MUMBAI: Mainland China and Taiwan are expected to export over 54 million broadband communication products in 2006 worth over $2 billion — up 55 per cent...
Mumbai: May 23rd, 2006: Britannia Industries Ltd, today announced the launch of ‘Marie Gold Doubles’ – an unique three layered Marie in a delightful double taste...
MUMBAI: Aasman se seedhe aapke ghar (straight to your home from the sky). This could well be the tag line for Tata Sky’s proposed DTH service,...
MUMBAI: CBS Corporation will be selling its Paramount Parks operation to Cedar Fair, L.P. for $1.24 billion in cash. The transaction is subject to customary conditions,...
NEW DELHI: A group of ministers (GoM) looking into a possible financial restructuring of pubcaster Prasar Bharati to boost its revenue generation capacity has said no...
MUMBAI: It was truly a Manic Monday for Dalal Street. For the second time in the indices’ history (the first being on 17 May, 2004), trading...
MUMBAI: Star India is beefing up its “response mechanism”, 7827 – the short code – to explore the burgeoning mobile entertainment market in the country. Starting...
MUMBAI: English movie channel Star Movies will air a three part sci-fi adventure mini series The Triangle this weekend. The show will air from 2 to...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati would soon be headless unless the government, too busy with other issues like reservation for backward classes in educational institutions,...
BANGALORE: Intel Capital, the venture capital investment arm of Intel Corporation, announced new Wimax (Wireless Interoperability for Microwave Access) investments today in Orascom Telecom Wimax Limited....
MUMBAI: Fremantle Home Entertainment (FHE), the home entertainment division of FremantleMedia, has scooped an award for the 2005 feature length film Punk:Attitude. FHE walked away with...
MUMBAI: Fremantle International Distribution (FID), the distribution arm of FremantleMedia, announced a raft of recent sales in the Latin American region as it kicks off its...
CANNES: The Adlabs Indpendent Producers Lounge is proving to be a hit of sorts. Located in the basement of the Palais des Festivals, it has been...
MUMBAI: Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) will be launching a total of 17 new and returning network series for the ’06-’07 season. This follows a year...
MUMBAI: Leading Indian post-production company for television and films Prime Focus is gearing up for its first Rs 1.15 billion equity issue in the primary market....
An NDTV special presentation The Two Year Mark airs on Sunday 21 May at 9:30 pm on NDTV 24X7. It takes a close look at the...
NEW DELHI: Politicians of all hues are coming round to the view that hidden cameras and “peeping tom” journalists need to be gagged. This was evident...
MUMBAI: R Russell Hampton Jr., has been named president of Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW). The announcement was made by Disney Consumer Products chairman Andy Mooney. Hampton...
CANNES: The Cannes Film Mart kicked off on 17 May at the French Rivera and one Indian distributor who was all smiles on Day Three was...
CANNES: Indian animation film maker Gitanjali Rao clad in a beautiful sari was accompanied in Cannes by her mother and designer K Muralidharan. Rao says she...
CANNES: At the Cannes Film Mart, the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) threw a producers networking party yesterday in the International Village. Attended by many Indians...
CANNES: What has Dharma Productions boss Karan Johar been up to? According to sources in Cannes, he has been having meetings with several distributors and directors...
CANNES: You have got to hand it to the guys from Goa. The entire team of the international film festival has winged it down to Cannes...
MUMBAI: Arbitron Inc. and CBS Radio have entered into a seven year agreement for Portable People Meter (PPM) radio ratings when the new audience ratings technology...
MUMBAI: Fox Interactive Media (FIM) has completed two acquisitions of early stage companies, Newroo Inc. and kSolo.com. Newroo has developed an intelligent tool that scans the...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd. (ZTL) chairman Subhash Chandra will be transferring his foreign holdings to an investment company in India. Under ZTL’s demerged restructuring into separate...
“What I have done is not what is interesting… what I will do next is what holds promise.” Gone are the times when the thought of...
MUMBAI: For one so flamboyantly outspoken – he once famously challenged nemesis Rupert Murdoch to a face-off in the boxing ring – Ted Turner’s departure from...
MUMBAI: The US-headquartered Amaru Inc., a global player in broadband media entertainment business, has secured a multi-year deal with Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) for video-on-demand...
NEW DELHI: The Rupert Murdoch-controlled News Corp.’s pan-Asian venture, Star Group, operating income grew 28 per cent year-on-year to reach almost $30 million, propelled by ad...
MUMBAI: Radio and Television Advertising Practitioners’ Association of India (RAPA) is all set to stage its 31st Annual awards for excellence on 20 May at St....
MUMBAI: Finally the launch date of the proposed national capital region (NCR) channel from the Aroon Purie-promoted TV Today Network has been firmed up (at least...
MUMBAI: Will it stay flat or will there be another fall? And how much longer will the annual highpoint event for television networks in the US...
MUMBAI: Aiming to tap any screen, MTV Networks launches 2006 MTV Movie Awards through various interactive platforms. The network has set up an interactive hub www.movieawards.mtv.com,...
MUMBAI: House of Commons leader Jack Straw said that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) newsreaders are paid too much. He mocked those journalists who ‘prance’ around...
MUMBAI: Media stocks crashed along with the benchmark Sensex Index which shed 452.80 points to close the day at 10,938. Pulled down by brokers who sold...
MUMBAI: Star Plus has slotted the BR Films production Viraasat in its 9 pm weekday primetime slot. The serial features Sangita Ghosh and Rohit Roy in...
MUMBAI: Nokia has won a GSM network expansion deal with Sichuan Unicom, a subsidiary of China Unicom. Under the agreement, Nokia will deploy its GSM radio...
MUMBAI: China is planning to launch digital cable television across the country this year. The country had tested the switch from analogue to digital through a...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney Co. Networks, ABC today claimed that over three million viewers have watched their online television shows, launched in May 2006. As part of...
MUMBAI: Rolland Virtual Business Systems Ltd. (RVBS) has launched an interactive game on the internet for Philips, the official sponsor of the Fifa Club World Championship....
MUMBAI: ESPN Software India has won its case against Pune’s biggest MSO Intermedia Cable Communication (ICC) for recovery of dues that go back to December 2004....
MUMBAI: Star One will be back on prime band location in cable networks across Mumbai following an agreement with operators. The channel was pushed into a...
MUMBAI: Spoofy! That’s how MTV India can be best described. After the latest spoof on Star World’s Rendezvous With Simi Garewal that gave birth to Rendezvous...
MUMBAI: Television Eighteen is entering the home shopping network (HSN) space which is already occupied by Subhash Chandra’s Asian Sky Shop and Hinduja’s Shop 24×7. The...
MUMBAI: Global market research company Synovate Pax’s survey results reveal that CNN’s audience growth across the Asia Pacific region out-paced all gains for the news genre,...
MUMBAI: In a significant online, offline and on-air partnership, AOL and Mark Burnett announced a partnership with CBS television to bring the online reality game Gold...
MUMBAI: Composers Harry Gregson-Williams and Earle Hagen were recipients of the annual BMI Film & Television Awards. BMI, the U.S. performing rights organization, honoured the composers...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks Asia Pacific president Nigel Robbins has announced plans to launch a wholly-owned and operated localised MTV and the re-launch of Nickelodeon as a...
Radio City 91 FM ne mara ‘chauka’ aamchi Mumbai mein Radio City 91 FM Mumbai celebrates its fourth anniversary with panache! * Join the festivities and...