MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television has opened auditions for Indian Idol Juniors. Set is inviting singers in the age group of 5 – 15 years to give...
MUMBAI: Big Tree Entertainment, the holding company of ticketing portal BookMyShow.com, has expanded its footprint in South India by snapping up Ticketgreen.com, a leading entertainment ticketing...
MUMBAI: Discovery Communications has named Leslie Grandy as Senior Vice President of Product & Development within the company’s Digital Media division. Grandy, a former executive at...
MUMBAI: After a partnership distributing US media company AMC‘s series, ‘The Walking Dead‘, Anchor Bay Entertainment has announced a new deal with AMC‘s parent company, AMC...
MUMBAI: Infotainment broadcaster Animal Planet in the US is tackling the Internet in a big way. It has announced its first slate of original web series...
NEW DELHI: The Government has said the application by the Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable Television Corporation Ltd. for issuance of a digital addressable system licence is...
MUMBAI: Nielsen, a global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, has launched a solution Nielsen Mobile Brand Effect that measures the...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Ministry Secretary Uday Kumar Varma today said that the cable television sector would gain much more in the long run from...
MUMBAI: Anthony E. Zuiker, creator of the ‘CSI‘ franchise, is set to receive the 2013 Pioneer Prize at the International Digital Emmy Awards for his online...
NEW DELHI: The government has brushed aside claims that the second phase of digitisation in 38 cities by 31 March could hit a rough patch due...
MUMBAI: Zee Americas has launched Zee TV Canada on Shaw Cable, Canada‘s leading cable TV service provider. Zee TV Canada, which recently became a full-fledged 24/7...
MUMBAI: Google India country marketing head Nikhil Rungta has resigned from his post at the company to join Yebhi.com as chief business officer. Rungta will be...
MUMBAI: RRsat Global Communications Network has entered into an agreement with SIS Live to provide international sports distribution solutions for the Asian market, including uplink and...
MUMBAI: ITV Granada, which will rebrand as ITV Choice on 25 March, has expanded its distribution in Thailand through a deal with the country‘s latest IPTV...
MUMBAI: ESPN Software India has issued a public notice informing Airtel digital TV subscribers that ESPN, Star Sports and Star Cricket channels will be de-activated from...
MUMBAI: The appetite for mobile media continues to rise and that the mobile is not just a fundamental part of consumers‘ communication needs, but increasingly the...
NEW DELHI: The ongoing satellite capacity crunch and the challenges of navigating a complex regulatory environment to identifying the future trends in the country‘s multichannel TV...
MUMBAI: Food and lifestyle channel FoodFood has further strengthened its international presence and signed a deal with Pearl Media Group Ltd (PMG). Under the deal, the...
NEW DELHI: Just two days after stakeholders expressed fears that imported digital set top boxes would become more expensive with the doubling of customs duty, the...
MUMBAI: A federal jury in Manhattan has awarded Dish Network $4.9 million in its disputes with ESPN for breach of contract. The 10-member jury unanimously decided...
MUMBAI: Internet firm Info Edge, owner of websites like Naukri.com,Jeevansathi.com and Shiksha.com, has announced the acquisition of software developer MakeSense Technologies for Rs 80 million. MakeSense...
MUMBAI: Online retail major Amazon.com has announced a content licensing agreement with Scripps Networks Interactive that will make Prime Instant Video a subscription home to hundreds...
MUMBAI: Cricket South Africa (CSA) has launched its first mobile-only community, lovecricket, on Mxit, South Africa‘s largest mobile social network. The app gives fans match details,...
MUMBAI: British Sky Broadcasting Group (Sky) has reached an agreement with Telef??nica UK for the proposed acquisition of its O2 and BE consumer broadband and fixed-line...
MUMBAI: Universal Music has tied up with Bangalore based developer Appytunes to provide Music Album apps on Android and iOS platforms. Universal Music India GM –...
