MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide the commercial arm of the BBC has published its Annual Review for 2004/05. It has announced record profits of £55 million for 2004/05,...
MUMBAI: The classic tale of the courageous and judicious King Vikramaditya and the clever ghost, Betal, is all set to make its world television debut on...
MUMBAI: SET Discovery president Shantonu Aditya, who quit the company last week, takes charge as chief executive officer of Sahara India Entertainment Management Co Ltd (SIEMCL)...
MUMBAI: Television comic icon Bill Cosby whose father character Cliff Huxtable was a staple on American television for many years on The Cosby Show has been...
MUMBAI: With a total of 2,238 exhibiting companies from 55 countries, CommunicAsia, BroadcastAsia and EnterpriseIT will showcase the latest IT & communications, broadcast technologies and enterprise...
MUMBAI: It has been just a fortnight since Hungama TV’s new live action show Hero went on air, but it has emerged a clear star already....
NEW DELHI: Formula One races with participants sporting logos of sponsors like Marlboro company may just sneak through on Indian television during a live telecast. Any...
MUMBAI: Leading chipmaker Intel Corp has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Shanghai Media Group to work together in the area of digital home programming,...
MUMBAI: It is all about election coverage! Zee Bangla, entertainment channel would have a show Verdict 2005, live coverage of the Kolkata municipal corporation polling. The...
MUMBAI: Online TV Company, Japan’s multi-channel TV service that delivers online video content into broadband homes, has added two new channels to its kitty. The German...
MUMBAI: The first feature-length animated film ever made — Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — will premiere in Hindi on The Disney Channel on 25...
MUMBAI: The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) and Unesco’s programme for creative content have announced a new partnership for the establishment of a branded section of audio...
MUMBAI: Nielsen Media Research’s plan to introduce peoplemeters has upset several broadcast networks in the US including Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Their grouse: the metres will...
MUMBAI: Zee Smile, which is currently exercising in programming high drive, is planning to pick up some globally accepted comic formats. In this regard, the fun...
MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan will telecast a new Series titled Kashmir from 26 June, 2005. The Series will be telecast on Sundays at 9:30 pm on...
MUMBAI: As part of a promotion activity of his latest production, Paheli, Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan will be hosting Ankahee Paheli, a half hour musical special,...
MUMBAI: The BBC has acquired UK broadcast rights for the historical drama mini-series Into the West. Steven Spielberg is the executive producer of the series which...
MUMBAI: Britains regulator Ofcom has come out with a ‘digital television update’ for the first quarter of 2005. The report analyses data provided by the main...
BANGALORE: When Star Wars first hit movie theatres in 1977, the world had never seen a motion picture quite like it featuring massive space stations, intelligent...
MUMBAI: US-headquartered Lucent Technologies has been awarded two wireless network optimization contracts by Tibet Mobile and Inner Mongolia Unicom, provincial subsidiaries of China Mobile and China...
MUMBAI: Nick’s Jadoo space challenge brought the summer vacations to a fitting close with action, magical spells, drama and outer space tricks. Jadoo and his team...
MUMBAI: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has cleared Jagran TV and Bloomberg’s foreign investment proposals. Jargan TV proposal entailed offloading around 25.7 per cent stake...
MUMBAI: Even as the government gives a green signal to the Tata-Star DTH venture — Space TV and Sun Network’s DTH platform, consumer electronics company Oscar...
MUMBAI: The Chinese government has approved plans to lay an undersea cable, to increase the speed at which internet users in the Northern region access overseas...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has acquired a Russian reality show How to Build Your Love from Turner Network Television (TNT). This is the first...
MUMBAI: Another defection from NDTV to CNBC-TV18. Rajnath Kamath, NDTV Media’s vice-president ad sales, has put in his papers and is moving to CNBC-TV18 Network as...
MUMBAI: Nokia has associated with the California-headquartered Apple Computers for developing an open-source web browser for its smartphone software, the Series 60 Platform. The project will...
MUMBAI: Batman Begins star Katie Holmes will feature in Abandon, a show that will premiere on 28 June at 9 pm on Lifetime Television. In Abandon,...
MUMBAI: The first feature-length animated film ever made — Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — will premiere in Hindi on The Disney Channel on 25...
MUMBAI: Nick‘s Jadoo space challenge brought the summer vacations to a fitting close with action, magical spells, drama and outer space tricks. Jadoo and his team...
The telenovela format is going from strength to strength in India and across the globe. RCTV International, the distribution arm of RCTV, which claims to be...
MUMBAI: The Samsung IIFA Awards, which was held at the Amsterdam Arena, will be broadcast on Star Plus on 26 June. The Samsung IIFA Awards was...
MUMBAI: Leaders in the kids’ genre, Cartoon Network and Pogo have once again delivered in the holiday season. The latest Tam ratings (4-14 CS, All India,...
MUMBAI: With crime reporting becoming an important ingredient for all the news channels, Hindi news Channel 7 has now created an exclusive band — Crime Band...
MUMBAI: The head of the Paris-based fashion channel Fashion TV Michel Adams has been arrested in Israel on suspicion of indecent assault. Media reports have quoted...
MUMBAI: The Nepalese government has lifted the ban on Indian news channels. The government took the decision in a cabinet meeting held on 8 June and...
MUMBAI: A guardian angel sent to earth to protect a girl! A woman and man trying to escape their suffocating existence! These are the themes of...
MUMBAI: Leaders in the kids’ genre, Cartoon Network and Pogo have once again delivered in the holiday season. The latest Tam ratings (4-14 CS, All India,...
MUMBAI: Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that the heaviest commercial satellite ever iPStar-1 satellite has arrived at the Arianespace spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. It is...
MUMBAI: Presently, Zee Smile is sporting a grin. What has buoyed the fun and entertainment channel is some good news on the ratings front. The channel...
MUMBAI: Discovery Asia has appointed Tom Keaveny as its new executive VP and MD. He takes on the job from next month. He succeeds Neville Meijers,...
MUMBAI: The 78th Scripps National Spelling Bee Championship, which was held in Washington recently, will be aired on ESPN. Anurag Kashyap, a 13-year-old expatriate emerged as...
MUMBAI: UK public broadcaster The BBC has announced an interactive initiative in the UK Wordhunt. This aims at rewriting the the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). BBC...
MUMBAI: Discovery Communications has announced the kick off of a worldwide programming and marketing effort in support of the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team and Lance...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) announced that it would be having a special Hindi-programming package for the live and exclusive telecast of the FIFA Confederations Cup...
MUMBAI: Ten Sports will telecast live Indias historic football tour to Pakistan. An agreement to this effect was signed recently between the Dubai-based channel and Pakistan...
MUMBAI: Amitabh Bachchan is charting out a revival plan for AB Corp. De-risking the business model, his company and Ronnie Screwvala’s UTV have entered into a...
MUMBAI: National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) has announced that it has acquired 40 hours of natural history programming from one of the leading documentary program developers,...
MUMBAI: Star News’ Bengali sibling, Star Ananda, seems to have got off to a good start. At least in Kolkata. In the first week, figures show...
MUMBAI: Astro All Asia Networks plc’s net profit has doubled to RM39.8 million ( $ 151.24 mn) in the first quarter ended 30 April 2005 on...

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