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MUMBAI: Zee Marathi’s prime time soap Wadalvaat has recorded an impressive performance during the telecast of its 700th episode. According to the Tam data offered by...
MUMBAI: PricewaterhouseCoopers has released its Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2006-2010 stating that digital video recorders (DVRs), digital television, and high-definition television (HDTV) will enhance the...
MUMBAI: The Fashion Accessories Lounge of Egana India Pvt. Ltd. this festive season has announced their annual Watches And More Fest (WAM Fest) with exciting offers...
MUMBAI: Since kicking off last Friday 9 June, the 2006 Fifa World Cup in Germany has received a strong response not just in terms of stadium...
HONG KONG: Another initative has been included for the Hong Kong Festival by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC). Seeking to provide an ideal business...
MUMBAI: Movie studio Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group teams with Bertelsmann mobile arm arvato to launch In2Movies. This initiative offers movie and TV downloads to consumers...
MUMBAI: The Indian viewers will be on the jury to vote for their Miss India. Lifestyle channel Zoom presents a 12 part reality series Banungi Main...
MUMBAI: New research forthcoming in the March 2006 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research explores television viewers’ strong preference for unscripted programming. The researchers found...
MUMBAI: Mark Burnett Productions and AOL have signed a production deal to develop a real-life reality treasure hunt airing exclusively on the AOL.com website. Called Gold...
MUMBAI: NDS Group plc has appointed Richard Yanowitch as a non-executive director and vice chairman of the NDS Board. Yanowitch, a consultant to News Corporation, will...
MUMBAI: Crest Animation Studios Ltd is planning to raise up to $12 million through the issue of foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) for part financing three...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms has reported a 17.4 per cent decline in net profit to Rs 317 million for the quarter ended 31 December 2005, as compared...
MUMBAI: MTV Indonesia has entered into a new three-year partnership with local terrestrial Global TV for eight-hour programming blocks for both MTV and Nickelodeon. MTV Asia...
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has put the federal government in a tight spot over the rollout of conditional access system (CAS) in the country by...
MUMBAI: Film and television studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), recently bought over by Sony and a consortium of investors, have announced that MGM president Daniel Taylor is resigning...
MUMBAI: Shringar Cinemas Ltd. has posted a revenue of Rs 80 million for the third quarter ended 31 December 2005, up from Rs 39 million a...
MUMBAI: Post the premature exit of KBC 2, Star Plus aims to stabilise its weekend band with a slew of initiatives. The first in this line-up,...
MUMBAI: Japanese media conglomerate Sony has posted a 17.5 per cent increase in third quarter net profit, to $1.4 billion, on revenues of $20.1 billion. This...
MUMBAI: Indian lifestyle channel Zoom has acquired from E! the rights for the 15 episode show Girls of the Playboy Mansion. The show follows Playboy founder...
MUMBAI: In the age of video search, Hindi filmmakers and distributors would do well to keep an eye out for pirated products available online. Until recently...
MUMBAI: MTV US has announced a re-organisation of its programming department. The aim is to concentrate on developing online content for the Overdrive site and other...
MUMBAI: Star India has hit out strongly at India TV over a report in the Hindi news channel that puts in doubt the selection process of...
MUMBAI: WorldSpace Satellite Radio has announced that it finished 2005 with more than 115,000 subscribers globally. During the fourth quarter, WorldSpace added more than 40,000 net...
BANGALORE: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) and Asian Tour, the official regional sanctioning body for professional tournament golf in Asia, have extended their partnership agreement till 2009....
MUMBAI: US broadcaster NBC has announced that it will air a crime series The Black Donnellys from Emmy Award and Oscar nominee Paul Haggis Million Dollar...
MUMBAI: Following the success of its US syndication of Da Vinci’s Inquest, Program Partners has announced that its new Crime Watch initiative has been cleared in...
