CALIFORNIA: Icon Productions and Universal Network Television will make a comedy pilot at ABC. It will be executive produced by Oscar winning actor and director Mel...
In Phase-I of liberalization of FM broadcasting one frequency in each of the forty cities was reserved for educational broadcast by IGNOU. However, so far IGNOU...
When Deepak Chaurasia, the 30-year-old political editor of Aaj Tak, was announced the consulting editor of Prasar Bharati’s news channel DD News, critics speculated if the...
NEW DELHI: A Mysore court has reserved its judgement on a copyright infringement suit against Independence Day and whether the 20th Century Fox movie can be...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today stayed till further order on the controversial decision of the Tamil Nadu Assembly sentencing five senior journalists of The Hindu...
CALIFORNIA: Reality TV shows are not simply hooking US viewers to the idiot box, they are also driving them to the web. The finding is contained...
MUMBAI: Seems like the Indian tricolour is the hottest colour scheme going around. With Indian music, Bollywood, art and even aloo gobi getting global recognition, it...
SOUTH CAROLINA: Americans spend more time than they realise with the media, especially television. They often use multiple media simultaneously. These findings are contained in a...
NEW DELHI: The woes of the Hindujas-owned INCablenet continue as also internal churning. Close on the heels of company COO Rajiv Vyas quitting the organisation,...
NEW YORK: Time Warner is going ahead with plans to merge its recorded music operations with EMI as the long-awaited consolidation of the global music business...
MUMBAI: Star Group announced a new CEO this morning: Michelle Guthrie who was earlier executive vice president of Regional Distribution and Business Development for Star. She...
LONDON: The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the International Cricket Council (ICC) have announced that The Oval, Edgbaston and Hampshire’s Rosebowl will stage the...
MUMBAI: The good gals might endear the audience’s hearts on the television, but it’s bad girls who get maximum mileage. With everything going its way, all...
MUMBAI: Besides the saas bahu soaps, the other big draw for the Indian television viewer is India cricket. Tam data for C&S homes all India 4+...
The Committee is in favour of a simplified foreign investment regime for radio. We recommend that the following safeguards be introduced in the license agreement: ...
The Committee suggests that broadcast by private broadcasters must not, inter alia contain the following (as per the AIR code): * Criticism of friendly countries....
MUMBAI: They shot off a teaser and now they are out for the jugular. Piqued by Channel [V]’s claims of being the Numero Uno, MTV had...
MUMBAI: The Dubai-based Arab Digital Distribution (ADD) DTH platform’s Pehla bouquet has started beaming into mainland Europe. Pehla, which targets South Asian audiences, launched on...
MUMBAI: Talk about bad timing. A key executive each from Mumbai’s Big Two MSOs – INCableNet and Hathway – have put in their papers. INCableNet...
MUMBAI: While stage is being set for the first ever MTV India music awards IMMIES, MTV Asia is gearing up for the 2004 MTV Asia Awards...
MUMBAI: Looks like fashion and entertainment channel go hand in hand. Zee TV channel will premiere Pantene Zee World Teen Queen 2003 on Saturday 15 November...
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Toonz Animations has announced that it will launch its second home production, an animated series called Adventures of Hanuman on Cartoon Network next year. ...
MUMABI: At the Seagate Technical Awards, Maya Entertainment Ltd won the excellence in Digital Technology for films and TV for Jajantaram Mamantaram (J2M2) and 6X4 –...
GREENWOOD VILLAGE: 11/05/2003 — Hallmark Channel, and Comcast Cable announced on 5 November that they had reached an agreement providing for additional carriage opportunities for the...
COLOMBO: Ten Sports can breathe a little easier for the moment. Michael Vaughan and his England cricket team will tour Sri Lanka from next week as...
MUMBAI: The music industry is in consolidation mode battered and bruised as it is by Internet music sharing, poor retail revenues and competition with other sources...
LONDON: Paris is the current favourite to win the race to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. The next edition of the greatest sporting spectacle in...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to give further fillip to the entertainment sector in India, the government recently set up a high-powered committee to suggest ways...
MUMBAI: If the Hindi Entertainment channels go ballistic over Big B’s birthday celebration, its time for the Tamil entertainment channel Star Vijay to turn on the...
LONDON: UK entertainment channel BBC Prime will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the music countdown show Top of the Pops with a special New Year’s Eve...
MUMBAI: The National Basketball Association (NBA) is rapidly expanding television coverage. It has signed deals in seven countries including China and Georgia. In India, NBA action...
MUMBAI: A true story about former president Ronald Reagan and his family generated a storm of criticism from the conservative majority in the US. Such was...
NEW YORK: Penthouse International Inc., whose General Media Inc. unit publishes the adult magazine Penthouse, said on 6 November the magazine’s founder, Robert Guccione, has resigned...
WASHINGTON D.C: Leaders from the US broadcast, cable and satellite industries have made a detailed presentation to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It consists of over...
TOKYO: The first round of the FIVB World Cup of Women’s Volleyball has produced excellent television ratings both in the Tokyo area and throughout Japan. This...
MUMBAI: While Aaj Tak is airing a survey on crime against women as a week long news capsule, Zee news will air its initiative in unearthing...
NEW YORK: Things are looking up at Rupert Murodoch’s media conglomerate News Corp. The company has reported that its first-quarter profit more than doubled on strong...
MUMBAI: They said it wouldn’t work. But we said we wouldn’t say so until we’d tried. The response to the Indian Telly Awards Nominee’s Nite held...
MUMABAI: etc is up in arms. The music channel claims that with its innovative programming and an all-new Bollywood centric approach, it has turned into the...
NEW DELHI: Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), in association with the Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS), is working on a proposal to...
NEW YORK: Bill Bolster, the former chairman and chief executive of financial news channel CNBC, is retiring, NBC said on 5 November. Bolster, 59, was...
LOS ANGELES: For weeks, Fox used every opportunity during the network’s high-rated playoff broadcasts to relentlessly plug the new Jerry Bruckheimer drama Skin. On 4...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati has threatened to take legal action against unauthorised use of its sports-related software by private satellite channels. Most satellite channels...
LONDON: UK broadcaster ITV has stated that over 70 million viewers have so far watched its coverage of the Rugby World Cup from Australia. In India...
NEW YORK: The National Hockey League (NHL) in conjunction with ESPN International have announced that international distribution of NHL programming is at an all time high....
NEW JERSEY: Bollywood Group’s Bollywood Music Awards (BMA) 2003 was held recently at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to honour the artistes of Bollywood music industry. ...
LONDON: Maciek Bernatt-Reszczynski has been appointed as head of BBC World Service in Ukraine. He will take up this position on 7 November. Maciek joined...
LONDON: It may be the all-time box office champion of the UK, US and the world. It may have won 11 Academy Awards. But all that...
WASHING D.C: Authorities in the US are coming down hard on the internet being used a media delivery system. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) HAS adopted...
LOS ANGELES: This is the kind of thing that would give newly appointed censor chief Anupam Kher many a sleepless night! A new reality TV show...