MUMBAI: Here’s the latest on Bharatiya Janta Party’s newest ‘glam’ entrant – television’s favourite bahu and anchor Smriti Z Iraani. The lady’s performance during the assembly...
MUMBAI: It’s just not cricket. Just as subscribers of Hinduja Group MSO InCableNet were warming up to the One-Day cricket contest going on between India’s “Men...
NEW DELHI: As an effigy of information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was burnt by National Akali Dal (NAD) activists on 7 January, demanding a...
MUMBAI: The National Football League and China’s public broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) have reached an agreement for the live broadcast of this season’s Super Bowl....
MUMBAI: DD Sports will have a 25 minute highlight package of The Commonwealth Chess Championship every night. The event takes place at Hotel Mirador in the...
NEW DELHI : The Indian government has decided that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) would be the body that would regulate the broadcasting sector...
MUMBAI: America’s public broadcaster PBS’ president and CEO Pat Mitchell has announced that PBS has received a $200,000 planning grant from the John and James L...
MUMBAI: Football fans across the US tuned their televisions at impressive rates to National Football League (NFL) regular-season games. NFL viewership on US broadcast television...
MUMBAI: Now that’s top of the pops. Sony Entertainment Television will be presenting a star-studded National finals of its popular talent hunt Boogie Woogie, on 14...
MUMBAI: Time to get ready for festivities on Vijay TV. Its Pongal and Vijay TV has an action plan to celebrate it. The channel, beside the...
MUMBAI: To celebrate the final season of Friends , America Online, Warner Bros. Television and NBC have teamed up to offer fans an opportunity to choose...
NEW DELHI: The new year has brought with it a wave of new appointments at various media companies, be it at Star, Sony or Zee. Yesterday...
MUMBAI: Two new categories have been added to the CNBC-Autocar Auto Awards, instituted to honor achievements in the Indian automotive industry. SUV of the Year and...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: At a time when the governments of India and Pakistan are talking peace, a different kind of tussle is going on –...
MUMBAI: First, it was the Bajoria murmur that set the market grapevine abuzz. Now, it is the offloading of shares by Balaji promoters to foreign institutional...
MUMBAI: There is still no agreement in place between Hinduja Group MSO InCableNet and ESPN Star Sports regarding the new annual contract for the year 2004...
MUMBAI: CNN has appointed Kristie Lu Stout as the anchor / correspondent for CNN International Asia Pacific. Stout has already started co-hosting the daily morning program...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has taken umbrage to Subhash Chandra companies — ASC Enterprise and Zee Telefilms — including more than the mandated number of Doordarshan...
MUMBAI: MTV parent Viacom Inc and recent Rupert Murdoch acquisition DirecTV on Wednesday signed a deal that ensures continued carriage of all MTV Networks’ programme services...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati today announced that Indian Administrative Service officers Naveen Kumar and Brajeshwar Singh have been appointed the director-generals of Doordarshan and All India...
MUMBAI: Arianespace has bagged two new contracts to launch communications satellites of Japanese operator JSAT Corporation. Arianespace chief executive officer Jean-Yves Le Gall announced recently...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Doordarshan is poaching and doing so with gay abandon. As part of phase one of expansion and restructuring of its recently launched...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney company’s board of directors yesterday voted unanimously to enhance the company’s corporate governance guidelines, including the adoption of strengthened standards relating to...
MUMBAI: The INMumbai ‘Miss INMumbai Beauty and Personality Pageant will be held on 16 January at the Tulip Star in suburban Mumbai. The Miss INMumbai...
MUMBAI: The board of directors sub-committee of the Mumbai-based Crest Communications Ltd has finalised the size and pricing of its GDR issue. The sub-committee, in its...
MUMBAI: If market sources are to be believed, Friday, 16 January 2004 will mark the debut of the TV Today Network’s (TVTN) initial public offer (IPO)...
‘You see tourists stroll off hand in hand with children – and you wonder – am I being paranoid or is there more going on here...
MUMBAI: Last year, National Geographic Channel’s (NGC) Mission involved Mount Everest. The six month long initiative saw the channel make substantial gains in viewership and ad...
MUMBAI: Former Channel News Asia presenter Vidya Shankar Aiyar lost a sexual harassment case in Singapore yesterday. District judge Victor Yeo sentenced him to 16 months’...
MUMBAI: Encouraged by the success of the Hero Honda Sa Re Ga Ma Pa – Golden Voice Hunt, Zee is taking its popular music programme Sa...
NEW DELHI: A new player has now stepped into the convoluted CAS drama – the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). And, quite dramatically, the apex chamber...
MUMBAI: Cricket and other sports may also be available on rival channels but when it comes to ‘A’ list soccer, it is now virtually the sole...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks has elevated Nickelodeon TV head honcho Cyma Zarghami to the newly created position of president at Nickelodeon Television. Cyma Zarghami, the erstwhile executive...
MUMBAI: This time round, Sahara Manoranjan is playing it safe. The channel’s big ticket show of the year, the Sridevi starrer Humari Bahu Malini Iyer, that...
MUMBAI: It’s official! Tarun Katial has joined Sony Entertainment Television as the executive vice president – programming & response. Katial, according to a company release, is...
MUMBAI: ‘Life has meaning given to you by God. Live it as in’ Sarvamangalaa. Do not surrender. And enjoy its fragrance forever!’ – that’s the crux...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms is at it again. And this time it wants to add a religious channel to the stable. The proposed...
MUMBAI: Even as the CAS light continues to dim, there are increasing signs that the next round of blackouts are around the corner. Over 300 cable...
MUMBAI: Fox Television Entertainment group chairman Sandy Grushow is stepping down to launch a Twentieth Century Fox-based production company called Phase Two. Grushow’s contract was set...
MUMBAI: In the wake of the latest changes in the Saudi information policy, CNBC Arabiya has announced the launch of its Saudi news operations in Riyadh....
Sameer Nair, the chief operating officer of Star India, an arm of the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group Pvt Ltd, can be a reticent man. Very unlike...
MUMBAI: The BBC has bought the UK television rights to the comedy Arrested Development from Fox Television. The comedy revolves around widower Michael Bluth (Jason...
MUMBAI: Post the restructuring of Sahara’s media and entertainment business under a joint venture management company with Percept, the company saw a couple of high profile...
MUMBAI: To say that the relationship between broadcasters and cable operators has been rough would be putting things mildly. However, ESPN Star Sports is looking to...
MUMBAI: The fifth season of HBO’s gangster saga The Sopranos debuts on HBO in the US on 7 March. This will comprise of 13 episodes. ...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has big plans for Asia in the animation area. It will have three dedicated feeds for Animax Asia by the end...
MUMBAI: Welcoming the New Year, Star Plus has good reason to fan out its plumage and show it off in full splendour. The grandeur and special...
NEW DELHI: What was originally meant to be a public support seeking conference turned out to be a government bashing exercise and also a platform to...
MUMBAI: Star World is set to accommodate an indigenously produced show after a long time, to give the only desi produced programme Rendezvous with Simi Garewal...
MUMBAI: The feud between ESPN Star Sports and Hinduja Group MSO InCableNet failed to reach a resolution today. The two parties will resume discussions tomorrow. ESS...