Foreign media companies like Walt Disney and Turner have entered into equity deals with Indian firms to grow their business in India. The last two...
MUMBAI: Two years after inviting CNN’s global audience to contribute pictures and video of the news of the day, the network’s iReport initiative has brought in...
Getting in new audiences without losing the core identity. This is one of the main challenges facing the English general entertainment genre as the Indian television...
MUMBAI: Nick Jr will premiere the fifth season of Dora the Explorer with a special week-long celebration that will begin with brand-new episodes from 15– 18...
NEW DELHI: In its effort to self-regulate, the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has formed the ‘News Broadcasting Standards (Disputes Redressal) Authority’ to enforce NBA’s code of...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has asked all private television channels not to violate the guidelines relating to the footage of the ongoing Olympics in...
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. –...
MUMBAI: Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products have partnered with consumer electronics maker Imation Corp to launch electronics under the banner of Nickelodeon’s Npower brand. The tween-themed...
MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18 is launching a current affairs debate show War of Words on 23 August. Airing every Saturday at 8 pm, the show is hosted by...
MUMBAI: US kids broadcaster Nickelodeon has announced that Nick Jr‘s show The Wonder Pets! will have a Bollywood-themed episode Save The Bengal Tiger. Nandita Das will...
MUMBAI: Television is the leading source of news in the US. According to the Pew Research Centre’s bi-annual survey on news consumption habits, fewer Americans are...
MUMBAI : CNN-IBN is launching the third season of To Catch a Star with Rajeev Masand. The show will engage Bollywood’s stars in a free-wheeling conversation...
MUMBAI: Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brand in 2009, 4Kids Entertainment will introduce the new series TMNT: Back to the Sewer to...
MUMBAI: The children‘s classic The Banana Splits is all set to make a come back on the TV screens. Hannah-Barbera‘s Banana Splits has undergone a modern...
MUMBAI: Prannoy Roy-promoted NDTV Ltd is floating a joint venture company with The Hindu Group to launch a Chennai city-centric channel. NDTV will hold 51 per...
MUMBAI: NDTV’s Jammu office was ransacked by a mob after it was labelled partisan by the Shri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti. The mob also searched for the...
MUMBAI: CNN plans to double its domestic newsgathering presence with new operations in 10 US cities, resulting in an aggressive expansion of its newsgathering in the...
MUMBAI: Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific has formed a distribution and content partnership with iScreen Corporation, a mobile service provider in Taiwan, for Cartoon Network mobile...
MUMBAI: In association with InterContinental Hotels and Resorts, BBC World News is launching the second series of a travelogue The Real. A wekly five-part series, the...
MUMBAI: kids broadcaster Nickelodeon has signed 15 year-old actress Victoria Justice Zoey 101 to an overall talent and music deal. The announcement was made by Nick...
Kids TV is poised for expansion in India with Reliance ADAG‘s Big Broadcasting set to debut this fiscal. Anticipating an increase in competition, the existing broadcasters...
MUMBAI: With the 2008 Olympics now well underway, the head of London 2012 is in Beijing to find out first hand what it takes to host...
MUMBAI: Disney‘s all-India Hannah Montana Big Pop Star Dream contest has culminated with Mumbai‘s Shivranjani Singh winning it. Apart from winning herself a Gibson Guitar, she...
NEW DELHI: News broadcasters have begun deliberations informally to work out a common strategy to counter the letter received by them from Doordarshan regarding unauthorised use...
NEW DELHI: In a latest development, it is being learnt that Prasar Bharati which comprises Doordarshan and All India Radio, as the official broadcaster of the...
MUMBAI: Disney‘s multi-platinum recording group The Cheetah Girls (Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan and Kiely Williams) will launch their nationwide “The Cheetah Girls One World Tour” in...
MUMBAI: UTVi, the latest entrant in the English business news space from the UTV group, was conferred the ‘Movico Technology Award for Business News Channel To...
MUMBAI: Disney Channel’s ‘Talk Out Loud‘ is all set to groom its fans across Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Ludhiana, Lucknow, Kanpur and Indore. One...
MUMBAI: News broadcaster CNN will examine the lives of the two men contending to be the 44th president of the US in two upcoming documentaries, launching...
MUMBAI: Turner Broadcasting System, Inc and ICO Global Communications ltd (ICO) have signed agreements to provide content from Cartoon Network and Adult Swim for use in...
NEW DELHI: ‘India is a very dramatic country, and therefore it is the best country in the world to have television news channel – something is...
MUMBAI: Ben Lyons, the E! Network‘s resident film critic and an entertainment correspondent, has been tapped to host Nickelodeon‘s new extreme sports competition series, My Family‘s...
NEW DELHI: IBN channels — CNN-IBN, IBN7, IBN-Lokmat — and its two news portals — ibnlive.com and ibnkhabar.com — have planned special programming to celebrate the...
MUMBAI: BBC Magazines will launch Lonely Planet magazine later this year in the UK. The monthly title will integrate the BBC’s expertise in quality travel and...
‘The no-confidence motion against the UPA government last month gave Lok Sabha TV’s ratings the much required boost as well as an opportunity to rake in...
NEW DELHI:NDTV 24X7 has bagged the News Channel Popular – (English) award at the second News Television (NT) Awards held in Delhi today. CNN-IBN was adjudged...
NEW DELHI: The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) will put systems in place for a content code based on self- regulation for news television channels within four...
NEW DELHI: The Government is not considering any proposal to permit news broadcasts on private FM Radio channels. This was stated by Information and Broadcasting secretary...
NEW DELHI: Sahara Samay has launched a new weekly programme, Kuch Meetha Ho Jaaye, that is aimed at showing “news with a positive side”. Telecast every...
NEW DELHI: Al Jazeera is awaiting downlink clearance from the government and expects to enter the Indian market by early 2009. “We had a meeting yesterday...
MUMBAI: Turner Broadcasting has roped in FoneStarz as its distributor of content in UK and Ireland. FoneStarz will distribute the content of Cartoon Network, Boomerang and...
NEW DELHI:The NDTV and Network 18 groups bagged top honours at the Second annual Indian News Television Awards held in New Delhi on Saturday, August 9,...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Ministry Secretary Sushma Singh said today that while the government did not want to interfere with the freedom of the media,...
MUMBAI: Indiantelevision.com is all set to confer India Today Group editor-in-chief and chairman Aroon Purie with News Television’s (NT) Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to...
MUMBAI: US kids broadcaster Disney will re-brand its Toon Disney television and online platforms in the US to become Disney XD. The new brand will include...
MUMBAI: Continuing its efforts to support the government‘s ‘mother tongue‘ based education policy, Takalani Sesame, the South African children’s program, has added four new languages to...
NEW DELHI: DD News will telecast daily a 30-minute special sports programme titled Beijing 2008 – Quest for Glory, from 7-25 August at 7 pm. The...
MUMBAI: The television news industry is gearing up for the Indian News Television (NT) Awards 2008 conducted by Indiantelevision Dot Com. Instituted last year, the awards...
MUMBAI: Zee Business, in partnership with Reliance Money, has announced ‘Hunt for India’s Smart Investor’. The initiative is an attempt to identify India’s smartest investor and...
MUMBAI: 2K Play, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, and US kids broadcaster Nickelodeon have announced a slate of video games based on Nick Jr....

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