Continuing a re-branding exercise that kicked off in February, Star has integrated its corporate logo across all its channels from Sunday, 20 May. The new logo...
Tamil Nadu politics has this tendency to rotate the party that occupies the seat in the state legislature. So when the DMK received a whipping from...
Broadband may still be a while away but Gaurang Shah CEO, SparkTv, wants to position his company as one of the leading content providers to the...
Nickelodeon, the Viacom-owned kids channel which launched in India in October 1999, has recently initiated a series of new programming blocks which it hopes will improve...
Zee TV is now the confirmed No. 2 channel on Indian television in prime time, more so among women, figures released by the company indicate. ...
The Hydrabad-based Eenadu Group, one of the largest media networks in southern India promoted by Ramoji Rao, will be launching ETV Urdu channel next month. The...
Pradhan Mantri – a drama series on Indian politics – from the Zee TV stable has got a lot of media pundits confounded. They have been...
Mumbai: Pradhan Mantri – a drama series on Indian politics – from the Zee TV stable has got a lot of media pundits confounded. They have...
Asianet Kaveri, the Kannada language channel which has been struggling to make its presence felt ever since its launch in June 2000, is lining up a...
Lashkara, part of the eight-channel bouquet of Reminiscent Television Network (RTV), has just completed two years in existence and is currently the No.1 Punjabi language channel,...
Sandeep Goyal, the man promoter Subhash Chandra has chosen to head broadcasting operations at Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL), takes charge tomorrow, company sources have revealed. When...
The latest satellite in the PanAmSat (PAS) series, the PAS-10, which will cover several countries in the Indian Ocean area, including India, was launched from the...
SABe TV, promoted by the Adhikari brothers, is planning a major programming push timed to kick off 14 May. Film heroine Karisma Kapoor will be promoting...
Confirming what was already known in trade circles, the board of directors of Balaji Telefilms Ltd and Nine Network Entertainment India Private Ltd (a wholly-owned subsidiary...
A study done by online media exchange exchange4media.com and tomtommed by it in the press has been rubbished by Star India. The study had claimed that...
The board meeting that Balaji Telefilms will be holding tomorrow on whether to go through with a merger with HFCL Nine Broadcasting will be nothing more...
After a long while, a court in the UK has provided some good news for media baron Subhash Chandra. The Chandra promoted company Afro Asian Satellite...
Balaji Telefilms has called a meeting tomorrow of its board of directors on the future of its strategic tie-up with HFCL Nine Broadcasting. Balaji, in a...
If there were any doubts as to how Kaun Banega Crorepati‘s superstar host Amitabh Bachchan would perform while dealing with precocious kids in the junior variant...
The encryption of Sony Entertainment Television, which goes pay by 30 June, will involve the rollout of 10,000 set top boxes, sources in Sony reveal. ...
AXN channel, part of the Sony Entertainment Television franchise, yesterday announced its new programming strategy which would be built around five programme slots – series, movies,...
Its unofficial!!! Industry sources confirmed today that Sony Entertainment will become encrypted from 30 June. The channel will be priced at Rs 8 per subscriber with...
There’s a new channel on the block that has been beaming as a test signal since 2 April and its called Channel Guide. Channel Guide officially...
National broadcaster Doordarshan’s Metro channel’s light night slot will be up for bidding again, according to reports. Prasar Bharati, which got a pathetic response in January...
Finally closing a deal which has been in the making since last October, Star and the Koos Group of Taiwan today announced an agreement to digitise...
Barry Frey has been named senior vice-president, managing director, global advertising sales for Hallmark Channel, international edition of the Hallmark Channel, according to a company release....
After a series of modifications, Indian multimedia production firm Pentamedia Graphics Ltd and US-based animation producer Film Roman Inc. have reached agreement on a deal that...
Zee News has decided one way to keep rival Aaj Tak at bay is to strengthen its regional news bureaus. In all the states where...
Prasar Bharati has recently issued guidelines for commissioning programmes on national broadcaster Doordarshan. The central Commissioning unit at the Delhi headquarters of DD will tabulate annual...
Streaming Media Asia 2001, the largest Internet audio and video event and the largest broadband content marketplace ever held in Asia, premiers May 3 to 4...
The Star India team, along with Kaun Banega Crorepati anchor Amitabh Bachchan and producer Siddharth Basu, yesterday presented to the media Vijay Raul and wife Arundhati, the first Crorepatipatni winners...
It’s getting rather disconcerting. Ekta Kapoor’s overbearing presence across time bands and channels that is. Kapoor’s Balaji Telefilms is about to add another to the ever-growing...
Nine eminent personalities who have helped shape Maharashtra in fields as diverse as sport and social work were feted at the first ever Godrej No 1...
Zee’s year-old niche Gujarati regional language channel Alpha Gujarati is giving Doorsharshan’s DD11 and Reminiscent Television India’s Gurjari a serious run for their money leaving them...
A point that was emphasised more than once at the recently concluded FICCI-Frames 2001 convention in Mumbai was that 80 per cent of programming on Indian...
Deepak Shourie, whose last posting as CEO of Zee Publishing ended rather abruptly, will be taking charge of Discovery India on 7 May, putting to rest...
India’s dreams for its odyssey in space seem to be going askew somewhat after the GSAT-1 satellite, launched by the indigenous GSLV D-1 into orbit successfully,...
PR consultancy Good Relations India Ltd. (GRI), has announced a strategic alliance with The Flagship Group of the UK. The Flagship Group has acquired a 51%...
The government yesterday cleared 47 proposals for foreign direct investment (FDI) worth a total of Rs 5,080 million, among which is Sai Television’s Rs 50 million...
Seven seems to be a number with Hallmark Entertainment Network in its efforts to have a more significant presence in India. Towards the end of last...
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said it saw no need to involve itself any further in a dispute between the Zee Group chairman Subhash Chandra...
Cartoon Network has lined up three new franchises for the ongoing summer season. The franchises are the action packed Power Zone, comedy genre Cartoon Cartoon and...
Altaf Ali Mohammed, in charge of Star’s DTH and broadband operations in India, today rubbished reports in the press that Star had put together a $...
MTV announced plans yesterday for a foray into films, kicking off a countrywide Star Hunt in tandem with indiatimes.com and Coca-Cola. The winner of the Star...
In a move that should provide a boost for serious players in the direct-to-home (DTH) telecast arena like Star, the government yesterday indicated that it might...
Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj, responding to recent criticism directed at Prasar Bharati, promised yesterday in parliament that the public broadcaster had taken steps to...
Satellite channels have driven growth in C&S households from only four channels in the early 1990s to around 100 today. And going by present indications, with...
After a gap that has spanned some years, Mudra Videotec is putting in place plans to re-enter television software and is looking to have a business...
HFCL-Nine Broadcasting has denied reports that it had defaulted on payments to national broadcaster Doordarshan and said all its dues had been cleared. The clarification came...
B4U Network Television yesterday asserted that it was not on the lookout to divest stake while clarifying that cornered bull Ketan Parekh held only 5 per...