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MUMBAI: Hallmark US has announced that it will air its original movie The Water is Wide in January 2006. It is based on the autobiographical book...
MUMBAI: Ketan Mehta promoted Maya Entertainment Ltd, a leading computer animation and visual effects studio for film and television in India, has received a third round...
MUMBAI: Discovery Asia will produce a series of biographies of prominent Taiwanese personalities in association with Taiwans Government Information Office (GIO). The initiative is called Portraits:...
MUMBAI: This piece of news signals further consolidation happening in the satellite industry. The world’s biggest satellite operator SES Global will buy New Skies Satellites (NSS)...
MUMBAI: UK broadcaster The BBC has published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU). This is the first step in the process...
MUMBAI: The world’s most valuable media company Google will be giving some musical artists the star treatment by spotlighting links to their songs, lyrics and other...
BANGALORE: Show me the money! It may not be much just yet, but the signs are certainly encouraging for ESPN Star Sports’ Indian hockey initiative. In...
MUMBAI: Telecommunications major Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) has been chosen as the network administrator for one of the world’s largest and sophisticated trans-continent cable systems-SEA-ME-WE4...
MUMBAI: Preparations for Arianespaces next Ariane 5 flight are entering their final phase as the missions dual-satellite payload is integrated at the Spaceport in French Guiana....
MUMBAI: The Kitchen, the US-based language customisation company, has observed that the demand for dubbed formats of telenovelas is presently on the rise globally. Unlike the...
MUMBAI: Fremantle International Distribution (FID) is set to return to the floor at NATPE 2006, bringing with it a raft of world-class factual titles. The announcement...
NEW DELHI: Asked by a young guy on a chilly December Thursday evening what was the secret of making money and leading a good life, pat...
MUMBAI: Inspired by the good show Bollywood has put up this year, the Hero Honda 12th Annual Star Screen Awards 2006 is being planned in a...
MUMBAI: When football fans in Germany enjoy the matches of the 2006 Fifa World Cup on giant screens, SOS Children’s Villages will benefit too. Infront Sports...
MUMBAI: Adlabs Films Ltd is seeking shareholders’ approval, by way of postal ballot, to borrow money up to Rs 10 billion. The company has recently raised...
MUMBAI: Reed Business Information (RBI) Asia has announced changes in the management and editorial teams of Television & Entertainment Group (TEG) with the departure of publishing...
MUMBAI: SYS-Con Events, which produces i-technology conferences and expos, will host the first internet TV conference. The event, Internet TV Conference & Expo 2006, will take...
NEW DELHI: E-City Ventures, part of the $5 billion Essel Group, which is promoted by Subhash Chandra, today announced a Rs 2.5 billion expansion of business...
MUMBAI: The second editon of the on-going Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), organised by the Dubai Media City, was attended by Viacom chairman and chief executive...
MUMBAI: Al Jazeera International, the 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel has appointed Amanda Palmer to head the entertainment department. Palmer will write, produce and...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC is marking the first anniversary of the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004 with some specially commissioned programming. On Radio 4, the...
MUMBAI: BBC World has been recognised with a special award for excellence in news at the Hot Bird TV Awards, the pan European ceremony to recognise...
MUMBAI: Sunday Telegraph associate editor and former Financial Times financial editor, Robert Peston, has been appointed as the BBC’s new business editor. He takes up this...
MUMBAI: WorldSpace the satellite-based digital radio services has unveiled its new logophone, an audio signature of the company’s broadcast identity phrase, ‘WorldSpace Satellite Radio’. The exercise...
MUMBAI: Cablevision Systems Corp. and Sesame Workshop, have launched Sesame Street Games, a new subscription interactive games service featuring the Muppets from Sesame Street available to...
NEW DELHI: The telecast rights of the Commonwealth Games 2006 have been bagged by pubcaster Prasar Bharati, beating competition from a pay TV operator that had...
