Four days into Zee Television’s journey to reinvent itself and the news is good for the Subhash Chandra-promoted channel. According to Partha Sinha director-marketing Zee...
That’s Life! It took all of 14 years of litigation for the rights of the popular eighties comedy Yeh Joi Hai Zindagi to finally land with...
SABe TV, the Hindi entertainment channel promoted by the Adhikari brothers, which had announced a new programming schedule earlier in the month, will introduce the new...
Faced with mounting losses at home because of declining interest in its theme parks and a slump in ad revenues entertainment and media giant Walt Disney...
After a long while in which Sony Entertainment seemed to be in hibernation while the Zees and the Stars did all the running, the channel today...
Kaun Banega Junior Shaktiman, a contest idea that that Mukesh Khanna, actor-producer of the popular Shaktiman series on national broadcaster Doordarshan, has been trying to get...
MTV Asia announced today that the inaugural MTV Asia Awards (MAA) will be held in Singapore at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 2 February, 2002. The...
Cartoon Network has announced plans to introduce a new programming franchise Toonami with the unveiling of two feature-length Indian made 3D animation shows: Pandavas – The...
In the western Indian state of Maharashtra the Ganesh festival is huge. And this year the Marathi language channels have tried their levellest to outdo each...
The long awaited Communications Convergence Bill 2001, which has far-reaching implications on how the media industry is to be run in India, is expected to be...
Come 1 November, TV studio owners, editors, animation and graphic artists are going to be headed towards Mumbai’s World Trade Centre. The reason: the eleventh edition...
MTV India threw cold water today on a recent report that it was seriously considering a proposal by the Hinduja-owned INCablenet whereby it would be able...
Star has announced that its Star Movies channel has signed an output deal with DreamWorks Distribution to acquire the exclusive pay-television rights for 40 DreamWorks SKG...
MUMBAI: You can’t miss the eyes. Splashed across hoardings in the city a mysterious woman, revealing only her forehead and eyes, asks: “Kaun hoon main (who...
The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), which on 24 August is launching a campaign to increase confidence in Indian advertising on television and print media,...
Zee Interactive Learning Systems Ltd, the multimedia education subsidiary of Zee Telefilms, is currently in the middle of a major drive to increase awareness around its...
The Hallmark Channel, using the platform of the popular programmes like Sesame Street, Scholastic Clifford and Caillou on its Kids Block, has teamed up with well-known...
Just under three months after Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra announced he was looking to induct an international media major as strategic partner, the field for...
The predominantly music-based etc, quoting market research agency Intam figures, has claimed the top spot in the music channel stakes. According to Intam figures for...
Zee TV today announced it was ready and willing to take on the best that Star had to dish out while unveiling the relaunch of the...
Subhash Chandra is likely to square the remainder of the amount that is to be paid back to Zee Telefilms Ltd by offloading about 7.5 million...
A little over a month after media baron Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms Ltd, announced its promoters had placed 5 million shares with a U.S.-based institutional investor,...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) and Astro, its Malaysian Pay TV Partner, have reached an agreement to make available exclusive coverage of the English Premier League soccer...
To promote its new blockbuster movie ‘Planet Of the Apes’ 20th Century Fox has tied up with popular music network MTV International as its only global...
It’s been a year and ten months since the Viacom-owned kid’s channel Nickelodeon entered Indian air space but it might as not have come at all...
Raman Kumar needs no introduction. He is one of the most successful personalities on the tube today. Indeed personality would be the right way to describe...
It’s not just cricket series that SET MAX, the movies and cricket channel from the Sony Entertainment stable, is lining up for viewers. Launching tomorrow, every...
Participants also got an insight into the legal aspects of scriptwriting from Film Writers’ Association’s Rajendra Singh, who spoke of the problems faced by Indian scriptwriters....
Yet another family drama targeted at the Indian housewife (or should that be North Indian housewife) hits the small screen today with the launch of “Kangan”...
Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) Television was in the process of working out a plan to increase ad sales for the French channel Fashion TV CEO Rajan...
ESPN Star Sports yesterday introduced an Asian version of the popular sports news show Sportscenter. SportsCenter will be Asia’s first live half-hour sports news programme...
B4U Networks has terminated its distribution deal with Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) blaming it for what it says is the surreptitious manner in which the channel...
Sports in India means cricket, cricket, and only cricket. To the world at large however there is far more to sport and that is what ESPN...
Rajan Shahi has directed just two serials independently. And already both of them have left a strong mark on the much cluttered idiot box. Dil Hai...
One of the recurring themes in the just-concluded Enter Media 2001 conference organised by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) in Mumbai was the issue of...
Watch out Femina Miss India, there is competition on the horizon. The Zee Network has announced plans to foray into one as yet unexplored arena –...
National broadcaster Doordarshan has invited fresh sealed tenders to market and distribute DD-World and DD-News channel in the UK and rest of Europe on the DTH...
National broadcaster Doordarshan, in its efforts to give impetus to its own sports channels, is looking for fresh sports programmes and inviting proposals from producers under...
The battle to gain control over the cellular service market is getting hot. To face competition from MTNL’s Dolphin and Hutchison Max, BPL Mobile has entered...
The The convergence bill may be a long way away but it was very much on the radar screen as the two-day Enter Media 2001 conference...
The battle for the No 4 slot in the general Hindi entertainment channel sweepstakes is hotting up. Sahara TV has refocused itself and is readying for...
Television software major TV18 came out with miserable results showing the down turn in media sector. The Net profit has gone down by more than 69...
Star Group Limited and UTV announced in Chennai today the formation of a joint venture which will oversee Tamil regional language channel Vijay TV. Star has...
As ad spend becomes increasingly more difficult to access, channels are having to innovate to make sure the ad rupee goes as long a way as...
The Entermedia 2001 conference kicked off in Mumbai’s western suburb of Andheri today with the issue of addressability forming the core of discussions at the session...
The two-day Entermedia 2001 conference was flagged off today in Mumbai by chief minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh who announced that the state government would not...
The sports television juggernaut rolls on. Come 15 August 2001, ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) broadcaster is going to launch two new services Star Sports Southeast Asia...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) and Hong Kong pay-TV operator Cable TV have reached an agreement for non-exclusive distribution of ESPN and Star Sports channels in Hong...
Star India and Ronnie Screwvala’s UTV are set to formalise a deal to hand over control of the Tamil language channel Vijay TV it owns to...
Business news network CNBC Asia has incorporated cellular phone short message service (SMS) into its programming. Viewers can now send questions and comments to analysts, market...