MUMBAI: South Indian music channel SS Music has announced the winners of its talent hunt Voice Hunt. Benny and Swetha (Chennai), Arjun (Coimbatore), Bargavi Pillai (Hyderabad)...
MUMBAI: Star News has initiated the largest journalist trainee programme in the Indian news channel industry. The channel has recently recruited and trained a batch of...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms shareholders today approved a 100 per cent dividend (i.e. Re 1) per equity share of Re 1 each. The members also...
MUMBAI: Talk about weird stunts. Cartoon Network has announced its Sheep in the Big City character will be replacing its regular scheduled programming with a “sleep-inducing”...
NEW DELHI: Arguments relating to the Indian cricket rights issue opened today in the Supreme Court. The Indian cricket board and ESPN-Star Sports were the first...
MUMBAI: The race has begun. Latest, Zee News issued a release claiming that it has elbowed the numero uno Hindi news channel Aaj Tak from its...
MUMBAI: Sahara Samay Rastriya has two new offerings in the health and crime genre. One, being Body Clock that will focus on various ailments and diseases...
MUMBAI: Sahara Samay Rashtriya’s correspondent Arup Chatterjee saved Juhi Ghosh from the clutches of the flesh trade, which is reportedly rampant on the Bangladesh India border....
NEW DELHI: A raging controversy over cricket telecast rights notwithstanding, Zee Telefilms today flagged off test signals of its proposed sports channel in anticipation of getting...
MUMBAI: Alpha TV Punjabi and ETC Channel Punjabi will live telecast a ‘dhol’ music extravaganza on 30 September from 6:30 pm onwards. The event ‘Dhol Punjabi...
Conan O’BrienMUMBAI: Stand-up comedian and television talk show host, Jay Leno announced on Monday that in 2009, he would be giving up the position of host...
MUMBAI: The BBC recently announced that it was in talks with various US cable companies like Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner, to distribute its BBC...
MUMBAI: Even as Indian cricket board supremo Jagmohan Dalmiya prepares for some legal jousting in the Supreme Court tomorrow, a battle on another front is well...
MUMBAI: It may be struggling to build up viewer cachet in India but Nickelodeon India will nonetheless participate in a global initiative – Worldwide Play of...
BANGALORE: The election for the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) held on 25 September has elected distributor Gangaraju as president. Sa Ra Govindu from the...
MUMBAI: Discovery has tapped Laura Glassman as the director of programming for it’s Lifestyle Networks. Glassman will oversee programme development and sourcing for Discovery Network Asia’s...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Even as the Supreme Court today referred the telecast rights issue to a five-judge constitutional bench, the Indian cricket board submitted in...
MUMBAI: The big mouse is all set to speak German. Disney is all geared to launch on KDG Germany this November. Disney, say media reports, would...
MUMBAI: Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Limited (SABTNL) and SET Satellite (Singapore), owners of the Sony Entertainment Television (SET) and Max channels, have entered into an...
NEW DELHI: All India Radio has won the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union’s ABU Award for Best Children’s Programme for 2004. An Oriya musical feature from AIR...
MUMBAI: Barco is now looking at dedicating attention to the Asian market and has in this regard the company has appointed a regional president – Jacques...
MUMBAI: The second phase of an opinion poll on Maharashtra Assembly Elections conducted between 19 to 23 September, found Congress-NCP is anticipated to sweep a clear...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has won the Localisation Research Centre (LRC) 2004 Best Global Website Award for its Your Voice interactive websites. The award recognises the...
Star Vijay is bringing one of the icons of Tamil cinema, Gemini Ganesan on the channel in its weekly show Starudan Oru Naal. The show will...
MUMBAI: With recent studies suggesting that television has an impact on teen violence and sex in American society, it should come as no surprise that concerned...
MUMBAI: ETC Networks has announced that it is hoping to launch its forthcoming Punjabi religious channel etc Khalsa in December. Speaking to Indiantelevisioin.com this afternoon ETC...
MUMBAI: The newly launched kids’ channel Hungama TV will showcase a new programme namely Paowan from 29 September. This programme will be beamed as a bi-weekly...
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court has adjourned to Tuesday its hearing of Zee Telefilm’s petition in the India cricket telecast rights case. Reflecting the seriousness with which...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television India appears reluctant to pursue the acquisition of SAB TV, belying reports in the media which have indicated otherwise. The talks between...
Hungama TV, which marks its official launch Sunday, 26 September, will have to do battle with strongly branded international kids channels. Aimed at the 4-14-year-olds, the...
MUMBAI: If it ain’t working right, then try and fix it. That’s the motto of many a technician. And that’s the buzzword at the Subrata Roy...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is likely to come to the aid of direct-to-home television services operators in the...
MUMBAI: Eminent nuclear scientist and former Crest Communications chairman Dr Raja Ramanna passed away early this morning (3:15 am) following a cardiac arrest in a city...
MUMBAI: Close on the heels of its national rivals which had been ‘bombing’ the TV entertainment scenario with talent hunts, the South Indian music channel Southern...
BANGALORE: Undeterred by the trade barriers thrust on it by the Indian film industry — mainly represented by the Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and some doyens from...
MUMBAI: The business news channel CNBC-TV 18 has now employed Beehive Systems’ tape-less digital video logging system – TxLog. The system will now replace the analog...
MUMBAI: Aaj Tak has lined up a three day special to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Taj Mahal, called Mohobat ka Taj. This will showcases...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today fixed Monday for hearing Zee Telefilm’s petition in the India cricket telecast rights case. According to sources in Zee Telefilms,...
MUMBAI: She may be about to serve a five month jail sentence for having indulged in insider trading but that is not stopping Amercian media icon...
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murdoch owned broadcaster Fox has announced that the action charged 24 will return in January in the US for a fourth season of...
MUMBAI: The BBC has caved to the pressure from different groups regarding its animation series Popetown. The Beeb has decided not to air the series. Popetown,...
MUMBAI: For the second year in a row, Cartoon Network UK has teamed up with post-graduate animation students from the London Animation Studio at Central Saint...
MUMBAI: Sohu.com, which is a Chinese online media, communications, commerce and mobile value-added services company, and Formula One have signed a long-term agreement wherein Sohu will...
MUMBAI: Zee’s Bengali presence Alpha Bangla is celebrating the successful completion of its five years with the awards ceremony Alpha Bangla – Alpha Gaurab. The function...
Paul Johnson is Television Division Director at Reed MIDEM where he is responsible for managing and developing the company’s television markets: MIPTV, MIPDOC, MIPCOM and MIPCOM...
MUMBAI: Following a meeting that was held on 21 September, the board of the Walt Disney Company announced that a successor to CEO Michael Eisner would...
MUMBAI: “It is not about unveiling some Pop Star, nor is it about another jury star. But Indian Idol is really all about unearthing one amazing...
MUMBAI: The recently launched integrated sports marketing company Total Sports Asia (TSA) is trying its level best to tap a growing revenue stream for entertainment products...
MUMBAI: Reality major FremantleMedia (makers of American Idol, Pop Idol) and production house Vogue Planet are setting up shop together in Japan. The joint venture will...
MUMBAI: Close on the heels of his return to the small screen as the anchor on India TV’s India TV’s Most Wanted, Suhaib Ilyasi is getting...

