Hours after business channel CNBC India put out a report casting doubts on the reliability of the ratings systems in India, reactions from the industry were...
Business channel CNBC India today broke a story casting doubt on the efficacy of television peoplemeters in India, saying it was “not foolproof, not confidential and...
National Geographic channel has lined up a special series on Africa as a part of its programming initiative. The eight-hour long compelling series premiers on September...
Telecoms minister Ram Vilas Paswan apparently got his just reward for increasing teledensity in India during his two year tenure and piloting the Communication Convergence Bill...
Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has invited proposals from experienced producers and production houses for event-based television shows that will be made exclusively for Doordarshan’s National Channel....
Sony Entertainment Television is on the move. It was on 4 August that the channel started beaming in Australia on the South Asia Television platform along...
Communications minister Ram Vilas Paswan finally did it. After a lot of hectic activity behind the scenes which saw the printing of copies of The Communication...
It’s all about geography after all. When in Greece do as the Greeks would do. Most international satellite television and cable TV channels have been going...
Tomorrow Sony Entertainment Television joins Star India and Zee TV as a completely pay-driven bouquet with its flagship channel becoming fully encrypted. The channel will...
Information & Broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj has scheduled a meeting today evening at 5:00 pm with cable operators where major issues impacting the industry are to...
Four days into Zee Television’s journey to reinvent itself and the news is good for the Subhash Chandra-promoted channel. According to Partha Sinha director-marketing Zee...
That’s Life! It took all of 14 years of litigation for the rights of the popular eighties comedy Yeh Joi Hai Zindagi to finally land with...
SABe TV, the Hindi entertainment channel promoted by the Adhikari brothers, which had announced a new programming schedule earlier in the month, will introduce the new...
Can the industry finally look forward to the Convergence Bill seeing the light of day, at least in Parliament? Well if clued-in sources are to be...
Faced with mounting losses at home because of declining interest in its theme parks and a slump in ad revenues entertainment and media giant Walt Disney...
After a long while in which Sony Entertainment seemed to be in hibernation while the Zees and the Stars did all the running, the channel today...
Kaun Banega Junior Shaktiman, a contest idea that that Mukesh Khanna, actor-producer of the popular Shaktiman series on national broadcaster Doordarshan, has been trying to get...
MTV Asia announced today that the inaugural MTV Asia Awards (MAA) will be held in Singapore at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 2 February, 2002. The...
Cartoon Network has announced plans to introduce a new programming franchise Toonami with the unveiling of two feature-length Indian made 3D animation shows: Pandavas – The...
I. Income Tax on foreign telecasting Channels: a) Para 117 on page 36 of FM’s speech (Part B) says 177. The foreign telecasting channels will henceforth...
In the western Indian state of Maharashtra the Ganesh festival is huge. And this year the Marathi language channels have tried their levellest to outdo each...
The long awaited Communications Convergence Bill 2001, which has far-reaching implications on how the media industry is to be run in India, is expected to be...
Come 1 November, TV studio owners, editors, animation and graphic artists are going to be headed towards Mumbai’s World Trade Centre. The reason: the eleventh edition...
MTV India threw cold water today on a recent report that it was seriously considering a proposal by the Hinduja-owned INCablenet whereby it would be able...
Star has announced that its Star Movies channel has signed an output deal with DreamWorks Distribution to acquire the exclusive pay-television rights for 40 DreamWorks SKG...
MUMBAI: You can’t miss the eyes. Splashed across hoardings in the city a mysterious woman, revealing only her forehead and eyes, asks: “Kaun hoon main (who...
The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), which on 24 August is launching a campaign to increase confidence in Indian advertising on television and print media,...
Zee Interactive Learning Systems Ltd, the multimedia education subsidiary of Zee Telefilms, is currently in the middle of a major drive to increase awareness around its...
The Hallmark Channel, using the platform of the popular programmes like Sesame Street, Scholastic Clifford and Caillou on its Kids Block, has teamed up with well-known...
Just under three months after Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra announced he was looking to induct an international media major as strategic partner, the field for...
The predominantly music-based etc, quoting market research agency Intam figures, has claimed the top spot in the music channel stakes. According to Intam figures for...
Zee TV today announced it was ready and willing to take on the best that Star had to dish out while unveiling the relaunch of the...
Subhash Chandra is likely to square the remainder of the amount that is to be paid back to Zee Telefilms Ltd by offloading about 7.5 million...
A little over a month after media baron Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms Ltd, announced its promoters had placed 5 million shares with a U.S.-based institutional investor,...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) and Astro, its Malaysian Pay TV Partner, have reached an agreement to make available exclusive coverage of the English Premier League soccer...
To promote its new blockbuster movie ‘Planet Of the Apes’ 20th Century Fox has tied up with popular music network MTV International as its only global...
It’s been a year and ten months since the Viacom-owned kid’s channel Nickelodeon entered Indian air space but it might as not have come at all...
It’s not just cricket series that SET MAX, the movies and cricket channel from the Sony Entertainment stable, is lining up for viewers. Launching tomorrow, every...
Participants also got an insight into the legal aspects of scriptwriting from Film Writers’ Association’s Rajendra Singh, who spoke of the problems faced by Indian scriptwriters....
India’s next generation communication satellite Insat-3C, which was scheduled for launch on 11 September on an Ariane 5, is likely to be lifted into orbit only...
Yet another family drama targeted at the Indian housewife (or should that be North Indian housewife) hits the small screen today with the launch of “Kangan”...
Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) Television was in the process of working out a plan to increase ad sales for the French channel Fashion TV CEO Rajan...
US-based Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the India launch of Adobe After Effects 5.0, a new version of the company’s motion graphics and visual effects software....
ESPN Star Sports yesterday introduced an Asian version of the popular sports news show Sportscenter. SportsCenter will be Asia’s first live half-hour sports news programme...
B4U Networks has terminated its distribution deal with Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) blaming it for what it says is the surreptitious manner in which the channel...
Sports in India means cricket, cricket, and only cricket. To the world at large however there is far more to sport and that is what ESPN...
One of the recurring themes in the just-concluded Enter Media 2001 conference organised by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) in Mumbai was the issue of...
Watch out Femina Miss India, there is competition on the horizon. The Zee Network has announced plans to foray into one as yet unexplored arena –...
National broadcaster Doordarshan has invited fresh sealed tenders to market and distribute DD-World and DD-News channel in the UK and rest of Europe on the DTH...
National broadcaster Doordarshan, in its efforts to give impetus to its own sports channels, is looking for fresh sports programmes and inviting proposals from producers under...