The quality of the flicks on Star Movies on Friday at 9:30 p.m. keep getting better. On the 16th the channel will show the period piece...
A new channel ID. A handful of new shows. Sony Entertainment Television has been moving slowly but surely in an effort to stand equal to its...
On Saturday and Sunday MAX will show the 'Cathay Pacific Standard Chartered Hong Kong Cricket Sixes'. Participants include archrivals India and Pakistan, World Cup Champions Australia,...
ESPN Star Sports, which claims to reach over 136 million households, has announced the signing of an agreement with Sport4cast. It is a company which, among...
Urdu Satellite entertainment channel ARY Digital which has started its test run in India recently, is all set to launch the channel by end November. Atul...
Television news channel BBC World, which completed 10 years of operations in India last month, is going digital from 1 December, 2001. Speaking to indiantelevision.com, Erica...
Book into any Hyatt hotel in Greater China and be assured of being able to view CNBC. The channel struck the deal with the Hyatt International...
Over 90 Indian and foreign companies will display their latest cable and satellite systems and hardware at SCAT 2001, the satellite and cable TV trade show...
Last month, Viacom tried to make Nickelodeon an interactive experience for viewers. The company did this by using an NDS Group product NDS Value@TV through which...
Caravan, a song-based show hosted by actress and pop singer Rajeshwari Sachdev, is set to hit the tube next Tuesday, 13 November, at 8 pm. The...
Creative Eye has shelved its plans of making programmes for all of national Doordarshan’s 13 regional channels. The Dheeraj Kumar promoted production house had earlier this...
CNN's chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, chairs this week's edition of 'International Correspondents'; CNN's weekly look at how the world's media cover the war on terror...
Shaun Pollock was selected Super International Performer in the first edition of ESPN Star Sports interactive show ' Super Selector'. The show is hosted by media...
French fashion channel FTV’s plans to switch to an encrypted feed appear to have gone awry and it has now set 1 December as the new...
It has been a topsy-turvy year for the movers and shakers of Indian television. While some enjoyed windfall profits in the year gone by, more saw...
Over the next month and a half corporate bigwigs from companies will take part in 'The Brand Equity Quiz 2001' which is being organised by business...
CNBC's top-drawer lifestyle oriented show Trend Mill completes one year of telecast on Sunday. The channel will celebrate the show's anniversary with a 'Trend Mill celebration...
It’s all happening at Sony Entertainment television. Close on the heels of the launch of its new serial Kutumb on Monday, the channel is all set...
ETC Networks Limited announced its Q-2 results for the year 2001-2002 with its net taking a 71 per cent dip to Rs 3.8 million from Rs...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has announced ESPN Star Sports Scholarships for Hong Kong's Young Athletes. The three-year scholarships worth HK$15,000 each will be awarded to two...
HBO is targeting kids this month. The movie channel has initiated 'Wonder Kids' a package of four adventure films, including three Ninjas Knuckle Up, Harriet the...
BBC and Star News – eat your hearts out. CNN looks set to win the viewership battle around the US elections coverage amongst upscale English speaking...
If popularity is the index of a director’s success, Partho Mitra should surely rank as one of the best directors on TV today. Partho, who started...
Professionals of broadcast, film and multimedia industries from all over the city converged at the Y B Chavan auditorium to participate in the 11th Broadcast India...
DD has sought bids from Indian and foreign production houses for live television production of these cricket matches to be conducted under the aegis of the...
Four television artistes were among those from the film industry felicitated by the Cine and TV Artistes’ Association at its 43 rd annual general meeting held...
Sandeep Goyal, group broadcasting CEO of Zee Telefilms has been elected director of the International Council of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The...
ESPN STAR Sports will launch its first joint venture led dedicated sports cable channel in Korea on November 1. Known as MBC-ESPN Sports, the channel...
Bowing to a long-standing demand from the industry that there should only be one rating system, market research agencies AC Nielsen’s TAM Media Research and ORG...
ZedCA, a division of Zee Interactive Learning Systems, has tied up with Pune University to offer courses which will assist students interested in pursuing careers related...
Hoping to turn conventional wisdom as to what sells in India in the movie business on its head, HBO tonight premieres its $ 120 million epic...
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has barred airtime sellers and production houses from becoming board members in the association. They will also not be allowed to...
Suddenly, there seems to be more to the Hindi entertainment television scenario than Star, Sony and Zee. There is a buzz around B4U Television Network, which...
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has barred airtime sellers and production houses from becoming board members in the association. They will also not be allowed to...
The cricket scam seems to have be relegated to the history books as India’s passion for the game has resurfaced and how. Over 18.8 million viewers...
Two months into its relaunch campaign, Zee TV has shifted around three of its shows in an effort to increase their audience share. Game show...
ESPN Star Sports, India’s leading sports broadcaster, announced yesterday the acquisition of exclusive telecast rights for the Champions Trophy tournament to be played in Sharjah. Pakistan,...
It was media baron Subhash Chandra’s pet project to set up a channel advocating ancient Indian medicine, holistic healing, culture, meditation etc under the Organic or...
When you’re hot you’re hot. Other media companies may struggle with financials in a depressed market scenario but no so Balaji Telefilms Ltd. The seven-year-old production...
Broadcasters can relax somewhat now that the Revenue Department has ruled that commission paid to advertising agencies will not be included in the value of taxable...
Nickelodeon may not be a “happening” channel in India in but that is not the case everywhere. The Viacom-owned kids channel is currently running a new...
Come 1 November and French fashion channel FTV will become an encrypted feed. Preparations for the conversion to a digital feed are on in full swing,...
It’s all about strategy. If Zee tried the “its raining serials” approach as part of its relaunch, Sony Entertainment believes in building the brand “brick by...
Zee Telefilms Ltd today announced its second quarter results (ended September 30, 2001). It comes as no great surprise that even though the income from sales...
The new look Vijay TV – the Tamil regional language addition to the Star bouquet – which launched its new improved programme line-up from 1 October,...
Alpha Marathi is doing its best to show Programmes different from the regular run of the mill. Gentle satire forms the core of ‘Shriyud Gangadhar Tipre’,...
National broadcaster Doordarshan has woken up to the fact that Diwali is just three weeks away and that it needs to fill hour-long slots on prime...
Ever since Javed Sayyed’s first directorial venture Heena went on air in 1998, the soap has been one of Sony’s key programmes. Heena’s success has brought...
Spread the message is what it is all about. AXN is aggressively pushing its brand through its celebrated Need That Buzz? ad campaign. Consisting mainly of...
In House Productions is in a fever of activity these days. Flinging itself seriously into the TV software race, it has branched out into all kinds...