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MUMBAI: Acclaimed Cypriot film director, screenwriter and producer Michalis Cacoyannis passed away yesterday in Athens. Five-time Academy Award nominee 89-year old Cacoyannis was born in Limassol...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide Channels has confirmed two new factual titles set to launch internationally this year. Originating from Australia, ‘Free Rein‘ and ‘The Kangaroo Gang: Thieves...
MUMBAI:Mudra West has won the creative duties of Worldwide Media‘s (WWM) BBC Top Gear magazine. This will be Mudra‘s fourth win of a brand from the...
MUMBAI: The royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, now Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge, may be one of the most awaited events of the...
MUMBAI: BBC has published the first two months‘ figures for its new Live +7 data and has confirmed plans to publish audience appreciation information later this...
MUMBAI: Following a competitive tender, five agencies have been appointed to the BBC‘s restructured creative services roster. “WInterbrand has been appointed for brand strategy work,...
MUMBAI: BBC is protesting against the deliberate assault of a journalist and cameraman near the University of Sanaa in Yemen. BBC Arabic‘s correspondent in Yemen Abdullah...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s international news services – BBC World Service, BBC World News and BBC.com/news – have launched Hard Times, a special multimedia content scrutinising the...
MUMBAI: As Africa plays host to the Fifa World Cup for the first time this June, the BBC’s international news services will offer a global perspective...
MUMBAI: The Oxford and Cambridge 2010 Boat Race, on London’s River Thames, will broadcast for the first time on BBC World News. The one-hour special will...
MUMBAI: NewsX, the Indi Media-owned English news channel, has announced the appointment of Vishnu Shankar as news director for heading the channel’s news output. Prior to...
MUMBAI: The British Broadcasting Corporation has announced that its Global News division attracts a record weekly global audience of 238 million people to its international news...
MUMBAI: Barely after a four-month stint at Sahara India Media, Sanjeev Srivastava has quit as CEO and Editor-in-Chief. Srivastava had joined Sahara Group in January this...
MUMBAI: The BBC Trust has launched its review of BBC services for younger audiences. The Royal Charter requires the Trust to undertake a comprehensive review of...
MUMBAI: The BBC Trust has launched a public consultation as part of a wide-ranging review into how the licence fee is collected for the UK pubcaster....
MUMBAI: BBC has appointed Tina Stowell, currently Head of Communications for the BBC Trust, as head of its corporate affairs. In her new role, Stowell will...
‘The no-confidence motion against the UPA government last month gave Lok Sabha TV’s ratings the much required boost as well as an opportunity to rake in...
NEW DELHI: Al Jazeera is awaiting downlink clearance from the government and expects to enter the Indian market by early 2009. “We had a meeting yesterday...
MUMBAI: The BBC Trust has completed its first biennial review into the operation of UK pubcaster the BBC’s “Window of Creative Competition” (WOCC). The review found...
MUMBAI: The media industries in general, and broadcasting in particular, are going through an extraordinary period of change where the EU regulatory framework has served audiences...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced that BBC Sport and Dorna Sports, commercial and TV rights holders of the MotoGP World Championship, have signed an extension to the...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced that BBC Drama Production has made changes to build on the success of an increasing number of new commissions, re-commissions, the opening...
MUMBAI: BBC has integrated its international expertise into one central world news hub. BBC World News television, BBC’s world online and newsgathering teams and representatives from...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC has announced a “season of content” to mark the life and work of Charles Darwin on BBC Winter 08/09. The season will...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide Channels will launch a suite of BBC-branded thematic channels in Africa. The channels will be available via MultiChoice’s DStv platform, Africa’s leading television...
MUMBAI: The BBC is making the best deals for acquiring talent on television, an independent review report said. The BBC Trust has published its conclusions and...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced that BBC Sport’s marketing campaign for the forthcoming Olympic Games in China will be based upon the traditional Chinese folklore Journey To...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC is set to make a show on Saddam Hussein named House Of Saddam. The four-part drama series will tell the story...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that it is looking for the next generation of TV writers for its Drama Writers Academy. This is a...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC will launch a debate with the public and the creative communities to garner views on public service broadcasting, ahead of its...
MUMBAI: Formula One Administration Limited and BBC Sport has announced the return of Formula One (F1) to BBC Television. The five-year deal will run from 2009...
MUMBAI: BBC’s teen brand BBC Switch has announced a raft of new content aimed at 12 to 17-year-olds, across TV and online at bbc.co.uk/switch. The first...
MUMBAI: Britain’s comedy writers are backing a new “BBC College of Comedy.” The scheme, which launches today (12 March), will take six writers and train them...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC is awarding development deals to three National Film and Television School (NFTS) documentary filmmakers. The BBC and NFTS established the development deal...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC has appointed Ben Wilson to the new role of deputy head of press in the BBC Press Office. Reporting to head...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC will strengthen its multimedia news services for the Arab world by launching a TV news channel alongside its existing radio and...
MUMBAI: BBC Brasil celebrates its 70th anniversary by hosting four special debates in the cities of Brasília and São Paulo, starting 12 March 2008. BBC Brasil...
MUMBAI: Helen Normoyle, currently Ofcom’s director of media literacy and convergent media and previously its director of market research, is joining the BBC as head of...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC will celebrate Easter with a series, The Passion. The setting is Passover week, Jerusalem, 33AD. As thousands of pilgrims pour into...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC has completed a reprocurement exercise for the management of its TV licencing cash schemes and the TV licencing savings card. The contract...
MUMBAI: Zee News has inked a marketing, licencing and distribution deal with BBC Worldwide. BBC Worldwide will market, licence and distribute Zee News’ archive clip footage...
MUMBAI: A trailer of the new series of UK pubcaster BBC One’s Bafta award-winning drama Doctor Who is airing in cinemas across the UK. The show...
MUMBAI: After extensive talks, UK pubcaster the BBC and British trade unions BECTU, NUJ and Unite have reached an agreement in principle in the current dispute....
MUMBAI: BBC Director-General (DG) Mark Thompson is calling for a new dialogue aimed at restoring trust in British public life. In a speech in London, Thompson...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has strongly taken issue with criticism from the Afghan Ministry of Defence of its news coverage in Afghanistan. In a statement...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC will introduce a new policy this week to bring greater clarity to audiences in the way programmes which use premium rate...
MUMBAI: Finding original drama for a younger audience remains an ambition for UK pubcaster the BBC. It has invited a range of in-house and independent production...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC appeals to all UK residents to participate in its new show Upstaged. The show is open to anyone across the UK who...
MUMBAI: The BBC Trust has published final remits to guide the BBC in meeting each of the six public purposes laid down in the Charter. In...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC has appointed Val Gooding as an additional non-executive director to the executive board. Gooding joins the board on 1 January 2008. The...