MUMBAI: Anchor Amitabh Bachchan’s inability to resume shooting due to ill-health has pulled the plug on the Star Plus gameshow Kaun Banega Crorepati 2 (KBC 2)....
MUMBAI: The market for ‘digital home’ services (TV, broadband internet and telephony) in Europe is set to take off in 2006, according to a study by...
MUMBAI: Sports, entertainment and media company IMG Worldwide has appointed George Pyne as the president of its sports and entertainment business. He will also join the...
MUMBAI: The Rs 2.5 billion-strong Hindi movie channel space will welcome its fifth player when Sahara One Media and Entertainment Limited officially launches Filmy on 12...
MUMBAI: Global providers of wireline and wireless communications Verizon has launched FiOS TV in New York and Massachusetts. The television service runs over high-speed fiber-optic cables...
MUMBAI: Reliance Communication Inc., USA, a group company of Reliance Infocomm Ltd has appointed Michael P. Sauer as president. He will be based in New York...
MUMBAI: Everyone is gung ho about Mobile TV. A group of heavyweights — Nokia, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Intel and Modeo have joined forces to form an...
BANGALORE: Verismo Networks has developed a client box which will be an integral part of the new age TV, including IPTV. The company has also designed...
MUMBAI: After premiering a slew of critically and commercially acclaimed blockbusters like Black, Swades, Viruddh and Main Hoon Na in 2005, Star Gold’s first big offering...
MUMBAI: Thailand prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s family has sold its 49.6 per cent stake in the telecom company Shin Corp. to Singapore’s Temasek Holdings. In its...
MUMBAI: While content providers in the US are studying how the advent of HDTV will impact the entertainment landscape, research conducted by global market research firm...
MUMBAI: The going has certainly not been easy for US broadcaster NBC. Faced with falling ratings for its presidential drama The West Wing the broadcaster has...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate NBC Universal’s revenues for the year ended 31 December 2005, increased by 14 per cent to $14.7 billion, and profit increased by...
MUMBAI: Sahara group’s print and TV news operations are witnessing another round of churn with some senior people having either left or on the verge of...
MUMBAI: The television rights for the Indian Football Association (IFA) in West Bengal are up for grabs. Sports marketing firm Total Sports Entertainment India (TSEI) is...
MUMBAI: US-based VOD/IPTV platform solution provider MatrixStream Technologies will soon be releasing what it claims as the world’s first H.264 AVC (advance video codec) Video on...
MUMBAI: Asian American network AZN Television recently held its 2006 Asian Excellence Awards show. It will air on the channel on 29 January in the US....
MUMBAI: The 2006 football World Cup in Germany represents an opportunity to promote 3G. However it will be established content, such as text-based services that will...
MUMBAI: English entertainment channel Hallmark has in the past brought fantasy and myth to life with original television events such as Jason and the Argonauts, Arabian...
MUMBAI: Echostar Communications in the US has announced that its Dish Network satellite TV service will offer Dish Family. This is a family-friendly programming package with...
MUMBAI: Taylor Nelson Sofres plc (TNS) has appointed Pedro Ros as managing director – global clients and sectors, with immediate effect. In this newly created role,...
MUMBAI: The Pakistan cable operators are threatening to black out their national channels in protest against the government ban on Indian television channels. “We are saying...
MUMBAI: Two decades ago, in the era of a lone terrestrial channel, Doordarshan, in homes, which had one black and white television set minus the remote...
MUMBAI: HBO is looking to expand its reach globally. It is looking to launch in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and the UK. In India HBO...
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NEW DELHI: Hamdard Laboratories gathered a cross-section of India’s achievers in New Delhi on Friday, handing out the Hakeem Abdul...
MUMBAI: For decades, creative storytelling has been the cornerstone of brand communication. The “big idea” amplified through catchy jingles, striking...
MUMBAI: Zepto has elevated Ahmad Muneeb to vice president – HR centre of excellence, placing him at the helm of...
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