NEW DELHI: New minister of state for information and broadcasting Ravi Shankar Prasad today impressed upon the broadcasting fraternity that content on television should be such...
MUMBAI: If awards for adult “performers” can become annual fixtures, why not for kids. Buena Vista Television India has announced that it is all set for...
CAIRO: Satellite broadcaster Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC) will launch a 24-hour Arabic news channel, Al Arabiya, in mid-February with an estimated investment of US $200...
NEW DELHI: A top level delegation of the Indian Broadcasting Federation is slated to meet newly inducted minister of state for information and broadcasting Ravi Shankar...
MUMBAI: Confusion may still shroud the actual implementation of conditional access in the country, but the industry cannot be faulted for not trying its bit to...
LONDON: The man the pop world now loves to laugh at can still draw viewers like nobody in the business. British broadcaster Granada said its Living...
First of all on behalf of all Lastmile Service Providers (LSPs) we welcome you to the coveted post of Minister for Information and Broadcasting and assure...
CHENNAI: Radaan Mediaworks, the Rs 210 million television content provider promoted by popular southside actress R Radikaa Sarathkumar, has lined up some mega plans to make...
SOUTH AFRICA: Listeners to South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) radio channels will now get daily access to the best of BBC news and current affairs programmes...
NEW DELHI: Hype is a necessity and parties are results of that. Sounds like a Sidhuism? With India catching the cricket fever, why not? Not to...
MUMBAI: Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network has posted a loss of Rs 68.73 million (unaudited) for the nine months ended 31 December 2002 as against a...
NEW YORK: Longtime NBC executive Randy Falco was last week was named group president of the NBC television network, taking over from Andrew Lack, who quit...
Piracy law are in place but lack implementation a. Cable Network is a haven for pirates b. Cable Network licensing policy...
LUCKNOW: Emotions before economics. Sounds good in advertisements, but don’t be mistaken that the Subrata Roy-promoted Sahara India group (current assets: over Rs. 320 billion) has...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan is “struggling” to meet its annual revenue target, a senior official of Prasar Bharati said today. While speaking to the journalists about Doordarshan’s...
MUMBAI: Somehow, cable and satellite channels have been unable to create a programming mix that brings in audiences to the Sunday morning slot. This is in...
MUMBAI: In response to the nationwide uproar over the humiliating depiction of Mahatma Gandhi in its series, Clone High USA,, MTV United States has tendered an...
It’s a young woman’s world. That truism applies quite firmly on television today and has resulted in a sense of disillusionment amongst the older breed of...
It’s an incongruity but one any marketer would have no issue with! India may be a sports-dud country but when it comes to cricket we...
NEW YORK : More Americans today consider the Internet more important a source of source of information than television or print publicaitons, but fewer believe all...
MUMBAI: The stock markets are bullish about Balaji Telefilms due to the increase in its net profits for the quarter ended 31 December 2002. On the...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television is expanded its reach in the Gulf. From tomorrow (1February), SET Asia (the international feed for SET) will be available on the...
MUMBAI: There’s just over a week left for cricket’s greatest show to kick off in South Africa, and both terrestrial broadcaster Doordarshan and C&S rights holder...
MUMBAI: DD-10 (Sahyadri) channel is giving the private broadcasters a run for their money as Marathi programmes are creating a revolution of their own. In the...
MUMBAI: It was a programming strategy that could be overlooked only at the cost of being left out. And FM radio stations in the city have...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Minister of state for I&B with independent charge, Ravi Shankar Prasad, at his first day at the office today, has said the...
MUMBAI: Responding to the uproar over MTV USA’s lampooning Mahatma Gandhi in its spoof series Clone High USA, MTV India has asserted that it is in...
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court today ruled in favour of the official sponsors of the ICC World Cup, principally LG India (LGI), and allowed them to remit...
PARIS: Renowned format producer and general director of Field Media Practice, Gary Carter will conduct a session on ‘Coaching Creativity’ during MIPTV 2003 on 25 March...
MUMBAI: Viacom Inc’s kids entertainment brand Nickelodeon Asia has announced two big deals for expanding its distribution in China. Nickelodeon has reached a partnership agreement with...
NEW YORK: There’s plenty happening at AOL Time Warner. The company yesterday sold a key 8.4 per cent stake in Hughes Electronics, the parent company of...
MUMBAI: Marathi TV serial actors and actresses seem to making hay while the sun is shining. Several actors who started their career with Marathi serials have...
NEW DELHI: The government has completed the formation of the task force that will decide the pricing and composition of the basic tier of service in...
NEW DELHI: Comments of the home ministry are still awaited on Star India’s proposal to uplink from India for its news channel. It is only after...
WASHINGTON: Donna Friedman Meir has been named president of kids’ programming and production for National Geographic Television & Film. In this newly created position, Friedman Meir...
CALIFORNIA: Close-up shots will be the name of the gme for the Academy Awards! Now films buffs tuning in to the most important awards ceremony of...
NEW DELHI: Even as the new minister of state with independent charge, Ravi Shankar Prasad is slated to take charge at the I&B ministry tomorrow, the...
Young Turks. The fourth in indiantelevision.com’s series profiling the brightest and the best among the youth brigade in the Indian television industry, focuses this time on...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilm’s 3QFY03 results has evoked mixed reactions from the market and analysts. The Zee Telefilms scrip opened at Rs 86.85, dropped 9.15 per cent...
CALIFORNIA: MGM Worldwide Television Distribution, a unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has entered into an agreement with UPC Nederland B.V, Holland’s largest cable operator, to launch the MGM...
MUMBAI: Concentrate on non-theatrical releases! Producers, exhibitors need to arrive at a consensus! The film industry needs to embrace new technology! These were some of the...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Max is spreading its wings. At least for the duration of the World Cup that is. Max will be available to cable...
NEW DELHI: AXN looks like finally having some serious competition on its hands. Reality TV makes it formal debut on 1 February, after some weeks of...
MUMBAI: The new man at the helm of the information and broadcasting ministry is reputed to be one of the rising stars of the Bharartiya Janata...
MUMBAI: While Hindi soap operas hog all the attention, a silent revolution is taking place in the Marathi language serials genre – at least in western...
TOKYO: Sony Corporation today announced its consolidated results for the third quarter ended 31 December 2002. Consolidated sales increased slightly year on year to achieve a...
MUMBAI: The countdown to World Cup has begun and with that the hullabaloo associated with it in print media, television and (the latest entry ) FM...
MUMBAI:Rupert Murdoch is one of the key names from media in Fortune magazine’s fourth annual list of ‘People to Watch in 2003’. The 71-year-old chairman and...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms reported third quarter consolidated revenues of Rs 3,075 million (up 10.2 per cent) and the consolidated operating profit has grown 13.7 per cent...
MUMBAI: Republic Day is the time to wear your patriotism on your sleeve. And if it is a patriotic programme like Zee TV’s new show Mulk,...