The rise and rise of the media stocks continue. The last few days has seen Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Telefilms scale new peaks. Today it was Subhash...
On the balance, the first half results of the Zee Network (of which Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) is a part) are not something worth shouting about....
After a number of postponements, Zed TV, the education channel from the Zee TV group is to be launched on 12 October. The channel is being...
Zee TV has pulled off the curtain on its Sawaal Dus Crore Ka game show format. For starters, the show will air at 8:30 pm three...
Sushma Swaraj does not cease to surprise you. The first statement she made after taking over as I&B minister was that she wanted TV to be...
Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms, which has been on the lookout for a strategic investor to Zee for a while now, plans to raise its overseas holding...
Urdu Television Network which has been beaming a test signal for the past three months is making its debut on 1 November. UTN is promoted by...
Star TV made a lot of hulabaloo about how the network would crack down on any one trying to corner the limelight by riding on the...
When ZTL chairman Subhash Chandra brought in R.K. Singh as chief executive and created a caucus of senior executives like Deepak Shourie, Dev Naganand, Uma Ganesh,...
The winning is coming thick and fast. A student from the Bhiwandi township of Mumbai’s adjoining Thane district hit the jackpot becoming the first to take...
MUMBAI: When one looks at films, one genre that has grown in popularity on television has been the Hinglish film. Star Movies has enjoyed success in...
The star has fallen from the heavens. From Rs 1,600 plus to Rs 290-odd is a great fall over eight months, but that’s the drop that...
Content provider Nimbus Communications is making its moves – quietly but surely. The company says it will launch its long-talked about channel on the entertainment business,...
Media company UTV’s Singapore subisdiary is in talks with state-owned broadcaster DD to promote its online initiative, ddindia.com in Singapore. UTV Chairman Ronnie Screwvala says that...
Zee TV announced last week that the host of its Rs 10 crore show, Sawal Dus Crore Ka (SDCK), would be Anupam Kher. It made another...
Classic Hindi movie channel Star Gold, which was launched last month, is gradually clawing its way back into Indian viewers homes, thanks to a push from...
After Sony now it is the turn of Zee Television to announce new programming initiatives. In the press conference in Mumbai, Zee elaborated on its programming...
Zee Telefilms Ltd’s organic channel, in planning for the past couple of years, has finally been given a name-Chakra and is being readied for a lauch....
Rainbow Productions is riding the crest of the regional programming wave. The Calcutta-based production house churns out seven hours of programming daily. The programs include two...
Star Gold was launched with a lot of song and dance last month in Mumbai. The classic Hindi movie channel has, however, not received the kind...
Three new dailies from the Sri Adhikari Brothers stable will start beaming on Doordarshan Metro beginning 30 April. A bi-weekly thriller, produced by SABTNL, will start...
Looks can be deceptive…take for instance, the just-over-a-year old media company- K Sera Sera’s managing director Parag Sanghavi. Although Sanghavi looks like a pucca Delhi babu,...
The momentum certainly seems to be building. For direct to home (DTH) telecast in India that is. The latest news emanating from the capital indicates that...
Six months after former Sony Entertainment International president Michael Grindon initiated a “rightsizing exercise” in Sony Entertainment Television that swept away a number of high profile...
Subhash Chandra’s Zee Network’s plans to launch a separate encrypted beam for markets in the Middle East, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal under the Zee International banner...
Subhash Chandra’s Zee Network’s plans to launch a separate encrypted beam for markets in the Middle East, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal under the Zee International banner...
After Hum Paanch, comes another comedy from the Balaji stable on Zee. Kitne Kool Hain Hum, if the hoardings all over Mumbai are to be...
Its Sridevi, finally. After letting rumours that Bollywood top glitter would stud forthcoming Sahara TV programmes permeate the industry, the channel has finally zeroed...
After a Gujarati and Punjabi channel, RiTV will launch a 24-hour Marathi channel during this fiscal year. The channel will however steer clear of the current...
Show them the money. That is precisely what Zee group-promoted Playwin Infravest is doing. A total of Rs 60.15 million was handed out in the third...
Show them the money. That is precisely what Zee group-promoted Playwin Infravest is doing. A total of Rs 60.15 million was handed out in the third...
The past few weeks have witnessed some hectic lobbying for easing up of the bug bear clauses as far as DTH regulations are concerned. Star TV...
Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd, at its board meeting today, approved the increase of authorized capital from 10 million equity shares having face value of...
The verdict is out. The hopes and hype surrounding the Indian entry to the 74th Academy Awards ensured Star Movies a viewership for the live event...
The Playwin buzz is catching on. The Essel group promoted online lottery fever is spreading through Mumbai city, if the success of its print campaign in...
The Playwin buzz is catching on. The Essel group promoted online lottery fever is spreading through Mumbai city, if the success of its print campaign in...
Doordarshan has rechristened its regional channel, DD-Marathi to ‘Sahyadri’. The renaming ceremony took place today at 4.00 pm and was telecasted live on the channel. The...
Channel Guide India Ltd informed the Bombay Stock Exchange today that the company board has decided to issue 2 million equity shares of Rs10 each at...
The year of the game show. The year will be remembered specifically because this programming genre was the buzz of activity. It all started with the...
The battle royale among the broadcasters to gain a greater share of viewership has witnessed an increasing activity in the last few weeks. With Star Plus...
Spreading its wings internationally. That is what Subhash Chandra’s Zee Network is in the process of doing. Four Zee channels – Zee TV, Zee News,...
He seems to have got his charge’s act together this time. After a disastrous Roosevelt-type 100-hundred day relaunch of Zee TV, group broadcast CEO Sandeep Goyal...
He seems to have got his charge’s act together this time. After a disastrous Roosevelt-type 100-hundred day relaunch of Zee TV, group broadcast CEO Sandeep Goyal...
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...
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...
Entries are invited for the Asian Television Technical & Creative Awards 2002, Asia’s only region-wide awards programme that recognises the efforts and talent of the broadcast,...
Entries are invited for the Asian Television Technical & Creative Awards 2002, Asia’s only region-wide awards programme that recognises the efforts and talent of the broadcast,...
Taking over at a time when issues like the conditional access loomed large over the pay channels’ horizon and Sony Entertainment’s tom-tomming over the cricket World...
Zee TV is quietly putting together some fresh programming ideas that it hopes will connect with audiences that have yet to take to what the channel...
Is it the precursor to a parting of the ways? Maybe, maybe not. Raghav Bahl’s Television Eighteen India Ltd declared today that henceforth it would be...