ATLANTA: Scientific-Atlanta, Inc reported third quarter earnings of $26.8 million, or $0.18 per share, on sales of $382.6 million. Third quarter earnings declined $17.0 million, or...
MUMBAI: BBC World has made two key appointments to its Asian advertising sales teams. BBC World deputy director airtime sales Sunita Rajan was quoted as saying:...
NEW DELHI: Do you want to watch a cricket match on television while stretched out on the backseat of your car and receive live news and...
NEW DELHI: BBC World has appointed Seema Kotecha as head of marketing based in London. Kotecha will work closely with BBC’s director of marketing Jane Gorard...
After the initial few bumps on the runway, the take off seems to have been smooth, give or take a few continuing glitches. The seamless transition...
It is still early days but a little over two weeks on air indicates that the of Sahara Samay Rashtriya‘s efforts to be different have succeeded...
MUMBAI: The war may have delivered death and destruction to Iraq, but it certainly came as good news for the news channels. Total TV news viewership...
CHENNAI: The lucrative southern market where Kalinidhi Maran’s Sun is shining brightly is all set to see competition. Come 23 May Raj Network will launch a...
MUMBAI: The day of reckoning is here. With the NDTV news channels making their debut today, the array of news channels is finally complete – Aaj...
CONNECTICUT US: Panamsat has reported financial results for the first quarter ended 31 March. Revenues were $199.8 million, compared to revenues of $207.1 million for last...
LONDON: This is an initiative through which BBC Worldwide, Discovery and ProSieben are looking to build on the critical and commercial success they have had with...
LONDON: In order to help the Iraqis cope with the severe trauma that came with Uncle Sam’s incessant attacks, the BBC World Service Trust will launch...
MUMBAI: City 60, the big city-focused prime time news bulletin of recently launched Star News, has already had an impact, the channel says. The City 60...
MUMBAI: With the onslaught of news channels, the battle for a larger share of the viewership pie is, but obvious. Be it hoardings, newspaper advertisements, online...
MUMBAI: Ministry of company affairs has rejected most of the contentions of the information and broadcasting ministry relating to Space TV application, while upholding a clause...
Asianet Satellite Communications has chosen MagnaQuest Technologies India handle its subscriber management systems (SMS). MagnaQuest provides customer management & billing (CM&B) solutions in the data, video...
MUMBAI: A clarification has been issued by production house Sundial Communications in connection with recent reports filed by indiantelevision.com on the ongoing legal proceedings around Zee...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: “Experienced journalists, not news readers is what we offer!” Thus, Dr Prannoy Roy sought to differentiate his soon-to-be-launched channels from the rest...
MUMBAI: CNBC Asia Pacific and Shanghai Media Group jointly announced a strategic partnership today. The partnership announced today has two initial elements. The first is to...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government will consider the suggestions made in the FICCI-KPMG report titled “The Indian entertainment sector – in the spotlight” while formulating policies....
MUMBAI: BBC World Service Trust is hiring. After a successful run of the first edition of its interactive TV detective series Jasoos Vijay, which airs every...
MUMBAI: It was some kind of an anticlimax considering the number of people who had assembled at the Mumbai High Court today! A division bench of...
MUMBAI: With the ongoing Iraq conflict gaining momentum viewership for news channels have received a boost. While the long term viewership impact remains to be seen...
NEW DELHI: Well, the government gave some way but the cable industry continues to cry foul. At today’s extended meeting of the task force on conditional...
NEW DELHI: The news and other programs on NDTV’s new Hindi channel will play against a signature theme created specially for the channel by renowned music...
NEW YORK: David Bloom, an NBC News correspondent travelling with the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division outside Baghdad, died yesterday, The broadcaster said that the 39-year-old...
LONDON: The health and well being of the personnel of International broadcasters continues to be under threat as they bring viewers up to speed on the...
SINGAPORE: This is a deal that takes broadcast technology in the continent to the next level. StarHub which claims to be Singapore’s leading info-communication provider has...
MUMBAI: Scopus Network Technologies which supplied digital platforms to FIFAs 2002 World Cup has announced that national broadcaster Doordarshan, has once again selected Scopus’ digital broadcast...
MUMBAI: News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch looks to be within touching distance of becoming arguably the most powerful media magnate on the planet. The...
MUMBAI: Joining the bandwagon of international news channels like CNN, BBC World will be a French news channel. According to a report in The...
MUMBAI: It’s not just hack attacks on its website that it has to confront. Al-Jazeera – “the mouthpiece of the Baghdad regime” (as the US-British establishments...
NEW DELHI: TV Today Network’s new English channel Headlines Today is all set to make its appearance on Monday, 7 April 2003. Headlines Today,...
LONDON: The casualty line up on account of the ongoing Iraq conflict is not restricted to military personnel and civilians. The broadcast fraternity is also losing...
LONDON: BBC may be making gains due to the Iraq conflict but its reach has been dealt a blow in Israel. The Jewish state’s three cable...
BRUSSELS: The European Union has given Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp the go ahead for buying Italian pay-TV firm Telepiu from Vivendi Universal. A new entity Sky...
MUMBAI: With so many news channels being launched all at once, the race will definitely be for- who breaks the news first,sabse aagey, sabse tez and...
MUMBAI: While other broadcasters are humming and hawing about the pricing mechanism for their pay bouquets in a post-CAS scenario, Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms has decided...
MUMBAI: The question was never whether the World Cup would deliver monster ratings, just how high could it go? TVRs for the ICC World Cup 2003...
NEW DELHI: The government is finally getting it right. It’s involving the industry where its diktat had failed, especially where surrogate and objectionalble advertising on various...
NEW DELHI: Close on the heels of the government giving a 90-day reprieve to Star News under a Transitory Arrangement clause in the new guidelines for...
MUMBAI: IndusInd Media & Communications Limited has been awarded the ISO 9001certification (for Quality Management System) by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance, 5making it the only multi-service...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan (DD) seems to be banking on the Bollywood formula to woo viewers during the afternoon slot on the last Saturday of the month. Starting...
LONDON: News organisations are seeing a spurt in the take up of services offered not just on air, but also online on account of the ongoing...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government’s new Exim (export-import) policy unveiled today lays emphasis on the entertainment industry, apart from giving a massive thrust to services, exports,...
MUMBAI: The leader has to keep pace with the times too. Aaj Tak, the news channel that has cornered 59 per cent of the market share...
NEW DELHI: Three months is what Star India has been given to get the foreign direct investment (FDI) component in its news broadcast operations down to...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: After much suspense and waiting, the TV Today Network has finally decided on a name for Aaj Tak’s sister English news channel....
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: On 1 April if you thought some new news channels would make their debut, as was being envisaged and claimed, it’s not...
MUMBAI: With the Cricket World Cup over and the contests associated with it coming to an end, its time now for results- both in terms of...