BANGALORE: SAB TV’s Bangalore based VP Sales Madhusudan is migrating to the Telugu channel Maa TV as marketing & sales head. He will be joining the...
MUMBAI: BBC DG Mark Thompson has announced savings of ?221m a year in the organisation’s content and output areas by 2008. This will be reinvested back...
MUMBAI: The Big Picture! The entertainment industry, currently valued at Rs 222 billion, is expected to grow to over Rs 580 billion by 2010. The main...
MUMBAI: BBC’s smash hit Strictly Come Dancing will debut in the US following a new production agreement between BBC Worldwide and ABC. The US version of...
MUMBAI: Asian satellite operator Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (Asiasat) and Pakistan’s Recorder Television Network have signed a lease agreement. As per this the Pakistan company...
MUMBAI: There are no two ways about the fact that sports, especially cricket is a driving passion in our country. Now with Sania Mirza and Narain...
NEW DELHI: News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch flew into Delhi today evening on the second leg of his five-day India visit, even as certain parts...
NEW DELHI: The buzzword today is IPTV. Telecom companies like Reliance Infocomm have already expressed their intention to get into the arena. Now it is the...
MUMBAI: The film industry needs to pay more attention on training and education if it has to grow, according to CII national entertainment committee chairman and...
MUMBAI: Now in its 18th year Nickelodeon US’ Kids Choice Awards (KCA) will dazzle with megastar wattage. Some of the hottest entertainers around join the host...
MUMBAI: Having drawn in new audiences with Indian Idol, Sony TV is now warming up to the task of retaining them. An early prime time launch...
NEW DELHI: In what could be termed a moral victory for Zee Telefilms, the Madras high court today ruled that the cancellation of the tender order...
MUMBAI: A mistake in the on-screen graphics took place during an episode of US broadcaster Fox’s music based reality show American Idol. As a result the...
MUMBAI: FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) CEO Tom Gutteridge has put in his papers. FMNA is the LA-based production business of international content creator FremantleMedia. Gutteridge...
Starcom Delhi’s success percentage can be pegged as almost 50 per cent last year and the agency’s executive director Anita Nayyar is upbeat about the year...
MUMBAI: UTV’s Hungama TV has acquired a host of new Japanese and French animated series to strengthen its various time bands. The channel has also tweaked...
Indian Idol‘s finale has done for Sony Entertainment Television (SET) what no other show has done for it till date. The year on year monopoly of...
MUMBAI: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Atas) in the US has announced that it will organise a seminar on 23 March 2005 in California....
MUMBAI: The West Wing has been re-elected to a seventh term by NBC. The White House drama will return for the 2005-06 season. In India the...
NDTV's Jai Jawan will feature this March Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor over the Holi weekend. The episode will air on NDTV India, NDTV 24X7 and NDTV...
MUMBAI: Viacom has announced that Herb Scannell and Bill Roedy have been appointed as vice chairmen of MTV Networks. The London based Roedy is currently...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that Alison Hindell has been appointed as its head of radio drama. Hindell is currently senior producer for Radio Drama Wales....
MUMBAI: Silver Pictures which was responsible for the $3 billion-grossing Matrix franchise, has signed Joss Whedon, creator of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series. Whedon...
BBC's film based show Bollywood Bosses profiles directors Madhur Bhandarkar and Vishal Bhardwaj on 19 March at 10 pm. The show will highlight the changing market...
The next episode of CNN's chat show Talk Asia on 19 March at 9:30 am will feature The United Nations' Children Fund's (Unicef) executive director Carol...
Star TV India is on the prowl for a dot com chief. The company is scouting around for an individual who will steer its forway in...
Indiantelevision.com’s Seema Pherwani spoke to India TV editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma, in the eye of a controversy following the series of ‘sting operations’ his channel has conducted...
Sex for survival, sex for jobs, sex for promotions (in the Indian Air Force the phrase is sex-for-stripes), sex for sex sake. And now, following the...
MUMBAI: With action hotting up on the news channels front, what with India TV unleashing a string of sting operations relating to sex offenses and the...
Encounters, murders, kidnapping, child swapping and eve teasing… it's all happening rampantly in Mumbai. Touted as one of the safest cities in India, Mumbai seems to...
MUMBAI: UK broadcaster the BBC and the Corporation of London will host a major one day conference BBC Africa 2015 on 18 March 2005, at The...
MUMBAI: Over the years music channel Etc has reached its audience through interactive platform of events and live shows. In the past it has done events...
NEW DELHI: Flushed with the success its free DTH service (over 2.5 million subscribers claimed) is enjoying, national broadcaster Doordarshan is now toying with the idea...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that the first round of plans to transform the organisation will release ?139 million a year by 2008 to reinvest in...
MUMBAI: This is an attempt by UK broadcaster BBC One to fulfill its committment to engage and entertain the widest possible audience with Shakespeare’s stories in...
MUMBAI: Fox has announced that the fourth season of its music based reality show American Idol climaxes in May at the Kodak Theatre. This is the...
MUMBAI: UTV Software Communications debuted today on the stock market, scaling to 30.8 per cent in early trade on its listed price of Rs 130. ...
MUMBAI: In a bid to expand its reach in the Hindi entertainment space Sony has entered into a deal to acquire Sab TV for $ 13...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: A delayed response if ever there was one. More than a day after ESPN Star Sports announced that it had secured a...
MUMBAI: Persistence pays. After initially being given the cold shoulder by the India-pakistan cricket series telecast rights holder Prasar Bharati, ESPN Star Sports secured a daily...
MUMBAI: Sports Entertainment Enterprises, Inc’s CKX Inc., the control of which was recently acquired by Robert F X Sillerman, announced that it had acquired UK based...
MUMBAI: Faced with a decline in ratings, US broadcaster NBC has decided to take the bull by the horns. NBC Entertainment has announced a major re-structuring...
MUMBAI: UTV Software Communications Ltd’s IPO (initial public offering), which closed on 25 February with a total demand for 26.12 times the issue size of approximately...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment and NDTV India have tied up to bring out a special episode on the make-over of the Sony’s popular television programme Jassi Jassi...
MUMBAI: Disney has not yet opened its theme park in Hong Kong but already that country’s legislators have started asking awkward questions. Hong Kong Disneyland is...
MUMBAI: Division for shareholders benefit and further unlocking of value! That is what media conglomerate Viacom chairman and CEO Sumner M. Redstone is looking to achieve...
MUMBAI: The hefty cash bonus that the revenue-losing media outlet Reuters lavished on CEO Tom Glocer last year is greater than the value of cuts in...
MUMBAI: The tug-of-war continues in the business news channel space. CNBC-TV18 asserts it has retained the leadership position in the business news genre. Quoting TAM figures,...
MUMBAI: The nominations are announced for the popular, Jury and technical category for the 8th Annual Zee Cine Awards 2005, which has been bagged by Dhoom...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: It’s been five years since media mogul Rupert Murdoch last visited India, and much has changed in the interim. The biggest of...

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