MUMBAI: Plan India’s aim of giving kids born to difficult circumstances in India the chance to have their voices heard has paid off handsomely. Its documentary...
MUMBAI: The barometer 30-stock Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex continued its ascent and closed at 3,499 on 20 June, the best close in the last 14...
NEW DELHI: CAS is indeed turning out to be better than any of the soaps that most entertainment channels air with unexpected twists and turns. ...
MUMBAI: Bid for all or nothing! that’s the message from media conglomerate Vivendi Universal. The deadline for receiving bids is just two days away and...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: On Wednesday it was the big broadcasters (excluding Zee Telefilms) that threw their “pricing spanner” in the works of the conditional access...
MUMBAI: The flag waving coverage of the recent Iraq conflict from the “conservative channels” such as Rupert Murdoch’s Fox drew the ire of viewers across the...
MUMBAI: AV EXPO 2003, which claims to be the country’s largest audio visual exhibition commenced today at the Hotel Le Meridian in the garden city of...
HONG KONG: Star’s news special FocusAsia is going from strength to strength. A few days ago, a reporter for the show Joe Kainz won first prize...
MUMBAI: Starting today, Shruti Seth will be replacing Shonali Malhortra in the Star Plus talent hunt show Kucch Kar Dikhana Hai. She will make her...
MUMBAI: Kid oriented Nickelodeon has announced that a three-part special on the show Blues Clues called Meet Joe. Blues Clues invites viewers to a computer...
NEW DELHI: The 14 July deadline for rollout of conditional access system (CAS) stands, the government said today, though it is trying to tone down the...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: With seven Indian stakeholders reportedly on board, Star India today announced it had applied to the information and broadcasting ministry for permission...
MUMBAI: Although ETC Networks had earlier announced that its channels etc and etc Punjabi would become free-to-air after 14 July 2003, there is a possibility that...
Theres a lot of wishful thinking going on in government. That it can and should control pricing. That too, in a country which is moving from...
NEW DELHI: MSOs now want to fix the price of pay channels and offer an invitation price of Rs 200. The cable fraternity is not giving...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The government today sent out a clear warning that it was willing to u se all in its powers to go after...
MUMBAI: TV producers are about to be hit with another whammy. Bad sentiment for media on the stock market aside, the implementation of conditional access systems...
MUMBAI: When reality bit, it chomped. The pay channel rate card circulated yesterday by Star India and Sony Entertainment (Zee disowned it) at the meeting with...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Today could well be the day that the public have a clear inkling of just what will be their payout if they...
MUMBAI: Hanuman and Chhota Birbal will be the latest additions this year to the seven locally acquired animation series on Cartoon Network in the last two...
NEW DELHI: It was supposed to be the day of reckoning for pricing in a post-conditional access regime. What it turned out to be was a...
MUMBAI: So far, it has sourced content from Indian animation companies and has begun to speak Hindi at almost all hours of the day. Now, Cartoon...
MUMBAI: After a fracas with Balaji Telefilms creative head Ektaa Kapoor two years ago, Ketaki Dave made a dramatic exit from Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu....
MUMBAI: Distribution partners Zee Telefilms and Turner International India are expanding their relationship. Effective 1 July, Turner will be the exclusive advertising sales agent for Zees...
MUMBAI: The Annual General Meeting of the association of French television program exporters took place on Thursday 12 June in Paris. A new board was elected...
MUMBAI: MTV Asia Network’s kid’s channel Nickelodeon Asia has announced three executive promotions with immediate effect to help the companies rapid expansion in Asia. Richard Cunningham...
MUMBAI: A division bench of the Mumbai High Court hearing the public interest litigation (PIL) filed in the Mumbai High Court early this year – or...
NEW DELHI: Reality TV, a 24-hour channel that combines hard-hitting and real-life drama with its unpredictable, unbelievable and unrehearsed footage, has claimed that it is now...
NEW DELHI: The government today expressed optimism that the stakeholders of the industry would come out with solutions to various contentious issues, including the pricing of...
NEW YORK: CNN’s Indra Sibal and Ash-har Quraishi will be honoured for their contribution to the field of journalism this weekend in New York. Both are...
MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati is looking for fresh partners to nurture its two Internet websites. In an advertisement released in major dailies today, the Broadcasting Corporation...
NEW DELHI: Further to its drive to educate and inform consumers and partners on the advantages of CAS, Zee Turner Ltd, the distribution arm of Zee...
CALIFORNIA: Veteran television producer Matthew Penn has joined the hit drama series Law & Order as the New York-based showrunner and executive producer. In India,...
NEW DELHI: Even as the broadcasters are still in the process of “making up their minds” — as one of them put it — on the...
MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena stance on CAS remains unsoftened. Shiv Sena supremo chief Bal Thackeray, who had reportedly eased up on his objections to conditional access...
MUMBAI: The Rajan Raheja promoted Hathway Cable & Datacom (Hathway), in which Star India has a 26 per cent stake, is all set to roll out...
MUMBAI: “The next big opportunity area in Indian sport after cricket will be football.” Wishful thinking? Not if you ask Nimbus Communications executive chairman Harish...
MUMBAI: And the fight continues. The latest on the copyright infringement case brought against Sahara’s blockbuster soap Karishma – The Miracles of Destiny: American novelist Barbara...
MUMBAI: Niche English entertainment channel Hallmark is showcasing the story of the infamous Enron Corporation this month. The film marks a bit of a departure from...
MUMBAI: The barometer 30-stock Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) sensex touched a four-month high and closed at 3,354.14, it’s best close since 22 January. This close was...
MUMBAI: Hallmark may continue struggling to find its ground in the country but it is certainly sticking to its guns on the pay vs. free to...
MUMBAI: Creative Eye and the FX Factory have together created a technology that promises to bring the 3D experience into analog TV homes. The 3D...
MUMBAI: A delegation of cable operators of Delhi met chief minister Mrs Sheila Dikshit yesterday and urged her to support the implementation of conditional access system...
NEW DELHI: The multi-system operators are serious on implementation of conditional access system (CAS). The first consignment of set-top boxes (STBs) ordered by the Subhash Chandra-promoted...
MUMBAI: “The post-CAS scenario – good interplay of market forces; healthy intervention of the government!” These were the words with which information and broadcasting minister Ravi...
LONDON: Television viewers show a high degree of acceptance of disabled people on screen, with 79 per cent saying they would not mind if a disabled...
MUMBAI: Modi Entertainment Network, after an apparently failed attempt to patch up matters with Fashion TV, Paris, has issued a statement today claiming that the fashion...
MUMBAI: Fashion TV has finally decied to act. In a statement issued yesterday in Paris, FTV has said it is preparing ‘a civil criminal charge against...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide has announced that its channel BBC Food has launched across Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. BBC Food is the first new BBC channel...
HONG KONG: Ever since last year member channels of the Cable and satellite broadcast association of Asia (CASBAA) have been concerned over the sale of decoders...