Further to a preliminary agreement reached in December 2000 with Philips Royal Electronics, Thomson multimedia has recently announced the acquisition of the Professional Broadcast businesses of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MUMBAI: Close Up Antakshri, the successful game and entertainment show from Zee TV which completed its 400th episode this week, has just added another feather in...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms, in continuance of its efforts to have a presence in south India, is launching on Friday a 24-hour Tamil television channel, Bharathi. ...
MUMBAI: Its official now. Star has declared war on Sony Entertainment Television and the viewers will get ringside seats as the two channels fight it out...
Antakshri, the successful game and entertainment show from Zee TV, completes its 400th episode next week and Zee Telefilms is using the occasion in its earthquake...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television CEO Kunal Dasgupta is in a fiery mood. Just back from power packed meetings with senior Sony Pictures Entertainment executives in Los...
MUMBAI: The news is out and it continues be good for Sony Entertainment Television as its gameshow “Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke” (JCPK) completed three weeks on...
Noted TV and stage actress and Mumbai Doordarshan’s most loveable Marathi newsreader of yesteryear, Bhakti Barve Inamdar, died in an accident on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway around...
Zee MGM is marking Valentine’s week from 12 February to 18 February with a line-up of Hollywood’s best that should appeal to movie buffs as well...
MUMBAI: Bournvita Quiz Contest (BQC), the name the name that immediately comes to mind when we think of quizzing for school students, will air its 350th...
MUMBAI:Sony Entertainment Television’s CEO Kunal Dasgupta may have said that he didn’t plan for his gameshow Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke (JCPK) hosted by Bollywood laugh riot...
An ongoing study of the coverage of the general elections by satellite television channels, conducted by the Viewers’ Forum, the audience research boyd of the Centre...
MUMBAI: Star’s bouquet of channels, which had been off air in the Delhi region for MSO Siticable’s subscribers since 24 January, began beaming again on Thursday...
Five new soaps and a handful of in-house produced shows. That’s the first of Zee TV’s artillery as it starts its offensive against Star Plus and...
MUMBAI: The numbers are in for “Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke” (JCPK), the gameshow from Sony Entertainment Television hosted by Govinda, and they couldn’t have been better...
The third quarter results of media baron Subhash Chandra’s Zee Network are out and they were quite clear on one front. That it was time for...
Officials in Star Television and the Zee group affiliated MSO Siti Cable made conflicting statements on Thursday a day after a row over Star’s channels being...
The lack of standardisation of entertainment tax as applied in various parts of the country has been a sore point for a long time now. This...
The Star TV network is having a grand party in London on Thursday to celebrate the launch of the Star Plus and Star News channels in...
It looks like Amitabh Bachchan and his blockbuster Kaun Banega Crorepati will finally have some competition. The eagerly-awaited game show of Sony TV, Jeeto Chappar Phaad...