When the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)-organised Enter Media 2001 conference ended in Mumbai on 9 August, it had been declared that a white paper would...
Arianespace has successfully orbited the Atlantic Bird 2 satellite for international telecommunications operator Eutelsat. Conducted its second mission in 25 days, Arianspace used an Ariane 4...
After the the relaunch of Zee TV in India, there has been a complete makeover of Zee UK as well. Zee UK took on its new...
ESPN Star Sports Super Selector, the interactive game show launched on September 21, has set a world record for the number of entries received for any...
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, from the Walt Disney stable, is all set to make its splash on Indian television on Sunday 7 October 2001 on...
It’s not just Zee TV that has a lot riding on the new programming initiative that it instituted recently. Ronnie Screwvallah-promoted television production major United Television...
Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network (SABTNL) on Friday denied reports that Turner International India, which distributes its Hindi entertainment channel SABe TV in the country, has...
ETC Networks, the only Hindi language channel broadcaster after Jain TV to get government clearance for uplinking from India, sees the teleport facility that it will...
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation, which met yesterday to discuss the TRP issue, has set up a committee to go into the issue, it has been revealed....
Balaji Telefilms’ creative director Ekta Kapoor’s must be finding it difficult finding cupboard space going by the number of awards she has been collecting. Kapoor added...
Turner International India, which had a tie-up with Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network to distribute the Hindi entertainment channel SABe TV in the country, has broken...
The 5th Casbaa China Roundtable in Beijing and Shanghai, held between 11 and 13 September, attracted significant support from government officials, mainland operating companies and Casbaa...
Matches they say are made in heaven or as in this case on heavenly sets. Sony Entertainment Television’s soon to-be-launched mega-programme Shubh Vivaah (happy marriage) has...
Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms holds its annual general body meeting today in Mumbai. The meeting comes at a time when the company is organising a major...
It’s all happening at the Indian Broadcasting Foundation. The representative body of broadcasters is meeting today at 6:00 pm at The Club in Mumbai’s western suburb...
It now appears that efforts are on to discredit the ratings system further. Industry sources say that recently two individuals claiming to be the representatives of...
With latest addition to the family Vijay TV firmly in tow, Star India today gave notice it was ready for a long haul battle with undisputed...
For cable operators focused on increasing new services and capacity within their existing networks, Scientific-Atlanta and Pacific Broadband Communications (PBC) have announced the launch of two...
Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra today warned investors that the overall negative market scenario prevailing was going to impact on financials as companies cut back on...
Following close on the heels of its tie-up with the RPG-owned HMV Saregama, Etc has linked up a deal with Sony Music for joint marketing of...
Hallmark, which claims a viewership base of 8.2 million in India, is pushing hard to become the channel that the whole family can enjoy. Hallmark is...
Radio City, the Star India-managed private FM radio station that has had a successful debut in Bangalore, plans to open its next station in Lucknow in...
CNN International Networks president Chris Cramer is livid. The reason. “Respected news organisations such as CNN and Reuters have become a target of a war of...
The race to be numero uno among television channels is hotting up what with tumbling TRPs, declining ad revenues and bumbling repetitive programmes. Over the past...
This is a channel, which is crackling – crackling with electrifying programming. And if it does not regain its rightful place at the top of the...
Entertainment music channel etc has signed a strategic deal with RPG owned music company Saregama HMV. Under this agreement, Saregama HMV and etc will jointly present...
Star host Naseeruddin Shah couldn’t make it but there were two legends from the cricket world – Sunil Gavaskar and Geoffrey Boycott – on hand to...
The MSOs are moving into Mysore. Zeenext.com, the cable ISP from the Zee Network stable, launched its Internet over cable TV services in Mysore on Wednesday...
Sony Entertainment Television, which joined Star India and Zee TV as a completely pay-driven bouquet when its flagship channel became fully encrypted on 1 September, expects...
After winning three medals at Taiwan’s 4A Advertising Awards in April, ESPN STAR Sports has gone one better at the prestigious China Times Advertising Awards. Its...
Mukesh Sharma is not the kind of guy you would expect to find in a government job. Suave and with filmstar like good looks, Sharma has,...
The news does not seem too good. Today’s speculative leak that DD News is to be shut will come as a shocker to many. Especially to...
The only television serial on the life of Maharashtra’s warrior king Shivaji – off the air for the last two weeks due to a dispute between...
It’s all about the power of television. The four blind mice of American TV – ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC – are not scrapping with each...
Reports that there was a dispute between Star India and Balaji Telefilms over the Tamil reworking of the hit soap “Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi...
The winner takes it all is an adage that Star India is using to its advantage and how. The industry is bracing itself for another hike...
Some 63 of Star Plus’ shows figure in The Top 100 TAM ratings chart for the week ended 8 September 2001 for samples taken from the...
The toothless tiger is attempting to bare its teeth. The Indian Broadcasting Foundation – a representative body of a small but powerful interest group of...
It was a meeting that was most talked about – one that would help smoothen, ease and clear some of the issues relating to viewership ratings....
It’s a krackjack of an idea. Cookies (biscuits in India) and kids go together. Ditto with kids and Cartoon Network in India. The channel has an...
There’s a glut of daily soaps. Here’s another joining that rash. Choti Maa Ek Anokha Bandhan, a remake of the super successful Tamil soap Chithi (it...
Southern Spice is headquartered in Chennai and beams a mix of Tamil (40 per cent), Telugu (30 per cent), Kannada (10 per cent), Malayalam (10 per...
The alleged TRP scam has literally become a case of the right hand not knowing what the left is up to. Chaos reigned when the TAM...
National broadcaster Doordarshan and the Vietnam Television have entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in exchange and co-production of television programmes in cultural, educational,...
It’s been 10 days since business channel CNBC India, part of the Sony bouquet, “broke” a story that it had the complete lists of all the...
CNBC’s revelations on possible “rating fudge” are significant since priorities of television in India are set by Television Rating Points (TRPs). “Stunned”, “shocked” and “damaging” are...
In the aftermath of Tuesday’s horrific multiple terrorist attacks on America’s institution’s of military and financial might, literally all eyes have been and are on the...
A poll run on indiantelevision.com over the past seven days has revealed that industry believes that all is not okay with the ratings delivered by Intam...
The debate between the two CNN network heads lasted ten seconds. “Is it appropriate for us to use the phrase America Under Attack on the screen?”...
Swar Ratna – Shri Sudhir Phadke, the doyen of Marathi light music, is one of the most popular music directors and singers of our time. Born...