MUMBAI: The good times continue to roll for Balaji. The soap factory’s latest show on pubcaster Doordarshan, Kyamaat – Jab bhi waqt aata hai, has started...
MUMBAI: Nielsen//NetRatings, the global standard for Internet audience measurement and analysis has reported that 49.5 million, or 38 per cent of all US home Internet users...
MUMBAI: Indiantelevision.com continues to gather accolades. At the 3rd Indira Awards for Marketing Excellence, which were presented at a glittering ceremony in Pune on Sunday, India’s...
MUMBAI: The list is out. ESPN/ABC Sports president is the most powerful person in sports. So says the Sporting News’ annual listing. The president of ESPN...
MUMBAI: If it was Star Plus’ soaps that ruled the TRP charts in the year gone by, the tale was no different as Hindi entertainment television...
MUMBAI: The National Association of Television Program Executives’ (Natpe) Educational Foundation announced today that The Lippin Family Trust has agreed to underwrite the Foundation’s Annual Student...
MUMBAI: One of the innovations that ESPN Star Sports did for its recent coverage of the India Australia test series was The Shahz And Wahz Show....
MUMBAI: Later this year, Viacom’s Showtime Networks will become the campaign headquarters for American Candidate. The unscripted 10 episode reality show will attempt to identify one...
NEW DELHI: No sooner has a regulator for the broadcast and cable sectors been notified by the Indian government than cracks have started appearing in the...
MUMBAI: Good work will continue on state owned Doordarshan this year. The co-production partnership between the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), BBC World Service Trust (BBC...
Indian entertainment television’s first name in programming has a theory. And as Star India gets set to celebrate Year Four as top dog in the broadcast...
The phones haven‘t stopped ringing at Pereira Mansion in Mahim, Mumbai and neither have the cash registers. Especially after the numerologist Sanjay B Jumaani‘s year-end special...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports does not have all of what is worth watching in soccer after all. Ten Sports has just bagged what it calls “the...
MUMBAI: The 10th Channel [V] Chinese Music Awards celebrated its decade-long dedication to promoting excellence in Chinese music at the Shanghai Stadium on 8 January. Top-billing...
MUMBAI: Mikanos, in downtown Mumbai, rocked real hard last night. MTV had its nominees voting party at the popular hangout, to build up excitement over the...
Some moved because they weren‘t happy with the way things were going, some to pursue other career interests, some chose to spend time with family and...
Lists – don‘t we just love them, the best of…, the worst of…, the what not… But one list that everyone wants to be on is...
MUMBAI: It was back on almost before anyone noticed. At least that would have been the case if India’s national passion cricket were not involved. Less...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: In what is seen as addressing a crying need of the industry, the government today, through a notification, entrusted the Telecom regulatory...
MUMBAI: Less than five months before the start of the Olympic Games, Athens will host the International Association of Athlectics Federations (IAAF) World Television Seminar. The...
MUMBAI: Here’s the latest on Bharatiya Janta Party’s newest ‘glam’ entrant – television’s favourite bahu and anchor Smriti Z Iraani. The lady’s performance during the assembly...
MUMBAI: It’s just not cricket. Just as subscribers of Hinduja Group MSO InCableNet were warming up to the One-Day cricket contest going on between India’s “Men...
NEW DELHI: As an effigy of information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was burnt by National Akali Dal (NAD) activists on 7 January, demanding a...
MUMBAI: The National Football League and China’s public broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) have reached an agreement for the live broadcast of this season’s Super Bowl....
MUMBAI: DD Sports will have a 25 minute highlight package of The Commonwealth Chess Championship every night. The event takes place at Hotel Mirador in the...
NEW DELHI : The Indian government has decided that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) would be the body that would regulate the broadcasting sector...
MUMBAI: America’s public broadcaster PBS’ president and CEO Pat Mitchell has announced that PBS has received a $200,000 planning grant from the John and James L...
MUMBAI: Football fans across the US tuned their televisions at impressive rates to National Football League (NFL) regular-season games. NFL viewership on US broadcast television...
MUMBAI: Now that’s top of the pops. Sony Entertainment Television will be presenting a star-studded National finals of its popular talent hunt Boogie Woogie, on 14...
MUMBAI: Time to get ready for festivities on Vijay TV. Its Pongal and Vijay TV has an action plan to celebrate it. The channel, beside the...
MUMBAI: To celebrate the final season of Friends , America Online, Warner Bros. Television and NBC have teamed up to offer fans an opportunity to choose...
NEW DELHI: The new year has brought with it a wave of new appointments at various media companies, be it at Star, Sony or Zee. Yesterday...
MUMBAI: Two new categories have been added to the CNBC-Autocar Auto Awards, instituted to honor achievements in the Indian automotive industry. SUV of the Year and...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: At a time when the governments of India and Pakistan are talking peace, a different kind of tussle is going on –...
MUMBAI: First, it was the Bajoria murmur that set the market grapevine abuzz. Now, it is the offloading of shares by Balaji promoters to foreign institutional...
MUMBAI: There is still no agreement in place between Hinduja Group MSO InCableNet and ESPN Star Sports regarding the new annual contract for the year 2004...
MUMBAI: CNN has appointed Kristie Lu Stout as the anchor / correspondent for CNN International Asia Pacific. Stout has already started co-hosting the daily morning program...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has taken umbrage to Subhash Chandra companies — ASC Enterprise and Zee Telefilms — including more than the mandated number of Doordarshan...
MUMBAI: MTV parent Viacom Inc and recent Rupert Murdoch acquisition DirecTV on Wednesday signed a deal that ensures continued carriage of all MTV Networks’ programme services...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati today announced that Indian Administrative Service officers Naveen Kumar and Brajeshwar Singh have been appointed the director-generals of Doordarshan and All India...
MUMBAI: Arianespace has bagged two new contracts to launch communications satellites of Japanese operator JSAT Corporation. Arianespace chief executive officer Jean-Yves Le Gall announced recently...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Doordarshan is poaching and doing so with gay abandon. As part of phase one of expansion and restructuring of its recently launched...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney company’s board of directors yesterday voted unanimously to enhance the company’s corporate governance guidelines, including the adoption of strengthened standards relating to...
MUMBAI: The INMumbai ‘Miss INMumbai Beauty and Personality Pageant will be held on 16 January at the Tulip Star in suburban Mumbai. The Miss INMumbai...
MUMBAI: The board of directors sub-committee of the Mumbai-based Crest Communications Ltd has finalised the size and pricing of its GDR issue. The sub-committee, in its...
MUMBAI: If market sources are to be believed, Friday, 16 January 2004 will mark the debut of the TV Today Network’s (TVTN) initial public offer (IPO)...
‘You see tourists stroll off hand in hand with children – and you wonder – am I being paranoid or is there more going on here...
MUMBAI: Last year, National Geographic Channel’s (NGC) Mission involved Mount Everest. The six month long initiative saw the channel make substantial gains in viewership and ad...
MUMBAI: Former Channel News Asia presenter Vidya Shankar Aiyar lost a sexual harassment case in Singapore yesterday. District judge Victor Yeo sentenced him to 16 months’...
MUMBAI: Encouraged by the success of the Hero Honda Sa Re Ga Ma Pa – Golden Voice Hunt, Zee is taking its popular music programme Sa...