NEW DELHI: The long-awaited clearance for the expansion of the country’s only free-to-air direct-to-home platform, DD Direct Plus, came through today with the Prasar Bharati Board...
MUMBAI: Independent mobile ad network company, InMobi, has said that Android has surpassed iPhone OS impression share in Asia Pacific for the first time, capturing 9.5...
MUMBAI: A recent survey conducted by Casbaa provides new insight into the issues of most concern for platform operators of cable TV, DTH, IPTV and other...
MUMBAI: DirecTV Latin America (DTVLA), an operating unit of pay TV service DirecTV, has surged past a major milestone — its 10 millionth customer. DTVLA reached...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television Networks, Asia, has debuted ‘One’ in Indonesia via the market’s first Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) platform, Groovia, by TelkomVision.Sony Pictures Television Networks,...
MUMBAI: Hungama Digital Media Entertainment has partnered with Finnish applications developer, Huuked Labs, a subsidiary of DNA Ltd, to launch a mobile-file sharing application for Symbian...
MUMBAI: UTV has elevated Lavina Tauro to the position of senior vice president, voice products, for UTV Interactive. She will continue to report into UTV Interactive...
MUMBAI: Online gaming portal Zapak.com today announced its foray into social gaming with the launch of World‘s first Housie game on Facebook called Zapak Tambola. This...
MUMBAI: There has been a 31 per cent jump in online viewership for the Indian Premier League (IPL). More than 72 million page views were generated...
MUMBAI: The Times of India has launched its app for Nokia smartphones. The app is available for download from Nokia’s Ovi Store, Times Internet said. The...
MUMBAI: Online TV service Hulu and US movie studio Miramax have announced a multi-year agreement to bring hundreds of films like Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting,...
MUMBAI: VideoSurf, which offers video discovery, has announced a new mobile application that is now available on millions of smartphones from US telecom major Verizon Wireless. ...
MUMBAI: US media company Turner has announced that the show ‘Ben 10’ will have a game-show version called ‘Ben 10: Ultimate Challenge’. Commissioned by Turner Broadcasting,...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa‘s government today announced that private cable television will be ‘nationalised‘ in the state, a move that is expected...
MUMBAI: Star TV network is increasing its reach in Mainland Europe. The company has launched its flagship Hindi general entertainment channel, Star Plus, on Holland’s second...
MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel has launched an on-demand home entertainment service, Airtel Movies, for its broadband customers. Airtel Movies will be an on-demand digital video library with...
MUMBAI: The Banff World Media Festival has announced that actress and comedian Lisa Kudrow will be the inaugural recipient of the Award of Excellence in Digital...
MUMBAI: HBO Asia has launched HBO Hits HD, a high-definition (HD) channel, in Indonesia on First Media. More territories are to follow soon. HBO Hits HD...
MUMBAI: ESPN Software India, the company which distributes ESPN, Star Sports and Star Cricket channels, said police has raided a hotel in Jaipur for allegedly pirating...
MUMBAI: Percept Knorigin (PK), a digital media company incubated by Percept Limited, and Alcatel Lucent that provides mobile, fixed, IP and optics technologies, has signed an...
MUMBAI: Continuing with its focus on the Indian SMB sector, Google India today announced the launch of Google Global Market Finder – a free online tool...
MUMBAI: Australian pay TV service provider Foxtel has announced that Telstra BigPond broadband customers will not be charged for any data when using Foxtel on Xbox...
MUMBAI: US 3D television channel 3net, the joint venture 3D network from Sony, Discovery and Imax, will give viewers a look at the events and personalities...
MUMBAI: The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Times Internet Limited (TIL), a subsidiary of Times Group, have entered into a digital partnership to launch a dedicated...
MUMBAI: Kenyan television and broadband operator Wananchi has collaborated with global satellite operator SES to launch a new direct-to-home lineup called Zuku TV in East Africa....
