The Hindi entertainment television sweepstakes is hotting up and Sahara TV aims to be very much there on the viewerscope. After November’s launch of four new...
In less than three months, the Indian government will permit 26 private TV channels to uplink locally, if I&B minister Sushma Swaraj is to be believed....
Convergence India has over the years been the destination where cutting edge technologies have been unveiled. New technology in communications are on show. Exhibitions India presents...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which according to its satellite launch partner Arianespace was to see the lift-off of its latest generation satellite Insat-3C on...
Last night at 9 pm it was EPSN Software which took the decision to switch off the transmission of both ESPN and Star Sports to one...
The Subhash Chandra-owned Essel Group issued a press release this evening announcing that its promoters and the promoters of Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) are poised to...
Cable TV MSO InCable says it does not want to indulge in a trial by media following the switching of the transmission of ESPN-Star Sports channels...
Within a week of asking cable TV operators to refrain from relaying Indian satellite channels, the Pakistan Telecom Authority has re-allowed transmission of five Star TV...
Doordarshan is shedding its image of a do-gooder pubcaster that has always scored the lowest on the vulgarity and violence front. Beginning tonight, the national network...
The first act in what is expected to be a major battle between broadcasters and cable operators was set in motion today after ESPN Software India...
Zee group promoter Subhash Chandra appears to have cleared outstanding dues to Zee Telefilms from what was remaining to be paid of the Rs 2200 million...
Cable Television Laboratories has announced that it has finalised the OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) software specification. Called OCAP 1.0, the specification enhances the ability of consumer...
With polls to four states scheduled for next month, the Election Commission has issued a warning to television channels (including national broadcaster Doordarshan) to be impartial...
ESPN Star on Friday unleashed ambitious programming plans for the year, even as cable ops in the country gear themselves to protest against the revised subscription...
‘Broadband Outlook 2002: Vision, Strategy, Implementation’, to be held in Washington on 23 January, aims at exploring cutting-edge trends in broadband business, policy, programming and technology....
For all Indian radio FM wannabes, Mumbai is the jewel in the crown. And Radio City, the Star India-backed station, is hoping to see services being...
Prasar Bharati seems to have taken criticism by the parliamentary committee on information technology on its poor marketing efforts seriously. For, its new baby DD Bharati...
If it works, it could well be the coup of the decade for the Indian film industry. In all likelihood, however, the deal between the cable...
Aaj Tak, the 24-hour news channel, is reaping the rewards of the hard work put in the year gone by. Helped along by events that pushed...
Television Eighteen India Ltd, co-promoter of CNBC India along with CNBC Asia, at its extraordinary board meeting today cleared the way for the issuance of preferential...
BBC has indefinitely postponed the telecast of its innovative reality show Commando, which was to debut on the channel in the first week of January. The...
Zee Telefilms, which has seen its position in the channel stakes further eroded in recent times and is currently wallowing in the No. 3 position, is...
Celebrates Army Day with special programming that resonates with the sounds of the Indian Army WorldSpace Satellite Radio, one of the world leaders in satellite-based digital...
The India Today group’s TV Today flagged off its 24 hour Hindi news channel Aaj Tak on 31 December. The channel was launched by Law, Justice...
Eutelsat, one of the world’s leading satellite operators claims to have finished 2001 by clocking up over 1,000 television channels on its satellites. In 1983 channels...
Exactly a year ago on 31 December, 2000, 24-hour Hindi news channel Aaj Tak was launched by India Today Group. Today, the channel claims to...
As war rhetoric beams ever louder, Pakistan on Saturday issued orders to all cable TV operators in the country to stop relaying broadcasts of Indian satellite...
B4U Music has completed directing and producing the Desi Boyz' new video Teri Galiyon Mein. The band's current album is called Desi Boyz.com. The song in...
When Zee TV announced its relaunch in August group broadcast CEO Sandeep Goyal had stated that what the Indian viewer wanted in the shows that she/he...
There have been reports that television channels are ushering the new year on a low key note. Notwithstanding this Sony Entertainment Television's Max, which positions itself...
CNBC India has instituted the equivalent of the Oscars for the Indian automotive industry. The annual awards will reward excellence in car manufacturing in India and...
Television Eighteen India Ltd (TV18), is reorganising its operations and plans to retain office space only in the three metros of Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. According...
Popular bhangra pop singer Harbhajan Mann (not to be confused with cricket star Harbhajan Singh) is music channel etc's Pop Ki Aandhi for the second half...
The British Broadcasting Corporation and Discovery Communications have reached an agreement making BBC news material available on Discovery’s analogue cable channels in the US – The...
Inmarsat Limited, the global mobile satellite communications company has signed a contract to become the first global sponsor of the World Rally Championship commencing next year....
Hong Kong based company SpeedCast has renewed the partnership agreement with Bloomberg Television, the global provider of financial information and business news. Speedcast is a leading...
Next year UK broadcaster BBC will launch the connecting-with-consumers digital campaign. This will go along with its launch of eight new digital TV and radio services....
Action television channel AXN, in collaboration with Pepsi and indiatimes.com, begins the Mumbai leg of their Action Movie Festival from tomorrow at the Central Plaza theatre...
BBC World, which had shifted its India-specific programming to the weekend slot following the events of 11 September, is switching back to the old schedule from...
Predominantly music channel etc is starting the New Year with a special on singer Shubha Mudgal. Shubha will be appearing as etc's Pop Ki Aandhi for...
The reality show on action channel AXN travels to India in the next fortnight. The Amazing Race teams' endeavors in the country are chronicled in two...
"I'm 42 years old, and in less than a year I'll be dead. Of course, I didn't know that yet. In a way, I'm dead already."...
'Laughter is the best medicine' or so the popular saying goes. Zee English is focussing on the comedy band. The channel has been running the 'Simply...
Technology has been as much at the battlelines in Afghanistan as the journalists who reported in the foreground of the bomb-scarred skyline. Stratos, a satellite communication...
This Saturday 15 December at 10 pm BBC World's programme Face to Face will feature Tamil movie star Radhika. The show will be repeated on Sunday...
Software MNC Induslogic vice president (management) Dheeraj Jain, has won the November episode of the Star Sports' Super Selector show. He will fly Down Under to...
Star seems bent on getting viewers’ opinion on every issue related to the reality show Temptation Island it has started airing on Star World. Although an...
CNN has reason to rejoice. PAX 2001, the research study conducted by Asia Market Intelligence, has given CNN numero uno status among international news channels in...
Popular music channel MTV announced that it, along with Armed Forces Entertainment and The United Service Organisations (USO), will produce a concert event dedicated to America's...
Alisha Chinai, better known as 'Baby Doll', returns after a three year hibernation to feature on music channel etc as Pop ki Aandhi. The programme showcases...