In a swift turn around on Monday, the Bangladesh government lifted its ban on 11 of the 13 satellite channels it had imposed on Sunday. The...
SABe TV’s celebrated variety entertainment show Office-Office has won the RAPA (Radio and TV Advertising Practitioners’ Association of India) Award for “Best Comedy” serial for the...
“We are on track to achieve our aim of becoming the number one network as far as subscription revenues are concerned.” This is what Shantonu Aditya,...
To telecast or not to telecast (World cup soccer matches) is the question that is haunting Prasar Bharati and it is still attempting to salvage an...
Viacom-owned children’s channel Nickelodeon will soon be broadcast in China after the localisation of all programme content, a recent report says. Viacom launched Nickelodeon programming in...
Home Depot and Viacom Plus, the cross-platform sales marketing unit of Viacom, have entered into a new cross-platform marketing agreement which will be implemented at the...
There has been another fallout of the much-hyped issue of CAS’ failure to get the okay of members of Parliament from the Rajya Sabha (Upper House...
Mickey Mouse is coming to Korea. Come 1 June, viewers in Seoul will be able to tune into the antics of Disney’s rodent on television. The...
The Bangladesh government has clamped down on eight Indian popular satellite pay channels and five FTA channels to “resist the adverse impact of alien culture on...
That the Rajya Sabha (Indian Parliament’s Upper House) could not take up the Cable TV Networks Regulations Amendment Bill on 17 May (last Friday), the last...
91, as the hoardings strung out all over the city and suburbs tell us, hits the city airwaves on Tuesday. The fourth private FM player to...
CBS’ 15 awards was the highest tally at the 29th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards last weekend, including those for the outstanding lead actor (Peter Bergman, The...
The Sahara India Group’s ambitious plans to launch a national Hindi news channel, along with a number of independent city-based regional news stations (mainly in the...
Arianespace has reported a loss of 193 million euros for the year ended March 2001. The losses have been attributed to Arianespace’s decision to take charges...
It’s May and as reported earlier in Indiantelevision.com’s special report the Tara Marathi channel has gone on air. This means that there is one more major...
Leo Entertainment, the film marketing division of Leo Burnett India, today unleashed its first major joint TV commercial for Kaante, Sanjay Gupta’s upcoming action thriller, and...
Alarmed by the growing reach of private satellite channels, Doordarshan is finally getting its act together and is looking to increase the penetration of DD-2, or...
Yahoo has launched a print campaign and a six language; eight-market online promotion called “The Yahoo! FIFA World Cup Challenge,” which offers soccer fans a chance...
Sri Adhikari Brothers Television (SABTNL) continues its long association with national broadcaster Doordarshan with the launch on Monday of a new daily social drama Kuntee on...
Hindi entertainment channel Sahara TV has taken home five trophies at the Radio and TV Advertising Practitioners Association (RAPA) awards that were held in Mumbai on...
All you “Friends” lovers here’s an interesting fact which will tell you that it ‘really pays’ to be good friends – pun intended. The cast of...
Football fever is building with the soccer World Cup fast approaching, and everyone is trying to cash in on it. And hoping to get off on...
The Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2002 could not be passed by the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) today. The reason: lack of time....
THE MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING (SHRIMATI SUSHMA SWARAJ): A small amendment in the Cable Act is proposed through this Bill. Though the proposed amendment is...
The meeting of cable TV operators to discuss issues around conditional access systems and the CATV Act which was to be held today (17 May) in...
Thai communication major Shin Satellite has reported consolidated revenues for the first quarter of 2002 of 1,303 million Baht, and EBITDA of 592 million baht. Total...
Hindi news channel Aaj Tak has bagged the Best Campaign of the Year (TV) Award at the 27th Radio and TV Advertising Practitioners’ Association of India...
Star TV and ANZ Grindlays have got into bed together with Mastercard International. And the result of the menage a trois: a bonny alive and kicking...
Nickelodeon, MTV’s sister channel, is all set to stir up some heat on the kids entertainment scene. And in true MTV-style, yesterday it unveiled its first...
Nickelodeon, MTV’s sister channel, is all set to stir up some heat on the kids entertainment scene. And in true MTV-style, yesterday it unveiled its first...
A List Entertainment Inc has secured the product placement for the Dassault Falcon Jet as the CIA Jet in the upcoming Paramount film The Sum Of...
Initiative Media and BBC World have concluded a study on consumers’ attitudes towards advertising and its relevance to media. The study, whose findings will be released...
Readers in Mumbai were surprised to see a smaller The Times of India greeting them on the morning of 15 May. The Old Lady of Boribunder...
With soccer fever rising in India as the FIFA World Cup draws nearer, Ten Sports has launched the Dekh Football Dekh Contest. The contest which kicks...
Now that the Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2002 has been passed by the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament), there is one final step...
One crime show is being replaced by another on Star Plus. Kahaani Jurrm Ki, which made its debut nearly a year ago on the Friday Sachin...
The Sporty gent is back. This time, the former ESPN-Star Sports Asia chief Alexander P. “Sandy” Brown is hopping on to the business channel bandwagon. Brown,...
Surabhi, the cultural show that once enjoyed cult status in the country, may soon be back. This time on a satellite channel, with a more upmarket...
As part of its integrated marketing initiative, Cartoon Network will be premiering its on-ground promotional event for the Asia Pacific region, Cartoon Network Super-Size Cinema, in...
Arianespace yesterday announced three new contracts for Ariane launches of the DIRECTV-7S, iPSTAR-1 and STAR ONE C1 satellites. “We are pleased that despite the market downturn,...
ESPN has launched ESPN+ (pronounced “ESPN ms”), its the second 24-hour sports network to serve Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. ESPN+, to be presented in Spanish,...
HLL Walls’ premium candy brand Max Sweets, has announced the launch of its biggest offering for kids this summer with the Max Walkie Talkie Adventure. Youngsters...
The Indian government is a in a no-nonsense mood. It has asked Mumbai-based Space Television, a little known company which is the first company to apply...
Well, Madame won out after all. Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj’s single point agenda of imposing set top boxes and conditional access on the Indian...
Thai communication major Shin Satellite and Bagan Cybertech IDC &Teleport, Myanmar have signed a service and procurement contract for purchasing a complete iPSTAR system package, including...
BroadcastAsia2002, the broadcasting and multimedia technologies event will be held from 18 to 21 June 2002 in Singapore this year. The forum will have a wide...
ESPN’s film Ultimate X, The Movie produced in conjunction with Touchstone Pictures will hit Mumbai shores on 24 May, through SPE India. The film, which will...
Rathikant Basu promoted Broadcast Worldwide which will be launching Tara regional channels has initiated a wide based research programmes for its channels. Tara Marathi will be...
Seattle headquartered Getty Images has announced that it will be the exclusive distributor of still images collected from CNN footage. The company, which claims to be...
Cable TV industry professionals are aghast at the AIADMK-led Jayalalitha government’s proposal to push through an act at the state level which basically overrides Central government...