After a barren period, channel launches appear to be again happening. In the offing is a new digital Telugu regional language channel – Maa TV. The...
TV Today Network executive director G Krishnan is no stranger to television. A print media professional for nearly 14 years, he was in charge of a...
It was another wild day at the bourses today, with the Bombay Stock Exchanges Sensitive Index (Sensex) swinging through the day in a 24 per cent...
Zee Telefilms will be continuing with its millennium broadcast on 31 December. This is despite the collapse of the Los Angeles-based Millenium TV Network (MTN) in...
Cable operators and control room owners in the western Indian state of Maharashtra are on a collision course with the state government threatening to terminate services...
Instead of politicians dancing to popular tunes it was people who were dancing to politicians' tunes last Friday when leaders from different parties participated in a...
ETV Marathi is running 30-minute specials as part of its coverage of the Union Budget. The specials, which began airing on 21 February will continue till...
The Zee Network is presenting the fourth Lux Zee Cine Awards, a company release notes. Films nominated in 15 different categories are up for awards. Nominations...
‘Kahani Kismat Ki’, etc channel’s first non-music and non-films based programme, has completed 365 days and is still going strong. Each day at 10.30 pm (repeat...
There’s a positive buzz around Zee News these days. The place is a hive of activity as budget day draws near and the channel is savouring...
MUMBAI: CNBC India will not get into direct-to-home services on its own but would be looking at allying with other broadcasters in setting up a platform,...
A posh car is manoeuvring itself from the Kuchcha, narrow road in the countryside . Nikita, a young girl in her mid -twenties is driving the...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms Ltd, India’s leading television software producer, unleashes yet another serial on Monday on Channel Gold Nine’s 9:30 pm slot on DD Metro. ...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms’ best bet against new entrants in the Hindi news arena, Zee News, is working towards adopting major restructuring strategies to improve the channel’s...
B4U Multimedia International has spun off a new company B4U Broadband, which will be the vehicle for the company’s broadband plans. B4U CEO Ravi Gupta made...
Crown Media Holdings on Wednesday announced the formation of Crown Interactive, a new division of the company designed to leverage the wide array of products and...
CNN’s first web site to be produced and edited from Asia launched on Tuesday. CNN.com Asia features in-depth stories from across the Asia Pacific and top...
To the television industry, Dr JK Jain comes across as a pretty oddball character. The trained medico and blatant RSS and BJP supporter (he was once...
Come 5 February and a new corporate campaign is slated to break across Asia. That of rebranding Star TV as Star. The campaign covers a high-pitch...
SESAMi.com and IBM have signed a category exclusive media sponsorship of CNN International’s regional technology show ebizasia. ebizasia is a half-hour programme focusing on how the...
The acting CEO of Prasar Bharti, RR Shah, has been shifted out of the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry , the Economic Times reported on Tuesday....
Is Zee Telefilms’ Ltd (ZTL) luck turning? The management must be praying that it will from hereon. The third quarter ended 31 December 2000 has been...
Balaji Telefilms Ltd is developing into a TV production Trojan what with its slate of successful shows on Star Plus and several other channels. Its success...
The first episode of Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke on 26 January 2001 clearly shows what sets Sony Entertainment Television apart from the rest of the programming...
Come February and the question of whether the Zee empire can strike back after the disaster that was 2000 should become clear. Five new serials are...
Sony Entertainment Television and the Rajan Raheja-owned Hathway Cable & Datacom have reached agreement on a dispute that had developed over unpaid dues as well the...
As part of CNN’s restructuring exercise, Ian Macintosh and Tony Maddox have been appointed as senior vice-presidents for the Hong Kong and London regions respectively. Macintosh...
B4U Entertainment on Wednesday confirmed that it was exploring various avenues of entering direct-to-home (DTH) television but denied reports that the international partners had already been...
Alexander Brown, who led ESPN and ESPN-Star Sports’ efforts in Asia, has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of Virtual Spectator, a New Zealand-based company...
An effort is being made to set up a unified apex body for the Indian entertainment industry. The professional mooting the exercise: UTV Net Solutions CEO...
Asia is looming large on CNN’s screens as it puts into place plans to boost its international operations. Two integrated newsgathering and production centres are being...
Director Vivek Agnihotri provided the perfect finale to the workshop with an interesting presentation on developing a script. He said that often the best source of...
CNN’s award-winning chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, signed a new multi-year contract with CNN, it was announced on Wednesday. Amanpour’s expanded role for the CNN...
The group of ministers (GoM) on information technology and telecom, headed by finance minister Yashwant Sinha, on Tuesday approved the draft Communications and Convergence Bill 2001...
Down, down, down with no end in sight at least in the near term is the verdict that media sector investment analysts have given regarding the...
CNN International has named Australian journalist John Darren Vause the network’s first US based correspondent, it was announced on Tuesday. Vause will report from the United...
The film begins with the funeral sequence of her husband (Lets call the woman Priya-in her early 30’s) A train pulls out of long dark tunnel...
Broadcast Worldwide, which runs the Tara group of regional language channels, has denied reports that it had defaulted on payments to Thaicom, the satellite beaming the...
Scriptwriting from the Producer’s Perspective Well-known actor turned producer Soni Razdan held forth on the producer’s perspective on scriptwriting. Reiterating that the key to a serial’s...
Media stocks continued their downward slide on Tuesday a day after the arrest of leading Bollywood financier Bharat Shah on Monday for his alleged nexus with...
The Chinese government has decided to award the English news service, BBC World, a broadcast licence. Seven years ago, it had been thrown off the Star...