MUMBAI: In a development that has taken many within the cult music franchise by surprise, MTV Networks Asia executive vice-president and MTV India managing director Alex...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting ministry proposes; the home ministry disposes. This could well be the case relating to news and current affairs programming on private...
MUMBAI: Sports marketing firm World Sport Group (WSG) has signed a deal worth over $200 million with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), securing the financial future...
MUMBAI: Kalanithi Maran’s Sun Network has bought out Tamil publication giant Dinakaran. With this deal, Maran, who enjoys prominence in television and FM radio, has now...
MUMBAI: Several Bengali language channels have recently hit the market, fighting for space in an expanding environment. The latest is Bangla Music Television, floated by UK-based...
MUMBAI: Blue films is a big business market. Star News popular crime show Red Alert on 18 June will feature an exclusive on rampant sale of...
MUMBAI: The government may come out with a downlinking policy soon but Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra has reservations on whether it would be a complete...
NEW DELHI: After having proposed that all TV channels beaming from outside India, should register themselves in India, the government is now toying with cross-media restrictions....
MUMBAI: This is an opportunity for Asian television documentary filmmakers to showcase their wares across the region. Asia’s filmmakers are invited to submit their proposals for...
MUMBAI: Sahara One today officially announced the appointment of Shantonu Aditya as CEO of the company, while saying the restructuring of its media and entertainment business...
MUMBAI: Malayalam channel Asianet has launched a new comedy programme in the 9:30 pm slot. The show Comedy Nagar 2nd Street is a Monday – Friday...
MUMBAI: How will you handle an explosive? Carefully and shrewdly. That is just what Zee TV is doing with its new weekly serial Time Bomb –...
MUMBAI: Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall announced at the Paris Air Show that Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems had selected Arianespace to launch the BSat-3a spacecraft...
MUMBAI: The broadcast world and telecom operators are keen on joining hands to churn out content for third-generation phones to offer entertainment clips. China’s state-owned television...
MUMBAI: Three years after it was given the unceremonious heave-ho for “infringing” state broadcasting rules, BBC is eyeing a return to China with the launch of...
MUMBAI: With an aim to further beef up its distribution activities, Sahara India has got itself a new national distribution head in Rakesh Lamba. Lamba would...
MUMBAI: Indian curry on Canadian Idol? That’s exactly what it is as a former Mumbaiite has made it to the final 32 as the third season...
BBC World' Hardtalk India will showcase Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) chairman of Indian cricket’s governing body Ranbir Singh Mahendra on 17 June....
MUMBAI: Essel Group promoted Dish TV has signed an agreement to distribute Southern Spice Music (SS Music) on its direct-to-home (DTH) platform. Martin Lottery Group-promoted music...
MUMBAI: Viacom’s board of directors on Tuesday approved the division of the media giant into two separate companies one built around MTV Networks and the other...
MUMBAI: It has been just a fortnight since Hungama TV’s new live action show Hero went on air, but it has emerged a clear star already....
MUMBAI: The classic tale of the courageous and judicious King Vikramaditya and the clever ghost, Betal, is all set to make its world television debut on...
MUMBAI: Independent children’s entertainment company DIC Entertainment and children’s broadcaster Nickelodeon International have concluded an agreement. Nick has acquired the rights to the adventure series Trollz....
MUMBAI: Monday’s total legal victory for Michael Jackson on charges of child molestation, conspiracy and other counts was a verdict that brought a huge cheer for...
MUMBAI: It’s now official. Anuj Gandhi, senior V-P sales and marketing, has replaced Shantonu Aditya as president of SET Discovery. Confirming a development first put out...
MUMBAI: Finally, the verdict is out! The Channel [V]’s Get Gorgeous II winner is Priyanka Shah. Priyanka Shah from Pune competed with the other final contenders...
MUMBAI: Jennifer Beals, whose series The L Word recently completed its second season, stars as a woman shattered by a dark secret in Lifetime Television’s movie...
MUMBAI: Sudarshan TV has been granted the go ahead by the Information and Broadcasting ministry to launch its 24 hour news and current affairs channel. In...
MUMBAI: Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) is introducing Vision Global, a product suite that integrates powerful media sales, scheduling, and digital asset management tools to bring a...
MUMBAI: Sahara India Entertainment Management plans to invest Rs 1 billion towards movie production over the next 18 months. The company is also stepping into international...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide the commercial arm of the BBC has published its Annual Review for 2004/05. It has announced record profits of £55 million for 2004/05,...
MUMBAI: The classic tale of the courageous and judicious King Vikramaditya and the clever ghost, Betal, is all set to make its world television debut on...
MUMBAI: SET Discovery president Shantonu Aditya, who quit the company last week, takes charge as chief executive officer of Sahara India Entertainment Management Co Ltd (SIEMCL)...
MUMBAI: Television comic icon Bill Cosby whose father character Cliff Huxtable was a staple on American television for many years on The Cosby Show has been...
MUMBAI: With a total of 2,238 exhibiting companies from 55 countries, CommunicAsia, BroadcastAsia and EnterpriseIT will showcase the latest IT & communications, broadcast technologies and enterprise...
MUMBAI: It has been just a fortnight since Hungama TV’s new live action show Hero went on air, but it has emerged a clear star already....
NEW DELHI: Formula One races with participants sporting logos of sponsors like Marlboro company may just sneak through on Indian television during a live telecast. Any...
MUMBAI: Leading chipmaker Intel Corp has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Shanghai Media Group to work together in the area of digital home programming,...
MUMBAI: It is all about election coverage! Zee Bangla, entertainment channel would have a show Verdict 2005, live coverage of the Kolkata municipal corporation polling. The...
MUMBAI: Online TV Company, Japan’s multi-channel TV service that delivers online video content into broadband homes, has added two new channels to its kitty. The German...
MUMBAI: The first feature-length animated film ever made — Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — will premiere in Hindi on The Disney Channel on 25...
MUMBAI: The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) and Unesco’s programme for creative content have announced a new partnership for the establishment of a branded section of audio...
MUMBAI: Nielsen Media Research’s plan to introduce peoplemeters has upset several broadcast networks in the US including Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Their grouse: the metres will...
MUMBAI: Zee Smile, which is currently exercising in programming high drive, is planning to pick up some globally accepted comic formats. In this regard, the fun...
MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan will telecast a new Series titled Kashmir from 26 June, 2005. The Series will be telecast on Sundays at 9:30 pm on...
MUMBAI: As part of a promotion activity of his latest production, Paheli, Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan will be hosting Ankahee Paheli, a half hour musical special,...
MUMBAI: The BBC has acquired UK broadcast rights for the historical drama mini-series Into the West. Steven Spielberg is the executive producer of the series which...
MUMBAI: Britains regulator Ofcom has come out with a ‘digital television update’ for the first quarter of 2005. The report analyses data provided by the main...
BANGALORE: When Star Wars first hit movie theatres in 1977, the world had never seen a motion picture quite like it featuring massive space stations, intelligent...
MUMBAI: US-headquartered Lucent Technologies has been awarded two wireless network optimization contracts by Tibet Mobile and Inner Mongolia Unicom, provincial subsidiaries of China Mobile and China...

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