Predominantly music channel etc is adding interactive elements to its long-running Bollywood Birthmarks, which features filmstars whose birthdays fall in a particular week. Bollywood Birthmarks gives...
Noted filmmaker Subhash Ghai had a 20-year dream: to set up an international film and media institute in Mumbai. Whistling Woods International Ltd (WWIL) came up...
With just three days left for the kick-off the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and Korea, indications are that B4U Networks and Doordarshan are on...
B4U Networks and Doordarshan thrashed out an agreement today that clears the way for the deferred telecast on DD of four matches and a daily highlights...
The event which marks the coming together of all the industry people for latest developments in the broadcasting world and also for networking with peers is...
Sportsworld Australia, earlier a part of the Sportsworld Media Group, has changed ownership and is now christened Sportsbrand Media Group. Sportsbrand carries forward the heritage of...
Close on the heels of winning the Ground Breaker award as the top National Programmer by US-based trade publication Multichannel News International, Zee Telefilms has one...
Sanjay Dosi has put in his papers as CEO of Balaji Telefilms. The company that posted a net profit of Rs 290.15 million for FY 2001-02,...
Beginning 28 May, Bloomberg Television will globally simulcast financial coverage of US, Asian and European markets on a daily show, The Bloomberg World Financial Report. Marshalling...
The MTV Youth Marketing Forum promised a lot. For the first time, the naughty music channel decided to shift it away from its sinful commercial capital...
The race is on to bag the rights to telecast Sri Lankan cricket in India. The major players in the running are Sony Entertainment Television’s Set...
In what is seen as a move to avoid any complications which may arise due to ‘restrictions on cross media holdings’, Zee Telefilms announced that it...
Action channel AXN India claims to have stolen a march over rival English movie channels last month in the ratings game. The channel telecast Commando on...
If the government decides to go ahead with the promulgation of an Ordinance (executive order) by the President of India making implementation of conditional access system...
After waiting for nearly seven years to launch his first four channels, Kalanithi Maran, the 35-year old chairman and managing director of Sun TV, is now...
Spurred by stupendous success of its Playwin Lottery, Subhash Chandra’s Essel group is moving its golden goose to fresh pastures. A variant of Playwin’s Super Lotto...
Following yesterday’s announcement made by B4U Networks that it had secured the terrestrial telecast rights for the FIFA soccer World Cup from Taj Sports, the promoter...
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today dedicated the Insat-3B satellite which was launched earlier on March 22. The Prime Minister will dedicate the satellite in Bhubaneshwar...
It was in January 2001 that faith channel Aastha set a landmark of sorts with the live telecast from Allahabad of the 45-day religious mega-event –...
Scientific Atlanta has introduced Integra5 Communications, the latest application developer in its CreativEdge Developer Program. Cable operators can offer consumers this program over the Explorer set-top...
Here’s yet another twist to the convoluted tale of national broadcaster Doordarshan’s bid to arrange World Cup soccer telecast. DD now has to deal with a...
Pubcaster Prasar Bharati’s board these days is seized with matters mostly related to telecast rights. If it is not football, then it must be cricket. A...
Business channel CNBC India is launching yet another weekend business show, Global Market Wrap from 25 May. The 30-minute show aims to focus on key developments...
After being off for close to a month in the US, Hindi entertainment channel Sony Entertainment Television is looking at making a comeback by next month....
Roshan Abbas is one of the more popular hosts seen on the small screen today. Roshan first shot into fame as anchor of Public Demand, one...
Keertan Adyanthaya – ex-Mindshare Fulcrum – has joined Star India. He will be in charge of programming at Channel [V], Star Movies and Star World. At...
The three member high-level committee appointed for the restructuring of Prasar Bharati has finally submitted its report to the government after much delay. The committee consisting...
Software and film animation major Padmalaya Telefilms Limited has declared its unaudited financial results for the year ended 31 March 2002. The net sales of the...
Hindi Entertainment channel Sahara TV is sprucing up its one-hour children’s band with new shows set to launch. The kids band, called Just Kids, will be...
In a swift turn around on Monday, the Bangladesh government lifted its ban on 11 of the 13 satellite channels it had imposed on Sunday. The...
SABe TV’s celebrated variety entertainment show Office-Office has won the RAPA (Radio and TV Advertising Practitioners’ Association of India) Award for “Best Comedy” serial for the...
“We are on track to achieve our aim of becoming the number one network as far as subscription revenues are concerned.” This is what Shantonu Aditya,...
To telecast or not to telecast (World cup soccer matches) is the question that is haunting Prasar Bharati and it is still attempting to salvage an...
Viacom-owned children’s channel Nickelodeon will soon be broadcast in China after the localisation of all programme content, a recent report says. Viacom launched Nickelodeon programming in...
Mickey Mouse is coming to Korea. Come 1 June, viewers in Seoul will be able to tune into the antics of Disney’s rodent on television. The...
The Bangladesh government has clamped down on eight Indian popular satellite pay channels and five FTA channels to “resist the adverse impact of alien culture on...
91, as the hoardings strung out all over the city and suburbs tell us, hits the city airwaves on Tuesday. The fourth private FM player to...
The Sahara India Group’s ambitious plans to launch a national Hindi news channel, along with a number of independent city-based regional news stations (mainly in the...
It’s May and as reported earlier in Indiantelevision.com’s special report the Tara Marathi channel has gone on air. This means that there is one more major...
Alarmed by the growing reach of private satellite channels, Doordarshan is finally getting its act together and is looking to increase the penetration of DD-2, or...
It’s the festival of lights. And for many the festival of noise courtesy exploding fireworks. In the hope of reducing the number of those belonging to...
Sri Adhikari Brothers Television (SABTNL) continues its long association with national broadcaster Doordarshan with the launch on Monday of a new daily social drama Kuntee on...
Hindi entertainment channel Sahara TV has taken home five trophies at the Radio and TV Advertising Practitioners Association (RAPA) awards that were held in Mumbai on...
All you “Friends” lovers here’s an interesting fact which will tell you that it ‘really pays’ to be good friends – pun intended. The cast of...
Hindi news channel Aaj Tak has bagged the Best Campaign of the Year (TV) Award at the 27th Radio and TV Advertising Practitioners’ Association of India...
Star TV and ANZ Grindlays have got into bed together with Mastercard International. And the result of the menage a trois: a bonny alive and kicking...
Nickelodeon, MTV’s sister channel, is all set to stir up some heat on the kids entertainment scene. And in true MTV-style, yesterday it unveiled its first...
One crime show is being replaced by another on Star Plus. Kahaani Jurrm Ki, which made its debut nearly a year ago on the Friday Sachin...
The Sporty gent is back. This time, the former ESPN-Star Sports Asia chief Alexander P. “Sandy” Brown is hopping on to the business channel bandwagon. Brown,...
Surabhi, the cultural show that once enjoyed cult status in the country, may soon be back. This time on a satellite channel, with a more upmarket...