MUMBAI: While all mainstream Hindi entertainment channels are banking on drama and movie premieres to boost ratings, SABe TV intends to strengthen its primetime USP –...
LOS ANGELES: The America Channel is planning to launch a new cable channel aimed at showing real American life between the East and West coasts is...
NEW DELHI: The Subrata Roy promoted Sahara TV has decided that it would not start telecasting Karishma: The Miracles of Destiny serial, featuring Bollywood actress Karisma...
BBC World has emerged as the most-watched channel in a decision makers’ survey conducted by market research firm ORG-Marg for the news and information channel. The...
It’s quite a quaint dance. One step forward, two step back. That’s the path the government has decided to take for Convergence draft. The group of...
HONG KONG : The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) and Media & Marketing Ltd of Hong Kong are to co-publish the CASBAA &...
HONG KONG: SpeedCast, a satellite-enabled broadband ISP in Asia, and Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific have announced that the latest news headlines on CNN and CNNfn...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj has done it again. The government is confident that the process of implementation of the conditional access system...
NEW DELHI: BBC News has apppointed its first ever South Asia editor. The British broadcaster’s newsgathering division has appointed Paul Danahar to the newly created role...
MUMBAI: Free-to-air Hindi general entertainment channel Sahara TV is going digital from Tuesday, 10 December. Sahara has also set up its own multiple channel digital uplink...
It’s not often that one of CNN’s star anchors comes calling in India. And when it comes to business matters, even less so. It may be...
MUMBAI: The public broadcaster, it would seem, has also realised the potential of shows based on spirituality. Prasar Bharati has invited proposals from experienced producers for...
MUMBAI: It seems Star Plus does not believe in resting on its laurels. The channel has decided to revamp year-old game show Khullja Sim Sim in...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: It would have been surprising if it hadn’t happened thus. Simply because of the big stakes for which some of the members...
MUMBAI: Aamrapali , the grand historical epic that airs on Doordarshan, has plans of reaching out to international audiences as well. “We are looking at the...
The let’s-make-a-mess-of-it sorry saga continues at Zee Telefilms. Its decision to unceremoniously and injudiciously sackSawal Dus Crore Ka co-host Anupam Kher could see it getting embroiled in...
MUMBAI: Fair & Lovely Career Baatein, a program on careers aimed at empowering young people, especially women, towards economic self-sustainability is being launched on national broadcaster...
SINGAPORE: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has released the latest figures and forecasts for Asia Pacific’s pay-TV industry. The figures can be...
MUMBAI: Satellite service provider Eutelsat has successfully launched its W5 satellite and it is being positioned at 70.5 degrees East, an orbital position that allows Eutelsat...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan is confident that it will reach its revenue target of about Rs 6,250 million by the time the current financial year comes...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan today took a pot shot at the TV rating points saying “manipulations” are common, even while maintaining that efforts should still be on...
SINGAPORE: Impressive! Thats all one can say about the remarks of Singapores Singapore’s acting minister for the ministry of information, communications and the arts David Lim...
MUMBAI: The Indian Parliament took a small progressive step forward with the Lok Sabha (Lower House) approving the ‘Freedom of Information’ Bill yesterday. The Bill, first...
MUMBAI: Meeting of Minds, the show hosted by Vir Sanghvi on SABe TV has been replaced with his new chat show Faces & Names, as of...
MUMBAI: Fresh off a World Wrestling Entertainment event in India after a gap of six years which met with an excellent response, Ten Sports, which commenced...
BERLIN: Intelsat yesterday launched its broadband service that provides direct Internet access via satellite up to 10 times faster than dial-up in Europe. The broadband service...
Zee Telefilms has responded to the charge that it has asked Sawal Dus Crore Ka co-anchor Anupam Kher to go as part of its revamp. According to a...
In a continuation of its press-the-panic-button-react-in-a-kneejerk manner Zee TV has given veteran actor Anupam Kher marching orders from its game show Sawal Dus Crore Ka. The management...
MUMBAI: In what could be turn out to be a masterstroke in public perception management, the Star Network is likely to reduce its network rate price...
MUMBAI:Star News India has won the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) Award conferred jointly by UNICEF and International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (IATA...
NEW DELHI: French Fashion TV has run into rough weather with the Indian authorities again. This time it has been denied membership to the Indian Broadcasting...
LONDON: Associated Press Television News (APTN) Library will begin archiving Sports News Television (SNTV) programming from January 2003. APTN will be archiving SNTV’s daily output of...
MUMBAI: Faruq Masudi, writer and director of successful Hindi soaps like Dastan, Chattan and Kasak, is now reportedly planning a series based on Quranic verses in...
MUMBAI: Indian television viewers definitely have a penchant for fortune telling sessions! Billed as the complete show on astrology, etc’s Kahani Kismat Ki is completing a...
SINGAPORE: Intelligent Enterprise Asia conferred the 3rd Annual Intelligent20 Awards to the region’s top 20 enterprises that use infocom-related technologies to drive new levels of operational...
SINGAPORE: The venue for SuperPitch 2002 is Singapore’s Shangri-La Rasa Sentosa Resort on the picturesque Sentose island. It’s late in the afternoon and six different producers...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj told Parliament that it was not possible to indicate as to when KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) service will...
PARIS: Eutelsat, one of the worlds leading satellite operators has brought new capacity into service for broadband Internet access and direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television broadcasting in...
LOS ANGELES: CBS has won the November sweep in viewers and households, according to Nielsen ratings through Wednesday night’s preliminary affiliate based ratings. The victory was...
NEW DELHI: The Upper House of Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) has not been able to take up the issue of conditional access system today as of...
MUMBAI: Viva is going full steam ahead, the loss of one member notwithstanding. The music channel from the Star stable Channel (V) has announced that it...
The acquisition of a 20 per cent equity stake in top notch production house Balaji Telefilms is just the first of many partnerships that the Kerry...
Despite consistent lobbying by a clutch of broadcasters right from Zee TV to Star TV to Prasar Bharati chief RR Shah, the government is not going...
MUMBAI: And then there were three. After Sikkim and Karnataka, Subhash Chandra’s online lottery venture added Maharashtra to its portfolio with the launch last night of...
It was an ominous email sent out to staffers by CNN News group chairman Tom Johnson and president Phil Kent: expect aggressive changes in the news...
LONDON:The Situation Room, a reality drama on BBC based on a hypothetical scenario involving India and Pakistan, has grabbed media attention with its conclusion which shows...
MUMBAI: Pubcaster Prasar Bharati has invited tenders from firms and manufacturers for vital installations like TV studios, radio studios and transmitter for the supply, installation, testing...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms is certainly not letting any grass grow under its feet following the defection of movie channel HBO from...
MUMBAI: Om Namah Shivay , a mythological series that had a two year-run on national broadcaster Doordarshan’s main DD1 channel, is taking a bow on Sony...
Doesn’t it seem a lot like deja vu? The Convergence Bill may finally not make its way to Parliament in the Winter session which is on...