MUMBAI: Media conglomerate News Corp’s chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch has been hired as a non-executive director of China Netcom. China Netcom is one of China’s...
MUMBAI: Lycra MTV awards is schedule to take place on 15 October. In its second year, with 18 awards across 12 categories honouring ‘style’, the style...
NEW DELHI: A compilation done by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) based on latest reports from operators has revealed that the subscriber base for telephony...
MUMBAI: NDTV 24×7 is now going the business way! The channel had launched a new programming initiative called 9-4 Business & News recently, wherein mostly business...
MUMBAI: Beehive Systems’ says that Star News, Zee News and Doordarshan have successfully used its laptop-based digital newsgathering system called vid’linkMoblie to help them cover 2004...
MUMBAI: The BBC is looking to sell its commercial sales and publishing division BBC Worlwide. For this purpose it has invited bids from Time Warner, Disney...
MUMBAI: Alpha TV Punjabi has announced its programme highlights for the month of September. In addition to all the popular shows currently on air, the channel...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today issued notices to the Government of India and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on a petition filed by...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom has announced the promotion of key executives to new roles at CBS and Paramount Network Television. This will create a new management...
MUMBAI: Disney’s CEO Michael Eisner has finally broken his silence and has anointed company’s second-in-command, the president and COO, Bob Iger as his successor. In the...
MUMBAI: BBC’s decision to provide interactive services in the UK for the Olympics has paid off. As many as 8.96 million digital satellite viewers pressed the...
MUMBAI: The 2nd IIFC opened on 6 September at Mumbai’s Intercontinental – the Grand to an enthusiastic response. After the inauguration ceremonies, trends in Indian films...
MUMBAI: UK viewers want stricter controls over the amount of sex that children are exposed to on television. In a BBC survey, 86 per cent of...
MUMBAI: The CEO of Tinseltown TV and international media figure Sheeraz Hasan was recognised recently with a Resolution of Commendation from the State Legislature of California....
MUMBAI: After the news of US cable outfits offering Bollywood video-on-demand, comes the news that our filmi fare is eagerly lapped up in springbok country too. ...
MUMBAI: Sahara India Pariwar paid tribute to former Miss India and TV personality Nafisa Joseph on 5 September. Her family (father and sister), her closest friends...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Challenges in the court notwithstanding, Zee Telefilms is not letting any such distractions come in the way as it moves ahead full...
MUMBAI: A study conducted in the US by research organisation RAND Corporation has revealed that teens who watch sex on TV are likely to become sexually...
Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited is flirting with television once again. But group president Arun Arora is clear that this time round, the relationship with the...
MUMBAI: One of the best ways a foreign channel can increase share in an increasingly competitive market is by creating a direct local connect. The National...
BANGALORE: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan is looking at formally commencing its free-to-air (FTA) direct-to-home (DTH) television service from 15 September. Trail runs are being conducted all over...
MUMBAI: Padmalaya – Zica, which is an established animation training division of Padmalaya Telefilms, has recently launched the Apple Training Center in Hyderabad which is the...
MUMBAI: Nicholas Kroll has been appointed the BBC’s first director of its governance unit. Kroll will set up and lead the Governors’ new department which will...
MUMBAI: The 2nd India International Film Convention takes off today at Intercontinental – The Grand. Organised by The Foundation for the Promotion of Film Arts and...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Even as the 30-share Bombay Stock Exchange (BE) opened today, the Zee stock moved upward as much as 8.32 per cent after the network...
MUMBAI: The programme Kuttram – Nadanthathu Yenna? based on crime and socially incorrect practices in various districts of Tamil Nadu has completed 25 weeks on Vijay...
MUMBAI: It’s almost all systems go for the first of the four “premium, unique niche channels” that the Bennett, Coleman stable expects to launch over the...
NEW DELHI: Zee Telefilms Ltd, which reported a 10.8 per cent growth in consolidated revenue for the quarter ended 30 June 2004, would be investing about...
MUMBAI: Two years ago pubcaster Doordarshan took on the task of promoting the Robocon game competition in India. This sees engineering students building robots. Two teams...
MUMBAI: CNBC is gearing up to set up base in Pakistan early next year by launching CNBC Pakistan, which will be the country’s first international business...
MUMBAI: A clear mandate and sufficient funding to offer a full and evolving range of services in the new media is what the European Broadcasting Union...
Mumbai: Zee Telefilms Limited, Indias largest media and entertainment conglomerate today accepted the BCCI offer to increase the bid price to US$ 308 million, thus bagging...
MumbaiI: Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra was in a jubilant mood at his Worli Mumbai office on Sunday evening even as the network bagged the BCCI...
BANGALORE: Worldspace Satellite Radio has launched a Kannada satellite radio channel on 3 September. The radio channel Sparsha will cover programmes on art, culture, fashion, sports...
NEW DELHI: Zee Telefilms CMD Subhash Chandra today said that the network proposes to launch a sports channel on 2 October (the day on which, in...
MUMBAI: Even as he is battling censorship issues, Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) chief, Anupam Kher, is also busy making more of a mark for...
NEW DELHI: The Indian entertainment industry is at the threshold of emerging as a big market internationally with an expected growth rate of 20 per cent,...
His dream agency is now well in place. Following the motto of ideas being indispensable to brands and where no job is ever referred to as...
NEW DELHI: Change, they say, is the only truth. Aaj Tak, country’s No. 1 news channel, will don a new look from 6 September, including a...
MUMBAI: The Interactive Channel (TIC) has started beaming in Hong Kong on the Hong Kong Cable TV. The channel, which is initially available from 8 pm...
MUMBAI: Gopal Saxena, a veteran media expert, passed away on 2 September in New Delhi after a brief illness. Saxena who was a veteran in media...
MUMBAI: Satellite operator Eutelsat has announced a contract with France Telecom for the acquisition of its teleport in Rambouillet (France). The teleport accommodates one of...
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court’s order issued yesterday restraining TV channels from telecasting adult movies or programmes without prior permission of the Central Board of Film...
MUMBAI: Irdeto Access, a world leader in content security, today announced that Jiaxing Broadcasting and TV Network (Jiaxing SARFT) have selected Irdeto Access’ Conditional Access (CA)...
MUMBAI: They say “laughter is the best medicine”. Sahara Manoranjan seems to have followed the ‘classic’ prescription when it added popular actor-comedian Jaspal Bhatti to the...
MUMBAI: With the stage set for the ICC Champions Trophy, which will be played in England from 10 September, BBC World has launched a new four...
NEW DELHI: Confirming a report filed by indiantelevision.com yesterday, Arabian satellite news channel Al-Jazeera this afternoon announced an alliance with Rajat Sharma’s India TV that would...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Confirming a report filed by indiantelevision.com yesterday, Arabian satellite news channel Al-Jazeera this afternoon announced an alliance with Rajat Sharma’s India TV...
MUMBAI: Zee Network is all set to unveil its Telugu channel Alpha Telugu. The 24-hour channel will start beaming from 12 September. The launch of Alpha...
MUMBAI: BT Broadcast Services (BTBS), the broadcast and media solutions arm of British Telecom (BT), announced on Tuesday that it had signed a distribution agreement with...