MUMBAI: The Asia Pacific TV sector has over 150 million digital TV homes while IPTV households have crossed 10 million IPTV households, according to latest figures...
MUMBAI: Sony has announced another step to strengthen its 3D home product line with new Elevated Standard (ES) AV receivers including the STR-DA5600ES, STRA-DA4600ES, and STR-DA...
NEW DELHI: The Government today decided to refer the concerns of telecom operators on recent recommendations of Trai to an Internal Committee of the Department of...
NEW DELHI: Videocon d2h, the Direct-to-Home service provider, has lodged a complaint with the Mumbai Cyber Cell Police Station, Bandra Kurla Complex, requesting them to block...
MUMBAI: Putting more terabytes in the hands of consumers worldwide, Seagate has announced the launch of what it says is the world’s first 3 Terabyte (TB)...
MUMBAI: Online movie subscription service Netflix and Relativity Media have announced a long term agreement. Under this pact, major theatrically released films owned by Relativity Media...
MUMBAI: The football fever is gaining momentum as the World Cup approaches its final stages with the most interesting and tough games lined up in the...
MUMBAI: Ronnie Screwvala-promoted UTV Software Communications has found that the gaming business can be wrought with delay in projects. But the turnaround could come this fiscal...
NEW DELHI: ApnaCircle.com, an Indian business and career networking site, has announced its integration with Twitter, the fast growing micro-blogging social network. This integration now...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Disney has announced the acquisition of Palo Alto-based Tapulous, a developer of music games for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. As a...
MUMBAI: Dish TV, India‘s leading direct-to-home (DTH) operator, has decided to continue with Shah Rukh Khan as its brand ambassador. The renewal of SRK‘s contract comes...
MUMBAI: Indian social networking site ibibo.com has launched the first of its kind talent hunt initiative ibibo i-Serial Star, wherein it is calling in users to...
MUMBAI: NDS has developed the first bookable promos service in New Zealand for Sky Television, the country’s leading subscription television provider. The ‘Record Me‘ service enables...
MUMBAI: DirecTV, and consumer electronics company Panasonic have announced the launch of three 3D channels, including n3D powered by Panasonic – a linear channel dedicated exclusively...
NEW DELHI: Airtel digital TV has extended its recording capability via the internet. Airtel digital TV recorder customers can now record programmes by logging into their...
MUMBAI: The Indian Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry will enter a new era, owing largely to digitisation of technology and new distribution media like Internet and...
NEW DELHI: The daily ‘Hindustan Times’ is now available on Nokia OVI Store. It is the first newspaper in India to be available on Nokia...
MUMBAI: Spanish cable op Ono and Tivo, which creates television services for personal video recorders, have signed a strategic agreement to deploy ‘next generation TV‘ in...
MUMBAI: Times Group has launched two of its channels – Times Now and Zoom – in Australia and New Zealand. Starting 1 July, both the channels...
MUMBAI: Anil Ambani will make an entry into the cable television distribution business, ahead of his plans to roll out TV channels with media conglomerate CBS....
MUMBAI: It is not unexpected that television still remains the dominant medium through which people in China enjoy the soccer World Cup. According to a TNS...
MUMBAI: Zee Turner CEO Dinesh Jain has resigned, ending his three-year stint with the company. Currently serving his notice period, Jain is yet to decide...
MUMBAI: Private equity firm ChrysCapital has offloaded its entire 6.36 per cent stake in Hathway Cable and Datacom. The company sold 9.09 million shares in open...
MUMBAI: I Hate Luv Storys, a film co-produced by Dharma Productions and UTV Motion Pictures, is taking its marketing campaign to the mobile gaming segment. UTV...
MUMBAI: India‘s broadcast sector regulator clearly feels digital distribution platform providers need a higher foreign direct investment (FDI) cap than their content services counterpart. In its...
MUMBAI: UTV Ignition, the gaming arm of UTV Software Communications, has released the second part of El Shaddai: Assension of the Metratron. This is a two-part...
MUMBAI: Zapak.com, the online gaming portal from Reliance ADAG, has launched a new application for the popular social networking site Facebook. With this launch, Zapak games...
MUMBAI: State-run telecom and internet service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has upgraded its minimum download speed in many of its unlimited download tariff plans...
MUMBAI: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and online video sharing site YouTube have announced a multi-year partnership that will make full episodes of WWE Friday Night SmackDown,...
MUMBAI: The BBC Trust has approved the UK pubcaster‘s involvement in Project Canvas, subject to a number of conditions. Project Canvas is a joint venture between...
MUMBAI: NDS has been chosen by US entertainment service provider Comcast to be the prime integrator of the company’s tru2way software integration project that utilises the...
MUMBAI: Indian direct-to-home (DTH) operators have a long road to travel before they can start counting their profits. Dish TV and Tata Sky, the two leading...
MUMBAI: Pan Asian youth entertainment channel Animax has announced that its new ‘Ani-mates‘ characters have driven viewers to its site. The characters are the Filipino duo...
NEW DELHI: The capacity of the country’s only free direct-to-home platform, DD Direct Plus, is expected to go up to 100 channels by 31 March 2011....
NEW DELHI: The Government earned Rs 1062.6226 billion from the recent auctions of 3G and Band Width Access (BWA). The revenue is more than three times...
MUMBAI: IndusInd Media & Communications Ltd (IMCL), the media subsidiary company of Hinduja Ventures Ltd, plans to raise Rs 5 billion through an initial public offering...
MUMBAI: Hathway Bhawani Cabletel & Datacom Ltd MD, compliance officer and executive director Kuldeep Puri has increased his stake in the company to 3.23 per cent,...
MUMBAI: News Corp is selling off the multi-faith inspiration and spirituality site Beliefnet to BN Media, an investor firm that owns other online spirituality destinations for...
MUMBAI: UTV True Games, the international publisher of multi-player online games, has signed a partnership with Gamigo a free-to-play European MMO publisher, to bring Mytheon, an...
MUMBAI: A Manhattan federal judge Louis Stanton quashed Viacom Inc‘s $1 billion law suit that accused Google Inc of posting copyrighted videos on its YouTube service...
MUMBAI: Pace plc, a leading technology developer for the global payTV industry, is ranked as the world‘s largest supplier of set-top boxes to the payTV industry,...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan is paying a sum of Rs 680 million to Australia’s Global Television and its Indian partner Shaf Broadcast to design, install and operate...
MUMBAI: Airtel digital TV, the direct-to-home (DTH) service from Bharti Airtel, today announced the launch of its high-definition (HD) service ‘Airtel digital TV HD’. Further fuelling...
MUMBAI: Big Digital, the digital arm of Reliance Broadcast Network, has launched a new service called Big Non Stop Masti. The service will offer select content...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms is all set to launch its first fiction show for digital platforms. Alt Entertainment, the Balaji Telefilms arm that creates content for younger...
MUMBAI: Sameer Manchanda-promoted Den Networks will continue to grow in size this year, building up a revenue nest of Rs 11.50 billion as it consolidates its...
MUMBAI: Mobile internet is not being used at the expense of any other media. In the latest study by the global media communications company Initiative, 76...
NEW DELHI: English movie channel Zee Studios is tapping Navteq Media Solutions’ mobile ad network to promote its upcoming movie schedule to Airtel mobile users. Navteq...
NEW DELHI: At a time when the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has expressed concern over the low penetration of broadband into the interiors of the...
MUMBAI: Hinduja Venture’s cable business, under the cable distribution subsidiary IndusInd Media and Communications Limited (IMCL), has reported a 35 per cent increase in net profit...