The battle to gain control over the cellular service market is getting hot. To face competition from MTNL’s Dolphin and Hutchison Max, BPL Mobile has entered...
The The convergence bill may be a long way away but it was very much on the radar screen as the two-day Enter Media 2001 conference...
The battle for the No 4 slot in the general Hindi entertainment channel sweepstakes is hotting up. Sahara TV has refocused itself and is readying for...
Television software major TV18 came out with miserable results showing the down turn in media sector. The Net profit has gone down by more than 69...
Star Group Limited and UTV announced in Chennai today the formation of a joint venture which will oversee Tamil regional language channel Vijay TV. Star has...
As ad spend becomes increasingly more difficult to access, channels are having to innovate to make sure the ad rupee goes as long a way as...
The Entermedia 2001 conference kicked off in Mumbai’s western suburb of Andheri today with the issue of addressability forming the core of discussions at the session...
The two-day Entermedia 2001 conference was flagged off today in Mumbai by chief minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh who announced that the state government would not...
The sports television juggernaut rolls on. Come 15 August 2001, ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) broadcaster is going to launch two new services Star Sports Southeast Asia...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) and Hong Kong pay-TV operator Cable TV have reached an agreement for non-exclusive distribution of ESPN and Star Sports channels in Hong...
Star India and Ronnie Screwvala’s UTV are set to formalise a deal to hand over control of the Tamil language channel Vijay TV it owns to...
Business news network CNBC Asia has incorporated cellular phone short message service (SMS) into its programming. Viewers can now send questions and comments to analysts, market...
The Broadcast Worldwide-promoted Tara regional channel bouquet has recently launched a collection of Hindi and Punjabi songs in partnership with Milestone Entertainment. The audio cassette has...
Three months into his position as head of Discovery Communications in India, managing director Deepak Shourie today announced a new programming strategy – ‘My Time on...
Go digital. That seems to be the mantra amongst Indian TV channel managers these days. ETC Networks Ltd’s etc channel is taking the same tack. The...
Star India’s new programming strategy for Friday nights has hit the right notes from Day 1 itself, as per information provided by the company. Market...
The stage is set for the Enter Media 2001 conference to be held in Mumbai on 7 and 8 August. The seminar for the media...
The media has been pretty critical of the performance put up by Zee Telefilms in Q1 of FY 2001-002. And it has also been going hell...
Sony Entertainment Television and the Rajan Raheja-owned Hathway Cable & Datacom are hopeful that their ongoing dispute over paid connectivity will be resolved in a day...
In a reflection of the importance that the Ronnie Scewvala-promoted UTV attaches to the “nonfiction area”, it has formed a separate division (set up a month...
He's wanted in eight states and has committed crimes under 50 names. His total convictions add up to 117 years and has escaped from nine different...
The media has been pretty critical of the performance put up by Zee Telefilms in Q1 of FY 2001-002. And it has also been going hell...
Today, August 1, marks a red letter day for MTV. It completes 20 years of existence in the US. And to celebrate the unique occasion, it...
Zee Telefilms continues to surprise you. Just when everyone was writing its obituary and investigations were proceeding against the firm and his group, chairman Subhash Chandra...
Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd (SABTNL) today announced its financial results for the quarter ended 30 June 2001. SABTNL, which runs SABe TV and is...
Zee Telefilms has appointed Mega Magic, a group company of the WorldCall Telecommunications Group, to provide legal distribution of Zee TV to be broadcast in Pakistan....
A series of fast, flash cuts. A sepia-tinted photograph -you see a father, mother & young son about 5 years old. A separate photo -same father,...
Scriptwriting for Thrillers Scriptwriter Sridhar Raghavan, who spoke on developing thrillers as a genre, regaled audiences with his experiences in the field, and also gave some...
Just under 11 months after the channel was launched on 3 September 2000, B4U Entertainment is all set for a major makeover. The final touches are...
Just under 11 months after the channel was launched on 3 September 2000, B4U Entertainment is all set for a major makeover. The final touches are...
It takes one cine star to get not just one, but a host of them to add glamour and fun to television viewing. And that’s what...
It was in May 2000 that a media monster was born. Starcom and MediaVest merged to create Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) which now ranks among the...
The board of directors of ETC Networks Limited will meet on Tuesday, July 31, 2001 to consider, inter alia, un-audited financial results for the first quarter...
Animation major Pentamedia Graphics has announced positive results for the quarter ended 30 June 2001. The company posted a 38 per cent rise in net profit...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) will be launching a dedicated Southeast Asia feed for Star Sports from August. The feed, which is based on viewing habits and...
The media has recently been agog about an impending alliance between Sony Entertainment and Time Warner on the television front in India. That seems to be...
The television industry has dismissed Sahara TV as a lost cause. Eyes have mainly been on Star, Zee and Sony Entertainment. However, if the aggressive stance...
It’s hoping to act as a guide in the maze that is Indian cable & satellite television today. Channel Guide a specific preview and menu channel...
There seems to be no end to the modifications that are being envisaged for the Communications Convergence Bill. The revised draft of the Communications Convergence Bill...
Fire & Ice, the popular nightclub in Mumbai’s Parel suburb, now has its own in-house channel. Launched last Friday as Fire & Ice Weekend TV, the...
The 4th Cable TV India Show 2001, a trade event for the cable industry, will be held in New Delhi’s Pragati Maidan beginning 13 September. Dr...
Moved but not shaken is Shekhar Suman, former anchor of Sony Entertainment’s hit talk show Movers and Shakers. Suman is all set to get back to...
Office Office, the leading weekly sitcom from the Sabe TV stable, is all set to become a daily. According to Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd...
Zee TV has announced it will shortly be bringing updated versions of the superhit mythologicals – Ramayana and Mahabharata – to Indian viewers. Zee TV will...
CNN International’s high profile interactive programme Q&A South Asia is in the middle of a positional shift. The focus is to make it harder hitting, with...
The Siddhartha Basu-produced and presented Mastermind India, with its famous “Black Chair of Wits” that has seen contestants raring to test their knowledge since 1997 in...
In its series to commemorate and honour the icons of music industry, music channel etc is next set to revive the memory of great singer Mohammad...
The stage is set as Zee TV prepares for Act II of its play for the leadership position in the channel wars. CEO Sandeep Goyal has...
Produced by Smita Thackeray’s Rahul Productions, the serial has a big-league star cast. Khel features Dilip Tahil – his first venture on the small screen, Nirmal...
Media baron Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms Ltd, which announced last Thursday that its promoters had placed 5 million shares with a U.S.-based institutional investor, will receive...