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NEW DELHI: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has decided to hitch on to DD Direct Plus, the country’s only free to air direct-to-home platform. The channel...
An institution that has been the chronicler and mirror of India‘s history is feeling crippled. With a tenacious CEO under a dynamic Minister of Information &...
NEW DELHI: Giridhari Mohanty has succeeded Frank Noronha as DAVP director-general. Noronha has moved to the Press Information Bureau as Director General. Both officers are from...
NEW DELHI: In India’s highly cluttered private satellite television news market, the Prasar Bharati chief executive officer BS Lalli has a message: maintain sobriety instead of...
NEW DELHI: Is state-owned broadcaster DD saddled with an ageing news correspondent network? If one goes by information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni’s admission in parliament,...
The floodgates opened in 2007. The year gone by was a time when years of hard work and patience finally paid off for the radio industry...
NEW DELHI: Two senior journalists-cum-bureaucrats belonging to the Indian Information Service, passed away over the weekend. While former editor of the Hindi wing of the United...
NEW DELHI: All the stalls at the BES Expo 2007, to be inaugurated on 1 February, are packed. BES estimates it would need to add 20...
NEW DELHI: Millions of viewers who don’t have access to the Nimbus owned Neo Sports can finally heave a sigh of relief. The Delhi High Court...
MUMBAI: In what is a first on Indian Television, a home cricket series kicked off today without the telecast being available on national broadcaster Doordarshan and...
MUMBAI: All India Radio has been elected as a Member of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, ABU’s Administrative Council. In the election held at the 43rd General...
MUMBAI: All India Radio has been elected as a Member of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, ABU’s Administrative Council. In the election held at the 43rd General...
MUMBAI: The finalists of the ABU Prizes 2006 programme categories have been selected. Out of a total of 211 entries for its radio and TV categories,...
It’s one thing to have a good work ethic. It’s another thing to be a workaholic – a combination of both best describes Doordarshan deputy director...
MUMBAI: Fifa World Cup 2006 seems to be generating considerable buzz in India. More than just the scores, the All India Radio (AIR) service promises live...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati would soon be headless unless the government, too busy with other issues like reservation for backward classes in educational institutions,...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is close to taking a final decision on the financial restructuring of pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which manages Doordarshan and All India...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati’s bid to demand carriage fee from broadcasters to be on its DTH platform, DD Direct+, has met with initial resistance...
NEW DELHI: Director General of All India Radio (AIR) Brijeshwar Singh has been appointed the vice- president of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA). The elections to...
In the 1980s, when Siddharth Basu used to go to Delhi’s INA market shopping for vegetables on a scooter on Sundays, people looked at him curiously;...
NEW DELHI: If you thought with a new set of people taking over the Indian cricket board, the telecast rights controversy is over, then think again....
As a career bureaucrat, KS Sarma is neither a stranger to the Indian political system nor the opportunities that it throws up if one wants to...
A new set of regulations relating to sports broadcasting, given the green signal by the Indian Cabinet earlier this week, is retrograde and highlights the height...
NEW DELHI: A group of ministers (GoM), looking into mandatory sports content sharing with Prasar Bharati, has recommended in favour of the pubcaster. Government sources told...
Circa: 2004. Characteristic of his verbosity, information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy had mentioned in Parliament that he’s “dusting” the Broadcast Bill that he had tabled...
MUMBAI: The Asia-Pacific Broadcast Union (ABU), with support from the International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers (IABM), conducted a training course on radio transmitters at the AIR...
NEW DELHI: Contrary to expectations, the government has marginally increased its financial support to Prasar Bharati (translated in English as the Broadcasting Corporation of India), which...
FR Lobo (name changed) of Lucknow these days is grateful to an organisation that had little relevance in his upper middle class home replete with technical...
NEW DELHI: Adding to the fears of the organisers of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006 on the threat of revenue loss, Indian pubcaster Doordarshan has said...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan wants to travel to the UK to woo TV audiences of Indian diaspora, but doesnt have the requisite fund of its...
NEW DELHI: You can term this as a Diwali gift from the government to the employees of the Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati Corporation, which manages Doordarshan...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s proposed DTH television venture is becoming a bit of a joke with a prolonged delay in launching the KU-band service increasingly...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati’s gains relating to Indian cricket rights may end up also benefiting Dish TV, the country’s first KU-band DTH service promoted...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan, sitting happily on the ringside watching the cricket telecast soap opera unfurl with twists and turns, today hinted that it would...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s KU-band television services foray, it seems, hinges on the government okaying a proposal to allow private satellite channels to come on...
NEW DELHI: When the pubcaster wants, it manages to gets its dues. Private satellite channels like Aaj Tak have said that they would pay for the...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati, managing Doordarshan and All India Radio, may be making a hue and cry about the high cost of acquiring sporting events for...
NEW DELHI: The producers of TV programmes from the Northeast (comprising eight states of the country) have taken up cudgels against alleged malpractices prevailing in India’s...
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...
NEW DELHI: To have them, or not? Failing to answer the question fully, Doordarshan News has gone in for a compromise formula regarding the private producers...
NEW DELHI: Some are saying it’s poetic justice, but it can only happen in Doordarshan. The only broadcaster with the permission to cover the whole of...
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....
Jaipal Reddy’s second inning at the information and broadcasting ministry has one similarity — nothing much has changed since the time he was last here in...
NEW DELHI: The new Congress-led coalition government would like to de-saffronise Prasar Bharati, which would mean that people owing allegiance to it and other allies of...
NEW DELHI: The broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has said that it is yet to take a view on Indian pubcaster...
NEW DELHI: Information officers in the news division of India’s public broadcasters All India Radio and Doordarshan Thursday protested the induction of “outsiders” into the staff....
NEW DELHI: All is fair in love and war, they say. In case of a cricket series between India and Pakistan not only both the emotions...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today hinted to the Pakistani government that it should lift the ban on Indian TV channels...
MUMBAI: All India Radio’s FM Gold channel will launch Knowledge Radio. This is a live quiz show for school children to commemorate Unicef International Day of...
NEW DELHI: Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), in association with the Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS), is working on a proposal to...
