MUMBAI: Eminent nuclear scientist and former Crest Communications chairman Dr Raja Ramanna passed away early this morning (3:15 am) following a cardiac arrest in a city...
MUMBAI: Close on the heels of its national rivals which had been ‘bombing’ the TV entertainment scenario with talent hunts, the South Indian music channel Southern...
BANGALORE: Undeterred by the trade barriers thrust on it by the Indian film industry — mainly represented by the Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and some doyens from...
MUMBAI: The business news channel CNBC-TV 18 has now employed Beehive Systems’ tape-less digital video logging system – TxLog. The system will now replace the analog...
MUMBAI: Aaj Tak has lined up a three day special to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Taj Mahal, called Mohobat ka Taj. This will showcases...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today fixed Monday for hearing Zee Telefilm’s petition in the India cricket telecast rights case. According to sources in Zee Telefilms,...
MUMBAI: She may be about to serve a five month jail sentence for having indulged in insider trading but that is not stopping Amercian media icon...
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murdoch owned broadcaster Fox has announced that the action charged 24 will return in January in the US for a fourth season of...
MUMBAI: The BBC has caved to the pressure from different groups regarding its animation series Popetown. The Beeb has decided not to air the series. Popetown,...
MUMBAI: For the second year in a row, Cartoon Network UK has teamed up with post-graduate animation students from the London Animation Studio at Central Saint...
MUMBAI: Sohu.com, which is a Chinese online media, communications, commerce and mobile value-added services company, and Formula One have signed a long-term agreement wherein Sohu will...
MUMBAI: Zee’s Bengali presence Alpha Bangla is celebrating the successful completion of its five years with the awards ceremony Alpha Bangla – Alpha Gaurab. The function...
Paul Johnson is Television Division Director at Reed MIDEM where he is responsible for managing and developing the company’s television markets: MIPTV, MIPDOC, MIPCOM and MIPCOM...
MUMBAI: Following a meeting that was held on 21 September, the board of the Walt Disney Company announced that a successor to CEO Michael Eisner would...
MUMBAI: “It is not about unveiling some Pop Star, nor is it about another jury star. But Indian Idol is really all about unearthing one amazing...
MUMBAI: The recently launched integrated sports marketing company Total Sports Asia (TSA) is trying its level best to tap a growing revenue stream for entertainment products...
MUMBAI: Reality major FremantleMedia (makers of American Idol, Pop Idol) and production house Vogue Planet are setting up shop together in Japan. The joint venture will...
MUMBAI: Close on the heels of his return to the small screen as the anchor on India TV’s India TV’s Most Wanted, Suhaib Ilyasi is getting...
MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan has roped in 13 private satellite channels to come onto its free-to-air (FTA) direct-to-home (DTH) service. “A total of 30 channels will...
MUMBAI: Going by what Viacom co-president and co-chief operating officer Leslie Moonves reportedly told the Television Critics Association on Sunday, the Viacom owned CBS Television Network...
NEW DELHI: All channels beaming into India may soon have to open their profit and loss accounts and ownership patterns to the government or a regulatory...
MUMBAI: ‘Back to the old world charm’. Thats the new buzzword for Zee. When Subhash Chandras flagship channel launched it mega talent hunt- Cinestar Ki Khoj,...
MUMBAI: Males! That’s what Star Plus is now betting on hooking with its new daily K.Street Pali Hill, slotted at 11:30 pm. With the 8 –...
BANGALORE: Following up their ratification of a number of embargoes on the Kannada film industry, the entire film industry in the country met at Hyderabad on...
MUMBAI: In a bid to add diversity to its programme line up Discovery has announced that it will air the special Atkins Fat Or Fiction on...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: It has finally happened. Zee Telefilms this afternoon filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court challenging the cancellation of an earlier...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is contemplating allowing foreign institutional investors (FIIs) to invest in television news channels even as the 31 October deadline to conform...
MUMBAI: The Disney-ABC Television Group has announced that it has instituted a new communications structure. It has promoted two key executives. Sue Binford will now oversee...
MUMBAI: Exactly one month ago to this date, Tamil channel Jaya TV celebrated its fifth anniversary. Now having entered its sixth year, the channel has opted...
NEW DELHI: First came a rather quaint announcement on a tie-up with the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-D) to set Indian minds thinking on innovations. Then...
NEW DELHI: National Geographic Channel (NGC), part of the Star bouquet of channels in India, is open to the idea of making available its fare on...
NEW DELHI: It has finally happened. Zee Telefilms filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court today, challenging the cancellation of an earlier tender process by...
NEW DELHI: Star News has appointed ex-Aaj Tak hand, Shazi Zaman as senior executive producer. As was reported by indiantelevision.com earlier this month, Zaman resigned from...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan India has won the Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) Award 2004 for the best TV programme on local children issues. The film...
MUMBAI: A new study in the US has stressed the need for speeding up the digital television transition process. The Digital Transition Coalition (DTC) has said...
MUMBAI: At a time when the so-called communication experts and psychological pundits are getting vociferous about the negative effects of adult programmes on children, the Australian...
MUMBAI: The much-awaited India-Pakistan hockey series is about to unfold. The two countries face each other in an eight match hockey series after four long years,...
MUMBAI: CNN’s show Spark, hosted by Kristie Lu Stout examines the latest in cutting-edge technology by exploring the use of high-tech digital tagging devices. Stout kicks...
MUMBAI: UTV expects to garner Rs 1.2 billion from its TV content production business in the current fiscal. “Movies will fetch us around Rs 75-80 crore...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Match-fixing charges reared its ugly head in Indian cricket today, but on a surface different to that of the playing field. Following the Board...
MUMBAI: United Home Entertainment has acquired telecast rights to 40 movies for kids channel Hungama TV at over Rs 10 million. “The average acquisition cost is...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan, sitting happily on the ringside watching the cricket telecast soap opera unfurl with twists and turns, today hinted that it would...
MUMBAI: Star’s Tamil channel Vijay TV, which had kicked off its Hollywood movie campaign early this year, says the Jurassic Park series it telecast during June,...
MUMBAI: Racking up a number of sales in the last few weeks, Solid Entertainment Founder and CEO Richard Propper announced today that they has just concluded...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Following up on a comment made yesterday during arguments in the India cricket rights case, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)...
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NEW DELHI: Even as the cricket telecast issue is being debated and argued in the court, another twist to the Indian cricket story is being given...
MUMBAI: The legal tussle over the India cricket rights between Zee, ESPN Star Sports and the BCCI has taken a fresh twist. This afternoon at a...
MUMBAI: The Times Group’s non-fiction entertainment and lifestyle channel Zoom officially began beaming as of today. Expectedly, the full weight of the Times Group’s media properties...
MUMBAI: It was a great night for HBO at the 56th edition of the Primetime Emmy Awards. Its gangster drama The Sopranos became the first cable...

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