NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj today asserted that the rollout of conditional access in the first phase should be done by 14...
Music television channels and Radio FM will need to face the ‘music’ resulting from the salvo that has been fired by the Indian Music Industry (IMI)....
MUMBAI: Media focus in the run-up to the ICC Cricket World Cup has been on ambush marketing. Maybe “ambush programming” also needs to be considered. That...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s Digital Curriculum, a new public service, will provide interactive learning materials via the internet to support the school curriculum. The BBC will now...
Swedish company Volvo Aero has acknowledged that an engine nozzle it supplied for Ariane-5 might have been the cause of the European satellite launcher’s failed maiden...
NEW DELHI: As a part of an amicable settlement, the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms is likely to offer Prasar Bharati some serials in lieu of Budha...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Sony Entertainment Television India reacted with outrage today to an announcement by Harish Thawani’s Nimbus Communications that national broadcaster Doordarshan (DD) has...
MUMBAI: Sony may have managed a programming coup of sorts on the last day of 2002 by slotting Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (K3G) at prime time,...
MUMBAI: ETC Networks has reported a profit after tax of Rs 123.6 million (up 663 per cent) for the nine months ended 31 December 2002 as...
NEW DELHI: The Manufacturers Association of IT (MAIT) has revised its growth projections revised from the earlier 15per cent to 20 per cent and the sales...
NEW DELHI: Ethnic media is an important and credible medium for communication between India and its diaspora on one hand, and the Indian public and foreign...
MUMBAI: It was “womens’ day out” as the second edition of indiantelevision.com’s scriptwriters workshop Qalam – that provides an ideal platform for the convergence of the...
MUMBAI: While other mainstream Hindi channels have often been accused of dishing out fare that has a sameness about it, SABe TV has managed to carve...
COLORADO: EchoStar Communications Corporation has announced that it has acquired exclusive television, radio and internet distribution rights for the International Cricket Council (ICC) 2003 Cricket World...
COLORADO: EchoStar Communications Corporation has announced that it has acquired exclusive television, radio and internet distribution rights for the International Cricket Council (ICC) 2003 Cricket World...
MUMBAI: The board of directors of Balaji Telefilms will meet on 30 January 2003 to consider and approve amongst the other items on the agenda, the...
MUMBAI: Sahara Samay Mumbai, one of the Sahara news channels, claims that it is ready and raring to go. Sahara Samay Mumbai head Rajiv Bajaj says...
MUMBAI: The Mumbai horse racing season has come alive for the first time for Indian viewers courtesy Ten Sports. The event has been made possible due...
MUMBAI: Sony has appointed World Sport Nimbus (WSN) to handle production on Extraaa Innings – the two-hour pre-match and one-hour post-match programming that MAX has developed...
BEIJING: Bloomberg Television has been awarded one of the two fresh licenses issued so far this year by the Chinese broadcast regulator, to distribute its English-language...
Qalam, a three day television scriptwriter’s workshop conducted at Time & Again Banquets in Mumbai’s Lokhandwala Complex in Andheri ran to a packed house on the...
MUMBAI: The fears about the a second-string Indian team representing India at the World Cup have been laid to rest. All the 15 members of the...
LAS VEGAS: A “single, seamless platform across AV, PC and mobile devices, with TV at the centre” is at the core of Sony’s global strategy to...
NEW DELHI: With Star, Sahara, Zee and Aaj Tak announcing the launch of additional news channels, public broadcaster Doordarshan seems to have taken an initiative to...
MUMBAI: The World Cup will drive revenues of Sony into the Rs 10 billion mark this fiscal, MAX executive vice president and business head Rajat Jain...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch may be having problems getting clearance for his Star News and DTH projects in India but in China he appears to be making...
MUMBAI: Seems like TV actor Shweta Tiwari (Prerna of Kasautii Zindagi Kay) has hit it big this time. She will be stepping into Bollywood soon, with...
MUMBAI: The Mahasangram has begun in India exactly one month before the first ball of the South Africa versus West Indies match is bowled. While unveiling...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Even as Siti Cable pushes aggressively for implementing conditional access through its headend in the sky (HITS) plan, India’s information and broadcasting...
MUMBAI: The BBC appears to be scenting an opportunity that will put a spoke in rival international news network CNN in the AOL Time Warner subsidiary’s...
MUMBAI: A darkly funny drama involving death! A gay man and a straight woman whose relationship constantly blows hot and cold! Sex and married life from...
MUMBAI: The second edition of indiantelevision.com’s scriptwriters workshop and forum, Qalam, was flagged of today at Time & Again Banquets in Mumbai’s Lokhandwala Complex in Andheri....
MUMBAI: HBO’s critically acclaimed comedy series Sex and The City with Sarah Jessica Parker will bow out next year. Its sixth season will be its last....
MUMBAI: Salomon Smith Barney (SSB), in a report just released, believes the failure of the channels in the Zee bouquet to rope in telecom ads is...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms continued its upward rise on the Indian stock markets, edging up 0.78 per cent to Rs 103.75 on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)....
NEW DELHI: Star India today indicated that it is not afraid of cricket eating into its viewership base, even as it announced a series of new...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Showtime’s been overtaken by sabre rattling between cable ops and broadcasters in the western state of Gujarat. Cable operators, who have not...
MUMBAI: I ts ‘K’ time on Zee again. Balaji Telefilms is back on Zee, albeit little more cautiously. Besides launching two new shows on Star Plus...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has announced its Sports Award ceremony. The annual ceremony to be held at the Hilton, Park Lane will pay homage to...
MUMBAI: Former Channel News Asia presenter Vidya Shankar Aiyar lost a sexual harassment case in Singapore yesterday. District judge Victor Yeo sentenced him to 16 months’...
NEW DELHI: If Doordarshan has sewn up a cricket deal which is quite a win-win situation for it, sister concern All-India Radio isn’t far behind. According...
MUMBAI: The content pie is certainly broadbasing. Kohi Apna Sa , the only Balaji Telefilms’ daily soap on Zee TV, goes off air from 15 January...
When an advertising agency decides to get into feature film making, you can be sure it’s going to be a methodical affair.The Savita Raj promoted Tandav...
MUMBAI: Noted right-wing columnist MV Kamath will be the next chairman of the Prasar Bharati Board. A three-member committee headed by vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat has...
MUMBAI: JP Morgan India’s report on the Indian cable industry titled: “CAS: The Medicine for a chronic ailment” points out that the consumer opting for pay...
MUMBAI: The countdown to Qalam 2003 – the second annual scriptwriter’s workshop and forum has begun. After the grand success of Qalam 2001, it is back...
MUMBAI: With the World Cup less than a month away, the International Cricket Council is pulling all stops to make sure its official sponsors are not...
MUMBAI: JP Morgan India’s report on the Indian cable industry titled: “CAS: The Medicine for a chronic ailment” states that the location where the signal would...
MUMBAI: JP Morgan India’s report on Indian cable industry titled: “CAS: The Medicine for a chronic ailment” claims that Zee would be a beneficiary of the...
MUMBAI: It’s BIG show time folks. With themes ranging from India’s partition, through to tales developed around the strife torn state of Kashmir, to blockbuster soaps,...

