MUMBAI: The appetite of Indian banks for investing in private FM radio business has begun. IDBI Bank and Bank of Baroda have picked up 10 per...
MUMBAI: Endemol has announced a deal to buy back Endemol France from parent company Telefónica. Endemol has valued the transaction up to 450 million euros. Of...
MUMBAI: With conditional access (Cas) coming into effect in certain areas of Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi, the net reach as well as market share of all...
MUMBAI: Apple is moving steadily towards its aim of changing the way consumers view entertainment in the digital arena. The company’s founder and CEO Steve Jobs...
MUMBAI: Rive Gauche Television SVP sales Dorothy Crompton, has announced that its slating out a catalogue of reality and documentary programming to international broadcasters at Natpe....
MUMBAI: Zee TV is sprucing up its primetime offering with the launch of a new weekly show titled Maayka Saat Zindagi Bhar Ka at 8:30 pm....
MUMBAI: A bridegroom kidnapped for a marriage, a wedding held at gunpoint. That is the broad plotline of Ghar… Ek Sapnaa, Sahara One’s new show which...
MUMBAI: European IT provider Fujitsu Siemens Computers has launched its new range of entertainment PCs. the aim is to immserse th consumer into digital entertainment. The...
MUMBAI: One of infotainment channel Discovery’s biggest shows of the year focusses on Planet Earth. It kicks off on 1 February 2007 and airs every Thursday...
MUMBAI: Sony Electronics says that it is continuing its transformation into an entertainment powerhouse. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas it has a 100,000...
MUMBAI: Paving the way for King Khan to make his grand re-entry onto the small screen with Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC), Star Plus is rejigging its...
Saregama, India’s oldest music company, is in makeover mode. Having slipped into the red with a net loss of Rs 211 million in the nine-month period...
MUMBAI: As part of its restructuring strategy, India’s oldest music company Saregama is increasing its digital presence. The RPG Group firm is launching an entertainment portal...
MUMBAI: UK production house Celador Productions, which developed the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? format, has completed the first stage of a management buyout led...
MUMBAI: Viacom veteran Bob Bakish has been appointed president, MTV Networks International (MTVNI), reporting to Bill Roedy, who will retain oversight of MTVNI in addition to...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks (MTVN), a unit of Viacom has announced a new global digital media executive team. The central team will provide strategic guidance to the...
MUMBAI: JumpTV Inc. (www.jumptv.com), broadcaster of ethnic television over the Internet, has announced that the company has ended the year 2006 with 254 channel partnerships, is...
MUMBAI: From random puns, one-liners, funny gags to spoofs on saas-bahus and stand-up cts spiced with an urban topical flavor… Star One presents a spanking new...
MUMBAI: Jokes, one-liners, satires, rib tickling comedy and much more… get ready as The Great Indian Laughter Champions ‘Dwitiya’ gears up for some entertainment with none...
MUMBAI: NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, and CyberLink, a world leader in digital home software solutions, have partnered to integrate NDS...
MUMBAI: It has taken quite a while but media research agency Tam has finally got its Elite Panel up and running. This latest value addition for...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment played Santa Clause to kids during the recent festive season. The exciting and fun-filled ‘Open Season’, the first animation film from...
His father wanted him to be a doctor, but he chose science as his discipline in college. Within a short time, having done his graduation from...
MUMBAI: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) which will host the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards has announced a raft of celebrities as presenters for the...
MUMBAI: Pay TV technology firm NDS has completed the acquisition of 100 per cent of the share capital of Jungo. Jungo provides residential and business gateway...
MUMBAI: Asian American television network ImaginAsian TV (iaTV) in the US will launch a new two-hour primetime anime block Anime EnerG. The block will feature anime...
MUMBAI: After a long stint of over six years with ESPN Star Sports (ESS), Dilip Jayaram has decided to move on. He will be spearheading Procam...
MUMBAI: Vijay TV Garnier Fructis Jodi No 1 has announced reel life couple Prem and Pooja as winners. The show on the Tamil channel owned by...
MUMBAI: In line with its plans to ramp up the programming Nick has launched two shows – Go Diego, Go! and Perman in India. While Go,...
MUMBAI: After announcing the launch of Antakshri, Star One now is all set to launch Idea Ek Se Badhkar Ek a countdown show premiering on 30...
MUMBAI: After Star One’s announcement of stepping into the musical wagon with Antakshri, Zee TV is launching Titan Antakshari in a brand new avatar from 5...
MUMBAI: After creating programming in genres from reality to dance and comedy to drama, Star One beginning February 2007 will launch Antakshari – The Great Challenge....
MUMBAI: Channel [v] will be airing a Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy special presentation on 29 December at 5 pm. This half hour special on the band...
MUMBAI: Zoom has been primarily associated with Page 3 content on and around celebrities. But now the non-fiction lifestyle and entertainment channel wants to become broadbased...
Subhash Chandra is betting big on his cable TV business. Wire & Wireless Ltd (WWIL), the demerged entity of Zee Group, plans to invest Rs 7.14...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Limited (Zee), is using advanced CVR 550 multiformat standards converters from Snell & Wilcox to expand its direct-to-home offering. Twelve new CVR 550...
MUMBAI: With season four of Bindaas’ cult show, ‘Emotional Atyachaar’ completing 50 well-received episodes, the channel is all set to telecast a mini-series titled ‘Shaadi Mein...
MUMBAI: Pan Asian music broadcaster Channel [V] is heating up Asia’s concert scene with a series of live concerts to be staged in Hong Kong, Malaysia...
MUMBAI: VH1 Mobile has launched Mobile Junk 20, a new mobile application that lets users capture and upload mobile video for potential inclusion in episodes of...
MUMBAI: Zee Network has tied up with Media Overseas, subsidiary of Canal+ Group, for the launch on their multi channel satellite pay-television platform, for three of...
MUMBAI: More than 70,000 music fans attended the [V] Power Concert in Taipei, the large-scale outdoor music event organized by Channel [V] Taiwan and presented by...
MUMBAI: Subhash Chandra couldn’t have hoped for a better start to the first day’s trading of Zee Telefilm’s demerged entity. Zee Entertainment Ltd, which also temporarily...
MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM has entered the Limca Book of Records with its radio film Kuch Kuch Sunta Hai. Earlier this year the radio station...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Limited (ZTL) today said that the demerged shares of the company would start trading on the stock exchanges from 18 December. This follows...
NEW DELHI: Sony Entertainment Television has announced its latest soap Kulvadhu, to be telecast from 25 December. The soap will air Monday to Thursday at 8:30...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks (MTVN), a unit of Viacom has announced the formation of a Global Inclusion Strategy advisory committee. Drawn from across MTV Networks’ brands and...
MUMBAI: The last month of 2006 will see a competition brainstorm happen amongst existing Hindi movie channels, with the audience having a delightful array of choices....
MUMBAI: Channel [V] has announced the toppers of VJ Freshers – Batch of 2006. Neil Bhoopalam from Mumbai and Tanveer Gill from New Delhi graduated as...
MUMBAI: While its electronics division is in trouble one area where Sony has been doing really well in is in films. For the first time in...
Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, Inc. senior vice president and general manager Ian Diamond is gearing up for the challenge. He realises Walt Disney is in aggressive...

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