NEW DELHI: Riding a wave of enthusiastic responses to its initial public offering (IPO), the Aroon Purie-controlled TV Today Network today initiated in a quiet manner...
People at NGC India, especially managing director for south Asia, Zubin Jehanbux Gandevia, these days chant the history mantra more than geography. And, why not? The...
The new Lodestar report examines the performance of the news channels from different angles. It throws up interesting findings, apart from how the public perceives news...
MUMBAI: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has okayed News Corp’s takeover of DirecTV and Hughes, but has imposed certain conditions on the $6.6 billion deal. The...
NEW DELHI: A day after information & broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad rubbished Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit’s charge that there was a whole load of...
MUMBAI: Its time for centenary celebration at Taj Group, and they are making a film to commemorate it. Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces, along with NDTV...
NEW DELHI: If the consumer bodies and average consumers of Delhi, especially the south zone of the capital, were thinking that the court would come to...
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s cable fraternity is breathing a sigh of relief following the postponement of a hearing on a public interest litigation (PIL) in a Delhi...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR) may soon get full-fledged director-generals (DG), if everything goes well with the selection process which...
MUMBAI: BBC Library Sales, a division of BBC Worldwide Limited, has secured major deals around the world for the hit motoring show Top Gear. In a...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced changes to its guidelines covering the circumstances in which BBC journalists, presenters and freelancers can write regular columns for newspapers and...
MUMBAI: TV Today Network (TVTN), the parent of Aaj Tak and Headlines Today, is considering going pay. The operative point however, is that the sibling news...
MUMBAI: TV Today Network has decided to pep up its malnourished offspring Headlines Today with a new look and agressive promotions in the next couple of...
NEW DELHI: Buoyed by growth in India and Taiwan, the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group Pvt. Ltd. is on track for $40 million FY 2004 profit as...
NEW DELHI: It may or may not spark off a trend, but in a quiet way, Zee Turner has conveyed to multi-system operators in Delhi that...
NEW DELHI: Continuing to report good financial performance, the publicly traded Television Eighteen Ltd (TV 18), the majority stakeholder in the CNBC TV18 business news channel...
NEW DELHI: Change, the Zee news group head Laxmi Goel, feels is the only truth and a sure shot way to climb up the popularity ladder....
NEW DELHI: Miditech Private Limited is working on a new advertising/marketing show for BBC World. The 13-episode series is expected to go on air by March...
MUMBAI: Peace gets a chance in conflict-ridden South Asia as key political and business leaders, strategists and leading minds from India and overseas convene to discuss...
MUMBAI: CNN has announced that its regional breakfast programme News Biz Today has introduced a Question of the Day opinion poll. The poll enables viewers to...
NEW DELHI: The much-touted high-powered committee set up by the government, under the chairmanship of Planning Commission member N K Singh, to look into ways of...
NEW DELHI: The government today admitted that from the time implementation of conditional access system (CAS) was deferred in the three metros of Kolkata, Mumbai and...
NEW DELHI: NDTV correspondent Sidharth Pandey and Business Today senior correspondent Kushan Mitra have won the first CNN Young Journalists Award-India (CNN-YJA) in the TV and...
MUMBAI: All India Radio’s FM Gold channel will launch Knowledge Radio. This is a live quiz show for school children to commemorate Unicef International Day of...
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT’s wholly-owned subsidiary InNetwork Entertainment is reaping the benefits of Baghban’s success. According to a company release, InNetwork association with the recent BR Chopra...
“I think it is an understanding of the space we have gained,” CNBC-TV18 CEO Haresh Chawla reflects on the current scenario with the authority of someone...
MUMBAI: Animal Planet has managed to build up viewer cachet in the US through its King Of The Jungle reality themed initiative. This has seen wannabe...
MUMBAI: International entertainment channel BBC Prime has secured a deal that widens the channel’s German digital distribution. BBC Prime, is now available on ish Plus TV....
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system, like Banquo’s ghost, just refuses to go away. Just when everybody, including the government, thought it has been given a quiet...
Front page readership is very high while sports and edit sections get less readers. These are just a few of the findings that the survey SPARR...
MUMBAI: Karan Thapar, presenter of BBC World’s popular weekly chat show Face to Face, has been named ‘Best Current Affairs Presenter’ at the Asian Television Awards...
MUMBAI: Some top industry talent and executives have been roped in to participate at the National Association of Television Program Executives’ (Natpe) conference and exhibition from...
MUMBAI: This is a contest that revolves around mega movie star and Oscar winner Catherine Zeta Jones and a girl’s best friend – diamonds. Diamond Trading...
MUMBAI: Star World will launch Style, a weekly lifestyle show, from this weekend (7 December) at 9 pm. Starting aptly in the Christmas month, the show’s...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced an extra half million pound investment in regional independent television productions. The addtitional investment will be spent on a range of new...
MUMBAI: BBC’s South Asia Bureau Chief Paul Danahar has been given one of Britain’s most prestigious awards, the MBE, for services to journalism. The award honours...
MUMBAI: The Hallmark Movie Channel, which is Hallmark’s first digital service, is set to debut in January 2004. Crown Media Holdings Inc., which operates the Hallmark...
NEW DELHI: The dead on its feet rollout of conditional access system (CAS) has just had a dose of oxygen pumped into it. In a ruling...
NEW DELHI: It is not only the likes of Star News, CNBC-TV18 and Zee News that have to restructure their shareholding pattern to comply with the...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The re-launched DD News is not only proving the sceptics wrong, but has managed to keep the heat on on its competitors....
MUMBAI: The US-based Malayalee entrepreneur and chairman of US Software and Toonz Animation at Technopark, G.A.Menon died of a heart attack yesterday. The incident happened on...
MUMBAI: Entertainment One, Manmohan Shetty’s film production house, has issued a notice yesterday stating that all is well between them and their associates Sahara India Mass...
MUMBAI: This is a piece of news that should make advertisers in newspapers pay attention. Pull outs that is sections of newspapers like Times Of India’s...
MUMBAI: Raj TV seems to be in no mood to give up its claim as the second most popular channel in Tamil Nadu. A few months...
MUMBAI: Today is the day of reckoning for political parties staking their individual claims for the Assembly elections in Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh (MP) and Chhattisgarh....
NEW DELHI: Zee News may be lagging behind Aaj Tak, which seems to be living up to its image of ‘subse tez’ channel till now, but...
MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati is on the lookout for marketing partners to expand its Akashvani and Doordarshan archives. To effect this expansion, the national broadcaster has invited...
NEW DELHI: A mammoth exercise of elections in the four states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh and the Union Territory of Delhi came to an end...
MUMBAI: Business and finance channel CNBC-TV18 is looking to strengthen its hold over its audience by reintroducing its Lessons In Excellence series. This time it is...
NEW DELHI: News website Tehelka’s sting operation relating to a scam involving defence personnel may have been a trend-setter, but the television news channels in India...