Hum Saath Aath Hain, the daily comedy on Star Plus, gets an addition to the cast in the form of Ketaki Dave. The vivacious and talented...
ETC Networks approved the issue of fresh equity to Zee Telefilms on preferential basis at an extraordinary general meeting held on Tuesday. The members of ETC...
In order to ensure complete integration of various divisions of Star Network and facilitate the growth of the channel’s new business ventures fresh recruitments to senior...
News Corp had a 49 per cent stake in UTV prior of selling a 12 per cent stake off to Warburg Pincus which already held 24...
Zee Telefilms’ is set to enter the English movies and English general entertainment segment with its two channels Zee Movies and Zee English which are slated...
Mumbai is facing a round of cable rivalry and war. Reportedly, underworld kingpin Chhota Rajan has reportedly being threatening the former minister of state Ramdas Kadam...
Rupert Murdoch landed in his private jet at Mumbai’s Sahar International Airport with his entourage a short while back. Special arrangements were made at the airport...
The Hinduja-run cable TV service IN CableNet today denied allegations about the pressure tactics used by them in the Sion-Matunga-King Circle area in Mumbai that made...
Nimbus Communications is on an expansion spree and has set aside RS 2 billion for this purpose. As part of the expansion plan Nimbus will be...
Zee Interactive Learining Systems has announced two tie ups involving the Bombay Stock Exchange and Electronic Data Systems. ZILS claims to have invested Rs. 500 million...
Numero uno Hindi entertainment channel Star Plus has claimed an all time high prime time channel share of 24, as per market research agency AC Nielsen’s...
Zee TV is pulling out all the stops to increase its visibility at the ground level. To this effect it has announced a unique talent contest...
Alpha Marathi has announced the commencement of the serial 405 Anandwan. Producer, director and writer Pratima Kulkarni was behind the highly successful Prapancha which ran for...
In India reality show Fear Factor may be running on AXN without a hitch but in America it has created a storm. The American Humane Association...
Come Monday and Star Plus will tickle the funny bone with Krishna Sharma – C.A. Yesterday producers Cinevistaas Ltd. and Contiloe Films Pvt. Ltd. announced the...
Don’t fiddle too much with a formula that works. Star India and UTV keep these parameters top of the mind in the making of Bhabhi, a...
While the talk around Zee Telefilms is whether AOL Time Warner will acquire a strategic stake in Subhash Chandra’s company, the media baron seems to be...
No one seems to be knowing this piece of wisdom better than Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra. The doughty businessman is fighting back. And how. Over...
It has been a marriage a long time in the making. Sony Entertainment Television (SET) India and Discovery Networks International (DNI) announced yesterday a distribution alliance...
Star is unwilling to give up its hold over the 9-10 pm band. Even as Sony’s top two soaps, Kkusum and Kutumb continue to inch their...
The Indian television industry would just not be what it is today without the women who have helped shape it. Karuna Samtani, who headed programming at...
Sony Entertainment Television suffered a setback today after the courts ruled against it in a copyright violations case. According to the court ruling, Taal Communications, promoters...
MTV India chief Alex Kuruvilla has dismissed the report in Business Standard, which stated that non-resident Indians disgruntled with the channel’s performance in India had pulled...
Indian television has not been able to boast of many gorgeous women. And when the few that are, disappear from the small screen, it invites curiosity....
Television and the Internet are the only media that have consolidated their reach in India in the period between December 2000 and June 2001, according to...
The year that was in television 2001: it was a year of upheaval for the Indian television industry. A year that was characterised by: *deflating ad...
MUMBAI: Continuing on its strategy to stand out as a “relief channel” SABe TV is introducing new programming concepts. SAB Chalta Hai is a one-minute comedy...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment’s programming strategy is clear. Keep launching new shows at regular intervals and make sure the shows are consistently different. The 9 to 10...
The television, ad and allied industries swear by them, swear at them, but cannot do without them. Televison ratings, indispensable to the media world when it...
The Forum of Viewers with Disability, a wing of the Centre for Advocacy and Research, has recently released a study of TV viewing habits of people...
We promised you more on her, and here it is… the second part of the interview with the young UTV creative director Monisha Singh. In the...
Chitraarth is one of the first directors to have patronized television in India way back in 1985. His Wah Janab, which launched Shekhar Suman and Kiran...
In order to ensure complete integration of various divisions of Star Network and facilitate the growth of the channel’s new business ventures fresh recruitments to senior...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Agrani Convergence Ltd (ACL), the retailing arm of ASC Enterprises, an Essel Group company that operates telecom, information technology & learning, media & entertainment products and...
The soap brigade has elbowed its way into the top position in the 9 to 10 pm band as well. The waning KBC has helped Sony’s...
If Saanjhi can do for Zee what Saans did for Star Plus, the beleaguered channel may have reason to smile. After Saans, Palchhin and Sonpari,...
MUMBAI: Two new television public service announcements (PSAs) that discourage ethnic stereotyping of Arab and Muslim Americans have been released. This is a joint effort between...
The malaise of executive departures, which has hit other broadcasters such as Sony Entertainment, and Zee TV, seems to have made it to Star India’s doors...
Mountain-biker, long-distance runner and traveller – AXN Asia managing director Todd Miller seems to extend the action aspect of the channel he runs to his out-of...
Crown Media Holdings, Inc. has announced the issuance of $265 million of 6.75 per cent subsidiary trust preferred securities and contingent appreciation certificates in a private...
It‘s a reality show that‘s been unfolding behind the Indian TV screens for quite a while now. While the booming industry makes strides on the technology...
Controversy notwithstanding, Sabe TV will go ahead with the scheduled telecast of the Zimmedar Kaun? episode featuring the hawkers-Bombay Municipal Corporation fracas tomorrow at noon. Sabe...
Yesterday Zee Telefilms and Turner International India (a 100 per cent subsidiary of AOL Time Warner) announced a joint venture with Zee holding a 74 per...
For the flagship channel of the Star network, it could be a tall order retaining a hold on audiences in the 9 PM slot after 9...
Zee Telefilms Limited and Turner International (India) Private Ltd, an AOL Time Warner Company, today announced an agreement to form a joint venture company, Zee Turner...