MUMBAI: The Modi-led central government is putting its might behind the AVGC (animation, visual effects, gaming, comics &XR ) component of the media & entertainment sector....
Mumbai: The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi was apprised of the MoU/Agreement signed on 7 November, 2023 which has an immense potential...
Mumbai: The central government has approved the amendments to certain provisions contained in the policy guidelines on the expansion of FM radio broadcasting services through private...
NEW DELHI: The government has given its nod to the merger of four of its film media units with the national film development corporation (NFDC). The...
KOLKATA: The ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) announced major key decisions for the direct-to-home (DTH) segment on Wednesday. The cabinet has revised guidelines for providing...
MUMBAI: As the cabinet government amended the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy, it has also given the nod to 26 per cent overseas investment in digital...
NEW DELHI: Spectrum trading is to be allowed between two access service providers and only outright transfer of right to use the spectrum from the seller...
NEW DELHI: Newly appointed Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said today that freedom of the press is the cornerstone of a democracy and his first...
NEW DELHI: In a dignified function rarely seen, Indian television channels today globally beamed live the swearing in of Narendra Modi as the fifteenth Prime Minister...
The Indian television industry is possibly heading towards a crisis of an audience ratings blackout. TAM Media Research, a joint venture between Nielsen (India) and Kantar...
MUMBAI: When Kantar Market Research Services, a shareholder of TAM media research, decided to go to court to legally oppose one of the guidelines that had...
MUMBAI: When the cabinet committee on economic affairs announced that it had approved the Telecom Regulatory of India (TRAI) recommendations on TV ratings guidelines in the...
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet today gave the go-ahead to the television ratings guidelines ,which had earlier been proposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI’s) recommendations are seeing movement to enable them to serve as the gold standard for television ratings. Currently with...
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet today gave approval to a host of stringent media related issues including mandatory sharing of sports content by private broadcasters with...
NEW DELHI: After uplink, it’s now time for downlinking a policy for a group of ministers (GoM) that would be headed by defence minister Pranab Mukherjee....
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The government today set in motion the opening up of the FM radio sector while acceding to a longstanding demand of the...
NEW DELHI: After having proposed that all TV channels beaming from outside India, should register themselves in India, the government is now toying with cross-media restrictions....
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Government today gave another extension of six months to news and current affairs channels to reduce foreign holding to 26 per cent as required...
NEW DELHI: Finally, the information and broadcasting ministry has taken to the Cabinet secretariate the downlinking policy that aims at having all TV channels beaming into...
NEW DELHI: Finally the information and broadcasting ministry has taken the downlinking policy to the Cabinet that aims at having all TV channels beaming into India...
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet yesterday extended a deadline for adhering to the prescribed eligibility criteria related to uplinking of news channels from India to 31...
NEW DELHI: This could turn out to be music to the ears of the financially beleaguered private players in the FM radio sector. In what...
MUMBAI: With the Union Cabinet on Friday clearing a proposal for starting DD News by closing DD Metro, national broadcaster Doordarshan is all set to launch...
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Communications and IT has raised the issue of interoperability of set-top boxes (STBs) to be used in the implementation of conditional...
NEW DELHI: The government constituted inter-ministerial group (IMG) comprising officials from the information & broadcasting ministry, the law ministry and the department of company affairs met...
MUMBAI: The Union cabinet this morning “informally” discussed the draft Ordinance prepared by information and broadcasting ministry to regulate broadcasters in a post-conditional access environment Parliamentary...
NEW DELHI: After the turn of KU-band DTH, print media and satellite uplinking, it’s the turn of foreign news agencies to be under the scanner of...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Indian Cabinet is likely to take up the uplinking issue and news channels’ uplinking from India and their equity pattern early...
NEW DELHI: The Indian cabinet is unlikely to meet on Tuesday (11 March 2003) as it generally does as part of the two designated days in...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Minister of state for I&B with independent charge, Ravi Shankar Prasad, at his first day at the office today, has said the...
NEW DELHI : The new year has arrived. From today, Star has 88 days before D-day dawns on April 1, 2003. And in the run up...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is exploring the possibilities of making some changes in the existing policies relating to foreign investment in the broadcasting sector. A...
The Union Cabinet’s decision to prise open the print media sector to foreign direct investment has been applauded by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). In...
It’s extremely positive. It brings print on the same platform as broadcasting and telecom. There were concerns of national security and these have been addressed in...
A holy cow has been laid to rest after almost half a century. This morning, the Indian government opened up the print media sector to foreign...