An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders gave Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra and the company the go-ahead to acquire 61 per cent equity of Asianet Communications,...
It’s curtains for Kamzor Kadii Kaun on Star Plus, at least temporarily. After valiantly battling to recreate the magic of KBC, the show is winding up...
Reminiscent India Television is to host the second annual Lashkara Punjabi Music Awards 2002 in June. The awards to be held in Jalandhar, would acknowledge the...
AXN is ready to pep up the lives of action enthusiasts with “Be a Guinness World record Holder” contest to be held in India by the...
With the soccer fever on the rise, ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has found that Chinese sports fans have already made their minds up about their favourite...
Zee Telefilms is reconsidering its ADR issue. Chairman Subhash Chandra told investment analysts (at a meet organised by Zee and attended by 200 of them on...
Mumbai, May 25 , 2006: To give the viewers entertainment galore, just after the launch of its biggest historical series STAR PLUS draws out another offering...
It‘s the Toon Match all over again; only this time it‘s Rugrats pitched in fierce battle against Tintin and Amanda Bynes pitting her wit against the...
A day before the amendments to the Cable TV Networks Regulations Act, 1995, is slated to be introduced in Parliament, information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj...
Even as the next six batches are underway, Zee Institute of Media Arts (ZIMA) along with Autodesk Media and Entertainment certified its first batch of students...
Maeil Business TV News (MBN) and CNBC Asia Pacific are today launching a new joint television news service, ‘MBN-CNBC’, which will beam into more than 4.5...
Ten Sports, which holds the telecast rights for the upcoming FIFA World Cup, looks like having a six-hour lead time over national broadcaster Doordarshan as far...
It is not just Subhash Chandra and his Zee TV that have struck a discordant note vis–vis the Indian Broadcasting Federation’s (IBF) opposition to the government’s...
Hallmark tried a different tack for promoting its Mother’s Day specials this year. At a bash last weekend, they roped in Aditi Gowitrikar, Fleur Xavier, Shaina...
Official World Cup sponsor Adidas has signed on as presenting sponsor of ESPN.com’s complete online coverage of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. ESPN’s online resources dedicated...
It is said that acting is half shame and half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself and glory at forgetting yourself. In 300 films, over the past...
Wednesday was not a good day for Zee Telefilms stocks. This inspite of the fact that the net profit of the company went up by 160%....
Shamim Shaikh is managing director and spokesperson of one of the most proactive cable TV network coalitions in India – the Seven Star Cable Network which...
The fourth player in the private radio field in Mumbai, Radio Today 93.5, has fixed its launch date for somewhere in the third week of May....
Twelve children, one of them from India, met the UN secretary general in New York on 7 May as part of a Nickelodeon effort to support...
Fueled by expansion in its business ventures, Zee Telefilms announced that its net profit has gone up by 160% to Rs 3.33 billion. Zee’s net profit...
Dutch comunication company New Skies Satellites has reported that revenues grew to $51.8 million, an increase of $0.6 million over the same period in 2001, for...
Hasratein was his ticket to fame in the heady early days of satellite television in India. The effective, empathetic portrayal of the other woman was a...
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) members met in New Delhi today to discuss the implication of the proposed Conditional Access Systems (CAS). Any propsoal that addresses...
Kkusum, the long suffering soap on Sony has made it to the nominations for the ‘favourite drama on cable’ in the fifth edition of the Cable...
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation meeting on CAS – or conditional access system – held at the offices of Discovery in New Delhi ended after a marathon...
The Union Cabinet gave the go-ahead to bring about amendments to The Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 to allow the imposition of conditional access systems...
CAS – or conditional access systems – is causing indigestion amongst players in the broadcasting busines. The Indian Broadcasting Federation meeting which was slated to be...
Kkusum, the long suffering soap on Sony has made it to the nominations for the ‘favourite drama on cable’ in the fifth edition of the Cable...
Close on he heels of Zee-Asianet tie up, Vijay TV is getting its act together to face the competition. The UTV owned channel has tied up...
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) members met in New Delhi today to discuss the implication of the proposed Conditional Access Systems (CAS). Any propsoal that addresses...
Recreate Solutions, a media services company based in London and Mumbai, has won three overseas contracts in interactive television programming. The company has signed on Canal+...
Media Futures, the media consulting wing of Lintas India, has been put in charge of formulating a strategy for ETC Music. The two year contract, says...
City eveninger Mid-day’s station becomes the third private FM player in Mumbai to go on air from today. Christened Go 92.5 FM, the channel will be...
Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra today hinted that the group is not immediately interested in starting a direct-to-home (DTH) TV service. “DTH is not as big...
Subhash Chandra, chairman of Zee Telefilms, one of the biggest broadcasting companies in India, today set the cat amongst the pigeons when he said that he...
CNN has invested nearly one million dollars to step up security and safety training for news personnel stationed in different parts of the globe. Responding to...
After going all out to jump into the Internet bandwagon, media companies are now hunting for people to head these ventures. Both the channels have given...
Columbia Tristar is banking on film property Spiderman to weave a web of magic in India. That the movie major’s expectations are high can be gauged...
The Showman – as Subhash Ghai is known – has found a buyer for his 15 strong movie library, a year after B4U failed to deliver...
The enabling provision giving the government powers to modify the The Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 to incorporate CAS raises questions which beg answers. Legislators...
The Union cabinet okay on 7 May to CAS, increasingly becoming synonymous with a Can of Assorted Sorrows rather than Conditional Access System, has compelled both...
The Hallmark channel is gallopping ahead if one goes by the annual numbers released by its parent Crown Media Holdings. Crown claims that its subscribers globally...
The Union Cabinet gave the go-ahead to bring about amendments to The Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 to allow the imposition of conditional access systems...
Ten Sports CEO Chris McDonald in a late night statement today denied that any negotiations were on between DD and Ten Sports for delayed telecasts of...
In a move timed to capitalise on the football fever on the eve of the World Cup, Discovery Channel has announced a series of documentaries about...
Ten Sports had announced earlier this week that it has the exclusive telecast rights of the FIFA World Cup and that state-owned broadcaster DD will be...
Indian information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Arun Jaitley said once again yesterday that the Broadcasting Bill is before the group of ministers telecom and IT convergence....
Chris McDonald has seen it all in sports television in Asia and India. He was one of the key senior professionals in launching sports TV services...
Indigenous comic strip character Chacha Chaudhary will come to life on Sahara TV from 13 May. Produced by Ketan Mehta’s Maya Entertainment, the simple, earthy Chacha...