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MUMBAI: Though the verdict of the 2009 general election was far from what the news channels expected or projected, the endgame drama on 16 May certainly...
MUMBAI: During the week following the live terror strike coverage in Mumbai, viewership of news channels have seen a dip as audiences have migrated back to...
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting officials will be meeting news broadcasters tomorrow in the afternoon to discuss the way the television media has...
NEW DELHI: Even as news broadcasters are still to react on advisories issued earlier this week on the continual coverage of the terrorist attack in Mumbai,...
MUMBAI: As the deadly terror attacks struck Mumbai on 26 November, Indians all over the country stayed glued to news channels. Providing regular updates and a...
MUMBAI:Crime, law and order stories rule the roost on news channels. At least for the period 14 September to 24 October 2008 when news channels dedicated...
MUMBAI: Aaj Tak has launched a special initiative against terrorism called Pucha Hai Aaj Tak, Aakhir Kab Tak. The four-part series will explore the possible solutions...
TV Today Network Ltd. has been very conservative in expanding its footprint. While TV news organisations Network18 and NDTV Ltd. have scaled up their business model...
In a world of 56 news channels, the only objective currency of success is high placing in the rating meters. The battle to beat the ratings...
MUMBAI: TV Today Network has posted a standalone net profit of Rs 135.1 million for the quarter ended 31 March 2008, up from Rs 122.6 million...
MUMBAI: Deepak Chaurasia, executive editor and anchor of TV Today’s Hindi news channel Aaj Tak, has put in his papers. If the buzz in the market...
MUMBAI: Delhi High Court on Monday gives a major relief to news channels by dismissing a suit, filed by ESPN Star Sports again them for using...
Lights flashed, cameras rolled, news was created and records made. With no sure route to success, the tussle for bragging rights in the Hindi news space...
Television news industry was faced with a dilemma and consequently a huge challenge in the year 2007 – content. Numerous questions were raised on the kind...
Why has phenomenon of unrestrained inputs developed is one question that if answered well, will rid us of taking moralistic positions. In this the points made...
But, television viewer has only one option, to change the channel, if he/she doesn’t find the content interesting. Because TV viewers don’t have the option of...
Riding high on the ICC World Cup, Set Discovery reaped a harvest of $120 million (around Rs 4.8 billion) in 2006-07. The challenges, though, are stiff...
MUMBAI: After facing a blackout in Ahmedabad for showing the Tehelka sting expose, the seven news channels are back on air since late Saturday. Aaj Tak,...
MUMBAI: Subroto Roy promoted Sahara Group’s news channels that operate under the brand name Sahara Samay are getting ready for a makeover. The brand name ‘Sahara’...
R iding high on the claim of carrying ‘exclusive’ and ‘breaking’ stories, news channels are rating their success stories. The route is not through digging a story...
MUMBAI: TV Today Network has launched its flagship 24-hour Hindi news channel Aaj Tak in UK. This will be available as part of Max Mix bouquet...
MUMBAI: B.A.G Films & Media Ltd plans to invest Rs 2.70 billion for the four channels it proposes to launch as part of its strategy to...
MUMBAI: Sahara supremo Subroto Roy is looking at restructuring his loss-making news channel business and has asked for suggestions from consulting firm Ernst & Young. Sahara’s...
MUMBAI: They were the real stars at the Sixth Indian Telly Awards Technical Nite. The production teams that sweat it out to set new standards of...
MUMBAI: Aroon Purie-promoted Radio Today Broadcasting is planning to dilute 20 per cent equity to a foreign strategic investor, following a template that other FM radio...
MUMBAI: The TV Today Network has launched the international feed of two of their channels – Aaj Tak and Headlines Today. This comes a year after...
Yes, whenever there is a boom period, there are problems, and in the long run, there will be consolidation and some channels would peter out, but...
MUMBAI: Transparency International India, an international NGO with support from the Oberoi Group has instituted the first MS Oberoi Awards aimed at recognising and rewarding journalists...
NEW DELHI: Sanju Saha, executive vice president, human resources at Star News, has put in his papers and is slated to join Pepsi in a much...
Mumbai: Approximately Rs. 600-700 million news market in India may get radically stirred if a proposal being considered by the newly-formed News Broadcasters Association of India...
Mumbai: The approximately Rs. 600-700 million news market in India may get radically stirred if a proposal being considered by the newly-formed News Broadcasters Association of...
The Media Research Users Council (MRUC) has released the topline findings of the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2006 (Round 16). The study, conducted for the period...
And charging down the back straight is Star News, snapping at the heels of leader Aaj Tak but still not quite there yet. Early pacemaker NDTV...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Tata Sky Ltd, the $ 500 million joint venture between Tata Sons and the Rupert Murdoch-owned Star Group, today officially announced its arrival as...
MUMBAI: The Aroon Purie-controlled TV Today Network is exploring starting a business news channel in association with American financial and business news major Bloomberg. The tie-up...
NEW DELHI: NDTV India, the Hindi news channel from the Prannoy Roy-promoted NDTV Ltd stable, has decided to say goodbye to crime shows. Instead, it will...
MUMBAI: TV Today Network is now eyeing a Mumbai-centric news channel after having recently launched Dilli Aaj Tak, which serves the National Capital Region (NCR). On...
MUMBAI: Lifestyle and glamour channel Zooms goes interactive. In a unique tie-up with Reliance, Zoom’s first Glam Awards can be viewed by subscribers of Reliance World....
MUMBAI: In India, television and newspapers are engaged in a neck and neck fight for prominence in the news media space, while internet lags far behind....
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Television International (India) director affiliate relations Amitabh Srivastava is quitting the company in search of news challenges. Today, was his last day...
MUMBAI: Global Broadcast News (GBN) and Jagran TV partnered Channel7 is to be rechristened. From 1 April onwards, the Hindi news channel will be called IBN-7....
MUMBAI: The Global Broadcast News (GBN) is on a hiring sphere. The company, which manages CNN-IBN has roped in NDTV regional sales manager Mukund Setlur for...
Mid-December 2004, when a new English language news channel went on air in the already cluttered Indian sky, the first question that came to everybody’s mind,...
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: 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 Nepalese ministry of information and communication has issued a verbal order to cable operators to shut down the transmission of Aaj Tak and Star...
MUMBAI: In what is an indication of the consolidation that might soon happen in the news space in Indian television, two TV news stations are in...
Litigation and sting operations. These two were the dominant themes of 2005 that overshadowed other happenings in the Rs 150 billion broadcast and cable industry. There...
Litigation and sting operations. These two were the dominant themes of 2005 that overshadowed other happenings in the Rs 150 billion broadcast and cable industry. There...
“And the ‘word’ lost the struggle with the ‘visual’.” If one sees the context in which this observation was made by a young Bharatiya Janata Party...
