MUMBAI: Users of Chinese web portal QQ.com can now learn English directly from the site thanks to a partnership deal with BBC World Service. It is...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that its radio station BBC London’s Anthem for 2012 Olympics competition launches next week inviting all Londoners to compose...
MUMBAI: As the World Cup draws closer, FM stations have gone ahead full throttle to grab a slice of the cricket pie with innovative non...
NEW DELHI: CNN International’s managing director Chris Cramer will be honoured by the North American Broadcasters Association (NABA) in recognition of his outstanding leadership in the...
MUMBAI: If the last six months’ TAM ratings in the English news space could tell a story this is what they would reveal: What started as...
MUMBAI: BBC Trust has given the green signal to BBC management to provide broadband audio and video services-iPlayer. They have, however, incorporated changes made by the...
MUMBAI: Clare Pizey has been appointed Creative Director of the Features and Formats Studio. She will work in the newly created position as a senior member...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC’s kids chanel CBBC is launching a reality hunt to find The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. A boarding school set deep in the heart...
MUMBAI: UK media watchdog Ofcom has launched its planned consultation to consider the option of an online public service publisher (PSP). If given the go ahead,...
MUMBAI: In a recent poll of about 3,000 television viewers in Britain conducted for UKTV Gold, Martin Bashir’s television interview of the late Princess Diana in...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC’s plans to offer all its TV and radio shows on-demand via the internet and cable TV have been criticised by the...
MUMBAI: UK Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has announced that the BBC licence fee will rise by three per cent over each of the next two years....
MUMBAI: For the first time, licence fee payers will have a say in how UK pubcaster the BBC delivers its mission to inform, educate and entertain....
NEW DELHI: With a “healthy growth” of 22 per cent in advertising revenue over 2005 in India, Turner International’s CNN news channel is leading the way...
MUMBAI: Al Jazeera English announced its four-part series, Children of Conflict, presented by Nadene Ghouri. The series explores the lives of children around the world shattered...
NEW DELHI:Tourism Australia has signed an agreement with BBC World to sponsor the popular series Peschardt’s People, which profiles famous and infamous people in the Asia-Pacific...
MUMBAI: Chris Cramer, who has headed CNN International’s operations for the last 11 years, is retiring effective 31 March. “I shall be saying farewell over the...
MUMBAI: The Korean Broadcasting Commission (KBC) and the BBC are backing Miptv’s Content 360, the international competition to commission innovative, interactive content and applications for mobile...
MUMBAI: One of infotainment channel Discovery’s biggest shows of the year focusses on Planet Earth. It kicks off on 1 February 2007 and airs every Thursday...
MUMBAI: Dominic Coles has been appointed as BBC’s Journalism Group COO. He was previously director of sports rights and finance at the BBC. He assumes overall...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced its biggest-ever search for quiz show talent in the UK to take part in a series – The National...
MUMBAI: Viewers of UK pubcaster the BBC’s show Film 2006 With Jonathan Ross have votd the Bond film Casino Royale as the film of the year....
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC has been asked to be the UK broadcast partner for Concert For Diana which Princes William and Harry are organising for...
MUMBAI: BBC Drama productions has bagged 10 nominations at the Golden Globe Awards. Bleak House, a BBC/WGBH and Boston/Deep Indigo Production for BBC One, has been...
MUMBAI: A limited consumer trial of the BBC Archive in the UK is set to begin early next year, and is expected to last up to...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has started a small closed technical trial to test some of the technologies around Push-VoD to digital video recorders in the...
MUMBAI: The BBC has started a technical trial to test some of the technologies around Push-VoD to digital video recorders. Working in partnership with Cabot Communications,...
MUMBAI: BBC Learning English, a division of the international radio and online broadcaster BBC World Service, has signed a deal with Radio Riyadh to provide tailored...
NEW DELHI: Can school children in India and Pakistan help in the peace process between the two countries? At least, they can try, if the elders...
MUMBAI: Yahoo! News has entered into an agreement with ABC News to offer the BBC News video on its site, whereby users will have access to...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC’s international search for the world’s best young band or solo artist is heading towards the finale with young musicians from Armenia,...
MUMBAI: A few days ago Paris based communications service provider Alcatel successfully demonstrated Europe’s first broadcast of live TV channels on mobile handsets in S-band. It...
MUMBAI: People are starting to watch less TV as the online video boom grows, suggests a BBC News survey. Around 43 per cent of UK people...
MUMBAI: BBC chairman Michael Grade has resigned to become ITV executive chairman, with immediate effect. Commenting on his move and on behalf of the Board of...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that it has won three awards at the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) Awards in London. BBC World was...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC says that its show Panorama has uncovered figures which show that an average of 5.8 million people a month visited online...
MUMBAI: BBC Urdu Service reporter Dilawar Khan Wazir, who was abducted in mysterious circumstances on Monday, appeared at the BBC’s Islamabad office last evening. The BBC...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC’s commercial arm BBC WOrldwide has announced that Simon Clift, Unilever’s global chief marketing officer has joined its board as a non-executive...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC has announced that BBC Vision, an integrated multimedia broadcast and production group has launched. The aim is to create high quality...
MUMBAI: The BBC has revealed the cast of its new high-definition children’s spy series from the maker of Spooks, Kudos Film and Television. MI High (10×30′)...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide, has announced that Jemma has joined the digital media division as Head of content. Earlier Adkins was handling BBC Worldwide TV sales division...
MUMBAI: Television format creator and distributor Endemol has announced that the sound performance in the first half-year of 2006 continued into the third quarter of 2006....
MUMBAI: BBC Hindi has announced Amar Kumar Singh from Hazaribagh of Jharkhand and Shripal Nehra from Sikar of , Rajasthan, as the winners of its playwriting...
MUMBAI: BBC World is launching a new four-part series rom 4 Novemver, which sees Michael Palin’s journey unfold across the Sahara Desert revealing a huge and...
MUMBAI: John Dickie has been appointed as UK pubcaster the BBC’s new head of corporate affairs. Dickie, currently head of public affairs for the BBC and...
MUMBAI: John Dickie has been appointed as UK pubcaster the BBC’s new head of corporate affairs. Dickie, currently head of public affairs for the BBC and...
MUMBAI: BBC Films will collaborate with the BBC Natural History Unit to produce their first ever feature film together, The Meerkats. The film is set to...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has launched its first marketing campaign in Afghanistan, promoting its Pashto and Dari language broadcasts on FM across the country The ongoing...
MUMBAI: British chef and restaurateur Raymond Blanc will put nine couples through their paces to see if they have what it takes to run their own...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC is outsourcing some of its accounting and financing services to India in a move aimed at saving 20 million pounds a...