MUMBAI: What better way to attract traffic to a movie channel than to get more movies on board! Star Movie’s master plan for the year 2004...
MUMBAI: It is awards season time for the American film and television industries. The American Film Institute (AFI) has chosen what it considers to be the...
MUMBAI: Subhas Ghai-promoted Mukta Arts may pick up equity in Arab Venture Corporation (AVC), a Dubai-based company which has a studio and is planning to launch...
MUMBAI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) chairman Marcel Fenez today announced that Home Box Office Asia (HBO) CEO Jonathan Spink has been...
MUMBAI: My favourite singer is Britney Spears! It was a ‘horrorble’ and a ‘Colourblind’ event last night as MTV held the second edition of its awards...
NEW DELHI: In an official release issued to Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) today, New Delhi Television (NDTV) has asked FIIs, NRIs and all persons resident outside...
MUMBAI: Channel [v] will introduce [v] Launch Pad as part of the Mumbai Festival celebration. The talent hunt show will provide a platform to unearth the...
MUMBAI: Radio listeners in Kabul can now hear BBC World Service programmes in English 24 hours a day thanks to the launch of a new FM...
MUMBAI: The Asia Television Forum (ATF), Asia Film Market and Conference (AFMC) and Asia Animation (AAN), Asia’s foremost programming market where international sellers converge to network...
MUMBAI: The Mouse has set its price. The two Walt Disney channels, distributed by Star Group in India, will cost Rs 12 a month per subscriber....
MUMBAI: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has formally cleared the transfer of shares held by Indian residents in production company K Sera Sera to non-resident...
MUMBAI: News broadcaster CNN is looking to expand its news gathering capabilities in Asia. It will establish its first bureau office in Pakistan which will be...
MUMBAI: Nominations have been announced for the 47th edition of the music industry’s most prestigious event The Grammy Awards. The event takes place at the Staples...
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murdoch owned media conglomerate News Corp has named Jack Abernethy as Fox Stations CEO. Abernethy previously served as Fox News executive VP. The...
MUMBAI: It’s now official. Just over a month after indiantelevision.com broke the news of what is arguably the most significant executive hiring in the industry in...
MUMBAI: NDTV has lined up a three-part documentary series – The Music of the Diasporas – on the popular rhythms and ragas that have evolved amongst...
MUMBAI: The 9-10 pm slot in the Hindi entertainment space, traditionally defined as the peak of prime time, seems to be swinging back lead channel Star...
MUMBAI: ETC Music vice president operations, Ashutosh has taken additional charge of the channel as its business head with effective from 3 December. This move comes...
MUMBAI: If ‘evolved’ viewers in India prefer to watch BBC World, then it is the ‘business decision makers’ in the Middle East who favour the channel....
MUMBAI: The National Association of Television Producers and Executives (Natpe) announced the lineup of speakers for its annual conference to be held in Las Vegas at...
MUMBAI: Emulating the likes of Jay Leno is easier said than done. Former tennis player John McEnroe has failed to repeat his on court success on...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that its journalist Mark Doyle has won first prize in the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA)/UN Foundation Awards. He won in...
MUMBAI: Star News seems to be on a show launching spree. After a succession of new shows like Saas Bahu aur Saazish, Insaaf Ka Taraazu and...
MUMBAI: The Viacom owned CBS network is going from strength to strength. It has come out on top for November in the 18-49 demographic for the...
MUMBAI: One of the most remarkable sights on television in recent times was the sight of two airplanes hitting the twin Towers in New York three...
MUMBAI: Primetime TV in the US is now very much at the service of its users. They increasingly switch channels, multitask while watching, and personally select...
MUMBAI: In the past US broadcaster CBS has enjoyed success with reality shows like The Amazing Race. Now the Viacom owned broadcaster has announced a...
MUMBAI: Animax, has entered into a strategic tie-up with Sony for the creation of an Animax branded block on the channel. An official release, from the...
MUMBAI: Animax is launching Galaxy Angel, a show about five angels on a mission. Galaxy Angel will premier on 8 December at 8 pm. There will...
NEW DELHI: Kotak Mahindra subsidiary Business Standard Ltd., running the Business Standard financial daily, has applied to the government seeking clearance for foreign investment and the...
NEW DELHI: Some Indian policy makers today took note of the modern technology involved in broadcasting and suggested set-top boxes should be cost-effective for Doordarshan’s KU-band...
MUMBAI: Malayalam news channel Indiavision claims it has bettered its position in the last couple of months. Quoting TAM ratings for October and November, the channel...
NEW DELHI: India TV, the 24-hour news channel promoted by Rajat Sharma, is now reaching 19 million homes in the Hindi belt. With this wide distribution,...
NEW DELHI: Evan as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) rides roughshod over the broadcast sector, the protagonists (read broadcasters vs the cable fraternity) are...
MUMBAI: The controversy over the Janet Jackson episode at the Super Bowl last Sunday has led to CBS trying to clean up its act. The broadcaster...
NEW DELHI: The latest to join the reality TV bandwagon is Star One. Early next year, it will unveil a show, christened Lakme Fashion House, which...
MUMBAI: Big B never goes out of stock! When it comes to luring the film audience, Big B has no competition on television and channels have...
MUMBAI: A UK panel that is reviewing the future of the BBC has produced a report which suggests keeping the licence fee for 10 more years....
MUMBAI: Two months after launch, Hungama TV, the kids channel from the UTV stable, has laid claim to garnering an average weekly reach of 11.9 per...
MUMBAI: “While Tam India is one of the best tracking agencies in the country today; one news channel in India gets half it’s SEC AB viewing...
NEW DELHI: In what may be an indication to the slow digitalisation process being set in motion, the government today ruled out further expansion of terrestrial...
MUMBAI: Reliance Infocomm has announced a full suite of ISP services for its subscribers under the R-Connect service platform. The company claims that apart from high...
NEW DELHI: The government is finalising a spectrum policy that would bring in an automated spectrum management system with 3G services being an integral part of...
MUMBAI: French Electronics and media services company Thomson has outlined a strategic growth map for the next two years. As far as the media and entertainment...
MUMBAI: China has brought out new regulations for foreign investment, technology and expertise to promote the country’s broadcasting and film industry. Jointly issued by the State...
MUMBAI: Ruling in favour of Subhash Chandra-promoted ASC Enterprises, the Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition filed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation over use...
MUMBAI: SaharaOne will hold a Solidarity Rally ,on World Aids Day, 1 December. Accodring to an official release, celebs including Shilpa Shetty, Mandira Bedi and Suneeta...
MUMBAI: NDTV is planning to telecast some special episodes of the much acclaimed reality show between real and reel life heroes- Jai Jawan on popular demand....
MUMBAI: The BBC faces a challenge in configuring the potential of digital media to support teachers in the UK in classrooms. Digital technology will, in the...
MUMBAI: Delhi-based PVR Cinemas is planning to invest around Rs 800 million for expanding its chain of multiplexes to 20 by the end of this financial...