MUMBAI: Walt Disney International president Andy Bird today announced the appointment of Stanley Cheung as the managing director of The Walt Disney Company (China). In this...
MUMBAI: Disney Channel will bank on movies to drive family-viewing audiences. “We will be telecasting 60 movies a month. We have already dubbed 130 movies. The...
MUMABI: Nick as part of the channel’s local initiative drive is launching on 18 December Dum Duma Dum, an international game format show. The show will...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney, which launches in India on 17 December, will make available its two channels in local languages, a move seen to widen its appeal...
MUMBAI: Probably when Rakesh Roshan concieved his big screen ‘cutsie’ star, Jadoo, he didn’t quite realise that small screen would lap it up with such a...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network is going from strength to strength. One of the new shows lined up for next year is Dragon Tales. At the start of...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney Company (India) has put in place the regional distribution team for its television channels, but is yet to hire a national head. The...
MUMBAI: If you want to capture the kids segment effectively, then you have to speak in a language that they understand best. Realising this Pogo from...
MUMBAI: Ahead of the Pogo Amazing Kids Awards next month, the sibling channel to leader Cartoon Network has announced the nominees for the Pogo Voice awards...
MUMBAI: Nielsen//NetRating has reported that web pages viewed by kids ages 2-11 grew the most as compared to other demographic groups at-home in the US. The...
MUMBAI: Barbie doll’s first-ever musical feature film, Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper, will debut on Cartoon Network in the ‘cartoon theatre’ section on 21...
MUMBAI: Crest Animation Studio’s Pet Alien – the 26-epidode 3D animated television show for US-based Mike Young Productions – has been approved for worldwide broadcast on...
MUMBAI: The animated spinach-powered sailor man, Popeye celebrates his 75th birthday this year with his first-ever 3D animated adventure, Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy. In...
MUMBAI: Star World’s Britannia India’s Child Genius would be concluding with the all India finals. The search for the smartest kid will end on 14 November,...
MUMBAI: Nick will, as part of its big initiatives to combat competition from a flurry of kids’ channels in India, soon introduce a local Hindi version...
MUMBAI: Seems like K is not just popular with Star Plus, Doordarshan has launched a new daily Kkaanch from 1 November 2004. Produced by Raman Kumar...
MUMBAI: Hungama TV has acquired telecast rights for 10 Hindi movies from the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI). UTV’s kids channel will launch a week-long...
with the ‘festival of lights’ round the corner, kids channels across the board have lined up special programming blocks for their young viewers. With the Diwali season...
MUMBAI: Viacom Inc. and the Walt Disney Company have agreed to pay $1 million and $500,000 respectively to settle charges made by the Federal Communications Commission...
MUMBAI: Kids channel Nick has acquired rights to ‘Jadoo’, a famous character from the film Koi Mil Gaya, as part of its drive to expand local...
MUMABI: The Hungama TV kids’ hunt was conducted before beaming the channel. The talent hunt will be on air from 10 October at 6 pm. This...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network features the television premiere of the animated series Digimon Adventures. Digimon Adventures will be aired on 6 October. The show will be aired...
MUMBAI: Kids brand Nickelodeon is going from strength to strength in the US. It has announced an agreement with BMG Strategic Marketing Group. Through the alliance...
MUMBAI: For the second year in a row, Cartoon Network UK has teamed up with post-graduate animation students from the London Animation Studio at Central Saint...
MUMBAI: UTV expects to garner Rs 1.2 billion from its TV content production business in the current fiscal. “Movies will fetch us around Rs 75-80 crore...
MUMBAI: United Home Entertainment has acquired telecast rights to 40 movies for kids channel Hungama TV at over Rs 10 million. “The average acquisition cost is...
MUMBAI: The latest New Generations 2004 Cartoon Network kid’s lifestyle survey suggests that achieving good grades in school and staying healthy are the two most important...
MUMBAI: Hungama TV, the soon to be launched 24-hour Hindi children’s entertainment channel, promoted by UTV, is organising personality development workshop across 11 cities. The workshop...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney India has appointed Subhasis Mishra as the India human resources manager. Disney India’s managing director Rajat Jain made this announcement in an official...
MUMBAI: After the Sahara show Ruby Duby Hub Dub, Creative Eye is working on two more kids shows. This time the production house is making the...
MUMBAI: Even as Disney India is hiring professionals at all levels to help get its channels off the ground, Disney Asia has announced a top notch...
MTV Networks India could not have managed to rope in a better person than the research head of its staunchest rival in the country, to revive...
MUMBAI: Hungama TV has announced the 20 TV captains who will eventually “decide” the programming of the channel. Kids from Bangalore, Lucknow, Indore, Kolkata, Delhi, Pune,...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network and the Warner Bros. Television Group have plans for the preschool brigade in the US. The two companies have announced their first major...
NEW DELHI: Hungama TV, the proposed kids’ channel from the UTV stable, which would be distributed by Star, will be priced at Rs. 6 per subscriber...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney has scheduled the UK launch of its entertainment channel ABC1 for 27 September. ABC1 network will be a localised version of Disney’s ABC...
MUMBAI: Hungama TV has announced the results of the Captain Hunt held in Mumbai. The winners will represent the city in the grand finale to be...
Indian television, they said, was meant to be for all those women sitting at home wielding the remote. Where, oh, where then are the neat specimens...
MUMBAI: While the industry impatiently awaits an announcement as to who will be heading Disney in India, some news on what the three channels it is...
MUMBAI: It is hard at work trying to carve out a niche in India and it is as part of this effort that Nickelodeon is pushing...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Pogo, the Cartoon Network’s sibling kids’ channel from the Turner stable, has gone pay from 1 November. The monthly maximum retail price is fixed...
What are little girls made of? “Sugar and spice and all that‘s nice.” And little boys? “Frogs and snails and puppy-dogs‘ tails.” Most of us would...
MUMBAI: Hungama, the bilingual (Hindi and Tamil) kids’ channel floated by UTV and to be distributed by Star India, will begin airing by ‘a Sunday in...
MUMBAI: Catch them young! US-based Comcast Corporation is contemplating a network exclusively for kids. The cable giant is in an advanced state of negotiations with Public...
MUMBAI: In its bid to build the best team in the kids’ television space and build the Nick brand, MTV Networks India has managed its best...
MUMBAI: UTV’s to be launched channel for kids Hungama TV unveiled its brand identity today. Scheduled to be launched in August – September 2004, the 24-hour...
MUMBAI: Viacom’s kids’ entertainment brand Nickelodeon is all set to blow out the candles on its birthday cake. The channel is planning a grand 25th anniversary...
MUMBAI: SPE Networks Asia today announced plans to launch the highly successful anime channel, Animax, in India on 5 July. The dedicated Animax South Asia feed...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company board meeting couldn’t spring any surprises. The embattled chief executive officer Michael Eisner got a breather as the company’s board of...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network is gearing up for the summer holidays and how! The kiddies channel promises a ‘toonriffic’ summer by premiering three new shows – Archies...

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