In a bid to connect with kids, Cartoon Network has announced a contest in association with Max Magik. This will celebrate the playful spirit of the...
HBO will celebrate 8 March, International Women's Day with a slew of women oriented films the entire day. The films will run from 6 am till...
The fate of big-time film financier Bharat Shah, who has been incarcerated since early last year due to his alleged connections to the underworld, is to...
“Everyone is talking to everyone.” That was all Lalit Modi, vice-chairman and president, Modi Entertainment Network, would offer other than a “no comments” when asked about...
Global sports-related marketing major Sportsworld Media Group, the company that owns the worldwide rights to ITV’s Popstars, is currently the target of a buy-out by a...
New Delhi 24th March 2006: Subject: “Amendment to Telecommunication (Broadcasting and Cable) Services (Second) Tariff Order, 2004 (6 of 2004) dated 1.10.2004. 1.TRAI, in pursuance to...
Lottery may never be the same again from 6 pm today. The Essel group promoted Super Lotto goes online at retail centres across the country from...
MIPTV 2002, the annual international television programme market held in Cannes, France, will look at the new trends of television programming and the emerging types of...
MTV India chief Alex Kuruvilla has dismissed the report in Business Standard, which stated that non-resident Indians disgruntled with the channel’s performance in India had pulled...
Doordarshan has decided to offer digital transmission television (DTT) platform to private satellite channels in the coming weeks. After a hiatus of nearly two years, the...
Star India may be pulling out all the stops to make sure that its glam-reality show [V] Popstars makes it big but the same can’t be...
For two months, the Indian government has dithered on the issue of a ban on the state-backed PTV. Within two days of the Gujarat riots, however,...
AXN has announced the launch of two new shows that deal with the sci fi genre. The first show of the two, both to commence airing...
New Delhi, Thursday, March 9, 2006: Iomega, a global leader in data storage, today announced the Iomega® REV® Loader 280, an innovative new desktop autoloader for...
Animation genuis Chuck Jones passed away on 22 February and Cartoon Network has lined up a weekend programming special section devoted to his work. His contribution...
NEW DELHI: Apple® has unveiled a new 1GB iPod® nano for just Rs.9,700, offering the same features as the 2GB and 4GB iPod nano models and...
Shekhar Suman is returning as a small screen host, this time to Sabe TV. Aap Aur Main, informs the channel, will bring Suman together with well...
BBC World has announced the launch of a series of programs called The Hollywood Years. Tom Brook the host of the entertainment show Talking Movies explained...
Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) have cleared the decks for increased cooperation. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed yesterday envisages...
Doordarshan Mumbai’s inhouse music-n-dance show Tak Dhina Dhin will soon reach an unsurpassed milestone of completing 250 episodes among the state broadcaster’s programmes The landmark achievement...
BBC World’s strategy is simple – building up audience strength through impartial in-depth analysis. Talking Movies host Tom Brook who met the press last night in...
Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd will soon be Pritish Nandy Entertainment. This was decided at a board meeting held yesterday. The purpose of the name change is...
It was brief to say the least. The amount of time that finance minister Yashwant Sinha devoted to the entertainment sector in his speech to parliament...
Cricket rights are being bounced around like nobody’s business at the moment. ESPN Star Sports today announced it has secured broadcast rights for all international cricket...
B4U Music and and Sony Music jointly launched an all girl band, ‘Teer’ at Velocity, at Tardeo in south Mumbai on Tuesday night. The four girls...
ETC Networks Ltd has received a welcome cash infusion after its board yesterday approved the preferential allotment of slightly over 2.2 million equity shares to Subhash...
The Intelsat 904 communications satellite was successfully launched aboard an Ariane 44L launch vehicle at 1:59 am EST today. The satellite is expected to be operational...
In December 2001, Indian Television Media Information & Publishing (which runs the website http://www.indiantelevision.com) organised Qalam 2001 – a two-day scriptwriters forum and workshop – along...
News channels are rolling up their sleeves once again, as the second important event of the Indian polity’s calendar year unfolds on 28 February. The claimant...
Close on the heels of an agreement with Prasar Bharati for TV production of international cricket in India from 2002 to 2004, Nimbus has signed another...
In the end he was out almost before he had set foot inside. Satish Menon has left the still-up-in-the-air Manoranjan Aur Kya (Mak) TV and joined...
Discovery Channel seems to be working hard in increasing the penetration of the infotainment channel and increasing its popularity. It is working on the ground level...
Viewers, used to seeing reruns of popular soaps on DD Metro for the last six months, are likely to get a dose of fresh programming shortly....
In the end it went through 21 days later than initially announced but the pieces appear to be falling in place for a strategic investor to...
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) latest multi-purpose geostationary satellite, Insat 3C, was declared operational today, providing a boost to the satellite communication capabilities of India. ...
The open offer was ultimately higher than the Rs 70 million that Zee Telefilms had earlier declared it would be shelling out for a further stake...
While other channels are still biting the family soap bait, Sahara TV has decided to tread the untrodden path with a new series on the theme...
Addressability. Everyone wants it but no one seems to know how it is to be instituted. That about summed up the last session of the day...
MUMBAI: Eye-popping stuff this. The promotional efforts that is. Five channels, road shows, hoardings, the leading newspaper in the country, online, offline, radio. That is the...
After Playwin Infravest CEO R K Singh’s departure from the Zee group, it is the turn of Tony D’Silva, president – international business, Zee Network, to...
The Hinduja Group’s InCable Network has a new head. Rajiv Bajaj, president, IN TV, the programming wing of the MSO has proceeded on long leave. Ashok...
Add one more to the list of TV channels that are trying to get the attention of viewers belonging to the Indian diaspora across the globe....
Motion pictures seem to be the only new Nimbus venture that has taken off with a measure of success in the last couple of years. While...
It came as a bolt out of the blue. Zee Telefilms and ETC Networks this morning informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that they have signed a...
Looks like the common assumption that ESPN Star Sports will be airing the India telecast of next year’s Cricket World Cup in South Africa may be...
TV 18 listed at a massive 1,000 per cent premium on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) today. It opened at RS 1,950 and touched an intra-day...
The Hallmark channel may be struggling to find an audience in India but in America the story is different. Hallmark Channel has once again outranked all...
ViaSat has reported record sales and earnings for its third quarter of fiscal year 2002, ended 31 December, 2001. ViaSat claims to produce advanced digital satellite...
Entertainment conglomerate Viacom has reported results for the full year and fourth quarter ended 31 December, 2001. For the full year 2001, Viacom reported a 16...
The BBC has announced that Capita has been formally appointed to deliver field and call centre operations for TV Licensing for the BBC. An official release...