‘Till death do us part’. From next month this statement will be put to a severe test when the Star World channel starts showing ‘Temptation Island’....
Chennai based animation major Pentamedia Graphics Ltd (PGL) may be facing difficulties in other areas but that did not put a spoke in the formal launch...
Six-month-old infotainment channel Channel Guide is all set to enter a new field of ‘Satellite Video Delivery Service’. Elaborating on the concept, Ravi Deshmukh, COO, Channel...
Scientific-Atlanta, Inc a leading supplier of transmission networks for broadband access to the home has announced results for its first quarter. For the quarter ending September...
A record number of over 1,200 entries have been received this year for the Asian Television awards out of which 78 programmes and 34 performances have...
Production house WSG Nimbus, which saw its three-year television, radio and sponsorship deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) terminated on...
In a bid to recognize talent within (and maybe also kick in some much needed enthusiasm) the national broadcaster is holding its own ‘Doordarshan Awards 2000-2001’...
Paul FitzPatrick has taken over as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Crown Media Holdings, Inc. from 10 October. Crown Media Holdings owns and...
Continuing its push to localise content for India, kids’ channel Cartoon Network is looking at acquiring the television rights to more properties similar to its recent...
Apart from a new chairman after a gap of nearly three years, there are some more new faces on the Prasar Bharati board. Three new part-time...
The decision has been taken. The once hugely popular Kaun Banega Crorepati is being phased slowly out of Star Plus, and family drama serials are taking...
HBO is all set for the festive season, with an interesting array of movies for its HBO Saturday nights block come November. Kicking things off on...
Balaji Telefilms is poised to rake in a turnover of close to Rs 1000 million at the end of the current financial year, having worked up...
When regional language channels Prabhat (Marathi) and Suprabhat (Kannada) shut down transmission recently no one was surprised. That it was facing severe financial problems was well...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has finalised a broadcast sponsorship deal for the world’s most popular football league, the English Premier League. The one year sponsorship agreement...
Southern regional language powerhouse Sun Network does not let the grass grow under its feet. Hardly had the dust settled on the relaunch of potential rival...
Prasar Bharati has a chairman again, after a gap of three years. Prof UR Rao, former chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), took over...
The BBC World Service Trust, a charitable arm of the BBC’s World Service, is setting up a production partnership with Prasar Bharati to campaign for HIV/AIDS...
Participants also got an insight into the legal aspects of scriptwriting from Film Writers’ Association’s Rajendra Singh, who spoke of the problems faced by Indian scriptwriters....
CNBC India and Home Trade have launched investor camps across the country to enlighten retail investors on the basics of successful investing. The series of camps,...
Lekh Tandon is to television what Dev Anand is to the Indian film industry. A half century of films and TV serials later, the septuagenarian director...
This month National Geographic plays a different ball game as well as broadens viewers horizons. National Geographic Channel will introduce viewers to wild, outlandish sports through...
Thirty-eight days ago the Indian cable, satellite, and terrestrial television, advertising and market research industries received a body-blow with the anonymous release of peoplemeter lists in...
Canadian cable operator Vidéotron has launched its new iLLICO service. This will allow subscribers to send messages using PowerTV’s email, surf the Internet, chat, and take...
A wealthy urbane sophisticated woman inherits a farm in a village far away from the city where she lives . On going to the place ,visiting...
B4U Television Network, which relaunched B4U Entertainment as B4U Movies on 2 October, expects to achieve operating profits of $ 2 million by the end of...
In what is claimed to be a first in India, the Tamil language channel Raj TV today launched a teleport facility in the southern city of...
Home Cable Network Ltd today said it had issued a legal notice to ESPN Software India Ltd. for releasing on 9 October what it claimed was...
The cabinet ministry yesterday cleared an advance amount of Rs 220 million to enable national broadcaster Doordarshan to cover 99 per cent of the North Eastern...
Concerts to show solidarity with victims of the terrorist attacks in America appear to be the order of the day. The latest one is happening comes...
The Cartoon Network is gearing up for the festive season and how. It is organising a Dream Diwali contest which gives kids a chance to meet...
If anyone thought the Zee Telefilms scrip had finally bottomed out better think again. Down is where it has been plummeting since yesterday. And there seems...
Sony Entertainment, the flagship channel of the SET network, celebrated its sixth 6th anniversary yesterday and CEO Kunal Dasgupta asserts it is as good a time...
Delhi’s district court today ruled in favour of ESPN Software India Ltd in a case filed by Home Cable Network Ltd. ESPN Software India Ltd. had...
There is one television network that all major news networks are sourcing for any worthwhile footage on the world’s most wanted man – Osama Bin Laden....
There is one television network that all major news networks are sourcing for any worthwhile footage on the world’s most wanted man – Osama Bin Laden....
The world yesterday entered Act II of America’s “War Against Terrorism” with the launch of cruise missiles against multiple targets in Afghanistan. The terror attacks on...
After having burnt its fingers with the second season of the reality show ‘Survivor’ AXN is not taking chances with its third season. After just...
It is a case of Haan (yes) and Naa (no). What is good for the goose may not be good for the gander in television land....
Localise content or perish. Nickelodeon Asia seems to be following on the dictum with yesterday’s unveiling of the first show it has produced specifically for Asian...
The new regional language addition to the Star bouquet – Vijay TV – which launched its new improved programme line-up from 1 October, has had an...
Asia’s first “pitch session” – Super Pitch 2001 – takes place in Singapore on 7 December during this year’s Asia Television Forum. The session, which...
Ideal Systems Asia Pacific Limited, a Hong Kong-based product distribution and system integration company, has started its Indian operations through its newly set up Indian affiliate...
National broadcaster Doordarshan has reissued a tender notice seeking for applicants for distribution and marketing of DD-World in USA, Canada, UK, rest of Europe and Australia...
As senior V-P programming and production Rekha Nigam gets ready to clear her desk over the next few days, the reports coming out of Sony Entertainment...
Lakshmi Venkat has joined United Television as a creative director telefilms. Venkat, who took up office on 1 October, is responsible for developing new shows...
Hardly had the dust settled on the bombshell that programming head Rekha Nigam was leaving Sony Entertainment Television, its head office in Mumbai’s Andheri suburb had...
Business channel CNBC India is keenly pushing its ‘Managing India’ brand forward. ‘Managing India’ is a half-hour program that showcases company leaders and people whose hands...
The rumours have been doing the rounds for a while now about an impending shakeout in Sony Entertainment Television. It began today. Senior V-P programming and...
From next month the kid’s channel Nickelodeon, which claims to be available in more than 300 million homes in 149 countries (but is almost invisible in...