MUMBAI: Princell Hair has been named US chief of CNN’s news operations, replacing Teya Ryan, who has quit the company after a long spell of speculation...
NEW DELHI: In an effort to further broaden its viewership and involve the audience more, Star News has decided to turn the common man into a...
LOS ANGELES: On Saturday night, The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) awarded the 2002-2003 Creative Arts Prime time Emmys for programmes and individual achievements....
India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which oversees the functioning of Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR), has always been looked upon as a slumbering behemoth. ...
NEW DELHI: The buzz is that Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP), controlled by the Sarkar family of Kolkata, is set to pick up 74 per cent equity...
NEW DELHI: CAS is slowly degenerating into being a complete failure. A high-powered meeting of senior bureaucrats from four states where CAS (conditional access system) is...
MUMBAI: The just concluded Locations 2003 billed as the world first tourism event saw presentations by Germany and the Indian state of Chattisgarh. Chhattisgarh Tourism Board’s...
MUMBAI: “We give and give. Yet the producer is taken for a ride throughout. Hopefully forums like this will help redress the situation.” Film producer Nitin...
MUMBAI: The Pentamedia Graphics board, in its meeting on 12 September 2003, has approved the issue and allotment of equity shares of Rs 10 each at...
MUMBAI: Taking a break from the hard news, NDTV India is now set to build up the lifestyle segment. Starting 13 September NDTV India is set...
MUMBAI: Former advisor to the Sahara group’s news channel venture, television personality Vinod Dua is all set to anchor the Star News election special Kaun Banega...
NEW DELHI: When Star News president Ravina Raj Kohli told indiantelevision.com in an interview recently that Star News was probably the only news channel that is...
MUMBAI: Choravar Mor, a daily comedy show by Sri Adhikari Brothers, will be launched from 15 September on DD Sahyadri (Marathi). The show will be aired...
MUMBAI: Mumbai-based Crest Communications Ltd is going the GDR way to raise funds for the company. In the annual general meeting (AGM) held on 8 September...
MUMBAI: Over a year and a half after its terrestrial launch in the United Kingdom, Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Limited (SABTNL) today started beaming its...
MUMBAI: Hindu Hridaysamrat (emperor of Hindu hearts) Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray might not have been able to make it to the CODA (Cable Operators and...
NEW DELHI: At a time when India is looking for young and dynamic leadership in all spheres, CNN-IBN, in association with Gulf Oil, brings you LEADER...
MUMBAI: Former actor and TV show producer Aashish Chanana has launched his company Media Factory to focus on producing five ‘crossover’ feature films every year. While...
MUMBAI: Critics have called it the efforts of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to aid media giants like Viacom, News Corporation and Disney to completely control...
MUMBAI: Tanu Healthcare, a publicly listed company based in Mumbai proposing to launch a free-to-air health channel, will tap the capital markets for raising funds. While...
MUMBAI: The public broadcaster Doordarshan (DD) has made its hunt for a new ‘director general’ official. Prasar Bharati has released ads soliciting applications for the post...
MUMBAI: It was quite inevitable but those were expecting to get a ruling got another date. A division bench of the Mumbai High Court comprising Chief...
MUMBAI: The TV Eighteen board is meeting on 6 September to consider restructuring of operations. This announcement comes in the light of the company hiking its...
NEW DELHI: Zee News editor Alka Saxena has been conferred the prestigious Hindi Academy Sahitykaar Samman for the Journalist of the Year 2003-2004. Saxena is the...
NEW DELHI: As if the surfeit of already existing news channels was not enough, several others are round the corner — including one in Hindi and...
MUMBAI: Hinduja Group’s IndusInd Media and Communications Ltd (IMCL) has appointed K V Seshasayee as the director-in-charge of its Board. Seshasayee has a successful track record...
MUMBAI: The tiger roars at CAS again. Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray is slated to meet nearly 1,000 Mumbai-based cable operators on Sunday, 7 September 2003....
MUMBAI: IndusInd Media & Communications Ltd (IMCL), has announced the soft launch of its Digital TV Services, using the set-top-box in Mumbai city. Sources reveal that...
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...
LONDON: News Corporation’s NDS Group which provides technology solutions for digital pay-TV has announced that it has acquired certain assets of the French interactive TV technology...
MUMBAI: With most Indian news channels misreporting the number of blasts in Mumbai last Monday — besides hovering around the site and causing confusion — the...
NEW DELHI: There’s a pep in her voice and the strides are more confident. What’s more, Star News president Ravina Raj Kohli can also afford to...
NEW YORK: For all those lamenting the ever-increasing “crassness quotient” of many reality TV programmes, there is still hope. From 8 September US network NBC will...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide will present over 600 hours of new programming, from across the full range of BBC output, at the Mipcom TV programme market in...
MUMBAI: CNBC TV18, India’s premier business channel, has announced the introduction of three new feature shows targeted at its corporate viewers today. These include 55 Minutes,...
NEW DELHI: With the conditional access system (CAS) gone for a six at least in Delhi and Mumbai, Sony Entertainment TV (SET) India is looking at...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today formally issued the revised eligibility criteria for uplinking of news and current affairs channels from India, which seek to make...
MUMBAI: The Foundation of Promotion of Film Arts and Crafts (FPFAC) honoured leading luminaries from the television industry for their significant contribution to the media and...
NEW DELHI: The reason of an existing `great divide’ amongst stakeholders of the broadcast and cable industry – that the government uses to continue playing the...
NEW YORK: It has been two months since Vivendi formally invited bids for Vivendi Universal Entertainment. Initially, the company had claimed that the bids came in...
MUMBAI: It was a matter of minutes, but Star News pipped its rivals to field coverage and providing images of the bomb blasts in Mumbai and...
NEW DELHI: BBC World’s University Challenge road show will visit prominent colleges in Delhi this week after an enthusiastic response from college students in Kolkata, Bangalore...
There was a time when advertisers in India took BBC World, and CNN, as foreign news channels that ‘also’ beamed into India. But over the years,...
MUMBAI: Sahara must be having its fingers crossed . The big ticket Karishma- The Miracles of Destiny is finally releasing this week. On the other hand,...
LONDON: The BBC is looking to take advantage of the digital revolution and the rapid pace of broadband by opening its archive. At the Edinburgh Television...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The group of ministers (GoM) panel, set up last month to examine the Star News case in particular and media policies in...
MUMBAI: “Real time television, which is effectively reality TV.” That about sums up what Sahara Samay Mumbai, which soft launches 1 September, is all about, according...
MUMBAI: Taking a cue from the recent surge in track-two diplomacy between India and Pakistan, BBC World has lined up a series of special programmes in...
CALIFORNIA: GRB Entertainment has anounced an extensive content lineup at the trade fair MIPCOM 2003. The event takes place from 10-14 October this year in Cannes,...
NEW DELHI: Star News viewers will witness some reshuffling in its programmes starting 18 August, according to an official statement released recently. Mera Gaon Mera Desh...