MUMBAI: Facebook has said that it has acquired media measurement platform Atlas Advertiser Suite from Microsoft which it believes will benefit both marketers and users. Atlas...
MUMBAI: YouTube and Syco Entertainment announced the launch of a new worldwide entertainment concept named The You Generation. The concept is to provide a new internet...
MUMBAI: With the country moving towards digitisation, the last thing that multi-system operators (MSOs) and direct-to-home (DTH) companies would have wanted is doubling of import duty...
Mumbai: Sony LIV, the online home of Sony Entertainment Network, has launched its feature-phone mobile app on the Nokia Store. The app is now available for...
MUMBAI: US organisation Natpe is convening leaders from all segments of the digital content business for its new Digital Advisory Board, with representatives including My Damn...
NEW DELHI: The government has decided to double the customs duty on imported set-top boxes (STBs) to ten per cent, a move set to encourage domestic...
MUMBAI: ibiboGroup has appointed Mudit Khosla as CEO of Tradus.com, an ecommerce marketplace business in India. Khosla joins Tradus.com from ‘seventymm.com‘, wherein he was the CEO...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (Tdsat) has directed Manthan Broadband Services Pvt Ltd to immediately pay a sum of Rs. 25 million...
MUMBAI: Virgin Media has created a channel for YouTube in its Electronic Programme Guide (EPG), enabling Virgin Media TiVo customers to access the video community’s online...
MUMBAI: HBO Asia has announced the Asia launch of HBO Go to now TV‘s HBO subscribers in Hong Kong. HBO Go, a new broadband streaming service,...
NEW DELHI: Only one applicant – SSTL – registered for the auction of 800 MHz spectrum while no applicants registered for the auction of 1800 and...
MUMBAI: Global consumer durables and electronics maker and marketer LG has acquired Hewlett-Packard‘s mobile operating system WebOS. As part of the acquisition, LG gets source code...
BENGALURU: The Indian Space Research Organisation‘s (Isro) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C20 Monday successfully launched the joint Indo-French satellite Saral, along with six other satellites in...
MUMBAI: Google remains India‘s Most Trusted for the third year in a row but the gap with the second ranked Facebook is a miniscule 3 per...
MUMBAI: Norwegian-based Opera Software has announced the launch of its fully-owned subsidiary, Opera Mediaworks. The subsidiary will focus on providing advertising, content distribution and monetisation services...
MUMBAI: HBO Defined and HBO Hits, the two premium ad-free movie channels, have launched on Dish TV and Airtel Digital TV. These carriage deals come shortly...
MUMBAI: As part of its international channels activity, UK pay TV service provider BSkyB (Sky) has entered into a multi-year agreement with Modern Times Group (MTG),...
NEW DELHI: For the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), it is time to take audit of the first phase of implementation of digital addressable system...
MUMBAI: Yahoo! India and Southeast Asia MD Arun Tadanki resigned from his post. Serving his notice period, Tadanki will continue to be with the company till...
MUMBAI: Lenovo has collaborated with MTV to launch Lenovo-MTV CO:LAB, an integrated social platform that will enable talented youths from seven countries – India, Japan, Indonesia,...
MUMBAI: Internet browser Mozilla previewed the first commercial build of its Firefox OS open mobile ecosystem and announced new operator rollout plans. The first wave of...
MUMBAI: Times Internet Ltd‘s BoxTV has entered into content agreement deals with Sony Pictures Television and Disney UTV in order to provide premium titles on its...
MUMBAI: Cisco, which acquired NDS, has won a significant standard definition (SD) set-top box business in India for the quarter ending January, benefitting from India‘s move...
MUMBAI: The Financial Times has partnered with HTC for the launch of HTC BlinkFeed, a news aggregator available on the new HTC One smartphones devices, offering...
MUMBAI: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has green lighted the channel distribution joint venture between IndiaCast Group and The Walt Disney Company India as it...