MUMBAI: News Corporation announced that Stanley S Shuman has resigned from the company’s Board of Directors. Shuman, who is managing director of Allen and Company LLC,...
MUMBAI: VH1 US has announced a new initiative that puts the funk back into the music of the 1980s. VH1 is showcasing the initiative I Love...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster ABC has announced that its summer hit the reality show Dancing with the Stars will return for a second season on 5 January...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) and Malaysia’s Ministry of Youth and Sports have announced plans for a multi-year strategic partnership alliance to raise participation and interest...
MUMBAI: 28 October, the last day of the three-day Casbaa conference in Hong Kong, saw Tam India presenting a paper on gauging the success of product...
MUMBAI: UTV Software Communications Limited has posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 47 million on a turnover of Rs 405 million for the quarter ended...
MUMBAI: Vijay TV will celebrate the Diwali with the five biggest stars of Tamil cinema in special shows. The stars Vijay TV has roped in include...
MUMBAI: Market research firm Research and Markets has come out with a study FM Radio in the Arab World 2005. The Arab World is undergoing an...
MUMBAI: British market research organisation National Statistics has published data regarding Britain’s film and television industry. In 2004, exports of all services by the UK film...
MUMBAI: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has announced the release of WrestleMania: The Complete Anthology DVD Box Set. This first-ever complete WrestleMania DVD collection beginning with WrestleMania...
MUMBAI: Despite years of studies linking violence in American children with violence on television, a new survey of parents with children aged 1-6 finds that violence...
MUMBAI: Toon Disney has lined up a festive extravaganza in Jetix Dinomite Diwali. The show is all set to redefine big, explosive and hi-octane action with...
MUMBAI: American firm RealNetworks, which creates digital media services and software has announced results for the third quarter ended 30 September 2005. It earned revenue of...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports will air a 13 episode series, saluting Rahul Dravid, the new skipper of Team India, starting 1 November. The programme is placed...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC’s commercial arm BBC Worldwide is bringing the new Doctor Who series to Germany through a deal with commercial broadcaster ProSieben. ProSieben have...
MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Consumer Products has awarded the Lego Group with the construction toy license for DC Comics’ Batman. The agreement includes the rights to develop...
MUMBAI: Arguably the biggest concert event of the year Live 8 will be available on DVD from 7 November 2005. The concert which was held in...
MUMBAI: Vijay TV will celebrate the Diwali with the five biggest stars of Tamil cinema in special shows. The stars Vijay TV has roped in include...
MUMBAI: Sahara Group is planning to change the name of its listed entity, Sahara India Mass Communication Ltd, to reflect the SaharaOne brand. “The company’s new...
MUMBAI: It was only a matter of time. America Online founder Steve Case who took a lot of flak for the ill fated merger with Time...
MUMBAI: Star World will air a new show According to Bex every Saturday at 10 pm from 5 November 2005. The show’s main protagonist is Bex...
MUMBAI: Discovery Intl will launch its Discovery HD service in Japan and Canada by the end of the year. Discovery HD, which is the company’s first...
Mumbai October 24, 2005: ETC, the channel, that showcases Bollywood inside out… is now presenting exclusive shows of two of the hottest stars back to back...
MUMBAI: Samsung Electronics, which claims to be the number one producer of television sets by revenue, has opened a digital research center in Korea. This is...
MUMBAI: Ten Sports is airing The Chevrolet Cricket Show every Friday at 9:30 pm. The show offers a look into the lives and careers of cricketers....
MUMBAI: Media and consumer electronics giant Sony has announced its results for the second quarter ended 30 September 2005. Profits dropped 46 per cent to $246...
MUMBAI: Indian firm CyberMedia, which claims to be South Asia’s first and largest speciality media house, has announced that its total income rose by 26 per...
MUMBAI: CNBC has signed a three-market (Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore) distribution agreement to provide a series of specially customised mobile-on-demand business news and information content...
MUMBAI: This is good news for those wondering about the health of paid content on the net. The Online Publishers Association (OPA) in the US has...
MUMBAI: Rainbow Media has appointed Gang TVs Gregory Ang as a consultant for Asia. The company is preparing to develop and launch its Voom HD channels...
MUMBAI: The Game Factory has signed a international publishing agreement with Cartoon Network Enterprises to develop, launch and market an exciting new arcade racing videogame for...
MUMBAI: A new name and corporate identity for BBC Broadcast has been announced. As of 31 October, BBC Broadcast will be known as Red Bee Media...
MUMBAI: Animal Planet is all set to uncover and portray Hollywood stars’ special passion for animals with the series — In the Wild. The series will...
NEW DELHI: Even before the Indian cricket board has decided on the Indian-Pakistan home series, telecasters have started flexing their muscles for a tour that has...
MUMBAI: World Snooker has announced a new deal which will keep the sport on UK pubcaster BBC Television until May 2011. The BBC will continue to...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is looking at re-positioning the “only smiles no tears” comedy channel Sab TV as a “light” general entertainment channel (GEC) targeting...
MUMBAI: Content sharing and co-branding is the wave of the broadcast media market, at present. Taking a cue from the emerging trend, the radio arm of...
MUMBAI: Mediacom Communications Corporation, through its operating subsidiaries and Home Box Office announced that they have expanded their carriage agreement for HBO and Cinemax and the...
MUMBAI: Pay-TV piracy is on the rise in the Asia Pacific region. A study released by The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) and...
MUMBAI: UTV is ramping up its animation division – UTV Toons. In its endeavour to continually grow this business and provide the Indian market with quality...
MUMBAI: Launching an aggressive new effort to combat piracy, The Walt Disney Studios will utilize state-of-the-art encryption technology from Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, for...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Indian cricket board to detail the reasons for finding Zee Telefilms ineligible for telecast rights, instead...
MUMBAI: Business television network CNBC has signed up with Malaysia’s Celcom to become its third generation (3G) mobile content distributors in Malasia. With the deal, CNBC...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati has obtained an interim injunction from a Delhi court against TV channels using more than the set limit of cricket...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks Asia outgoing president Frank Brown has been awarded the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia’s (Casbaa) Chairman’s Award 2005 for “the outstanding...
MUMBAI: A rumour is finally turning into a reality as CNN stitches up a deal with an Indian news broadcaster. India Broadcast News or iBN, whose...
MUMBAI: In a significant strategy shift, Telugu channel Maa TV will incorporate soaps in its programming line up. Starting December 2005, the channel will begin with...
MUMBAI: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has signed a contract with Tokyo-based Plala Networks. The deal allows the Japanese Internet Service Provider to broadcast WWE 24/7, a...
MUMBAI: Sahara One Motion Pictures has appointed Sharang Sharma as head of distribution. He will look after the distribution, acquisition and syndication of movies in India...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) Networks Asia has promoted 19 personnel from the Asia headquarters in Singapore and from the Taiwan office as well as hired...

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