BBC World has the highest percentage of unduplicated viewers after Aaj Tak, concludes a NFL MBO study that surveyed India‘s leading consumers to observe their lifestyle,...
MUMBAI: UTV Motion Pictures has lost a good resource. Its chief operating officer (COO) Sanjay Bhattacharjee will be leaving the organisation after 11 years on 10...
MUMBAI: SAB TV is definitely on a revamp mode. The channel which has humour as its USP, is now gearing for some serious stuff as well....
MUMBAI: What is good for the goose read The Osbournes may not be good for the gander read OJ Simpson! He was the darling of US...
MUMBAI: NDTV 24×7 & NDTV India will be releasing the results of a poll on Iraq on the 9 pm news in Hindi and English from...
BOSTON: Awareness of high-definition television (HDTV) among US consumers is quite high, according to a newly-released Dove Consulting study. Eighty one per cent of survey respondents...
MUMBAI: CNN has just added another feather to its cap. At the Overseas Press Club’s (OPC) 64th annual awards held a few days ago in New...
MUMBAI: The original was the MTV Music Awards. Then came the MTV Europe Music Awards. The MTV Asia Music Awards had their second run in January....
MUMBAI: When it finally happened, a terse three-paragraph statement was all that was offered. Viacom kids channel Nickelodeon India today formalised a break that has been...
NEW DELHI: The Zee-Turner distribution platform is taking in another entrant. Zee is set to announce next week the addition of a lifestyle channel T (Trends)...
NEW DELHI: Unfazed by mounting losses – approximately Rs 360 million in the last financial year ended 31 March – Star and Music Broadcast Pvt. Ltd....
NEW DELHI: The apex body of all broadcasting companies operating in India (pay as well as free to air channels), Indian Broadcasting Foundation, stands on the...
MUMBAI: A success story in the war against the cable pirate. Only it is far removed from Indian shores. The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of...
MUMBAI: The gloves are off. Literally. The irrepressible founder of CNN Ted Turner has called his pet hate of long standing Rupert Murdoch a warmonger for...
NEW DELHI: The radio group, the umbrella body of Indian FM companies, made a presentation today to the I&B minister RS Prasad seeking a five per...
MUMBAI: “If Iraq proved anything, it was that the BBC cannot afford to mix patriotism and journalism. This is happening in the United States and if...
MUMBAI: The team behind Star’s weekly current affairs programme FocusAsia has something to crow about. Bear Baiting – a report produced by FocusAsia which deals with...
MUMBAI: Bollywood Birth Marks (BBM), the Bollywood-centric two minute capsule on etc, will complete two years in May. It began in May 2001. BBM...
To say that Rajesh Chaddha, Head of Mumbai operations of B.A.G.Films, is a man of steel would be an understatement. The production house’s game show Hai...
MUMBAI: After the launch of Sahara Samay news channels and the announcement of Bollywood multi- starrer serials on Sahara TV, the Sahara India Pariwar has now...
MUMBAI: Looks like there will be a crossing of political swords in the family. BAG Films’ promoter Rajeev Shukla, the brother-in law of I&B minister and...
The idea‘s just taking off. After the youth TG which had the whole hearted attention of marketers in recent years, the spotlight is now trained on...
MUMBAI: A niche Hindi entertainment channel? Looks like that’s what the Adhikari brothers’ promoted SAB TV is setting out to be. To mark its turning three...
NEW DELHI: Music Broadcast Pvt. Ltd (MBPL), in association with Star, may just be the first one to launch a private FM radio station, Radio City,...
MUMBAI: DD Sahyadri is all set to host the prestigious Sahyadri Navratna Awards at the Doordarshan premises in Worli on 27 April 2003. The...
MUMBAI: Prashant Sanwal, director of all the Zee Network’s regional language Alpha channels, is moving on. Sanwal, who put in his papers at Zee on 31...
MUMBAI: B4U Television Networks, which runs B4U Movies and B4U Music channels in India and has a global presence in over 100 countries, is witnessing a...
NEW DELHI: A delegation of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) today made a strong pitch for some relaxation in the government-mandated deadline for implementation of conditional...
MUMBAI: Star World, the English entertainment channel, is making a conscious effort to become more India-specific and has announced a whole new programming strategy. ...
NEW DELHI:To lend some weight to those who are for quick implementation of conditional access, Zee Telefilms chairman and managing director Subhash Chandra has also accompanied...
MUMBAI: Now watch dinosaurs roar in Hindi. Star Plus will air the dubbed version of Jurassic Park on 27 April at 7 pm. Through the film...
MUMBAI: After some months of giving over the limelight completely to sister channel MAX courtesy the World Cup, Sony Entertainment India’s flagship channel SET is ready...
MUMBAI: The ever menacing threat of Aids shows no signs of letting up. And making a further bid at increasing awareness about the dreaded disease is...
Indian television takes a leap forward once every decade. While television entered into our country in the early seventies, the first major television revolution took place...
MUMBAI: With a slew of news channels entering the domestic television market, each of the new entrants wants to have an edge over the other. According...
MUMBAI : This is an initiative that aims at putting a European spin on news and currents affairs happenings. French media companies have submitted bids for...
HONG KONG: The pioneer of terrestrial television in Hong Kong in 1967 Robert Chua shows no signs of slowing down. The television producer’s game show Everybody...
MUMBAI:Trust MAX to experiment and innovate – that too in style. After the much-hyped Cricket World Cup that reaped fruitful returns for the channel, it is...
NEW YORK: The news continues to be good for Viacom Inc. The media powerhouse, parent company of MTV and Nickelodeon, today reported record results for the...
MUMBAI: Even as the the outlines of the basic tier in the conditional access environment are firming up (30 free to air channels at Rs 72),...
NEW YORK: Viacom Inc has announced today that it has reached an agreement with AOL Time Warner to acquire AOL’s 50 per cent interest in Comedy...
MUMBAI: MGM Networks, a unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has signed a distribution agreement covering an MGM-branded, movie-driven network in Indonesia. Under the agreement, the MGM...
NEW YORK: AOL Time Warner Inc may sell its 50 per cent stake in cable network Comedy Central for about $1.2 billion to joint venture partner...
MUMBAI: The 24-hour test-run of Kerala’s first round-the-clock news channel Indiavision started yesterday. Promoted by Dr M K Muneer, who is also the leader of...
MUMBAI: The Sun Network has hit back at Raj TV’s claims of having cornered the number two position in Tamil Nadu. Reacting to a...
NEW DELHI: The big daddies of the Indian broadcasting scene met under the aegis of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation here today to discuss various aspects of...
NEW DELHI: The government is contemplating going in for revenue sharing with the licence holders of the second round of licences for FM radio. The...
MUMBAI: It has become a case of swim or sink for India’s beleaguered music industry. Over the past three years the industry has been battered and...
SINGAPORE: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has announced the promotion of Adam Zecha from vice president to senior V-P, affiliate sales. Zecha was part of the...
NEW DELHI: Capitalising on the needs of the Indian television news segment, Norway-based Vizrt Limited, the world’s leading company in real-time 3-D graphics system for television,...