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MUMBAI: For all those who have been wondering where regional channel Surya TV’s primetime comedy programme Comedy Time has vanished, take note: it has been yanked...
At first glance, Star India’s senior vice president ad sales, Kevin Vaz comes across as unassuming to a fault. But there is no getting away from...
MUMBAI: Television software company Nimbus will add four shows to the existing 20 sponsored programmes it markets by the end of the third quarter. Two of...
MUMBAI: Using the strengths of the One Alliance bouquet, Discovery has been making a concerted effort at strengthening the distribution of sister channel Animal Planet. The...
MUMBAI: TWI has won a four-year deal for the international broadcasting rights to French football’s top league. It has become the new partner of the LFP...
MUMBAI: With football fever catching on courtesy the ongoing Euro 2004 tourney, Uefa has announced that the site euro2004.com – surpassed the overall page view record...
MUMBAI: Hot on the heels of acquiring the rights to next month’s Asia Cricket Cup, ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has announced that it has renewed the...
MUMBAI: Fuelled by the success of the music based reaIity show American Idol, Fox has announced it will come out with a music awards show in...
MUMBAI: On 25 June Warner Bros. is releasing its blockbuster Troy with Brad Pitt, Diane Krueger in India. Troy was the site of the most legendary...
MUMBAI: “In today’s competitive world, nothing you do is enough,” says Aaj Tak marketing head Rajesh Sheshadri. And of course that holds true, even if we...
MUMBAI: Star News is banking on a range of Snell and Wilcox IQ modular products to broadcast its news programming efficiently and economically. Snell and Wilcox’s...
MUMBAI: Today the BBC announced that it was responding to listeners’ demand for better radio reception by expanding its medium wave transmissions to India. The beeb...
This Friday at 9 pm, Star Movies, brings the television premiere of the science fiction thriller Supernova, directed by Thomas Lee. The movie stars Oscar nominated...
MUMBAI: One normally does not associate country music with India. Yet that is the subject of Discovery’s latest documentary in its Discover India series. It involves...
MUMBAI: Business and finance broadcaster CNBC Asia Pacific has announced the appointment of Fauziah Ibrahim to its anchor team. She will anchor the World News segment...
MUMBAI: Newly formed media conglomerate NBC Universal has announced that its television unit has undergone an executive re-structuring. Katherine Pope has become the senior VP drama...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide chief executive Rupert Gavin has resigned. Gavin’s resignation follows the corporation’s announcement of a wide-ranging review of its entire commercial operation. Gavin who...
MUMBAI: National Geographic Television & Film (NGT&F) has announced the appointment of Ian Jones as president of Explore International and senior vice president of NGT&F. As...
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT (HTMT) has appointed K Thiagarajan as its new chief operating officer. Thiagarajan will provide strategic direction to IT — the company’s core business...
MUMBAI: The Telugu regional language television universe continues to expand. Telugu speaking Indians living in the US and Europe have reason to cheer. Virginia-based Sneha TV...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports has won the worldwide telecast rights for next month’s Asia Cup. The rights, which include global exclusive television broadcast of the tournament,...
MUMBAI: Regional channel Asianet sent shockwaves across Malayalee households when its prestigious talk show Nammal Thammil aired on 13 June exposed lesbian and gay live-in relationships...
MUMBAI: In China, Channel [V] has joined hands with international basketball superstar Yao Ming and Asia’s top-notch artists, including Leon Lai and Halem Yu, to support...
MUMBAI: Is it the dark horse? May be, may be not. But one thing is for sure that while rest of its contemporaries look at translating...
MUMBAI: The big India cricketing properties for 2004 are getting sewn up. If ESPN Star Sports has won television broadcast rights for the first big cricket...
MUMBAI: The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), in the US, has expressed disappointment over the news that the percentage of Asian American radio and television journalists...
What are little girls made of? “Sugar and spice and all that‘s nice.” And little boys? “Frogs and snails and puppy-dogs‘ tails.” Most of us would...
MUMBAI: Movie channel HBO is back with its popular adult lifestyle comedy Sex and the City. The second season of the series launches 18 June at...
NEW DELHI: Even as the debate on the fate of DD News continues in political and government circles, 16 senior people associated with the channel have...
