MUMBAI: MTV Asia’s second awards ceremony will be held on 24 January 2003 in Singapore. The channel has announced that Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter who has...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms has claimed that Zee News created television history on Tuesday, 24 September 2002 by covering a military operation to...
MUMBAI: Action Alias and CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) – both broadcasting exclusively on AXN in India – received accolades at the 2002 Emmy Awards on 22...
ABU DHABI: Click, Abu Dhabi TV’s IT show, is set to begin a new season with new additions and interactive competitions offering cash prizes to viewers....
MUMBAI:Hinduja TMT may merge its media subsidiaries into a single entity and opt for an initial public offering (IPO) by next year. Chairman Ashok Hinduja announced...
MUMBAI:Close on the heels of Star’s Vijay TV, which claims to have inched past number two Tamil channel KTV, another regional player, Raj TV, is also...
MUMBAI: The Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2002 was released Tuesday at a formal launch function in Mumbai. Among the highlights of IRS 2002 as far as...
MUMBAI: India’s first exclusive meteorological satellite, METSAT yesterday reached its space home at 74 degree east longitude at 36,000 kms altitude achieving its intended geo- stationary...
MUMBAI: Business channel CNBC India's third of its Industry Vector series organised in association with Sun Microsystems and SAP India focuses on the Indian pharmaceutical industry....
MUMBAI: Business channel CNBC India's third of its Industry Vector series organised in association with Sun Microsystems and SAP India focuses on the Indian pharmaceutical industry....
MUMBAI: As a first step towards consolidating the businesses of its media content companies, Hinduja TMT Ltd (HTMT) is acquiring 100 per cent equity control over...
MUMBAI:Hinduja TMT has raised the capacity of its call centres by another 100 CSRs (Customer Service Representatives) in September 2002. The ramp up comes close on...
CHINA: Warner Bros. International Television has entered into an agreement with two companies from China and a Hong Kong-based partner, Salon Films, for the joint development,...
MUMBAI: CNN.com has launched a new site design that provides better navigation, faster download time and more depth in specific subject areas, including technology, entertainment and...
MUMBAI: The International Herald Tribune and Bloomberg News have announced an alliance to provide detailed Bloomberg coverage of Asian companies and financial markets for IHT’s readers...
NEW DELHI: Television Eighteen Ltd, the Indian joint venture partner for CNBC India, is in talks with Sony Entertainment TV India to sort out the matter...
Announcing entries open, Asia Animation Super Pitch 2002 has said that for the first time in the region animation content creators will get a chance to...
LONDON: Britain’s Independent Television Commission (ITC) yesterday amended its technical standards to authorise those digital broadcasters who wish to broadcast in ’16-QAM’ transmission mode to press...
NEW DELHI: Television Eighteen Ltd, the Indian joint venture partner for CNBC India, has questioned the Hinduja Group MSO INCablenet’s stand on the black out of...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The multi-system operator (MSO)-broadcaster face-off has taken another twist. Now the dramatis personae are the Hinduja group-controlled INCablenet and business news channel CNBC India....
SINGAPORE: With the Asian Games just nine days away, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) is in the midst of a new problem, this time on...
LOS ANGELES:Producers of the Mortal Kombat feature film franchise, one of the biggest and best-known martial arts franchises of all-time have launched Blackbelt TV, the world’s...
MUMBAI: TV software company Cinevistaas, which burnt its fingers with Yeh Mohabbat Hai, a joint venture with film producer Umesh Mehra, is going solo for its...
MUMBAI: CNN’s flagship regional business programme Biz Asia will introduce two new weekly segments, The Business of Film and Challenging CEOs from 20 September and 2...
LONDON: A major new study into the future of television was released yesterday by Britain’s Independent Television Commission (ITC), setting the scene for Parliamentary debates on...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has received an application from Aaj Tak for starting a news channel and seeking a no-objection for uplinking the...
LOS ANGELES: Media conglomerate Vivendi Universal is said to be completing talks over the sale of its Italian pay TV operator to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp....
MUMBAI : Canal+ Technologies (C+T) has announced the launch of the first iTV-version of a German magazine ‘HRZU’, based on the Mediahighway MHP-compliant middleware, in association...
Airtimes: Indian Standard Times Wed, Jul 19 at 1830hrs Sat, Jul 22 at 1130am and 1930hrs Sun, Jul 23 at 1130am CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane...
AMSTERDAM (HOLLAND): News Corp subsidiary NDS claims that it has become the world’s first company to supply smartcards to 30 million active digital pay-TV subscribers. The...
CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA: In a strategic move aimed at capitalising on the overall strength of the Sony brand, Sony Pictures Entertainment has renamed its domestic and...
HOLLAND: NDS, the technology company from the News Corp stable, has been nominated for two BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards. The first nomination is for the Interactive...
SAINT TROPEZ: A small Indian contingent consisting of Delhi French embassy representative Reghu Devraj, Delhi-based New Image Entertainment promoter HS Bedi, Mumbai-based CEO Star Entertainment Pvt...
MUMBAI: Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), a Christian channel which had gone off-air last year, was re-launched by the Tamil Nadu Law and Information Technology Minister, D...
SAINT TROPEZ: The news for the television industry was all gloom and doom in 2001-2002, right? Wrong. There was a positive upside to the bad times...
SAINT TROPEZ: Television France International’s Rendez-Vous 2002 successfully concluded on 13 September with a dinner conjured by Chef Christope Leroy – a master of his art....
NEW DELHI: It’s almost official now. Just stopping short of issuing a press release, Aaj Tak, the news channel from the India Today Group (ITG) stable,...
MUMBAI: Business news channel CNBC India has announced Destination India, a docu-series that will showcase select Indian states that have taken dynamic steps on the economic...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati is still dreaming of a news channel in the Doordarshan stable. And rightly so. In a two-day board, held yesterday and today,...
French pay-TV major and technology supplier Canal Plus and the News Corp owned subscription and conditional access hotshot NDS are locked in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation. The...
New York: Nickelodeon’s Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius raked in record ratings for its 6 September debut in the US, ranking as Nick’s highest rated...
Zee Television will examine the lives of celebrity personalities in-depth with a new show Jina Isi Ka Naam Hai. This is the first time Prannoy Roy’s...
NEW DELHI: It’s small comfort but some comfort for Sony Entertainment TV India. Talk in the trade that Nimbus Communications, which is doing the marketing of...
MUMBAI: There is this thing we have about dates, anniversaries and the like. Well, unheralded and given barely a mention in the media is the 75th...
MUMBAI: While Playwin Infravest’s Karnataka venture took off as per schedule, the online lottery’s Maharashtra entry may take a while more. Playwin’s vice president marketing Sanjay...
New York: US network CBS has announced the identities of the 12 couples set to compete in The Amazing Race 3. The third installment of the...
NEW DELHI: The government yesterday had a preliminary round of talks with the various industry bodies on media regarding the WTO agreement. According to government sources,...
SAINT-TROPEZ: Vive la France! That’s a message that is finding an increasing number of listeners in Asia Pacific. At least if one goes by the figures...
MUMBAI: This Sunday, the latest episode from CNN's Design 360 looks at every aspect of the working environment in The Office. Presenter Hala Gorani, interviews top...
NEW DELHI: Just as the Indian cricket team prepared for its departure to Colombo for the Champions Trophy, another of the vexed issues dogging the team...