MUMBAI: Zimbabwe will soon have its second television station that will broadcast under the state-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation‘s (ZBC‘s) stable. The development comes at a time...
MUMBAI: Amit Nag is joining as chief executive officer of Digi-CableComm Services. Nag has resigned as CEO of Indian Cable Net and will be pulling his...
MUMBAI:The government has amended the downlinking guidelines, paving the way for Headend-In-The-Sky (HITS) service providers to access content from broadcasters. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry...
MUMBAI: Struggling to reach a deal for World Cup 2010 rights, Singaporean platforms StarHub and SingTel have issued a statement saying that the asking price to...
BANGALORE: Tata Photon Plus, the mobile broadband service of Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), has entered into a strategic marketing alliance with James Cameron‘s adventure epic Avatar...
MUMBAI: America’s largest cable operator Comcast has launched its new streaming service, Fancast Xfinity TV. With this, its customers can now watch thousands of television episodes...
MUMBAI: Haryana cable operators and cable operators all over the country must be heaving a sigh of relief. The Chandigarh High Court today granted a stay...
MUMBAI: NDTV Convergence has announced the launch of its Hindi WAP portal, m.ndtvkhabar.com. The portal has been developed by Los Angeles-based July Systems, which has also...
MUMBAI: Ignitee Digital Solutions has appointed R Sreekant as general manager- business development for the northern and eastern regions. Prior to this, Sreekant was assistant vice...
MUMBAI: Network18 has entered into a co-marketing agreement with the professional networking platform LinkedIn for the Indian market. The alliance is aimed at exploiting content integration...
MUMBAI: Rediff.com India has unveiled RediffBlogs, the new blogging platform in nine languages. The new release will be replacing Rediff‘s earlier blogging platform, Rediffland. RediffBlogs...
MUMBAI: Recessionary and competitive pressures have seen a significant decline in broadband subscriber additions in Western Europe. The top 10 fixed broadband providers saw an average...
NEW DELHI: Indian Cable TV MSOs operators had better watch out. The Government has once again reminded all state governments and union territories to ensure strict...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster NBC has unveilled Mission: Chuck Me Out, a new social media game designed to reward fans who help spread the word about the...
MUMBAI: The National Basketball Association (NBA) in association with HP and Reebok has rolled out online and mobile sites in India. The website accessible at nba.com/india...
MUMBAI: 7Seas Technologies, the Hyderabad-based independent games development company, has announced the launch of its first 3D racing game concept for the PC Windows platform with...
MUMBAI: Big TV, the Anil Ambani-owned direct-to-home (DTH) company, has entered into a marketing alliance with Fox Star Studios for promoting James Cameron’s magnum opus Avatar...
MUMBAI: Amid a rapidly-growing subscriber base, the Kalanithi Maran-owned Sun Direct has taken a loss of around Rs 1.5 billion for the three-month period ended 31...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has acquired the Video Game Awards 2009 (VGAs) for its Animax channels. The event will broadcast on Animax channels across Asia,...
MUMBAI: YouTube has signed a multi-territory deal with SportAccord to create Sports Hub that would feature more than 2,000 videos from a large variety of sports....
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Time Warner has completed the previously announced spin-off of US net service provider AOL. One share of AOL common stock was distributed...
MUMBAI: TVGMarket, a market research firm specialising in the video game industry, and PlaySpan, which offers monetisation solutions for online games, virtual worlds, and social networks,...
MUMBAI: Advertising spend in the US on cable TV has gone up by 9.1 per cent in the first three quarters of 2009, according to a...
MUMBAI: Internet and Mobile TV platform Babelgum will premiere the new animated web series, Over the Hedge, based on the syndicated comic strip by Michael Fry...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has bagged the broadcast rights of this year‘s Video Game Awards. To this effect, Sony‘s Animax channels across Asia, Central Europe,...
MUMBAI: Edelman India has appointed Karthik S as head of Digital Strategy (India). In this newly-created position, Karthik will focus on developing and expanding Edelman’s digital...
MUMBAI: Discovery Networks International has announced the expansion of its international portfolio of networks with the launch of TLC HD in Latin America. TLC HD, one...
NEW DELHI: Two High Definition television (HDTV) studios are being set up in Delhi and Mumbai, with field production and post-production facilities in four metros. Also...
MUMBAI: Online video platform Brightcove has announced a series of major new customers on its platform in Japan including Rakuten, Tokyo Metropolitan Television Broadcasting, Television Osaka,...
MUMBAI: The latest Nielsen‘s Three Screen report has revealed that DVR usage has also gone up by 21.1 per cent since Q3 2008. It also said...
BANGALORE: Dish TV has launched two special packages for South Indian consumers, hoping to mop up 70,000 subscribers through these offers. Available till 15 January, the...
MUMBAI: HCL Technologies Ltd (HCL), the IT services provider, has entered into a five-year agreement with News Corp’s UK subsidiary News International, to optimize its technology...
MUMBAI: Clearing the decks for its launch in the UK, Colors has acquired the Sky Digital EPG slot from INX Media’s soon to close channel 9XM....
MUMBAI: Group Abril has acquired the remaining 30 per cent of Viacom‘s interest in MTV Brazil, expanding its abilities to exploit the brand across TV, online,...
MUMBAI: Developed and hosted by YouTube, Sony and Google, online music video site Vevo is set to launch today as both a website and an embedded...
MUMBAI: Reliance ADAG’s direct-to-home (DTH) company Big TV has announced the availability of Gujarati content on its pay-per-view channel. Starting 9 December, as part of the...
MUMBAI: Brian Sullivan will assume the post of CEO of German pay-TV platform Sky Deutschland with effect from 1 April 2010. Sullivan will replace Mark Williams...
MUMBAI: MTV has unveilled its new multi-year initiative, A Thin Line. This is to empower America‘s youth to identify, respond to and stop the spread of...
MUMBAI: NDS, which provides technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has developed the first bookable promo service in Asia for Australian subscription television provider Foxtel. While watching...
NEW DELHI: The National Radio Spectrum Management & Monitoring System (NRSMMS)project has been implemented through a World Bank loan of about $30 million to computerize spectrum...
MUMBAI: Police arrested a local cable operator of Scod 18 from the outskirts of Mumbai for illegally telecasting Neo Cricket on its network. The police nabbed...
MUMBAI: BigFlix Movie Rentals has launched its latest feature, ‘Reserve Now‘. In this feature, customers can block or reserve their favourite title and get it in...
MUMBAI: For the first time in the history of the Fifa World Cup, the action on the field at next year‘s tournament will be broadcast using...
MUMBAI: Five is in the process of making full-length episodes of its original programmes that are available on YouTube in the UK on an ad-supported basis....
MUMBAI: US Online gamer community Xfire with 14.5 million users and Internet live video company Livestream have announced the launch of a social live video game...
MUMBAI: SingTel has announced that Sundance Channel and WE tv will be available for the first time in Asia on its mio TV platform in Singapore...
MUMBAI: Post its $100 million GDR issue, Subhash Chandra-promoted direct-to-home (DTH) company Dish TV is getting aggressive. In line with its target of mopping up over...
MUMBAI: Viacom18 is gearing up to launch its Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC) Colors in the US and UK. Colors is very close to signing a...
MUMBAI: Nielsen is creating a single-source measurement for both TV and online viewing of video content. The rollout of the new service is expected to be...
MUMBAI: THQ (Toy Head-Quarters) Inc. and DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. have reached a deal that gives THQ exclusive rights to create video games based on two...