The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has imposed special margins on 33 scrips, including four media shares. The media firms included in the list of companies on...
“Everyone is talking to everyone.” That was all Lalit Modi, vice-chairman and president, Modi Entertainment Network, would offer other than a “no comments” when asked about...
Global sports-related marketing major Sportsworld Media Group, the company that owns the worldwide rights to ITV’s Popstars, is currently the target of a buy-out by a...
Lottery may never be the same again from 6 pm today. The Essel group promoted Super Lotto goes online at retail centres across the country from...
Doordarshan has decided to offer digital transmission television (DTT) platform to private satellite channels in the coming weeks. After a hiatus of nearly two years, the...
New Delhi, Thursday, March 9, 2006: Iomega, a global leader in data storage, today announced the Iomega® REV® Loader 280, an innovative new desktop autoloader for...
Airtimes: Indian Standard Times Saturday, March 18 at 0930am, 2000hrs and 2230hrs Sunday, March 19 at 0600am, 1700hrs and 2030hrs Monday, March 20 at 0900am Indian...
BBC World has announced the launch of a series of programs called The Hollywood Years. Tom Brook the host of the entertainment show Talking Movies explained...
‘Aap Ka Haq’, the path-breaking show which ace showman Shekhar Suman anchors on JANMAT, India’s first views channel, has kept to its promise of giving a...
Doordarshan Mumbai’s inhouse music-n-dance show Tak Dhina Dhin will soon reach an unsurpassed milestone of completing 250 episodes among the state broadcaster’s programmes The landmark achievement...
BBC World’s strategy is simple – building up audience strength through impartial in-depth analysis. Talking Movies host Tom Brook who met the press last night in...
Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd will soon be Pritish Nandy Entertainment. This was decided at a board meeting held yesterday. The purpose of the name change is...
Cricket rights are being bounced around like nobody’s business at the moment. ESPN Star Sports today announced it has secured broadcast rights for all international cricket...
B4U Music and and Sony Music jointly launched an all girl band, ‘Teer’ at Velocity, at Tardeo in south Mumbai on Tuesday night. The four girls...
ETC Networks Ltd has received a welcome cash infusion after its board yesterday approved the preferential allotment of slightly over 2.2 million equity shares to Subhash...
The Intelsat 904 communications satellite was successfully launched aboard an Ariane 44L launch vehicle at 1:59 am EST today. The satellite is expected to be operational...
In December 2001, Indian Television Media Information & Publishing (which runs the website http://www.indiantelevision.com) organised Qalam 2001 – a two-day scriptwriters forum and workshop – along...
News channels are rolling up their sleeves once again, as the second important event of the Indian polity’s calendar year unfolds on 28 February. The claimant...
Close on the heels of an agreement with Prasar Bharati for TV production of international cricket in India from 2002 to 2004, Nimbus has signed another...
In the end he was out almost before he had set foot inside. Satish Menon has left the still-up-in-the-air Manoranjan Aur Kya (Mak) TV and joined...
Viewers, used to seeing reruns of popular soaps on DD Metro for the last six months, are likely to get a dose of fresh programming shortly....
In the end it went through 21 days later than initially announced but the pieces appear to be falling in place for a strategic investor to...
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) latest multi-purpose geostationary satellite, Insat 3C, was declared operational today, providing a boost to the satellite communication capabilities of India. ...
The open offer was ultimately higher than the Rs 70 million that Zee Telefilms had earlier declared it would be shelling out for a further stake...
While other channels are still biting the family soap bait, Sahara TV has decided to tread the untrodden path with a new series on the theme...
Addressability. Everyone wants it but no one seems to know how it is to be instituted. That about summed up the last session of the day...
After Playwin Infravest CEO R K Singh’s departure from the Zee group, it is the turn of Tony D’Silva, president – international business, Zee Network, to...
The Hinduja Group’s InCable Network has a new head. Rajiv Bajaj, president, IN TV, the programming wing of the MSO has proceeded on long leave. Ashok...
Add one more to the list of TV channels that are trying to get the attention of viewers belonging to the Indian diaspora across the globe....
Motion pictures seem to be the only new Nimbus venture that has taken off with a measure of success in the last couple of years. While...
It came as a bolt out of the blue. Zee Telefilms and ETC Networks this morning informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that they have signed a...
Looks like the common assumption that ESPN Star Sports will be airing the India telecast of next year’s Cricket World Cup in South Africa may be...
The Hallmark channel may be struggling to find an audience in India but in America the story is different. Hallmark Channel has once again outranked all...
ViaSat has reported record sales and earnings for its third quarter of fiscal year 2002, ended 31 December, 2001. ViaSat claims to produce advanced digital satellite...
Entertainment conglomerate Viacom has reported results for the full year and fourth quarter ended 31 December, 2001. For the full year 2001, Viacom reported a 16...
The BBC has announced that Capita has been formally appointed to deliver field and call centre operations for TV Licensing for the BBC. An official release...
BBC World says it has registered a 16 per cent growth in its reach over last year’s figures following a series of distribution agreements worldwide. The...
First Toon Cricket, and now toon merchandising. Cartoon Network is determined to cash in on its popularity in the subcontinent by creating brands out of its...
If you have had no problems keeping track of 21 members of the Virani family, try dealing with 32 as India’s Numero Uno Hindi family drama...
The ongoing political stand-off between India and its neighbour has put paid to Sony Entertainment Television’s plans to launch in Pakistan for the foreseeable future. But...
News channels are girding their loins as they get ready to fight for viewership during the assembly elections in four states scheduled this month. While Sahara...
It seems to be Sony’s turn to ride the crest of the Balaji wave. Kkusum and Kutumb, both family soaps from the Balaji stable have peaked...
B4U is branching out into avenues less trodden. The company has developed an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that offers integrated software solutions to media companies. ...
The four-day Information Communications and Technology (ICT) 2002 symposium that concluded on Saturday emphasised the need for the IT and entertainment industries to interconnect through synergetic...
One of themes at ICT 2002 was India as the new international hub for animation. Pointing to the scale of the business, CEO UTV Net Solutions...
If anyone had doubts regarding the value of Zee TV’s alliance with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, these numbers might be worth taking note of (Zee MGM is the English...
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) today imposed special margins on 35 scrips, including three media shares. The media firms included in the list of companies on...
The Ark Trust, an American non-profit animal protection organisation and presenter of the annual Genesis Awards, will salute the award-winning John S Hendricks, founder, chairman and...
After the corporate and auto awards, CNBC India, the country’s fast growing dedicated business news channel, today announced the Mutual Fund awards of the year, in...
Everyone in television is talking movies. If not making them then promoting them. After the 2002’s biggest blockbuster by a mile, Gadar, Zee Telefilms is now...