MUMBAI: BBC World was the most watched international news channel during India’s recent general elections, according to Tam Peoplemeter data. During the four-week campaign, BBC World...
MUMBAI: Good news for all those aspiring writers who couldn’t apply for Indiantelevision Dot Com’s scriptwriting course Qalam, which was supposed to commence from 14 June....
MUMBAI: CNBC Asia Pacific will be staging its 4th Asia Business Leader Awards (ABLA) 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The announcement followed a meeting between Malaysia’s...
MUMBAI: Pakistan will soon see the launch of it’s first satellite based 24-hour business news channel – Business Plus. Local and international business news, with a...
SINGAPORE: Singapore never ceases to amaze. And Asia’s largest information and communications technology exhibition, Infocomm Media Business Exchange (imbX) 2004 – encompassing CommunicAsia, Broadcast Asia, EnterpriseIT...
Andhra Pradesh is getting big on news. And not just for hitting the headlines thanks to the drubbing the southern state‘s “CEO” and media darling Chandrababu...
MUMBAI: At the exhibition BroadcastAsia 2004 in Singapore which kicks off later this month Kodak is showcasing an array of dramatic breakthroughs in film and post...
MUMBAI: CNBC Asia Pacific recently announced a couple of anchor appointments. They are May Lee and Sabrina Kang Prior to CNBC, Lee was with Disney’s ABC...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s Board of Governors have published a new style Annual Report and Accounts. This is the first step it has taken in implementing the...
MUMBAI: Malayalam news channel Indiavision is one year old. The dedicated news channel will mark its first anniversary by beaming into the Middle East, while its...
MUMBAI: For the seventh successive year BBC Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the BBC, has increased its cash flow to the Corporation to supplement the...
NEW DELHI: Even as the allies of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance coalition government increase pressure on changes in Doordarshan News, parent organization Prasar Bharati has...
NEW DELHI: Star India, part of Rupert Murdoch’s pan-Asian venture, is going in for a flanking strategy to couch its bottomline – healthy though it looks...
MUMBAI: Mythological soap opera specialist Creative Eye is set to start shooting for a weekly hour-long ‘social drama’, set on a Spanish format show, that will...
NEW DELHI: Some are saying it’s poetic justice, but it can only happen in Doordarshan. The only broadcaster with the permission to cover the whole of...
MUMBAI: Down south, fierce competition between Telugu channels continues. Three more news channels are set to launch this year – Hyderabad-based Maa TV and the Sun...
MUMBAI: Here’s a piece of good news for all those who wish to make it big as scriptwriters. Indiantelevision Dot Com is back with Qalam, its...
MUMBAI: US-based Global network solutions provider Mainstream Data has won the Bloomberg LP’s global distribution platform account of Bloomberg News. The New York-based global media company,...
MUMBAI: News, probing and more meaningful, is Uday Shankar’s imminent agenda for the channel he now helms after the exit of channel president Ravina Raj Kohli....
MUMBAI: The souring relationship between Miramax studio and its parent Walt Disney Company has triggered a war of statements. While Disney has downright given Miramax the...
NEW DELHI: Well, we had alluded to this development happening in March, and so it has come to be. Not content with dominating the Indian cable...
NEW DELHI: Okay, it’s time for some revamp of the management team at the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star India Pvt. Ltd., which is largely fuelling the Star...
MUMBAI: With a view to expanding its repertoire as news broadcaster, CNN will flag off a show for sailing enthusiasts. The monthly show Mainsail debuts on...
NEW DELHI: Well, we had alluded to this development happening in March, and so it has come to be. Not content with dominating the Indian cable...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is filing a caveat in the Delhi and Andhra Pradesh high courts in a case relating to the printing and publication...
NEW DELHI: Their business channel can wait till next year. The Times of India Group is more interested in an entertainment channel to be followed by...
MUMBAI: The first thing that hits you when you enter Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City (DAKC), the high security nerve centre of Reliance Infocomm located in Navi...
MUMBAI: The tooing and froing of personnel from the news channels continues. Leading Hindi news channel Aaj Tak’s senior manager distribution Anoop Varma has called it...
MUMBAI: Tracy Katsky has joined HBO US as its senior VP. She will also head its independent productions division. Katsky will be responsible for the development...
MUMBAI: Showtime, the Middle East DTH pay TV platform recently opened the region’s largest broadcasting center in Dubai. The centre can handle over 200 channels. Showtime...
MUMBAI: Delhi-based New Delhi Television Ltd. (NDTV) has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) that the Delhi High Court has approved a scheme of amalgamation between...
NEW DELHI: Whether India’s new prime minister Manmohan Singh reshuffles his cabinet or not, but government sources say that a massive shakeup is in the offing...
MUMBAI: All eyes are glued on the UPA government and its forthcoming budget. To keep abreast with the happenings as well as to mark the run-up...
MUMBAI: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has proscribed five unregistered television channels in the country. The channels Tele Track, MM, MM2, M-Net and Series...
MUMBAI: TV Today Network, broadcaster of India most popular news channels in Hindi, Aaj Tak, and its English sibling Headlines Today, today reported that it’s net...
MUMBAI: Of late, CNBC TV-18 has been exploring its softer side. The latest launch to join the business channels lifestyle segment is The Lounge. An engaging...
MUMBAI: DirecTV Group Inc. vice chairman Eddy Hartenstein has stepped down from TiVo Inc.’s board of directors after an eight-month commitment. The US-based digital video recorder...
MUMBAI: CNN has criticised China’s government censors for repeatedly blacking out the channel’s coverage of the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown. Out of a series...
NEW DELHI: The present government will not roll back any foreign investment norms in the media sector, including those changes brought about by the previous Bharatiya...
MUMBAI: Asia’s premier electronic media event BroadcastAsia2004 will be conducting an international conference and a number of adjacent events to equip the industry with the latest...
MUMBAI: And the brain drain continues. Aaj Tak’s West zone distribution head Arup Gopikrishna has called it quits as of 2 June. He will be joining...
MUMBAI: World Broadcasting Unions Technical Committee (WBU-TC), the technical arm of the Canada based World Broadcasting Union, has expressed extreme concern about the licensing of MPEG-4...
MUMBAI: India’s Most Wanted man is back. And with a vengeance. For starters, Suhaib Ilyasi, the host, producer of the crime busting show that rocked many...
MUMBAI: The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), a US based association for content professionals, announced yesterday that it has entered into an alliance with...
MUMBAI: Elections are over and even the political heat has died down, but the show Poll Khol launched by Star News to bring out the satirical...
MUMBAI: The Sahara India Group is joining forces with an Israeli firm for a stage production. The company is co-producing the $5 million initiative that would...
North-East Monitor a programme focussing on Mizoram and its literacy levels will telecast on Doordarshan on Tuesday 8 June at 9.30 am on the National Channel...
MUMBAI: Another news channel has entered the already cluttered Indian news channels’ arena – Rajat Sharma’s India TV. The channel’s confident and go-getting tagline “Desh Badalna...
MUMBAI: Star India’s programming folks will be dealing with a new man in Star’s One Harbourfront head office in Hong Kong : Paul O’Hanlon. The Rupert...
MUMBAI: Media research giant Nielsen has scheduled their New York launch of the controversial modified television ratings system for Thursday, 3 May. The launch, which was...

