He cuts an impressive figure. One of the few to have seen the potential in the sports business and made money out of it. Meet Harish...
NEW DELHI: D-day, finally, seems to be just around the corner. The Subroto Roy-promoted diversified Sahara group has targeted the launch of the first two of...
MUMBAI: MAX executive vice president and business head Rajat Jain has lashed out at the viewership claims made earlier this week by DD-Nimbus for the Champions...
LOS ANGELES: HBO has received 26 Golden Globe nominations, twice as many as any other television network this year, and the most in HBO history, for...
Doordarshan director general Dr S Y Quraishi was pretty upbeat on the evening of the announcement of its World Cup Cricket 2003 telecast plans on the...
Music Broadcast Pvt. Ltd, a company promoted by the Mittal group, has signed a licence agreement for operating FM channels. It is one of 16...
MUMBAI : It’s turning over a new leaf with the new year and almost going against the grain. While some channels would prefer to tread cautiously...
Production company Nimbus Communications has postponed the launch of its entertainment channel, ShowBiz TV, by two to three months. Uday Sinhwala, Nimbus’ Head of Television,...
Leading sports channel ESPN-Star is set to hike its package rate by 8.5 per cent to Rs16 per subscriber home from 1 January, 2001 The rates...
Kourou : Arianespace successfully orbited the NSS-6 satellite for New Skies Satellites N.V. from Kourou, French Guiana on 17 December 17 at 8:04 p.m. local time....
EVRY(France) :Following the anomaly observed during Flight 157 on 11 December, Arianespace has decided — in cooperation with the European Space Agency and French CNES space...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment’s MAX is leaving no stone unturned to prove its mettle. Based on the latest TVR ratings , it claims that it has surpassed...
SUNNYVALE, California: Sun TV has deployed Harmonic’s industry leading MPEG-2 video encoders and statistical multiplexers for an extensive headend upgrade. Harmonic’s DVB compliant systems will enable...
NEW DELHI: The parliamentary consultative committee attached to India’s information and broadcasting ministry in a meeting earlier today came out in favour of forming a regulatory...
NEW DELHI: Broadcasters, mostly operating pay channels in India, are slated to meet India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj in the first week of January...
MUMBAI: After a period of inactivity, Zee MGM and Zee English are pushing ahead in terms of a new look as well as innovative programme strategies....
Recent legislation in India mandates the use of conditional access systems (CAS) for pay TV channels. Presently, every subscriber to the network receives all the channels...
NEW DELHI: Trust India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj to drive to the hilt the advantage she has gained in recent times. Now she is...
WASHINGTON: Former Federal Communications Commission chairman and AOL executive Dennis Patrick has been named president of National Geographic Ventures. He will assume office on 6 January...
Rohit Khanna is a specialist in real life dramas and docu-dramas. He has an impressive line-up of shows like Bhanwar and Haadsa behind him, apart from...
Rajat Jain is the man in the hot seat as MAX prepares to stir up passions, drum up hype and hoopla. The next three months will...
With 2002 drawing to a close, most channels are geared to usher in the New Year with the usual masala mix – films, music and events,...
MUMBAI : Balaji Telefilms, which recently sold telecast rights of 1000 hours of software from its library to an Indonesian company, plans to aggressively target the...
MUMBAI: Solomon Smith Barney (SSB) claims that the subscription revenues will eventually be linked to the content quality and the viewership. This will reiterate the fact...
MUMBAI : Aggro. That’s the mood that Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra is displaying these days. Determined to get his pet television network back on the...
MUMBAI: Continuing with the recent revamp in programming, Zee TV is now geared to start a new series of original movies under the brand name Kambakht...
MUMBAI : Salomon Smith Barney (SSB) has not revised its earnings estimate nor the 12 month price target for the Zee Telefilms scrip following the clearance...
MUMBAI: Motilal Oswal Securities Inquire (MOSt Inquire) Indian Equity Research’s update on Zee Telefilms maintained its ‘Buy’ recommendation as the stock quoted at 16.6xFY03E (Rs 102...
CHENNAI:Netru Indru Nalai , an event organized by The Banyan, a non government organisation working with mentally unstable destitute women in Chennai, is scheduled to be...
MUMBAI:BBC World, the 24-hour international news and information channel is gearing up for the grand finale of 2002 with an eclectic mix of news, business, analysis,...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is exploring the possibilities of making some changes in the existing policies relating to foreign investment in the broadcasting sector. A...
Kourou: Undaunted by the failure of flight 157, Araianespace has announced that it has secured the go-ahead for the launch of its second flight for New...
MUMBAI: For those destined to spend New Year’s eve at home in front of the telly, mainstream channels have readied a line up of filmi fare....
NEW DELHI/ CHENNAI : The threat by Tamil Nadu’s cable operators to switch off Zee Turner channels in two weeks due to the increase in subscription...
MUMBAI: In a bid to boost its brand identity, kids’ channel Nickelodeon has decided to premiere its first ever show made for the Indian audience. Say...
MUMBAI: Even as Star India’s licence for uplinking Star News from Indian shores gets short shrift, Hindi entertainment channel Sahara TV looks to have stolen a...
The Zee Group, in a major restructuring bid as advised by AT Kearney, has brought all of its diverse activities and businesses under four broad categories...
Our astrological show Kahani Kismat Ki will complete 1000 episodes over the course of this month. The success of the half hour daily show at 10:30...
Early Edition, the series, commenced telecast on Hallmark since September. The hero, Gary Hobson ,is a man who gets the newspaper one day in advance, courtesy...
Zee Telefilms on Friday denied press reports that it planned to drop 16 serials currently airing on the channel. Sainath Aiyar, Head Corporate Communications, said there...
A couple of months back, the Pakistan government had awarded Star TV a licence to sell and distribute its decoders, and its channels in that country....
The Star TV India management is confident that its music-channel-turned-youth-channel-turned music channel Channel V is going to hit the right rhythm now that it is 87.5...
Hallmark Entertainment Network on Wednesday signed agreements with two new partners, Videoland in Taiwan and Korea’s World Event Network Co. Ltd (WENTV). The move comes just...
NEW DELHI: An early rollout of CAS looks unlikely, though the government (read the information and broadcasting ministry) would like an early implementation in the four...
The Cine TV and Artistes Association (CTVAA) on Thursday weighed into the dispute between sacked former host Anupam Kher and Zee Telefilms over the suspension of...
Where is Discovery India chief Kiran Karnik headed? The buzz is that Karnik, who announced yesterday that the network was looking for a replacement for him,...
MUMBAI: The 70th anniversary of the BBC World Service includes a three-hour broadcast of live entertainment and performances from musicians in India, Senegal, Great Britain, Afghanistan...
KOUROU: The independent inquiry board that will determine the causes of Flight 157’s launch failure will begin its work on 16 December 2002. The attempted first...
BANGALORE : Converging World 2002, held at the Sree Kanteevera Stadium in Bangalore from 3 to 5 December ended on a single note – Conditional Access...
MUMBAI: Star chief operating officer Sameer Nair is one of the Indo-American Society’s Young Achievers of the year 2002. The annual award ceremony will be held...