MUMBAi: SET Asia continues its association with sport with the fifth edition of the annual 5-a-side football cup to be held next month. Drawing on the...
MUMBAI: Viacom’s US broadcast network CBS has announced that it placed first in viewers, households, men 18-49, men 25-54 and second in adults 25-54. This was...
CANNES: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, producers of the International Emmy Awards, will now enable their 500 judges to screen this year’s award...
CANNES: International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has announced Special award recipients for the 32nd International Emmy Awards. The winners of three special awards, which...
MUMBAI: It has balle-balle’d’ its way to top, or so it claims. India’s first 24-hour non-stop Punjabi music channel- Balle-Balle, launched on 14 October 2002, claims...
MUMBAI: Number 13 seems lucky for Walt Disney Co. A 13-year legal battle that the Little Big Mouse has been fighting to protect its proprietership over...
MUMBAI: It’s a union for a nobel quest. The ARY Digital network and Stardreamz entertainment USA, today announced the Music Mela 2004 – The India /...
MUMBAI: Zone Vision has inked an exclusive five-year carriage agreement with Cross Current in Pakistan to broadcast the company’s flagship Reality TV channel. Amongst the special...
CANNES: Former UTV international partner Firdaus Kharas and south African Brent Quinn’s brainchild- 20 animated safe-sex public service announcements (PSAs), which tickle the funny bone, were...
Soon after Virender Sehwag, aka as Najafgarh (a Delhi locality)‘s Nawab, completed his triple ton against Pakistan in the first Test at Multan on Monday, a...
MUMBAI: Veteran BBC broadcaster Alistair Cooke, who authored Letter From America for 58 years, died today at his New York home. He was 95. Cooke died...
MUMBAI: BBC Two channel’s controller Jane Root is to leave BBC to join Discovery Networks as executive vice president and general manager of the Discovery Channel...
The queen of soaps may just lose her title this year. Not because there are any pretenders to her throne, but because she is expanding her...
MUMBAI: It’s a union for a nobel quest. The ARY Digital network and Stardreamz entertainment USA, today announced the Music Mela 2004 – The India /...
MUMBAI: Moribund Jain TV has decided to resurrect itself in Mumbai by beefing up distribution. Election eve will see the first indigenous 24 hour satellite...
Mumbai: Four out of five Americans say that there are too many reality dating programmes like The Bachelor on the air. And when it comes to...
MUMBAI: Darcy Antonellis has been named to the newly created position of senior VP, worldwide anti-piracy operations Warner Bros. Entertainment Antonellis’ primary responsibility will be...
CANNES: TvFilmBiz Int’l has secured a long-term agreement for cable and satellite broadcast rights of Planet’s Funniest Animals on Animal Planet worldwide excluding the UK in...
CANNES: Raider Productions is conducting a search throughout the World for clay, classical, computer, and flash animated shorts to create its 90 minute WBIAS VHS and...
MUMBAI: Both Ten Sports and Doordarshan have propelled into the top ten in the ratings charts this week, the satellite broadcaster a whisker ahead of the...
CANNES: At the ongoing television event Mip TV in Cannes World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) announced that it concluded pay, satellite and Free TV agreements totaling over...
MUMBAI: The National Geographic Channel (NGC) has announced that it has signed a multi-million dollar joint venture (JV) deal with CJ Media in Korea. The new...
MUMBAI:” Without the support of its employees, how can this CEO get the company back on track?” This was just one the many cutting remarks made...
MUMBAI: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has unveiled a major initiative intended to utilise its 75,000-hour programming library. The organisation is looking to build the business with...
From being a junior minister to former information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj few years back, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has come a long way to become...
CANNES: MarVista Entertainment, a newly formed distribution and production company attending its first MIP has sold several of the company’s recent acquisitions at the ongoing MIP...
MUMBAI: Darcy Antonellis has been named to the newly created position of senior VP, worldwide anti-piracy operations Warner Bros. Entertainment Antonellis’ primary responsibility will be to...
MUMBAI: Two million movie lovers in Tanzania will see a BBC World Service ad filmed in Tanzania, when a mobile cinema visits their region. The advertisement...
Directors on Indian television have a long list of complaints. ‘Blame it on the production houses and the channels’, seems to be the majority viewpoint. Are...
MUMBAI: Singapore Exhibition Services (SES) and the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) have announced the Infocomm Media Business Exchange (imbX) which will be held from 14-18...
MUMBAI: Zee Group subsidiary Padmalaya Telefilms has reached preliminary agreement for co-production and licensing of cartoons with Italian animation major Mondo TV Group in a deal...
NEW DELHI: Smart businessman that he is, TV personality Rajat Sharma has decided to postpone the full-fledged launch of his news and current affairs channel to...
NEW DELHI: Smart businessman that he is, TV personality Rajat Sharma has decided to postpone the full-fledged launch of his news and current affairs channel to...
MUMBAI: With elections around the corner, it seems like a busy month ahead for the news channels. So while the channel have already churned out a...
MUMBAI: Satellite services company Globecast has announced that it has partnered with Brazilian telecommunications group Embratel to provide broadcast services, internet and telephony for Brazilian terrestrial...
MUMBAI: The Asian cable and satellite industry in 2003 accounted for almost 190 million multi-channel homes, up 40 million from 2002. 95 per cent of these...
MUMBAI: It’s going to be a dazzling show in the desert. Celine Dion is performing at Las Vegas on Wednesday 31 March 2004. But for the...
NEW DELHI: Some of the news channels that had applied to the government seeking various clearances, have got an advantage by default. Because the general elections...
MUMBAI : Comcast Corporation has finally bought Tech TV, thus finishing its long rumoured sale on 25 March 2004.G4, the Comcast-owned television network devoted to video...
MUMBAI: Colour TV turned 50 on Thursday. It was on 25 March, 1954, that the Radio Corporation of America’s (RCA) plant in Bloomington, Indiana, produced the...
MUMBAI: ARY Digital Network has bagged the Bollywood Awards and Bollywood Fashion Awards exclusive telecast rights. The network will be airing the ceremony to be held...
MUMBAI: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has announced that it expects world-wide Pay-Per-View (PPV) gross revenues for Wrestlemania XX to be between $40 million and $45 million....
MUMBAI: MTV has just taken the wind out of Channel [V]’s sails regarding next month’s Enrique Iglesias concert. In a deal that was stitched together last...
MUMBAI : Cartoon Network US has made announcements concerning new shows, new acquisitions, greenlights of existing shows and future programming events for its Adult Swim block....
MUMBAI: The Football Association has concluded an agreement for ‘second party rights’ with sports marketing agency Sportfive. The rights extend to the right to broadcast England...
MUMBAI: The legendary superstar of the sixties, Rajesh Khanna will be conferred Lifetime Achievement Award at the sixth Bollywood Award 2004 and the Lifetime of Glamour...
MUMBAI: Sahara Manoranjan may still be staggering along as far as consolidating its position in the Hindi entertainment stakes is concerned, but all that could well...
MUMBAI: MarVista Entertainment, the global production and distribution company, has signed a groundbreaking three series co-production and worldwide distribution agreement with Brookwell McNamara Entertainment (BME), one...
MUMBAI: Southern Spice (SS) Music channel has launched its last leg of The VJ Factor in Cochin which is the search for VJs for the new...
MUMBAI: In the wake of the upcoming elections, BBC Hindi service, radio and online, will bring in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the elections. The service, which...