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MUMBAI: BBC World business programme – Business Bites, has come back with a new series featuring two top competing industry leaders each week, discussing the key...
MUMBAI: As the new year sets in, BBC World will be presenting a new series of its programme Bollywood Bosses from 1 January, profiling some of...
MUMBAI: BBC New Media in the UK has announced how it proposes to reallocate investment from its current online budget to help fund new broadband and...
MUMBAI: BBC South Asia’s focused news site (www.bbcnews.com/southasia) has announced an online poll for the most important leader in South Asia in modern times. Out of...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s direct-to-home (DTH) service will formally be launched by prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh on 16 December at 6.30 pm in New Delhi. DD...
MUMBAI: BBC Sport in the UK has announced that former Wimbledon champion Jimmy Connors will be joining its television commentary team to cover the 2005 Wimbledon...
MUMBAI: BBC News is joining forces with ITV News to commission a joint exit poll at the next general election. The poll will be jointly undertaken...
MUMBAI: Earlier this month the BBC announced major organisation restructuring in the UK. As per the plan it will let go off of thousands of employees...
MUMBAI: The BBC has launched its first corporate responsibility report, Living Public Value in the UK. The report describes how the BBC adds public value through...
MUMBAI: The BBC has finalised an online agreement with ETtoday.com a news website in Taiwan. The BBC will provide news headlines and features from the BBC’s...
MUMBAI: Radio listeners in Kabul can now hear BBC World Service programmes in English 24 hours a day thanks to the launch of a new FM...
MUMBAI: A UK non resident Indian (NRI) 13 year old Gayathri Kumar has been crowned the first Hard Spell Champion. BBC had organised the competition in...
MUMBAI: The BBC is planning to announce a radical shake-up today and has plans to sack close to 6000 employees in order to save hundreds of...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that its journalist Mark Doyle has won first prize in the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA)/UN Foundation Awards. He won in...
MUMBAI: A UK panel that is reviewing the future of the BBC has produced a report which suggests keeping the licence fee for 10 more years....
MUMBAI: “While Tam India is one of the best tracking agencies in the country today; one news channel in India gets half it’s SEC AB viewing...
MUMBAI: On Monday 6 December, UK’s leading television drama professionals will come together at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) in London. They...
MUMBAI: The BBC faces a challenge in configuring the potential of digital media to support teachers in the UK in classrooms. Digital technology will, in the...
MUMBAI: Accounting firm Ernst & Young has submitted its revenue to the BBC board of governors about the financial functions of the UK pubcaster. While the...
MUMBAI: It was on 2 December 1984 that a gas tragedy struck Bhopal killing 8,000 people and injuring over 200,000 in one night. Now BBC One...
A legendary maker of the epic serial Ramayan, Dr Ramanand Sagar has achieved several milestones including the Padma Shri award. On Friday, added another one to...
MUMBAI: Five years ago the world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit made a pledge to improve lives around the world by 2015, including reducing...
MUMBAI: The search for a pop star albeit a missing one goes online! This is an initiative that BBC is hoping will give its online broadband...
MUMBAI: Three UK production companies will be the first to benefit from a new BBC fund. They are Twofour Productions, Pier Productions and Multi Media Arts....
MUMBAI: The BBC’s public service mission for the 21st century remains unchanged. But the BBC has to change to demonstrate it can and will deliver it.....
MUMBAI: Indoor bowling was boosted by a three year agreement between BBC Television and the World Bowls Tour. The beeb will cover major WBT events from...
MUMBAI: BBC D-G Mark Thompson has expressed confidence about the corporation being on track as far as improving the way complaints are handled is concerned. The...
NEW DELHI: Another extension has been granted to the news channels uplinking from India to conform to the existing guidelines. The new deadline is 31 December....
MUMBAI: The BBC director of new media and technology, Ashley Highfield, has outlined the corporation’s vision for a broadband Britain. Highfield has called upon the collaboration...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Star’s plans to launch a new upmarket Hindi channel, Star One, has run into a roadblock. Sahara India Mass Communications has appealed in a...
MUMBAI: An international committee is being established to investigate the dangers facing journalists around the world and to recommend ways to protect them in their work....
MUMBAI: UK based Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) will be holding a joint event with the BBC to promote diversity in media and get...
MUMBAI: The BBC in the UK is said to be finalising plans to cut up to a quarter of its 28,000-strong workforce in the biggest single...
MUMBAI: The BBC has signed a deal with the Rupert Murdoch owned broadcaster Fox for the UK TV rights to Fox’s comedy American Dad. It has...
MUMBAI: The BBC has appointed Zarin Patel as group finance director. She is currently serving as the head of revenue. Patel takes up her new role...
MUMBAI: Dame Pauline Neville-Jones who has served as the BBC’s International Governor since January 1998, has decided to stand down from the Board of Governors a...
MUMBAI: There is some good news for the BBC following the criticism that its digital television channels got several days ago. An independent review has praised...
MUMBAI: BBC chairman, Michael Grade has reinforced the broadcaster’s commitment to working more closely with the interactive TV industry to create a vibrant market. In his...
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet yesterday extended a deadline for adhering to the prescribed eligibility criteria related to uplinking of news channels from India to 31...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced the results of a survey Measuring the Value of the BBC. .It claims to have received overwhelming public support in the...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corp, has announced the creation of BBC Japan. Local Japanese broadcaster Japan MediArk will be distributing...
MUMBAI: Star Movies and HBO are going the mini series route in a bid to improve channel share. While the latter recently commenced airing Carnivale the...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s director of strategy and distribution and architect of Freeview, Carolyn Fairbairn has decided to leave the organisation after seven years. BBC DG Mark...
MUMBAI: So you want to be a TV presenter? Journalist? Scriptwriter? Web producer? Radio DJ in the UK? Step this way. Hundreds of media industry hopefuls...
MUMBAI: Broadcasters in New Zealand have snapped up more than 130 hours of BBC factual and drama programming. At Mipcom BBC Worldwide concluded several deals by...
MUMBAI: Bill Hilary has been appointed as BBC America president and CEO. Hilary was formerly Comedy Central’s executive VP and GM. In his new position will...
CANNES: BBC Worldwide has concluded a swathe of deals across Australian networks at this year’s Mipcom market in Cannes. Australia’s National broadcaster ABC has renewed its...
MUMBAI: Last week’s first presidential debate for the upcoming US elections turned out to be a ratings bonanza for the US broadcast networks. Over 65 million...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced that its website bbc.co.uk/news has announced that it will begin rolling out links to other news providers alongside its own stories. The...
MUMBAI: The BBC has launched its own international stock market index, made up of the top companies from 10 business sectors in the USA, Europe and...
