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NEW DELHI: Even as the debate on the fate of DD News continues in political and government circles, 16 senior people associated with the channel have...
MUMBAI: Make no mistake about it, broadband is coming. And it is not just Reliance Infocomm, which is scheduled to unleash its Netway offering at the...
Information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy hasruled out any immediate change in the board of India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which manages Doordarshan and All India Radio....
MUMBAI: Discovery Channel has been funding an unusual experiment for the past four years. It took two captive-born tigers and taught them to survive in the...
NEW DELHI: All India Radio (AIR) has secured the rights for broadcasting the running commentary on the nine matches to be played during the India-Pakistan cricket...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati today announced that Indian Administrative Service officers Naveen Kumar and Brajeshwar Singh have been appointed the director-generals of Doordarshan and All India...
NEW DELHI: A bureaucrat is all set to take over at the helm of country’s radio pubcaster All India Radio (AIR), while sibling Doordarshan remains firmly...
NEW DELHI: A bureaucrat is all set to take over at the helm of country’s radio pubcaster All India Radio (AIR), while sibling Doordarshan remains firmly...
NEW DELHI: This festive season, changes are taking place thick and fast in media organisations. If Zee Telefilms made changes in its hierarchy, the country’s biggest...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR) may soon get full-fledged director-generals (DG), if everything goes well with the selection process which...
In Phase-I of liberalization of FM broadcasting one frequency in each of the forty cities was reserved for educational broadcast by IGNOU. However, so far IGNOU...
NEW DELHI: A question mark has been put on an early-November relaunch of Doordarshan’s news channel, DD News. Reason: The Election Commission (EC) may play spoilsport...
MUMBAI: In a bid to counter dipping revenues of its two FM channels, All India Radio Mumbai plans to sell packaged ad spots for its primary...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati Corporation may soon start playing some hard ball game to exploit the opportunities on Doordarshan (DD) Sports channel. This would include auctioning...
NEW DELHI: Indian radio pubcaster, All India Radio (AIR), mopped a record net revenue of Rs. 113.26 crore in the year 2002-03 and has kept a...
NEW DELHI: Provisions of Rs 1705.5 million and Rs 3805.5 million have been kept for All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan, respectively in the 10th five-year...
SRINAGAR: Prasar Bharati is now considering life insurance cover for its staff in the Kashmir Valley. This move has been prompted by the suicide attack attempt...
MUMBAI: With a slew of news channels entering the domestic television market, each of the new entrants wants to have an edge over the other. According...
India’s new information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is of the opinion that in the national interest, cable operators should desist from re-distributing Pak TV....
NEW DELHI: Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ravi Shankar Prasad reiterated on Monday that developmental information can also be presented in a way that is both...
NEW DELHI: The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has decided to form a task force to come up with recommendations on the specifications of set-top boxes...
NEW YORK: Bloomberg, the global news and information organisation, has launched AV (audio-visual) via the Bloomberg Professional Service to all users. Using AV, users can watch...
NEW DELHI: The programming staff association of Doordarshan and All India Radio have deferred a decision to go on strike from today. The decision comes after...
Ravi Shankar Prasad, the new minister of information and broadcasting is a no-nonsense man. He speaks haltingly, in a measured manner, mulling, chewing and pondering over...
AHMEDNAGAR: Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Ramesh Bais on Tuesday said that there were no plans to privatise either Doordarshan or All India...
NEW DELHI: The new chairperson of Prasar Bharati, noted right wing columnist MV Kamath, feels that unlike private satellite channels, Doordarshan and All India Radio cannot...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has decided to step on the gas pedal as revenue is the buzzword in the Corporation’s headquarters here, a la other broadcasting...
Music television channels and Radio FM will need to face the ‘music’ resulting from the salvo that has been fired by the Indian Music Industry (IMI)....
NEW DELHI: If Doordarshan has sewn up a cricket deal which is quite a win-win situation for it, sister concern All-India Radio isn’t far behind. According...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has so far earned a total revenue of Rs 1550.12 million from open auctions of FM radio stations, which includes earnest...
NEW DELHI: The total assets of Prasar Bharati Corporation, the autonomous body modelled on the UK pubcaster BBC to oversee the work of Doordarshan (DD) and...
NEW DELHI: There is a big gap between running expenses of India’s pubcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio and the revenue being generated by the organisation,...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has extended by a year an agreement to telecast all football matches held under the aegis of the All India Football Federation...
NEW DELHI: If Doordarshan has the knack to be in the news, it is the turn of the low profile All India Radio to hog some...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to popularise programmes being broadcast on pubcasters Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR), Prasar Bharati Corporation is planning to come...
NEW DELHI:Sagar-O- Papuni , a musical play produced by All India Radio, Bhavanipatna in Orissa has won this year’s prestigious Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union’s Award for...
Deutsche Welle (DW) Television entered India in 1996. A niche channel, it has been perceived as a channel only for the German speaking audiences. But the...
MUMBAI:Desi All India Radio is joining hands with the British Broadcasting Corporation again. After a joint coverage of the FIFA soccer world cup, AIR is bringing...
The private FM players may be getting all the publicity at the moment but good old All India Radio is not going to be left behind....
KS Sarma, the 50-something chief executive of Prasar Bharati, overseeing the functioning of Doordarshan and All India Radio, is not new to the system. A few...
Prasar Bharati Corporation, the autonomous body modelled on the UK pubcaster BBC and overseeing the work of Doordarshan (DD) and the All India Radio (AIR), is...
All India Radio, considered to be one of the most powerful pubcasters in the world and the low-profile cousin of Doordarshan, is all set to give...
Television has emerged as a primary source for news and current affairs and a new survey undertaken by the Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies (CMS) indicates...
It’s May and as reported earlier in Indiantelevision.com’s special report the Tara Marathi channel has gone on air. This means that there is one more major...
The 29 December deadline for payment of license fees by private FM radio players in metros has been extended by eight months, costing the national exchequer...
"I'm 42 years old, and in less than a year I'll be dead. Of course, I didn't know that yet. In a way, I'm dead already."...
The cabinet ministry yesterday cleared an advance amount of Rs 220 million to enable national broadcaster Doordarshan to cover 99 per cent of the North Eastern...
Television companies have significantly increased the use of hoardings to increase awareness about the shows they have on air. Although print medium (specifically newspapers) still...
