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MUMBAI: After all the talk of a shutout, some good news for English cricket fans wishing to follow their team’s progress. Sky Sports has won the...
MUMBAI: The James Murdoch-led BSkyB DTH operator in the UK has become the first broadcast platform to take a hit after Nimbus Communications won the telecast...
MUMBAI: Zone Vision will launch its latest reality channel offering Reality Extra on BSkyB on 28 February. The channel will feature entertainment fare as well as...
MUMBAI: Discovery HD will launch in the UK and Ireland this year as part of UK pay TV service provider BSkyB’s high-definition television package. Discovery’s dedicated...
MUMBAI: British DTH broadcaster BSkyB has launched a service that allows its consumers to legally download movies and sports packages from the Internet. The service, ‘Sky...
MUMBAI: Leading British satellite platform BSkyB has crossed its target of achieving eight million subscribers by the end of this year, 2005. In a media statement...
Two years is a good time to take stock. It’s been just a little more than that since Michelle Guthrie, to the surprise of many a...
MUMBAI: Hong Kong’s leading IT&T player PCCW’s now Broadband TV has chosen Tandberg Television as its market-leading advanced compression solutions for a roll-out of HD over...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch-controlled UK satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting has finally sealed the acquisition of high-speed internet provider Easynet Group. BSkyB has bought the telecom firm...
MUMBAI: UK satellite operator BSkyB is close to buying high-speed internet provider Easynet, media reports indicate. The telcom firm has invested heavily in providing broadband services...
MUMBAI: Several Bengali language channels have recently hit the market, fighting for space in an expanding environment. The latest is Bangla Music Television, floated by UK-based...
MUMBAI: British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) has started offering video and text updates on the latest sports, news and weather to mobile users. The downloadable application is...
MUMBAI: The Guardian, the national morning broadsheet has decided to move into the television arena.. Its first move in the direction being moving into branded TV...
CANNES: The future holds opportunities of connecting to audiences in unimaginable ways through content that is more personal and more meaningful for the consumer. That was...
CANNES: The present and the future, it is difficult to figure out which is which, at MIPTV 2005. And that’s because technologies are driving change in...
MUMBAI: The Dubai-headquartered Geo TV, flagship channel of the Pakistan-based Jang group of media companies, has decided to shift from a single channel entity to being...
LONDON: Most of the UK consumers would be unwilling to give up television – the most preferred news and entertainment medium in the country. These are...
MUMBAI: E! Networks and UK pay TV platform BSkyB have announced that they will cast actor Edward Moss in the role of pop legend Michael Jackson...
MUMBAI: E! Networks and UK pay TV platform BSkyB have announced that they will cast actor Edward Moss in the role of pop legend Michael Jackson...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch owned News Corp. has reported second quarter consolidated revenues of $6.6 billion, which is an 18 per cent increase over the $5.6 billion...
MUMBAI: The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced that the recent Davis Cup for men by BNP Paribas and Federation Cup for women finals reached over...
MUMBAI: One more of Britains crown jewel sports is set to fall completely off UKs terrestrial television map and into the all-encompassing embrace of BSkyB. The...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan wants to travel to the UK to woo TV audiences of Indian diaspora, but doesnt have the requisite fund of its...
MUMBAI: UK pay TV platform BSkyB has secured a multi-year deal to broadcast The Academy Awards in the UK. The broadcaster claims that the new deal...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Ltd. Today took preventive action in a bid to insulate itself against any hostile bid from the US cable company Liberty...
MUMBAI: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch must be one happy man. If the brilliant first quarter results his News Corp has just delivered were not enough, that...
MUMBAI: The UK pay TV market is currently at a crossroads. It was worth 4.41bn pounds in 2003. The market grew by 80.8 per cent since...
MUMBAI: British pay TV broadcaster BSkyB has filed a legal claim alleging “deceit, negligent misrepresentation and breach of contract” against US-based IT provider Electronic Data Systems...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Doordarshan director-general and information and broadcasting ministry secretary are in London to formally set up the European arm of Prasar Bharati,...
MUMBAI: Asia’s top pool exponents will join other world masters in Taiwan next month. The World Pool Championships 2004 cue up for the first time in...
MUMBAI: The Murdoch owned pay-TV company BSkyB has reported a record operating profit of £438 million – a massive 76 per cent increase on the previous...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that it has shortlisted three bidders for the final round in the procurement process for the technology services agreement and the...
MUMBAI: Star Plus and Star News look set to get serious a leg-up in their UK distribution numbers. Come 1 March 2004, Star Plus and Star...
MUMBAI: The European Commission’s competition services have reached a provisional agreement with the Football Association Premier League (FAPL) regarding the joint selling of the media rights...
MUMBAI: Star’s Indian DTH platform is a priority for newly appointed Group chief executive Michelle Guthrie, as is “getting paid for the subs (subscribers) we aren’t...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati is examining a proposal to have Doordarshan’s international channel, DD India, distributed in the United Kingdom through the Rupert Murdoch-controlled...
MUMBAI: British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) has hit a viewer milestone. On Friday, the UK/ Ireland satellite TV platform controlled by News Corp claimed that it had...
MUMBAI: Star Group announced a new CEO this morning: Michelle Guthrie who was earlier executive vice president of Regional Distribution and Business Development for Star. She...
NEW YORK: Things are looking up at Rupert Murodoch’s media conglomerate News Corp. The company has reported that its first-quarter profit more than doubled on strong...
LONDON: In the end, the plot went just about according to script for News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch. After over a month of speculation, Murdoch’s youngest...
LONDON: Over a month of speculation on the appointment of the next CEO of British pay television operator BskyB looks likely to come to an end...
LONDON: BSkyB, the satellite television group, is set to put through its fourth successive inflation-busting price rise to customers. The increase – more than many analysts...
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...
LONDON: This is a move aimed at preventing monopoly in the British football television market. The European Commission is poised to block the sale of English...
LONDON: British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) Group stated today that its chief executive officer (CEO) Tony Ball would step down from his post. “Mr Ball will continue...
MUMBAI: The “Asian” star continues its ascent. Star chairman and CEO James Murdoch looks set to have another attachment to his title – chairman of British...
LONDON: Sky Sports will show David Beckham live in the Spanish Premiere League. A new three-year deal for Spanish league football was secured by BSkyB. Coverage...
LONDON: British Sky Broadcasting, the UK satellite TV platform controlled by News Corp, won exclusive rights to broadcast games from the Premier League for three more...
LONDON: The recent tender by the FA Premier League for a greater number of live TV rights to Premiership games from the 2004-05 season has brought...
These days information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad does not look uncertain as he did some months back when he was allocated the I&B ministry...
