The post-budget blues of India’s stock exchanges continued today with Mumbai Stock exchange’s Sensex breaching the 3800-mark as banks entered the fray to sell the shares...
The Seven of the top 10 programmes among the music based channels are blaring from the stables of etc, a company press release said on Thursday....
The Zee Telefilms stock has seen a lot of activity over the past two days. Positive for a change. Compared to the 15 million or so...
POW (Prisoner of War), Zee TV’s foray into the brave new world of reality TV, draws its inspiration from the British produced show Jailbreak, which aired...
The fear was palpable. As trading closed on the Bombay stock exchange a chill went down the spines of media related executives as the rumour gathered...
Zee TV on Monday laid down the gauntlet to its rivals and announced the commissioning of India’s first ever Reality TV show. Announcing the launch of...
Programming head Sameer Nair had let it slip some time in December last that Star might at some point consider taking its Kaun Banega Crorepati gameshow...
Zee Telefilms will be continuing with its millennium broadcast on 31 December. This is despite the collapse of the Los Angeles-based Millenium TV Network (MTN) in...
Sony Entertainment Television on Sunday, 11 March, premiers a new legal drama, Your Honour. ‘Your Honour’ looks at the legal system and addresses issues like...
ESPN Star Sports has acquired the Asian cable and satellite rights to the FIA Formula One World Championships for 2001-2005. Rik Dovey, ESPN Star Sports...
Viacom Incorporated, which has been toying with the idea of setting up operations in India to give its channels other than MTV a push, has left...
MUMBAI: In a reflection of the deep divisions among cable operators and control room owners, a call for a shutdown in Mumbai to protest against the...
The government has made the following announcements relating to the entertainment, film and television industry in the Union Budget announced today: *Customs duties on cinematographic equipment...
MUMBAI: The Star Network on Tuesday announced its new subscription package of RS 30 per month. A company release said the hike worked out to...
MUMBAI: The fizz has consistently being going out of Indian media shares on the stock exchanges. And today saw them hitting the depths. Zee Telefilms touched...
Cable operators and control room owners in the western Indian state of Maharashtra are on a collision course with the state government threatening to terminate services...
Instead of politicians dancing to popular tunes it was people who were dancing to politicians' tunes last Friday when leaders from different parties participated in a...
MUMBAI: Finally, some news that should be sweet music for B4U, which has been facing the rough end of the stick following the recent arrest of...
MUMBAI: Cable operators and control room owners in the western Indian state of Maharashtra are threatening a total statewide blackout over the issue of non-payment of...
ETV Marathi is running 30-minute specials as part of its coverage of the Union Budget. The specials, which began airing on 21 February will continue till...
MUMBAI: The Indian media industry is finally coming of age and trying to adopt structures and procedures in line with international norms. For the first time,...
Pacific Century Matrix on Saturday enhanced its broadband satellite services with the addition of Alive Networks – the first international travel and learning company, using a...
Sanjay Dosi, CEO Balaji Telefilms Ltd, on Friday categorically ruled out any moves on the part of his company to start an entertainment channel. “The...
Malayalam film superstar Mammooty and Samyuktaverma have been adjuged best actor and actress respectively at the '2001-Lux Asianet Film Awards' announced on Thursday. Last year's Mohalal-starrer,...
The Zee Network is presenting the fourth Lux Zee Cine Awards, a company release notes. Films nominated in 15 different categories are up for awards. Nominations...
MUMBAI: Close Up Antakshri, the successful game and entertainment show from Zee TV which completed its 400th episode this week, has just added another feather in...
‘Kahani Kismat Ki’, etc channel’s first non-music and non-films based programme, has completed 365 days and is still going strong. Each day at 10.30 pm (repeat...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms, in continuance of its efforts to have a presence in south India, is launching on Friday a 24-hour Tamil television channel, Bharathi. ...
MUMBAI: Cable operators and control room owners in the western state of Maharashtra are hoping political heavyweight Sharad Pawar will help them secure their demand for...
MUMBAI: Fashion Television has adopted the adage if you can’t beat them join them and agreed to “change its programming to suit Indian sensibilities”. FTV...
There’s a positive buzz around Zee News these days. The place is a hive of activity as budget day draws near and the channel is savouring...
Anil Baijal, CEO, Prasar Bharati, was elected president of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) on Monday. The IBF Board of Directors elected him chief at...
MUMBAI: The waiting is over as far as Star’s subscription package is concerned. The talk has been doing the rounds for a while that Star is...
MUMBAI: CNBC India will not get into direct-to-home services on its own but would be looking at allying with other broadcasters in setting up a platform,...
Come next week and the government guidelines on direct-to-home services should be out if information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj is true to her word. ...
MUMBAI: Its official now. Star has declared war on Sony Entertainment Television and the viewers will get ringside seats as the two channels fight it out...
Antakshri, the successful game and entertainment show from Zee TV, completes its 400th episode next week and Zee Telefilms is using the occasion in its earthquake...
Looks like the “butts and cleavage” on Fashion Television will be around a while longer. For how long remains to be seen because the parliamentary...
A posh car is manoeuvring itself from the Kuchcha, narrow road in the countryside . Nikita, a young girl in her mid -twenties is driving the...
Two days after Sony Entertainment Television put out positive figures on the television viewer ratings (TVRs) of its gameshow Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke, there’s a mysterious...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms Ltd, India’s leading television software producer, unleashes yet another serial on Monday on Channel Gold Nine’s 9:30 pm slot on DD Metro. ...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television CEO Kunal Dasgupta is in a fiery mood. Just back from power packed meetings with senior Sony Pictures Entertainment executives in Los...
Leading Malayalam language channel Asianet is putting together plans to launch a news channel within the next three to four months, chief operating officer Mohan Nair...
MUMBAI: The news is out and it continues be good for Sony Entertainment Television as its gameshow “Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke” (JCPK) completed three weeks on...
Asianet will act as a facilitator for Toonz Animation, India’s first digital ink and paint studio, in its efforts to track down creative 8-14 year olds,...
Pentamedia Graphics, IBM, SGI, Creek & River and COMPAQ are organising the biggest and the only annual symposium in the country for the entertainment industry on...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms’ best bet against new entrants in the Hindi news arena, Zee News, is working towards adopting major restructuring strategies to improve the channel’s...
Despite official denials from B4U Entertainment, industry sources confirm that there is a shakeout in progress at the company’s headquarters in Mumbai’s western suburb of Andheri....
Noted TV and stage actress and Mumbai Doordarshan’s most loveable Marathi newsreader of yesteryear, Bhakti Barve Inamdar, died in an accident on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway around...
Developing Humour out of Everyday Situations Vipul D Shah noted that a writer should seek out characters from among his surroundings and then develop them with...