NEW DELHI: Television Eighteen Ltd, the Indian joint venture partner for CNBC India, has questioned the Hinduja Group MSO INCablenet’s stand on the black out of...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The multi-system operator (MSO)-broadcaster face-off has taken another twist. Now the dramatis personae are the Hinduja group-controlled INCablenet and business news channel CNBC India....
It is only the ‘privileged‘ urban homes that feature on satellite channels in India, finds a study conducted on gender representation on satellite television by the...
MUMBAI: Subhash Chandra’s Zee TV has launched a dedicated channel for the Middle East region. Zee is clearly hoping to cash in on the advantages that...
SINGAPORE: With the Asian Games just nine days away, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) is in the midst of a new problem, this time on...
LOS ANGELES:Producers of the Mortal Kombat feature film franchise, one of the biggest and best-known martial arts franchises of all-time have launched Blackbelt TV, the world’s...
MUMBAI: Close on the heels of Raj Nayak having put in his papers at Star India, Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms put out a statement today that...
MUMBAI: One could be forgiven for thinking some new Bollywood blockbuster was going on the floors. Screen siren Karisma Kapoor is there in a double role,...
MUMBAI: Specialisation is the order of the day. Keeping this in mind the Mumbai-headquartered communications management firm CMCG India has launched SportzPR, Indias first specialised communications...
MUMBAI: Actress Priya Tendulkar, best known for the cult series Rajani that aired on Doordarshan in the mid 1980s died following a massive heart attack in...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Star India and its executive vice-president sales and marketing, LS ‘Raj’ Nayak, are still grappling with the issue of making the latter’s...
MUMBAI: TV software company Cinevistaas, which burnt its fingers with Yeh Mohabbat Hai, a joint venture with film producer Umesh Mehra, is going solo for its...
MUMBAI: The war among English movie channels to gain share shows no signs of letting up. HBO’s latest programming strategy involves a new turn into horror....
MUMBAI: CNN’s flagship regional business programme Biz Asia will introduce two new weekly segments, The Business of Film and Challenging CEOs from 20 September and 2...
MUMBAI: HBO claims that the much-anticipated return episode of mob drama The Sopranos on 15 September has been rated the most watched programme in the history...
When Vandana Malik started off in television, she was an absolute novice to the medium. It was TV18 promoter Raghav Bahl who propelled his then housewife-sister...
MUMBAI: Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea met up with Star India executive vice-president sales and marketing Raj Nayak in the afternoon yesterday to review the situation...
LONDON: A major new study into the future of television was released yesterday by Britain’s Independent Television Commission (ITC), setting the scene for Parliamentary debates on...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has received an application from Aaj Tak for starting a news channel and seeking a no-objection for uplinking the...
MUMBAI: Hallmark is taking special pains to strengthen its position in the late night block. With this in mind, the channel will push The Guardian and...
MUMBAI: “It’s no longer a fight for the third slot,” affirms Vijay TV programming head Suresh Iyer. Vijay TV, relaunched in October 2001 with the joint...
LOS ANGELES: Media conglomerate Vivendi Universal is said to be completing talks over the sale of its Italian pay TV operator to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp....
MUMBAI : Canal+ Technologies (C+T) has announced the launch of the first iTV-version of a German magazine ‘HRZU’, based on the Mediahighway MHP-compliant middleware, in association...
Airtimes: Indian Standard Times Wed, Jul 19 at 1830hrs Sat, Jul 22 at 1130am and 1930hrs Sun, Jul 23 at 1130am CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane...
MUMBAI: Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea is meeting up with Star India executive vice-president sales and marketing Raj Nayak in the afternoon today to review the...
Shantonu Aditya, Sony Entertainment Television India’s head of distribution as well as president of the Discovery-SET India joint venture company, is the man at the centre...
MUMBAI: The ESPN School Quiz launched into its third year today with a bang! The first regional round of the School Quiz 2003 saw over 5000...
AMSTERDAM (HOLLAND): News Corp subsidiary NDS claims that it has become the world’s first company to supply smartcards to 30 million active digital pay-TV subscribers. The...
CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA: In a strategic move aimed at capitalising on the overall strength of the Sony brand, Sony Pictures Entertainment has renamed its domestic and...
Jon Stewart, host of the award winning US satirical news show The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, will present The Daily Show: Global Edition, a late-night...
NEW DELHI: The cable operators-broadcaster face-off in the Capital is lurching from one controversy to another. While Win Cable-Hathway and Sony Entertainment TV India have called...
MUMBAI: Ask anyone in Indian television land, and you will be told that it is only the woman viewer who can unlock the door to the...
MUMBAI: Subhash Ghai promoted Mukta Arts has finally taken the plunge into television software. The company informed BSE India that Mukta Prime’3 Teleworks Pvt Ltd will...
MUMBAI: The Osbournes, MTV ‘s unexpected hit about the life of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, was named best reality series at the Creative Arts Emmys’ on Saturday...
HOLLAND: NDS, the technology company from the News Corp stable, has been nominated for two BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards. The first nomination is for the Interactive...
Mumbai 10th July 2006. The Janmat Abhiyaan crusade against the city’s bad roads and open manholes has now been taken one step further. From 10th July...
SAINT TROPEZ: A small Indian contingent consisting of Delhi French embassy representative Reghu Devraj, Delhi-based New Image Entertainment promoter HS Bedi, Mumbai-based CEO Star Entertainment Pvt...
MUMBAI: Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), a Christian channel which had gone off-air last year, was re-launched by the Tamil Nadu Law and Information Technology Minister, D...
MUMBAI: Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), a Christian channel which had gone off-air last year, was re-launched by the Tamil Nadu Law and Information Technology Minister, D...
The first episode of the new Zee soap, which airs Mondays to Fridays in the 8:30 pm slot, was high on melodrama. How the plot unfolds...
The Hallmark Channel is planning a slew of programming and marketing initiatives in a bid to increase visibility in India. And coordinating these activities is Hallmark...
SAINT TROPEZ: The news for the television industry was all gloom and doom in 2001-2002, right? Wrong. There was a positive upside to the bad times...
SAINT TROPEZ: Television France International’s Rendez-Vous 2002 successfully concluded on 13 September with a dinner conjured by Chef Christope Leroy – a master of his art....
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s Star TV is to let go or reassign 100 employees, many of them highly paid technical experts, when it closes its Hong Kong...
NEW DELHI: It’s almost official now. Just stopping short of issuing a press release, Aaj Tak, the news channel from the India Today Group (ITG) stable,...
MUMBAI: Business news channel CNBC India has announced Destination India, a docu-series that will showcase select Indian states that have taken dynamic steps on the economic...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company will be held on 24...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati is still dreaming of a news channel in the Doordarshan stable. And rightly so. In a two-day board, held yesterday and today,...
French pay-TV major and technology supplier Canal Plus and the News Corp owned subscription and conditional access hotshot NDS are locked in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation. The...
New York: Nickelodeon’s Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius raked in record ratings for its 6 September debut in the US, ranking as Nick’s highest rated...