It was in May 2000 that a media monster was born. Starcom and MediaVest merged to create Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) which now ranks among the...
The board of directors of ETC Networks Limited will meet on Tuesday, July 31, 2001 to consider, inter alia, un-audited financial results for the first quarter...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) will be launching a dedicated Southeast Asia feed for Star Sports from August. The feed, which is based on viewing habits and...
The media has recently been agog about an impending alliance between Sony Entertainment and Time Warner on the television front in India. That seems to be...
The television industry has dismissed Sahara TV as a lost cause. Eyes have mainly been on Star, Zee and Sony Entertainment. However, if the aggressive stance...
It’s hoping to act as a guide in the maze that is Indian cable & satellite television today. Channel Guide a specific preview and menu channel...
Fire & Ice, the popular nightclub in Mumbai’s Parel suburb, now has its own in-house channel. Launched last Friday as Fire & Ice Weekend TV, the...
More than 1,00,000 players register… Bangalore, April 28, 2006: Awaaz has created history in online gaming registrations for any single game. The tally for Moneybhai Investor...
Moved but not shaken is Shekhar Suman, former anchor of Sony Entertainment’s hit talk show Movers and Shakers. Suman is all set to get back to...
This is the second installment of Anil Wanvari‘s three-part interview with Sameer Nair, executive vice-president, content and communications, Star India where in a really free-flowing account,...
Office Office, the leading weekly sitcom from the Sabe TV stable, is all set to become a daily. According to Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd...
Zee TV has announced it will shortly be bringing updated versions of the superhit mythologicals – Ramayana and Mahabharata – to Indian viewers. Zee TV will...
CNN International’s high profile interactive programme Q&A South Asia is in the middle of a positional shift. The focus is to make it harder hitting, with...
The Siddhartha Basu-produced and presented Mastermind India, with its famous “Black Chair of Wits” that has seen contestants raring to test their knowledge since 1997 in...
In its series to commemorate and honour the icons of music industry, music channel etc is next set to revive the memory of great singer Mohammad...
The stage is set as Zee TV prepares for Act II of its play for the leadership position in the channel wars. CEO Sandeep Goyal has...
Produced by Smita Thackeray’s Rahul Productions, the serial has a big-league star cast. Khel features Dilip Tahil – his first venture on the small screen, Nirmal...
Media baron Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms Ltd, which announced last Thursday that its promoters had placed 5 million shares with a U.S.-based institutional investor, will receive...
Sony Entertainment Television has finally decided to pull the plug on its high profile gameshow Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke, industry sources indicate. The last of the...
He had just stepped into his twenties when he was handed over the task of directing that cult like soap of the mid-nineties Tara by Tracinema’s...
‘Aksar’ shabdh sab keh deteh hai……… Catch the King of Words, Sameer on the Hot-seat of Sonu Niigaam ~ Don’t miss ‘Life ki Dhun with Sonu...
Keeping in line with its runaway success in The Indian Telly Awards 2001, Star has pocketed 24 awards – seven gold, 13 silvers and seven bronze...
News Corp company, NDS Group, a provider of conditional access systems and interactive applications for digital TV, has hired former Star India internet operations CEO, Lalit...
National pubcaster Doordarshan finally launched its online portal yesterday in Delhi after nearly six months of dilly-dallying about the launch date. A joint initiative between DD...
The new Sun TV Ad rate card indicates there has been no cut in ad rates.
Prasar Bharati acting CEO Anil Baijal surely must be in a dilemma. His plan to not continue with existing DD Metro partner HFCL-Nine and instead go...
War is about to erupt on the small screen. Close on the heels of Star India announcing a clutch of new shows, the Zee Network has...
ETC Networks Limited has declared a profit after tax (PAT) of Rs24.3 million on a turnover of Rs538.2 million in the financial results for the year...
Private broadcasters just don’t seem to have anything going for them on the Doordarshan front. Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network (SAB) and Cinevista Communications, both major...
The Ronnie Screwvalla-promoted UTV Software Communications Ltd’s financials are out and it has made a net profit of Rs 160 million rupees on a total revenue...
Star Plus, the flagship channel of the Star Network, marks the first anniversary of its turning into a 24-hour Hindi channel on 3 July. And to...
In the time of soaps, a sitcom is making its mark and how. Hum Sab Ek Hain, a situational comedy completes three years of non-stop telecast...
The first anniversary of Star India’s flagship channel Star Plus becoming a 24-hour Hindi channel – 3 July – has been chosen as the kick-off date...
Star Plus, the flagship channel of the Star Network, completes a year of turning a 24-hour Hindi channel 3 July. Yesterday, the team behind what...
Five weeks after the MTV Star Hunt was launched, the event, which marks the channel's foray into films, has received nearly 10,000 entries from over 350...
AXN, the action channel from Sony Entertainment Television, is deep focusing on India in a big way. As part of that effort, “action babe” Gena Lee...
The Board of Directors of ETC Networks Limited have decided to have a meeting on June 30, 2001 to consider the audited financial report for the...
Ravina Raj Kohli is a tenacious professional. The lady has come a long way from being an advertising professional to running a radio company in Singapore...
A new season is ahead and BBC World has lining up a whole new series of programmes for the next three months. In its special India-specific...
The Brief, a fortnightly published by the Mumbai-based Mid-Day group, and BBC World are organising a two-day media seminar on 28 June and 29 June called...
Confirming reports that pubcaster Prasar Bharati had decided to offer fresh bids for slots on Doordarshan’s Metro Channel, advertisements appeared today in national newspapers inviting tenders...
Continuing its push to localise content for India, kid’s channel Cartoon Network has acquired the television rights of two animation films: Pandavas – The Five Warriors...
It’s been a busy week for the young team at Singapore and now India-based digital music distributor Soundbuzz. On 19 May, the company announced a clutch...
The Ronnie Screwvala-promoted UTV Entertainment – which produces two of CNN International’s “made in India” programmes – has extended its production contract for CNN indiadotcom for...
A day after the industry’s nyet to Prasar Bharati’s efforts to attract bidders for Doordarshan’s Metro, a leading business daily reported that the pubcaster was planning...
Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) appears to be unhappy with the degree of compliance (or lack of it) by cable operators regarding carriage of national...
Industry sources however, say a bid has been put in for the 11:00 PM to 12:30 PM slot by the Delhi-based Moving Pictures Company (India) Ltd...
Zee English launched Children's Hour on 17 June (Sunday) from 9:30 am to 10:30 am. The hour long kid's block will showcase two of the most...
The Raghav Bahl-promoted Television Eighteen India Ltd, a television software producer and broadcaster which holds 49 per cent stake in CNBC India, has just signed a...
As an ideal bahu (daughter-in-law) and caring member of a joint family that most “traditional” Indian women can easily relate to, actress Saakshi Tanwar, who plays...