“I think it is an understanding of the space we have gained,” CNBC-TV18 CEO Haresh Chawla reflects on the current scenario with the authority of someone...
MUMBAI: Animal Planet has managed to build up viewer cachet in the US through its King Of The Jungle reality themed initiative. This has seen wannabe...
MUMBAI: Three interactive channels are poised to make their debut into Asian homes from 1 January 2004. To be launched on the AsiaSat 3S platform,...
MUMBAI: Turner Network Television (TNT) and the BBC have joined forces for a drama series The Grid. Starring Dylan McDermott The Practice and Julianna Margulies ER...
MUMBAI: Known as the voice of the Indian radio Ameen Sayani will now be heard more on 93.5 Red FM as his show Sangeet Ke Sitaron...
MUMBAI: Telecast monitoring organisation Perfect Monitoring Services has announced that it will now monitor cable transmission and report ad commercials released in them. The data capturing...
MUMBAI: MGM Pictures has named veteran producer Andrew Davis as its executive VP physical production. Davis will report to MGM studio president Michael Nathanson. In India...
MUMBAI: So she wowed everyone at the iEmmys. Her outfit was all the rage. But Simone Singh’s Emmys experience goes much deeper than all this. Going...
MUMBAI: In a landmark Bollywood deal, indiaFM and Sharman Networks have come together to launch the Kazaa ‘indiaFM Channel’. This application boasts of a Bollywood inspired...
MUMBAI: Ever since his promotion in early October, Steve Askew has been functioning as chief operating officer (COO) of Star Group Ltd, in all but name....
MUMBAI: Three award-winning veterans of the US animation industry have joined forces to form a new media company Phuuz entertainment. Emmy award-winning producer/director and Film Roman’s...
MUMBAI: France’s Visiware, a distributor of interactive television services, has announced that a new adult oriented interactive games channel Playin’Star has debuted on the TPS distribution...
NEW DELHI: Ajay Parmar, the hitherto vice-president (strategic planning) of K Sera Sera Productions Limited, has quit the Mumbai-based production house. Confirming the development, Parmar said,...
MUMBAI: International entertainment channel BBC Prime has secured a deal that widens the channel’s German digital distribution. BBC Prime, is now available on ish Plus TV....
MUMBAI: The most recent controversy to hit American television was broadcast network CBS cancelling its plans to air The Reagans. The docudrama about Ronald Reagan and...
MUMBAI: Channel [V] reaffirmed its leadership position after being awarded four prestigious creative awards at the Asian Television Awards 2003. The music channel has been awarded...
MUMBAI: Infront Sports & Media and NOS, Hollands national broadcaster have signed an exclusive agreement for the Dutch broadcast rights to the 2006 Fifa World Cup....
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Zee Telefilms and the Zee group controlled ETC Network Ltd separately informed the Bombay Stock Exchange today that they will hold board meetings...
MUMBAI: It was a great weekend for Team MRF. Its ace driver Armin Kremer (co-driver Fred Berssen) completed a historic double. The German emerged Overall and...
MUMBAI: For the first time ever, an Indian city Mumbai will be featured on French channel TV5’s programme 24 Hrs. On the show, TV5 profiles four...
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system, like Banquo’s ghost, just refuses to go away. Just when everybody, including the government, thought it has been given a quiet...
MUMBAI: It’s party time for CNBC-TV18. While last month the channel was celebrating accolades, having walked away with the Best Business Programme of the year award...
Front page readership is very high while sports and edit sections get less readers. These are just a few of the findings that the survey SPARR...
MUMBAI: December 10 could well be a day of great significance to many cricket fans in Mumbai and other cities who subscribe to Hinduja Group MSO...
MUMBAI: Karan Thapar, presenter of BBC World’s popular weekly chat show Face to Face, has been named ‘Best Current Affairs Presenter’ at the Asian Television Awards...
MUMBAI: Japanese broadcaster Wowow Inc’s president Toshio Hirose yesterday announced a major multi-year feature film output license agreement with Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI). With the...
MUMBAI: Some top industry talent and executives have been roped in to participate at the National Association of Television Program Executives’ (Natpe) conference and exhibition from...
MUMBAI: This is a contest that revolves around mega movie star and Oscar winner Catherine Zeta Jones and a girl’s best friend – diamonds. Diamond Trading...
MUMBAI: Star World will launch Style, a weekly lifestyle show, from this weekend (7 December) at 9 pm. Starting aptly in the Christmas month, the show’s...
MUMBAI:How long does an ad man have to say whatever he wants? Thirty seconds, at the most 60 seconds. Ex-advertising man and currently B4U chief marketing...
MUMBAI: Sony Digital Home Entertainment, a division of Sony Music India, has now become the marketing and distribution partner of Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. Sony...
MUMBAI: Eutelsat has announced that the key sessions of the first World Electronic Media Forum (WEMF) will be broadcast live and free-to-air through its Hot Bird...
MUMBAI: The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) announced its Hall of Frames Awards at its ‘Frames 2004 Knowledge Series’ seminar at Mumbai...
NEW DELHI: If the cable operators of Delhi have their way, then conditional access system (CAS) would be rolled out by them tomorrow. So upbeat are...
MUMBAI: Panamsat has announced that Anatel the government agency that regulates all telecommunications services in Brazil, has authorised its Brazilian subsidiary, PanAmSat do Brasil to provide...
MUMBAI: In a bid to expand children’s listenership, Radio City 91 FM is now looking for young RJs to anchor some new programmes for children. On...
MUMBAI: Hong Kong based communications provider PCCW and Star have announced that Star Chinese Movies and Xing Kong will be available to Now Broadband TV customers...
MUMBAI: The Star network is all set to start 2004 with a bang. Star Movies, Star Plus and Star Gold will showcase a slew of top...
MUMBAI: Turner India managing director Anshuman Misra is all set to take on additional responsibilities to manage Turner’s distribution and content sales in South East Asia....
MUMBAI: Film director Michael Apted of Coal Miner’s Daughter and The World Is Not Enough fame will direct the first three episodes of the new drama...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced an extra half million pound investment in regional independent television productions. The addtitional investment will be spent on a range of new...
MUMBAI: The Hindi version of the popular Hollywood blockbuster Anaconda which was telecast on Star Gold, created sensation by registering a whopping TVR of 3.3 with...
MUMBAI: BBC’s South Asia Bureau Chief Paul Danahar has been given one of Britain’s most prestigious awards, the MBE, for services to journalism. The award honours...
Tony and Deeya Singh have been pulled in from the wilderness (their last well known work was Just Mohabbat and Banegi Apni Baat) by Sony Entertainment...
MUMBAI: The Hallmark Movie Channel, which is Hallmark’s first digital service, is set to debut in January 2004. Crown Media Holdings Inc., which operates the Hallmark...
NEW DELHI: The dead on its feet rollout of conditional access system (CAS) has just had a dose of oxygen pumped into it. In a ruling...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: This may just give a shot in the arm of a certain section of the cable industry lobbying hard for the implementation...
NEW DELHI: It is not only the likes of Star News, CNBC-TV18 and Zee News that have to restructure their shareholding pattern to comply with the...
MUMBAI: The New Bombay Punjab Association, Vashi, the Punjabi Cultural and Welfare Association, CBD Belapur and Music Today organised a live concert by Punjabi popstar Hans...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The re-launched DD News is not only proving the sceptics wrong, but has managed to keep the heat on on its competitors....