Pentamedia Graphics has reported a 55 per cent jump in its net profit at Rs 1535.5 million on a turnover Rs 5523.8 million for the financial...
A preview of what to look ahead to this year at Asia’s largest telecommunications and broadcasting event, held annually in Singapore, was provided today by Josephine...
A day after Zee Network officials claimed to have advanced Rs 2200 million to several Ketan Parekh companies for acquiring shares of various media companies, the...
B4U Network Television today said it has issued a legal notice to Zee Telefilms seeking an explanation from the Subhash Chandra promoted company regarding claims that...
The one thing that caught your attention about Dewang Mehta was his passion for the Indian software industry and the dramatic manner in which he spoke....
CNN International, which lags far behind other international news channels like CNBC and the BBC World in India, aims to expand its coverage of the subcontinent,...
A day after Zee Network officials claimed to have advanced Rs 2200 million to several Ketan Parekh companies for acquiring shares of various media companies, the...
Asia’s first and only all-action and adventure channel, AXN Asia, has fortified its sales team in Asia with the appointments of account manager, Reon Wong in...
A new media publishing group has been formed in Hong Kong. Called Media Partners Asia Limited (MPA), it will provide coverage of the media and communications...
Turner International India has made it clear that it has no plans to pick up a stake in any Indian channel at this point in time....
Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) has hired another CEO, adding to the clutch of chiefs who run the company. This time it is advertising agency Rediffusion DY&R...
Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL), while still struggling to attract viewers, is in the middle of a determined fightback worthy of some appreciation. At least that’s how...
All eyes will be on Sriharikota in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on 18 April. The reason: that’s the day the Indian Space Research...
Commercials are the fuel for today’s broadcasters. They pay for the great car races and golfing events and public broadcasts of box office hits, cult television...
Rangoli, a musical programme on film songs airing on Doordarshan, will be donning a new look after the Dheeraj Kumar promoted Creative Eye struck a deal...
ESPN STAR Sports today announced it was launching the Hindi edition of SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship programme in the US. SportsCenter's Hindi edition is ESPN's first localisation...
Mumbai-based Crest Communications, a fairly new entrant into the the television serial business, has set itself a target of having six programmes on air before the...
Prakash Jain, promoter of the Prabhat and Suprabhat regional language channels, yesterday categorically denied that he was scouting for buyers for the two channels. While scotching...
The whole Zee network is going pay from May, group corporate affairs head RK Singh confirmed today, adding that the rollout of set top boxes for...
AXN TV, the action channel from Sony Entertainment Television, has rolled out plans for the next year which will see the channel concentrating on developing five...
Intelsat has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the purchase of a next-generation broadband satellite system as a key component of the organisation’s initiative to...
A genesis with Good Relations is what it is. AXN TV, the action channel from Sony Entertainment Television, which is putting together plans to significantly increase...
It was in 1985 that two Gujarati brothers set up Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd (SABTNL), making low budget serials for National broadcaster Doordarshan. Twenty-one...
Further to a preliminary agreement reached in December 2000 with Philips Royal Electronics, Thomson multimedia has recently announced the acquisition of the Professional Broadcast businesses of...
National broadcaster Doordarshan has flagged off a regional news unit in Ranchi yesterday, the capital of the new north Indian state of Jharkhand. Information & Broadcasting...
Zee Telefilms’ open offer for 20 per cent additional stake in ETC Networks at Rs. 31.52 per share opens today. This follows the Zee’s acquisition in...
The Hallmark Channel is making a thrust into expanding its programming library. The network has appointed Kirstine Layfield to the newly-created position of senior vice president,...
From 1 May, etc channel will be introducing a new five-minute capsule called Bollywood Birth Marks devoted to Hindi film celebrities. etc will be telecasting birthday...
CNBC India continues to be the leader among news channels, a company release states, quoting weekly AC Nielsen TAM Viewership ratings for four weeks ending March...
The Intelsat 903 satellite was successfully launched aboard an ILS Proton K/Block DM launch vehicle last Saturday 12:25 EST. According to an official release, the satellite...
The divorce rumours have been buzzing like bees for some time now. That Star India and news content provider the Prannoy Roy-headed New Delhi Television Ltd...
If it’s Friday India’s stock markets must crash has almost become a given ever since Yashwant Sinha presented his “dream budget” end-February (and two weeks prior)....
Continuing CNN’s restructuring exercise, Bruce Dover has been named managing editor CNN Asia Pacific, it was announced today by Ian Macintosh, senior vice president, CNN International,...
MediaCom, the independent media division of Grey Worldwide, has recently released the third edition of the MediaCom Ready Reckoner, a nationally compiled database. The MediaCom...
After a barren period, channel launches appear to be again happening. In the offing is a new digital Telugu regional language channel – Maa TV. The...
Zee Telefilms said on Tuesday that it had shelved plans to float a $200-million American depository receipt (ADR) issue, to fund its proposed expansion, at least...
On 27 March the Zee Network took its music channel Zee Music digital. However, the process was not all that simple. The network had to do...
TV Today Network executive director G Krishnan is no stranger to television. A print media professional for nearly 14 years, he was in charge of a...
The countdown has begun for the launch of India’s long delayed Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) tomorrow from Sriharikota, India’s spaceport 100 km north of Chennai...
Zee Music, the 24 hour “Indian Hindi family Music Channel” went digital today while remaining a free to air channel. The decision to turn digital...
CNBC India and Aaj Tak from the India Today stable, both quoting AC Nielsen TAM data, have separately come out with figures showing their respective channels...
Star India, which in January was reported to have in place the blueprint for its DTH operations, appears to be having second thoughts after the government’s...
Sri Adhikari Brothers Entertainment (Sabe) TV has recently modified its logo keeping its Hindi speaking audience in mind. “We slightly changed the design and added...
First there was cine heartthrob Hrithik Roshan on Star’s Rendezvous With Simi Garewal. Now Sony has gone two up, and lined up three shows about Tinseltown’s...
In a bid to get rid of some of the negative publicity that its association with Bharat Shah has got it, the B4U Television group has...
Responding to growing viewer demand, Cartoon Network will expand to a 24-hour television service effective 1 July 2001, it was announced today by Ian Diamond, senior...
Zee News, which has secured exclusive rights to the full transcript of the explosive Tehelka tapes, will be screening the tapes beginning Thursday, industry sources confirmed...
The Star bouquet of channels, which has been blacked out in Kolkata due to a continuing dispute with cable operators over subscription fees, should be back...
Following up on the launch of Star Plus and Star News channels in the United Kingdom and Europe, Star has charted out plans to extend the...
If sources in the industry are to be believed, Zee News has secured exclusive rights to the full transcript of the explosive “Tehelka tapes” which has...