MUMBAI: Last year Discovery US entered the reality genre with American Chopper. The documentary style reality series chronicled a family-owned motorcycle building business in a small...
MUMBAI: It’s raining award ceremonies. After the Golden Globe Awards, it’s time now for the 46th Annual Grammy Awards which is scheduled to be held on...
MUMBAI: The following is the full text of Andrew Gilligans resignation statement: “I am today resigning from the BBC. I and everyone else involved here have...
MUMBAI: Any hopes that 10 Downing Street may have harboured that Gerg Dyke, dubbed “Tony’s Crony” when he took the reins at the BBC four years...
NEW DELHI: Well, well! Doordarshan News, the channel that was relaunched late last year, is getting another face-lift as the country gets into the general elections...
MUMBAI: The children’s channel space in the country gets a shade denser. The Kalanithi Maran-promoted Sun Network has announced its plans to launch a Telugu general...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government’s fascination for the glitteratti continues and it shows in the reconstitution of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). The new...
MUMBAI: A few days ago the ICC Development International (IDI), and the Sportsbrand Media Group reached a three year agreement to produce and distribute on a...
MUMBAI: Distraction Formats which specialises in formatting and packaging shows in a unique manner has announced a deal with Jennifer Lopez?s Nuyorican Productions. As per the...
MUMBAI: Hollywood’s major media conglomerates are hungrily eyeing Pixar after the animation studio declined to renew its deal with Disney. Two companies said to be in...
MUMBAI: Heads continue to roll at the BBC in the wake of yesterday’s damning findings by Lord Hutton in his investigation into the death of weapons...
MUMBAI: After the long lull that followed the launch of Sahara’s supposed big ticket, Karishma – The Miracles of Destiny last year, the channel started the...
MUMBAI: Fast and now is what describes the pace at Adlabs Films and the Shettys are not pausing for breath yet. After diversifying into the immensely...
NEW DELHI: And so the blame game goes on. First it was the government that was in the line of fire of the broadcast and cable...
MUMBAI: The third quarter results for Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd. are in. The company’s net profit for the quarter ended 31 December 2003 stands at Rs...
MUMBAI: Zee News might not be shining on the TRP ratings charts but it is certainly shining in terms of high impact news operations. If Zee...
MUMBAI: The battle for the top among production houses has now spilled over from cable and satellite homes and into all TV homes. The UTV produced...
MUMBAI: AC Nielsen ORG Marg’s wave six of the Radio Audience Measurement in Mumbai favours Radio City once again. While the fifth wave report too had...
NEW DELHI: Well, the business of news is now taking on an entertainment hue. Close on the heels of a NDTV show, which is a spoof...
MUMBAI: BBC chairman Gavyn Davies, who has stepped down from his post, has been the first casualty of the Lord Hutton report on the BBC. But...
MUMBAI: Given below, is the full text of the statement made by the BBC director-general on the Hutton report: “Dr Kelly’s death was a tragedy for...
If there is a list drawn up of the hottest young television professionals in India, her name will surely figure in it. Coming from a family...
NEW DELHI: With the coalition government deciding to dissolve the Lok Sabha (Lower House) on 6 February after a go-ahead for interim rail and Union Budgets...
MUMBAI: Star TV CEO Michelle Guthrie could well be the star attraction at the fourth edition of Frames, that gets underway in Mumbai on 15 March...
MUMBAI: Convergence, animation and entertainment will receive special focus at the fourth edition of the Federation of Indian Chambers, Commerce & Industry’s (Ficci) convention for the...
MUMBAI: Cable TV Operators Associations of South India have come together and formed the South Indian Federation of Cable TV Operators Association (Sifcoa). The associations...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Time Warner has announced that revenues increased for 2003 increased by six per cent over 2002 to $39.6 billion. This reflected increases at...
NEW DELHI: The Anurradha Prasad and Rajiv Shukla-promoted B.A.G. Films, a television software house with ambitions of morphing into a broadcasting company, has announced that it...
MUMBAI: Faced with mounting competition from Rupert Murdoch’s Fox and other news networks CNN is said to be looking at a major changes in its functioning...
MUMBAI: The stars were out in full force at the 61st annual Golden Globe Awards. The biggest surprise of the evening came courtesy the BBC. BBC...
NEW DELHI: It’s jockeying that’s going on big time as the different stakeholders try to get their point across to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
MUMBAI: One of the biggest sporting spectacles in the US Super Bowl XXXVIII gets underway on CBS on 1 February. It will co-produce a one-hour special...
MUMBAI: The fight over the sharing of music over the Internet is gaining steam. College students across America struck a note of belligerence after the Recording...
NEW DELHI: It’s jockeying that’s going on big time as the different stakeholders try to get their point across to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
MUMBAI: This is a big moment in the annals of American television. Anchor Barbara Walters who has done memorable interviews on ABC’s 20/20 with the likes...
MUMBAI: Subhash Chandra must be smiling at the man in the mirror. The Zee numbers are in and the media major has come out with flying...
MUMBAI: A struggling ABC is looking to a new format of the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire to shore up the ratings and...
MUMBAI: ‘Celebrate the spirit of Mumbai with music’ was B4U Music and Sadbhavna Ke Sipahi’s agenda, when they bought the traffic to halt near Lokhandwala, Andheri...
MUMBAI: While peace talks between India and Pakistan continue, Pakistan’s information and broadcasting minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmed announced at a seminar on ‘Indo-Pak relations and Kashmir...
NEW DELHI: It’s jockeying that’s going on big time as the different stakeholders try to get their point across to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
…and we knew that Ekta Kapoor had resorted on the secret mantra again. She did it with her flagship serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi,...
MUMBAI: This Republic Day too, it is not different. To bring the nation their best mix of patriotism and entertainment, channels are trying everything possible. Lined...
MUMBAI: Aroon Purie controlled TV Today Network’s net profit is down 52.67 per cent year-on-year at Rs 47.8 million, while the net sales have dropped by...
MUMBAI: A wider choice of English films is what is promised when new movie channel Cine World makes its debut in the first week of February...
MUMBAI: They are two premier television bodies in the US, but they have been working with daggers drawn. Now the feud between the Academy of Television...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms is in the red. The numbers for the production house have come in and they are not good. The company’s net profits for...
MUMBAI: The US Senate voted 65-28 on a huge omnibus $ 375 billion spending bill Thursday into which was tucked new legislation that allows television networks...
MUMBAI: Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., publisher of the Times of India and The Economic...
MUMBAI: ‘Catch ’em young’, seems to be the buzz word at ESPN. With other sports channels slugging it out for the senior cricket properties, the sports...
MUMBAI: Star-struck! That must have been the common sentiment at the Alpha Gaurav 2004 Nomination Night, held Friday at Rangsharda in Bandra, Mumbai. Running to a...