MUMBAI: For DTH operators, the festive season price war is on. Soon after Tata Sky slashed its set-top box (STB) price to Rs 999, Airtel digital...
MUMBAI: Komli Media, a digital media network platform, is on a shopping spree. The Mumbai-based start-up has acquired Indoor Media, a UK-based online ethnic marketing media...
MUMBAI: Star India‘s movie channel, Star Gold, is being launched in the US on DirecTV. The other three Star channels – Star Plus, Star One and...
MUMBAI: BSNL LiVe, the WAP portal of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), has announced specialised CWG content and discounted festive offers for its consumers on the...
MUMBAI: In a first of its kind move, Turner has entered into a content partnership with direct-to-home (DTH) company Tata Sky to offer a linear branded...
MUMBAI: Google has announced partnerships for its Google TV service with several media companies like CNBC, HBO, Turner, the NBA, Pandora, Napster and Twitter. The aim...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has said in its quarterly report that India has over 23.77 million DTH subscribers as of 30 June. The...
MUMBAI: Former senior vice-president, new media of India TV Interactive, Arvind Mahendru has joined ESPN Star Sports as director of digital media. Based in Delhi, Mahendru...
MUMBAI: OnMobile Global Ltd, a leading telecom Vas player, has acquired the rights to video technology and mobile solutions for third-generation services developed by US-based Dilithium...
MUMBAI: Beginning 1 January, MTV Deutschland will turn pay. MTV Networks already operates the channels TVNHD, MTV Dance, MTV Rocks, MTV Music, VH1, VH1 Classic, Nick...
MUMBAI: Zee Turner has appointed Virad Kaul as its chief executive officer. The position was vacant as Dinesh Jain had stepped down in July this year....
MUMBAI: After building a pan India cable TV network, founder-promoter Sameer Manchanda is beginning to cobble together a bouquet of global channels for launching them in...
MUMBAI: Barely a week and a half after Steven Wadsworth quit co-president of Disney Interactive Media Group, the company has appointed former Yahoo entertainment programmer James...
MUMBAI: Fashion TV‘s FTV HD has selected RRsat Global Communications Network for providing uplink, playout and connectivity services. RRsat provides content management and global distribution services...
MUMBAI: Pay-TV operator Dish Nepal has selected Latens, the software security solutions provider company to secure content and revenues for their latest DTH services in Nepal....
MUMBAI: Controversies notwithstanding, the Commonwealth Games (CWG) is going to crack open the door a little wider for high-definition (HD) telecast. Three DTH operators have announced...
MUMBAI: Agra-based multi-system operator (MSO) Sea TV Network’s Rs 502 million initial public offering (IPO) has been oversubscribed 9.39 times on the closing day. The qualified...
MUMBAI: Neo Cricket and Neo Sports have strengthened their distribution reach by signing a multi-year deal with DTH operator Dish TV. With this, Neo is now...
MUMBAI: AOL has purchased popular tech news site TechCrunch and its network of websites for an undisclosed amount. An official announcement in this regard was made...
MUMBAI: One97 Communications and Networkplay have come together in an exclusive partnership, which offers SMS, Voice and WAP touch points to advertisers. The deal allows Networkplay...
MUMBAI: Internet subscription service Netflix and US media company NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution have announced an expanded license agreement through which Netflix members can instantly...
MUMBAI: Mobistar has launched Mobistar TV, enabling the Belgian company to become a fully-fledged ‘quintuple play’ provider on the residential market. The company has developed a...
NEW DELHI: Even as most DTH operators differ that a common Open Architecture based set-top box could ensure technical interoperability among different operators, they are unanimous...
MUMBAI: Investors are having an appetite for even smaller cable TV networks as they believe the distribution business will go through a major scale-up and consolidation....
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE), the global licensing and merchandising arm of the children‘s television network, has announced that it has partnered with Activision Publishing, a...
MUMBAI: Avid has introduced a set of tools—including the new Pro Tools Mbox family, the M-Audio MobilePre, Pro Tools SE bundles and M-Audio Oxygen 88 keyboard...
MUMBAI: US media watchdog the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has taken steps to free up vacant airwaves between TV channels — called “white spaces” — to...
MUMBAI: Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has announced PlayStation Move is available exclusively for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) computer entertainment system at retail stores in the...
MUMBAI: Sameer Manchanda-promoted Den Networks has a cash balance of Rs 2.5 billion and plans to invest Rs 900 million towards digitisation this fiscal, according to...
MUMBAI: A bipartisan group of Senators in the US this week introduced legislation to address the growing problem of online piracy and counterfeiting. The legislation...
NEW DELHI: Yahoo! India is to present the Big Idea Chair 2010 for creative and media agencies across India later this year. The award ceremony will...
MUMBAI: Agra-based multi-system operator (MSO) Sea TV Network has fixed the price band of its proposed Rs 502 million IPO between Rs 90 and 100 per...
NEW DELHI: Tata Sky has teamed up with Hungama Digital Media to launch its interactive gaming service Actve Games, which will have over 50 new games....
MUMBAI: Star, a wholly-owned subsidiary of News Corporation, has partnered with Verizon Communications to launch its flagship Hindi entertainment channel Star Plus on Verizon FiOS TV....
MUMBAI: Viacom18 has launched its flagship Hindi general entertainment channel Colors on the Pehla satellite packages across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, while...
MUMBAI: Telecom solution and service provider Ericsson has deployed its broadband technology Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) at the Commonwealth Games Village 2010 (CWGV) using Gigabit Passive Optical Network...
MUMBAI: Travel portal Arzoo.com has launched a site for the convenience of the tourists/visitors of commonwealth games in Delhi, which will sense them as a ready...
MUMBAI: Celestial Pictures has announced a multi-year renewal of the exclusive carriage agreement on Celestial Movies Asia (CMA), a channel featuring blockbuster movies from across Asia....
MUMBAI: GlobeCast has announced that ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has become the first client for its new fibre connectivity from GlobeCast’s Parkview Square facility in Singapore...
NEW DELHI: Web18 has partnered with Vdopia to power video advertising on its news web portals – IBNLive.com and IBNKhabar.com (Hindi news portal). Vdopia will power...
NEW DELHI: Latens, a provider of software security solutions for Pay-TV and IPTV, has announced a partnership with Noida Software Technology Park Ltd (NSTPL) to offer...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (Tdsat)) today closed its week-long hearings and reserved its order on the petition filed by the broadcasters against...
NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel, a global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa, has selected Ericsson India, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Huawei...
MUMBAI: Sea TV Network, the Agra-based multi-system-operator (MSO), has received the approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for its proposed initial public...
MUMBAI: Hungama Mobile, a part of Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, has appointed Sunny Virmani as VP of its international mobile business. Virmani will be responsible for...
NEW DELHI: Two MSOs – IndusInd Media & Communications Ltd. and Digicable – have been impleaded as parties in the hearing before the Telecom Disputes Settlement...
MUMBAI: Digicable Network (India), which is being acquired by Reliance Communications in an all-stock deal, has proposed to absorb its cable TV subsidiaries across the country...
MUMBAI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasters Association of Asia (Casbaa) has announced expansion of its India agenda with the addition of two more players as corporate...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Disney/ABC Television Group and media research company Nielsen have announced the debut of ABC‘s My Generation Sync iPad App on the App...
MUMBAI: US software major Microsoft and Japanese storytellers have announced that 10 transformative games, including five exclusive titles for Kinect for Xbox 360, will be released...