MUMBAI: Ten Cricket will be streaming the forthcoming India-West Indies Cricket series live on YouTube.com. The series, which kicks off on 4 June with a T20...
MUMBAI: Two employees of a Ratnagiri local cable operator (LCO) have been arrested by the police for illegally telecasting Ten Cricket on their network. The arrests...
MUMBAI: Media IPR company, Gamespot Entertainment, is running a 48-hour cricket carnival on its FanStation site. The company created thefanstation.com to celebrate the recently concluded Indian...
MUMBAI: PTC Punjabi has expanded its footprint in Canada, launching on Rogers Cable. “We are committed to bringing Gurbani to the Punjabi community in Canada, and...
MUMBAI: Cablevision Systems has filed a proposal in the Federal Communications Commission‘s (FCC) proceeding on retransmission consent reform to protect consumers from programming blackouts by implementing...
MUMBAI: US sports broadcaster ESPN has announced that its WatchESPN App, which allows live access of ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3.com, is now available on iPad....
MUMBAI: The total revenue opportunity from fibre-based broadband services is estimated to be approximately $32 billion across the four leading emerging markets in Asia–Pacific – India,...
MUMBAI: European DTH service operator SES Astra has signed a capacity agreement with Penthouse Digital Media Productions Inc. for a second Penthouse 3D channel on ASTRA...
US media conglomerate NBC Universal, Casual game publisher Legacy Interactive(R), together with developer Glyphic Entertainment, have announced the Nintendo DsiWare release of ‘House, M.D. – Globetrotting’,...
BANGALORE: Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) announced the launch of a music website, www.tataphotonmusic.com exclusively for Tata Photon Plus postpaid customers where they can view, play, download...
MUMBAI: Internet TV platform PrimoItalia has launched its biggest Italian internet TV offer that will be distributed via connected TVs, computers, Blu-ray players, smart phones and...
MUMBAI: UTV is increasing the footprint of its Hindi movie channel, UTV Movies, in East Africa. UTV has tied up with Tristar Media Marketing for the...
MUMBAI: UK and France are leading Europe‘s emerging Over-the-top (OTT) deployments, invigorating both free and pay-TV competitive dynamics from which new business models are emerging. An...
MUMBAI: Expanding its commitment to engaging fans on the online social network Facebook, English GEC Star World introduces the Star World Jukebox. Launched in partnership with...
MUMBAI: Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), a part of the Prime Focus group, has appointed Radhika Chinai as vice-president-Media Processing Services. In her new role, Chinai will...
MUMBAI: In a deal aimed at reviving subscriber growth and taking on growing competition from free-to-air television stations, Australia‘s biggest pay-TV platform Foxtel has bid $2...
MUMBAI: Twitter has snapped up third-party app TweetDeck for $40 million, the latest in a series of big buyouts in the technology sector. The deal...
MUMBAI: In a bid to increase its share in the Maharashtra region, direct-to-home (DTH) operator Tata Sky is offering all Marathi channels free of cost to...
MUMBAI: Star and Zee are in talks to share a common distribution company, a merger of operations that is set to shake up the broadcasting industry...
MUMBAI: Dish TV, India‘s leading DTH company, expects to swing into net profit this fiscal as it plans to add 3.5 million subscribers and lift ARPUs...
MUMBAI: Tata Elxsi‘s Visual Computing Labs (VCL) has launched India‘s first ePuppet, an innovative marketing tool for the Magic Iris vehicle of Tata Motors. The ePuppet...
MUMBAI: An analysis of the top 75 media economies across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific by media information provider SNL...
MUMBAI: The carriage revenue market is getting consolidated among the top-rung multi-system operators (MSOs) as broadcasters are made to increase their payouts for the size that...
MUMBAI: Pay TV platform management company, Dubai – Arab Digital Distribution (ADD), is launching two new regional packages — Pehla Spice and Pehla Spice Plus in...
MUMBAI: Broadcom Corporation, a global innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, has launched its next-generation 40nm high definition (HD) satellite set-top box (STB)...