After the promotional big bang that was Band of Brothers, HBO’s $ 120 million epic miniseries, the premiere English movie channel kicks off the new year...
A five-year service tax holiday and waiver of customs duty on broadcast uplinking equipment figured prominently in the entertainment industry’s pre budget pitch to information &...
With the spat between ESPN Star Sports and Hinduja Group MSO InCablenet set to be thrashed out in court, the channel has decided to take its...
The Subhash Chandra owned Zee Telefilms has again landed into equity problems. First it was the earth station at Noida where Zee had planned to uplink...
With cable operators in Mumbai taking a decision to pull the plug on ESPN-Star Sports for three days, the ESPN Software India management has issued a...
The Hindi entertainment television sweepstakes is hotting up and Sahara TV aims to be very much there on the viewerscope. After November’s launch of four new...
In less than three months, the Indian government will permit 26 private TV channels to uplink locally, if I&B minister Sushma Swaraj is to be believed....
Convergence India has over the years been the destination where cutting edge technologies have been unveiled. New technology in communications are on show. Exhibitions India presents...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which according to its satellite launch partner Arianespace was to see the lift-off of its latest generation satellite Insat-3C on...
Last night at 9 pm it was EPSN Software which took the decision to switch off the transmission of both ESPN and Star Sports to one...
The Subhash Chandra-owned Essel Group issued a press release this evening announcing that its promoters and the promoters of Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) are poised to...
Cable TV MSO InCable says it does not want to indulge in a trial by media following the switching of the transmission of ESPN-Star Sports channels...
January 18-19 saw a major seminar happening in Mumbai. Indian and international marketing gurus met and discussed how to make children watch more TV and spend...
Within a week of asking cable TV operators to refrain from relaying Indian satellite channels, the Pakistan Telecom Authority has re-allowed transmission of five Star TV...
Doordarshan is shedding its image of a do-gooder pubcaster that has always scored the lowest on the vulgarity and violence front. Beginning tonight, the national network...
The first act in what is expected to be a major battle between broadcasters and cable operators was set in motion today after ESPN Software India...
Zee group promoter Subhash Chandra appears to have cleared outstanding dues to Zee Telefilms from what was remaining to be paid of the Rs 2200 million...
MUMBAI: In what is an indication to the consolidation that might happen in the news space in Indian television, two TV news stations are talking to...
MUMBAI: Zee Cinema is in a for a complete programming shake up with the recent acquisition of 16 new movies to its library. So is Zee...
Cable Television Laboratories has announced that it has finalised the OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) software specification. Called OCAP 1.0, the specification enhances the ability of consumer...
With polls to four states scheduled for next month, the Election Commission has issued a warning to television channels (including national broadcaster Doordarshan) to be impartial...
ESPN Star on Friday unleashed ambitious programming plans for the year, even as cable ops in the country gear themselves to protest against the revised subscription...
‘Broadband Outlook 2002: Vision, Strategy, Implementation’, to be held in Washington on 23 January, aims at exploring cutting-edge trends in broadband business, policy, programming and technology....
For all Indian radio FM wannabes, Mumbai is the jewel in the crown. And Radio City, the Star India-backed station, is hoping to see services being...
Prasar Bharati seems to have taken criticism by the parliamentary committee on information technology on its poor marketing efforts seriously. For, its new baby DD Bharati...
Zee Café, the 24-hour premier English entertainment channel brings The Orange County (OC) twice a week, Friday and Sunday nights at 9:30 to 10:30 pm. only...
Vivek Agnihotri is one of the most modern minds in the Indian entertainment industry today. An advertising and Harvard background have laid the foundation for a...
If it works, it could well be the coup of the decade for the Indian film industry. In all likelihood, however, the deal between the cable...
Aaj Tak, the 24-hour news channel, is reaping the rewards of the hard work put in the year gone by. Helped along by events that pushed...
Television Eighteen India Ltd, co-promoter of CNBC India along with CNBC Asia, at its extraordinary board meeting today cleared the way for the issuance of preferential...
BBC has indefinitely postponed the telecast of its innovative reality show Commando, which was to debut on the channel in the first week of January. The...
Zee Telefilms, which has seen its position in the channel stakes further eroded in recent times and is currently wallowing in the No. 3 position, is...
Celebrates Army Day with special programming that resonates with the sounds of the Indian Army WorldSpace Satellite Radio, one of the world leaders in satellite-based digital...
The India Today group’s TV Today flagged off its 24 hour Hindi news channel Aaj Tak on 31 December. The channel was launched by Law, Justice...
The battle between Mumbai’s cable operators and ESPN-Star Sports is entering another phase. Cable operators are believed to have met the information & broadcasting minister Arun...
Fifty-something Prabhat Dabral may not look like an archetypal head of a clutch of news channels, but this former Doordarshan man has managed to climb to...
Eutelsat, one of the world’s leading satellite operators claims to have finished 2001 by clocking up over 1,000 television channels on its satellites. In 1983 channels...
Exactly a year ago on 31 December, 2000, 24-hour Hindi news channel Aaj Tak was launched by India Today Group. Today, the channel claims to...
The 29 December deadline for payment of license fees by private FM radio players in metros has been extended by eight months, costing the national exchequer...
As war rhetoric beams ever louder, Pakistan on Saturday issued orders to all cable TV operators in the country to stop relaying broadcasts of Indian satellite...
Yesterday music channel Channel [V] unveiled a new face – Pooja. She hosts her own brand new half-hour talk show What Women Want. Women celebrities from...
B4U Music has completed directing and producing the Desi Boyz' new video Teri Galiyon Mein. The band's current album is called Desi Boyz.com. The song in...
The Gauls are coming to your drawing room. For the first time in Indian TV history, Asterix and his band will regale generations weaned on the...
When Zee TV announced its relaunch in August group broadcast CEO Sandeep Goyal had stated that what the Indian viewer wanted in the shows that she/he...
On New Years Eve Star Movies will show Enemy of the State with Will Smith and Gene Hackman. The film will be shown at 6:30pm with...
The 29th edition of the American Music Awards will be shown live on Star World on 10 January at 6:30 in the morning with a repeat...
There have been reports that television channels are ushering the new year on a low key note. Notwithstanding this Sony Entertainment Television's Max, which positions itself...
CNBC India has instituted the equivalent of the Oscars for the Indian automotive industry. The annual awards will reward excellence in car manufacturing in India and...
For those tired of the eternal “saas bahu” tangles, there’s good news from the action front. AXN claims that two of its reality shows currently being...
Reliability in the peoplemeter system is what the industry is crying for and US-based Arbitron Inc. is promising just that. It has successfully completed the first...