US based Cable Television Laboratories Inc has adopted the middleware software developed by Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), for advanced OpenCable digital set-top boxes that are being...
Earth Matters, a weekly programme covering India's environmental issues currently telecast on Doordarshan, has been adjudged the best science magazine programme – Le Prix du Magazine...
Star India has finally found the desi answer to Anne Robinson, the tough-as-nails host of the popular game show The Weakest Link, which is to be...
They’re streaks of lights in the sky which make for a pleasant sight. But meteor showers are known to damage manmade satellites in their orbits. Bearing...
The NDS developed set top boxes used by Nickelodeon fetched the channel an impressive 293,000 interactive votes in London during Watch Your Own Week earlier this...
Retecal, The largest cable operator in Castillay Leon, one of Spain’s largest regions has signed a deal with Motorala to offer end to end, high speed...
CDN Japan has started distributing 100-150 broadband content programs to a quarter of a million home users in Japan from Tuesday. A non-profit consortium established in...
A Dubai government produced video has bagged the best video award at the 34th International Film Festival and 3rd Tourist Multimedia Festival held in Karlovy Vary...
Aaj Tak is making hay out of the conflict in Afghanistan. If the ratings are to be believed, the Hindi news channel from the India Today...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has a new host on its signature sports news programme, Sportsline. Jason Dasey, former CNN World Sports anchor, will now host Sportsline,...
The legal brawl between Mumbai cable TV independent 7 Star Cable and pay TV sportscaster ESPN Star Sports over payments to the latter is far from...
ESPN Star Software in its petition said : The service contract entered into between ESPN and 7star cable network effective from 1 January 2001 up to...
Turner Broadcasting System, Asia Pacific has renewed its broadcast agreement with China Central Television (CCTV), to allow the two networks to share news footage and strengthen...
A fortnightly cable TV newspaper? Yes, it’s the brainwave of the colourful Delhi-based cable operator-turned-publisher-turned-industry-representative Dr A. K. Rastogi. Rastogi, who runs the monthly Hindi-English bimonthly...
Californian company SCM Microsystems, a leading provider of solutions for the Digital World, will collaborate with broadcast encryption provider Tsinghua Tongfang. The companies will develop and...
The Indian Broadcasting Federation (IBF) has said nyet to state-owned broadcaster DD’s DTH proposal. DD had proposed that it would own 20 per cent in a...
Now India has its own version of Backstreet Boys. A Band of Boys, a talented group of five, has been chosen by Clearity, the image management...
Cable Television Laboratories has announced that its PacketCable test programme will be ready to qualify vendors’ products by next year. This will allow the cable...
Scientific-Atlanta is determined to beat the slowdown back home by making its presence felt in other markets. Its purchase of Belgium company BarcoNet NV is a...
Five of the country’s top Chief Information Officers (CIOs) were honoured in the presence of a galaxy of peers and captains of industry at the CIO...
Talented actor Kamal Haasan breaks his silence on his latest film Abhay in an interview with Sabe TV on Wednesday. The interview, that airs at 10.30...
Kids and toon fans now have another channel to latch on to in the evenings. With the launch of the Turtle Island series on its new...
The National Cable & Telecommunications Association has asked the central government to pass a legislation making it mandatory for conditional access set top boxes to be...
Innovation, focus, profit. These three keywords describe CASBAA’s three day event in Hong Kong’s Convention & Exhibition Centre, to be flagged off on 27 November. The...
ETC Networks Ltd, the first channel to secure clearance to build a commercial teleport in Mumbai, is now looking to set up its uplinking facility in...
Another millionaire quiz game show is to make its debut on 11 November. Koteeswaran is, however, a show with a difference: it is the first time...
Willow Bay Profiles Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick on CNN's Pinnacle What is it like being a victim of the 11 September collapse of the World...
The shakeout in the television business continues. Several channels have shut down, some are struggling to stay afloat and are laying off people as advertising and...
The highly anticipated year-end Tennis Masters Cup in Sydney kicks off on Star Sports on Monday at 5:30 pm. The final will be telecast on 18...
Lost out on the URL with a .com or .net or .org extension because some domain squatter grabbed it? No sweat. You can now get your...
Cable TV viewers in the US will now be able to play interactive games like backgammon, checkers and poker on Explorer digital interactive set-tops, thanks to...
It’s a juicy promotional tie up between kids channel Cartoon Network and foods company Dabur. Under this, buyers of a Dabur Real Mango Juice gift pack...
Hong Kong company SpeedCast Ltd, which works in the area of broadband satellite, is tying up with the China-based Internet Services Provider (ISP) ET Network Services...
ESPN Star Sports’ (ESS) Singapore headquarters is seeing some changes in its top management. Laura Mellanby, who has taken over as vice president, programming will be...
The cricket match fixing saga has spilled over into the television industry. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the issue of corruption in...
Kolkata will host the ICE (Information Technology, Communications and Entertainment) summit on 18-19 November this year. Organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry, the Summit will...
Public broadcaster Doordarshan has already earned Rs 400 million more in the first six months of the current fiscal over the same period last year. Despite...
NDS has developed an interactive version of Mastermind, the popular television quiz that will debut on 12 November on Discovery Networks Europe (DNE) on Sky digital....
ETC & JVC to bring electronic cinema to India This is a technology that is just about making its mark in even developed markets: delivery of...
TMG, the parent company of TMG channel and publisher of CIO magazine will hold its first annual CIO Awards on 9 November. The awards are based...
The quality of the flicks on Star Movies on Friday at 9:30 p.m. keep getting better. On the 16th the channel will show the period piece...
A new channel ID. A handful of new shows. Sony Entertainment Television has been moving slowly but surely in an effort to stand equal to its...
On Saturday and Sunday MAX will show the 'Cathay Pacific Standard Chartered Hong Kong Cricket Sixes'. Participants include archrivals India and Pakistan, World Cup Champions Australia,...
TechSpan, Inc. has managed to put into place a Content Management System (CMS) for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). TechSpan’s speciality is integrating the internet business’s...
ESPN Star Sports, which claims to reach over 136 million households, has announced the signing of an agreement with Sport4cast. It is a company which, among...
The Emmy Awards which showcase the best from America’s television industry finally took place last Sunday at the Shubert Theatre. The show which had to be...
Urdu Satellite entertainment channel ARY Digital which has started its test run in India recently, is all set to launch the channel by end November. Atul...
Hinduja Group convergence arm HTMT and US-based Planet E-Shop today announced the launch of their media commerce venture Shop 24 Seven. Shop 24 Seven is being...
The Living Media group (publisher of leading newweekly India Today and successful news capsule Aaj Tak) is to launch a 24 hours news channel in the...
Television news channel BBC World, which completed 10 years of operations in India last month, is going digital from 1 December, 2001. Speaking to indiantelevision.com, Erica...