NEW DELHI: Giving away a fact that there must have been some internal differences on the matter, the Indian government, today said that a ministerial group...
MUMBAI: HTMT, at its annual general meeting (AGM), informed its shareholders that the company is actively looking out for acquisition opportunities in BPO space and the...
MUMBAI: Ten Sports is all set to telecast the Pakistan-Sri Lanka-Zimbabwe cricket tri-series starting 30 September. The series hosted by Pakistan will host the Asian Champions...
MUMBAI: Karuna Samtani has been appointed as the chief operating officer of SaharaOne Television, the television wing of SaharaOne. Sahara India has brought together its motion...
MUMBAI: Whether movies are the flavour of the month or not is a different story all together. But Sahara sure is packing in some good old...
MUMBAI: After Viacom announced that it would launch Logo for the US gay and lesbian community early next year, it is now France’s turn to get...
MUMBAI: Viacom chairman and CEO Sumner Redstone has announced several initiatives for its businesses in China for MTV and Nickelodeon. These include a partnership with Beijing...
MUMBAI: Variety is the name of the game for Discovery as it seeks to increase its share. Next month it will kickstart a variety of shows....
MUMBAI: Football’s governing body Fifa has announced a public tender for the broadcast and media rights to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Fifa will...
MUMBAI: Vijay TV will conduct Illamai Idho Idho, a show that will feature new breed of voices of Tamil cinema, on 2 October. The stage has...
MUMBAI: Time Warner and Comcast have announced an agreement. This provides Comcast with an option to reduce its effective overall interest in Time Warner Cable from...
MUMBAI: Kids brand Nickelodeon is going from strength to strength in the US. It has announced an agreement with BMG Strategic Marketing Group. Through the alliance...
MUMBAI: ETV Marathi has lined up shows and contests to celebrate the Ganesha festival. The channel is also telecasting the Ganesh immersion processions live from several...
It’s a strategic retreat. Pummelled by the investment community for its wild expansion (its Re 1 face value share has plummetted from Rs 1600 to below...
MUMBAI: It is the first reality show where everybody emerges a lose and whoever loses the most wins. NBC will premiere The Biggest Loser on 19...
NEW DELHI: Completing the so-called ‘de-toxication’ of Doordarshan News, Amitabh Chakravorty was today appointed as an additional director-general (news) in Doordarshan. Chakravorty is an official of...
MUMBAI: Sports marketing agency IEC in Sports has announced a two year deal regarding Portuguese football.. IEC will distribute the 2004/5 and 2005/6 Portuguese Super League...
NEW DELHI: People have chosen their bride and made the announcement too. But ironically, the prospective bride has yet to be informed of the marriage. Speaking...
MUMBAI: South Indian music channel SS Music has announced the winners of its talent hunt Voice Hunt. Benny and Swetha (Chennai), Arjun (Coimbatore), Bargavi Pillai (Hyderabad)...
MUMBAI: Star News has initiated the largest journalist trainee programme in the Indian news channel industry. The channel has recently recruited and trained a batch of...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms shareholders today approved a 100 per cent dividend (i.e. Re 1) per equity share of Re 1 each. The members also...
MUMBAI: Talk about weird stunts. Cartoon Network has announced its Sheep in the Big City character will be replacing its regular scheduled programming with a “sleep-inducing”...
NEW DELHI: Arguments relating to the Indian cricket rights issue opened today in the Supreme Court. The Indian cricket board and ESPN-Star Sports were the first...
MUMBAI: The race has begun. Latest, Zee News issued a release claiming that it has elbowed the numero uno Hindi news channel Aaj Tak from its...
MUMBAI: Sahara Samay Rastriya has two new offerings in the health and crime genre. One, being Body Clock that will focus on various ailments and diseases...
MUMBAI: Sahara Samay Rashtriya’s correspondent Arup Chatterjee saved Juhi Ghosh from the clutches of the flesh trade, which is reportedly rampant on the Bangladesh India border....
NEW DELHI: A raging controversy over cricket telecast rights notwithstanding, Zee Telefilms today flagged off test signals of its proposed sports channel in anticipation of getting...
MUMBAI: Alpha TV Punjabi and ETC Channel Punjabi will live telecast a ‘dhol’ music extravaganza on 30 September from 6:30 pm onwards. The event ‘Dhol Punjabi...
Conan O’BrienMUMBAI: Stand-up comedian and television talk show host, Jay Leno announced on Monday that in 2009, he would be giving up the position of host...
MUMBAI: The BBC recently announced that it was in talks with various US cable companies like Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner, to distribute its BBC...
MUMBAI: Even as Indian cricket board supremo Jagmohan Dalmiya prepares for some legal jousting in the Supreme Court tomorrow, a battle on another front is well...
MUMBAI: It may be struggling to build up viewer cachet in India but Nickelodeon India will nonetheless participate in a global initiative – Worldwide Play of...
BANGALORE: The election for the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) held on 25 September has elected distributor Gangaraju as president. Sa Ra Govindu from the...
MUMBAI: Discovery has tapped Laura Glassman as the director of programming for it’s Lifestyle Networks. Glassman will oversee programme development and sourcing for Discovery Network Asia’s...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Even as the Supreme Court today referred the telecast rights issue to a five-judge constitutional bench, the Indian cricket board submitted in...
MUMBAI: The big mouse is all set to speak German. Disney is all geared to launch on KDG Germany this November. Disney, say media reports, would...
MUMBAI: Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Limited (SABTNL) and SET Satellite (Singapore), owners of the Sony Entertainment Television (SET) and Max channels, have entered into an...
NEW DELHI: All India Radio has won the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union’s ABU Award for Best Children’s Programme for 2004. An Oriya musical feature from AIR...
MUMBAI: Barco is now looking at dedicating attention to the Asian market and has in this regard the company has appointed a regional president – Jacques...
MUMBAI: The second phase of an opinion poll on Maharashtra Assembly Elections conducted between 19 to 23 September, found Congress-NCP is anticipated to sweep a clear...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has won the Localisation Research Centre (LRC) 2004 Best Global Website Award for its Your Voice interactive websites. The award recognises the...
Star Vijay is bringing one of the icons of Tamil cinema, Gemini Ganesan on the channel in its weekly show Starudan Oru Naal. The show will...
MUMBAI: With recent studies suggesting that television has an impact on teen violence and sex in American society, it should come as no surprise that concerned...
MUMBAI: ETC Networks has announced that it is hoping to launch its forthcoming Punjabi religious channel etc Khalsa in December. Speaking to Indiantelevisioin.com this afternoon ETC...
MUMBAI: The newly launched kids’ channel Hungama TV will showcase a new programme namely Paowan from 29 September. This programme will be beamed as a bi-weekly...
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court has adjourned to Tuesday its hearing of Zee Telefilm’s petition in the India cricket telecast rights case. Reflecting the seriousness with which...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television India appears reluctant to pursue the acquisition of SAB TV, belying reports in the media which have indicated otherwise. The talks between...
Hungama TV, which marks its official launch Sunday, 26 September, will have to do battle with strongly branded international kids channels. Aimed at the 4-14-year-olds, the...
MUMBAI: If it ain’t working right, then try and fix it. That’s the motto of many a technician. And that’s the buzzword at the Subrata Roy...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is likely to come to the aid of direct-to-home television services operators in the...

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