MUMBAI: A Kotak Securities report dated 29 July 2003 says that the firm has retained its ‘in-line’ rating for Zee Telefilms Ltd at a target level...
LONDON: The 12th edition of the Deloitte & Touche annual review of football finance shows that the turnover of English football’s top division clubs has increased...
LONDON: TV viewers in the UK are expressing concern about reality TV shows which “humiliate and exploit” contestants. The UK’s Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) interviewed more...
MUMBAI: Zee Cinema is continuing its strategy of getting its viewers into appointment viewing groove. Following up on the success of last months Har Shaam Bajenge...
MUMBAI: TV Eighteen has posted a net profit of Rs 21.34 million for the first quarter of this fiscal. The TV 18 group includes TV 18...
MUMBAI: The heir to Subrata Roy’s Sahara India empire is taking charge at the helm of the diversified group’s media and entertainment arm. Sushanto Roy in...
MUMBAI: There are two big television related events for next year. One is the US Presidential elections. The other is the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece....
LONDON: Sky One has acquired Next Action Star – billed as the ultimate elimination contest from renowned film producer Joel Silver. The 10-episode series airing on...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s avowed statement that price levels would be held at Rs 72 for all pay channels until the...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is studying whether a regulatory body for the broadcasting and cable sector can be put together ahead of a super-regulator for...
NEW DELHI:The Indian government today said that it received another set of replies from Star News to queries including those on editorial control of the channel...
NEW DELHI: Pushing ahead aggressively with its headend in the sky (HITS) and direct-to-home (DTH) television projects, Siti Cable has tied up with the United Bank...
NEW DELHI: There should be an independent broadcast regulator to address issues like technology and pricing and to administer the conditional access system, according to Federation...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government now is setting up a conditional access system (CAS) implementation committee to monitor the preparedness for a phased out rollout of...
MUMBAI: BR Chopra productions’ BR TV has three shows in the top 10* list (all homes 4 years plus) as per TAM ratings for Week No...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs 141.50 million for the quarter ended 30 June, 2003 as compared to Rs 126.83 million...
NEW DELHI: Star News may get a shot in the arm from a section of the government as the department of company affairs (DCA) feels the...
MUMBAI: IEC in Sports will distribute the international television rights for the 2004 Carlsberg Cup. This is Asia’s longest running annual football tournament involving national teams....
MUMBAI: Ten Sports will launch in the Middle East on 1 August. Broadcast from Dubai, the Taj Television promoted Ten Sports will now be seen on...
MUMBAI: Alliance One’s infotainment channel Discovery has slotted a slew of new programmes to ring in the New Year 2004. The channel – which claims to...
NEW DELHI: India’s finance ministry would extend by two months the tax sop on import of set-top boxes (STBs) needed for implementing conditional access system. The...
MUMBAI: The numbers for Zee are in. Net profit and net revenue for the quarter have travelled north by about 31 per cent and 16 per...
Kunal Dasgupta has just completed eight years as chief executive of Sony Entertainment Television India, which makes him the longest serving professional CEO in the television...
NEW DELHI: NetGuru India, a division of the Nasdaq listed NetGuru, is working on a new 2D animation VCD series based on two poems of Rabrindranath...
NEW DELHI: Provisions of Rs 1705.5 million and Rs 3805.5 million have been kept for All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan, respectively in the 10th five-year...
NEW DELHI: The government has announced that there is no specific time frame to set up the Broadcasting Regulating Authority of India. I&B Minister Ravi Shankar...
When CNBC India, now rechristened CNBC TV 18, launched its Indian operations in the late 1990s, it needed to have adequate data support.In Keeping with its...
MUMBAI: Star Plus is trying out a completely new treatment for two of its shows, which are not doing too brightly (by its standards) on the...
MUMBAI: After a fall of 190 points in four sessions running, the market on Friday got the bull by its horns. The barometer 30-stock Bombay Stock...
MUMBAI: The revised zonal conditional access deadline of 1 September is just over a month away, and the tune has changed somewhat from the earlier doom...
MUMBAI: “Mission ‘CAS’hmir”! This rather quaint turn of phrase about sums up the concerted effort the major MSOs will be making in the coming month to...
MUMBAI: Fans of Friends star Joey have reason to cheer and jig the Friends way. Friends may be packing up for now but Joey is staying...
NEW DELHI: The government constituted inter-ministerial group (IMG) comprising officials from the information & broadcasting ministry, the law ministry and the department of company affairs met...
MUMBAI: MTV Roadies are in town. The hunt for seven lucky bikers is in its last lap. After completing the audition rounds in Pune, Bangalore, Chandigarh...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The so-called swadeshi lobby is getting active and aggressive too. Having successfully made the Star News case as a swadeshi vs. videshi...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s special audience channel, DD Bharati, is participating in an international children’s environmental project, in partnership with Japan’s broadcasting corporation, NHK and five other...
MUMBAI: UEFA chief executive, Gerhard Aigner, has welcomed the decision of the European Commission to approve a formal ‘exemption’ granting UEFA the right to maintain its...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad got off comparatively lightly in the Lok Sabha today when the Opposition’s bid to corner the government...
NEW YORK : Teenagers and young adults in the US spend more time on the Internet than watching television. This denotes a shift in media consumption...
NEW DELHI: A team from the United States’ regulatory body, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), held discussions at the information and broadcasting ministry on 24 July, mostly...
MUMBAI: After its convergence adventure, Zee is cleaning up after its sports quest too. To pay off the dues of Zee and Essel Propack, Subhash Chandra...
LOS ANGELES: US cable network HBO has launched a new division under its HBO Films label. The company which has produced critically acclaimed content such as...
NEW DELHI: The government has constituted a committee to make recommendations for the second phase of opening up FM radio broadcasting to the private participation. The...
He is a man who is passionate about movies, music and cricket and is lucky enough to be handling all three. Sony Max senior VP and...
NEW DELHI: Sagar Enterprises, Prannoy Roy’s NDTV, Nimbus Communications, along with the likes of Creative Eye, Multichannel, Sanjay Khan’s Numero Uno and Balaji Telefilms figure in...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government, while giving a two-week extension to Star News for uplinking, indicated today that it may take slightly over a month before...
MUMBAI: The numbers for Hinduja TMT are in. Total income and net profit for the quarter have travelled north by 42 per cent and 21 per...
MUMBAI: Aparna Sen’s award winning Mr and Mrs Iyer on Star Movies pitted against Erin Brokovich on HBO walked away with the TRP honours last week....
MUMBAI: indiantelevision.com and The Indian Telly Awards founder Anil Wanvari has been unanimously elected by a majority vote as an Associate of the International Academy of...
MUMBAI: Looks like Sahara Manoranjan has big plans in the run up to Independence Day. The channel has a bunch of new launches lined up for...