MUMBAI: Three UK production companies will be the first to benefit from a new BBC fund. They are Twofour Productions, Pier Productions and Multi Media Arts....
MUMBAI: Even as Star News plans to launch a full-fledged crime news channel, it seems to be testing the waters with two new crime shows that...
MUMBAI: May be the message that they want to send across it that watching news is rewarding and how. Star News has announced Khaas Baat, Khaas...
NEW DELHI: The department of telecommunications today, decided to extend the scope of the licence conditions of Internet Service Providers (ISP), thereby allowing them to provide...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s public service mission for the 21st century remains unchanged. But the BBC has to change to demonstrate it can and will deliver it.....
The 74-year-old hotelier P.R.S. Oberoi talks will feature on CNN's Talk Asia on 13 November at 9:30 am. The talk show will air at 7:30 pm...
MUMBAI: The restructuring of Sahara’s media and entertainment business under a joint venture management company with Percept has claimed its first victim. Sahara Media and Entertainment...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Ltd. Today took preventive action in a bid to insulate itself against any hostile bid from the US cable company Liberty...
NEW DELHI: A joint committee of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) and Association of Advertising Agencies in India (AAAI) has decided that no television channel would...
NEW DELHI: Star anchors Arup Ghosh and Shireen, who had quit NDTV almost three years back to join the Sahara group’s television news venture, have left...
MUMBAI:BBC World Service’s new chief operating officer and financial director Alison Woodhams has been appointed. She takes up her post in January 2005. She will be...
MUMBAI: Indoor bowling was boosted by a three year agreement between BBC Television and the World Bowls Tour. The beeb will cover major WBT events from...
MUMBAI: With five successful Investor camps in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai respectively, business and finance channel CNBC-TV18 returned to India’s Financial Capital, Mumbai...
MUMBAI: The BBC Hindi World Service website bbchindi.com has forged a content partnership with online portal webdunia.com. Visitors to webduniya.com and sister site naidunia.com can access...
Star News will feature Masand Ki Pasand with Bollywood's 'golden boy', Abhishek Bachchan at 8:30 pm on 6 November. The chat between Rajeev Masand and Abhishek...
MUMBAI: Zee TV still feels that focusing on SEC B and C segments, primarily the Indian middle class, would drive in the ratings at a time...
MUMBAI: K Sera Sera productions has signed a broadband deal with VSNL for 10 movies. The production house, which has made a debut in television content...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The rumours have surfaced before (of his leaving) on and off these past few years but this time it appears to be...
MUMBAI: Encouraged by the continuing success of CSI, US broadcaster the Viacom owned CBS has ordered another crime based show. Numbers deals with an FBI agent...
CNN will air the special Kingdom On The Brink on 6 November at 6:30 pm with a repeat on 7 November at 10:30 am. CNN’s senior...
MUMBAI: Though crime shows across channels have shown sustained TRPs; one has not seen much footage on corporate crime and consumer fraud in the country. What...
MUMBAI: Star has finally launched in the US on the News Corp controlled DirecTV platform. Alongside flagship channel Star Plus, the three other channels that launched...
BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court ruled on Wednesday, 3 November that theater owners need not abide by moratorium on release of other language (non-Kannada films) as...
MUMBAI: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch must be one happy man. If the brilliant first quarter results his News Corp has just delivered were not enough, that...
MUMBAI: For the third quarter ended 30 September, the media and entertainment conglomerate Time Warner recorded a net income of $499 million. The result showed an...
MUMBAI: Sify Limited has implemented the DomainKey authentication system in SifyMail to help prevent spamming and mail forgery. The system will enable Sify, and other email...
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murdoch owned media conglomerate News Corporation has announced that Arthur M. Siskind will retire as group general counsel at the end of the...
MUMBAI: BBC D-G Mark Thompson has expressed confidence about the corporation being on track as far as improving the way complaints are handled is concerned. The...
MUMBAI: One of the major technological innovations sweeping the US television landscape is that of the digital video recorder (DVR). This allows viewers to view a...
MUMBAI: In a bid to reverse its declining fortunes through cost cutting measures Time Warner’s unit America Online, which claims to be the world’s largest internet...
MUMBAI: ‘We continue to make ‘Headlines’’. That is the claim made by TV Today Network’s English news channel Headlines Today’s claim. Quoting TAM figures for the...
MUMBAI: The News Corp owned NDS Group which provides technology solutions for digital pay TV, has appointed Luke Chen Li Chien as NDS China COO. Chen...
MUMBAI: This is an important measure in the fight against online film piracy in the US. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has announced that...
MUMBAI: This month Discovery looks to hook viewers by examining the how and why behind some of the most famous disasters of our time. Zero Hour...
NEW DEHI: The Indian government today approved 57 foreign direct investment (FDI) proposals worth more than Rs 6.3 billion, including increase in foreign equity in Hindustan...
NEW DELHI: Star India has been granted time till 31 December to complete changes in the logo of its new entertainment channel, which went on air...
NEW DELHI: Another extension has been granted to the news channels uplinking from India to conform to the existing guidelines. The new deadline is 31 December....
MUMBAI: MTV International and CNN International today announced a first-ever co-production agreement for a 30-minute news special on HIV and Aids called Staying Alive: An MTV...
MUMBAI: The fate of BBC Worldwide hangs in the balance. While the Beeb is said to have decided against selling its commercial arm reports indicate that...
MUMBAI: Cine Channel, a cable movie-based entertainment channel from Hathway Cable & Datacom, is now six years old. Available in 52 cities across India, the channel...
MUMBAI: .Monkeys rule the roost on Animal Planet this month. The broadcaster has announced a new series. Monkey Business which will air on Tuesdays at 6...
MUMBAI: Cine Channel, a cable movie-based entertainment channel from Hathway Cable & Datacom, is now six years old. Available in 52 cities across India, the channel...
MUMBAI: You are never too old to change. That could be the latest anthem of 216 year old Times. The Times will become a tabloid-only publication...
MUMBAI: Crest Animation Studios Limited (CASL) has reinforced its turnaround performance for the second quarter ended September 2004, having come back into the black in the...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide and a unit of MEASAT Global Berhad, owner and operator of the MEASAT satellite network, announced an agreement for using MEASAT to broadcast...
MUMBAI: The BBC director of new media and technology, Ashley Highfield, has outlined the corporation’s vision for a broadband Britain. Highfield has called upon the collaboration...
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT has posted a four per cent rise in net profit to Rs 210.38 million for the second quarter ended 30 September 2004, up...
MUMBAI: Intelsat has announced that it has completed its acquisition of the customer contracts and other assets of end-to-end communications services integrator Comsat General Corporation for...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Delhi High Court has observed that Star India should change the logo of its new channel (launching 1 November) from “One”...
MUMBAI Silicon Valley based technologies major Mobilewebsurf and Indian news broadcaster NDTV have teamed up to provide content to mobile devices across the world. According to...