LONDON: Sportcal.com has announced that it will hold a seminar on sports rights on 17 February. The theme is ‘Sports rights – what does the future...
CALIFORNIA: Amidst unfavourable economic conditions and the melt down in the telecommunications industry, the satellite transponder capacity leasing market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
HONG KONG: Media companies are estimated to be hoarding 6,700 years worth of TV, film and music content, costing them billions of pounds a year. A...
LOS ANGELES : The US movie and the music industries have published a guide to help companies prevent copyright abuse on their computers and plan to...
NEW DELHI: Sony Entertainment Television India – part of the Japanese conglomerate Sony group- has raked in Rs. 10,000 million worth of revenues this financial year...
MUMBAI: It had to happen some day! Star Plus has completed a clean sweep of the Top 50 shows for the first time. Star’s supreme dominance...
MUMBAI: Jay Mehta, the son of film producer and distributor Pranlal Mehta, will be producing two new TV shows: Vishwas in the afternoon slot for Zee...
NEW DELHI: The One Alliance today announced a three year distribution tie-up with NDTV for its proposed two news channels (a story that was broken by...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Out goes one, in comes two. Sony Entertainment Television’s One Alliance is set to formally announce today the entry of Prannoy Roy’s...
MUMBAI: Crisil risk evaluation for the Indian entertainment industry, a pioneering initiative undertaken by CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) would play a catalytic role in channelising...
MUMBAI: Radio City, the Star-fed FM radio channel managed to get around the forbidden terrain of live cricket coverage by being the first FM station in...
NEW DELHI: The Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star can breathe easy a bit. The information and broadcasting ministry proposes to take the issue of uplinking of news channels...
MUMBAI: Crisil risk evaluation for the Indian entertainment industry, a pioneering initiative undertaken by CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) would play a catalytic role in channelising...
PARIS: Unfavourable weather conditions at the Spaceport in French Guiana have forced the delay of Arianespace’s Flight 159 with the Intelsat 907 satellite payload. The...
MUMBAI: Credit Rating Information Services of India Ltd (Crisil) Crisil has been working on drawing up a risk evaluation model for the Indian entertainment industry,...
MUMBAI: Zee TV has announced a new movie line-up for its Thursday Premiere initiative with films such as Makdee, Leela, Agnivarsha, Mitr, among others. On the...
MUMBAI: Here is an alliance that promises to bowl out the competition with a googly. AltaVista, a leading global provider of search services has signed an...
MUMBAI: This is an initiative that gives Mumbai kids the opportunity to mimic the likes of David Beckham and Michael Owen.The ESPN Premier League Junior the...
MUMBAI: Crisil risk evaluation for the Indian entertainment industry, a pioneering initiative undertaken by CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) would play a catalytic role in channelising...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said that the media and entertainment (M&E) industry needs to vigorously educate the policy-makers, government...
MUMBAI: Star World is looking to boost its programme profile through the controversial Michael Jackson documentary Living With Michael Jackson. The channel has announced that it...
India’s new information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is of the opinion that in the national interest, cable operators should desist from re-distributing Pak TV....
LONDON: After having claimed dominance in the US and European markets, the DVD (Digital Video Player) is now poised to sweep the video business in the...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment has instituted some repositioning in its executive hierarchy both at the national and international level. Rajan Singh has been promoted to executive V-P...
NEW DELHI: Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ravi Shankar Prasad reiterated on Monday that developmental information can also be presented in a way that is both...
NEW DELHI: The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has decided to form a task force to come up with recommendations on the specifications of set-top boxes...
Multimedia and animation industry has witnessed a tremendous growth rate in last few years. Worldwide, 2D and 3D animation offers a huge potential. US and Canada,...
NEW DELHI: The pessimistic outlook on the retail and fashion segment seems to have turned into a positive one. The Consumer Outlook study conducted by KSA...
COLORADO, US: EchoStar Communications Corporation has announced that it has reached a joint sublicensing agreement with the Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) and Viewer’s Choice...
he world over more and more countries understands the rewards of attracting International film productions to shoot within their boundaries. In the short term not only...
MUMBAI: Crossover films seem to be making their mark on the Indian screen as several film makers are exploring new terrain. Actor-producer Deepak Tijori’s directorial debut...
NEW DELHI: Organised retailing in the country is estimated to touch Rs 180 billion in 2002-2003, says a study conducted by KSA-Technopak, India’s leading management consultancy...
PARIS: The final mission of an Ariane 4 has been given the green light for liftoff following the launch readiness review performed at the Spaceport in...
NETHERLANDS: New Skies Satellites NV will re-deploy its NSS-8 satellite, originally scheduled to be launched to 105 degrees west longitude for Americas coverage, to the company’s...
CALIFORNIA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has announced net income of $58.7 million, or $.24 per share, for the quarter ending 31 December 2002. In the fourth quarter of 2001,...
NEW DELHI: BBC World today announced its new distribution figures which show the channel is now available in more homes worldwide than ever before. BBC World...
NEW YORK: Bloomberg, the global news and information organisation, has launched AV (audio-visual) via the Bloomberg Professional Service to all users. Using AV, users can watch...
MUMBAI: B4U Network Worldwide airs California based production house Tinseltown Entertainment’s weekly Hollywood show Tinseltown Live, which is the first and only show to promote ‘Hollywood’...
NEW DELHI: The programming staff association of Doordarshan and All India Radio have deferred a decision to go on strike from today. The decision comes after...
MUMBAI: The fifth KSA Retail Summit, organised by KSA-Technopak, India’s leading management consulting firm specialising in the fashion and retail industries, was inaugurated in Mumbai’s Hotel...
MUMBAI: Women from smaller towns have reacted favourably to Kittie Party’s theme of female bonding! This statement by celebrity novelist, script writer, journalist and socialite Shobhaa...
NEW DELHI: Even as broadcasters and cable operators disagreed over pricing of the basic tier of free to air channels in a post-conditional access regime at...
MUMBAI: Family entertainment channel Hallmark is adding to its film title offerings with some new acquisitions from Disney. It will also be unveiling a Valentine Movie...
NEW DELHI: It was back to the slang match ways for broadcasters and cable operators yesterday at the meeting of the task force on conditional access...
MUMBAI: Bigger than anything that the cricket world has experienced ever before! That was the promise for the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup to be...
MUMBAI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Ravi Shanker Prasad on Friday gave the clearest indication yet that the government was considering ways to curb “excessive live” coverage...
FRANCE: Eutelsat has awarded contracts to ViaSat for two broadband satellite networking systems and development of a future Ka-band system. The systems will enable Eutelsat to...
he multiple levels and multi-point Service Tax imposed on the Entertainment Industry is making survival difficult for the small content producers. Presently, the Entertainment Industry...
MUMBAI: In his new role as business head, digital media Saurabh will be responsible for providing holistic digital solutions for all clients of Percept Media and...
MUMBAI: Zee Group chairman Subhash Chandra may have seen an erosion in his personal wealth this last year but that hasn’t prevented his climbing a place...