MUMBAI: Leading regional language channel Asianet is forging ahead on the back of a new horror serial Kadamuttathu Kathanar (KK) which has turned out to be...
NEW DELHI: The Rajat Sharma and Ritu Dhawan-promoted India TV would make a formal debut in a 24-hour news channel avatar on 20 May. ...
MUMBAI: “Black Monday”! “Bloody Monday”! Even as the Indian stock market witnessed one of the worst plunges in its history, twice forcing regulators to halt trading,...
MUMBAI: The state-run Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV) launched a new channel MRTV-4. The launch is aimed at increasing the news, education and entertainment programmes. Other...
MUMBAI: Irked by allegedly improperly associating the boxing reality TV show The Real Rockey with his Rocky character, Sylvester Stallone has sued MGM. Stallone, who created...
MUMBAI: Brand new beginning! What with a completes management shift, B4U Music seems to be geared to start afresh. The new young and talented team has...
MUMBAI: One by one, Malayalam TV channels have once again started conjuring up ghosts to get them better ratings. To compete Asianet’s Kadamattath Kaththanar, currently the...
MUMBAI: The global portable gaming industry will witness a boom in the coming five years. Jupiter Research, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation has announced that the...
MUMBAI: It was a night of big bangs and louder than life explosions. The fourth edition of the Taurus World Stunt Awards took place at Paramount...
NEW DELHI: Dr Prannoy Roy’s New Delhi Television Limited has inducted some new faces on its board as independent members. The noted names among these are...
MUMBAI: The days of the sitcom are numbered. Friends and Fraiser recently said goodbye. However Viacom’s broadcaster CBS has managed to convince comic Ray Romano to...
MUMBAI: The BBC is the first international broadcaster to win permission for a billboard in Baghdad. After months of negotiation with pre- and post-handover of Iraqi...
MUMBAI: News Corp. has undertaken an asset reorganization amounting to $9.5 billion in profit at its main British subsidiary, according to the Financial Times. These assets...
MUMBAI: Reality works! And Channel [V] knows that better than most. After all, Star’s 24-hour music channel came back into the ratings reckoning through its reality...
MUMBAI: “In stark contrast to Britain or the United States, where television stations endeavour to represent the ethnic make-up of the society they serve, when you...
UMBAI: Hatim has not set the TRP ratings soaring so Star Plus will be hoping for better things from its next kiddies show that launches 21...
MUMBAI: Sky TV’s out of the box campaign which will be launched by a series of iTV workshops announced at the D&AD Congress attempts to raise...
MUMBAI: Chinese government has asked the country’s television presenters to stop dyeing their hair, exposing too much flesh and using English words. The government’s new policy...
MUMBAI: Private television channels in Malaysia have been given one month time to voluntarily stop screening foreign advertisements and movies with excessive violence and sex elements....
MUMBAI: Star Movies and HBO could finally see some serious competition from the lion. Zee MGM is in the midst of a revamp in order to...
MUMBAI: Looks like Zee English is taking a page out of AXN’s notebook. The Subhash Chandra broadcaster will go through a major programming shift this year,...
MUMBAI: Smile TV Zee’s DTH offering just went on to cable and satellite through Siticable. It has launched the first of its original shows Laugh Line....
MUMBAI: Phoenix Maricopa County sheriff’s investigators arrested 21 people Thursday in connection with a scam to steal satellite television services. Working with DIRECTV officials, investigators lured...
MUMBAI: Fox’s creative writer development department, Naked TV which is the joint effort between Fox and the Naked Angels Theater Co. to proactively seek out new...
MUMBAI: Hollywood director Director Stephen Frears, comedian Harry Hill and the creators of the hit American sitcom Will and Grace are expected to participate in the...
MUMBAI: The multiple Emmy-winning NBC series Frasier ended its phenomenal run on Thursday.The one hour-long final episode had moments of slapstick comedy, warm emotional moments and...
MUMBAI: As the programme fair that would see them displaying their assets to advertisers in New York stands just a week away, leading broadcast networks in...
MUMBAI: The birth Wednesday of a new media-entertainment titan NBC Universal that rivals the likes of Time Warner and News Corp offers possibilities that Asia might...
MUMBAI: HBO’s award winning black comedy Six Feet Under is going from strength to strength in the US. The fourth season of the show kicks off...
MUMBAI: Fresh of the back of acquiring Universal, NBC and NBC Universal Television have completed a multi-tiered agreement with Wolf Films and executive producer Dick Wolf....
MUMBAI: Intelsat has announced that it has signed a additional 10-year contract, today, with Golden Telecom, Inc. A leading facilities-based provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet...
With the Synergy Communications’ produced India’s Child Genius, Star World makes its big time foray into indigenously produced English programming. While it may not have a...
MUMBAI: The Murdoch owned pay-TV company BSkyB has reported a record operating profit of £438 million – a massive 76 per cent increase on the previous...
And so the great Indian election season has come to a close with results that will have shocked even the most ardent Congress supporter. Election...
MUMBAI: NBC has announced their signing of contract with star anchorman Tom Brokaw. The contract will see Brokaw anchoring NBC shows till 2014. Brokaw, who is...
MUMBAI: Conax AS received the State Administration of Film and Television (SARFT) CA certification for supplying its conditional access solution to the Chinese market. Conex, a...
MUMBAI: Impressive revenue growth at its parks and resorts and studio entertainment businesses saw Walt Disney Co.’s fiscal second-quarter net income improving by 71 per cent....
NEW DELHI: She has interviewed Rupert Murdoch in her capacity as a business reporter and loved doing so. Doesn’t have any immediate plans to switch organisations...
MUMBAI: The warring groups of Hollywood – the Writers Guild of America (WGA), Hollywood producers and three broadcast networks will resume their talks on 1 June....
MUMBAI: The U.S. fan base for South Korean serial TV dramas are on the rise, say reports. Though the U.S. audiences for Korean television dramas are...
MUMBAI: Ever wondered what a mother of a meeting it would make when an American desi jams with someone who’s ‘fresh off the boat’ (FOB). Well...
MUMBAI: The stock markets, jolted by the sudden upsurge of the Congress in the early hours of the counting of votes, took a tumble of nearly...
MUMBAI: Reality TV is all set with a slew of fresh programmes this month. The new programmes that are being introduced are Burn Center, Caught: Ice...
And so the great Indian election season has come to a close with results that will have shocked even the most ardent Congress supporter. Election results...
MUMBAI: UTV today announced the appointment of Vikas Varma as chief operating officer (COO) for its television content division. The appointment comes almost 10 months after...
MUMBAI: Indian television’s favourite bahu may have tremendous telegenic appeal, but she has no electoral allure. Her numerologically altered nomenclature has failed to win Smriti Z...
MUMBAI: NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment (VUE) have completed the creation of NBC Universal, a global media and entertainment enterprise with expected 2005 revenues of $15...
MUMBAI: While in India streaming downloads are very little absent thanks to the lack of bandwith in the US a study has found that streaming video...
MUMBAI: Fox has announced a bonus night for Americans on 12 May. The primetime schedule will include a 10-minute preview of the upcoming film The Day...
MUMBAI: Putting an end to a stream of negative headlines it had been creating in the recent past, Walt Disney Co. has come up with something...