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MUMBAI: A BBC World Service freelance journalist has been killed in a bomb blast in Bangladesh. Journalist Manik Saha was travelling by rickshaw in the south-western...
MUMBAI: The BBC has bought the UK television rights to the comedy Arrested Development from Fox Television. The comedy revolves around widower Michael Bluth (Jason...
MUMBAI: BBC Two kicks off the new year with a celebration of the best of British comedy presented by Jonathan Ross. The show Britain’s Best Sitcom...
MUMBAI: BBC World is eyeing the South Asian and Indian audiences. The channel is launching a South Asia-focused edition of World News Today as part of...
MUMBAI: The beeb is going from strength to strength in the UK. Viewing figures for the end of the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (Barb) year reveal...
MUMBAI: After being ignored for two years in a row The Lord Of The Rings could finally win some serious gold at the Academy Awards. A...
MUMBAI: BBC Sport has announced that it has awarded the contract to produce over 60 hours of horse racing coverage to Sunset+Vine. The two year contract...
MUMBAI: BBC World will now be included on Hong Kong’s first direct to home digital pay TV platform, exTV, following an agreement signed with the operator,...
MUMBAI: In April two and a half weeks into this year’s military campaign against Saddam Hussein, the BBC’s World Affairs editor, John Simpson, was accompanying a...
MUMBAI: BBC Library Sales, a division of BBC Worldwide Limited, has secured major deals around the world for the hit motoring show Top Gear. In a...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced changes to its guidelines covering the circumstances in which BBC journalists, presenters and freelancers can write regular columns for newspapers and...
MUMBAI: Turner Network Television (TNT) and the BBC have joined forces for a drama series The Grid. Starring Dylan McDermott The Practice and Julianna Margulies ER...
MUMBAI: Film director Michael Apted of Coal Miner’s Daughter and The World Is Not Enough fame will direct the first three episodes of the new drama...
MUMBAI: BBC’s South Asia Bureau Chief Paul Danahar has been given one of Britain’s most prestigious awards, the MBE, for services to journalism. The award honours...
The following speech was given by BBC Director General Greg Dyke to the Emmy Board in New York on Monday 24 November. In the four years...
The following speech was given by BBC Director General Greg Dyke to the Emmy Board in New York on Monday 24 November. In the four years...
MUMBAI: “Broadcasting is too important to be left purely to the market”. The remark was made by BBC Director-General Greg Dyke in New York. Dyke...
MUMBAI: UTV claims to have beefed up its television programming front with a clutch of new shows on channels, both domestic and overseas. From pubcaster...
LONDON: A couple of days ago the BBC romped home at awards ceremonies. It took home a host of accolades at both the Royal Television Society...
LONDON: Justin Bairamian has been appointed as the head of audience planning for the BBC. He will take up the post next year. Bairamian will...
LONDON: The BBC will sell its wholly-owned commercial subsidiary BBC Technology. The move follows a strategic review of the BBC’s technology requirements for the next decade....
LONDON: The media is at par with mothers as a source of love and sex education as 66 per cent of young people say they learn...
LONDON: UK entertainment channel BBC Prime will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the music countdown show Top of the Pops with a special New Year’s Eve...
LONDON: It may be the all-time box office champion of the UK, US and the world. It may have won 11 Academy Awards. But all that...
BBC World, BBC’s commercially funded 24-hour international news and information channel, has launched a series of eight 60-second vignettes called Asia Pacific Guides, which features key...
LONDON: The success of Oscar winning filmGladiator a couple of years ago stirred interest in Roman culture and history. Taking a hint from this, the BBC...
LONDON: The BBC and Fox Television Studios in the US are joining forces to make a drama about a fictional terrorist attack on London. The three...
LONDON: Following a competitive tender, the BBC and software major Microsoft have signed a contract. As per this Bill Gates’ conglomerate will develop the technology to...
LONDON: The BBC has announced an encouraging response for its new digital radio services. The new services reached 2,560,000 UK listeners. . The official listening figures...
NEW DELHI: One out of three persons, among the highest level of financial managers in Europe, North America and Asia, watches BBC World regularly, according to...
LONDON: Independent sports producer and sports programme distributor TWI will produce an innovative Lakeside World Professional Darts Championships for BBC TV next January. Part of the...
LONDON: The BBC has acquired exclusive UK TV rights from Sony Pictures Television International to broadcast the new series, Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital. It is based...
CANNES: News Corp president and chief operating officer supported and defended the group’s proposal to put Star Asia boss James Murdoch at the helm at BSkyB...
MUMBAI: This is a deal that marks a first for Walt Disney. In the UK the mouse is all set to launch its first wholly owned,...
CANNES: Cinar Corporation, an integrated entertainment and education company arrives at Mipcom with significant sales for two of its leading franchises, Arthur and Mona The Vampire,...
LONDON: Investment in new, quality programmes on British television is the highest level per head in the world. Overall market investment is also encouraged by strong...
LONDON: Investment in new, quality programmes on British television is the highest level per head in the world. Overall market investment is also encouraged by strong...
When the 20-something Sushanto Roy was named CEO of Sahara India’s media and entertainment division, sceptics tittered that it was father and chairman Subrata Roy’s way...
MUMBAI: The Ronnie Screwvala-promoted production house UTV Asia hopes to sell and syndicate its two international co-productions Infinite Darcy and Bollywood Road at this year’s Mipcom...
LONDON: Kenya’s Eddie Ogembo and Switzerland’s Anuradha Swaminathan have won the two top honours in the BBC World Service International Playwriting Competition for this year. While...
LONDON: Car enthusiasts can have their fill of vehicles that met critics approval in the April issue of BBC Top Gear Magazine which is on sale....
LONDON : The BBC has announced the appointment of former Globecast executive Sarah Hayes as Head of Media Asset Management. She will be responsible for managing...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) has launched a new pay-TV service. The endeavour is aimed at realising the “triple-play” strategy, thus bringing a significant...
LONDON: Pakistani-born Abbas Nasir, a former head of the BBC’s Urdu Service, has been appointed executive editor for the Asia and the Pacific Region at BBC...
LONDON: BBC News Online has teamed up with MSN Nordic to provide headline content for MSN pages across Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The news feed, which...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide will present over 600 hours of new programming, from across the full range of BBC output, at the Mipcom TV programme market in...
MUMBAI: It was a matter of minutes, but Star News pipped its rivals to field coverage and providing images of the bomb blasts in Mumbai and...
LONDON: The BBC is looking to take advantage of the digital revolution and the rapid pace of broadband by opening its archive. At the Edinburgh Television...
The latest addition to Indiantelevision.com’s Young Turk gallery is Zain Verjee. In seven years Zain has gone from reading the traffic news updates for an African...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s two part special What The World Thinks Of America.? airs over the weekend. BBC’s political editor Andrew Marr presents these specials from the...
