NEW DELHI: Didn’t we tell you about it even while others were only talking about it? Aaj Tak’s political editor Deepak Chaurasia has finally made up...
MUMBAI: Audiences for news programmes on television received a massive boost during the Iraq War, according to a survey released yesterday by the Independent Television Commission...
MUMBAI: News channel CNN will launch Global Office, a new monthly feature programme hosted by Richard Quest and Liz George, at 5 pm this weekend (25...
NEW DELHI: It is almost official now. Aaj Tak’s political editor Deepak Chaurasia has been made an offer as head of pubcaster Doodarshan’s news channel, which...
On the inaugural day of the Mumbai Film Mart 2013, MPA (Motion Pictures Association) India MD Uday Singh, tried to define the ways in which Indian...
NEW DELHI: One out of three persons, among the highest level of financial managers in Europe, North America and Asia, watches BBC World regularly, according to...
NEW DELHI: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) today cleared the application by Media Content Communications Services (MCCS) India, the holding company for the Star News...
LOS ANGLES: Domestic diva Martha Stewart has described her fears in an exclusive interview with ABCNews’ Barbara Walters. The wide-ranging interview addresses the controversy around Stewart...
52-year old Peter Chernin does not come across like your typical media CEO. No flamboyance, no arrogance, no showing off. Just a regular business guy. The...
LONDON: The BBC has acquired exclusive UK TV rights from Sony Pictures Television International to broadcast the new series, Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital. It is based...
MUMBAI: After an action packed week boasting of interesting launches including Star Plus’ weekly Jeet and magic talent show Jaaduu, Zee’s weekend special series Kabhie Kabhie,...
MUMBAI: The latest Pan Asia Cross Media Survey (PAX 2002/03 suggests that CNN’s audiences earned US$79.9 billion in the past year. According to the study posted...
LONDON: The BBC’s director general Greg Dyke will take over the chairmanship of the Cultural Diversity Network (CDN) from Channel 4 for one year from December....
MUMBAI: Seems like NDTV 24×7 is seriously bolstering its weekend viewing. While the serious news cracking is reserved for weekdays, weekends seems to drift towards lifestyle...
PARIS: An additional 43 TVFI members have their own stands. In all, 75 members of TV France International, out of a total membership of 157, will...
NEW DELHI: The seventh Pan Asia Cross Media Survey (PAX) has found that BBC World has sustained the audience it gained in 2002. It has also...
NEW DELHI: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) today cleared the application by Media Content Communications Services (MCCS) India, the holding company for the Star News...
Associated Press Television News (APTN) is the world’s largest video news agency, breaking international news service delivered via satellite to 87 per cent of the world’s...
MUMBAI: Veteran journalist and CNN anchor Judy Woodruff has received the 2003 International Matrix Award. The citation was given by US organisation The Association for Women...
MUMBAI: Its show time for the news channels. The Election Commission (EC) today announced that elections in Madhya Pradesh, new state Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Delhi will...
MUMBAI: With the Union Cabinet on Friday clearing a proposal for starting DD News by closing DD Metro, national broadcaster Doordarshan is all set to launch...
NEW DELHI: Zee News has put in place an aggressive programming line-up through state-of-the-art technology and viewer interface to cover the forthcoming assembly elections across five...
NEW DELHI: Zee News has put in place an aggressive programming line-up through state-of-the-art technology and viewer interface to cover the forthcoming assembly elections across five...
NEW DELHI: India Business Report, the popular weekly business programme on BBC World, is back with a brand new series City Business Guide which will profile...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which oversees the functioning of Doordarshan and All India Radio, is showing rare courage of accepting challenges set by the...
NEW DELHI: After having retained Prasar Bharati CEO KS Sarma as its president and getting Zee Telefilms’ Jawahar Goel as the new vice-president, the Indian Broadcasting...
MUMBAI: Film financier Bharat Shah, formerly co promoter of B4U Entertainment, has been convicted under the Indian Penal Code by a special court “for conniving with...
WASHINGTON: Ever since 9/11 happened, a couple of years ago, Al-Jazeera and other Arab news channels have gained tremendous momentum. Realising this, the Bush administration has...
MUMBAI: The 27th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in the US . During the...
NEW YORK: This is bad news for US networks who strongly rely on local advertising as a source of revenue. Media conglomerate Viacom has decided to...
MUMBAI: The organisers at the television trade event Mipcom in France Reed Midem have announced that Mipcom Junior which is dedicated to kids content has enhanced...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster MTV will acquire Harmonix Music Systems. The firm develops the PlayStation 2 product Guitar Hero and other music gaming titles. MTV will pay...
When you walk into the room to meet her, you would hardly think that this slight person sitting across the table is the same one who...
PARIS: French media company Vivendi Universal posted a narrower first-half net loss thanks to fewer exceptional charges and rising operating profits at its telecoms and pay...
LONDON: London-based broadcaster and distributor Zone Vision, has announced a breakthrough deal for the carriage of its flagship Reality TV channel in the US. the deal...
MUMBAI: Independent producers affiliated to Doordarshan (DD) kendras in Thiruvanthapuram, Hyderabad and Chennai are scheduled to join the stir started by the Bangalore producers – who...
MUMBAI: The “Asian” star continues its ascent. Star chairman and CEO James Murdoch looks set to have another attachment to his title – chairman of British...
LONDON: Pakistani-born Abbas Nasir, a former head of the BBC’s Urdu Service, has been appointed executive editor for the Asia and the Pacific Region at BBC...
MUMBAI: The Asia Cup hockey tournament from 21-28 September at Kuala Lumpur will be aired live on Doordarshan. According to a report in The Indian Express,...
MUMBAI: The wholly-owned subsidiary of Pentamedia Graphics, Intelivision Ltd has received a license from the information and broadcasting ministry to set up its own earth station....
MUMBAI: In its annual general meeting held on 8 September 2003, the Gujarati daily newspaper Sandesh Ltd has declared a 50 per cent dividend on the...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: In the end the “bhadralok” from Bengal, Aveek Sarkar, held firm and had his way in the matter of how much stake...
MUMBAI: Time Warner is now finally rid off the AOL adjunct to its name that was the most vivid symbol of the failure of the great...
NEW DELHI: Financial Times (FT) of London will be picking up 13. 8 per cent stake in Business Standard Ltd (BSL), a subsidiary of Kotak Mahindra...
MUMBAI: Digital satellite TV guide cum info TV channel, Channel Guide India Limited has obtained a teleport license from the ministry of information and broadcasting. According...
MUMBAI: NDTV India will launch two new programmes called Safari India and Doctor NDTV next week. Safari… will introduce viewers to the deeply endangered animals of...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation Ltd’s subsidiary companies have been granted exemption by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) from making an open offer...
LONDON : The BBC has announced the appointment of former Globecast executive Sarah Hayes as Head of Media Asset Management. She will be responsible for managing...
LOS ANGELES: News broadcaster CNN is undergoing a massive organisation reshuffle. It has announced that its international newsgathering operation and staff is being integrated with CNN...
MUMBAI: After quite a while HBO has finally decided to start tapping its original series. The first one off the block is Sex And The City....