MUMBAI: Jennifer Aniston will give her former Friend Matt LeBlanc a helping hand by appearing on the Friends spin-off show Joey. Reports indicate that...
NEW DELHI: Even as a crucial Zee Telefilms board meeting on the cricket rights issue continued till late this evening, the Board for Control of Cricket...
MUMBAI: Hungama TV, the soon to be launched 24-hour Hindi children’s entertainment channel, promoted by UTV, is organising personality development workshop across 11 cities. The workshop...
MUMBAI: Alpha Bangla will bring the creations of world-class Bengali film directors for its viewers. The Sera Paanch Parichalok (Five Favourite Directors) film festival (20- 24...
MUMBAI: Star News faced a transponder problem late Sunday night, which was resolved only early this morning at 6 am. The news channel uplinks from India...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service can now be heard in English on FM right across Sri Lanka. The beeb has signed a new agreement with the Sri...
MUMBAI: The Delhi-based Senior Group of Companies, which recently announced its foray into the already cluttered news channels space, is on a hiring spree. The...
BANGALORE: The Karnataka film crisis episode has taken a new twist with MLA and son of former prime minister HD Deve Gowda, HD Kumaraswamy, openly disowning...
MUMBAI: The new channel from the Times Group – Zoom, which started its test runs as of 10 September, has roped in Pooja Bedi and Yana...
MUMBAI: CNBC Australia is all set to roll out two new hour-long topical primetime talk shows that were launched on CNBC in the US this year....
MUMBAI: Nielsen Media Research and the William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI) in the US have announced the formation of a research alliance. The aim is to...
MUMBAI: Following successful installations in six countries in the European broadcast market over the past two years, Silicon Graphics has launched Silicon Graphics Broadcast Europe under...
NEW DELHI: Though this may not be directly linked to the cricket telecast issue, the cricket story just gets hotter by the day. In a recent...
MUMBAI: The Times Group’s non-fiction entertainment and lifestyle channel Zoom has started its test feed as of noon yesterday. Bennett, Coleman & Company Limited president Arun...
MUMBAI: Intelsat has singed a three-year contract with Radio e Televisao de Portugal (RTP), Portugal’s State broadcaster, under which Intelsat will provide end-to-end international distribution of...
MUMBAI: The German giant is roaring! Bertelsmann is eyeing acquisitions after its music and TV units helped triple half-year profits, more prominent being Bill Clinton’s memoirs...
MUMBAI: The angels are back! Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle l premieres exclusively on HBO’s The Big One for the first time on Asian television this month....
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Zee Telefilms, which the Bombay High Court has given till Tuesday to decide whether it is agreeable to a re-bid process for...
MUMBAI: So how’s Joey doing? If the numbers from Nielsen media research are any indication, then not bad, not bad at all. Joey- a spinoff of...
BANGALORE: Terming the present seven-week ‘ban’ more of a ‘law and order’ problem than a legal one and an emotive issue, Union information and broadcasting minister...
MUMBAI: What else can you expect from a network that wears its nationality proudly on its sleeves! Sahara India Pariwar focussed on conveying the global message...
MUMBAI: Shazi Zaman, former BBC and Zee News person who had been with Aaj Tak for the last several years has resigned his post as executive...
NEW DELHI: As ESPN-Star Sports and Zee Telefilms slug it out for the Indian cricket rights, another party, apart from the Indian cricket board, that is...
MUMBAI: The National Football League (NFL) has announced that it has renewed several television agreements with longtime partners in Japan. In India the NFL airs on...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney has said that its CEO Michael Eisner will step down in September 2006, when his contract expires. In a letter to the...
MUMBAI: In a bid to increase viewer cachet, Discovery US has announced that next month it will launch the reality series No Opportunity Wasted (Now). The...
BANGALORE: Having noticed a slump in its post 7 pm primetime ratings, DD Bangalore Kendra is now gearing up to strengthen the band with more variety...
MUMBAI: A move is afoot to strengthen kids programming in the US. Federal regulators have unanimously approved rules that require television stations that air more than...
MUMBAI: Does Cleaveland rock? Certainly not on ABC as the heavyweight comic protagonist Drew Carrey is reported to exit quitely from the ABC line up. In...
BANGALORE: The ongoing tussle between Udaya channel and eight Bangalore cable operators has taken a new turn as the High Court has reportedly passed an interim...
MUMBAI: Talk show host Dennis Miller will continue entertaining CNBC US viewers with his wit. The business and financial broadcaster has renewed his topical talk show...
MUMBAI: Yahoo! Inc. and Mark Burnett Productions, which is the producer of reality TV programming, announced a multiple programme content relationship in which, Yahoo! will produce,...
MUMBAI: Malayalam channel Asianet will have changed primetime lineup from 13 September. Suryaputri, produced by PMI India Pvt Ltd, would fill the 7:30 pm slot as...
A quick question: Why is Zee Telefilms CMD and maverick media baron Subhash Chandra willing to stick his neck out by bidding a humungous $308 million...
MUMBAI: With the mini world cup, The Champions Trophy, kicking off today (10 September) it will be a fight between Max and Doordarshan to see who...
MUMBAI: The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has confirmed its intention to play a five-match One-Day International series in Zimbabwe later this year subject to...
These are busy times for Max. The channel, which has been starved of cricket for over a year and a half now, is all geared up...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate News Corp’s chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch has been hired as a non-executive director of China Netcom. China Netcom is one of China’s...
MUMBAI: Lycra MTV awards is schedule to take place on 15 October. In its second year, with 18 awards across 12 categories honouring ‘style’, the style...
NEW DELHI: A compilation done by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) based on latest reports from operators has revealed that the subscriber base for telephony...
MUMBAI: NDTV 24×7 is now going the business way! The channel had launched a new programming initiative called 9-4 Business & News recently, wherein mostly business...
MUMBAI: Beehive Systems’ says that Star News, Zee News and Doordarshan have successfully used its laptop-based digital newsgathering system called vid’linkMoblie to help them cover 2004...
MUMBAI: ESPN-Star Sports has won a potential reprieve in its bid for the India cricket rights after the Bombay High Court this morning proposed that the...
MUMBAI: The BBC is looking to sell its commercial sales and publishing division BBC Worlwide. For this purpose it has invited bids from Time Warner, Disney...
NEW DELHI: You have to hand it to Subhash Chandra, he not only thinks big but also manages to create the sort of hype that should...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney India has appointed Subhasis Mishra as the India human resources manager. Disney India’s managing director Rajat Jain made this announcement in an official...
MUMBAI: Alpha TV Punjabi has announced its programme highlights for the month of September. In addition to all the popular shows currently on air, the channel...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today issued notices to the Government of India and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on a petition filed by...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom has announced the promotion of key executives to new roles at CBS and Paramount Network Television. This will create a new management...
MUMBAI: Disney’s CEO Michael Eisner has finally broken his silence and has anointed company’s second-in-command, the president and COO, Bob Iger as his successor. In the...

