LONDON: BBC World has announced that it will dedicate a large portion of its schedule this month and early September to special programming and news reports...
MUMBAI: CNBC has appointed TV industry veteran Charles Lei as senior vice president, Greater China. In his new role, Lei will be responsible for strategic planning,...
MUMBAI :Cable ops, owing allegiance to different associations, have planned to hold a conference to discuss the issue of conditional access in the country. The Karnataka...
Hallmark has announced that its kids show Sesame Street will introduce a HIVpositive Muppet. The as yet unnamed character will appear next month on Takalani Sesame...
MUMBAI: Indian kids fled Zee TV ever since it lost the Disney animation block to Sony Entertainment and replaced it with Nickelodeon programming. Somehow it seemed...
MUMBAI: Balaji is set to bolster Sony’s weekend programming with a ‘socio thriller’ mini series that kicks off this Friday. Kya Haadsa Kya Haqeeqat hopes to...
MUMBAI: It’s been a long time in the incubator but Manoranjan Aur Kya (Mak) Television Network is apparently ready to roll. The test signal starts 24...
Scot M. Safon is joining the CNN News Group as senior V-P of marketing. The announcment was made by president and COO of the CNN News...
It’s been 18 months since Star Plus started beaming in the UK and it has made its presence felt in the interrim. The jewel in the...
The Hallmark Channel has announced that its upcoming programme lineup of movies and mini-series have received 20 Emmy Award nominations for 2002 (19 for Hallmark Entertainment...
Fortune favours the brave. That could well be the tack that Zee Telefilms is taking as it attempts to pick itself off the floor as far...
NEW DELHI: The Prasar Bharati board, which met here yesterday, has decided that Doordarshan should go in for narrowcasting by tying up with organisations like NGOs...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate News Corp has reported a full year net loss of $6.3 billion because of another write-down in its stake in the...
When it comes to foreign films, media focus is firmly on the rivalry amongst English movie channels. But maybe its time they sat up and took...
Scot M. Safon is joining the CNN News Group as senior V-P of marketing. The announcment was made by president and COO of the CNN News...
MUMBAI: Channel Nine Entertainment, the US based production house, has bagged the Indian theatrical, satellite and video rights of the Hollywood blockbuster American Desi. The film...
NEW DELHI: The Communication Convergence Bill, envisaging a super-regulatory authority for the IT, telecom and broadcasting sectors, is likely to be tabled in the Indian Parliament...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government now wants to crack down on movies shown on various TV channels and through it may attempt to control all genres...
Watch out the [V] machine is coming. That is the message that the Star Network’s music channel is sending out to its rivals, principally MTV. Channel...
A battle royale is expected to ensue in the cricketing arena. And it’s not to do with what’s happening on the cricketing pitch. It’s more to...
MUMBAI: Pakistan is gaining use of a defective Boeing 601 satellite and plans to use it to provide commercial telecommunications services starting in early 2003, spacenews.com...
MUMBAI:Sony’s ace in the pack has donned new robes. Kutumb, the love-hate saga that started in late October last year, has relaunched in a fresh format....
NEW DELHI: The war of soaps is on and the media covers the TRP & TVR to the hilt. But of late news is back in...
DELHI: It is broadcasting for only a couple of hours every evening but it’s a start. And for a country that has been wracked by war...
NEW DELHI: As expected, the gridlock in Parliament put paid to information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj’s hopes of getting the amendments to the Cable TV...
NEW DELHI: With the adjournment of the Indian Parliament sine die today, the fate of conditional access system becomes that much more nebulous. Though, some government...
MUMBAI: 93.5 Red FM has introduced live DJ night mixing on the station with DJ Nasha. This makes Red the first FM station in the country...
MUMBAI:With the anniversary 9/11 close at hand, US news network CNN has announced a two part special America Remembers. The special comes under the programme band...
MUMBAI:With the anniversary 9/11 close at hand, US news network CNN has announced a two part special America Remembers. The special comes under the programme band...
MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan is taking its mantle of public broadcaster seriously once again, it would seem. Beginning 14 August, Chitrahaar on DD1 will no longer...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has won the Commonwealth Learning Award of Excellence for Institutional Achievement for the quality of its English teaching on radio and online....
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has won the Commonwealth Learning Award of Excellence for Institutional Achievement for the quality of its English teaching on radio and online....
MUMBAI: Excel Home Videos, (India’s leading Home Entertainment Company and licensee for Walt Disney and 20th Century Fox) has set a precedent for the Home Entertainment...
MUMBAI: Consumer body Mumbai Grahak Panchayat has called a meeting of all state-level consumer organisations and cable consumer organisations in Maharashtra on 18 August in Mumbai. ...
MUMBAI: Panamsat, which claims to be the premier provider of global video and data broadcasting services via satellite, has introduced two new digital services designed to...
MUMBAI: STARZ! which claims to be the largest provider of cable and satellite-delivered premium movie channels in the US, has announced that it will present the...
MUMBAI: Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd is again trying to milk its old cash cow. That too without all the glam and snazz that marked...
‘NETWORK PROBLEM’ SE MUSSADDI LAL KA HAAL BEHAAL !!! WATCH MUSSADDI LAL, A, THIS FRIDAY AT 8.30 P.M Mumbai, August 9 2006: From rising fuel prices...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Federation, which met in Hyderabad on Friday, discussed the issue of conditional access system, amongst other things, and has decided to...
Mumbai, 28th July 2006: With Shaadi.com partnering you in your search for a suitable groom / bride, you can rest assured it will be smooth sailing....
MUMBAI: Religion is a stronger bait than marriage on the tube, it would seem. Madhuri Dixit’s attempt at fixing marriages on Sony may have taken an...
MUMBAI: The Prasar Bharati has called for proposals from television producers for national broadcaster Doordarshan under the sponsored category for prime time, non-prime time and sub-national...
MUMBAI: Shin Satellite Public Company Limited today announced continued growth for the first half of 2002, posting 25 per cent growth in net profit over the...
MUMBAI: Cricket with personality, fun and plenty of doses of masala! That is the treat MAX the film and cricket channel from the Sony stable has...
MUMBAI:The film industry has long been dogged by allegations of the involvement of underworld money in many of its dealings. Now shady money appears to have...
MUMBAI: In a climate where the perceived wisdom is that “dumbing down” works and works well on television (could be said of other media as well),...
MUMBAI:BBC World Service is launching a new three-part series examining the impact of Asian people on 21st century life. Asian Diasporas starts on Friday, 16 August...
MUMBAI: It’s early days no doubt. But the first week’s TAM ratings of Sony Entertainment’s matchmaking blockbuster show hosted by Bollywood screen siren Madhuri Dixit, Kahin...
MUMBAI:BBC World Service is launching a new three-part series examining the impact of Asian people on 21st century life. Asian Diasporas starts on Friday, 16 August...
MUMBAI: In a climate where the perceived wisdom is that “dumbing down” works and works well on television (could be said of other media as well),...