MUMBAI: The Tamil channels are really quick on the uptake. Within a few days of release, some of the big ticket Tamil New Year movies have...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has announced a deal with Ascent Media Group (AMG) and HP to convert its film and television content into digital form....
MUMBAI: Mediacast, the European exhibition and conference for Global Content Everywhere business and technology takes place from 10-15 May 2005 in London. The conference will focus...
MUMBAI: Consumer technology prices in Asia dropped significantly between 2003 and 2004 despite recent concerns about increases in commodities prices used to manufacture these goods. GfK...
MUMBAI: With more than 60 per cent of US households expected to have high definition television (HDTV) sets in 2005, the demand for HD production equipment...
MUMBAI: GV Films Ltd. is planning to acquire an international TV channel and raise up to $300 million in overseas markets either through issue of global...
MUMBAI: Now you can download legally from the Internet. The BBC, Channel 4, the British Film Institute (BFI) and the Open University (OU) have launched the...
BANGALORE: A division bench of the Karnataka High Court comprising justices AM Farooq and AB Hinchgeri passed an interim order on a petition by AV Amarnathan,...
MUMBAI: NDTV today confirmed that managing editor Rajdeep Sardesai and CFO Sameer Manchanda have put in their papers. Both Sardesai and Manchanda, who had been given...
MUMBAI: The Raj TV-India Today combine is back with one more debate with the topic this time being Towards Sustainable Solutions for Tamil Nadu’s Water Crisis....
MUMBAI: ETC Network Ltd informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) today that the company will hold a board meeting on 21 April. The board will consider...
MUMBAI: Star News will broadcast an exclusive interview with Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf today. This interview will be broadcast on 15 April at 11:30 and the...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s attempts at using the Internet as an alternative means of delivering content to its viewers in the UK is gathering steam. The broadcaster...
MUMBAI: To bolster network coverage of Africa, CNN recently made two key appointments. Lagos, Nigeria, bureau chief Jeff Koinange assumes the newly-created role of Africa correspondent,...
MUMBAI: The Bengali new year, 15 April, has good news for, who else but, Bengalis. A proposed Bengali channel from the ABP Group-Rupert Murdoch combine is...
MUMBAI: NDTV managing editor Rajdeep Sardesai is all set to turn into an entrepreneur. A proposed start-up, led by him, has already been assured of funding...
MUMBAI: In its first time qualifying for Beta’s benchmark Beta Brand Identity Survey, the National Geographic Channel not only swept virtually every category in the mid-size...
MUMBAI: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is looking at focusing at the Internet space with renewed vigour. In a meeting with the top American editors of various...
MUMBAI: The BBC has launched, on Thursday, the next stage of the sale process for its commercial subsidiary BBC Broadcast Ltd (“BBC Broadcast”). The sale is...
MUMBAI: NDTV’s chief of bureau in Mumbai Sanjay Singh has decided to quit and will be joining the Times of India group’s proposed news channel in...
MUMBAI: The 2005 MTV Movie Awards will take place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on 4 June. The event adds a twist to...
MUMBAI: Sony has tapped Vijay Koshy to head its English channels AXN and Animax in India. He has replaced Rohit Bhandari who earlier this year was...
MUMBAI: Jill Dougherty has been appointed CNN international managing editor for the Asia Pacific region. She will be based at the network’s regional headquarters in Hong...
MUMBAI: US broadcast network TNT held its upfront presentation for advertisers a few days ago at Madison Square Garden in New York. Turner Entertainment Group president...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s attempt to create further awareness about its radio service in Pakistan has paid off. Around 10,000 people took part in the BBC Urdu...
In the 1980s, when Anurradha Prasad, a jeans and T-shirt clad twenty-something journalist, went to cover Parliament proceedings, senior print journalists looked upon her rather curiously...
MUMBAI: NDTV, which launched the business channel NDTV Profit along with the 24-hour news channel NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India, has decided to go the pay...
BANGALORE: Internet connections would increase from 5.45 million in December 2004 to 18 million by 2007. By this time, broadband connection is targeted to touch nine...
MUMBAI: The protest in the US against outsourcing is getting louder and angrier. A few days ago US employees of news organisation Reuters protested the outsourcing...
MUMBAI: Star India has clarified that it supports industry’s stand on self-regulation and some parental control as far as content regulation is concerned. Making his stand...
MUMBAI: American media organisation Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has announced that it has named Sally Preston as Martha Stewart Living Magazine senior VP and publisher. Preston...
MUMBAI: Some new parting shots from the leading Hindi news channel Aaj Tak of TV Today network. Sahara news group, which is on a poaching spree,...
MUMBAI: MSN Video which provides streaming video content online, and IFilm a video entertainment destination on the Web, are joining forces to deliver IFilm content to...
MUMBAI: MGM has announced that a consortium comprising Sony America, Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Comcast and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners has completed its acquisition...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has stemmed its declining radio audience in India, according to an independent audience survey. The survey was commissioned by BBC World Service...
MUMBAI: Discovery Communications has announced it has created a consolidated global new media group to leverage the strength of its distinctive real-world media and entertainment brands,...
BANGALORE: Manufacturers Association for Information Technology (MAIT) conducted a National Seminar on Wi MAX (Worldwide interoperability of Microwave Access) New wave for Broadband Connectivity, in Bangalore....
BANGALORE: A division bench of the Karnataka high court, comprising justices A M Farooq and A B Hinchgeri, reserved its orders on Tuesday on a petition...
MUMBAI: Sansani, the daily crime show on Star News has completed 100 episodes. The channel claims to have redefined primetime news on Indian television. The crime...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Government today gave another extension of six months to news and current affairs channels to reduce foreign holding to 26 per cent as required...
MUMBAI: A few days ago in a raid carried out in two stalls near Andheri Station in the Mumbai suburb, the anti-piracy team of Shemaroo Video...
MUMBAI: The live entertainment industry in India is still evolving. However Indian event managers have shown their capabilities in successfully managing national and international events. On...
MUMBAI: The Banff World Television Festival, which is a global hub for those wanting to network with television’s hottest commodities, has announced a stellar lineup of...
MUMBAI: BBC World will be the official broadcast partner of the 2005 Global Travel & Tourism Summit for the second consecutive year. A high-profile event attended...
MUMBAI: TAM India will be presenting three papers at the WAM conference in Canada this June. This comes close on the heels of TAM’s success at...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide director joint venture and new channel development Olga Edridge will exit the corporation by the end of May. A seasoned journalist, Edridge oversaw...
MUMBAI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) today announced the launch of an India chapter in what it said was a part of...
NEW DELHI: In what could be considered a moral victory for Zee Telefilms; a division bench of the Madras high court today passed an interim order...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-controlled Zee Network, India’s largest vertically integrated media company, today announced that it would “soon launch” an English language global news network...
News channels are changing and how! When Sony’s plain Jane Jassi turned into a television temptress, NDTV India’s cameras went behind the-scenes to capture this metamorphosis....