MUMBAI: FremantleMedia has appointed Simon Spalding to the newly created position of director of operations for Asia Pacific. Spalding, previously FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide (FLW) CEO, will...
MUMBAI: Television channels on the web! That is what UK’s pubcaster BBC will be making available to consumers. In a significant development, the BBC has decided...
MUMBAI: Star News has claimed that its shows including Khabar Din Bhar, Poll Khol and Sansani has brought the channel impressive ratings and thus helping it...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate News Corp has dropped its plans to broadcast in China through a local partnership due to increasing government resistance to foreign influence in...
MUMBAI: Midday Multimedia Ltd informed the National Stock Exchange that T Rowe Price International, Inc of Singapore has picked up close to 2.19 million shares or...
MUMBAI: New Delhi Television Ltd will hit the foreign investment cap of 26 per cent, if two investments which are pending government approval take place. NDTV...
MUMBAI: One key area of coverage for any news channel is the war zone. However what effect do the horrors of war have on journalists reporting...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate News Corp has said that its chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch received a salary of $4.5 million and a bonus of $18.9...
MUMBAI:Mehta, who is a qualified chartered accountant (CA), is known for her indepth understanding of the stock markets and her ability to draw links and trends...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced the appointment of Etienne de Villiers as the independent chairman for the BBC’s Commercial Holdings Board (CHB) following a rigorous competitive selection...
MUMBAI: As CNN, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc celebrates the network’s 25 years, it has announced the launch of an aggressive, multi-dimensional marketing campaign...
MUMBAI: US network NBC has discontinued the legal reality series The Law Firm it launched last month due to low ratings. Reportedly, the programmes second episode...
NEW DELHI: The initial public offering of HT Media Ltd (HT), which controls Hindustan Times newspaper published from several cities, received an overwhelming response from the...
MUMBAI: On 25 July 2005 the BBC Radio 4 in partnership with the National Gallery, launched a poll to find the greatest painting in Britain. Voting...
NEW DELHI: The Aroon Purie-promoted TV Today Network today formally launched its third channel, Tez, as a flanking strategy to provide headlines news in Hindi. Additionally,...
MUMBAI: Zee News continues to pack its anchor team with personalities from diverse fields. This time, for a show featuring young parliamentarians, the channel has roped...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has appointed Darren Childs as the MD of BBC’s global TV channels. He is currently Sony Pictures Television International senior VP. He takes...
MUMBAI: The third channel from the the Aroon Purie-controlled TV Today Network ‘Tez’ will be inaugurated by the I&B minister Jaipal Reddy on 22 August around...
MUMBAI: Homes, motoring and food categories have once again boosted the sales of BBC Magazines in the UK. Titles such as Top Gear, the local version...
MUMBAI: A News Corp affiliate in China is currently under investigation over its leasing of satellite television channels in the country, says a Wall Street Journal...
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Video has released the VCDs and DVDs of the film Dus. The movie stars Abhishiek Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Zyed Khan, Suniel Shetty, Shilpa Shetty,...
MUMBAI: Nine months after The Times of India Group and BBC Worldwide formed a joint venture WorldWide Media (WWM) for magazines the first new magazine has...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster ABC News’ veteran anchor, Peter Jennings, has died at age 67. He had announced in April that he was suffering from lung cancer....
MUMBAI: AB Ravi, founder editor of USP Age, will be joining CNBC-TV 18 as consulting editor – special projects on 15 September. Ravi is...
MUMBAI: The World Challenge – a global competition in partnership with BBC World, Shell and Newsweek which seeks to highlight and reward outstanding examples of community...
MUMBAI: American media personality Martha Stewart will welcome 16 candidates into her conference room when US broadcaster NBC’s The Apprentice: Martha Stewart kicks off next month...
MUMBAI: New Zealand’s pre-eminent Pay TV operator Sky Television has launched China Central Television’s 24-hour English language news channel, CCTV-9. The five-year old news...
MUMBAI: Channel 7 has signed a licensing agreement with NumTV.com, one of the largest web portals in the world, marking the channel’s availability on broadband worldwide....
MUMBAI: In a bid to stem the outflow of talent from the organisation, the Prannoy Roy promoted NDTV has elevated a few key professionals, including Barkha...
MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18’s renowned anchor and FICCI Woman of the Year 2005, Shereen Bhan explores secrets of the greatest and most eminent personalities of the India Inc....
NEW DELHI: Even as a group of ministers (GoM) deliberate on a draft of the revised uplink norms, various arms of the government differ on the...
MUMBAI: Malayalam news channel Indiavision will soon have a sibling in a youth-oriented entertainment channel. Indiavision Satellite Communications, promoters of Indiavision, is targeting an October launch...
MUMBAI: News is here to stay and the market still has the capacity to absorb new entrants in a sector that has been witnessing explosive growth...
MUMBAI: Corporate raider and financier Carl Icahn met with executives at media conglomerate Time Warner a couple of days ago. He will continue to have talks...
MUMBAI: Star News launched a new show on 16 August titled Khabar Filmi Hai, which will report exclusively on the latest in the world of films....
NEW DELHI: Enthused by the overwhelming response, CNN today announced the third edition of the CNN Young Journalist Award (CNN YJA) in India, having added a...
MUMBAI: Starting 20 August for six weeks, BBC World will telecast a seires of golf tournaments. The series will also cover the careers of some leading...
MUMBAI: In a bid to strengthen its online business media conglomerate News Corp is believed to be looking to acquire search engine Blinkx. Media reports state...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster ABC has entered into an agreement with mobile content provider Proteus. The deal will allow viewers to personalise their mobile phones with premium...
MUMBAI: BBC Swahili and the BBC’s international charity, BBC World Service Trust, have launched a Swahili language website. It aims to break down taboos and myths...
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s founding father Mohd. Ali Jinnah is in news again in India. Zee News, a leading Hindi news channel, announced the telecast of India’s...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster CBS has announced that it will publish a new quarterly magazine celebrating the best in televised entertainment, news and sports, as well as...
MUMBAI: Two BBC research scientists have been awarded the best technical paper prize at this year’s International Broadcasting Convention (IBC). The prize has been won jointly...
MUMBAI: Star News has claimed that it has shot up to share the top position with Aaj Tak, fuelled by a spurt in viewership in Mumbai...
MUMBAI: The cat is out of the bag. Not content with dubbing Aaj Tak the country’s subse tez (fastest) channel in promotional activities, the Aroon Purie-controlled...
CNN will present a documentary Taming the Beast: Inside the War on Cancer. The documentary is scheduled to air on 13 August at 3:30 pm. The...
MUMBAI: The Associated Press has named J Eric Braun, a veteran television executive and new media expert, to be vice president and managing director of its...
MUMBAI: Sahara Samay vice-president Prabhat Dabral, who has been managing the network’s national channel Sahara Samay Rashtriya, now has editorial functions added to his portfolio. Dabral...
MUMBAI: The BBC board of governors have published the findings for their Programme Complaints Committee for the period 1 January to 31 March 2005 and for...
MUMBAI: Fourteen national broadcast companies across the Asia-Pacific region have decided to launch a co-production initiative to raise awareness about the global rish arising out of...