Channel Nine chief Kerry Packer had a very busy India visit last week. He announced that he was very firm on making India his numero uno...
MUMBAI: Television Eighteen India Ltd (TV18), India’s premier business news broadcaster and a leading media content provider, informed Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) that the Delhi High...
MUMBAI: With Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, Friday nights are going to get action packed week after week during this April with Star Movie’s Friday Night Premiere. ...
MUMBAI:Channel [V] unleashes masti, madness and mayhem with a Phone Call from today. Answering a phone call can be a different experience this April with channel...
NEW DELHI: The Empire strikes back? Seems so. And with a vengeance too as news market leader Aaj Tak lures back people to its fold. Among...
NEW DELHI: For the new Star News director of news and editor Uday Shankar, the channel can almost run on an autopilot with its format and...
NEW DELHI: For the new Star News director of news and editor Uday Shankar, the channel can almost run on an autopilot with its format and...
MUMBAI: Tam India has reason to celebrate. At the fourth Esomar Asia Pacific Conference which concluded yesterday in Shanghai, Tam’s paper on Product Placement was selected...
MUMBAI: Blame it on Titanic! A potent mixture of risk and glamour, travel in luxury liners is such a great lure that makers often push themselves...
MUMBAI: There are those in the industry who say this was a case that Star India and Zee Telefilms were bound to lose and so it...
MUMBAI: Gay television will shortly receive a shot in the arm. Media conglomerate Viacom is said to be interested in developing a homosexual themed channel for...
CANNES: Day Two of MipTV in Cannes was unpredictably wet, soggy and well chillingly cold.. Sales of umbrellas simply soared as savvy roadside touts exploited the...
MUMBAI: US broadcast network NBC has signed on talk show host Jay Leno for a further four years. Leno hosts The Tonight Show. The earlier contract...
MUMBAI: Viacom’s US broadcast network CBS has announced that it placed first in viewers, households, men 18-49, men 25-54 and second in adults 25-54. This was...
CANNES: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, producers of the International Emmy Awards, will now enable their 500 judges to screen this year’s award...
MUMBAI: It has balle-balle’d’ its way to top, or so it claims. India’s first 24-hour non-stop Punjabi music channel- Balle-Balle, launched on 14 October 2002, claims...
MUMBAI: Number 13 seems lucky for Walt Disney Co. A 13-year legal battle that the Little Big Mouse has been fighting to protect its proprietership over...
MUMBAI: It’s a union for a nobel quest. The ARY Digital network and Stardreamz entertainment USA, today announced the Music Mela 2004 – The India /...
MUMBAI: Zone Vision has inked an exclusive five-year carriage agreement with Cross Current in Pakistan to broadcast the company’s flagship Reality TV channel. Amongst the special...
CANNES: Former UTV international partner Firdaus Kharas and south African Brent Quinn’s brainchild- 20 animated safe-sex public service announcements (PSAs), which tickle the funny bone, were...
Soon after Virender Sehwag, aka as Najafgarh (a Delhi locality)‘s Nawab, completed his triple ton against Pakistan in the first Test at Multan on Monday, a...
MUMBAI: Veteran BBC broadcaster Alistair Cooke, who authored Letter From America for 58 years, died today at his New York home. He was 95. Cooke died...
MUMBAI: BBC Two channel’s controller Jane Root is to leave BBC to join Discovery Networks as executive vice president and general manager of the Discovery Channel...
MUMBAI: Moribund Jain TV has decided to resurrect itself in Mumbai by beefing up distribution. Election eve will see the first indigenous 24 hour satellite...
Mumbai: Four out of five Americans say that there are too many reality dating programmes like The Bachelor on the air. And when it comes to...
MUMBAI: Darcy Antonellis has been named to the newly created position of senior VP, worldwide anti-piracy operations Warner Bros. Entertainment Antonellis’ primary responsibility will be...
CANNES: Raider Productions is conducting a search throughout the World for clay, classical, computer, and flash animated shorts to create its 90 minute WBIAS VHS and...
MUMBAI: Both Ten Sports and Doordarshan have propelled into the top ten in the ratings charts this week, the satellite broadcaster a whisker ahead of the...
From being a junior minister to former information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj few years back, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has come a long way to become...
CANNES: MarVista Entertainment, a newly formed distribution and production company attending its first MIP has sold several of the company’s recent acquisitions at the ongoing MIP...
MUMBAI: Two million movie lovers in Tanzania will see a BBC World Service ad filmed in Tanzania, when a mobile cinema visits their region. The advertisement...
MUMBAI: Singapore Exhibition Services (SES) and the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) have announced the Infocomm Media Business Exchange (imbX) which will be held from 14-18...
MUMBAI: Zee Group subsidiary Padmalaya Telefilms has reached preliminary agreement for co-production and licensing of cartoons with Italian animation major Mondo TV Group in a deal...
NEW DELHI: Smart businessman that he is, TV personality Rajat Sharma has decided to postpone the full-fledged launch of his news and current affairs channel to...
NEW DELHI: Smart businessman that he is, TV personality Rajat Sharma has decided to postpone the full-fledged launch of his news and current affairs channel to...
MUMBAI: With elections around the corner, it seems like a busy month ahead for the news channels. So while the channel have already churned out a...
MUMBAI: Satellite services company Globecast has announced that it has partnered with Brazilian telecommunications group Embratel to provide broadcast services, internet and telephony for Brazilian terrestrial...
MUMBAI: The Asian cable and satellite industry in 2003 accounted for almost 190 million multi-channel homes, up 40 million from 2002. 95 per cent of these...
NEW DELHI: Some of the news channels that had applied to the government seeking various clearances, have got an advantage by default. Because the general elections...
MUMBAI : Comcast Corporation has finally bought Tech TV, thus finishing its long rumoured sale on 25 March 2004.G4, the Comcast-owned television network devoted to video...
MUMBAI: Colour TV turned 50 on Thursday. It was on 25 March, 1954, that the Radio Corporation of America’s (RCA) plant in Bloomington, Indiana, produced the...
MUMBAI: ARY Digital Network has bagged the Bollywood Awards and Bollywood Fashion Awards exclusive telecast rights. The network will be airing the ceremony to be held...
MUMBAI: The legendary superstar of the sixties, Rajesh Khanna will be conferred Lifetime Achievement Award at the sixth Bollywood Award 2004 and the Lifetime of Glamour...
MUMBAI: MarVista Entertainment, the global production and distribution company, has signed a groundbreaking three series co-production and worldwide distribution agreement with Brookwell McNamara Entertainment (BME), one...
MUMBAI: In the wake of the upcoming elections, BBC Hindi service, radio and online, will bring in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the elections. The service, which...
MUMBAI: Following close on the heels of the announcement made by the Congress Party to field Rahul Gandhi from Amethi, Star News decided to do some...
MUMBAI: Elections still is the mainstay at news channels and the innovation is the order of the day. So after slew of the political satires across...
MUMBAI: What had looked like a dead duck property —Sony Television’s broadcast rights for the recently concluded Under 19 World Cup in Dhaka, Bangladesh — has...
MUMBAI: Looks like US broadcasters will have to be on constant standby to watch out for offensive language during live events. A few days ago the...
MUMBAI: In the wake of the upcoming elections, BBC Hindi service, radio and online, will bring in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the elections. The service, which...