Ever since last year’s Hollywood flick Spider-man set the box office records in India, there has been no looking back for Columbia Tristar. This year, the...
NEW DELHI: A bureaucrat is all set to take over at the helm of country’s radio pubcaster All India Radio (AIR), while sibling Doordarshan remains firmly...
It has been a year of CAStroversies, reality shows, style, cricket, news channel launches, raunchy remixes, censorship rigours, non K shows and yet some K shows and...
MUMBAI: After being ignored for two years in a row The Lord Of The Rings could finally win some serious gold at the Academy Awards. A...
MUMBAI: One of corporate India’s hungriest predators, Kolkata-based jute baron Arun Kumar Bajoria is reportedly on the trail again – and this time, he is believed...
MUMBAI: Research and Markets (R&M) has announced the publication of a report. SMS to MMS TV-Messaging – Services move far beyond SMS-voting. It provides a detailed...
MUMBAI: After flagging off the new year with a non stop movie marathon, the action adventure channel will premiere new acquisition Boomtown. A crime drama, which...
MUMBAI: Tech TV has announced the winners of its annual video game awards. This was done on its show X-Play. The annual awards show that unveiled...
NEW DELHI: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), on recommendation of the information and broadcasting ministry, has turned down a proposal from Television Eighteen Ltd. to...
NEW DELHI: TV Today Network Limited (TVTN), India’s leading news broadcaster controlling Aaj tak and Headlines Today channels, concluded its IPO on 27 December with the...
NEW DELHI: The much-touted community radio broadcast service, which was announced with great fanfare by former information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Sushma Swaraj last year, is...
NEW DELHI: It would be too optimistic to think that Star Plus and the whole Star Network would be dislodged from the top spot in 2004,...
MUMBAI: Eutelsat has announced that it’s official sponsorship of the XXth Winter Olympics to be held in Torino 2006. In a bid to enable the Olympic...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Is former Star India senior vice-president, programming, content and communication, Tarun Katial joining rival Sony Entertainment TV India? The buzz has been that he...
NEW DELHI: It would be too optimistic to think that Star Plus and the whole Star Network would be dislodged from the top spot in 2004,...
MUMBAI: Was 2003 a year of shame and remorse – what with the Gujarat riots, the Telgi scam and the Satyendra Dubey murder! Or do we...
MUMBAI: The TRP war has spilled over to the infotainment channels as well. While these niche channels bag a small portion of the ratings pie, they...
MUMBAI: Interactive services company America Online has announced the launch of a new AOL News experience. The enhanced online news service delivers best-of-breed content, resources and...
MUMBAI: The queen of the talk show genre, Oprah Winfrey, retained her title this year as America’s favourite TV personality. The information is contained...
NEW DELHI: Emirates has signed an agreement with BBC World, making the Dubai-based airline the first to offer live BBC news headlines on its aircraft. The...
MUMBAI: Star World will flag off season two of Third Watch on 29 December at 10 pm on Star World. NBCs Peabody Award-winning drama, which begins...
MUMBAI: The elusive 18-34 year old male has finally turned up. Bigresearch conducted its latest installment of its half yearly Simultaneous Media Usage Survey (Simm), and...
MUMBAI: Star TV’s Tamil entertainment channel Star Vijay has a reason to celebrate the New Year. Its sitcom with a message, All in All Shekher ,...
MUMBAI: Infront Sports & Media and PT Surya Citra Televisi (STCV) have signed an agreement for the Indonesian broadcast rights to the 2006 Fifa World Cup...
MUMBAI: BBC Sport has announced that it has awarded the contract to produce over 60 hours of horse racing coverage to Sunset+Vine. The two year contract...
MUMBAI: BBC World will now be included on Hong Kong’s first direct to home digital pay TV platform, exTV, following an agreement signed with the operator,...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms is on a re-organisational mode, which the company dubs, is a move aimed at job enrichment and offering higher...
NEW DELHI: This festive season, changes are taking place thick and fast in media organisations. If Zee Telefilms made changes in its hierarchy, the country’s biggest...
MUMBAI: Come 28 December, the Ramoji Rao-owned Eenadu Television Network will launch its first 24-hours Telugu news and current affairs channel, ETV2 in Andhra Pradesh. The...
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system (CAS) may not have got completely derailed yet. But a day after speaking of co-operation (in a meeting between Delhi chief...
MUMBAI: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has got a reprieve. Italy’s government approved an emergency measure yesterday. This will save one of his TV channels from...
MUMBAI: Snow or no snow, Christmas is here to spread cheer, and channels are all set to celebrate. While the pubcaster Doordarshan will relay a live...
MUMBAI: Political satire Ghadlay Bighadlay, which allegedly provoked NCP party workers into storming the Zee office yesterday, continues to air. Undeterred, Alpha Marathi, the Zee channel...
MUMBAI: Looking to further cement its relationship with hockey Ten Sports has taken the exclusive rights to show the Sultan Aslan Shah hockey in India. The...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms has found a replacement for Zee TV president Apurva Purohit. The person entrusted with the job is Zee Turner...
MUMBAI: In April two and a half weeks into this year’s military campaign against Saddam Hussein, the BBC’s World Affairs editor, John Simpson, was accompanying a...
MUMBAI: The attack by alleged National Congress Party (NCP) workers on Zee TV’s offices in Mumbai has led to Maharashtra deputy chief minister and home minister...
NEW DELHI: After lengthy hearings, spanning months, a Mysore court has dismissed a suit for permanent injunction against 20th Century Fox movie, Independence Day. At one...
MUMBAI: Two Zee Telefilms staffers of the ten injured in an attack by supposed Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) workers on Zee’s Andheri office have been hospitalised....
NEW DELHI: Star India, the Indian arm of Rupert Murdoch’s pan-Asian television venture Star Group Pvt Ltd, has drawn up some ambitious plans for 2004, which...
NEW DELHI: Reality TV is launching in Germany on cable network platform ISH and on a documentary channel Planet this month. The channel will be distributed...
MUMBAI: At least 15 persons, claiming allegiance to the Nationalist Congress Party allegedly broke into the Zee Telefilms offices at Chintamani Plaza at Andheri in suburban...
NEW DELHI: The central government today came into play to resolve the conditional access imbroglio in South Delhi area by issuing a notification that makes it...
MUMBAI: European satellite operator Eutelsat has announced that it is the official sponsor for the 20th Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy to be held in 2006....
MUMBAI: The long-awaited and much-discussed National Readership Survey 2003 has hardly rung in cheer this Yuletide season for media. At an all-India level, media reach...
NEW DELHI: With Prasar Bharati’s annual revenue on the slide as the gap between earnings and spending has increased over the years, a proposal has been...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today set the cat among the pigeons by stating in the Parliament’s Upper House (Rajya Sabha)...
NEW DELHI:Fazed by criticism and non-cooperation from the industry, Indias federal government is preparing the ground for calling for a review (read, near-junking) of conditional access...
NEW DELHI: Though the much-touted community radio project till now is a non-starter, the government today said that 39 institutions, including universities, have applied for licences....
NEW DELHI: Its official and confirmed. The Prannoy Roy family-controlled NDTV has decided to give CNBC TV 18 business channel some competition by ramping up business...