After a Gujarati and Punjabi channel, RiTV will launch a 24-hour Marathi channel during this fiscal year. The channel will however steer clear of the current...
It was a countrywide search and a mega promotion that spread across all the channels in the Star Network, besides both print and public hoarding campaigns....
There’s more music in the air. CNN International today announced the launch of a new weekly programme The Music Room. The show features some of the...
The Discovery Channel has announced that the 2002-03 season will include the launch of Discovery Channel Quest, a new initiative designed to inspire and fund the...
Animal Planet has announced a host of innovative programming initiatives for the 2002-2003 upfront season. The network’s diverse schedule will feature more than 80 per cent...
There’s more music in the air. CNN International today announced the launch of a new weekly programme The Music Room. The show features some of the...
The Bharti Group of India and Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) have just marked the completion of the i2i cable network, the world’s largest in terms of...
The 40 year old Kermit Channel which entered India in 1999 has drawn up strategies for the year 2000. The Jim Henson Company’s and Hallmark Entertainment...
Star India finally made it official today. The Rupert Murdoch-promoted company announced the appointment of Ravina Raj Kohli as president – Star News Channel. Kohli starts...
Hinduja TMT Ltd today announced a net profit of Rs 464.02 million for the year ended 31 March, 2002 as compared to Rs 420.66 million for...
Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd, at its board meeting today, approved the increase of authorized capital from 10 million equity shares having face value of...
The past few weeks have witnessed some hectic lobbying for easing up of the bug bear clauses as far as DTH regulations are concerned. Star TV...
The government seems to have the mandate of the people in the matter of conditional access. The latest indiantelevision.com poll that queried if conditional access is...
Hinduja TMT Ltd today announced a net profit of Rs 464.02 million for the year ended 31 March, 2002 as compared to Rs 420.66 million for...
Star India finally made it official today. The Rupert Murdoch-promoted company announced the appointment of Ravina Raj Kohli as president – Star News Channel. Kohli starts...
The man who is widely regarded as the creative brain behind the rise of Star Plus to its pre-eminent position in India’s channel stakes – Sameer...
The man who is widely regarded as the creative brain behind the rise of Star Plus to its pre-eminent position in India’s channel stakes – Sameer...
The Prasar Bharati board has decided to remove the hike in telecast fee on serials getting an extension beyond the minimum 26 episodes on DD National. ...
Jurassic Park, the 1994 record busting Spielberg epic that aired on Star Movies in the last week of March, has notched ratings that would make a...
AsiaNet, a consortium of news organisations in the Asia Pacific region, has launched a website – http://www.asianetnews.net. The aim is to provide a regional resource primarily...
CNN is to begin broadcasting eight of its news and feature programmes in Korean for the first time as part of the global news networks distribution...
Satnews, the comprehensive resource centre covering the satellite, broadband and broadcasting industries, has released its 2002 international satellite directory. The directory, used by satellite professionals, has...
The verdict is out. The hopes and hype surrounding the Indian entry to the 74th Academy Awards ensured Star Movies a viewership for the live event...
Channel [V] Popstars is all set to announce its first pop girl band. The names of the girls who have made it to the final five...
For the first time in the country a census of Cable TV Households is being conducted by the Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies (CMS). The first...
The Playwin buzz is catching on. The Essel group promoted online lottery fever is spreading through Mumbai city, if the success of its print campaign in...
KirchMedia, the core rights business of indebted media media mogul Leo Kirch, filed for insolvency on Monday. After weeks of desperate efforts to stay afloat but...
MUMBAI: As the BBC launches its latest digital marketing campaign targeted at analogue viewers yet to go digital it has announced that its six digital channels...
More than three months after the ESPN Star Sports feed to the Hinduja group promoted INCable Net was switched off in Mumbai in a dispute over...
Sporadic spurts apart, media firms’ IPOs made through the book building route between 1999-00 and 2001-2002 have not exactly set the stock exchange ablaze. Of the...
TV Lanka, a 24-hour digital satellite network, has launched multiple television channels with its Broadcast MediaServer digital video server system from SeaChange International. The service will...
Channel Guide India Ltd informed the Bombay Stock Exchange today that the company board has decided to issue 2 million equity shares of Rs10 each at...
After Marathi television serials, South Indian media mogul Ramoji Rao is venturing into less trodden territory. Beginning 10 April, the producer will flag off the shooting...
Spreading its wings internationally. That is what Subhash Chandra’s Zee Network is in the process of doing. Four Zee channels – Zee TV, Zee News, Zee...
Fifteen months after big-time film financier and diamond trader Bharat Shah was incarcerated due to his alleged connections to the underworld, the Supreme Court garanted him...
The development of Cryogenic Upper Stage for Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) has crossed another milestone (on 30 March) with the successful test firing of the...
MIPTV (International Television Program Market) has announced that award winning documentary producer Brian Lapping is MIPDOC 2002’s special guest. MIPTV claims to be the spring’s leading...
A few days ago, Star News completed three years of operation under a new regime after the divorce from its long-standing content partner, NDTV, which has...
AMOS an Israeli company offering direct, high-power links between the US, Europe and the Middle East has announced that its new AMOS-2 satellite will be available...
Nickelodeon, the neglected child of the Viacom family in India, looks to be finally getting the attention it has craved for long. Nick will see some...
Hinduja TMT Ltd has announced that a meeting of its board of directors is scheduled to be held on 11 April, 2002 to take on record...
National broadcaster Doordarshan has flagged off a regional news unit in Ranchi yesterday, the capital of the new north Indian state of Jharkhand. Information & Broadcasting...
Music channel MTV is beginning its third hunt for veejays in five years. The nation wide search for fresh young faces to reflect the spirit of...
NEW YORK: In the first deal of its kind for both companies, Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organisation, and Warner Bros. Consumer Products will partner to...
MUMBAI: Heard of repeat advertising, but this is incredible. On 8 April, an ad for an obscure oil brand appeared 22 times consecutively back to back...
“Reporting from USS Theodore Roosevelt.” US broadcaster National Broadcasting Company (NBC) did just that when it utilised a short-term satellite space lease in combination with occasional...
He seems to have got his charge’s act together this time. After a disastrous Roosevelt-type 100-hundred day relaunch of Zee TV, group broadcast CEO Sandeep Goyal...
“Reporting from USS Theodore Roosevelt.” US broadcaster National Broadcasting Company (NBC) did just that when it utilised a short-term satellite space lease in combination with occasional...
MUMBAI: Anheuser-Busch which owns beer brand Budweiser has extended its partnership with the Federation Internationale de Football Association (Fifa) as the official beer of the 2010...
A new soap Tu Kahe Agar… is all set to air on Zee TV Monday to Thursday starting tonight at 10:30 pm. Produced by Sonjhay and...