In what is seen as a move to avoid any complications which may arise due to ‘restrictions on cross media holdings’, Zee Telefilms announced that it...
Action channel AXN India claims to have stolen a march over rival English movie channels last month in the ratings game. The channel telecast Commando on...
If the government decides to go ahead with the promulgation of an Ordinance (executive order) by the President of India making implementation of conditional access system...
After waiting for nearly seven years to launch his first four channels, Kalanithi Maran, the 35-year old chairman and managing director of Sun TV, is now...
The market was expecting good results but this good? The Jeetendra Kapoor family’s Balaji Telefilms posted a net profit of Rs 290.15 million for FY 2001-02...
Spurred by stupendous success of its Playwin Lottery, Subhash Chandra’s Essel group is moving its golden goose to fresh pastures. A variant of Playwin’s Super Lotto...
Following yesterday’s announcement made by B4U Networks that it had secured the terrestrial telecast rights for the FIFA soccer World Cup from Taj Sports, the promoter...
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today dedicated the Insat-3B satellite which was launched earlier on March 22. The Prime Minister will dedicate the satellite in Bhubaneshwar...
It was in January 2001 that faith channel Aastha set a landmark of sorts with the live telecast from Allahabad of the 45-day religious mega-event –...
Scientific Atlanta has introduced Integra5 Communications, the latest application developer in its CreativEdge Developer Program. Cable operators can offer consumers this program over the Explorer set-top...
Here’s yet another twist to the convoluted tale of national broadcaster Doordarshan’s bid to arrange World Cup soccer telecast. DD now has to deal with a...
Pubcaster Prasar Bharati’s board these days is seized with matters mostly related to telecast rights. If it is not football, then it must be cricket. A...
Business channel CNBC India is launching yet another weekend business show, Global Market Wrap from 25 May. The 30-minute show aims to focus on key developments...
After being off for close to a month in the US, Hindi entertainment channel Sony Entertainment Television is looking at making a comeback by next month....
Roshan Abbas is one of the more popular hosts seen on the small screen today. Roshan first shot into fame as anchor of Public Demand, one...
The DNA Files bagged the prestigious Peabody/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Excellence in Health and Media Programming last weekend. The DNA Files, a five-part radio...
Keertan Adyanthaya – ex-Mindshare Fulcrum – has joined Star India. He will be in charge of programming at Channel [V], Star Movies and Star World. At...
The three member high-level committee appointed for the restructuring of Prasar Bharati has finally submitted its report to the government after much delay. The committee consisting...
Software and film animation major Padmalaya Telefilms Limited has declared its unaudited financial results for the year ended 31 March 2002. The net sales of the...
Hindi Entertainment channel Sahara TV is sprucing up its one-hour children’s band with new shows set to launch. The kids band, called Just Kids, will be...
In a swift turn around on Monday, the Bangladesh government lifted its ban on 11 of the 13 satellite channels it had imposed on Sunday. The...
SABe TV’s celebrated variety entertainment show Office-Office has won the RAPA (Radio and TV Advertising Practitioners’ Association of India) Award for “Best Comedy” serial for the...
“We are on track to achieve our aim of becoming the number one network as far as subscription revenues are concerned.” This is what Shantonu Aditya,...
To telecast or not to telecast (World cup soccer matches) is the question that is haunting Prasar Bharati and it is still attempting to salvage an...
Viacom-owned children’s channel Nickelodeon will soon be broadcast in China after the localisation of all programme content, a recent report says. Viacom launched Nickelodeon programming in...
Mickey Mouse is coming to Korea. Come 1 June, viewers in Seoul will be able to tune into the antics of Disney’s rodent on television. The...
The Bangladesh government has clamped down on eight Indian popular satellite pay channels and five FTA channels to “resist the adverse impact of alien culture on...
91, as the hoardings strung out all over the city and suburbs tell us, hits the city airwaves on Tuesday. The fourth private FM player to...
CBS’ 15 awards was the highest tally at the 29th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards last weekend, including those for the outstanding lead actor (Peter Bergman, The...
The Sahara India Group’s ambitious plans to launch a national Hindi news channel, along with a number of independent city-based regional news stations (mainly in the...
It’s May and as reported earlier in Indiantelevision.com’s special report the Tara Marathi channel has gone on air. This means that there is one more major...
Alarmed by the growing reach of private satellite channels, Doordarshan is finally getting its act together and is looking to increase the penetration of DD-2, or...
It’s the festival of lights. And for many the festival of noise courtesy exploding fireworks. In the hope of reducing the number of those belonging to...
Sri Adhikari Brothers Television (SABTNL) continues its long association with national broadcaster Doordarshan with the launch on Monday of a new daily social drama Kuntee on...
Hindi entertainment channel Sahara TV has taken home five trophies at the Radio and TV Advertising Practitioners Association (RAPA) awards that were held in Mumbai on...
All you “Friends” lovers here’s an interesting fact which will tell you that it ‘really pays’ to be good friends – pun intended. The cast of...
Hindi news channel Aaj Tak has bagged the Best Campaign of the Year (TV) Award at the 27th Radio and TV Advertising Practitioners’ Association of India...
Star TV and ANZ Grindlays have got into bed together with Mastercard International. And the result of the menage a trois: a bonny alive and kicking...
Nickelodeon, MTV’s sister channel, is all set to stir up some heat on the kids entertainment scene. And in true MTV-style, yesterday it unveiled its first...
One crime show is being replaced by another on Star Plus. Kahaani Jurrm Ki, which made its debut nearly a year ago on the Friday Sachin...
The Sporty gent is back. This time, the former ESPN-Star Sports Asia chief Alexander P. “Sandy” Brown is hopping on to the business channel bandwagon. Brown,...
Surabhi, the cultural show that once enjoyed cult status in the country, may soon be back. This time on a satellite channel, with a more upmarket...
As part of its integrated marketing initiative, Cartoon Network will be premiering its on-ground promotional event for the Asia Pacific region, Cartoon Network Super-Size Cinema, in...
ESPN has launched ESPN+ (pronounced “ESPN ms”), its the second 24-hour sports network to serve Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. ESPN+, to be presented in Spanish,...
BroadcastAsia2002, the broadcasting and multimedia technologies event will be held from 18 to 21 June 2002 in Singapore this year. The forum will have a wide...
ESPN’s film Ultimate X, The Movie produced in conjunction with Touchstone Pictures will hit Mumbai shores on 24 May, through SPE India. The film, which will...
Rathikant Basu promoted Broadcast Worldwide which will be launching Tara regional channels has initiated a wide based research programmes for its channels. Tara Marathi will be...
Seattle headquartered Getty Images has announced that it will be the exclusive distributor of still images collected from CNN footage. The company, which claims to be...
ZeeNext.com, the entertainment portal from the Zee Group has added , a sports portal to its bouquet of portals. Hosted on http://sports.zeenext.com, the sports website has...
A new scare has emerged in the television industry about the possibility of the current government controlling and muzzling the media – more specifically television through...