MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has announced the launch of the second Teletubbies Play and Development Centre with their licensee Shenzhen Tianyuan Business Management (SZTY) in Southern China....
MUMBAI: Disney Channel will premiere Ratatouille, an Academy Award winning film for best animation, on 21 September at 10 am. The movie is produced by Pixar...
MUMBAI: The Jim Henson Company will debut next month two new CGI-animated series, Dinosaur Train and The Skrumps, at the television trade event Mipcom Jr. in...
MUMBAI: Disney channel is set to air Break Time Masti Time, a two-minute interstitials, in October. Break Time Masti Time aims to showcase “the spirit of...
The English movie channel genre will have a new aggressive player in MGM. After making the channel available on Dish TV, the largest direct-to-home operator in...
MUMBAI: CNBC is strengthening its weekend programming in Asia Pacific with twelve-hour weekend ‘lifestyle’ block called CNBC Life. Beginning from 20 September, CNBC Life will feature...
MUMBAI: FitzRoy Media is set to launch worldwide its flagship children‘s brand, BidZerk! next month at the television trade event Mipcom. This announcement was made by...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced that its children‘s channel CBBC is joining forces with political aficionado Jonathan Dimbleby in a search across the UK to find a...
MUMBAI: Tom Archer has been confirmed for the post of controller, factual production for BBC Vision, BBC’s integrated multimedia broadcast and production group. Based in Bristol,...
MUMBAI: BabyFirst has formed BFTV Productions, an in-house unit established to produce original television programming for the preschool market. The announcement was made by BabyFirst CEO...
Around the world, the pure form of TV news is vanishing. The ‘flag-waving‘ style of coverage by Fox News Channel in Iraq and Afghanistan may be...
MUMBAI: Hungama TV will launch a new show Are You Afraid of the Dark on 15 September. The show will air daily (Monday-Friday) at 8:30 pm....
MUMBAI: The government has issued an advisory to two private TV channels to exercise restraint in their programming. The TV channels, Aaj Tak and India TV,...
MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18 is launching the second season of Business with Pleasure on 14 September. Airing on Sunday at 9 am, the show will feature leaders of...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network will premiere new animated series ‘Bakugan: Battle Brawlers’ in India. The globally popular action-adventure animated will make its debut on 15 September and...
MUMBAI: The BBC Trust has launched a public consultation as part of a wide-ranging review into how the licence fee is collected for the UK pubcaster....
MUMBAI: Nick has announced Karan Agarwal from Mumbai as the winner of Nick School ka Hero. Karan is one of the five lucky winners to get...
MUMBAI: Bejuba! Entertainment has licensed its animated comedy series Ricky Sprocket – Showbiz Boy to 29 new international territories through a deal with Nickelodeon. The announcement...
MUMBAI: Pogo will kick off a new show, Garfield and Friends. Beginning 15 September, the show will be aired daily (Monday-Thursday) at 12:30 pm. Garfield, the...
MUMBAI: 4Kids Entertainment will present its new fantasy adventure television property, Chaotic: M’Arrillian Invasion, to international broadcasters at the television trade event Mipcom next month in...
MUMBAI: In order to lift the veil on the global economy and world trade, BBC News has adopted a shipping container and is tracking its progress...
MUMBAI: DQ Entertainment has entered an agreement with France based M6 Studio and Method Animation SA, for co-production of a TV series based on the iconic...
MUMBAI: BBC is getting Joel Defries as the second new presenter for Blue Peter, the longest running show in children‘s television. Defries will join current presenter...
With industry pundits expecting the television content industry to explode from Rs 14 billion to Rs 30 billion over the next two years, UTV Software Communications...
NDTV Ltd is on an expansion overdrive. In over a year, it has launched a slate of channels and moved beyond news into the lucrative Hindi...
MUMBAI: BBC has appointed Tina Stowell, currently Head of Communications for the BBC Trust, as head of its corporate affairs. In her new role, Stowell will...
MUMBAI: Star Wars: Cartoon Network is set to premiere The Clone Wars on 3 October at 9 pm (ET, PT) with a special one-hour presentation. The...
There‘s no business like news business. Or at least that’s what it appears given the way new players are surfacing with amazing regularity. The national news...
MUMBAI: Jetix Europe will unveil two of its new properties in Mipcom this year. The first on is Kid Vs Kat, produced by Studio B, Jetix...
MUMBAI: Kids channel Nick is finally growing up on the revenue front. Led by a sharp rise in audiences, the Viacom18 channel in India has seen...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network will premiere Ben 10-Secret of the Omnitrix on 7 September at 12 noon. The repeat telecast of the movie will also be aired...
MUMBAI: To promote the theatrical release of High School Musical 3: Senior Year (HSM3) on 24 October, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has teamed up with...
MUMBAI: The economic slowdown could well be hitting media companies that have chalked out massive expansion plans. The regional language business newspaper that was to roll...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced that Michael Carrington, controller of kids broadcaster CBeebies, has unveilled Autumn 2008 schedule packed with new home-grown programmes, showcasing shows for 0–6-year-olds...
TV Today Network Ltd. has been very conservative in expanding its footprint. While TV news organisations Network18 and NDTV Ltd. have scaled up their business model...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has launched a news and current affairs programme for audiences in the Southern and Eastern regions of Afghanistan. Stasu Narray, from the...
MUMBAI: Nickelodeon and global cruise brand Royal Caribbean Intrnational announced plans to once again set sail together on two new, exotic cruise adventures in summer 2009....
On a typical day, you could see Sujay Gupta juggling three phones, hurriedly taking notes and issuing advisories to his team of reporters. The chief of...
MUMBAI: 4Kids Entertainment will premiere 26 new episodes of Dinosaur King at Mipcom 2008. The announcement was made by 4Kids Entertainment EVP international Brian Lacey. The...
MUMBAI: In an effort to promote active lifestyle and outdoor play among kids, Nick and Boost have partnered to launch ‘Let’s Just Play‘. To encourage kids...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has announced the launch of platinum collection which includes five animated features films on DVD as well as on Disney...
MUMBAI: CNN-IBN is celebrating the victory of India’s first ever individual gold medalist Abhinav Bindra. The English news channel will air an hour-long show Abhinav Bindra-The...
MUMBAI: Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group has named Jane Gould to the position of vice president, consumer insights. The announcement was made by Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and...
MUMBAI: Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group president Cyma Zarghami will present the MIPCOM Junior 2008 Keynote on 12 October. The sixteenth edition of Mipcom Junior, the...
NEW DELHI: The much delayed Content Code may get a push with the. government slated to hold a meeting with private broadcasters on this next week....
MUMBAI: NewsX has launched a sports show, Sport Grandstand. The hour-long show will air every Saturday at 1 pm. The English news channel has roped in...
MUMBAI: Kids broadcaster Nickelodeon is throwing its hat into the political ring with a presidential and election-themed content in the fall season. Till 12 October 2008...
MUMBAI: The BBC Trust has started its public value test (PVT) of UK pubcaster the BBC’s local video proposal. The Trust has published BBC management’s application...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that BBC Four, CBBC and CBeebies will be available to watch live online from 16 September 2008. The channels...
Zee News Ltd (ZNL) plans to invest Rs 5 billion in a slew of channels over two years, expanding its presence in regional markets and new...

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