MUMBAI: The trade was anxiously awaiting a decision but all they got was another date. A division bench of the Mumbai High Court comprising Chief Justice...
NEW DELHI: A delegation of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the regulator for Internet, telecom and broadcasting in the US, will discuss with Indian government officials...
NEW DELHI: It is not just the pay broadcasters that the government sees as at fault over the mess that is CAS. The government is miffed...
MUMBAI: The “print fight” (mainly) between India’s leading publication The Times Of India and leading broadcaster Rupert Murdoch’s Star has reached boiling point. Over the past...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television, the official exclusive broadcaster of Lakme India Fashion Week with Liberty shoes (LIFWL) 2003, will in all probability, showcase the event on...
MUMBAI: Ronnie Screwvala’s UTV has readied four new show concepts that it is pitching to channels. First is an action thriller titled Sarfarosh, second an emotional...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Indian broadcasters met the Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, a staunch opponent of conditional access rollout, Prime Minister AB Vajpayee held...
MUMBAI: The personal baby of Star India senior V-P content & Communication Tarun Katial has delivered and how. This month’s (Sunday, 6 July) Star Parivar Awards...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has added a dedicated Middle East beam to its geography-specific beams. With this, SET now has six localised feeds, one each...
MUMBAI: Who says soaps are just about hankie wringing? In Taiwan, a hit soap is reportedly serving the immigration department to ferret out illegals. The Taiwan...
NEW DELHI: Political uncertainty over conditional access systems (CAS) notwithstanding, the government today made the right noises and, reportedly, conveyed to broadcasters and multi-system operators (MSOs)...
MUMBAI: The Zee Telefilms board of directors will meet on 29 July to record the financial results of the company for the quarter ended 30 June...
LONDON: The consolidated revenues for fixed satellite services (FSS) companies in 2002 has actually dropped, says Euroconsult’s latest analysis. In the 10th edition of its World...
NEW DELHI: Considering that cable television is the cheapest form of entertainment in India, a Morgan Stanley (MS) research on conditional access system (CAS) estimates that...
NEW DELHI: Playing it safe, Media Content & Communication Services India Pvt. Ltd, which has applied for a licence to uplink content for Star News, has...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The ongoing conditional access soap opera ended another day on an inconclusive note. Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had an...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms has clarified with the National Stock Exchange that media reports claiming that the company’s promoter group had placed a part of its stake...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch is snapping at Indian shores again. Murdoch’s News Corp has announced that it would make an open offer to acquire 20 per cent...
MUMBAI: Bollywood is going to the unlikeliest of places. Nimbus Communications CEO Dr Akash Khurana is in South Korea at the moment representing Indian cinema at...
NEW DELHI: In case people have forgotten, today was when CAS was supposed to have become effective as per the original deadline. ‘Indian broadcasters’ marked the...
MUMBAI: Real Image Media Technologies, a leading technology enabler in India in the film, audio and video industries in the areas of production, post-production and delivery,...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has furnished statistics that show that the channel performs better than Zee TV on all day and prime time shares in...
MUMBAI: Here is good news for the discerning music listener in Mumbai fed up of the non-stop Hindi pop being dished out on FM radio stations....
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan’s sports channel, DD Sports, has managed to break out of the Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) grip, which was contracted to distribute it,...
WASHINGTON: BT Broadcast Services has announced that it has finalised an agreement with Crown Media International to become the cable network operator’s primary provider of broadcast...
NEW DELHI: Getting first off the blocks, Siticable Network Limited, the cable subsidiary of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms, has begun seeding set-top boxes in the...
MUMBAI: The board of directors of ETC Networks will meet on Monday, 21 July 2003 to consider, inter alia, unaudited financial results for the quarter ended...
MUMBAI: The ministry of communications and information technology’s Electronics Regional Test Laboratory (ERTL) has quality tested the digital set top box of Celetron, which will be...
MUMBAI: In the near future, it looks as if cinema might give television a run for its money and lure audiences away from their home. Mukta...
MUMBAI: Channel Guide India Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs 721,000 for the year ended 31 March 2003 as against a loss of Rs...
MUMBAI: The barometer 30-stock Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex continued its ascent; gained 53.92 points (weekly gain) to settle at 3,676.26 as compared to 3,622.34 on...
BANGALORE: Nagging doubts over Siti Cable’s ambitious headend in the sky (HITS) project — through which it is seeking to implement the conditional access in the...
MUMBAI: Bhishm Sahni noted writer of the acclaimed television series Tamas passed away on Friday 11 July at New Delhi after a heart ailment. He was...
MUMBAI: Former Zee TV president and Doordarshan longtimer Madhavi Mutatkar is back to her first love, content creation. Mutatkar has launched an independent production company, Impact...
MUMBAI: ETC Networks, in which Zee Telefilms has a 51 per cent stake, has received the requisite permission to be listed on the National Stock Exchange(NSE)....
MUMBAI: Since the past few days, there has been a lot of talk that Ketaki Dave was all set to come back in Balaji’s Kyunki Saas...
NEW DELHI: The game is getting murkier as the Indian broadcasters have come together to take on the might of foreign-owned broadcasters. The likes of Aaj...
MUMBAI: The government today issued a notification modifying the manner in which conditional access would be rolled out across the four metros. It outlines how zone-wise...
MUMBAI: “Banning of ads on pay channels will force several pay channels who have high ad revenues to go free-to-air (FTA), which will be in the...
.O……..(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 4A, read with Section 9 of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995(7 of 1995)...
MUMBAI: ETC Networks, in which Zee Telefilms has a 51 per cent stake, will celebrate the anniversaries of its Punjabi channel (3 June) and music-cum-entertainment channel...
MUMBAI: The Union cabinet this morning “informally” discussed the draft Ordinance prepared by information and broadcasting ministry to regulate broadcasters in a post-conditional access environment Parliamentary...
MUMBAI: Madison Media’s analysis of TAM ratings for the week ending 21 June 2003 shows that Zee TV leads Sony in channel shares on weekdays (Monday...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) met here yesterday to discuss various issues, including finding a replacement for executive director Bhuwan Lall whose three-year tenure...
MUMBAI: With her track record at MAX it was just a while before they had her back. Starting 10 July at 9 pm, the former Extraaa...
MUMBAI: The Radhikaa promoted Radaan Mediaworks is also entering the 3D animation television software arena, albeit for overseas markets. According to a notice posted by the...
MUMBAI: At least three of Europe’s top five soccer leagues will shortly have to begin negotiating the sale of their television rights in a market in...
MUMBAI: Ronnie Screwvala-promoted UTV is working on “India’s first prime time animated TV show. The show, an out and out comedy targeted at family audiences, is...
MUMBAI: An innovation must result in the development of a successful business model at an appropriate time. These words by Madison Communications CMD Sam Balsara summed...
MUMBAI: The conditional access system (CAS) provides a golden opportunity for the media fraternity to go beyond ratings and industry constituents must join forces to relook...

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