NEW DELHI March 1, 2006 : CNN-IBN, a news and information channel being launched in India by TV18 Group Company’s Global Broadcast News (GBN) and Turner...
New Delhi, March 2006: adidas India Marketing Pvt. Ltd., the leading sports performance brand in the world, has launched the a3® Gigaride, a shoe that screams...
MUMBAI: In a significant move, US media conglomerate NBC Universal Television Group has signed a two-year, first-look development deal with Galn Entertainment. This is for the...
MUMBAI: US President George W. Bush’s visit to India will also bring to the country a large media contingent including some of the world’s top television...
MUMBAI: A slew of announcements made yesterday looks as if everyone wants in on the mobile TV bandwagon. Media conglomerate News Corp. owners of Fox TV...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC’s Governors have outlined proposed changes to their complaints appeals process and are inviting licence fee payers to comment on them during...
MUMBAI: It’s all about advertising sales. That is clearly the revenue story for England’s tour of India that kicks off 1 March. This is amply borne...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has anounced that the Winter Olympics is one of BBC Sport’s most watched interactive television applications. BBC states that 3.99 million...
MUMBAI: Sports marketing firm IMG has announced that TWI director William D. Sinrich, has left. David W. Checketts, a member of IMG’s board of directors, has...
MUMBAI: Viacom and CBS Corporation have announced their first financial results since the split of US media conglomerate Viacom. This earnings report deliver mixed results, because...
MUMBAI: TV news channel NDTV has launched a “Fight for Jessica Lal” campaign to garner support for a fresh trail in the ‘Jessica Lal murder case’...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC News had another win at this year’s Royal Television Society Journalism awards in the UK. Highlights included BBC News 24 winning the...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster ABC is going the sci fi route. It has picked up IDT Entertainments drama series Masters of Science Fiction featuring works from some...
MUMBAI: Taking the Theme Week series forward from 6-24 March, Discovery Travel and Living presents India-centric themes to enforce its positioning as a niche channel with...
MUMBAI: ITN reporter Dan Rivers has been appointed CNN’s Bangkok correspondent. He will be based in Thailand and report from the region for all of CNN’s...
MUMBAI: Red Bee Media has been contracted to playout the BBC’s High Definition (HD) technical trial that will run from mid-2006. The trial will be transmitted...
MUMBAI: The global distribution arm of FremantleMedia, Fremantle International Distribution (FID) announced the signing of a development deal with award-winning UK independent, Absolutely Productions. The deal...
MUMBAI: You’re Hired! FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide (FLW) announced a slew of UK multi-media deals for one of the most talked about reality series in the world,...
MUMBAI: BBC Showcase, which positions itself as the world’s largest international television market hosted by a single distributor, celebrates its 30th anniversary next week in the...
MUMBAI: Hyderabad-based Color Chips (India) Ltd is considering a global depository receipts (GDR) issue of up to $10 million to fund its expansion plans. “We are...
MUMBAI: BBC One is set to launch a brand new musical reality show Just the Two of Us, in which celebrities will team up with well-known...
MUMBAI: Samsung Telecommunication, one of the fastest growing handset companies with global leadership in design and technology, has finally started production of its GSM handsets at...
MUMBAI: BBC America has given Google the rights to premiere an episode from the third season of Footballers’ Wives. Media reports indicate that the first episode...
MUMBAI: Ahead of the Union budget session, Star News has lined up a bouquet of budget programmes. Star News brings forth a Budget Special — Ab...
The Lucknow police busted a racket running a fake television journalism college in Mahanagar this week.Aspiring TV journalists were promised with high-paying jobs in leading channels...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that it has selected BPO firm Capita as its preferred supplier for a ten-year HR services contract. The deal...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has appointed David Bainbridge to lead the marketing of its digital and new media services. Bainbride is currently YooMedia’s business-to-business arm...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster NBC has extended the sitcom The Office through 11 May 2006. The network will add an extra original episode plus other encore broadcasts...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan and the Prannoy Roy-promoted NDTV, amongst others, bagged the Commonwealth Broadcasting Awards 2006, which were announced today here. Other winners included...
MUMBAI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan (DD) will be using MediaSentinel to protect their content distribution in a three month trial program. DD would be among the first...
MUMBAI: Turner Brodcasting has announced that it has acquired the network premiere rights from NBC Universal for King Kong, with broadcast slated for 2008. TBS and...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation has petitioned the government to remove the disparity between the electronic and print media by seeking exemption from service tax...
MUMBAI: The Prannoy Roy-promoted NDTV Ltd is set to make its next big move in the news space by launching a news channel that will primarily...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster NBC has announced that it has upped the ante by raising the top prize money, along with contestants’ blood pressure, by half a...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC will air shows on the science behind and issues surrounding the hottest topic of the day – climate change. To launch...
NEW DELHI: NDTV Profit is poised to breakeven in slightly over a year’s time (NDTV Profit launched on 17 January 2005) even as its parent, NDTV...
MUMBAI: The International Advertising Association’s (IAA) India chapter kicked off its ‘International Indian’ series with Unilever Asia and Africa president and Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) chairman...
MUMBAI: A plenary session of the Frames convention which takes place from 22 to 24 March 2006 will look at the Future of Print Media as...
MUMBAI: Sahara One Media and Entertainment, at its board meeting held last Saturday (11 February), has cleared the way for the Times Group to pick up...
MUMBAI: Despite a history of hype and limited actual success in the 1990s, digital convergence has now become a reality in several countries. Deloitte’s Technology, Media...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that Top of the Pops – the world’s biggest and longest running music show – leaves the UK for...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster NBC and Mark Burnett who created the business based reality show The Apprentice have joined forces to create a promotion for the show....
MUMBAI: The BBC’s sitcom The Office, is about to cross the Channel to wow French audiences with their version of the show. Le Bureau has been...
MUMBAI: It was 19 January that Indiantelevision.com first broke the news that Global Broadcast Network (GBN), owners of English news channel CNN-IBN, were in talks with...
MUMBAI: Disney president and CEO Robert A. Iger announced the return of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to The Walt Disney Company by agreement with NBC/Universal, the...
MUMBAI: FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide (FLW) has partnered with UK’s Channel 4 to provide exclusive content for mobile and online platforms for the new comedy series, The...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC’s famous children’s property Teletubbies celebrates ten years of existence next year. In this television show for babies, the four colourful Teletubbies...
NEW DELHI: In a survey of Global Indians, commissioned by BBC World, 57 per cent respondents feel India will overtake China in the next 10 years...
MUMBAI: The US President George Bush has submitted a budget to Congress that proposes fiscal year 2007 funding for the media regulatory body Federal Communications Commission...
MUMBAI: The action oriented AXN has announced that the forensics crime drama CSI: Miami is growing in popularity. AXN says that the third season of the...