Zee Telefilms’ open offer for 20 per cent additional stake in ETC Networks at Rs. 31.52 per share opens today. This follows the Zee’s acquisition in...
The Hallmark Channel is making a thrust into expanding its programming library. The network has appointed Kirstine Layfield to the newly-created position of senior vice president,...
From 1 May, etc channel will be introducing a new five-minute capsule called Bollywood Birth Marks devoted to Hindi film celebrities. etc will be telecasting birthday...
CNBC India continues to be the leader among news channels, a company release states, quoting weekly AC Nielsen TAM Viewership ratings for four weeks ending March...
The Intelsat 903 satellite was successfully launched aboard an ILS Proton K/Block DM launch vehicle last Saturday 12:25 EST. According to an official release, the satellite...
The divorce rumours have been buzzing like bees for some time now. That Star India and news content provider the Prannoy Roy-headed New Delhi Television Ltd...
If it’s Friday India’s stock markets must crash has almost become a given ever since Yashwant Sinha presented his “dream budget” end-February (and two weeks prior)....
Continuing CNN’s restructuring exercise, Bruce Dover has been named managing editor CNN Asia Pacific, it was announced today by Ian Macintosh, senior vice president, CNN International,...
MediaCom, the independent media division of Grey Worldwide, has recently released the third edition of the MediaCom Ready Reckoner, a nationally compiled database. The MediaCom...
After a barren period, channel launches appear to be again happening. In the offing is a new digital Telugu regional language channel – Maa TV. The...
Zee Telefilms said on Tuesday that it had shelved plans to float a $200-million American depository receipt (ADR) issue, to fund its proposed expansion, at least...
On 27 March the Zee Network took its music channel Zee Music digital. However, the process was not all that simple. The network had to do...
TV Today Network executive director G Krishnan is no stranger to television. A print media professional for nearly 14 years, he was in charge of a...
The countdown has begun for the launch of India’s long delayed Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) tomorrow from Sriharikota, India’s spaceport 100 km north of Chennai...
Zee Music, the 24 hour “Indian Hindi family Music Channel” went digital today while remaining a free to air channel. The decision to turn digital...
CNBC India and Aaj Tak from the India Today stable, both quoting AC Nielsen TAM data, have separately come out with figures showing their respective channels...
Star India, which in January was reported to have in place the blueprint for its DTH operations, appears to be having second thoughts after the government’s...
Sri Adhikari Brothers Entertainment (Sabe) TV has recently modified its logo keeping its Hindi speaking audience in mind. “We slightly changed the design and added...
First there was cine heartthrob Hrithik Roshan on Star’s Rendezvous With Simi Garewal. Now Sony has gone two up, and lined up three shows about Tinseltown’s...
In a bid to get rid of some of the negative publicity that its association with Bharat Shah has got it, the B4U Television group has...
Responding to growing viewer demand, Cartoon Network will expand to a 24-hour television service effective 1 July 2001, it was announced today by Ian Diamond, senior...
Zee News, which has secured exclusive rights to the full transcript of the explosive Tehelka tapes, will be screening the tapes beginning Thursday, industry sources confirmed...
The Star bouquet of channels, which has been blacked out in Kolkata due to a continuing dispute with cable operators over subscription fees, should be back...
Following up on the launch of Star Plus and Star News channels in the United Kingdom and Europe, Star has charted out plans to extend the...
If sources in the industry are to be believed, Zee News has secured exclusive rights to the full transcript of the explosive “Tehelka tapes” which has...
Zee Interactive Learning Systems Ltd (ZILS), in a pioneering effort which integrates video and television with the interactive capabilities of the Internet, today announced the launch...
Star India, which announced a new Rs 30 monthly price tag for its bouquet, effective 1 March, has from Thursday begun an “educative ad campaign” on...
CNBC India on Thursday announced the launch of ‘The Maverick’ series – another addition to its portfolio of on-ground properties. The inaugural event will feature Jeff...
Game shows are losing their fizz. Star’s Kaun Banega Crorepati’s viewership has been slipping. Zee’s Sawaal Dus Crore Ka came and went without a by your...
It was another wild day at the bourses today, with the Bombay Stock Exchanges Sensitive Index (Sensex) swinging through the day in a 24 per cent...
Reports of a concerted backlash from across the country to the 1 March increase in Star’s subscription rates appeared unlikely on Monday, with company officials confident...
The post-budget blues of India’s stock exchanges continued today with Mumbai Stock exchange’s Sensex breaching the 3800-mark as banks entered the fray to sell the shares...
The Seven of the top 10 programmes among the music based channels are blaring from the stables of etc, a company press release said on Thursday....
The Zee Telefilms stock has seen a lot of activity over the past two days. Positive for a change. Compared to the 15 million or so...
POW (Prisoner of War), Zee TV’s foray into the brave new world of reality TV, draws its inspiration from the British produced show Jailbreak, which aired...
The fear was palpable. As trading closed on the Bombay stock exchange a chill went down the spines of media related executives as the rumour gathered...
Zee TV on Monday laid down the gauntlet to its rivals and announced the commissioning of India’s first ever Reality TV show. Announcing the launch of...
Programming head Sameer Nair had let it slip some time in December last that Star might at some point consider taking its Kaun Banega Crorepati gameshow...
Zee Telefilms will be continuing with its millennium broadcast on 31 December. This is despite the collapse of the Los Angeles-based Millenium TV Network (MTN) in...
Sony Entertainment Television on Sunday, 11 March, premiers a new legal drama, Your Honour. ‘Your Honour’ looks at the legal system and addresses issues like...
ESPN Star Sports has acquired the Asian cable and satellite rights to the FIA Formula One World Championships for 2001-2005. Rik Dovey, ESPN Star Sports...
Viacom Incorporated, which has been toying with the idea of setting up operations in India to give its channels other than MTV a push, has left...
MUMBAI: The Star Network on Tuesday announced its new subscription package of RS 30 per month. A company release said the hike worked out to...
MUMBAI: The fizz has consistently being going out of Indian media shares on the stock exchanges. And today saw them hitting the depths. Zee Telefilms touched...
Cable operators and control room owners in the western Indian state of Maharashtra are on a collision course with the state government threatening to terminate services...
Instead of politicians dancing to popular tunes it was people who were dancing to politicians' tunes last Friday when leaders from different parties participated in a...
MUMBAI: Finally, some news that should be sweet music for B4U, which has been facing the rough end of the stick following the recent arrest of...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television is premiering a new serial, Hum Pardesi Ho Gaye on 4 March at 9:05 pm, according to a company release. Shot extensively...
ETV Marathi is running 30-minute specials as part of its coverage of the Union Budget. The specials, which began airing on 21 February will continue till...
Sanjay Dosi, CEO Balaji Telefilms Ltd, on Friday categorically ruled out any moves on the part of his company to start an entertainment channel. “The...