What are little girls made of? “Sugar and spice and all that‘s nice.” And little boys? “Frogs and snails and puppy-dogs‘ tails.” Most of us would...
MUMBAI: Movie channel HBO is back with its popular adult lifestyle comedy Sex and the City. The second season of the series launches 18 June at...
NEW DELHI: Even as the debate on the fate of DD News continues in political and government circles, 16 senior people associated with the channel have...
NEW DELHI: To have them, or not? Failing to answer the question fully, Doordarshan News has gone in for a compromise formula regarding the private producers...
MUMBAI: Sun TV has pulled off a ‘soap coup’ with its latest serial Manaivi (wife). Directed by ace television director J Bhaskar and starring popular South...
MUMBAI: The education arm of ZEE Network, Zee Interactive Learning Systems Limited (ZILS) has announced their new initiative – Zee Institute of Media Arts, a training...
MUMBAI: International news network CNN has announced the launch of Spark, a monthly technology show that focuses on the discovery, application and implication of technology in...
MUMBAI: Russian financial holding Sistema is planning to pump more than half a billion dollars into privatisation projects in India over the next few years. Also...
MUMBAI: BBC World was the most watched international news channel during India’s recent general elections, according to Tam Peoplemeter data. During the four-week campaign, BBC World...
MUMBAI: Good news for all those aspiring writers who couldn’t apply for Indiantelevision Dot Com’s scriptwriting course Qalam, which was supposed to commence from 14 June....
MUMBAI: CNBC Asia Pacific will be staging its 4th Asia Business Leader Awards (ABLA) 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The announcement followed a meeting between Malaysia’s...
MUMBAI: Pakistan will soon see the launch of it’s first satellite based 24-hour business news channel – Business Plus. Local and international business news, with a...
SINGAPORE: Singapore never ceases to amaze. And Asia’s largest information and communications technology exhibition, Infocomm Media Business Exchange (imbX) 2004 – encompassing CommunicAsia, Broadcast Asia, EnterpriseIT...
MUMBAI: Recently launched health channel CARE TV is set to introduce two new daily interactive programmes – Kya Karu Main Ab and Hello Doctor. Starting 21...
MUMBAI: Pakistan finance minister Shaukat Aziz has announced that only the country’s television set owners needed to pay an extra fee in every electricity bill for...
Andhra Pradesh is getting big on news. And not just for hitting the headlines thanks to the drubbing the southern state‘s “CEO” and media darling Chandrababu...
MUMBAI: Hungama, the bilingual (Hindi and Tamil) kids’ channel floated by UTV and to be distributed by Star India, will begin airing by ‘a Sunday in...
MUMBAI: Local radio station, Radio City 91 FM, emerged winners in the Corporate Karaoke Championship last week, thus beating British Council Limited (BCL). It was a...
MUMBAI: Pan-European integrated children’s entertainment broadcaster Fox Kids Europe has announced financial results for the six months ended 31 March 2004. Revenues increased by 17 per...
MUMBAI: At the exhibition BroadcastAsia 2004 in Singapore which kicks off later this month Kodak is showcasing an array of dramatic breakthroughs in film and post...
MUMBAI: The Indo-Pak relations angle. It started out as a somewhat unique experience during this year’s Zee Cine Awards in Dubai. It gathered further steam during...
MUMBAI: CNBC Asia Pacific recently announced a couple of anchor appointments. They are May Lee and Sabrina Kang Prior to CNBC, Lee was with Disney’s ABC...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s Board of Governors have published a new style Annual Report and Accounts. This is the first step it has taken in implementing the...
MUMBAI: Malayalam news channel Indiavision is one year old. The dedicated news channel will mark its first anniversary by beaming into the Middle East, while its...
MUMBAI: For the seventh successive year BBC Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the BBC, has increased its cash flow to the Corporation to supplement the...
NEW DELHI: Even as the allies of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance coalition government increase pressure on changes in Doordarshan News, parent organization Prasar Bharati has...
MUMBAI: Now this is what is called an award function. Hosted at the much suave south Mumbai’s NCPA, India’s lead entertainment channel Star Plus struck the...
NEW DELHI: Star India, part of Rupert Murdoch’s pan-Asian venture, is going in for a flanking strategy to couch its bottomline – healthy though it looks...
MUMBAI: Zee TV’s India’s Best -cinestars ki khoj , a nationwide talent hunt to discover potential stars, announced its winners from New Delhi yesterday. After three...
MUMBAI: Promax&BDA has announced that ABC News’ Barbara Walters will open the organisation’s 49th annual conference with an address and her career spanning perspective on the...
MUMBAI: All set for the monsoons, they say. Zee’s English entertainment arm is all geared to welcome the showers with two new show, The Adventures of...
MUMBAI: The deal is done but who’s the rights holder? The Sri Lanka cricket board has said the international television rights for cricket on the Emerald...
MUMBAI: Animal Planet, thus far relegated to the background while sibling Discovery hogged the headlines, is lined up for some aggressive expansion plans in India. The...
MUMBAI: Mythological soap opera specialist Creative Eye is set to start shooting for a weekly hour-long ‘social drama’, set on a Spanish format show, that will...
MUMBAI: Recently launched Telugu news channel TV9 will soon have two siblings for company. Launching before the year is out is a Kannada news channel and...
MUMBAI: Fifa has appointed Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) as its worldwide licensing representative for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. The deal is for all...
MUMBAI: A few days ago, Viacom-owned broadcaster CBS kicked off the fifth season of its reality show The Amazing Race , which airs in India on...
NEW DELHI: Some are saying it’s poetic justice, but it can only happen in Doordarshan. The only broadcaster with the permission to cover the whole of...
MUMBAI: Zee network has joined hands with the television service provider Belgacom to broadcast its third television channel, regional language channel Alpha Etc Punjabi, on Eutelsat’s...
MUMBAI: Down south, fierce competition between Telugu channels continues. Three more news channels are set to launch this year – Hyderabad-based Maa TV and the Sun...
MUMBAI: MTV has announced its plans for vigorous development of its programming and is in the process of zeroing in on a broad pool of talent...
MUMBAI: Catch them young! US-based Comcast Corporation is contemplating a network exclusively for kids. The cable giant is in an advanced state of negotiations with Public...
MUMBAI: Here’s a piece of good news for all those who wish to make it big as scriptwriters. Indiantelevision Dot Com is back with Qalam, its...
MUMBAI: Sporting rivalry between India and Pakistan is set to go beyond just cricket. AXN’s first major ground event for the year also promises to be...
MUMBAI: US-based Global network solutions provider Mainstream Data has won the Bloomberg LP’s global distribution platform account of Bloomberg News. The New York-based global media company,...
MUMBAI: BBC hopes to counter the general perception that, community-wise, they cover Indians too much with a documentary series on the British Pakistanis. The TV series...
MUMBAI: Zee Network’s head of operations, (eastern region) and business head of Alpha Bangla, Aditya Ray, has quit the organisation after a stint spanning seven years....
One could be excused for wondering if the head honcho of India’s largest media house and largest-by-far broadcast company isn’t getting bored of the sameness of...
MUMBAI: News, probing and more meaningful, is Uday Shankar’s imminent agenda for the channel he now helms after the exit of channel president Ravina Raj Kohli....
MUMBAI: The souring relationship between Miramax studio and its parent Walt Disney Company has triggered a war of statements. While Disney has downright given Miramax the...