MUMBAI: It’s time for celebrations at Star India. The Star network has walked away with nine awards at the Promax & BDA (Broadcast Designers’ Association) Asia...
MUMBAI: The Sridevi starrer Humaari Bahu Malini Iyer (HBMI) is set to debut on Sahara Manoranjan on 5 January 2004. Sahara, which urgently needs a hit...
MUMBAI: A crowd of about 2,000 people that had gathered outside the National Centre of Performing Arts at Nariman Point, Mumbai for the ceremonial flag-off the...
NEW DELHI: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), heading a 17-party coalition Federal government in India, had a whopping 3:1 sweep in the four states that...
NEW DELHI: Pune-based 2D animation studio Digikore Studios Limited is on the lookout for acquiring an equity stake in 2D animated television series. The studio, which...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The end-of year big ticket cricket event, India’s tour of Australia, kicks off on ESPN Star Sports from tomorrow. However, for a...
MUMBAI: The global entertainment industry generates $1.2 trillion revenue every year. However, the Indian industry – which contributes in a big way to the global market...
MUMBAI: When it comes to awards Max appears to be the channel to beat. At the Promax & BDA Asia Awards 2003 in Singapore last evening,...
MUMBAI: Channel [V] has been awarded the Gold Promax in the ‘Best interactive promo category’ for its promo with ‘Rai University’ and a Silver Promax in...
NEW DELHI: The issue of censorship on television cropped up in a different way today when members of a parliamentary panel expressed their concern at the...
MUMBAI: The US-based Malayalee entrepreneur and chairman of US Software and Toonz Animation at Technopark, G.A.Menon died of a heart attack yesterday. The incident happened on...
NEW DELHI: The Aroon Purie-controlled TV Today Network Ltd., which manages the affairs of Hindi news channel Aaj Tak and its English sibling, Headlines Today, is...
MUMBAI: Channel [V], China Central Television (CCTV) and Shanghai Media Group have announced that they will jointly present The 10th Channel [V] Chinese Music Awards. The...
NEW DELHI: BBC’s Washington correspondent Nick Bryant who will be the organisations’ new South Asia correspondent arrived in the Capital. Bryant has been at the heart...
MUMBAI: The Asia Media Festival (AMF) 2003 is currently taking place in Singapore. The annual media industry fiesta hosted by the Media Development Authority (MDA) and...
MUMBAI: MTV has announced a variety of local acts for its awards function The MTV Immies. Actor Salman Khan, dancer Ishaa Koppikar, model Yana Gupta, Amrita...
MUMBAI: If last year, Star India had linked a 25 per cent drop in subscription rates per subscriber (from Rs 40 to Rs 30) to a...
MUMBAI: Entertainment One, Manmohan Shetty’s film production house, has issued a notice yesterday stating that all is well between them and their associates Sahara India Mass...
MUMBAI: The top line findings of a new research study – Sparr (Sections, Pullouts and Attitudinal Readership Research) – conducted by Media Research Users Council (MRUC)...
NEW DELHI: Malaysia must tackle its ‘rampant’ music and video disc piracy problems with stiffer penalties and a hunt for those at the root of the...
MUMBAI: National creative head of Entertainment Network India Limited (which runs FM radio station Radio Mirchi) Sunil Sajhwani put in his papers on Monday. Sajhwani, who...
MUMBAI: This is a piece of news that should make advertisers in newspapers pay attention. Pull outs that is sections of newspapers like Times Of India’s...
NEW DELHI: The Bill relating to the proposed Broadcast Content Regulatory Authority of India may not be taken up by policy-makers during the present winter session...
NEW DELHI: The government is not sure about the future of conditional access system (CAS) in either Delhi or in Mumbai and Kolkata. It is also...
MUMBAI: Raj TV seems to be in no mood to give up its claim as the second most popular channel in Tamil Nadu. A few months...
MUMBAI: Today is the day of reckoning for political parties staking their individual claims for the Assembly elections in Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh (MP) and Chhattisgarh....
NEW DELHI: Zee News may be lagging behind Aaj Tak, which seems to be living up to its image of ‘subse tez’ channel till now, but...
MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati is on the lookout for marketing partners to expand its Akashvani and Doordarshan archives. To effect this expansion, the national broadcaster has invited...
NEW DELHI: A mammoth exercise of elections in the four states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh and the Union Territory of Delhi came to an end...
MUMBAI: CMP Media’s Digital Video Group has announced a series of special activities for its event Digital Video Expo West 2003. Now in its seventh year,...
MUMBAI: The ship is shaking in unsteady waters at the moment for media conglomerate Disney. Its vice chairman Roy Disney who is the nephew of the...
MUMBAI: The gap between the cost of a high-definition television (HDTV) and the amount US consumers are willing to pay is closing. The finding is contained...
MUMBAI: The BBC World Service has launched four new 24-hour FM relays in Mozambique. This will bring BBC programmes in Portuguese and English to listeners across...
NEW DELHI: Padmalaya Telefilms Limited (PTL) is on the verge of signing a major co-production deal with an European studio, for production of four episodes and...
MUMBAI: The Laureus World Sports Academy will visit India tomorrow, with its annual forum to be held at the Amby Vally, Sahara India’s hill city at...
MUMBAI: Business and finance channel CNBC-TV18 is looking to strengthen its hold over its audience by reintroducing its Lessons In Excellence series. This time it is...
NEW DELHI: News website Tehelka’s sting operation relating to a scam involving defence personnel may have been a trend-setter, but the television news channels in India...
MUMBAI: The ratings roost was supposedly ruled by soaps and comedies – most of them from the Star Network, and Doordarshan (DD) was hardly the one...
‘The Ultimate Aussie Girl’, ‘Action Girl’, ‘Dare Diva’. These are some the nicknames given to television hostess and actor Tania Zaetta. Zaetta has been a regular...
NEW DELHI: Star News is not looking at present to spread its wings in other languages – be it English or any other Indian languages –...
MUMBAI: Red Hat India, a joint venture between Clover Technologies, India and Red Hat Inc, USA – the world’s premier open source software provider, is all...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: What the I&B minister proposes, the I&B ministry is left with the onerous task of disposing. I&B minister RS Prasad’s recent comments...
MUMBAI: Although Jassi… is the show that got Sony Entertainment back into the Top 50 ratings, weekends are when SET really gives leader Star Plus a...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Having had to go through many downs – remember the stock market scam few years back involving Ketan Parekh where Zee Telefilms was also...
MUMBAI: The action-oriented AXN is constantly looking to top off whatever it has done in the past. This year it managed to achieve that with shows...
HAMILTON: The History Channel which is dedicated to bringing events from the past back to life in an innovative manner is rapidly spreading its wings. In...
NEW YORK: One of the biggest aquatic events World Cup Swimming kicked off this month Daejon, Korea. IEC in Sports represents the global television rights for...
MUMBAI: It is not just Doordarshan and MTV that are looking to hook viewers on the occasion of World Aids Day. News broadcaster CNN has lined...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Seems like information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has unwittingly created a controversy where there was none. Media reports yesterday quoted Prasad...
The following speech was given by BBC Director General Greg Dyke to the Emmy Board in New York on Monday 24 November. In the four years...