Warner Brothers’ Consumer Products division has announced an impressive lineup of brands at Licensing 2002 International. The company is aiming at redefining franchise opportunities for the...
With a view to connecting further with viewers and strengthening its online community of users, Sony Entertainment is in the process of revamping www.setindia.com. Senior V-P...
Zee Telefilms’ aggressive no holds barred campaign to convince advertisers and media planners that its shows Jeena Issi Ka Naam Hai (JIKNH) and Khelo Number Khelo...
PanAmSat Corporation today announced that more than 24 top broadcasters, programmers and news agencies in over two-dozen countries are using the company global satellite network for...
Trust Star to do it. It will soon start another daily soap beginning with ‘K’ a letter which has not only turned round the fortunes of...
Channel Guide, India’s first and only free to air digital satellite TV guide channel, is set to complete one year of operations. It now reaches over...
Rediffusion DY&R, which handles the PR account for Zee Telefilms, has lost the Canon India account to Text 100 India effective 1 July, industry sources say....
Mumbai and Delhi will lead the country in the growth of CAS. Kolkata will be slow in catching the trend, and Chennai will comprise mostly of...
Intelsat announced today that at 2:44 a.m. EDT the Intelsat 905 satellite was successfully launched aboard an Ariane 44L vehicle. The satellite is expected to be...
The rather sorry deal national broadcaster Doordarshan has got for the ongoing FIFA World Cup seems to have galvanised Prasar Bharati to get proactive on the...
Digital distribution of content, aided by rising broadband penetration, will be the greatest driver of new entertainment and media spending in 2005-2006, says the just released...
Cartoon Network has announced a brand promotion in association with Bournvita which claims to be the biggest brown milk food drink brand in the country. At...
Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has floated global tenders for the supply of studio equipment, as well as for the supply of 1,100 set top boxes for...
Television has emerged as a primary source for news and current affairs and a new survey undertaken by the Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies (CMS) indicates...
From music to alternative healing, etc seems determined to innovate in a bid to bring in the viewers. Claiming supremacy among the current crop of music...
HBO and Showtime are coming together in an unprecedented joint production of the US heavyweight championship on 8 June between Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis. The...
Dabur’s Real Fruit Juice has bagged the award for ‘Highest sales growth achieved by a brand’ at the first ever beverages industry seminar – ‘Competing for...
SINGAPORE: Intelligent Enterprise Asia conferred the 3rd Annual Intelligent20 Awards to the region’s top 20 enterprises that use infocom-related technologies to drive new levels of operational...
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has restrained Doordarshan Kendra Delhi from transferring specialist programme executives to non programme production related jobs. The restraining order applicable for...
Prasar Bharati has apparently decided to give the fledgling DD Bharati a shot in the arm with some original content. The channel has commenced a live...
epsi launched its latest consumer campaign in Mumbai at the “Bombay Blue” restaurant last week. The current teen icon Fardeen Khan kick-started a series of consumer...
BBC World is the official television media partner of the 3G World Congress 2002. The annual event, into its seventh year, deals with the global wireless...
ESPN Star Sports is roping in football legends Bryan Robson, Andy Gray and Gerry Armstrong for an event which will raise funds for the Singapore Sports...
Staid Doordarshan may not have managed the soccer World Cup well, but for fans of Bryan Adams, Ozzy Osbourne and Eric Clapton, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee...
Online voting for this year’s MTV Movie Awards has crossed the eight million mark, an all time high, says the channel. The figure represents an increase...
Viacom chairman and CEO Sumner M Redstone will receive the Media Person of the Year Award at this year’s Cannes Lions Festival. The trophy will be...
Intelsat, the company offering telephony, corporate network, video and internet solutions, has announced the appointment of KPMG LLP as its independent auditor for the fiscal year...
An Indian version of Russian Roulette, the popular game of chance, and a weekend series from the Balaji stable on Sony are set to propel the...
Business and financial channel CNBC in association with TNT, has invited entries for the second annual Asia Business Leader Awards 2002. The awards recognise achievement, innovation...
No more unauthorised reception of the FIFA world cup soccer. Armed with a restraining order issued by the Delhi High Court last night, applicable across the...
Fast food giant McDonald’s is helping children score big at the 2002 FIFA World Cup through a special programme which pairs kids with the world’s best...
The big question mark on the introduction of conditional access systems in India will be how to keep a check on the subscriber management systems (SMS)...
Go for the jugular. Thats a tactic used in the animal kingdom when a hunter is close to a prey it has been stalking for some...
It’s not only Sony Entertainment that is bidding to push sporting spectacle on its entertainment channels. If Sony will be pushing ICC cricket on its SET...
After a long hiatus, Mudra Videotec, the television software production and marketing arm of advertising major Mudra Communications is all set to renew the golden relationship...
A dip stick report prepared by the Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB) has placed Radio Mirchi’s listening audience at 70 per cent of the total listenership...
Cartoon Network is all set to deliver a high flying kick to the toon scene in India by premiering Jackie Chan Adventures. The star of films...
Hubahu, the twin dilemma on Sony Entertainment Television, is packing up. High costs of production and corresponding low ratings are the primary reason for the series...
If there is one talismanic individual that represents India’s greatest triumph in the one-day cricket arena it is Kapil Dev, the captain of that 1983 winning...
A dip stick report prepared by the Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB) has placed Radio Mirchi’s listening audience at 70 per cent of the total listenership...
Using the theme of Where Great Stories Come to Life, Hallmark has commenced an advertising promotion celebrating the mother child relationship with a Bollywood touch. On-air...
Telecast research agency Perfect Monitoring Systems has recently launched a new product for the television industry. Called the ‘Analysis of Telecast Data through Graphs & Charts’,...
World Cup soccer telecaster Ten Sports announced late tonight (30 May) that its parent Taj Television and distribution partner HMA Udyog had struck a deal with...
The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms Ltd today got the formal nod from shareholders to raise the FII limit in India’s leading media company to 49 per...
Star India today announced the appointment of Zee News executive editor Sanjay Pugalia as news director Star News. His appointment will be effective 1 July and...
Zee Telefilms has made another big move to consolidate its position of strength in the convergence business. The company is picking up a 26 per cent...
Ten Sports is taking the novel route to increasing awareness about the channel in the interiors of the country. The channel that has secured exclusive rights...
National broadcaster Doordarshan is inviting sealed tenders from parties /agencies who are interested in distribution and marketing DD-World Channel of Doordarshan in the USA and Canada...
The industry has reacted cautiously to Prasar Bharati’s (Broadcasting Corporation of India) move throwing open bidding for all time slots on its Doordarshan Metro channel. ...
Sony Entertainment Television yesterday announced the launch of a new daily soap Kaun Apna Kaun Paraya, part of an initiative on SET’s part to repackage its programming...