NEW DELHI: To have them, or not? Failing to answer the question fully, Doordarshan News has gone in for a compromise formula regarding the private producers...
MUMBAI: Sun TV has pulled off a ‘soap coup’ with its latest serial Manaivi (wife). Directed by ace television director J Bhaskar and starring popular South...
MUMBAI: The education arm of ZEE Network, Zee Interactive Learning Systems Limited (ZILS) has announced their new initiative – Zee Institute of Media Arts, a training...
MUMBAI: International news network CNN has announced the launch of Spark, a monthly technology show that focuses on the discovery, application and implication of technology in...
MUMBAI: Russian financial holding Sistema is planning to pump more than half a billion dollars into privatisation projects in India over the next few years. Also...
MUMBAI: BBC World was the most watched international news channel during India’s recent general elections, according to Tam Peoplemeter data. During the four-week campaign, BBC World...
MUMBAI: Good news for all those aspiring writers who couldn’t apply for Indiantelevision Dot Com’s scriptwriting course Qalam, which was supposed to commence from 14 June....
MUMBAI: CNBC Asia Pacific will be staging its 4th Asia Business Leader Awards (ABLA) 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The announcement followed a meeting between Malaysia’s...
MUMBAI: Pakistan will soon see the launch of it’s first satellite based 24-hour business news channel – Business Plus. Local and international business news, with a...
SINGAPORE: Singapore never ceases to amaze. And Asia’s largest information and communications technology exhibition, Infocomm Media Business Exchange (imbX) 2004 – encompassing CommunicAsia, Broadcast Asia, EnterpriseIT...
MUMBAI: Recently launched health channel CARE TV is set to introduce two new daily interactive programmes – Kya Karu Main Ab and Hello Doctor. Starting 21...
MUMBAI: Pakistan finance minister Shaukat Aziz has announced that only the country’s television set owners needed to pay an extra fee in every electricity bill for...
Andhra Pradesh is getting big on news. And not just for hitting the headlines thanks to the drubbing the southern state‘s “CEO” and media darling Chandrababu...
MUMBAI: Hungama, the bilingual (Hindi and Tamil) kids’ channel floated by UTV and to be distributed by Star India, will begin airing by ‘a Sunday in...
MUMBAI: Local radio station, Radio City 91 FM, emerged winners in the Corporate Karaoke Championship last week, thus beating British Council Limited (BCL). It was a...
MUMBAI: Pan-European integrated children’s entertainment broadcaster Fox Kids Europe has announced financial results for the six months ended 31 March 2004. Revenues increased by 17 per...
MUMBAI: At the exhibition BroadcastAsia 2004 in Singapore which kicks off later this month Kodak is showcasing an array of dramatic breakthroughs in film and post...
MUMBAI: The Indo-Pak relations angle. It started out as a somewhat unique experience during this year’s Zee Cine Awards in Dubai. It gathered further steam during...
MUMBAI: CNBC Asia Pacific recently announced a couple of anchor appointments. They are May Lee and Sabrina Kang Prior to CNBC, Lee was with Disney’s ABC...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s Board of Governors have published a new style Annual Report and Accounts. This is the first step it has taken in implementing the...
MUMBAI: Malayalam news channel Indiavision is one year old. The dedicated news channel will mark its first anniversary by beaming into the Middle East, while its...
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Communications leader exits after three years spanning MD office strategy and media outreach.
Cricket star named face of Delhi Khel Mahakumbh to fuel youth talent hunt.
Kolkata-based beverage maker reports stronger revenues and profits for December quarter.
A crime thriller steps out of the shadows as Telugu storytelling claims centre stage.
From boards to bytes, chess readies for a nation-first showdown in Riyadh.
Leadership change follows layoffs, protests and a bruising battle over trust.
Revenue rises 4.3 per cent to Rs 10,209.33 crore while deferred tax gain lifts bottom line sharply
Akshay Kumar and stars launch awards at NSCI Dome on Feb 28
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NEW DELHI: Hamdard Laboratories gathered a cross-section of India’s achievers in New Delhi on Friday, handing out the Hakeem Abdul...
MUMBAI: For decades, creative storytelling has been the cornerstone of brand communication. The “big idea” amplified through catchy jingles, striking...
MUMBAI: Zepto has elevated Ahmad Muneeb to vice president – HR centre of excellence, placing him at the helm of...
