NEW DELHI: While the government and the industry keep grappling with the issue of CAS, a vacation bench of the Delhi High Court has asked the...
NEW DELHI: While the high-profile TV channels have come under the scanner for “depicting woman in a vulgar manner” and airing “programmes against Indian culture”, closer...
NEW DELHI: Riding a wave of enthusiastic responses to its initial public offering (IPO), the Aroon Purie-controlled TV Today Network today initiated in a quiet manner...
MUMBAI: Ten Sports is looking to spice up its coverage of horse racing with a new show. The Winning Post is produced and hosted by Mohit...
People at NGC India, especially managing director for south Asia, Zubin Jehanbux Gandevia, these days chant the history mantra more than geography. And, why not? The...
The new Lodestar report examines the performance of the news channels from different angles. It throws up interesting findings, apart from how the public perceives news...
MUMBAI: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has okayed News Corp’s takeover of DirecTV and Hughes, but has imposed certain conditions on the $6.6 billion deal. The...
MUMBAI: Cable television majors Viacom Inc and Comcast Corp. have signed a five-year landmark distribution contract, agreeing to broadcast Viacom’s CBS affiliates and national cable networks...
MUMBAI: An HBO presentation, the six-hour mini-series Angels in America, the Mike Nichols adaptation of Tony Kushner’s play about AIDS during the Reagan administration, walked off...
NEW DELHI: Change, they say, is the only truth. And Zee TV president Apurva Purohit felt that it was time for a switchover, time to move...
NEW DELHI: A day after information & broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad rubbished Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit’s charge that there was a whole load of...
MUMBAI: Its time for centenary celebration at Taj Group, and they are making a film to commemorate it. Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces, along with NDTV...
NEW DELHI: If the consumer bodies and average consumers of Delhi, especially the south zone of the capital, were thinking that the court would come to...
MUMBAI: Regional catches up Alpha Marathi, the local language channel from the Zee stable now is running a neck to neck battle with leader Star Plus...
NEW DELHI: At the end of the second day of the IPO today, the TV Today Network issue was oversubscribed 4.37 times. Orders for 63.5 million...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms may see another round of churning at the top with Zee TV president Apurva Purohit having put...
NEW DELHI: The Alva brothers promoted Miditech, a TV software production house, is looking at joining hands with a broadcaster (like the one TV 18 had...
MUMBAI: The nominations for the 61st Golden Globe Awards were announced last evening. In India, the show will air live on Star World on 26 January....
MUMBAI: Radio City 91 FM has shortlisted ten Delhi children, including a visually impaired girl, Ambika Khattar, in the first phase of its Junior RJ Hunt ....
MUMBAI: The European Commission’s competition services have reached a provisional agreement with the Football Association Premier League (FAPL) regarding the joint selling of the media rights...
MUMBAI: A nine-count criminal complaint was formally filed yesterday against pop icon Michael Jackson. The case concerns him allegedly molesting a cancer patient. Alcohol was apparently...
NEW DELHI: Broadcasters, mostly operating pay channels in India, are slated to meet India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj in the first week of January...
NEW DELHI: The federal government has thrown the CAS ball back into the state’s court by saying, it would be unwarranted to conclude that the Union...
MUMBAI: Music channel etc has scored a lead over recently revamped sibling Zee Music as well as other channels in the arena by grabbing a channel...
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s cable fraternity is breathing a sigh of relief following the postponement of a hearing on a public interest litigation (PIL) in a Delhi...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR) may soon get full-fledged director-generals (DG), if everything goes well with the selection process which...
NEW DELHI: What has come as a surprise to the cable industry is the response to conditional access system (CAS) from the people of South Delhi....
MUMBAI: BBC Library Sales, a division of BBC Worldwide Limited, has secured major deals around the world for the hit motoring show Top Gear. In a...
MUMBAI: For starters, the show has nothing to do with the actress shedding tears at the Wagh border. An afternoon soap Urmila, which debut on the...
NEW DELHI: Whether the cable industry-initiated move to implement CAS would be a success or not in Delhi is yet to be seen, but the implementation...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced changes to its guidelines covering the circumstances in which BBC journalists, presenters and freelancers can write regular columns for newspapers and...
MUMBAI: Enthused by the success of last summer’s TV Producers’ Boot Camp, the National Association of Television Program Executives (Natpe) is introducing Pitch Pit in the...
MUMBAI: TV Today Network (TVTN), the parent of Aaj Tak and Headlines Today, is considering going pay. The operative point however, is that the sibling news...
MUMBAI: With $43 billion merger deal with Vivendi Universal Entertainment likely to be finalised in a few months time, NBC is all set to take on...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Ever since the cable fraternity, armed with a High Court order, got the conditional access back onto the front burner, the question has been...
MUMBAI: TV Today Network has decided to pep up its malnourished offspring Headlines Today with a new look and agressive promotions in the next couple of...
NEW DELHI: Buoyed by growth in India and Taiwan, the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group Pvt. Ltd. is on track for $40 million FY 2004 profit as...
Crest Communications, one of the leaders in 3D animation in India, has big plans up its sleeve. It is constantly looking to set benchmarks in this...
MUMBAI: The restructuring of the Zee Network continues. At a meeting held this afternoon, the Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) board gave the management the go ahead...
MUMBAI: WorldSpace which delivers digital audio radio services through satellite has announced that its government sales unit has submitted a proposal in partnership with nine other...
MUMBAl: A few days ago the host of The History Channel’s series Deep Sea Detectives veteran diver Michael Norwood passed away. The incident happened while the...
NEW DELHI: It may or may not spark off a trend, but in a quiet way, Zee Turner has conveyed to multi-system operators in Delhi that...
MUMBAI: The international TV channel dedicated to fashion – Fashion TV (FTV) together with EMI Music Southeast Asia have formed a strategic alliance whereby the music...
MUMBAI: Barco has received orders for its LED sport solution from five stadiums across Europe over the last three months. The five installations, which are at...
NEW DELHI: While some parts of South Delhi got up this morning to find that the Indian cricket team was unleashing a tremendous performance at the...
NEW DELHI: Continuing to report good financial performance, the publicly traded Television Eighteen Ltd (TV 18), the majority stakeholder in the CNBC TV18 business news channel...
MUMBAI: Music giants Sony Music and BMG who had announced their merger plans last month, signed the dotted line on Friday, 12 December in a final...
MUMBAI: It was its big event of the year and MTV pulled out all the stops yesterday. From the legendary Lata Mangeshkar and composer uncomparable AR...
NEW DELHI: The first broad meeting of Media Content & Communications India (MCCS) Private Ltd was held here today with the new board members expressing satisfaction...
MUMBAI: Loads of action coming from the pubcaster in the week ahead. Doordarshan, aka DD1, will unleash three new shows next week. They are Unitech Indraprastha...