MUMBAI : Asian giants India and China have reached a ground-breaking agreement to promote cooperation in civil nuclear energy. Maybe they should now consider extending that...
MUMBAI : The market is expecting founder-promoter Kalanithi Maran to merge the affiliate companies, Udaya TV Pvt Ltd and Gemini TV Pvt Ltd, where he has...
MUMBAI: Sateelite operators SES Global and Eutelsat have announced a joint investment in the first European satellite infrastructure for broadcasting video, radio and data to mobile...
MUMBAI: Radio Mid Day’s hopes of retaining its well known 92.5 MHz frequency hit a wall today after the sector regulator TDSAT dismissed its plea against...
NEW DELHI: Unhappy with the draft that has been prepared on content regulation, information and broadcasting secretary SK Arora has asked the panel responsible to rework...
Subject: Open House Discussion and posting of Gist of Comments on issues relating to Commercial Tariff for Broadcasting and Cable Television Services. The TRAI will be...
MUMBAI: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has released its annual report indicating that the revenues and profits for Canada’s specialty and pay TV services...
MUMBAI: Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) EMEA has appointed Simon Taylor as vice president legal and business affairs. This was announced by BVITV EMEA executive vice...
MUMBAI: BBC jam (bbc.co.uk/jam) the UK pubcaster’s new broadband learning service for 5 to 16 year olds, has begun a three-month Augmented Reality (AR) storytelling trial....
MUMBAI: MyNetworkTV, the new primetime general entertainment television network, and Young Broadcasting Inc., (YBI) have entered into an affiliation agreement for Kron. The announcement was jointly...
BANGALORE: Telecom companies are in favour of a comprehensive legal framework to deal with various issues arising from convergence of technologies and devices. Participating at the...
NEW DELHI: The 12th BES Expo 2006 kicked off here today with this year’s theme being `Broadcast Trends: Reaching the Unreached.’ The Expo runs from 9...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi today said that India is examining opportunities being thrown up by newer technologies like mobile broadcasting. Inaugurating...
MUMBAI: XM Satellite Radio, the satellite radio company, will broadcast select XM music channels in ‘5.1 surround sound.’ This will be the first time that a...
MUMBAI: With the growing likelihood that the US House and Senate will pass the Digital Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 early next year, Standard...
MUMBAI: BBC World has been recognised with a special award for excellence in news at the Hot Bird TV Awards, the pan European ceremony to recognise...
MUMBAI: Russia Today has resumed broadcasting after a day’s disruption . It presents round-the-clock news about Russia in English. The channel had stopped broadcasting on 12...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has announced several measures to protect the interest of consumers. TRAI guidelines in this regard are given below for...
MUMBAI: The American Cinema Foundation (ACF) will present Finding the Future of Public Television. This is a two-day workshop from 14 -15 October 2005 in Los...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy today said that the uplink and the proposed downlink laws will be taken to the Union Cabinet for...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced a new initiative to encourage practical, high-end solutions to the challenges of the new...
MUMBAI: Media stocks climbed steeply on Thursday, with companies involved in FM radio broadcasting the biggest advancers. The government today allowed the FM radio sector to...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting ministry is now in two minds — to support fully or not — over a proposed ban from 2 October on...
MUMBAI: Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall announced at the Paris Air Show that Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems had selected Arianespace to launch the BSat-3a spacecraft...
MUMBAI: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) forecasts that broadcasting rights revenues will top $3.5 billion in the run-up to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. This represents...
NEW DELHI: The broadcasting sector in Korea accounted for over 40 per cent of the total turnover of the culture industry in 2004, an industry that...
MUMBAI: As New Zealand celebrated 45 years of television broadcasting, industry leaders in the country met in Auckland a few days ago. The forum was an...
It‘s that time of year. When sports lovers of the non-cricketing variety (an extreme minority in a country that seems to swear by only one sport)...
CANNES: The future unwound at the Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Showcases and business panel at the Palais this afternoon with the West and the East putting forth...
MUMBAI: Viacom’s radio initiative Infinity Broadcasting has announced it would make available streaming audio of 11 of its leading news and news-talk stations from 14 March...
MUMBAI: The Korea Digital Cable TV Summit 2005, organized by Media Partners Asia (MPA) and the Korean Cable TV Association (KCTA), will be held on 8...
NEW DELHI: In what could be taken as a major setback to private FM radio operators, the Delhi high court today dismissed a petition filed by...
Can the Atkin‘s diet help you shed weight faster or is the Calorie Count diet the best way to cut the flab? How do you balance...
For over a year, Essel Group additional vice chairman and head of Siticable Network Ltd. Jawahar Goel has been busy lobbying hard for a mandated form...
MUMBAI: Satellite television provider, Direc TV in a regulatory filing on Friday said that it may take up to $1.6 billion in pre – tax charges...
Programming-wise Bangla channels have taken up an aggressive stance, churning out a great amount of content, to get the maximum out of this year‘s Durga puja...
MUMBAI: BBC World has been named best news channel for the third time in seven years at the Hot Bird TV Awards, the annual celebration of...
MUMBAI: Sports marketing agency IEC in Sports has announced a two year deal regarding Portuguese football.. IEC will distribute the 2004/5 and 2005/6 Portuguese Super League...
MUMBAI: Star News has initiated the largest journalist trainee programme in the Indian news channel industry. The channel has recently recruited and trained a batch of...
NEW DELHI: All India Radio has won the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union’s ABU Award for Best Children’s Programme for 2004. An Oriya musical feature from AIR...
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...
Mumbai: Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra was in a jubilant mood in Chennai on Sunday evening even as the network bagged the BCCI cricket telecast rights...
MUMBAI: GRB Entertainment has signed two licencing agreements with SBS Broadcasting in the Netherlands. This was announced by GRB Entertainment vice-president international distribution Marielle Zuccarelli. The...
Is what started with much promise, destined to end with a whimper? FM station Win, that pulled down shutters in Mumbai two months ago in protest...
Andhra Pradesh is getting big on news. And not just for hitting the headlines thanks to the drubbing the southern state‘s “CEO” and media darling Chandrababu...
MUMBAI: Showtime, the Middle East DTH pay TV platform recently opened the region’s largest broadcasting center in Dubai. The centre can handle over 200 channels. Showtime...
MUMBAI: New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) board today approved to launch a separate Business News channel. This, however, is subject to obtaining necessary approvals and premissions...
Directors on Indian television have a long list of complaints. ‘Blame it on the production houses and the channels’, seems to be the majority viewpoint. Are...
It‘s that time of year. When people who couldn‘t care two hoots rustle up some contrived empathy for the cause of womanhood. But for those who...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today issued certain clarifications on doubts raised on an earlier order through which cable services prices were...