When Kiran Karnik took the reins at Discovery India in mid-1995 his mission was to drive the channel’s penetration into the unknown terrain that made up...
Zee MGM is marking Valentine’s week from 12 February to 18 February with a line-up of Hollywood’s best that should appeal to movie buffs as well...
MUMBAI: Bournvita Quiz Contest (BQC), the name the name that immediately comes to mind when we think of quizzing for school students, will air its 350th...
MUMBAI:Sony Entertainment Television’s CEO Kunal Dasgupta may have said that he didn’t plan for his gameshow Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke (JCPK) hosted by Bollywood laugh riot...
B4U Multimedia International has spun off a new company B4U Broadband, which will be the vehicle for the company’s broadband plans. B4U CEO Ravi Gupta made...
MUMBAI: Star’s bouquet of channels, which had been off air in the Delhi region for MSO Siticable’s subscribers since 24 January, began beaming again on Thursday...
MUMBAI: Cable operators and control room owners in the western state of Maharashtra are up in arms over what they term heavy handed treatment from the...
A satellite television channel with a difference was launched on Thursday. The difference is the channel was launched by an Indian cable TV consortium led by...
Award-winning sports journalist Eric Young has joined Sportsline, ESPN STAR Sports’ (ESS) daily sports news programme. Sportsline, which was launched in September 2000, is broadcast...
MUMBAI: Purple Drop, a newly formed global interactive media company with its corporate headquarters located in Silicon Valley, was launched in south Mumbai on Thursday. Specialising...
MUMBAI: Scotching media speculation to the contrary, WSG Nimbus asserted on Wednesday that it continued to hold the commercial rights for international cricket to be played...
MUMBAI: Building on its successes over the past year in Australia and the Philippines, Turner Networks Asia (TNA) is gearing up to make a splash in...
Crown Media Holdings on Wednesday announced the formation of Crown Interactive, a new division of the company designed to leverage the wide array of products and...
MUMBAI: The Ninth Convergence India 2001 international exhibition and conference is being organised by Exhibitions India from 21-23 March at the Pragati Maidan in New Delhi....
The animation segment of the Indian television industry is all set to become an international hub if the the fantastic response received by Indian companies at...
CNN’s first web site to be produced and edited from Asia launched on Tuesday. CNN.com Asia features in-depth stories from across the Asia Pacific and top...
Delhi based software provider Digital Broadcasting, has joined hands with Delany Productions, a software production house in Las Vegas with plans to launch “World of Women”...
Overseas communications carrier and sole uplinking service provider Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd is working on providing digital uplinking facilities to encrypted channels from Indian soil. As...
MUMBAI: Twenty weeks since Kerry Packer’s HFCL Nine Broadcasting launched their serial on Doordashan Metro, the INTAM Television Viewer Ratings (TVRs) reflect that many of Nine...
MUMBAI: 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...
Five new soaps and a handful of in-house produced shows. That’s the first of Zee TV’s artillery as it starts its offensive against Star Plus and...
MUMBAI: The numbers are in for “Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke” (JCPK), the gameshow from Sony Entertainment Television hosted by Govinda, and they couldn’t have been better...
Come 5 February and a new corporate campaign is slated to break across Asia. That of rebranding Star TV as Star. The campaign covers a high-pitch...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network, a pioneer of kids television in India, has launched its own website CartoonNetworkIndia.com. On this online entertainment site the cartoon enthusiast can tour...
In homage to the late Prof Kanetkar, the playwright who dominated Marathi theatre for the last 40 years, Tara Marathi will telecast five of his plays...
Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday urged Prasar Bharati to take the initiative in improving the content of its programmes, since it had the...
MUMBAI: Delhi’s premier terrestrial and satellite broadcasting exposition and conference BES EXPO 2001 was flagged off at the Hotel Taj Palace today (1 February). Organised by...
SESAMi.com and IBM have signed a category exclusive media sponsorship of CNN International’s regional technology show ebizasia. ebizasia is a half-hour programme focusing on how the...
One day after being shifted out of the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry where he held the rank of additional special secretary, acting CEO of Prasar...
The acting CEO of Prasar Bharti, RR Shah, has been shifted out of the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry , the Economic Times reported on Tuesday....
The third quarter results of media baron Subhash Chandra’s Zee Network are out and they were quite clear on one front. That it was time for...
Alpha Marathi, the Marathi language channel of the Zee Network, announced on Monday that the second Alpha Gaurav Puraskar awards for theatre and cinema will be...
Is Zee Telefilms’ Ltd (ZTL) luck turning? The management must be praying that it will from hereon. The third quarter ended 31 December 2000 has been...
Balaji Telefilms Ltd is developing into a TV production Trojan what with its slate of successful shows on Star Plus and several other channels. Its success...
The first episode of Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke on 26 January 2001 clearly shows what sets Sony Entertainment Television apart from the rest of the programming...
What a Knock Out it was! Cinevista promoters Sunil Mehta and Prem Krishen got the shock of their lives after they were told by Prasar Bharati...
Officials in Star Television and the Zee group affiliated MSO Siti Cable made conflicting statements on Thursday a day after a row over Star’s channels being...
Come February and the question of whether the Zee empire can strike back after the disaster that was 2000 should become clear. Five new serials are...
Sony Entertainment Television and the Rajan Raheja-owned Hathway Cable & Datacom have reached agreement on a dispute that had developed over unpaid dues as well the...
As part of CNN’s restructuring exercise, Ian Macintosh and Tony Maddox have been appointed as senior vice-presidents for the Hong Kong and London regions respectively. Macintosh...
B4U Entertainment on Wednesday confirmed that it was exploring various avenues of entering direct-to-home (DTH) television but denied reports that the international partners had already been...
Alexander Brown, who led ESPN and ESPN-Star Sports’ efforts in Asia, has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of Virtual Spectator, a New Zealand-based company...
The National Geographic Channel has started a series of programmes Built for the kill on Monday at 8 pm which examines the manner in which animals...
An effort is being made to set up a unified apex body for the Indian entertainment industry. The professional mooting the exercise: UTV Net Solutions CEO...
The lack of standardisation of entertainment tax as applied in various parts of the country has been a sore point for a long time now. This...
The Big Daddy is putting together its plans for direct-to-home (DTH) television and other aspirants can either try to beat them or join them. The Hindustan...
Asia is looming large on CNN’s screens as it puts into place plans to boost its international operations. Two integrated newsgathering and production centres are being...
The Star TV network is having a grand party in London on Thursday to celebrate the launch of the Star Plus and Star News channels in...
Director Vivek Agnihotri provided the perfect finale to the workshop with an interesting presentation on developing a script. He said that often the best source of...
CNN’s award-winning chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, signed a new multi-year contract with CNN, it was announced on Wednesday. Amanpour’s expanded role for the CNN...