MUMBAI: Buena Vista International Television Asia Pacific (BVITV-AP) has licensed the two-time Emmy Award winning reality-competition series The Amazing Race to five broadcasters across Asia Pacific....
NEW DELHI: People have chosen their bride and made the announcement too. But ironically, the prospective bride has yet to be informed of the marriage. Speaking...
MUMBAI: It may be struggling to build up viewer cachet in India but Nickelodeon India will nonetheless participate in a global initiative – Worldwide Play of...
MUMBAI: CNBC Australia is all set to roll out two new hour-long topical primetime talk shows that were launched on CNBC in the US this year....
MUMBAI: Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc., distributor of music, variety and documentary catalogue programming produced for US broadcast networks, will be showcasing World Poker Tour, the international...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate News Corporation has announced that a special committee of non-executive directors and the full board of directors have recommended the proposed reorganisation of...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Bidding is officially open for cricket’s “BIG ONE”. The Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) today invited tenders for the live...
MUMBAI: The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has appointed sports marketing agency Octagon CSI as consultants to advise the ECB on the upcoming domestic media...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney company is looking to enhance its presence in China through its association with the National Basketball Association (NBA) by sponsoring the first-ever...
MUMBAI: The US-based communications & networking research and consulting firm Yankee Group has predicted that pay-TV subscriptions in the Asia Pacific region will increase to $22.1...
MUMBAI: Turner has signed its first mobile broadcasting agreement for Cartoon Network. As per this Italian mobile operator 3 will distribute Cartoon Network to its videophone...
MUMBAI: Samsung Electronics has announced the second consecutive year of its largest Asian social program — Samsung DigitAll Hope. The company plans to contribute $1.05 million...
MUMBAI: Australia’s News Corp., which runs the biggest satellite-to-home TV broadcast in the US, has dropped its Spaceway venture. The project was meant to launch advanced...
The name is Shroff… Shravan Shroff. Claim to fame: Fame Adlabs. Armed with an MBA degree, this alumnus of Melbourne Business School, Australia came back to...
This year promises to be a cricket fiesta like no other. It started in January with India finishing their tour of Australia followed by India-Pakistan. We...
MUMBAI: High definition programming is not coming – it’s already here. Since the beginning of 2004 Euro 1080 has been broadcasting a daily schedule of music...
MUMBAI: Ficci Frames 2004 saw a lot of firsts in the entertainment industry. This was the fifth successive year of Frames which began in the year...
MUMBAI: Crown Media which operates the Hallmark Channel has reported its operating results for the three months and year ended 31 December 2003. For the full...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that its radio service BBC World Service will become available across Australia on Foxtel Digital’s new Air audio system from 14...
MUMBAI: Foxtel announced launch of digital subscription TV platform in Australia with NDS technology. NDS group plc, a News Corporation company and provider of technology solutions...
MUMBAI: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) and pan-Asian telecommunications services provider Asia Netcom have announced a strategic partnership to enhance our connectivity to the Asia Pacific...
MUMBAI: The suspense is finally over for Ten Sports and it can now get down to planning telecast details for India’s tour to Pakistan. The Indian...
NEW DELHI: Universitas 21 Global, a leading global online business school, Wednesday announced the signing of an alliance with Zee Network’s education arm with a view...
MUMBAI: Taj Television reached an agreement yesterday with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), which extends its telecast rights for the forthcoming Australia tour of the Emerald Isles...
MUMBAI: It is not just Dubai-based Taj Television that is expecting to make a killing out of India’s upcoming tour of Pakistan, India’s first tour to...
NEW DELHI: The overall basic cable & satellite TV subscriber growth rate slowed down to 9 per cent year on year (Y/Y) in 2003 in the...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: At a time when the governments of India and Pakistan are talking peace, a different kind of tussle is going on –...
MUMBAI: Matthew Kennedy will take over as the International Cricket Councils (ICC) global development manager from January. Kennedy currently serves as the organisation’s regional development manager...
MUMBAI: While the Hindi film industry is swarming with awards dime to a dozen be it national or international, it was just a while before the...
In Phase-I the Government divided the centers (cities where frequencies were offered to private bidders) in five categories for the purposes of license fee: A+ (reserved...
MUMBAI: US broadcast network CBS has given the producer of The Amaing Race Jerry Bruckheimer the go ahead for a fifth edition. In India the show...
MUMBAI: It is not merely a story but an epic saga! This is the tagline that MAX is using for its latest programme initiative. This will...
MUMBAI: Another session at Locations 2003 dealt with the manner in which films can help in promoting tourism. Australia of course is one of the best...
LONDON: MIPCOM 2003 will see hot wrestling action courtesy World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). The international television market scheduled to take place from 10-14 October in Cannes,...
HOLLAND: European broadcaster Eurosport will air the Rabobank Men’s Champions Trophy which takes place in Amsterdam from 16-24 August 2003. The deal, which was brokered by...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan’s sports channel, DD Sports, has managed to break out of the Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) grip, which was contracted to distribute it,...
MUMBAI: The Prasar Bharati marketing team has created a record by selling the ad inventory for the upcoming domestic fixtures of the Indian cricket team in...
NEW DELHI: CNBC Asia has taken an equity position in Television Eighteen India – the quantum has not been revealed. The Mauritius registered company, which earlier...
FRANCE: The uptake of the electronic medium shows no signs of slowing down. The average time spent by the television buff across the globe last year...
NEW DELHI: Star and the likes can breathe a bit easy as finally the Almighty may be smiling. Though the Indian government may have taken its...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the BBC, and the International Triathlon Union (ITU) have signed a deal. For the first time, BBC Worldwide...
LONDON: The board of WPP Group plc (WPP) has announced reportable revenue was down to ?3.908 billion (almost three per cent) in the unaudited results for...
MUMBAI: The Indian team may be giving its fans ulcers by its up and down displays at the ongoing ICC World Cup 2003 but viewers just...
HONG KONG: AsiaSat 4, the fourth satellite of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (AsiaSat), has arrived in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA aboard a chartered heavy lift cargo...
CALIFORNIA: Nickelodeon will once again give kids the chance to vote for their favourite movie and music stars when its 16th Annual Kids Choice Awards is held...
MUMBAI: The Kyunkii… and the Kasauti…. teams will have company during their Oz-land tour! Gaurav Bangia and Sarita, the first-ever winners of Zee’s Sa Re Ga...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network announced today the launch of a daily three-hour block for pre-schoolers – Tiny TV that kicks off from 27 January. Prime among the...
MUMBAI: Guess what the Balaji stalwarts are up to? Gearing for a change, what else. The trio Kyunki Saas Bhi Kaabhi Bahu Thi, Kahaani Ghar Ghar...
Kourou: Undaunted by the failure of flight 157, Araianespace has announced that it has secured the go-ahead for the launch of its second flight for New...
The National Geographic Channel is slowly but surely trying to carve a niche for itself by introducing different genres of programming. The latest initiative challenges the...
