorded music, national broadcaster Doordarshan is...
NEW DELHI:The battle against cable piracy has taken an interesting turn with a clutch of Hollywood studios alleging that the Delhi Home Cable Network owned by...
MUMBAI: It will be raining ads on Sony Entertainment Television when Oscar nominated Lagaan airs on the channel on 27 October. One among the many top...
LOS ANGELES: Applied Semantics a leading software tools and applications provider for unstructured data management has launched AdSense, touted to be the industry’s most advanced contextually...
BOSTON : m-Qube, a provider of mobile marketing, has launched a short message service (SMS) marketing campaign in the United States in conjunction with the New...
MUMBAI: Andhra Pradesh Network (Apnet) – the interactive distance learning DTH project instituted by the Andhra Pradesh government – has moved up a gear as far...
MUMBAI: Suits and countersuits are flying thick and fast around the technology arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, NDS Group. A day after NDS countersued DirecTV,...
NEW DELHI: The government, in association with Prasar Bharati, has decided that cable TV services will be started in all those places in the country where...
MUMBAI: The Chinese have invaded the cable industry in India. And how. At the Scat India trade show 2002 that began at the World Trade Centre...
HONG KONG: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has confirmed that civil action was launched in Hong Kong on Monday against five companies...
MUMBAI: Did someone say dotcoms are dead? A recent survey by tech researcher IDC reveals that that spending for online content worldwide will total over $...
SINGAPORE: Newly registered as Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia Pvt Ltd, Casbaa is all set to step up its activities in Singapore. The region’s...
MUMBAI: Kids channel Cartoon Network has added Hungarian and Romanian to its language services making it available in 11 languages in Europe. Starting out as a...
MUMBAI: If there is one factor that is a constant in the broadcast sector it is change. With viewership increasingly getting fragmented if a channel doesn’t...
CALIFORNIA: In a move geared to solidify and streamline operations and further a collaborative management process at the company, a new management structure has been announced...
LONDON: The BBC Top Gear magazine will have a new-look from its December issue (on sale 30 October), coinciding with this weeks return of the TV...
LOS ANGELES: Opening worldwide at IMAX theaters on 1 November Santa Vs. The Snowman 3D is the first-ever IMAX 3D animated holiday film. From the Academy...
FLORIDA: Motorola and ESPN have announced the availability of ESPN’s 2-Minute Drill trivia game and The BottomLine sports information application for Motorola’s iDEN phones for Nextel...
HYDERABAD: Procter & Gamble’s Vicks, India’s leading cough and cold brand, today marked 50 years in the country with a Dual Golden Jubilee Offer promotion. The...
MUMBAI: Madison Communications has launched Madison Merchandising Services. The agency is aiming at becoming a single point merchandising solution provider to Indian marketers. MMS is headed...
US: The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Online News Association (ONA) have acknowledged CNN.com coverage of 11 September. The broadcaster provided timely, accurate and...
CONNECTICUT: Panamsat and JSat have announced the formation of a strategic alliance for the distribution of digital video, data and Internet services across the Asia Pacific...
MUMBAI: In the end it was a straight to the heart direct mailer campaign that saw Contract Advertising steal a march over rival ad agencies at...
MUMBAI: Soap factory Balaji Telefilms’ second quarter net profit has surged 130.8 per cent to Rs 152.88 million from Rs 66.24 million in the corresponding quarter...
MUMBAI: Underdeclaration – the monkey on the backs of broadcasters and, apparently, MSO’s as well, may well have a solution if an initiative announced today proves...
MUMBAI: From I November, Zee channels will be going off the Germany cable provider Media Vision. However, viewers still have the option of watching Zee TV...
MUMBAI: Zee Network organised event Mela 2002 which took place this past weekend (18 to 20 October) at Birmingham’s NEC in the UK saw an attendance...
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT Ltd has reported a net profit of Rs 158.40 million for the quarter ended 30 September as compared to Rs 70.19 million for...
LOS ANGELES (California): NDS has countersued DirecTV Enterprises and two of its subsidiaries, along with a chip manufacturer and its North American sales affiliate. The countersuit...
MUMBAI: Alice Chiang has been appointed director, advertising sales, by ESPN Star Sports for Taiwan. Chiang, who brief includes overseeing the sports broadcaster’s ad sales interests...
BRISTOL (UK): Discovery Networks has bagged six Wildscreen Panda awards at Wildscreen, the world’s largest wildlife film festival. The Discovery Channel won four awards and The...
MUMBAI: India’s hardware industry is predicted to grow at over 15 per cent, thus crossing 1.9 million personal computer (PC) units in 2002-03. The first-ever quarterly...
MUMBAI: Another consumer product joins the Cartoon Network bandwagon. The children’s channel has entered into a promotional licensing agreement with Joyco to launch a special promotion...
MUMBAI: FCB-Ulka, India’s fifth largest marketing communication group, has taken its communication strategy case study competition for business schools on to the worldwide web. FCB-Ulka Comstrat,...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today said the dispute between national broadcaster Doordarshan and TransWorld International /Stracon over the telecast of ongoing India-West Indies cricket...
MUMBAI: Steady would be the best way to describe it. The inaugural film of Zee TV’s blockbuster block may not have set the TRPs on fire,...
MUMBAI:The search for the actor to play the lead role in Shyam Benegal’s film titled, Netaji- The Last Hero in Germany, Myanmar, Malaysia, Uzbekistan and India...
MUMBAI:Bharat Parva, a three-hour show depicting India’s unity in diversity through the various vibrant festivals celebrated in different parts of India, featuring Bollywood stars like Shah...
WASHINGTON(US): Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Dr. Jacques Diouf presented Intelsat with the TeleFood Medal for the most outstanding contribution to promoting the...
CALIFORNIA(US) : ILJIN C2C Ltd. a joint venture between Iljin Corp a subsidiary of the ILJIN group, and C2C Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications...
NEW YORK (US): According to the latest Nielsen Media Research, the Emmy-winning political drama, The West Wing has shown a sharp decline in the popularity charts...
SINGAPORE : Sales and distribution management company Expotus has appointed Sat B Solutions Ltd as their newest distributor of the Audient product range in India. The...
MUMBAI: The Broadcast India Exhibition & Symposium will take place from 29 October to 2 November in Mumbai. The symposium will be held on 29 and...
MUMBAI: Online polling for several categories for the second annual Indian Telly Awards has started on indiantelevision.com. Three programming awards are open for public polling. These...
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT Ltd has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that the meeting of Board of Directors of the Company will be held on 22 October...
CONNECTICUT- The World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has announced its international live event tour schedule for 2003. The eight tours will visit five continents and include visits...
NEW DELHI: The infrastructure at Prasar Bharati’s disposal is not adequate enough to start a Doordarshan news channel at the moment, a senior official of the...
MUMBAI: SCat India 2002, the country’s largest Cable TV and satellite broadcasting event will be held from 23-25 October, at the World Trade Centre in Mumbai....
MUMBAI: The list of 119 nominations for seventh annual regional Asian Television Awards have been released. More than 115 programmes and performances from 12 countries have...
MUMBAI: Chacha Chaudhary, the first ever TV serial based on an Indian cartoon character that airs on Sahara TV will complete its 50th episode on 22...