MUMBAI: As the US-led invasion steps into full throttle, BBC World has abandoned its regular programming schedule and is providing extensive rolling news coverage of the...
MUMBAI: CNN International has doubled its staff in West Asia including Iraq (northern Iraq and Baghdad), Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar and Israel to provide a live coverage...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan Guwahati Programme Production Centre’s director B Chakrabarty has been suspended on grounds of irregularity in allocation of commissioned programmes. According to Prasar Bharati...
MUMBAI: Even before Chicago releases in theatres in India, Zee MGM has announced the acquisition of the satellite telecast rights of the acclaimed musical. The movie...
Finally, the rules of the news channel game have been spelt out. It‘s as good a time as any to examine the implications. First the rules....
NEW DELHI: Star and the likes can breathe a bit easy as finally the Almighty may be smiling. Though the Indian government may have taken its...
MUMBAI: The bubbly, na?ve ‘Sweety'(Rakhi Tandon) of Zee’s mega success Hum Paanch is coming back to the channel in the form of ‘Simi’ in Pyar Zindagi...
MUMBAI: As a host for a reality show, you couldn’t get someone more qualified than this. Monica Lewinsky, whose affair with former US president Bill Clinton...
MUMBAI: Last year, the president of CNN International Chris Cramer was instrumental in undertaking a major initiative to create awareness about the need to increase the...
MUMBAI: This is an initiative by the beeb to spread English China. BBC Worldwide and BBC World Service will provide educational content for an English language...
MUMBAI: The last date for receiving entries for the 28th Rapa (Radio and TV advertisers practitioners association of India) awards for radio and TV productions is...
MUMBAI: Sahara TV is all set to bludgeon its way into the big league of the Hindi television entertainment stakes. And the hook it is using...
MUMBAI: Here is a piece of news that should make MAX, ESPN-Star Sports and Ten Sports sit up. Interactivity is expected to increase the revenue streams...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Cabinet on Tuesday took the bull by the horn and exercising a country’s sovereign power to have laws to suit local environs,...
MUMBAI: Satellite operator Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited (AsiaSat) has announced financial results for the year ending 31December 2002. It has reported a turnover of HK$951million...
MUMBAI: INTERACTION ’03: A Transatlantic Producers’ Forum which was scheduled to take place on 1 April in London has now been put off till September. As...
CNN‘s chief Chris Cramer‘s speech at Ficci Frames 2003 has really put “reality TV in India under perspective! Taking about reality TV, Cramer said that this...
LONDON: This is an event that will bring interactive broadcast professionals under one roof. The American Film Institute (AFI), BBC and BAFTA will organise the first...
LOS ANGELES: The latest twist in the HBO – James Gandolfini ongoing tussle sees HBO firmly placing placing the ball in the court of Gandolfini. HBO’s...
NEW DELHI: KPMG released its first “Fraud and Misconduct Diagnostic Survey in India” today. Releasing the report KPMG Forensic global managing partner Norman D. Inkster, who...
BERMUDA: Intelsat has announced that it has created three business units in order to sharpen focus on the data/carrier/Internet, video and government customer segments. An official...
MUMBAI: It’s Rang Barse time in tellydom. The festival to celebrate the triumph of good over evil is here, and the television industry has different plans...
LONDON: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) has announced the names of this year’s nominees. The winners for the Bafta awards will be...
Call Anil V Kumar a ‘self-made man’ or ‘Ekta Kapoor’s man of crisis’. Actually, he is a mixture of both. He’s here for fortune rather than...
No. Name For Mats Inn N.O Runs Balls Hs 50 100 SR 1 Inzamam Pak 59 59 8 2464 3195 137 17 4 77.1 2...
MUMBAI: Another Indian has moved up the global corporate ladder! Soumitra Saha has been promoted to vice president-regional entertainment, advertising and sales, Turner Entertainment Networks Asia...
MUMBAI: The biggest event in filmdom, the 75th Oscar Awards, is just ten days away. Despite the war clouds hanging heavy as the US war machine...
Sitting in his seventh floor sparsely furnished office at the Videocon Towers in the busy Central-West area of Delhi, Uday Shankar, the 30-something news director of...
MUMBAI: Screen Actors Guild presented its coveted Actor statuette for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2002 at the 9th Annual Screen Actors...
MUMBAI: Ventures Direct, the seven year old production house has crossed the Rs 70 million turnover figure and presently has 50 slots across several terrestrial and...
MUMBAI: It was a promotional exercise with difference. Instead of the usual high tea and starry affair this one involved books and kids. The NGO Child...
MUMBAI: This is an interesting strategy that borders on the risky. The latest offering from Sony Entertainment Television isForce 1 , a mini series slated to...
MUMBAI: The crusade for putting the law a step ahead of technology arrives in India. The Motional Picture Association of America launched the last leg of...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Indian Cabinet is likely to take up the uplinking issue and news channels’ uplinking from India and their equity pattern early...
NEW YORK: Now catch up with the latest news through Internet broadband. One of the four blind mice of American television ABC has launched a 24-hour...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: You have to give it to Prannoy Roy and his TV software company-soon-to-turn-broadcaster NDTV. Roy’s become an institution in the news business...
MUMBAI: Its coverage of the cricket world cup may be zilch but for the urban yuppie male on the go who craves a quick fix in...
MUMBAI: Sanjay Khan’s mega serials -1857 Kranti is soon to be shifted to Sunday prime time on Doordarshan. The two serials from the Numero Uno International...
LOS ANGELES: The controversy between HBO and Soprano star James Gandolfini has just flared up. HBO is seeking to turn the tables on the star’s recently...
NEW DELHI: The public service broadcaster doesn’t want to be outdone by a satellite channel where cricket is concerned. It is taking on everybody and asserts...
NEW YORK: Turner Broadcasting System is in the middle of restructuring its divisions in order to increase strategy focus, align and expand operations. The aim is...
NEW DELHI: First there was one. In a quiet way, very unlike the group, Sahara Samay Rashtriya, the national news channel from the Subrata Roy-promoted Sahara...
NEW DELHI: HITS (headend in the sky), pushed by Zee Telefilms, seems to have become a hit with conditional access technology providers with the France-based Canal+...
NEW DELHI: A delegation of top level representatives of the French animation industry will be in Mumbai and in Bangalore from 14 to 17 March 2003...
MUMBAI: No news may be good news but bad news is great news. So while Bush is chalking out his invasion plan for Iraq, the Associated...
MUMBAI: It was always on the cards but now it’s official. Taj Television (parent company of Ten Sports) has secured the telecast rights for all cricket...
MUMBAI: Broadcasters MAX, Sony and Doordarshan would all be on cloud nine if every cricket match could be one between India and Pakistan. According to TAM...
NEW DELHI: The Indian cabinet is unlikely to meet on Tuesday (11 March 2003) as it generally does as part of the two designated days in...
NEW DELHI: The United Kingdom secretary of state for media, culture and sports Tessa Jowell, called on the Indian minister of state for information & broadcasting,...
Revamped programming and an innovative initiative seem to be paying dividends to Zee Cinema. Zee Cinema quotes TAM to prove its superiority over rivals The channel...