MUMBAI: B4U India operations vice president Vijay Thaker feels that the budget is a fair mix of reforms and procedural changes. Thaker says: “The budget...
NEW DELHI: At a time when the Economic Survey has said that India continues to lag behind other Asian developing countries like China, Hong Kong, Singapore...
MUMBAI: With the impending explosion of news channels in the country from the likes of Sahara and NDTV there has been an understandable spurt of enthusiasm...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide and Arabic news and documentary channel, Al Jazeera, signed an agreement at BBC Showcase 2003 in Brighton for a package of 1000 hours...
MUMBAI: Tax holiday benefits for satellite and telecom projects will continue. Cable companies have also received reliefs in customs and import duties. In a move that...
NEW YORK: With strong backing from key broadcasting and cable clients, Nielsen Media Research has announced a rollout schedule for bringing continuous, overnight demographic ratings into...
MUMBAI: The war between cable operators and consumers has taken an interesting twist with the Consumer Action Network (CAN), a city based consumer group filing a...
MUMBAI: CNBC, the business and financial channel has lined up a series of pre and post budget specials. CNBC also held a post budget round table...
NEW DELHI: The issue of set top boxes (STBs), like Banquo’s ghost, keeps surfacing at various fora, raking up more debating points. Today’s Indian Budget is...
MUMBAI: The Hinduja group core management team has reacted to Budget 2003-04 by stating that the media and entertainment sector could benefit indirectly from the measures...
MUMBAI: The main worrisome aspect of this Budget is the service tax that has shot up, affecting both the broadcasters and the cable operator community, says...
NEW DELHI: The Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ravi Shankar Prasad has hailed the General Budget as a growth-oriented people’s budget, but avoided any reference to...
MUMBAI: For the superstitious the portents were certainly not good. On a day when finance minister Jaswant Singh delivered the Union Budget 2003-2004, the capital woke...
NEW DELHI: The media and entertainment industry is feeling a bit left out from Jaswant Singh’s first Budget. Though the finer print is yet to be...
MUMBAI: With Fox Kids due to launch in the country soon Cartoon Network’s gameplan is clear! Reaffirm commitment and maintain numero uno position among childrens channels...
SABe TV, a channel which recently completed two years of telecast, has carved a niche for itself as a channel which banks on humour as its...
MUMBAI: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has announced the launch of the inaugural San Miguel Asian 9-Ball Tour 2003 beginning in Singapore on 15-16 March that will...
MUMBAI: It looks like Aaj Tak is quite serious about its catch line ‘Sabse Tej’. The broadcasting arm of India Today group, quoting the latest TAM...
MUMBAI: Media scrips rebounded today and beat the downturn which they have been witnessing recently. In Budget 2003-4, the positive impetus for the media sector is...
NEW DELHI: Jain Television, set to become the first Business & News Channel in Hindi, has entered into an exclusive content sharing arrangement with 18 leading...
NEW DELHI: New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) promoted by Dr Prannoy Roy, has unveiled its new corporate logo. The logo will symbolise the new corporate identity...
MUMBAI: With reference to the article headlined Sony readying five new shows for launch post-World Cup, indiantelevision.com is issuing the following clarification. In the report a...
NEW DELHI: Stung by the falling 4.4 per cent growth this fiscal, the pre-Budget Economic Survey on Thursday endorsed the Kelkar Panel recommendations on tax reforms,...
MUMBAI: New Skies Satellites N.V. (AEX, NYSE: NSK), and Intelsat Global Sales & Marketing, Ltd., two leading providers of global satellite communications services, today announced an...
MUMBAI: The Cadbury Bournvita Quiz Contest team too has been bitten by the Kerala bug. The BQC team, comprising 100 students and teachers from 32 cities...
MUMBAI: Looking ahead to the future, Discovery channel is all set to spend $65 million over the next five years on Atlas HD, an ambitious series...
MUMBAI:Shooting in foreign locales seems to be the latest trend in telly world. Following Kyunki Saas.. and Kasauti Zindagi Kay which went to Australia , the...
NEW DELHI: A group of ministers (GoM) is slated to discuss tomorrow foreign direct investment (FDI) in various sectors, including direct to-home television broadcasting venture, and...
NEW YORK : Life. Death. Guilt. Afterlife. The daily routine for the Fisher family can involve some grave issues, especially when it comes to running the...
MUMBAI: Mukta Arts, promoted by Bollywood director-producer Subhash Ghai, has been asked to respond to the application forwarded by the Indian government to the Company Law...
MUMBAI: Leading Hindi news channel Aaj Tak has lost a key member of its journalistic team. Aaj Tak deputy news director Ajay Chaudhary died yesterday following...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the BBC, and the International Triathlon Union (ITU) have signed a deal. For the first time, BBC Worldwide...
MUMBAI: A recent JP Morgan report titled “Budget FY04 Preview – easy on consumers, harsh on corporates” says the media sector will receive a positive impetus...
LONDON: MTV’s global forum has chosen British prime minister Tony Blair to field questions from 40 young people hailing from Europe, the Middle East and the...
MUMBAI:The thrust has been given. Now it has to build on the momentum. Sony Entertainment Television will be launching five new shows once the World Cup...
MUMBAI: Consumers are playing safe considering the uncertain circumstances related to the implementation of conditional access system – CAS – in the country. Consumer Action Network,...
MUMBAI: Channel [V] had, thus far, distanced itself from the ongoing World Cup frenzy. But seems like the channel has finally decided to cash on the...
MUMBAI: Television Eighteen India has completed the allotment for the issue of 895,546 zero coupon secured partly convertible debentures (ZCSPCDs) of Rs 150 each for cash...
MUMBAI: “CEO Insights – Deepening Reform, embracing change: competing to win in global markets” an event organised by BusinessWeek Events in partnership with dnmStrategies, Atos Origin,...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad seems to have set the cat amongst the pigeons when he informed the Indian parliament that there...
NEW DELHI: At a time when the focus of the industry is on news channels and their uplink from India, a Nepalese-Hindi entertainment channel has quietly...
MUMBAI: The Consumer Electronics Traders and Manufacturers Association wants basic customs duty on set top boxes to stay at 10 per cent which will prevent fly...
MUMBAI: A Merrill Lynch report titled “Pre Budget Views – A Balancing Act” dated 24 February 2003 says that reduction in the duties of set top...
MUMBAI: With Budget 2003-4 just three days away, various sections of the entertainment industry are ready with their own wish lists, hoping for a bigger pie...
MUMBAI: The cable industry, represented by the Cable Operators Federation of India, Cable Network Association and the National Cable and Telecommunication Association has put forth its...
MUMBAI: The Manufacturers Association of Information Technology (MAIT) has just one expectation from the forthcoming Budget – a reduction in excise duty to eight per cent...
MUMBAI: The directorate general of service tax and the local central excise office has issued an advertisement in all publications today, urging cable operators to pay...
MUMBAI: Whatever may be the scene in C&S homes, in the all-India market Doordarshan rules. It has been no different for the ongoing ICC World Cup...
MUMBAI: The International Television Programme Market (MIPTV), which will be held on 24-28 March 2003 in Paris, has received a record growth in the number of...
MUMBAI: With the union budget due to be announced on Friday news channels are gearing up with a slew of specials and in-depth analysis. Indiantelevision.com has...