MUMBAI: Come 11 March, Sony Entertainment Television will add another ‘K’ serial- Balaji Telefilms’ Kkehna Hai Kuch Mujhko – to their buffet of weekend shows. The...
MUMBAI: Looks like politics has become an alternate profession for many in the entertainment industry. Statements made by them that they want to contribute to the...
CANNES: In a world that’s changing so rapidly with many new modes of delivery for content like mobiles, broadband, digital TV, HDTV, interactive TV, hand-held devices,...
MUMBAI: The contours of Sony Entertainment Television’s programming strategy for 2004 appear to be slowly taking shape. SET India executive VP, content and response Tarun Katial...
MUMBAI: DD Bharati is set to launch a gamut of programmes on health, children, art and culture from this month. Featuring in the health band, is...
MUMBAI: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Michael Powell has announced that David J. Barrett will assume the chairmanship of the newly re-chartered Media Security and Reliability...
MUMBAI: There is some positive news for Disney’s beleagured broadcast network ABC. Its broadcast of the 76 Academy Awards on 29 February did much better than...
MUMBAI: Time Warner has announced that it has completed the sale of Warner Music Group (WMG), including its recorded music operations and Warner/Chappell music publishing business....
MUMBAI: Tennis Properties Limited (TPL) – the commercial arm of the Tennis Masters Series tournaments and the Tennis Masters Cup – has announced an extension of...
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios has promoted attorney Laura Tunberg to VP, intellectual property enforcement. Tunberg will report to MGM’s senior executive VP and secretary William A. Jones....
MUMBAI: BBC Radio has announced that it will have live coverage and in depth analysis of India’s upcoming tour of Pakistan from next week. BBC Asian...
MUMBAI: Frames 2004 , the global convention on the business of entertainment will kick off in two weeks’ time in Powai. The three-day event takes place...
MUMBAI: Discovery has announced a major programme initiative Dinosaur Planet, a show that will air every Wednesday this month at 10 pm. The show combines the...
MUMBAI: Shunning the ballot box, a common trend in our country, will be tackled by Channel [V] with an election awareness drive called [V] The Big...
MUMBAI: The National Association of Television Programme Executives’ (NATPE) Educational Foundation in the US has announced that it is accepting submissions for its annual Student Video...
MUMBAI: With India’s hotly anticipated tour of their arch rivals Pakistan a mere ten days away Ten Sports has firmed up its coverage plans. There is...
MUMBAI:Ultimately, it was independent media auditor Meenakshi Madhvani from the audience who stole the show with her well timed quip at the CNBC TV18 organised panel...
MUMBAI: Road shows, youth hangouts and extensive press promotions mark Southern Spice Music’s launch of the veejay hunt, The VJ Factor in Hyderabad this week. The...
MUMBAI: The Comcast – Disney drama takes a new turn every week since it all began with the unsolicited bid that the US cable giant made...
MUMBAI: While the issue about it being number one is often challenged by competitors, Star Movies is definitely on a roll this year. With the Oscar...
MUMBAI: Ronnie Screwvalas UTV Software Communications, which is launching a kids channel through its recently floated subsidiary United Home Entertainment (UHE), has finally homed in on...
NEW DELHI: That Sri Adhikari Brothers, promoters of Sab TV, are serious about their news channels — or at least increasing the news content on the...
MUMBAI: It was a charity auction that had threatened to go horribly wrong after the highest bidder backed out when “reality struck”. Fortunately, the Zee Cine...
MUMBAI: Finally a definitive statement from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) itself as to what reveunes it expects to rake in from the historic Indian cricket...
MUMBAI: While English movie channels HBO and Star Movies are done with their quota of Oscar movies line-up, Zee MGM’s ode to the Oscars comes in...
MUMBAI: For India’s first 24-hour non-stop Punjabi music channel- Balle-Balle, which launched on 14 October 2002, one and half years of existence has been quite rollicking...
MUMBAI: Gurmeet Singh has taken over as the new business head of Music Today, the music division of India Today. Singh, who succeeds Venkat Rolla, was...
MUMBAI: TM Systems, creators of the industry’s only fully integrated, digital language translation, dubbing and subtitling software system, will feature its celebrated technology at its National...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Star India has readied a new line of programming missiles from its arsenal that it expects will have the competition running for...
MUMBAI: Next on ‘abhineta se neta tak’: television actor Amarr Upadhyay and Marathi – Hindi cinema actor Ajinkya Dev join the cast as fresh of the...
MUMBAI: Jasoos Vijay and Haath Se Haath Milaa, the two shows on Doordarshan that aimed at creating AIDS awareness have been given an extension. The shows...
MUMBAI: STAR Sports presents Sarhad Paar, a curtain raiser to the historic India-Pak series all set to telecast the third Sportsline special on 1 March 2004...
DUBAI: Dubai seems to be virtually always on fashion parade mode. If the Zee cine awards was anything to go by. Forget the plunging necklines, rising...
MUMBAI: Filmmaker and producer Mejoo Khan has joined the production house Bag Films. She is the business head of the company’s film production division. In a...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks Asia has announced that it will launch VH1 Australia next month. This marks MTV Networks’ first fully owned and operated service in Australia....
NEW DELHI: News channels are busy making preparations in the run up to the general elections which take place in April. Leading Hindi news channel Aaj...
MUMBAI: You can’t accuse Prasar Bharti CEO KS Sarma of not having tried. But by the looks of things Sarma looks to have run out of...
MUMBAI: Publication Fortune magazine has reported that Walt Disney is America’s most admired entertainment company The magazine conducted a survey of top entertainment industry executives, directors...
MUMBAI: Another televised awards function from the Zee stable has made its mark, this time on the ratings front. The Alpha Marathi awards, Alpha Gaurav Puraskar...
MUMBAI: The second day of the seminar on event management organised by Event Management Development Institute (EMDI) focussed primarily on case studies. Areas that were tackled...
MUMBAI: It was a government announcement that was expected and so there it came as no surprise when the Centre issued a notification today putting the...
DUBAI: If Zee Telefilms CMD Subhash Chandra was seen hugging some journalists from India at a post Zee cine award party yesterday, his high spirits was...
The 76th edition of the biggest film awards show the Academy Awards are just three days away. BBC World has announced that its film based show...
MUMBAI: This is an initiative that gives an aspiring game developer the chance to create a product based on a Cartoon Network property. The broadcaster has...
MUMBAI: After tennis and basketball it is now the turn of wrestling to have its own channel. Satellite services company Globecast has announced that it has...
MUMBAI: ABC is looking across the Atlantic in a bid to spice things up. The network is reported to have signed a deal with British TV...
Mumbai: Star World will launch two shows next month – Wild Card and Enterprise. The first one Wild Card will air every Tuesday at 9 pm...
MUMBAI: Sahara Manoranjan and Percept D’Mark are to initiate a nationwide talent hunt called ‘Mr & Ms Bollywood’.The exercise is being embarked upon to unravel new...
MUMBAI: One of the major television events in the region BroadcastAsia2004 takes place at a time when region prepares itself for a wave of digitisation in...
DUBAI: Dubai denizens were blown away. In one of the best film awards in recent memory, the Pan Parag 7th Zee Cine Awards held in Dubai...