PanAmSat Corporation today announced that more than 24 top broadcasters, programmers and news agencies in over two-dozen countries are using the company global satellite network for...
Trust Star to do it. It will soon start another daily soap beginning with ‘K’ a letter which has not only turned round the fortunes of...
Channel Guide, India’s first and only free to air digital satellite TV guide channel, is set to complete one year of operations. It now reaches over...
Mumbai and Delhi will lead the country in the growth of CAS. Kolkata will be slow in catching the trend, and Chennai will comprise mostly of...
Intelsat announced today that at 2:44 a.m. EDT the Intelsat 905 satellite was successfully launched aboard an Ariane 44L vehicle. The satellite is expected to be...
The rather sorry deal national broadcaster Doordarshan has got for the ongoing FIFA World Cup seems to have galvanised Prasar Bharati to get proactive on the...
Digital distribution of content, aided by rising broadband penetration, will be the greatest driver of new entertainment and media spending in 2005-2006, says the just released...
Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has floated global tenders for the supply of studio equipment, as well as for the supply of 1,100 set top boxes for...
Television has emerged as a primary source for news and current affairs and a new survey undertaken by the Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies (CMS) indicates...
From music to alternative healing, etc seems determined to innovate in a bid to bring in the viewers. Claiming supremacy among the current crop of music...
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...
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has restrained Doordarshan Kendra Delhi from transferring specialist programme executives to non programme production related jobs. The restraining order applicable for...
Prasar Bharati has apparently decided to give the fledgling DD Bharati a shot in the arm with some original content. The channel has commenced a live...
Sony Entertainment Television has secured the cable and satellite television rights for all ICC-designated One-Day cricket for the next seven years, which includes the next two...
Staid Doordarshan may not have managed the soccer World Cup well, but for fans of Bryan Adams, Ozzy Osbourne and Eric Clapton, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee...
Online voting for this year’s MTV Movie Awards has crossed the eight million mark, an all time high, says the channel. The figure represents an increase...
Viacom chairman and CEO Sumner M Redstone will receive the Media Person of the Year Award at this year’s Cannes Lions Festival. The trophy will be...
Intelsat, the company offering telephony, corporate network, video and internet solutions, has announced the appointment of KPMG LLP as its independent auditor for the fiscal year...
An Indian version of Russian Roulette, the popular game of chance, and a weekend series from the Balaji stable on Sony are set to propel the...
No more unauthorised reception of the FIFA world cup soccer. Armed with a restraining order issued by the Delhi High Court last night, applicable across the...
Go for the jugular. Thats a tactic used in the animal kingdom when a hunter is close to a prey it has been stalking for some...
It’s not only Sony Entertainment that is bidding to push sporting spectacle on its entertainment channels. If Sony will be pushing ICC cricket on its SET...
After a long hiatus, Mudra Videotec, the television software production and marketing arm of advertising major Mudra Communications is all set to renew the golden relationship...
A dip stick report prepared by the Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB) has placed Radio Mirchi’s listening audience at 70 per cent of the total listenership...
Cartoon Network is all set to deliver a high flying kick to the toon scene in India by premiering Jackie Chan Adventures. The star of films...
Hubahu, the twin dilemma on Sony Entertainment Television, is packing up. High costs of production and corresponding low ratings are the primary reason for the series...
If there is one talismanic individual that represents India’s greatest triumph in the one-day cricket arena it is Kapil Dev, the captain of that 1983 winning...
World Cup soccer telecaster Ten Sports announced late tonight (30 May) that its parent Taj Television and distribution partner HMA Udyog had struck a deal with...
The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms Ltd today got the formal nod from shareholders to raise the FII limit in India’s leading media company to 49 per...
Star India today announced the appointment of Zee News executive editor Sanjay Pugalia as news director Star News. His appointment will be effective 1 July and...
Zee Telefilms has made another big move to consolidate its position of strength in the convergence business. The company is picking up a 26 per cent...
Ten Sports is taking the novel route to increasing awareness about the channel in the interiors of the country. The channel that has secured exclusive rights...
National broadcaster Doordarshan is inviting sealed tenders from parties /agencies who are interested in distribution and marketing DD-World Channel of Doordarshan in the USA and Canada...
The industry has reacted cautiously to Prasar Bharati’s (Broadcasting Corporation of India) move throwing open bidding for all time slots on its Doordarshan Metro channel. ...
Sony Entertainment Television yesterday announced the launch of a new daily soap Kaun Apna Kaun Paraya, part of an initiative on SET’s part to repackage its programming...
The major bugbear for new sports broadcaster the Bukhatir-promoted Ten Sports has been the lack of penetration in cable and satellite TV homes in India. That...
ESPN Star Sports may not have the telecast rights but just ahead of FIFA World Cup action, the channel launched this week the new version of...
Hotel Regent in Mumbai will see the hosting of a seminar on the fast changing media scenario in the country. The seminar dubbed Mediamorphosis will be...
Predominantly music channel etc is adding interactive elements to its long-running Bollywood Birthmarks, which features filmstars whose birthdays fall in a particular week. Bollywood Birthmarks gives...
Noted filmmaker Subhash Ghai had a 20-year dream: to set up an international film and media institute in Mumbai. Whistling Woods International Ltd (WWIL) came up...
With just three days left for the kick-off the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and Korea, indications are that B4U Networks and Doordarshan are on...
B4U Networks and Doordarshan thrashed out an agreement today that clears the way for the deferred telecast on DD of four matches and a daily highlights...
The event which marks the coming together of all the industry people for latest developments in the broadcasting world and also for networking with peers is...
On the back of what has been a tremendously successful year for the Jeetendra Kapoor family-promoted Balaji Telefilms, the production house is expanding into new genres...
Sportsworld Australia, earlier a part of the Sportsworld Media Group, has changed ownership and is now christened Sportsbrand Media Group. Sportsbrand carries forward the heritage of...
Close on the heels of winning the Ground Breaker award as the top National Programmer by US-based trade publication Multichannel News International, Zee Telefilms has one...
Sanjay Dosi has put in his papers as CEO of Balaji Telefilms. The company that posted a net profit of Rs 290.15 million for FY 2001-02,...
Beginning 28 May, Bloomberg Television will globally simulcast financial coverage of US, Asian and European markets on a daily show, The Bloomberg World Financial Report. Marshalling...
The MTV Youth Marketing Forum promised a lot. For the first time, the naughty music channel decided to shift it away from its sinful commercial capital...
The race is on to bag the rights to telecast Sri Lankan cricket in India. The major players in the running are Sony Entertainment Television’s Set...