MUMBAI: Talk about strange ironies. A little over a week after he was turned away, at the door as it were, from overseeing the elections to...
NEW DELHI: Making a strong pitch for broadband, a senior government official said that adequate solution to the vexed issues of carrier and content will have...
MUMBAI: Come 2005, and the Indian news genre will witness a dedicated crime news channel from the Star News pad. With a tentative launch...
MUMBAI: Actress Kristin Davis, who made her name with Sex and the City will guest-star in a November sweeps episode of NBC’s Will and Grace. The...
MUMBAI: The war in the reality genre in the US is heating up. Fox has announced a reality show that looks to skew NBC’s hit The...
MUMBAI: News provider Reuters plans to increase it’s head count from the present 340 at Bangalore to about 1200 by the end of 2005. A formal...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television India has deferred the acquisition of sister company SET Singapore as its proposed initial public offering (IPO) is unlikely to happen for...
MUMBAI: Looks like the promotional ad campaign is beginning to pay off for TV Today Network’s English news channel – Headlines Today. An official release from...
MUMBAI: Mukta Adlabs Digital Exhibition has joined hands with Chennai-based Kalasa Entertainment Media Private Limited (KEMPL) for digital delivery of movies in the southern states of...
MUMBAI: Moving quickly to fill the vacancy left by the defection of its ad sales head to Disney, Rajat Sharma’s India TV today announced the elevation...
MUMBAI: This festive season, Sony Entertainment Television Asia is all set to air blockbuster movies. The channel, which earlier telecast Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham and Lagaan,...
MUMABI: The Hungama TV kids’ hunt was conducted before beaming the channel. The talent hunt will be on air from 10 October at 6 pm. This...
MUMBAI: Zone Vision Enterprises has signed an extensive licensing agreement with Minotaur International which will bring 10 new series to its Reality TV channels around the...
MUMBAI: Broadcasters in New Zealand have snapped up more than 130 hours of BBC factual and drama programming. At Mipcom BBC Worldwide concluded several deals by...
NEW DELHI: Dish TV, Zee Group’s direct-to-home service, has discontinued two of Doordarshan’s channels on its platform. This “arrangement” will be in force for the duration...
MUMBAI: Zee Music’s search for an `item bomb’ is finally over. Tatsiana – a trained ballet & classical dancer from Belarus – got the better of...
MUMBAI: For Disney’s beleaguered ABC network desperate for hits Desperate Housewives has delivered the goods.. 21.3 million viewers watched the premiere episode on Sunday night making...
MUMBAI: Bill Hilary has been appointed as BBC America president and CEO. Hilary was formerly Comedy Central’s executive VP and GM. In his new position will...
MUMBAI: CBS has announced that television journalist Joan Lunden will host its upcoming reality series Finding The Next Designing Diva. The series will pit 12 people...
CANNES: Buena Vista International Television (BVITV), the distribution arm of Walt Disney Television International, has announced three deals at the ongoing MIPCOM summit at Cannes. The...
MUMBAI: Buena Vista International Television Asia Pacific (BVITV-AP) has concluded its first features agreement for first-run movies with Hong Kong Cable. Subscribers of Hong Kong Cable will...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today in an interim order observed that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Prasar Bharati and Sony should...
MUMBAI: Quoting the latest TAM figures, Zee News says it has grossed the highest on stickiness, with a timespend of 33 minutes per viewer, 33 per...
MUMBAI: BBC World has been named best news channel for the third time in seven years at the Hot Bird TV Awards, the annual celebration of...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) will be telecasting live the semi-finals and the final of the IFA Shield 2004 football tournament starting 7 October. The first...
MUMBAI: New York Times Television, the television production unit for The New York Times, has chosen program distributor CABLEready to handle international sales for seven medical...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network features the television premiere of the animated series Digimon Adventures. Digimon Adventures will be aired on 6 October. The show will be aired...
MUMBAI: Debutant director Anup Kurian’s Manasarovar has been selected to the prestigious feature film section of the Indian Panorama of International Film Festival of India (IFFI)...
BANGALORE: The Indian film industry and the Kannada filmdom have agreed to a ceasefire it seems. In a move to give the newly elected KFCC (Karnataka...
MUMBAI: The kids’ channel Pogo claims to have received 100,000 entries within the first two weeks. The channel receives 7,500 entries on an average per day...
NEW DELHI: As it had happened in the recent past with the historic India-Pakistan cricket series, the Supreme Court today stepped in to untangle the telecast...
CANNES: Things are looking up at Mipcom for Indian broadcasters, production and animation companies this year. At least if one goes by the strong presence of...
NEW DELHI: National broadcaster Doordarshan, which will cough up Rs 1,000 million, for telecast rights to 31 days of upcoming cricket, will have to share the...
NEW DELHI: Didn’t we say that the cricket saga is full of twists and turns? Even as the Supreme Court is refereeing whether the Indian cricket...
MUMBAI: Things are hotting up in the news channel wars. The Times of India Group, which plans to start beaming a business and news channel by...
MUMBAI: As part of plans to continuously enhance its weekend programming line-up, CNBC Asia Pacific is airing McEnroe. The hour-long topical primetime talk show is hosted...
MUMBAI: Satellite radio service provider Worldspace has launched two 24-hour Indian classical music channels. Shruti is dedicated to Carnatic music while Gandharv is for lovers of...
MUMBAI: Alpha Bangla felicitated the talents of the Bengali TV industry with Alpha Gaurab awards. The channel has initiated the awards to celebrate the successful completion...
MUMBAI: In an effort to resurrect itself from a catastrophic loss making situation the Indian Music Industry (IMI) has appointed Vijay Lazarus as its full time...
MUMBAI: Hallmark has a treat in store for history buffs this month. It will air the epic mini series Napoleon in four parts on 7, 14,...
MUMBAI: Last week’s first presidential debate for the upcoming US elections turned out to be a ratings bonanza for the US broadcast networks. Over 65 million...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced that its website bbc.co.uk/news has announced that it will begin rolling out links to other news providers alongside its own stories. The...
MUMBAI: It gets you! Animal Planet’s latest programme initiative involves pets competing for cash. Pet Stars airs every Friday at 8 pm. The show kicks off...
MUMBAI: Asian pay TV growth, video piracy, opportunities from China and the roll-out of 3G services will top the agenda when the regions leading broadcasters and...
MUMBAI: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US will kick off a consumer education campaign today 4 October. It will aim at highlighting the importance...
MUMBAI: Buena Vista International Television Asia Pacific (BVITV-AP) has licensed the two-time Emmy Award winning reality-competition series The Amazing Race to five broadcasters across Asia Pacific....
MUMBAI: The viewers across South Africa will be able to enjoy the US drama series including Desperate Housewives, Lost, Life As We Know It, Alias and...
Channel [V]’s head honcho Amar Deb isn’t really known for sugar coating his opinions.Although his hands are full with the current big reality hunt, [V] Super...
MUMBAI: This week, The Inside Story on Zee News covers the “growing” terrorists’ training camps of Manipur. The programme will air on Sunday at 9:30 pm...
MUMBAI: Sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports will be telecasting live the much-anticipated Indian leg of the four-test India Pakistan hockey series. And continuing its efforts towards...

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