Sony Entertainment Television has finally decided to pull the plug on its high profile gameshow Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke, industry sources indicate. The last of the...
Keeping in line with its runaway success in The Indian Telly Awards 2001, Star has pocketed 24 awards – seven gold, 13 silvers and seven bronze...
News Corp company, NDS Group, a provider of conditional access systems and interactive applications for digital TV, has hired former Star India internet operations CEO, Lalit...
National pubcaster Doordarshan finally launched its online portal yesterday in Delhi after nearly six months of dilly-dallying about the launch date. A joint initiative between DD...
The new Sun TV Ad rate card indicates there has been no cut in ad rates.
Prasar Bharati acting CEO Anil Baijal surely must be in a dilemma. His plan to not continue with existing DD Metro partner HFCL-Nine and instead go...
War is about to erupt on the small screen. Close on the heels of Star India announcing a clutch of new shows, the Zee Network has...
ETC Networks Limited has declared a profit after tax (PAT) of Rs24.3 million on a turnover of Rs538.2 million in the financial results for the year...
Private broadcasters just don’t seem to have anything going for them on the Doordarshan front. Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network (SAB) and Cinevista Communications, both major...
The Ronnie Screwvalla-promoted UTV Software Communications Ltd’s financials are out and it has made a net profit of Rs 160 million rupees on a total revenue...
Star Plus, the flagship channel of the Star Network, marks the first anniversary of its turning into a 24-hour Hindi channel on 3 July. And to...
In the time of soaps, a sitcom is making its mark and how. Hum Sab Ek Hain, a situational comedy completes three years of non-stop telecast...
The first anniversary of Star India’s flagship channel Star Plus becoming a 24-hour Hindi channel – 3 July – has been chosen as the kick-off date...
Star Plus, the flagship channel of the Star Network, completes a year of turning a 24-hour Hindi channel 3 July. Yesterday, the team behind what...
Five weeks after the MTV Star Hunt was launched, the event, which marks the channel's foray into films, has received nearly 10,000 entries from over 350...
B4U Television Network’s Sound of Music has taken the runner-up slot in the category Best Programme Title Sequence at the First Asian Television Technical & Creative...
AXN, the action channel from Sony Entertainment Television, is deep focusing on India in a big way. As part of that effort, “action babe” Gena Lee...
The Board of Directors of ETC Networks Limited have decided to have a meeting on June 30, 2001 to consider the audited financial report for the...
A new season is ahead and BBC World has lining up a whole new series of programmes for the next three months. In its special India-specific...
The Brief, a fortnightly published by the Mumbai-based Mid-Day group, and BBC World are organising a two-day media seminar on 28 June and 29 June called...
Confirming reports that pubcaster Prasar Bharati had decided to offer fresh bids for slots on Doordarshan’s Metro Channel, advertisements appeared today in national newspapers inviting tenders...
Continuing its push to localise content for India, kid’s channel Cartoon Network has acquired the television rights of two animation films: Pandavas – The Five Warriors...
HFCL-Nine Broadcasting India Ltd (HNBIL) today closed the chapter on what has been an acrimonious relationship and declared it would not bid for the prime time...
It’s been a busy week for the young team at Singapore and now India-based digital music distributor Soundbuzz. On 19 May, the company announced a clutch...
The Ronnie Screwvala-promoted UTV Entertainment – which produces two of CNN International’s “made in India” programmes – has extended its production contract for CNN indiadotcom for...
A day after the industry’s nyet to Prasar Bharati’s efforts to attract bidders for Doordarshan’s Metro, a leading business daily reported that the pubcaster was planning...
Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) appears to be unhappy with the degree of compliance (or lack of it) by cable operators regarding carriage of national...
Industry sources however, say a bid has been put in for the 11:00 PM to 12:30 PM slot by the Delhi-based Moving Pictures Company (India) Ltd...
Sharkstream.com, UTV Interactive’s wholly owned subsidiary which offers broadband content for users in Singapore, has become a subscription service. The service, priced at S$ 4.99 per...
Zee TV has won three awards in the TV Programmes category at the 26th RAPA awards (Radio & TV Advertising Practitioners’ Association of India) held on...
Zee English launched Children's Hour on 17 June (Sunday) from 9:30 am to 10:30 am. The hour long kid's block will showcase two of the most...
The Raghav Bahl-promoted Television Eighteen India Ltd, a television software producer and broadcaster which holds 49 per cent stake in CNBC India, has just signed a...
In what is claimed to be a unique concept for the media and entertainment sector, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organising on 7 and...
Daily sports news programming during prime time is not proving as difficult as some feared for ESPN-Star Sports (ESS). Sportsline on Star Sports and the Hindi-language...
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) will formally launch the Casbaa Satellite Group on 18 June in Singapore with a one-day conference featuring...
The French music channel Channel MCM is shifting from Asiasat 2 to Intelsat 704, a release issued today says. The dual illumination has started from 8...
The NDS Group, a News Corporation company and leading provider of conditional access systems and interactive applications for digital TV, announced recently it had been selected...
SABe TV and Sony Entertainment Television have won three and two awards respectively at the 26th Annual RAPA Awards (Radio & TV Practitioners’ Association of India)...
The Mumbai High Court, in an interim order passed this afternoon, directed InCablenet to pay ESPN Software India for 175,000 subscriber homes. InCablenet, in its...
Bollywood Bazaar, hosted by industry critic and editor of the film weekly Trade Guide Taran Adarsh, is completing its second successful year on etc. This unusual...
The Zee Network, which had initially been quite cool to making a bid for slots on national broadcaster Doordarshan’s Metro Channel, now says it is interested...
Star India this evening switched off all its feeds to IN Cable in Mumbai city over what it said were unpaid payments going back three months...
Zee Telefilms’ effort to migrate the free to air (FTA) analogue Zee TV to pay TV digital mode is facing teething problems. At the time of...
Balaji Telefilms’ creative director Ekta Kapoor is in the news again, and how. Indian television wonderkid’s hold on the popular pulse has been acknowledged by Asiaweek...
CNBC India has just launched a new series called 'Digital Revolution', presented in association with Infosys Technologies Limited, the leading IT consulting and software services company....
The market has been awash with the canard that with the arrival of the AIADMK in the corridors of power in Tamil Nadu, Sun TV is...
Continuing a programme push that began in April, AXN TV, the action channel from Sony Entertainment Television, is launching seven action series over the next two...
The ace Indian doubles pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi has stormed into the finals of the Men Doubles tournament in French Open tennis 2001....
The Zee bouquet of channels, which was expected to go pay from 1 June, will become fully encrypted from 10 June, official sources in the channel...
Is information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj listening to the pleas of wannabe players that the country should not take the open architecture route on the...