Maharashtra is abuzz with the state elections, which is just a day away.The national news channels have already started their election special programming along with the...
MUMBAI: Navratri special on Vijay TV is festival of dance. Vijay TV has organised a dance recital ‘Natyanjali’ at Image auditorium on 9, 10, and 11...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks US chairman and CEO Judy McGrath has announced key executive appointments. Van Toffler who was formerly MTV, MTV2 and MTV Films president is...
MUMBAI: Dora The Explorer has navigated her way to the top of the American music charts. The companion CD to the preschool show television debuted at...
MUMBAI: The Sarvakar symposium on “Next gen cinema & TV: Digital all the way” held on 9 October addressed topics ranging from digitisation of media to...
MUMBAI: Star Movies and HBO are going the mini series route in a bid to improve channel share. While the latter recently commenced airing Carnivale the...
MUMBAI: Led bySpiderman 2 Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has crossed the $1 billion mark overseas for the third year in a row. The company had earlier...
MUMBAI: The dominance of CNBC in the US business and financial news landscape has claimed a victim. CNN has announced that it will close its financial...
MUMBAI: The generational leap forward — a programming ploy oft used by Hindi entertainment television’s lead channel Star Plus to take the plots of its “saas-bahu”...
NEW DELHI: The cable and broadcast regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, today reiterated an earlier stand that content should not be denied to any platform...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television will telecast Indra Kumar’s Masti on 10 October at 9 pm. Also there is this show Dhoom Macha De which showcases the...
BANGALORE: Defying the seven week moratorium for release of non-Kannada films recommended by the government headed and Karnataka Film Producers Association (KFPA) loaded Pandey committee, a...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms’ youth based Hindi fiction daily (Mon-Thurs) Kitni Mast Hai Zindagi will launch on MTV from 25 October. The time slot has not yet...
Fun loving, passionate, young and dynamic is how one can define UTV’s COO of four months. A veteran in the advertising arena with 16 years of...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Indian cricket team — or should it be called the BCCI XI? — was left staring at a humiliating defeat in...
MUMBAI: Sahara Sangeet Awards 2004, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, will be shown on 10 October at 7:30 pm on SaharaOne channel. The...
MUMBAI: The latest Pan Asia Cross Media Survey (PAX 2003/04) results, released on 8 October, says CNN is the leader among international news and business channels...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s director of strategy and distribution and architect of Freeview, Carolyn Fairbairn has decided to leave the organisation after seven years. BBC DG Mark...
MUMBAI: Talk about strange ironies. A little over a week after he was turned away, at the door as it were, from overseeing the elections to...
NEW DELHI: Making a strong pitch for broadband, a senior government official said that adequate solution to the vexed issues of carrier and content will have...
MUMBAI: Come 2005, and the Indian news genre will witness a dedicated crime news channel from the Star News pad. With a tentative launch...
MUMBAI: Actress Kristin Davis, who made her name with Sex and the City will guest-star in a November sweeps episode of NBC’s Will and Grace. The...
MUMBAI: The war in the reality genre in the US is heating up. Fox has announced a reality show that looks to skew NBC’s hit The...
MUMBAI: News provider Reuters plans to increase it’s head count from the present 340 at Bangalore to about 1200 by the end of 2005. A formal...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television India has deferred the acquisition of sister company SET Singapore as its proposed initial public offering (IPO) is unlikely to happen for...
MUMBAI: Looks like the promotional ad campaign is beginning to pay off for TV Today Network’s English news channel – Headlines Today. An official release from...
MUMBAI: Mukta Adlabs Digital Exhibition has joined hands with Chennai-based Kalasa Entertainment Media Private Limited (KEMPL) for digital delivery of movies in the southern states of...
MUMBAI: Moving quickly to fill the vacancy left by the defection of its ad sales head to Disney, Rajat Sharma’s India TV today announced the elevation...
MUMBAI: This festive season, Sony Entertainment Television Asia is all set to air blockbuster movies. The channel, which earlier telecast Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham and Lagaan,...
MUMABI: The Hungama TV kids’ hunt was conducted before beaming the channel. The talent hunt will be on air from 10 October at 6 pm. This...
MUMBAI: Zone Vision Enterprises has signed an extensive licensing agreement with Minotaur International which will bring 10 new series to its Reality TV channels around the...
MUMBAI: Broadcasters in New Zealand have snapped up more than 130 hours of BBC factual and drama programming. At Mipcom BBC Worldwide concluded several deals by...
NEW DELHI: Dish TV, Zee Group’s direct-to-home service, has discontinued two of Doordarshan’s channels on its platform. This “arrangement” will be in force for the duration...
MUMBAI: Zee Music’s search for an `item bomb’ is finally over. Tatsiana – a trained ballet & classical dancer from Belarus – got the better of...
MUMBAI: For Disney’s beleaguered ABC network desperate for hits Desperate Housewives has delivered the goods.. 21.3 million viewers watched the premiere episode on Sunday night making...
MUMBAI: Bill Hilary has been appointed as BBC America president and CEO. Hilary was formerly Comedy Central’s executive VP and GM. In his new position will...
MUMBAI: CBS has announced that television journalist Joan Lunden will host its upcoming reality series Finding The Next Designing Diva. The series will pit 12 people...
CANNES: Buena Vista International Television (BVITV), the distribution arm of Walt Disney Television International, has announced three deals at the ongoing MIPCOM summit at Cannes. The...
MUMBAI: Buena Vista International Television Asia Pacific (BVITV-AP) has concluded its first features agreement for first-run movies with Hong Kong Cable. Subscribers of Hong Kong Cable will...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today in an interim order observed that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Prasar Bharati and Sony should...
MUMBAI: Quoting the latest TAM figures, Zee News says it has grossed the highest on stickiness, with a timespend of 33 minutes per viewer, 33 per...
MUMBAI: BBC World has been named best news channel for the third time in seven years at the Hot Bird TV Awards, the annual celebration of...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) will be telecasting live the semi-finals and the final of the IFA Shield 2004 football tournament starting 7 October. The first...
MUMBAI: New York Times Television, the television production unit for The New York Times, has chosen program distributor CABLEready to handle international sales for seven medical...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network features the television premiere of the animated series Digimon Adventures. Digimon Adventures will be aired on 6 October. The show will be aired...
MUMBAI: Debutant director Anup Kurian’s Manasarovar has been selected to the prestigious feature film section of the Indian Panorama of International Film Festival of India (IFFI)...
BANGALORE: The Indian film industry and the Kannada filmdom have agreed to a ceasefire it seems. In a move to give the newly elected KFCC (Karnataka...
MUMBAI: The kids’ channel Pogo claims to have received 100,000 entries within the first two weeks. The channel receives 7,500 entries on an average per day...
NEW DELHI: As it had happened in the recent past with the historic India-Pakistan cricket series, the Supreme Court today stepped in to untangle the telecast...
CANNES: Things are looking up at Mipcom for Indian broadcasters, production and animation companies this year. At least if one goes by the strong presence of...

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