MUMBAI: Russia Today has resumed broadcasting after a day’s disruption . It presents round-the-clock news about Russia in English. The channel had stopped broadcasting on 12...
MUMBAI: Al Jazeera’s English-language satellite news channel service has inducted Elizabeth Filippouli as their Doha news anchor. With the aim of servicing the international audience, the...
MUMBAI: CBS and UPN have teamed up with mobile entertainment provider Ampd Mobile to bring television programming related content to the Ampd members broadband enabled wireless...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC did well for itself at the Royal Television Society’s prestigious Technology Awards a few days ago.The RTS Technology Awards seek to...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has said that the terms of a committee looking into the financial restructuring of pubcaster Prasar Bharati has been extended till...
MUMBAI: Crown Media, which owns and operates Hallmark US has said that it has been approached by several parties regarding the acquisition of Hallmark. Earlier this...
MUMBAI: The Delhi High Court today asked Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to place on record its decision to invite fresh tenders for...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd company secretary and ETC Music business head Vikas Gupta has resigned. He will be ending his seven-year tenure at Zee Telefilms when...
MUMBAI: Digital music brand Napster has launched its digital music service across Germany. Napster Germany positions itself as the first and only subscription music service available...
MUMBAI: Australian television firm Seven Network and Yahoo have announced that they will combine their online, mobile and IPTV enterprises in Australia and New Zealand. The...
Mumbai, December 21, 2005… LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd., the leading consumer durable company in the country, has achieved a landmark turnover of Rs. 2100 crores...
MUMBAI: Australian cricketer Shane Warne who is considered by some to be the best leg spinner of all time has been awarded the accolade of BBC...
MUMBAI: Radio satellite service provider WorldSpace has announced that it recently passed 100,000 subscribers globally – reinforcing the company’s execution against its business plan through the...
MUMBAI: The “S” word is back in the news. Thankfully though, this latest sting has no sex and sleaze quotient but purports to expose corruption in...
BANGALORE: Yahoo! Music, the Internet’s number one site for music content, and Nvidia Corporation have announced “Yahoo! Artist Mods,” a new program that lets consumers create...
MUMBAI: US kids brand Nickelodeon has acquired GoCityKids, an online city directory and resource for families. The GoCityKids website allows parents to search for activities that...
MUMBAI: International media company Dori Media International (DMI) has announced that it has signed an agreement with Indovision, Indonesia’s first Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) provider, to...
MUMBAI: Turner Sports in the US has announced a new long-term agreement with motorsports organisation Nascar to air six consecutive races per year on Turner Network...
MUMBAI: British Telecom (BT) has announced deals with three entertainment companies, BBC Worldwide, Paramount and Warner Music Group. The agreements bring the launch of BT’s TV...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC’s commercial arm BBC Worldwide has announced the appointment of BBC Head of Entertainment Group, Wayne Garvie, as its new director content,...
MUMBAI: International media company Dori Media International (DMI) has announced that it has signed an agreement with Indovision, Indonesia’s first Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) provider, to...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster CBS’s shows CBS News, CSI, Survivor, David Letterman and Entertainment Tonight are coming to Verizon Wireless V Cast phones in the US this...
MUMBAI: AOL and Telepictures Productions have launched TMZ.com. This is on-demand entertainment news network on the web.The site features video news segments, interviews and articles, photos...
MUMBAI: Viacom has acquired Hollywood studio DreamWorks SKG for $1.6 billion, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Viacom and its studio division, Paramount Pictures, signed...
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NEW DELHI: Hamdard Laboratories gathered a cross-section of India’s achievers in New Delhi on Friday, handing out the Hakeem Abdul...
MUMBAI: For decades, creative storytelling has been the cornerstone of brand communication. The “big idea” amplified through catchy jingles, striking...
MUMBAI: Zepto has elevated Ahmad Muneeb to vice president – HR centre of excellence, placing him at the helm of...
