CALIFORNIA: Nickelodeon will once again give kids the chance to vote for their favourite movie and music stars when its 16th Annual Kids Choice Awards is held...
LONDON: BBC Showcase, the world’s largest television programme market hosted by a single broadcaster, will play host to more than 460 of the world’s top TV...
NEW DELHI: The meeting between the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) and the MSOs is continuing here on various issues relating to CAS and no concrete decision...
Touchtel, which claims to be Delhis first private fixed line service provider, has introduced a special Voice Portal value added service, to mark what it terms...
MUMBAI: Making good on his threat to made last Saturday to get after the television trade, BJP member of parliament (MP) from north-east Mumbai Kirit Somaiya,...
MUMBAI: Private FM players have finally forced staid broadcaster All India Radio Mumbai out of its ennui. The two channels run by AIR, FM Metro and...
NEW DELHI: The meetings that the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) panel had separately today with some of the MSOs in Delhi over various issues relating to...
MUMBAI: A series of invigorating promotional and marketing initiatives coupled with a localisation drive last year have paid action oriented channel AXN rich dividends. In...
MUMBAI: The ratings for the opening ceremony of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 have come in, and Extraaa Innings, the cricket related programme on MAX,...
MUMBAI: BJP member of parliament (MP) Kirit Somaiya is gunning for the television trade. Somaiya today announced that he is going to file a criminal, cognizable,...
LOS ANGELES: Yahoo! Movies which claims to be the Number one movie site on the Web has announced the launch of its comprehensive coverage of the...
MUMBAI: Zee Interactive Learning Systems has setup an IT training centre inside Maharashtra state police headquarters to conduct training in MS-CIT Course with the support &...
MUMBAI: Media baron Rupert Murdoch has been, thus far, known as the biggest share holder of NewsCorp. Turns out that he shall not be the title-holder...
NEW YORK : The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (IATAS) has issued a call for entries for the 31st International Emmy Awards which will...
MUMBAI: BJP member of parliament (MP) Kirit Somaiya is sending out a message that he means business. Apart from announcing on 15 February that he would...
MUMBAI: BJP member of parliament (MP) Kirit Somaiya is gunning for the television trade. Somaiya today announced that he is going to file a criminal, cognizable,...
WASHINGTON, DC: Intelsat announced today that the Intelsat 907 satellite was successfully launched aboard an Ariane 44L vehicle at 2:00 EST . The satellite is expected...
NEW DELHI: A new controversy threatens to rock the ongoing World Cup, the Indian cricket team especially, with the ICC (International Cricket Council) issuing notices to...
MUMBAI: For all those who have fears about the Indian team getting the World Cup home, just logon to the mtvindia.com website to get their fears...
LONDON: Sky Digital subscriptions will touch its yearend target of 7 million, as per the latest results announced by the company. By the end of December...
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Cable Operators’ Federation (MCOF) is getting active, following the announcement of its formation in the city on 13 February. (see Mumbai’s small cable...
NEW DELHI: The Indian media and entertainment industry has taken yet another initiative to make its presence felt in the global market. Confederation of Indian Industry...
NEW YORK: Media conglomerate Viacom has reported record results for the fourth quarter and full year ended 31 December 2002. For the fourth quarter, Viacom revenues...
LONDON: Rupert Murdoch has strengthened the Murdoch family presence on the board of BSkyB by appointing his son non executive director. 30 year old James Murdoch...
CHENNAI: The new merged entity comprising Telephoto Entertainments (TE) and In House Productions are gearing up to leverage their individual strengths and produce content for national...
FRANCE: The International Television Programme Market held at Cannes turns 40 next month. MIPTV serves as a world-wide meeting place for all professionals in the field...
New Delhi: Eutelsat, one of the world’s leading providers of satellite communication, has been selected by Connexion, a business unit of Boeing for a three-month demonstration...
NEW JERSEY: Interactive Systems Worldwide has announced that ukbetting, a strategic partner of its wholly owned subsidiary, Global Interactive Gaming Ltd. (GIG), has introduced into live...
NEW YORK: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has done well in the fourth quarter of 2002; thanks to video and DVD sales of its Oscar nominated animated...
LONDON: There was a time when the picture that came up when one thought of Aunty Beeb was that of an old lady in flannel frocks...
ZURICH: A report by The Interactive Publishing GmbH consultancy provides good news for the online news services still standing after the dotcom bloodbath. IP Zurich...
LONDON: Sportcal.com has announced that it will hold a seminar on sports rights on 17 February. The theme is ‘Sports rights – what does the future...
CALIFORNIA: Amidst unfavourable economic conditions and the melt down in the telecommunications industry, the satellite transponder capacity leasing market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
HONG KONG: Media companies are estimated to be hoarding 6,700 years worth of TV, film and music content, costing them billions of pounds a year. A...
LOS ANGELES : The US movie and the music industries have published a guide to help companies prevent copyright abuse on their computers and plan to...
The 50-something president of NDTV, Prannoy Roy, is not only his competitors’ envy and the idol of millions of Indian youngsters aspiring to make it as...
NEW DELHI: Sony Entertainment Television India – part of the Japanese conglomerate Sony group- has raked in Rs. 10,000 million worth of revenues this financial year...
MUMBAI: It had to happen some day! Star Plus has completed a clean sweep of the Top 50 shows for the first time. Star’s supreme dominance...
MUMBAI: Jay Mehta, the son of film producer and distributor Pranlal Mehta, will be producing two new TV shows: Vishwas in the afternoon slot for Zee...
NEW DELHI: The One Alliance today announced a three year distribution tie-up with NDTV for its proposed two news channels (a story that was broken by...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Out goes one, in comes two. Sony Entertainment Television’s One Alliance is set to formally announce today the entry of Prannoy Roy’s...
Cartoons are serious business for Duncan Morris. As vice president of research, Turner International Asia Pacific, Morris is responsible for assessing the potential and effect of...
MUMBAI: Crisil risk evaluation for the Indian entertainment industry, a pioneering initiative undertaken by CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) would play a catalytic role in channelising...
MUMBAI: Radio City, the Star-fed FM radio channel managed to get around the forbidden terrain of live cricket coverage by being the first FM station in...
NEW DELHI: The Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star can breathe easy a bit. The information and broadcasting ministry proposes to take the issue of uplinking of news channels...
MUMBAI: Crisil risk evaluation for the Indian entertainment industry, a pioneering initiative undertaken by CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) would play a catalytic role in channelising...
PARIS: Unfavourable weather conditions at the Spaceport in French Guiana have forced the delay of Arianespace’s Flight 159 with the Intelsat 907 satellite payload. The...
MUMBAI: Credit Rating Information Services of India Ltd (Crisil) Crisil has been working on drawing up a risk evaluation model for the Indian entertainment industry,...
MUMBAI: Zee TV has announced a new movie line-up for its Thursday Premiere initiative with films such as Makdee, Leela, Agnivarsha, Mitr, among others. On the...
MUMBAI: Here is an alliance that promises to bowl out the competition with a googly. AltaVista, a leading global provider of search services has signed an...