MUMBAI: An Ernst & Young report has revealed that 73 per cent of CFOs from the world‘s largest media and entertainment companies are buoyant about revenue...
MUMBAI: The price war on the HD front has begun. Soon after Tata Sky announced its aggressive entry pricing, market leader Dish TV has dropped the...
MUMBAI: Cable TV operators are queuing up to tap the market as they work out their digitisation plans. Joining the wave is Sea TV Network, a...
MUMBAI: AOL has sold Bebo to a private investment group for less than 2 per cent of the price that the online media major had paid...
MUMBAI: Social video game company Yoostar Entertainment Group has announced a new licensing agreement with CBS Consumer Products for the rights to a selection of CBS‘s...
MUMBAI: ABC’s reality show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which chronicles the lives of deserving families as their homes undergo a seven-day transformation, will be honored with...
MUMBAI: Videocon D2H will carry Oriya entertainment channel Tarang on its direct-to-home (DTH) platform. Besides Tarang, the DTH also offers other Oriya channels such as ETV...
MUMBAI: With the television technology event BroadcastAsia currently on, Singapore is gearing up to exploit the opportunities in a rapidly-transforming media landscape with initiatives that seed...
MUMBAI: In what could mark a serious push for high definition technology in the country, ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has signed deals with Tata Sky and...
MUMBAI: Anil Ambani is not only scouting for investors in Reliance Communications (RCom) but is also planning to restructure the company. The direct-to-home (DTH) and IPTV...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) and SpeedCast have announced an agreement to deliver live premium mobile sports content across Asia. ESS‘ mobileESPN will showcase live...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom will be on an overdrive to ramp up its digitisation, last mile ownership and broadband subscriber base this fiscal. India’s leading...
NEW DELHI: Samsung moblie has launched two smartphones in the Indian market – Galaxy S and Wave. The handsets are priced between Rs 19,000 and Rs...
MUMBAI: Astro, the Malaysia-based cross-media broadcaster and direct-to-home (DTH) satellite pay-TV operator, has partnered with Irdeto, the firm which deals in securing and delivering premium content...
NEW DELHI: While today 75 per cent of all households have a TV, only 25 per cent have Internet access. In the developing countries, home Internet...
MUMBAI: CommunicAsia2010 and BroadcastAsia2010, which deal with television technology and telecom, have kicked off in Singapore and are showcasing the newest technologies, products and solutions at...
MUMBAI: Essel Group’s direct-to-home (DTH) company Dish TV is taking Ericsson’s services to ramp up its efficiency. The leading DTH player, which recently started offering high-definition...
NEW DELHI: Astroyogi.com. the astrology portal from Netway India, has tied up with Airtel Digital TV to give access to AstroYogi.com content on iAstro interactive services...
MUMBAI: Turner‘s truTV will launch in the Philippines and Vietnam next month. The expansion of truTV in South East Asia closely follows its Asian debut on...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has filed police complaints against cable operators in Ahmedabad, Surat and Jamnagar for pirating signals of the soccer World Cup....
MUMBAI: Bollywood music channel 9XM has launched 9XM Live – the online free service, which allows viewers to watch 9XM live on their computer screens. 9XM...
MUMBAI: Conax is targetting Southeast Asian markets where content providers experienced challenges with platform security in recent years. The company says that its advanced security solution...
MUMBAI: DesiYou has entered into a strategic partnership with Touchdown Media, a South Asian advertising firm. DesiYou will distribute specially-produced exclusive video content online from Touchdown...
MUMBAI: Direct-to-home (DTH) service provider Big TV has launched an in-shop campaign for its High- Definition cum advanced digital video recording box. The campaign will...
NEW DELHI: Realizing that increasing number of gizmos for home entertainment had led to greater complications in installation and use, Bose Corporation announced the introduction of...
MUMBAI: UK pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB has rejected its majority shareholder News Corp’s buyout offer. BSkyB board, headed by James Murdoch (son of News Corp chairman...
MUMBAI: UTV Ignition has announced that it will be bringing its fantasy adventure game ‘El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron‘ to Xbox 360 and PS3....
MUMBAI: Harris has announced that a range of its 3DTV-compliant broadcast equipment is being used by Nine Network and SBS to support Australia’s first 3DTV trials....
MUMBAI: Giving the Murdoch empire its very own e-publishing platform, News Corp has decided to buy out the Skiff Reader tablet from Hearst for an undisclosed...
MUMBAI: India‘s direct-to-home (DTH) operators are gearing up for a cut-throat price war on the High Definition (HD) front, a service aimed at tapping top-end customers...
MUMBAI: CNN.com has revealed the latest enhancement to the site with the launch of CNN Tech, a completely reimagined section showcasing the latest news, products, perspectives...
MUMBAI: Online video ad network Vdopia has announced the launch of iVdopia, an advanced mobile advertising platform and network pioneering rich media and video advertising on...
MUMBAI: Tata Sky, the DTH joint venture company between Tata Group and Star, has decided to get a new managing director even as Vikram Kaushik‘s contract...
MUMBAI: Cablevision Systems Corp, the fifth-largest US cable operator, is in plans to buy Bresnan Communications Co. for $1.3 billion. Cablevision will buy out the company...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom is gearing up to take its consolidated revenues to Rs 10 billion this fiscal as it steps up its digitisation, broadband...
NEW DELHI: The Government today approved the results of the BWA spectrum auction, according to which the Government will earn revenues of Rs 385.43 billion. After...
MUMBAI: The 2010 World Cup will air in South Korea for the first time in 3D. South Korean soccer fans will be able to watch World...
MUMBAI: With the soccer World Cup kicking off, Fifa president Joseph S. Blatter has launched his personal Twitter page. Fans from all over the world will...
MUMBAI: HBO has launched a new True Blood Twitter microsite that will provide an enhanced second-screen experience for fans of the show. The microsite uses Twitter...
MUMBAI: Freedocast, a live interactive broadcasting platform by Global Takeoff, has tied up with maastars.com (Movie Artist Association), Tollywood‘s (Telugu Film Industry) site. It will be...
MUMBAI: An increasing number of TV viewers will be switching on to High Definition (HD) TV for the Fifa World Cup, with sales figures from cable...
MUMBAI: Deep Silver, the games label of Koch Media, has announced an agreement with FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) to produce a multi-territory console game based on the...
MUMBAI: Internet cloud security vendor iSheriff has warned that the FIFA World Cup will not only affect worker productivity, but may also disrupt critical Web-based business...
MUMBAI: Dish TV will have one wholly owned subsidiary less as it transfers the non-DTH related businesses into Integrated Subscriber Management Services Ltd (ISMSL). Agrani Satellite...
MUMBAI: DTH service provider Videocon d2h has launched a one-month ‘Golden Goal‘ offer during the Fifa World Cup commencing today. New customers, purchasing Videocon d2h...
NEW DELHI: With the government concluding the auction for bandwidth access (BWA) today, the total revenue to the exchequer is expected to be over Rs 385...
NEW DELHI: The Pan-India total at the Bandwidth Access (BWA) auction today rose to about Rs 127.75 billion, even as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today issued a consultation paper on ‘National Broadband Plan‘ to figure out how to increase broadband penetration...
MUMBAI: Dish TV is likely to merge its two wholly owned subsidiaries, Agrani Satellite Services and Integrated Subscriber Management Services, with itself. The move will result...
NEW DELHI: The Government has said that while it is prepared to give temporary live uplinking permission for major events to private television channels, applications should...