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MUMBAI: The 70th anniversary of the BBC World Service includes a three-hour broadcast of live entertainment and performances from musicians in India, Senegal, Great Britain, Afghanistan...
BBC World has emerged as the most-watched channel in a decision makers’ survey conducted by market research firm ORG-Marg for the news and information channel. The...
NEW DELHI: BBC News has apppointed its first ever South Asia editor. The British broadcaster’s newsgathering division has appointed Paul Danahar to the newly created role...
It’s not often that one of CNN’s star anchors comes calling in India. And when it comes to business matters, even less so. It may be...
LONDON:The Situation Room, a reality drama on BBC based on a hypothetical scenario involving India and Pakistan, has grabbed media attention with its conclusion which shows...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the BBC, has been recognised for its Outstanding Export Achievement in the Trade Partners UK-backed International Business Awards....
MUMBAI: The master of quiz, Siddharth Basu is slated to return to Doordarshan with a unique game show shortly. Basu, who made quizzing popular in India...
NEW DELHI: Continuing to be bullish on the Indian market, BBC World feels that the subcontinent still offers the channel great potential in terms of revenue...
LONDON: BBC’s international news strengths are being promoted in a new joint global advertising campaign by BBC World, the BBC’s 24-hour international news and information television...
LONDON: The BBC scooped over 40 awards at the Promax UK Awards 2002, which were presented in London last weekend. The industry awards, which honour excellence...
LONDON: The BBC Top Gear magazine will have a new-look from its December issue (on sale 30 October), coinciding with this weeks return of the TV...
FRANKFURT(GERMANY): BBC Worldwide, the chief commercial arm of the BBC has launched Doki – a Flash-based language training software that is available on its new consumer...
NEW DELHI: The BBC is planning a series of special programmes and exclusive interviews and news stories for its television, radio and online services to cover...
UNITED KINGDOM : Freeview, the new digital service supported by BBC and Sky will be launched at the end of this month with 30 free channels....
NEW DELHI: From today, BBC World will switch off its analogue signal on PAS 10 in South Asia and the Middle East. This is part of...
On BBC this week, Stephen Cole and the Click Online team ask the question Is the developing world playing technology leapfrog with the West? Reporter David Jamies...
When Vandana Malik started off in television, she was an absolute novice to the medium. It was TV18 promoter Raghav Bahl who propelled his then housewife-sister...
Nat Geo will telecast live an excavation of Egyptian pyramids later this month. The principal archaeologist leading the venture, Dr Mark Lehner, spoke to indiantelevision.com in...
Zee Muzic will celebrate Big B’s birthday on October 11 to honour of the most popular star in the history of Indian cinema, who has created...
For a man who has risen from living in a one-room tenement along with his parents and other siblings to a posh pad in the Capital’s...
MUMBAI: X Games VIII, which claims to be the world’s premier action sports event, is slated to receive the largest worldwide television distribution of any previous...
NEW DELHI: In the run-up to the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack, BBC World is looking at the event from another perspective. When terrorists...
Ravi Rai should ideally rank among the most successful TV writers-directors-producers in India. The maker of hugely successful soaps – Sailaab, Thoda Hai Thode Ki Zaroorat...
Anurradha Prasad started her career as a journalist. After her marriage to fellow journalist and now Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Shukla, the duo decided to focus...
MUMBAI: In a climate where the perceived wisdom is that “dumbing down” works and works well on television (could be said of other media as well),...
India is probably one market where BBC has a lead over CNN. It is also one of the few markets where Cartoon Network has been amply...
MUMBAI: This piece of news should certainly interest Indian TV production houses looking to find a market for their programming beyond the traditional Indian Diaspora audience....
MUMBAI: PanAmSat, a major provider of global video and data broadcasting services via satellite has announced a 10-year transponder lease agreement with the Eternal Word Television...
LONDON:Cricket fans will be able to listen to live BBC coverage when Test Match Special, normally found on BBC Radio Four LW and BBC Radio Five...
MUMBAI:Desi All India Radio is joining hands with the British Broadcasting Corporation again. After a joint coverage of the FIFA soccer world cup, AIR is bringing...
LONDON: Next time you log on the Beeb’s online news service, you will have access to content more relevant to the country of your origin. Using...
UK broadcaster BBC is now firmly in charge of making sure that the conversion from analogue to digital television in Britain proceeds smoothly. It has been...
BBCi has announced that aspiring writers can apply to become a part of a six member team that will create Cleaners, a sitcom to be developed...
A campaign to ward off the AIDS epidemic in India was flagged off on 2 July by the BBC World Service Trust, the NGO arm of...
KS Sarma, the 50-something chief executive of Prasar Bharati, overseeing the functioning of Doordarshan and All India Radio, is not new to the system. A few...
The Webby Awards – run by the The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences – are the pinnacle of recognition that Internet sites receive from...
Less than six months after Prasar Bharati shut down its Doordarshan News channel due to lack of viewership, the pubcaster is contemplating reviving it. This was...
ESPN Star Sports may not have the telecast rights but just ahead of FIFA World Cup action, the channel launched this week the new version of...
The three member high-level committee appointed for the restructuring of Prasar Bharati has finally submitted its report to the government after much delay. The committee consisting...
MUMBAI: This is the BBC’s idea to take care of pets – a TV channel devoted to them. The channel Pet TV will specifically target pets...
The BBC has reached a ?50,000 out-of-court settlement with a journalist of Indian origin who accused it of racial and sexual discrimination, the Press Trust of...
The BBC has reached a 50,000 out-of-court settlement with a journalist of Indian origin who accused it of racial and sexual discrimination, the Press Trust of...
BBC Worldwide is driving hard into the Indian market. It started outwith coverage of local events and followed it with the creation of a local programming...
MUMBAI: As the BBC launches its latest digital marketing campaign targeted at analogue viewers yet to go digital it has announced that its six digital channels...
Popular ESPN Star Sports presenter Jason Dacey, the host of Sportsline, is looking at hosting a weekly feature show before the year is through. Dacey, who...
The BBC, BBC Worldwide and Discovery Communications have announced that an agreement on “the deal of the decade” has been reached. This is a ten-year extension...
Constantly keep refurbishing formats as well as shows. That is the philosophy Narendra Morar, commissioning editor, BBC World, believes works today. And fitting well into this...
The BBC has announced that Capita has been formally appointed to deliver field and call centre operations for TV Licensing for the BBC. An official release...
The British Broadcasting Corporation has announced that it will launch a new, wholly-owned commercial subsidiary, BBC Broadcast Ltd. It will begin trading on 2 April 2002. ...
The television, ad and allied industries swear by them, swear at them, but cannot do without them. Televison ratings, indispensable to the media world when it...
