Jewels in the Balaji crown, Kyunki and Kahaani may have hit a plateau, but its other soaps are keeping the company on a winning growth graph,...
It’s been a fairly quiet ride in the FM radio arena till now but the slugfest looks about to begin in real earnest. After having to...
The much-delayed Indian satellite Insat-3C is now all set for a 23 January liftoff. According to satellite launch partner Arianespace, the Ariane 4 rocket, which will...
MTV Networks International has announced that next month US secretary of state Colin Powell will participate in an international global forum through the channel. The 60-minute...
PanAmSat Corporation, which claims to be the premier provider of global video and data broadcasting services via satellite, has reported total revenues of $870.1 million for...
Zee Telefilms Ltd today announced its third quarter results (ended December 31, 2001). The Income from sales and services has gone down by 18 per cent...
Intelsat LLC has announced that it has signed two launch services contracts – one with Boeing Launch Services for a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL vehicle and the...
Border tensions are calling for some hasty programming changes in the subcontinent. The Beeb has voluntarily put on hold its reality series Commando on the Indian army, bowing...
Restructuring and revised strategies seem to be working for TV18. The TV 18 Group (consolidated) has posted a net profit of Rs 1.954 million for Q3...
ESPN Software today claimed a major victory in its tussle with the Hinduja Group MSO InCableNet when it announced that most cable networks across Mumbai city...
MTV Asia, which claims to be the most wanted music channel in the region, has announced that Ronan Keating lead singer of the pop group Boyzone...
Star Plus, the flagship channel of the Star group, seems determined to tap all genres in the slew of new programmes it is unleashing in 2002....
It’s a tie-up which has ample scope. Crown Media, the parent company of made for TV movie channel Hallmark, has signed on media sales company the...
Viewers can now spice up their breakfasts with business and technology news from around the world with CNN’s new breakfast show that goes on air from...
Justice Patil of the Bombay High Court today posted for Friday the hearing of the contempt case filed by Hinduja Group MSO InCableNet against ESPN Software...
It’s taken long to arrive at a decision, but the Indian I&B ministry has finally decided to invoke special legal powers to crack down on cable...
The Sahara India Group’s ambitions to become a major media powerhouse was taken to a whole new level today as it announced plans to launch a...
The Star Network made a big step forward in convincing cable operators in the country to accept its new subscription regime after RPG Netcom in Kolkatta...
It’s no Prisoner Of War but India’s first homegrown reality show in the action genre is finally launching on the Zee Network. Last year Zee TV...
The Delhi-based National Cable and Telecommunications Association, representing a section of cable operators in the north, says it will switch off retransmission for ESPN Star Sports...
Punjab Today, a 24 hour digital news channel hits the airwaves on Monday. The new channel floated by STV Enterprises claims to be an attempt to...
ISRO has signed a cooperative agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA). This renews the arrangements for cooperation between the two agencies in the peaceful uses...
In a bid to connect further with the viewer ETC Punjabi has started a unique one of a kind countdown show. Sadda Top 10lets music lovers...
The Consumer Guidance Society of India (CGSI) has lambasted cable operators for “holding consumers to ransom” in the ongoing dispute between InCableNet and ESPN Software over...
Buena Vista Television India (BVTI) has tied up with McDonalds for the first ever McDonalds-Disney Hour Kids’ Awards. The awards are an opportunity for children to...
It may be down, but it’s not yet out. Broadcast Worldwide, which promotes regional language channels Tara is planning to beef up its news programming to...
MAK TV, so far shrouded in secrecy and some spicy speculation, will fill the small screens very soon. The 31 December deadline that was being talked...
The third edition of the Survivor series, Survivor Africa on AXN, draws to a close next Friday. And in what is becoming familiar terrain for the...
The Rathikant Basu promoted Broadcast India has planned to launch four encrypted regional channels–Bangla, Punjabi, Gujarati and Marathi. The channels are expected to be on air...
In order to ensure complete integration of various divisions of Star Network and facilitate the growth of the channel’s new business ventures fresh recruitments to senior...
Gameshow Kaun Banega Crorepati may be singing its swan song tonight but Star Plus has been making sure that the grass does not grow beneath its...
MGM Networks, a unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., has forged an alliance with the Orbit Satellite Television And Radio Network. A digital, 24-hour MGM-branded movie channel will...
The battle between InCableNet and ESPN Software over increased subscription rates entered the courts today after the Hinduja Group MSO filed a contempt of court case...
The parliamentary standing committee on information technology has reportedly started its final deliberations on the Communications Convergence Bill. The standing committee, headed by veteran parliamentarian Somnath...
Rajan Raheja promoted Hathway Cable & Datacom, a cable TV network in which Star India has a 26 per cent stake, will soon be launching C-...
Global recession and changing brand management techniques have contributed to the setting up of a Brand Belief System by Leo Burnett India. The new concept is...
Nimbus Communications is on an expansion spree and has set aside RS 2 billion for this purpose. As part of the expansion plan Nimbus will be...
Even as the satellite launch sector saw a global recession in 2001, Arianespace took credit for maintaining a strong lead in the commercial space transportation segment....
Leading set top manufacturers, including Scientific Atlanta and Motorola, have signed CableLabs’ POD-Host Interface License Agreement (PHILA) over the last two weeks. The PHILA is a...
General entertainment channel Sahara TV will be making its presence felt on the Internet in about a month’s time. Sahara TV vice-president (publicity, promotions & PR)...
After the promotional big bang that was Band of Brothers, HBO’s $ 120 million epic miniseries, the premiere English movie channel kicks off the new year...
A five-year service tax holiday and waiver of customs duty on broadcast uplinking equipment figured prominently in the entertainment industry’s pre budget pitch to information &...
With the spat between ESPN Star Sports and Hinduja Group MSO InCablenet set to be thrashed out in court, the channel has decided to take its...
The Subhash Chandra owned Zee Telefilms has again landed into equity problems. First it was the earth station at Noida where Zee had planned to uplink...
With cable operators in Mumbai taking a decision to pull the plug on ESPN-Star Sports for three days, the ESPN Software India management has issued a...
The Hindi entertainment television sweepstakes is hotting up and Sahara TV aims to be very much there on the viewerscope. After November’s launch of four new...
In less than three months, the Indian government will permit 26 private TV channels to uplink locally, if I&B minister Sushma Swaraj is to be believed....
Convergence India has over the years been the destination where cutting edge technologies have been unveiled. New technology in communications are on show. Exhibitions India presents...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which according to its satellite launch partner Arianespace was to see the lift-off of its latest generation satellite Insat-3C on...
Last night at 9 pm it was EPSN Software which took the decision to switch off the transmission of both ESPN and Star Sports to one...