MUMBAI: Network 18 Media & Investments has declared its third quarter results. Its consolidated net sales were up Up 60 per cent (QoQ) at Rs 1.854...
MUMBAI: Devasish Sarkar, until now CEO of Worldwide Media Ltd (WWM) which is a BBC-Times of India joint venture, has decided to go back overseas to...
MUMBAI: CNBC-TV18 is all set to launch a new show Up South to capture a 360-degree view of southern India. The show will capture the buzz...
NEW DELHI: Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury today emphasised that the electronic media should not show the face of child or women victims of...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has rejigged the structure and responsibility of the advertising sales team in India. As part of the restructuring process, BBC Worldwide team is...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC has teamed up with Bangladesh‘s news website bdnews24.com so that its users can listen to BBC World Service radio. Visitors to the...
MUMBAI: Brown Johnson – formerly EVP, creative director, Nickelodeon Preschool and GM of Noggin, and the driving force behind Nick Jr‘s “play to learn” philosophy and...
MUMBAI: Surprising everyone present, the CNN IBN Lifetime Achievement Award went to “Common Man” RK Laxman, the legendary cartoonist of “You Said It!” fame. Laxman broke...
MUMBAI: Continuing its expansion into international newsgathering, CNN Worldwide has appointed Reza Sayah as an international correspondent based in Pakistan. CNN’s SVP of international newsgathering Parisa...
NEW DELHI: NDTV Labs Ltd was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Broadcasting Association or the CBA award for ‘Innovative Engineering’ and NDTV’s Features Editor Sutapa Deb was...
NEW DELHI: After the three new channels being announced to be launched from NDTV Networks, the company’s expansion plan now takes its Metro Nation channel down...
Last year Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) set up an office in India. The aim was to get more closely involved with the market and help...
MUMBAI: Zee News Limited (ZNL) has posted operating revenue of Rs 955.3 million on a stand alone basis for the quarter ended 31 December, 2007, up...
MUMBAI: The ‘Padm Shri’ award will be conferred to six media personalities this year. Among the winners of the ‘Padma Shri’ are CNN-IBN editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai...
MUMBAI: Chintamani Rao has resigned from the post of CEO of Rajat Sharma‘s Independent News Service (INS), which owns and operates Hindi news channel India TV....
Think television and what commonly springs to mind are Hindi general entertainment channels (GEC) like Star Plus, Zee TV, Sony, etc… That list keeps getting longer...
NEW DELHI: Vir Sanghvi, CEO of INX News and editorial head of the group’s upcoming news channel News X, has finally left the INX group and...
MUMBAI: Chintamani Rao has resigned from the post of CEO of Rajat Sharma’s Independent News Service (INS), which owns and operates Hindi news channel India TV....
NEW DELHI: Vir Sanghvi, CEO of INX News and editorial head of the group‘s upcoming news channel News X, has finally left the INX group and...
MUMBAI: After extensive talks, UK pubcaster the BBC and British trade unions BECTU, NUJ and Unite have reached an agreement in principle in the current dispute....
The viewer‘s verdict for music channels for the year 2007 is out. The long established players like MTV and Channel [V] are losing on the front...
NEW DELHI: IBN Lokmat, the Marathi news channel from the GBN stable, is all set to launch latest by March. The channel is currently in its...
MUMBAI: After its success in winning over kids in the south with its Tamil language channel Chutti TV, Sun TV is now gearing up to launch...
MUMBAI: Indian animation company Graphiti Multimedia is producing Xtreme Shorts featuring Honest Entertainment property Fido Dido. The 13 one-minute, music-driven action shorts will feature a 3D...
MUMBAI: BBC Director-General (DG) Mark Thompson is calling for a new dialogue aimed at restoring trust in British public life. In a speech in London, Thompson...
A lot of flip-flop happening in the Hindi general entertainment channels. Yet Star Plus is the leader in the game, while Star One has consolidated its...
Want to woo the kids? Infuse those lifeless characters with some animation, mix of fun, action, comedy, a lot of interactivity and of course speak the...
MUMBAI: Right wing religious outfit called Hindu Samrajya Sena ransacked NDTV’s office in Ahmedabad to protest against the news channels running a SMS poll on M...
MUMBAI: Television Eighteen India Ltd, part of Raghav Bahl’s media conglomerate Network 18, today informed the BSE that an Extra Ordinary General Meeting (EGM) will be...
MUMBAI: Talk to any Hindi news channel honcho today and s/he will invariably tell you that what drives viewership are the three ‘Cs’ – cricket, cinema...
NEW DELHI: The NDTV Indian of the Year 2007, cutting across all categories, went to the Indian Soldier, with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh handing over...
MUMBAI: BBC World, the BBC’s international 24-hour news and information channel, in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism, is all set to host the “Spirit of...
MUMBAI: Virgin Comics announced today the launch of Panchatantra: The Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma (Tall Tales), a new comic book series inspired by India‘s ancient...
MUMBAI: Star News is foraying into merchandising. As part of its merchandising and brand extension, Star News, in association with Star India Licensing and Merchandising division,...
NEW DELHI: Many channels owe their origins or at least their talent to Doordarshan. Prannoy Roy began his television innings in a weekly programme on Doordarshan....
MUMBAI: NDTV will announce the winners of “Indian of the Year” on 17 January at Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi. The awards are conferred to people...
Concluding our three-part series of interviews looking at the year that was and on into 2008, we turn the spotlight on NDTV Imagine CEO Sameer Nair. ...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service’s weekday magazine programme Outlook is doing an interactive drama collaboration that asks listeners to help create a play – Kim’s Game –...
MUMBAI: The rumours have been floating for a while of rumblings within Indrani and Peter Mukerjea’s news broadcast arm INX News Pvt Ltd. It can now...
NEW DELHI: With growing pressure following the infamous Uma Khurana sting operation, broadcasters are working towards finalising their Content Code before the end of this month,...
MUMBAI: News channel Al Jazeera English has announced a new deal with one of Asia’s leading cable operators, Hong Kong Cable for the channel to broadcast...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has strongly taken issue with criticism from the Afghan Ministry of Defence of its news coverage in Afghanistan. In a statement...
NEW DELHI: Pavan Varshnei, the prime mover behind the India Today group’s launching of a slew of magazines, has quit the group. Two senior managers, Raktim...
MUMBAI: Lilliput, walked away with the Reid and Taylor Retail Excellence Award in the Kidswear category at the Asia Retail Congress 2008.The Award was presented by...
MUMBAI: B.A.G Films and Media Limited has announced the appointment of Rajesh Jathar as regional head (corporate advertising sales, West and South) of its broadcasting arm...
MUMBAI: Hyundai i10 drove away with the Car of the Year award at the 7th edition of the CNBC-TV18 Autocar Auto Awards in New Delhi. In...
Lights flashed, cameras rolled, news was created and records made. With no sure route to success, the tussle for bragging rights in the Hindi news space...
India TV CEO Chintamani Rao says, “For India TV, it has been a good year. Two years ago we were number six or seven in the...
MUMBAI: The heads of BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, Radio France Internationale, Radio Netherlands Worldwide and the Voice of America have called upon governments to honour...
MUMBAI: Sir David Attenborough concludes his epic overview of life on earth with new perceptions of cold-blooded animals in the show Life In Cold Blood. The...

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