In what is claimed to be a unique concept for the media and entertainment sector, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organising on 7 and...
Daily sports news programming during prime time is not proving as difficult as some feared for ESPN-Star Sports (ESS). Sportsline on Star Sports and the Hindi-language...
SABe TV and Sony Entertainment Television have won three and two awards respectively at the 26th Annual RAPA Awards (Radio & TV Practitioners’ Association of India)...
Suhail Tatari’s Breast Cancer, a story depicting the trauma of a woman suffering from this debilitating disease, has just won the Screen Videocon award for the...
The Mumbai High Court, in an interim order passed this afternoon, directed InCablenet to pay ESPN Software India for 175,000 subscriber homes. InCablenet, in its...
Bollywood Bazaar, hosted by industry critic and editor of the film weekly Trade Guide Taran Adarsh, is completing its second successful year on etc. This unusual...
The Zee Network, which had initially been quite cool to making a bid for slots on national broadcaster Doordarshan’s Metro Channel, now says it is interested...
Star India this evening switched off all its feeds to IN Cable in Mumbai city over what it said were unpaid payments going back three months...
Zee Telefilms’ effort to migrate the free to air (FTA) analogue Zee TV to pay TV digital mode is facing teething problems. At the time of...
Balaji Telefilms’ creative director Ekta Kapoor is in the news again, and how. Indian television wonderkid’s hold on the popular pulse has been acknowledged by Asiaweek...
CNBC India has just launched a new series called 'Digital Revolution', presented in association with Infosys Technologies Limited, the leading IT consulting and software services company....
The market has been awash with the canard that with the arrival of the AIADMK in the corridors of power in Tamil Nadu, Sun TV is...
Continuing a programme push that began in April, AXN TV, the action channel from Sony Entertainment Television, is launching seven action series over the next two...
The ace Indian doubles pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi has stormed into the finals of the Men Doubles tournament in French Open tennis 2001....
The Zee bouquet of channels, which was expected to go pay from 1 June, will become fully encrypted from 10 June, official sources in the channel...
Star Plus continues to reign supreme on the TRP charts. The top eight slots across all satellite channels belong to it, a company release states, quoting...
Vivek Agnihotri is venturing where no Indian director has gone till date. He is taking a plunge into reality television, producing Prisoner of War for Zee...
InHouse Productions – better known for its big budget large format shows – will be getting down to producing more of the regular bread and butter...
As BBC World‘s deputy airtime sales director (a position she was promoted to in March 2001), Sunita Rajan provides the strategic direction for the 24-hour news...
A new broom – on most occasions – sweeps clean in most corporations. And Discovery Communications CEO Deepak Shourie believes in this in toto. He has...
The Zee Group’s Internet portal company, Econnect India Ltd, has announced its plan to restructure its business strategy. Econnect India, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of...
Scientific Atlanta, better known in India as a supplier of high quality set top boxes, has been the first mover to make a pitch to etc...
Scientific Atlanta, better known in India as a supplier of high quality set top boxes, has been the first mover to make a pitch to etc...
The Delhi-based Media Foundation has recently launched a website The Hoot which aims to track the media in the Indian subcontinent. With initial support from UNESCO...
Starting tomorrow, Sony Entertainment Television will be showcasing "King of Hearts – The Yash Chopra Film Festival. Featuring 14 films created by Yash Chopra under his...
Zee Telefilms never ceases to surprise you. And its latest financial results for the year 2000-2001 must be surely making many an industry watcher shake their...
Zee Telefilms never ceases to surprise you. And its latest financial results for the year 2000-2001 must be surely making many an industry watcher shake their...
Prasar Bharati has released its DD Metro tender document. It can be picked along with application forms along with general instructions/terms and conditions free of cost...
HBO will be showcasing best-selling Latin female artist Christina Aguilera’s “My Reflections”, a stage performance by the winner of the Best New Artist at 2000 Grammy...
Hours ahead of an announcement by Zee Telefilms regarding its 2000-01 financial results, market analysts were cautiously optimistic about Zee’s expected performance for the year. While...
The industry has reacted cautiously to Prasar Bharati’s (Broadcasting Corporation of India) move throwing open bidding for all time slots on its Doordarshan Metro channel. ...
Sony Entertainment Television yesterday announced the launch of a new daily soap Kaun Apna Kaun Paraya, part of an initiative on SET’s part to repackage its...
National broadcaster Doordarshan is inviting sealed tenders from parties /agencies who are interested in distribution and marketing DD-World Channel of Doordarshan in the USA and Canada...
Sealed bids are invited for Bulk AIR Time Sale of 60 mts and 30 mts slots for telecast over DD-Metro for a period of three years...
After months of wrangling, Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) yesterday set the wheels in motion throwing open bidding for all time slots on its Doordarshan...
Farooq Shaikh made his debut as an actor some 32 years ago in the MS Sathyu-directed classic Garam Hawa. Soon to follow was an immensely successful...
Refuting claims by Reminiscent Television Network (RTV) that its Lashkara was the No.1 Punjabi language channel, etc has released figures that say its Channel Punjabi is...
Television companies have significantly increased the use of hoardings to increase awareness about the shows they have on air. Although print medium (specifically newspapers) still...
Chennai-based entertainment graphics major Pentamedia Graphics Ltd has announced it will merge three of its wholly-owned subsidiaries into a new company called Penta Entertainment Ltd. The...
After failing with two alliances (Star TV and Asianet) and struggling to forge a third (for Siticable for the past year), Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra...
As part of continuing efforts to expand its viewership base in the critical 8 pm to 11 pm evening band, CNBC India today announced the launch...
Continuing a re-branding exercise that kicked off in February, Star has integrated its corporate logo across all its channels from Sunday, 20 May. The new logo...
Tamil Nadu politics has this tendency to rotate the party that occupies the seat in the state legislature. So when the DMK received a whipping from...
Star Plus is today the numero uno cable and satellite television channel in India. A year or so ago, industry watchers and rivals would have laughed...
Broadband may still be a while away but Gaurang Shah CEO, SparkTv, wants to position his company as one of the leading content providers to the...
Manjul Sinha saw his first movie when he was all of two days old. Films have since been an obsession for him. Born into a “filmi...
Nickelodeon, the Viacom-owned kids channel which launched in India in October 1999, has recently initiated a series of new programming blocks which it hopes will improve...
Zee TV is now the confirmed No. 2 channel on Indian television in prime time, more so among women, figures released by the company indicate. ...
The Hydrabad-based Eenadu Group, one of the largest media networks in southern India promoted by Ramoji Rao, will be launching ETV Urdu channel next month. The...
Rediffusion DY&R president Sandeep Goyal has taken up a challenge not many people would have at this particular juncture. Come June, he will be heading the...