NEW DELHI: The second general conference of Asia-Pacific Institute of Broadcasting Development (AIBD) would be held in New Delhi from 22 to 25 July 2003. India’s...
NEW YORK: Sky Networks MD Dawn Airey and Paramount International Television president Gary Marenzi will serve as dinner co-chairs for 31st International Emmy Awards Gala. The...
LONDON: The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has announced it has concluded further television rights sales for the UEFA Champions League, carried out by UEFA’s...
CONNECTICUT: Panamsat, which claims to be one of the world’s top three satellite operators managing a global fleet of 30 satellites, has reported its financial results...
MUMBAI: The Zee Telefilms board of directors will meet on 29 July to record the financial results of the company for the quarter ended 30 June...
Smart, young and handsome. One look at Ravindra Gautam and you wonder why he didn't want to have a tryst with acting. But then, you can't...
MUMBAI: Time Warner has announced that its corporate responsibility VP is Lisa Quiroz. In the newly created position, Quiroz will be responsible for overseeing all of...
MUMBAI: After a nearly six-month delay, the Miditech produced Saara Akash finally goes on air on Star Plus on 8 August. The weekly, that will replace...
LONDON: Hughes Network Systems (HNS), has reported an 8.1 per cent increase in the overall 2003 second quarter revenues amounting to $2.37 billion, compared to $2.192...
MUMBAI: MAX, the premium movies and events channel, has notched up an average Television Rating (TVR) of 5.2 for its blockbuster offering, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...
LONDON: The consolidated revenues for fixed satellite services (FSS) companies in 2002 has actually dropped, says Euroconsult’s latest analysis. In the 10th edition of its World...
NEW DELHI: Considering that cable television is the cheapest form of entertainment in India, a Morgan Stanley (MS) research on conditional access system (CAS) estimates that...
Any time you meet her, Vandana Malik exudes infectious enthusiasm, a trait that marks most of the software her company, Television 18, creates for entertainment television...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide’s review for the financial year 2002/03 reveals a record cash flow return to the BBC of ?123 million for investment in programming and...
MUMBAI: NumTV.com, one of the largest 24-hour live online multilingual entertainment portal for international Asians, has offered EAS (Easy Access System) to Indian broadcasters who are...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has sent off another set of queries to Media Content & Communication Services India Pvt. Ltd (MCCS), which has...
NEW DELHI: Setting at rest speculations and playing safe, Media Content & Communications Services India Pvt. Ltd, which has applied for a licence to uplink content...
NEW DELHI: Playing it safe, Media Content & Communication Services India Pvt. Ltd, which has applied for a licence to uplink content for Star News, has...
HYDERABAD: Conditional Access Systems (CAS) company, Eastern Electronics from Taiwan and the Hyderabad-based customer management and billing solutions provider MagnaQuest Solutions have announced a strategic partnership...
MUMBAI: Creative Eye’s mythological series Om Namah Shivay, which is currently running on the Sony afternoon band after a two year-run on national broadcaster Doordarshan’s DD1,...
MUMBAI: All Television channels – except Sony Entertainment Television – will be bound by restrictions during the fourth edition of Lakme India Fashion Week with Liberty...
MUMBAI: The Living Media group owned RED FM is the official radio partner for Lakme India Fashion Week with Liberty (LIFWL). All other radio stations will...
CALIFORNIA: The Chinese government has granted final approval for Paradise Warner Cinema City. This is Warner Bros International Cinemas’ multiplex theatre in Shanghai, a joint venture...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The ongoing conditional access soap opera ended another day on an inconclusive note. Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had an...
NEW DELHI: Current uncertainty over conditional access system notwithstanding, all stakeholders of the game, barring the local cable operators (LCOs), will financially benefit (details later in...
NEW DELHI: CRISIL, India’s leading rating agency has awarded P1+ rating to TV Today Network Limited (TVTN) for Rs 150 million Commercial Paper programme. This is...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms has clarified with the National Stock Exchange that media reports claiming that the company’s promoter group had placed a part of its stake...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch is snapping at Indian shores again. Murdoch’s News Corp has announced that it would make an open offer to acquire 20 per cent...
MUMBAI: Bollywood is going to the unlikeliest of places. Nimbus Communications CEO Dr Akash Khurana is in South Korea at the moment representing Indian cinema at...
NEW DELHI: In case people have forgotten, today was when CAS was supposed to have become effective as per the original deadline. ‘Indian broadcasters’ marked the...
MUMBAI: Real Image Media Technologies, a leading technology enabler in India in the film, audio and video industries in the areas of production, post-production and delivery,...
NEW DELHI: Even as the cable fraternity is on the warpath, though for reasons of its own, the government appears to be out of its depth...
MUMBAI: After the revamping the English entertainment channel- Zee English’s look, next in the line for image makeover is the news channel. The Subhash Chandra promoted...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has furnished statistics that show that the channel performs better than Zee TV on all day and prime time shares in...
MUMBAI: Looks like its spring time at the pubcaster. Doordarshan is sprucing up its content, and first step is to get in new shows. So joining...
MUMBAI: CNN is looking eastwards. It will be beefing up the Asian programme content with a new addition to the prime-time evening news program, Asia Now,...
MUMBAI: Here is good news for the discerning music listener in Mumbai fed up of the non-stop Hindi pop being dished out on FM radio stations....
NEW YORK: Northstar Media, a new and strategically diverse New York-based television programme distribution company, has positioned itself to serve as a comprehensive source of programming...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan’s sports channel, DD Sports, has managed to break out of the Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) grip, which was contracted to distribute it,...
It may just all be finally coming together for UTV group CEO Ronnie Screwvala. His organisation has regrouped in the last year and there is clarity...
MUMBAI: A little over eight months after Star India filed a civil suit in the Bombay High Court seeking to enforce its contract against enstranged head...
Deafening sounds! Laser lights! Cameras all over place! Teens hopping up and down like jack rabbits! This was the scene that MTV created for its Just...
CALIFORNIA: International Satellite and Communication Exchange (ISCe) which claims to be the premier West Coast satellite and communications conference and expo, for the commercial and government...
MUMBAI: In what could be the first instance of a television software production house producing an out-and-out English film, Creative Eye has signed up Academy Award...
LONDON: Digital Destinations, a multimedia project developed by the BBC World Service Trust in collaboration with BBC News Online, BBC Science Radio Unit, World Service Education...
WASHINGTON: BT Broadcast Services has announced that it has finalised an agreement with Crown Media International to become the cable network operator’s primary provider of broadcast...
MUMBAI: IndiaVision, which claims to be the first exclusive television news channel in Kerala, is to simultaneously launch today from Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Kozhikode and the United...
NEW DELHI: Getting first off the blocks, Siticable Network Limited, the cable subsidiary of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms, has begun seeding set-top boxes in the...
MUMBAI: The board of directors of ETC Networks will meet on Monday, 21 July 2003 to consider, inter alia, unaudited financial results for the quarter ended...
MUMBAI: First came the articles questioning the Star News equity structure in India Today and later in The Times Of India. It was followed up by...