The news does not seem too good. Today’s speculative leak that DD News is to be shut will come as a shocker to many. Especially to...
The only television serial on the life of Maharashtra’s warrior king Shivaji – off the air for the last two weeks due to a dispute between...
It’s all about the power of television. The four blind mice of American TV – ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC – are not scrapping with each...
Reports that there was a dispute between Star India and Balaji Telefilms over the Tamil reworking of the hit soap “Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi...
The winner takes it all is an adage that Star India is using to its advantage and how. The industry is bracing itself for another hike...
Some 63 of Star Plus’ shows figure in The Top 100 TAM ratings chart for the week ended 8 September 2001 for samples taken from the...
The toothless tiger is attempting to bare its teeth. The Indian Broadcasting Foundation – a representative body of a small but powerful interest group of...
It was a meeting that was most talked about – one that would help smoothen, ease and clear some of the issues relating to viewership ratings....
It’s a krackjack of an idea. Cookies (biscuits in India) and kids go together. Ditto with kids and Cartoon Network in India. The channel has an...
There’s a glut of daily soaps. Here’s another joining that rash. Choti Maa Ek Anokha Bandhan, a remake of the super successful Tamil soap Chithi (it...
Southern Spice is headquartered in Chennai and beams a mix of Tamil (40 per cent), Telugu (30 per cent), Kannada (10 per cent), Malayalam (10 per...
The alleged TRP scam has literally become a case of the right hand not knowing what the left is up to. Chaos reigned when the TAM...
National broadcaster Doordarshan and the Vietnam Television have entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in exchange and co-production of television programmes in cultural, educational,...
It’s been 10 days since business channel CNBC India, part of the Sony bouquet, “broke” a story that it had the complete lists of all the...
CNBC’s revelations on possible “rating fudge” are significant since priorities of television in India are set by Television Rating Points (TRPs). “Stunned”, “shocked” and “damaging” are...
In the aftermath of Tuesday’s horrific multiple terrorist attacks on America’s institution’s of military and financial might, literally all eyes have been and are on the...
A poll run on indiantelevision.com over the past seven days has revealed that industry believes that all is not okay with the ratings delivered by Intam...
The debate between the two CNN network heads lasted ten seconds. “Is it appropriate for us to use the phrase America Under Attack on the screen?”...
Swar Ratna – Shri Sudhir Phadke, the doyen of Marathi light music, is one of the most popular music directors and singers of our time. Born...
Digital multimedia technology will be a significant theme at Gitex 2001 to be held from 14 – 18 October, 2001, at the Dubai World Trade Center...
Horrific. Ghastly. Dastardly. Inhuman. Unbelievable. Catastrophic. Deadly. Words that have been used to describe the airplane attacks on the World Trade Centre I and II –...
BBC News 24 and BBC World began rolling live coverage of the terrorist attacks just before 2 pm yesterday, shortly after the first plane crashed into...
Today was the day after as national broadcaster Doordarshan’s Metro channel turned the clock back a year after HFCL Nine Broadcasting took up the three-hour prime...
The attack on Manhattan’s World Trade Centre Tower I and II and the Pentagon was timed to get maximum viewing audiences globally. 9 am in New...
Some 62 of Star Plus’ shows figure in The Top 100 Intam ratings chart for the week ended 2 September 2001. 19 shows each of Zee...
Zed Career Academy, which is a division of Zee Interactive Learning Systems, will offer the ‘Genius’ software course in conjunction with Sterling Infotech and Carnegie Technology...
TV France International (TVFI), a firm which promotes the production of French Television programmes abroad, kicked off the seventh edition of its international marketplace Le Rendezvous...
The ESPN School Quiz 2001 kicked off in Mumbai last Thursday at the Shanmukhananda Hall in central Mumbai with over 3,000 schoolchildren from 150 schools in...
The Media Research Users Council (MRUC), in its response to the controversy surrounding the leakage in television panel lists in Mumbai on Monday and subsequently in...
Channel Guide, which started beaming its test signals four months ago, was formally launched earlier this week at the Club in the northern Mumbai suburb of...
The latest TAM ratings are out. And the entire industry is agog about one revelation: not one of Zee TV’s new shows figures on the Top...
The latest TAM ratings are out. And the entire industry is agog about one revelation: not one of Zee TV’s new shows figures on the Top...
In a bid to stave off allegations about manipulation of its ratings, A.C. Nielsen conducted a validation exercise today. According to TAM chief L.V. Krishnan, the...
Star Plus continues to rule the roast in the latest TRP ratings released by A.C. Nielsen’s TAM service. 40 of its shows occupy the Top 100...
SET India CEO Kunal Dasgupta is in an angry mood. The reason: the overkill of the TRP for sale coverage on CNBC India. Dasgupta told indiantelevision.com...
Launching 24 September is a new sitcom from the Star India stable, fare somewhat different in flavour from that of the staple soap variety stock that...
ORG MARG and TAM Media Research today issued releases responding to industry concerns about the credibility of the ratings systems they have instituted: ORG MARG: 1)...
Star India’s long awaited direct to home (DTH) project has taken another step towards becoming reality and it has teamed up with consumer electronics and telecom...
It was way back in March that Sony Entertainment Television announced it was brewing its own unique version of reality television centred around cricket, whose driving...
The Laffaire TRPs for sale has raised a few questions. Even indiantelevision.com was at the receiving end of an anonymous docket yesterday evening containing the same...
Hours after business channel CNBC India put out a report casting doubts on the reliability of the ratings systems in India, reactions from the industry were...
Business channel CNBC India today broke a story casting doubt on the efficacy of television peoplemeters in India, saying it was “not foolproof, not confidential and...
National Geographic channel has lined up a special series on Africa as a part of its programming initiative. The eight-hour long compelling series premiers on September...
Telecoms minister Ram Vilas Paswan apparently got his just reward for increasing teledensity in India during his two year tenure and piloting the Communication Convergence Bill...
The bearded CEO of Sony Entertainment Television Kunal Dasgupta has a burning desire to take Indian television programming and entertainment globally. As CEO of a company...
Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has invited proposals from experienced producers and production houses for event-based television shows that will be made exclusively for Doordarshan’s National Channel....
Last Monday Zee Telefilms unveiled its new face to the world. Not exactly the best of times to fix an interview with one of the key...
Sony Entertainment Television is on the move. It was on 4 August that the channel started beaming in Australia on the South Asia Television platform along...
It’s all about geography after all. When in Greece do as the Greeks would do. Most international satellite television and cable TV channels have been going...
Tomorrow Sony Entertainment Television joins Star India and Zee TV as a completely pay-driven bouquet with its flagship channel becoming fully encrypted. The channel will...