Asianet Satellite Communications has chosen MagnaQuest Technologies India handle its subscriber management systems (SMS). MagnaQuest provides customer management & billing (CM&B) solutions in the data, video...
CONNECTICUT: Sony Pictures Entertainment had an incredible 2002. This year could be a touch different if USA Video Interactive (USVO) has its way. USVO’s subsidiary...
LONDON: Three new music channels from the Sky stable — Flaunt, Scuzz and The Amp — will launch by 17 April 2003 coinciding with Easter weekend....
MUMBAI: A clarification has been issued by production house Sundial Communications in connection with recent reports filed by indiantelevision.com on the ongoing legal proceedings around Zee...
She personifies the image and spirit of the two spirited channels from the Zee stable that have, in a short span, asserted their identity and are...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: “Experienced journalists, not news readers is what we offer!” Thus, Dr Prannoy Roy sought to differentiate his soon-to-be-launched channels from the rest...
MUMBAI: Kuchh Ruke Hue Lamhe – When Time stood Still, a 50-minute low budget film has been selected for the New York International Independent Film and...
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court, which was expected to deliver its final verdict on Monday, 10 April 2003 about the Zee’s beleaguered Sunday morning show Kanhaiyya, has...
MUMBAI: CNBC Asia Pacific and Shanghai Media Group jointly announced a strategic partnership today. The partnership announced today has two initial elements. The first is to...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government will consider the suggestions made in the FICCI-KPMG report titled “The Indian entertainment sector – in the spotlight” while formulating policies....
NEW DELHI: It was a classic case of a set of glamorous people robbing the glam of the word glamorous. Reason: some were not prepared, while...
MUMBAI: Deepak Bukshi, who has directed several TV serials, ad films and telefilms, has sold the rights of his first feature film Meri Marzi to Raas...
NEW DELHI: Finally the radio and TV licence fee issue has been laid to rest. There is no proposal to re-impose licence fee on television and...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service Trust is hiring. After a successful run of the first edition of its interactive TV detective series Jasoos Vijay, which airs every...
MUMBAI: etc networks recently completed one year of its association with the Zee family. To mark the occasion different religious groups offered prayers to commemorate the...
MUMBAI: It was some kind of an anticlimax considering the number of people who had assembled at the Mumbai High Court today! A division bench of...
HYDERABAD: Tomorrow Indias first paid digital Telugu satellite television channel MAA TV will celebrate one year of operation. MAA carved a path of its own in...
SINGAPORE: It may have burnt its fingers with its pre and post-match shows around the cricket World Cup but when it comes to sports news updates...
MUMBAI: Cough, cough may be alright when one is afflicted with an illness but recent news should make even a pauper think thrice before using it...
MUMBAI: Family oriented Hallmark has announced that it has acquired three shows from Sony. The aim is to strengthen the late primetime programme slots, which air...
MUMBAI: Looks as if the competition is trying to emulate MAX’s successful “cricketainment” formula. If MAX had one animated tiger character doing its thing, ESPN Star...
MUMBAI: With the ongoing Iraq conflict gaining momentum viewership for news channels have received a boost. While the long term viewership impact remains to be seen...
MUMBAI: Niche infotainment network Discovery channel has launched Discover India, a new series which will showcase modern and contemporary India. The series will present...
NEW DELHI: Well, the government gave some way but the cable industry continues to cry foul. At today’s extended meeting of the task force on conditional...
MUMBAI: National Geographic’s (NGC) mission is clear-cut! Enable ordinary people to do the extraordinary by affording them the opportunity to tackle Mount Everest and at the...
MUMBAI: Zee English is changing its look. Beginning with the Miss Universe pageant that will be held in Panama in June, the niche channel will revamp...
PARIS: Paul C. Johnson has been named Director of the Television Division at Reed Midem. He will manage Reed Midem’s international television exhibition business, which includes...
NEW DELHI: The news and other programs on NDTV’s new Hindi channel will play against a signature theme created specially for the channel by renowned music...
MUMBAI: From today, Channel [V] is wholly a Star subsidiary. The Hong Kong-based Star TV, a unit of media baron Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Ltd, today...
NEW YORK: David Bloom, an NBC News correspondent travelling with the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division outside Baghdad, died yesterday, The broadcaster said that the 39-year-old...
MUMBAI: If saas bahu sagas rake in high TRPs in the north, its the tear-jerking soaps that cast a similar spell in the south. Interestingly, the...
NEW DELHI: As they say in cricket, something’s about to give way. Either the Indian government will buckle under pressure from various factions of the broadcasting...
LONDON: The health and well being of the personnel of International broadcasters continues to be under threat as they bring viewers up to speed on the...
SINGAPORE: With the cricket world cup a thing of the past ESPN Star Sports (ESS) is concentrating on giving fans of European football, tennis, golf a...
ROME: The lower house of the Italian parliament passed a fiercely contested bill intended to modernise television and create more choice on the Italian airwaves. A...
SINGAPORE: This is a deal that takes broadcast technology in the continent to the next level. StarHub which claims to be Singapore’s leading info-communication provider has...
MUMBAI: Scopus Network Technologies which supplied digital platforms to FIFAs 2002 World Cup has announced that national broadcaster Doordarshan, has once again selected Scopus’ digital broadcast...
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey: Tyra Banks will be felicitated at the Bollywood Movie Awards even as she gears up to produce new reality show on UPN....
MUMBAI: Cindy Burbridge, a former Miss Thailand and Miss World 1996, will soon feature on Channel [V]’s show The Juice sometime in the first week of...
When it comes to blockbusters we are really the best.” This is the core of what HBO is trying to reinforce this Summer through its programming...
MUMBAI: The cricket World Cup has wrecked havoc on the listed television companies, particularly because none of them had the rights to telecast the greatest cricketing...
MUMBAI: A century on air and counting. Kagaz Ki Kashtti (KKK), a daily soap which airs on Sahara TV, completed 100 episodes yesterday. Shrishti Entertainment, promoted...
MUMBAI: Venture capitalists (VCs) haven’t changed their outlook on the entertainment industry despite the recent sops offered by union minister of law & justice, commerce &...
MUMBAI: Zee’s beleaguered Sunday morning show Kanhaiyya continues in suspended animation for another week. The Supreme Court, which was to deliver its final verdict on Friday...
MUMBAI: After news channels, its time for radio! Sahara Swar, the first satellite radio in Mumbai’s suburban trains, will start by July this year. ...
NEW YORK: If adults across the globe are polarised by the ongoing Iraq conflict, can one expect anything different from kids? The answer is no if...
MUMBAI: TV and film actor-turned-producer Kunika Sadanand Lall announced that her first product ‘Strivers and Achievers’ is ready to hit the tube on 13 April. The...
MUMBAI: A female protagonist starts from scratch after her husband ditches her. This is the theme around which Hallmark’s new series Family Law revolves. The show...
MUMBAI: News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch looks to be within touching distance of becoming arguably the most powerful media magnate on the planet. The...
MUMBAI: Joining the bandwagon of international news channels like CNN, BBC World will be a French news channel. According to a report in The...