Fortune Star a wholly owned subsidiary of the Star Group, Triage Entertainment and West End Stories have joined forces to produce “Hong Kong Caf”. This is...
UK broadcaster BBC is now firmly in charge of making sure that the conversion from analogue to digital television in Britain proceeds smoothly. It has been...
It’s taking time but it’s happening. A legal framework for dealing with the rampant pirating of cable signals is slowly falling into place. Thursday’s Delhi High...
NEW DELHI: To CAS or not to CAS mandatorily? This is the question that is being debated by the government. According to a senior government official,...
Discovery’s mission is clear. Build up the audience base by offering content in regional languages. With this objective in mind the channel on Wednesday announced the...
MUMBAI: Underdeclaration has been the way out thus far; 100 per cent declaration is an impractical option. CAS is the effective solution in the foreseeable future....
The Dheeraj Kumar-promoted production house Creative Eye has recently created a new programming cell headed by Roopa Das, former senior executive producer of Sony Entertainment Television....
CNN has been awarded top honours at the 42nd Monte Carlo Television Festival, considered one of Europes most prestigious competitions. CNN International bagged two of the...
NEW DELHI: Sony Entertainment Television, part of the Japanese conglomerate Sony, is in a restructuring mode both in Singapore and India. Though company executives did not...
Walt Disney’s latest flick ‘Lilo & Stitch’ that raked in impressive box office collections, will soon appear as a television series and a video sequel. According...
NEW DELHI: In a conference hall which had the festive look of a wedding pandaal, including facilities for girls to put on mehndi and an astrologer,...
NEW DELHI: Striking a bullish note, Sony Entertainment Television (SET) India feels it will make profits after tax (PAT) at the end of the current financial...
MUMBAI: Business channel CNBC India has linked up with Computer Associates to launch ‘Telecom Turf’, touted as the first of its kind corporate colloquium of the...
It may have lost Avinash IPS to another production house, but Miditech is set to launch another series on Star Plus. After Commando, the reality series...
For the harried small cable op in India, flustered by the myriad possibilities of conditional access and Internet over cable, help is at hand. Shamim Shaikh,...
Do the amendments being sought in the Cable TV (Networks) regulation Act, 1995 address the issue of subscriber management system? Will there be a penalty for...
Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV), the Sun Network-owned leading cable distribution company in Tamil Nadu, is expanding its base to add the city of Hyderabad within its...
ETC Networks seems to have turned the corner. After posting losses of Rs 136.12 million for the year ended 31 March 2002, the company has claimed...
The courting game is on in right earnest in the distribution arena. And it is on the Zee Turner and SET Discovery distribution platforms where the...
CNN Productions Beneath the Veil has been awarded a Freedom of the Press Award by America’s National Press Club. The documentary, created by Saira Shah, profiling...
Prasar Bharati is close to sewing up a terrestrial deal for the ICC-organized cricket telecast rights. “We have explored various options and are close to hammering...
Joining the trend among most channels to switch from an analog feed, music channel MTV is preparing to go digital by end-July. Sanjeev Hiremath, vice-president, network...
For action channel AXN, generating local interest in its programming is not about creating Indian programming or even Indian language feeds. It’s all about bringing events...
TV Today Networks, promoter of leading Hindi news channel Aaj Tak, has applied to the foreign investment promotion board (FIPB) seeking permission to induct foreign equity,...
American cable network CBS and RealNetworks have joined forces once again to provide exclusive, 24/7 live video streaming from the Big Brother 3 house. The webcast,...
Almost 11 months to the day after Sony Entertainment announced plans to launch Shubh Vivaah with Bollywood queen bee Madhuri Dixit as host, the mega matchmaking...
State-owned pubcaster Doordarshan is getting gung-ho about DD Metro under new director-general S.Y. Quraishi. The reason: out of the 35 prime time slots on DD Metro...
Arianespace has successfully launched two communications satellites: Stellat 5, built by Alcatel Space for the new Stellat joint venture; and N-STAR c, produced by American manufacturers...
BBCi has announced that aspiring writers can apply to become a part of a six member team that will create Cleaners, a sitcom to be developed...
Avinash IPS will have new parents from this week. Star Plus’ supercop, just six weeks old, has been snatched from Miditech and handed over to UTV...
World Sport Nimbus (WSN) has a new chief executive in former Zee Telefilms president Digvijay Singh. Singh, who joined the WSN board last month, was appointed...
A campaign to ward off the AIDS epidemic in India was flagged off on 2 July by the BBC World Service Trust, the NGO arm of...
Officials belonging to the information and broadcasting ministry, along with officials from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) will meet representatives from the broadcasting and cable...
There has been a major reorganisation at Hinduja Group MSO INCableNet in its senior management structure. INCableNet president Rajiv Vyas now has sole operational charge of...
For acclaimed actor turned debutante producer Paresh Rawal, interactivity is not just a buzzword. He takes it to a whole new level in what is his...
, Paresh Rawal has added another feather to his cap. The veteran actor has turned TV producer. His first offering as producer is a tri-weekly laugh...
The Sivasankaran-promoted Dishnet DSL, a Chennai-based Category A Internet service provider (ISP) plans to come out with voice over Internet Protocol service very soon and is...
The number of active Internet entities increased to 1.29 million in March 2002 indicating an increase of 15 per cent over March 2001. The penetration of...
A report from Mike Baker, BBC Education correspondent, broadcast on BBC World, the BBC’s international news and information channel, has prompted an expatriate British millionaire to...
After the resounding success of Shaktimaan, Mukesh Khanna now brings Aryamaan- Brahmaand Ka Yoddha. A fantasy tale of high drama, battles, political intrigue, changing loyalties, betrayal,...
After television, www.perfectmonitoring.com has turned its attention to FM radio by introducing a reporting solution for the all the five FM Channels in Mumbai and those...
In what is a first for regional Indian cinema, Sony Pictures Entertainment has tied up with Kolkata city-based Planman Life and Deep Films to acquire rights...
Hong Kong-based satellite broadband service provider Pacific Century Matrix (PCM) is looking at forging alliances through one or more partners to offer its product in the...
After the World Cup what? That is the question that the naysayers have asked of Ten Sports on the programming front. The “upstart” sports broadcaster has...
One of ESPN Star Sports’ most successful on ground initiatives to get closer to the younger generation – ESPN School Quiz 2002 – has just completed...
Hallmark Channel US has announced that one of television’s most recognisable shows “M*A*S*H” – will helicopter on to the channel in September 2003. The series will...
Over 150 attendees from 67 organisations, including government, institutions, international corporations, Internet Service Providers and broadcasters attended the Delhi workshop on Digital Video Broadcasting and Internet...
Scientific-Atlanta has announced it is laying off 1,300 workers or 30 per cent of the workforce at its Juarez, Mexico facility. The company says it was...
One more channel readies to take the pay mode plunge. The difference this time being that it will be the first pay channel to be offered...
MTV anchor Cyrus Broacha is slated to moderate an hour long programme which will have former US president Bill Clinton among other panelists who will take...