MUMBAI: Looks like Aaj Tak is all set to tempt the Indian cricket! With the launch of the Jeeto India Jackpot campaign, the broadcasting arm of...
MUMBAI: With most Indian news channels misreporting the number of blasts in Mumbai last Monday — besides hovering around the site and causing confusion — the...
NEW DELHI: With a bit of brashness, if one can term it that, and taking a swipe at critics, India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati today formally announced...
NEW DELHI: Even as Zee News, from the Zee Telefilms stable, maintained there was nothing “official” about it, media reports indicated that the government is no...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court yesterday passed an order to the owners of Ab Tak, a local TV channel, restraining them from using a name...
MUMBAI: The erstwhile monarch of its terrain, Aaj Tak now has again claimed the top slot among the slew of new news channels on air. Quoting...
NEW DELHI: CRISIL, India’s leading rating agency has awarded P1+ rating to TV Today Network Limited (TVTN) for Rs 150 million Commercial Paper programme. This is...
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...
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: Star News, the 24-hour Hindi news channel, seems to be using every trick in the trade to ensure that it recreates the old magic associated...
Lowe India president and COO Pranesh Misra has this aura of an understated and minimalist elegance about him. His scholarly persona exudes the impression of an...
MUMBAI: With a plethora of news channels dawning the indian television, competition is bound to scale new heights. Aaj Tak claims it’s exclusive coverage on the...
NEW DELHI: While Nisha Sharma was fighting for her rights to fend away the dowry seekers, Living Media’s Aaj Tak news channel was closely following the...
The pace grips, the presentation rivets and the variety of news offered is enough to relax that itching finger on the remote control. But the rate...
MUMBAI: Following the Indian defeat at the World Cup final, Aaj Tak has announced that it will be returning all the cheques collected from viewers for...
MUMBAI: The topline figures of the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2002 (round 10) were released today. The findings reveal that the Top 10 list for TV...
BBC World has the highest percentage of unduplicated viewers after Aaj Tak, concludes a NFL MBO study that surveyed India‘s leading consumers to observe their lifestyle,...
They are the make-or-break people- those who play an important role in ensuring that new channels (news or others) survive the test of time. The indiantelevision.com...
MUMBAI: The war may have delivered death and destruction to Iraq, but it certainly came as good news for the news channels. Total TV news viewership...
MUMBAI: The day of reckoning is here. With the NDTV news channels making their debut today, the array of news channels is finally complete – Aaj...
MUMBAI: With the onslaught of news channels, the battle for a larger share of the viewership pie is, but obvious. Be it hoardings, newspaper advertisements, online...
MUMBAI: The leader has to keep pace with the times too. Aaj Tak, the news channel that has cornered 59 per cent of the market share...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: On 1 April if you thought some new news channels would make their debut, as was being envisaged and claimed, it’s not...
MUMBAI: With the Cricket World Cup over and the contests associated with it coming to an end, its time now for results- both in terms of...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The clock is ticking. With the uplinking issue “clarified” for the present, all systems are ready and waiting for the orders that...
Black and white ads, in this age of digitally created colours, which endeared themselves to all and sundry; better still won creative awards for excellence! Apocalypso...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Last time round when the first Gulf War was unleashed in 1991 on the world, it was courtesy Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait....
MUMBAI: It took staid ole’ Doordarshan to liven up proceedings a bit in the post lunch session on TV News – the new blockbuster. After hearing...
Sitting in his seventh floor sparsely furnished office at the Videocon Towers in the busy Central-West area of Delhi, Uday Shankar, the 30-something news director of...
MUMBAI: It looks like Aaj Tak is quite serious about its catch line ‘Sabse Tej’. The broadcasting arm of India Today group, quoting the latest TAM...
MUMBAI: Leading Hindi news channel Aaj Tak has lost a key member of its journalistic team. Aaj Tak deputy news director Ajay Chaudhary died yesterday following...
NEW DELHI: TV Today Network, part of The India Today Group, is all set to launch its English channel over the next 10 days, even as...
MUMBAI: It is not just Star News that is awaiting uplinkng clearance, information and broadcasting minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, informed the Rajya Sabha (upper house of...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: It’s action time. And one is not referring to a particular brand of shoes, but the stage that has been set for...
LUCKNOW: Emotions before economics. Sounds good in advertisements, but don’t be mistaken that the Subrata Roy-promoted Sahara India group (current assets: over Rs. 320 billion) has...
MUMBAI: Will the Indian consumer get a raw deal after the implementation of the conditional access system (CAS) Experts, who beg to differ with the popular...
If I look back on the year 2002 I don’t see anything major having happened. From the policy point of view I would like to point...
NEW DELHI: With Star, Sahara, Zee and Aaj Tak announcing the launch of additional news channels, public broadcaster Doordarshan seems to have taken an initiative to...
NEW DELHI: Even as 24-hour Hindi news channel Aaj Tak completes two years on 31 December 2002, TV Today Network announced today that the new news...
TV Today is all set to launch its 24-hour Hindi channel Aaj Tak on December 31. The Aaj Tak news bulletin on DD Metro airs its...
NEW DELHI: Starting tomorrow, news channel Aaj Tak has a comprehensive programmes lined up for a quick recap of the year 2002. The finale Flashback Aaj...
Zee folklore has it that when Zee Telefilms was riding the crest of success a few years ago, a journalist came to do a cover story...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan today took a pot shot at the TV rating points saying “manipulations” are common, even while maintaining that efforts should still be on...
NEW DELHI: News channel Aaj Tak is going from strength to strength. Recently it won the award for Best News Channel at the Indian Telly Awards....
NEW DELHI: Amongst all the news channels, Doordarshan is way ahead of others even if all TV homes and cable and satellite homes are taken into...
MUMBAI: It was a fitting tribute to the best of the small screen talents in the country. An evening where the Indian television industry congregated to...
NEW DELHI: The infrastructure at Prasar Bharati’s disposal is not adequate enough to start a Doordarshan news channel at the moment, a senior official of the...
Two Indian broadcasting professionals have made it to the One World Broadcasting Trust’s fellowships for October – November 2002, from among 120 entries received globally. Doordarshan...
NEW DELHI: For those active in the electronic medium and TV journalists, it seems happy days are here again. And for broadcasters and TV software companies,...
NEW DELHI: The Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group has finally applied to the government for starting a news channel and getting allotted a transponder on an Indian...