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MUMBAI: Buena Vista International Television – Asia Pacific (BVITV-AP) has concluded a multi-year licensing agreement with free-to-air government broadcaster Television New Zealand (TVNZ) for special access...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that it has completed the procurement for a 10-year Technology Framework Contract (TFC) with Siemens Business Services worth almost ?2 billion....
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...
MUMBAI: The BBC has relaunched its BBC Azeri website – bbcazeri.com, which has been redesigned and expanded to offer news summaries and features. Azeri speakers across...
MUMBAI: BBC has appointed Dumeetha Luthra as its new Sri Lanka correspondent. Luthra has already joined her new post in the Sri Lankan capital. Prior to...
MUMBAI: The BBC recently announced that it was in talks with various US cable companies like Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner, to distribute its BBC...
MUMBAI: The BBC has caved to the pressure from different groups regarding its animation series Popetown. The Beeb has decided not to air the series. Popetown,...
MUMBAI: Following successful installations in six countries in the European broadcast market over the past two years, Silicon Graphics has launched Silicon Graphics Broadcast Europe under...
MUMBAI: Shazi Zaman, former BBC and Zee News person who had been with Aaj Tak for the last several years has resigned his post as executive...
MUMBAI: The BBC is looking to sell its commercial sales and publishing division BBC Worlwide. For this purpose it has invited bids from Time Warner, Disney...
MUMBAI: BBC’s decision to provide interactive services in the UK for the Olympics has paid off. As many as 8.96 million digital satellite viewers pressed the...
MUMBAI: UK viewers want stricter controls over the amount of sex that children are exposed to on television. In a BBC survey, 86 per cent of...
MUMBAI: Nicholas Kroll has been appointed the BBC’s first director of its governance unit. Kroll will set up and lead the Governors’ new department which will...
His dream agency is now well in place. Following the motto of ideas being indispensable to brands and where no job is ever referred to as...
MUMBAI: UK viewers have taken to the beeb’s interactive service for the Olympic games in a big way. Over six million viewers have pressed the red...
MUMBAI: BBC is, by far, the biggest programme maker in Britain what with almost 20,000 people employed in production-related jobs. But its position as the dominant...
MUMBAI: BBC Tamil Service, Tamilosai, is launching a series of programmes that explore the history of music and songs in Tamil movies. The launch will take...
MUMBAI: The BBC has commissioned legendary television host Sir David Frost to host a new high-profile series of interviews. These will be done for the programme...
MUMBAI: The BBC in the UK has achieved an independent production quota of 28.8 per cent in 2003 – 2004. Regulatory body Ofcom has confirmed this...
NEW DELHI: Hungama TV, the proposed kids’ channel from the UTV stable, which would be distributed by Star, will be priced at Rs. 6 per subscriber...
MUMBAI: BBC World asserts that more of Europe’s senior business people watch it each week than the number that tune in to the two business news...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that it will adapt its game show Mastermind for children in the UK. Junior Mastermind starts at the end of the...
MUMBAI: BBC Motion Gallery a division of BBC Worldwide licenses BBC and CBS News Archive footage to producers of a range of shows and series. 10...
MUMBAI: This is a deal that provides more stake to independent television producers in the UK. The BBC has signed new terms of trade for commissioning...
MUMBAI: BBC Audiobooks has been shortlisted for 18 awards in 15 categories at the annual audio publishing event in the UK The Spoken Word Awards. The...
MUMBAI: Post four previous releases of the much talked about volumes of Mastermind India, which has become quite popular among quiz enthusiasts in India, Mastermind India’s...
MUMBAI: Anthony Salz has been appointed as BBC’s vice-chairman and Richard Tait as a BBC governor. Meanwhile, Dermot Gleeson has been re-appointed for a second...
MUMBAI: BBC World is looking to Bollywood to strengthen its general entertainment lineup. From tomorrow 31 July at 10 pm, BBC World is introducing the first...
NEW DELHI: Beginning this Sunday (25 July), BBC World will present a brand new business programme, Business Bites. Part of the channel’s India Business Report strand,...
MUMBAI: Channel [V]’s former general manager Jules Fuller and former production head Elias Kazmi have been appointed consultants to oversee Pogos first-ever original production unit in...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that, Siemens Business Services has been selected as the Single Preferred Bidder for a new Technology Framework Contract (TFC) for the...
MUMBAI: As the US heads for the polls, the BBC has decided to get more aggressive on the marketing and promotions front. The beeb is launching...
MUMBAI: Tamil-speakers across the world will now access news and current affairs summaries in their own language. BBC has announced that it has relaunched the Tamilosai...
MUMBAI: The BBC has unveiled its future vision. As per this at some point in time everyone in the UK will have equal access to digital...
MUMBAI: Indian animation company Maya Entertainment Ltd (MEL) has bagged the contract to make a BBC show titled Jack Frost, a 30 minute animated feature based...
AK Madhavan,the genial and smiling CEO of Crest Communications spoke on ‘International CO-production in animation’. Asking the audience, “How many of you here want to be...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced the revamping of its journalism guidelines and the creation of its own journalism training college as part of its damage control exercises...
MUMBAI: Protesting against the sale of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s technology arm, Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union (Bectu), which represents over 300 staff in the...
MUMBAI: BBC’s new Director-General (DG) Mark Thompson had a clear message to a staff gathering of the need for real, radical change over the next few...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced executive changes in the leadership of its UK and international news operations. Richard Sambrook will become the director of the BBC’s...
MUMBAI: What You Said about the BBC, a report on the BBC, organised by culture secretary Terssa Jowell has found that the public has an overall...
MUMBAI: Business and finance broadcaster CNBC Asia Pacific has announced the appointment of Fauziah Ibrahim to its anchor team. She will anchor the World News segment...
MUMBAI: BBC’s Tamil Service, Tamilosai, will distribute prizes to the winners of a cricket quiz held during the March cricket world cup in South Africa earlier...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s Board of Governors have published a new style Annual Report and Accounts. This is the first step it has taken in implementing the...
MUMBAI: For the seventh successive year BBC Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the BBC, has increased its cash flow to the Corporation to supplement the...
MUMBAI: Initiative, the media services division of the Lintas Group, has announced Divas Reloaded, a two-day residential conference on the media environment at Northpoint, the group’s...
MUMBAI: BBC hopes to counter the general perception that, community-wise, they cover Indians too much with a documentary series on the British Pakistanis. The TV series...
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....
NEW DELHI: New information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy on his first day at the office tread the usual line: that his endeavour would be to...
MUMBAI: Veteran television executive Mark Thompson is the new director general of BBC. Thompson, the chief executive of the private Channel 4 television, will replace Greg...
