She started as an assistant director, grew to be the director of the first and one of the most successful satellite soaps and has not looked...
LOS ANGELES: The 54th annual Emmy Awards, the US television industry’s highest honours were held on 22 September 2002. The West Wing won its third Emmy...
MUMBAI: As a first step towards consolidating the businesses of its media content companies, Hinduja TMT Ltd (HTMT) is acquiring 100 per cent equity control over...
MUMBAI: Hello Inspector, a crime thriller from the Sri Adhikari Brothers stable that airs on DD Metro, becomes the first daily thriller to complete 100 episodes...
MUMBAI:Hinduja TMT has raised the capacity of its call centres by another 100 CSRs (Customer Service Representatives) in September 2002. The ramp up comes close on...
It was after an eight year stint in UTV Mumbai that Suresh Iyer shifted down south to start the company‘s operations in Chennai. It was during...
CHINA: Warner Bros. International Television has entered into an agreement with two companies from China and a Hong Kong-based partner, Salon Films, for the joint development,...
MUMBAI: CNN.com has launched a new site design that provides better navigation, faster download time and more depth in specific subject areas, including technology, entertainment and...
NEW YORK: The Rolling Stones will star in their first live concert event for broadcast or cable TV, exclusively on HBO next January. To be presented...
MUMBAI: The International Herald Tribune and Bloomberg News have announced an alliance to provide detailed Bloomberg coverage of Asian companies and financial markets for IHT’s readers...
NEW DELHI: Television Eighteen Ltd, the Indian joint venture partner for CNBC India, is in talks with Sony Entertainment TV India to sort out the matter...
MUMBAI: Now this is one concept that could have massive potential, especially in a politics-driven country such as ours. Imagine Indian TV viewers being able to...
Announcing entries open, Asia Animation Super Pitch 2002 has said that for the first time in the region animation content creators will get a chance to...
LONDON: Britain’s Independent Television Commission (ITC) yesterday amended its technical standards to authorise those digital broadcasters who wish to broadcast in ’16-QAM’ transmission mode to press...
NEW DELHI: Television Eighteen Ltd, the Indian joint venture partner for CNBC India, has questioned the Hinduja Group MSO INCablenet’s stand on the black out of...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The multi-system operator (MSO)-broadcaster face-off has taken another twist. Now the dramatis personae are the Hinduja group-controlled INCablenet and business news channel CNBC India....
It is only the ‘privileged‘ urban homes that feature on satellite channels in India, finds a study conducted on gender representation on satellite television by the...
MUMBAI: Subhash Chandra’s Zee TV has launched a dedicated channel for the Middle East region. Zee is clearly hoping to cash in on the advantages that...
SINGAPORE: With the Asian Games just nine days away, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) is in the midst of a new problem, this time on...
LOS ANGELES:Producers of the Mortal Kombat feature film franchise, one of the biggest and best-known martial arts franchises of all-time have launched Blackbelt TV, the world’s...
MUMBAI: Close on the heels of Raj Nayak having put in his papers at Star India, Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms put out a statement today that...
MUMBAI: One could be forgiven for thinking some new Bollywood blockbuster was going on the floors. Screen siren Karisma Kapoor is there in a double role,...
MUMBAI: Specialisation is the order of the day. Keeping this in mind the Mumbai-headquartered communications management firm CMCG India has launched SportzPR, Indias first specialised communications...
MUMBAI: Actress Priya Tendulkar, best known for the cult series Rajani that aired on Doordarshan in the mid 1980s died following a massive heart attack in...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Star India and its executive vice-president sales and marketing, LS ‘Raj’ Nayak, are still grappling with the issue of making the latter’s...
MUMBAI: TV software company Cinevistaas, which burnt its fingers with Yeh Mohabbat Hai, a joint venture with film producer Umesh Mehra, is going solo for its...
MUMBAI: The war among English movie channels to gain share shows no signs of letting up. HBO’s latest programming strategy involves a new turn into horror....
MUMBAI: CNN’s flagship regional business programme Biz Asia will introduce two new weekly segments, The Business of Film and Challenging CEOs from 20 September and 2...
MUMBAI: HBO claims that the much-anticipated return episode of mob drama The Sopranos on 15 September has been rated the most watched programme in the history...
When Vandana Malik started off in television, she was an absolute novice to the medium. It was TV18 promoter Raghav Bahl who propelled his then housewife-sister...
MUMBAI: Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea met up with Star India executive vice-president sales and marketing Raj Nayak in the afternoon yesterday to review the situation...
Film actor Manoj Bajpai along with mascot Apple Singh is all set to play Super Selector with Navjot Singh Sidhu in the first live game show....
MUMBAI: At a time when the Hindi movie industry is going through probably its worst ever slump, a new vertically integrated company announced today that it...
LONDON: A major new study into the future of television was released yesterday by Britain’s Independent Television Commission (ITC), setting the scene for Parliamentary debates on...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has received an application from Aaj Tak for starting a news channel and seeking a no-objection for uplinking the...
MUMBAI: Hallmark is taking special pains to strengthen its position in the late night block. With this in mind, the channel will push The Guardian and...
MUMBAI: “It’s no longer a fight for the third slot,” affirms Vijay TV programming head Suresh Iyer. Vijay TV, relaunched in October 2001 with the joint...
LOS ANGELES: Media conglomerate Vivendi Universal is said to be completing talks over the sale of its Italian pay TV operator to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp....
MUMBAI : Canal+ Technologies (C+T) has announced the launch of the first iTV-version of a German magazine ‘HRZU’, based on the Mediahighway MHP-compliant middleware, in association...
Airtimes: Indian Standard Times Wed, Jul 19 at 1830hrs Sat, Jul 22 at 1130am and 1930hrs Sun, Jul 23 at 1130am CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane...
MUMBAI: Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea is meeting up with Star India executive vice-president sales and marketing Raj Nayak in the afternoon today to review the...
Shantonu Aditya, Sony Entertainment Television India’s head of distribution as well as president of the Discovery-SET India joint venture company, is the man at the centre...
MUMBAI: The ESPN School Quiz launched into its third year today with a bang! The first regional round of the School Quiz 2003 saw over 5000...
AMSTERDAM (Holland): Om Khushu has won this year’s international honour for excellence, the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) John Tucker Award. The award was given to Khushu...
AMSTERDAM (HOLLAND): News Corp subsidiary NDS claims that it has become the world’s first company to supply smartcards to 30 million active digital pay-TV subscribers. The...
CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA: In a strategic move aimed at capitalising on the overall strength of the Sony brand, Sony Pictures Entertainment has renamed its domestic and...
Jon Stewart, host of the award winning US satirical news show The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, will present The Daily Show: Global Edition, a late-night...
NEW DELHI: The cable operators-broadcaster face-off in the Capital is lurching from one controversy to another. While Win Cable-Hathway and Sony Entertainment TV India have called...
MUMBAI: Ask anyone in Indian television land, and you will be told that it is only the woman viewer who can unlock the door to the...
MUMBAI: Subhash Ghai promoted Mukta Arts has finally taken the plunge into television software. The company informed BSE India that Mukta Prime’3 Teleworks Pvt Ltd will...