MUMBAI: Fashion TV launched FMen, a 24-hour channel dedicated to men’s fashion and lifestyle last Friday. FMen is a project which has been in the pipeline...
MUMBAI: Not serials and not news. It is event based shows that is helping catapult Alpha Marathi, the regional offering from the Zee family, among the...
LONDON: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has announced the continued expansion of its global cable and satellite networks portfolio. Next month, the action-oriented AXN TV will launch...
MUMBAI: The just concluded Locations 2003 billed as the world first tourism event saw presentations by Germany and the Indian state of Chattisgarh. Chhattisgarh Tourism Board’s...
MUMBAI: The first of the juries to decide the 63 programming, technical and trade categories of The Indian Telly Awards 2003 finished their deliberations late this...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television India’s big hope for 2003 looks set to live up to the expectations that it has generated. SET’s new blockbuster drama Jassi...
MUMBAI: Another session at Locations 2003 dealt with the manner in which films can help in promoting tourism. Australia of course is one of the best...
MUMBAI: While the number of new launches have dwindled in the past two weeks, the few upcoming programmes this week promise to be action packed. Continuing...
MUMBAI: Former cricketer and MAX brand ambassador Kapil Dev will be seen in Sony Television’s detective series CID sometime in mid-October. Telecast on Fridays at 10:30...
MUMBAI: Shri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd’s chairman Gautam Adhikar released his 2000th episode today (Saturday). He has a total of 28 television programmes to his...
MUMBAI: “We give and give. Yet the producer is taken for a ride throughout. Hopefully forums like this will help redress the situation.” Film producer Nitin...
MSTERDAM: Irdeto Access, a subsidiary of a multinational media group Naspers, a world leader in content protection and management, today launched the Irdeto Delta Pay Per...
MUMBAI: The Pentamedia Graphics board, in its meeting on 12 September 2003, has approved the issue and allotment of equity shares of Rs 10 each at...
What does it take to survive in the fleeting world of Indian television? Ask Gajendra Singh, director of Antakshari, Zee TV’s long-running musical game show and...
NEW DELHI: National Geographic Channel International (NGCI) and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) have announced a call for entries for its second year Documentary Production...
MUMBAI: Locations 2003 a platform designed to open avenues for filmmaking locations kicks off on Saturday at the Mariott Hotel in the Mumbai suburb of Juhu....
ARIZONA: With digital terrestrial transmission gaining acceptance worldwide, high-tech market research firm In-Stat/MDR forecasts a boom in the sale of DTV sets. According to In-Stat/MDR, with...
VANCOUVER: Canada’s TVNW Media Group has been appointed as the host broadcaster for the 2003 World Weightlifting Championships. The event takes place in Vancouver from 14-22...
MUMBAI: The jury meet for the Indian Telly Awards 2003 kicked off on 11 September as per schedule with full jury attendance. The jury members included...
NEW DELHI: Media Content Communications Services (MCCS) India, the holding company for the Star News venture in India, proposes to have a paid-up capital of Rs...
MUMBAI: If things go according to script then Mumbai fans could well get to see the likes of Michael Schumacher zooming around in their own backyard.Prominent...
MUMBAI: It’s nothing like the heady days of 1999 when the Raghav Bahl promoted TV18’s initial public offering (IPO) was oversubscribed 64 times, 55 times or...
MUMBAI: MTV has announced that the nominees for its Lycra MTV Style Awards have been finalised. The awards function will honour the countrys most stylish people...
NEW DELHI: The government today reiterated that it has nothing against any business venture run by Rupert Murdoch’s Star Group Pvt Ltd through its Indian arm...
MUMBAI: The Indian Music Industry (IMI) has stepped up the fight against piracy in association with Holoflex – a hologram manufacturer. The two will join hands...
MUMBAI: Seems like reality has finally come of age in India. While media might have pooh-poohed AXN’s Hot ‘n Wild contest as yet another beauty pageant,...
MUMBAI: The Crown Media Holdings owned Hallmark Channel has every reason to rejoice. The channel has secured 18 nominations for the 55th Annual Emmy Awards 2003...
MUMBAI: Hinduja Group owned regional cable channel INMumbai television’s chief of bureau Murali Iyer has put in his papers. His last working day is Monday 15...
MUMBAI: Zee Music, the as yet somnolent music channel from the Zee stable, claims to have overtaken rivals in the one month after it was relaunched...
NEW DELHI: Jacob Kurian joined Sylvan Learning India as its president from 1 September. In this capacity, he will manage the business operations associated with the...
MUMBAI: Taking a break from the hard news, NDTV India is now set to build up the lifestyle segment. Starting 13 September NDTV India is set...
MUMBAI: “Not a vehicle for sensationalism, but a platform to provide constructive solutions.” That is the USP that the Sahara Group’s western India-specific news channel Sahara...
FRANCE: Exports and foreign investments in French production decreased by -16 per cent and -40 per cent respectively in 2002, after more than ten years of...
MUMBAI: Universal Communications, a leading content production, distribution and marketing company, has obtained a good response for its new afternoon slot programmes on Doordarshan Trivandrum’s DD...
MUMBAI: Former advisor to the Sahara group’s news channel venture, television personality Vinod Dua is all set to anchor the Star News election special Kaun Banega...
NEW YORK: Production for a Popeye 3-D computer-animated TV and home video special has commenced, to celebrate the cartoon character’s 75th anniversary next year, King Features...
MUMBAI: Saregama India Ltd managing director Abhik Mitra handed his resignation to the company’s board of directors. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) was informed that the...
MUMBAI: The 55 per cent proposed dividend that is slated for approval at Zee’s forthcoming AGM on 26 September 2003 would make Zee shareholders richer by...
KUALA LUMPUR: Vince Mcmahon’s World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is growing in popularity in Asia. A recent tour of Japan and Thailand generated more than $3 million...
NEW DELHI: When Star News president Ravina Raj Kohli told indiantelevision.com in an interview recently that Star News was probably the only news channel that is...
MUMBAI: Choravar Mor, a daily comedy show by Sri Adhikari Brothers, will be launched from 15 September on DD Sahyadri (Marathi). The show will be aired...
NEW YORK: Gigli may have turned out to be the biggest box office flop of the year, but that is not stopping its star Jennifer Lopez...
LONDON: MTV Networks International (MTVNI) and Russia’s TNT- Teleset have launched a fully customised Nickelodeon animation block on TNT. This means, Nick’s content will now be...
Shiv Sena Vibhag Pramukh and Coda (Cable Operators and Distributors Association) president Anil Parab is the man of the hour – at least for many cable...
MUMBAI: Mumbai-based Crest Communications Ltd is going the GDR way to raise funds for the company. In the annual general meeting (AGM) held on 8 September...
Dr Akash Khurana’s single-point agenda is to transform Nimbus over the next three years into a creative powerhouse with multiple corporate and creative leaders. Dr Khurana’s...
MUMBAI: The last mile operators in Mumbai have decided to make sure that they get their pound of flesh from the broadcasters and the multi-system operators...
MUMBAI: Asmita, the only Marathi show on WIN 94.6 FM in Mumbai, with its radio jockey Anjali, finishes one year of waking up Mumbai on 9...
MUMBAI: The new avatar MTV Ek Do Teen will now be hosted by the two Cyruses of MTV – Cyrus Broacha and Cyrus Sahukar – together...
If she is not slogging away on the sets to shape up her TV serials, she is seeking divine protection and blessings. “I just returned from...