MUMBAI: MTV India took its time at finding a replacement but finally the anouncement has been made. Amit Jain, vice-president, regional operations Coke India is joining...
MUMBAI: The Contender is back and the re-match is on! The Contender Re-match: Mora vs. Manfredo airs on the action oriented AXN on 27 November 2005...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The $ 24 billion News Corporation COO, Peter Chernin, came, saw and will be going back from India more or less satisfied. On a...
MUMBAI: Travel and business specialist, Ink Publishing and CNN International, are to expand the internationally successful CNN Traveller magazine with a dedicated Asia Pacific edition. Ink...
MUMBAI: Children’s brand management company – Dic Entertainment (Dic) announced that it had concluded sales deals at Mipcom 2005 with a few international broadcasters and pay...
MUMBAI: Asia’s IPTV forum will be held in Hong Kong from 28 November to 29 November. The forum will deal with issues such as the successful...
MUMBAI: FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide (FLW), the licensing division of format creator FremantleMedia, has announced the appointment of Amrita Sindhu as VP, sales for home entertainment in...
MUMBAI: Lowe has undergone some executive reshuffling within the Asian network. Lowe Dubai MD Vikas Mehta, Lowe India senior VP T Krishna and Lowe India senior...
PARIS: Publicis the world’s fourth largest communications group has announced that consolidated revenues reached 2.79 billion euros for the quarter ended 30 September 2003. For the...
Mumbai, October 8, 2005: You’ve seen him as the suave and debonair James Bond. Now see Pierce Brosnan retell a classic tale with Daniel Defoe’s Robinson...
NEW DELHI: ESPN Star Sports today announced the promotion of Manu Sawhney to the newly-created role of executive vice-president, programming and marketing. Sawhney was...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports today concluded a multi-year broadcast agreement for the MotoGP World Championship. The broadcaster has been showcasing the MotoGP for 10 years and...
MUMBAI: Discovery has bought the show Feast India from Australian television firm SBS International. The show has been bought for Discovery India as well as Discovery...
MUMBAI: Asian satellite service provider Asiasat and Music Media Enterprises Europe have signed a new lease agreement for the use of C-band capacity on AsiaSat 2...
Two years ago, the top brass of India ‘s numero uno media agency Mindshare, huddled together in Lonavla’s Fariyas Hotel. In the room, were Mindshare MD...
MUMBAI: Broadband satellite Thaicom 4 (IpStar), the heaviest commercial satellite ever delivered to geosynchronous orbit, was lofted succesfully aboard an Ariane 5 launcher during an early-morning...
MUMBAI: UK-based 3i is betting big on India. After investing $45.50 million for a 33 per cent stake in Mumbai-based Nimbus Communications, the private equity and...
Today, for the first time, China has 100 million people on the Internet, 30 percent of whom are on broadband. Within a few years, a billion...
MUMBAI: Intelsat has announced that RR Satellite Communications Limited (RR Sat), an Israeli broadcast service provider, has selected Intelsat to provide two new content distribution platforms...
MUMBAI: Discovery Networks in association with Channel 4 and Granada International will co-produce a series that looks at humans dealing with life and death situations. For...
MUMBAI: The Chinese government has approved plans to lay an undersea cable, to increase the speed at which internet users in the Northern region access overseas...
MUMBAI: Fox News, in its endeavour to expand its global reach, has appointed Vipp Jaswal to help build the brand outside of the US and manage...
MUMBAI: For GroupM India it was a great way to end 2005. GroupM Bangalore investment director Prasanth Kumar has bagged the ‘best media planner/buyer in Asia’...
MUMBAI: Localisation is the name of the game as sports broadcasters seek avenues outside cricket to build up an audience. Earlier this year ESPN Star Sports...
MUMBAI: Sports marketing firm Total Sports Asia (TSA), which launched in India last year, is planning to organise a diverse slew of events this year. These...
MUMBAI: Space TV, the Tata Sons and Star group 80:20 joint venture for a DTH service in India is finally in sight, and action is hotting...
MUMBAI: Sports marketing agency Total Sports Asia has announced a deal for one of the tennis Grand Slams the US Open. TSA reached an agreement...
MUMBAI: The Korea Digital Cable TV Summit 2005, organized by Media Partners Asia (MPA) and the Korean Cable TV Association (KCTA), will be held on 8...
MUMBAI: Essel Group is launching an interactive and gaming channel PlayTV, the first in the country. Aiming at a mid-March launch, the channel will telecast games,...
MUMBAI: Further accelerating its presence throughout Asia, MGM Networks, a unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. has launched the MGM Channel to subscribers in Thailand via UBC. “In...
MUMBAI: BBC World in association with Shell and Newsweek have come together to search for, highlight and reward individuals or groups that have used enterprise and...
MUMBAI: Martha Eberts, Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) president Michael Grindon’s point person overseeing operations in Asia (India included), now has a senior executive working alongside...
MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi, Radio City, Go 92.5 and Red FM are coming together for the first time on one platform for the Help! Telethon Concert to...
MUMBAI: Business and financial news network Bloomberg Television has launched its 24-hour business and financial news network in Thailand. The channel will now air on United...
MUMBAI: CNBC is launching a new prime time show titled CNBC Tonight which will launch on 16 February. The show will deliver an unrivalled wrap-up of...
NEW DELHI: Rapid changes in the competitive environment for video and broadband services, the development of new technologies and the emergence of new forms of content...
MUMBAI: The National Geographic Channel (NGC) will usher in 2005 with a new show with an architectural bent. Megastructures airs Monday to Friday at 9 pm...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has announced that it is expanding its sales distribution team in Asia. It has appointed Janet Eng as sales director...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide and a unit of MEASAT Global Berhad, owner and operator of the MEASAT satellite network, announced an agreement for using MEASAT to broadcast...
MUMBAI: In an effort to improve the quality of movies on cable TV in China China Digital Television Production has signed a contract with HBO Asia....
MUMBAI: Huge Systems, Inc., a leading storage solutions provider for the content creation, broadcast and delivery markets, has announced the retention of Asia Media Products as...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment has launched its animation channel Animax on Hong Kong Cable. The channel is seen on five dedicated services in Taiwan, Hong Kong,...
MUMBAI: Thomson has announced that it is acquiring a major stake in Nokia/CITIC Digital Technology (NCDT). Thomson delivers integrated solutions (technologies, equipment and services) for the...
MUMBAI: In your face promotions seem to be in demand these days. While on the home grounds, Sony has displayed some brilliant promotional gigs to promote...
MUMBAI: Asia’s premier electronic media event BroadcastAsia2004 will be held in Singapore from 15 – 18 June. Themed Redefining Broadcasting, BroadcastAsia2004 will encompass the entire spectrum...
MUMBAI: Content providers across the globe are hedging their bets on the fact that the mobile is going to open up a considerable source of revenue....
MUMBAI: Television New Zealand (TVNZ) has announced that later this year TVNZ Satellite Services will quit the global occasional use satellite delivery industry. TVNZ Satellite Services...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News has signed a deal with digital satellite radio service provider Worldspace, making the channel available to subscribers of Worldspace throughout Asia,...
New Delhi: The combined figure of non-resident Indians (NRIs) pay-TV subscription households from the Gulf region and Europe will definitely pale in comparison to the estimated...
MUMBAI: Three interactive channels are poised to make their debut into Asian homes from 1 January 2004. To be launched on the AsiaSat 3S platform,...

