MUMBAI: Zee News Limited (ZNL) today reported nine months revenues of Rs 1,665 million representing a 39 per cent growth over the corresponding period in the...
MUMBAI: Star Plus has it, so too does Sony’s SET channel; and now Subhash Chandra’s Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd will soon have it as well –...
MUMBAI: Taffy Entertainment has announced the launch of Kabillion, a multi-platform, kids’ program service, available both as a free online broadband site (www.Kabillion.com) and a free...
MUMBAI: The Casbaa Convention 2007 will be staged from 30 October to 2 November at Hong Kong’s Academy for Performing Arts. The theme this year has...
MUMBAI: It has taken quite a while but media research agency Tam has finally got its Elite Panel up and running. This latest value addition for...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has announced that its radio service BBC Hindi hopes to meet more than 20,000 listeners in a series of roadshow events across...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Time Warner has reported financial results for its third quarter ended 30 September, 2006. In the quarter, revenues rose by seven per...
MUMBAI: Cable television is finally back in Mumbai after almost two days. However, movie channels, as well as Hindi entertainment channels Star One and Sahara One,...
MUMBAI: The ad war between direct-to-home (DTH) service providers and cable TV operators has started. Soon after Dish TV ran a full page campaign on print...
Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra is on a roll. The resurgence of flagship Hindi entertainment channel Zee TV has come after years of slippage since Kaun...
MUMBAI: As telcos are gearing up to deploy competitive pay television offerings, a new report from market research division of Light Reading, Heavy Reading indicates that...
Cable and direct-to-home (DTH) is where Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) chairman Subhash Chandra is planning to put the accelerator on. Wire and Wireless India Ltd (WWIL),...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC will give the UK’s first high definition viewers a curtain-raising treat of the whole of Planet Earth part one, followed by...
Since Kalanithi Maran started his media business 13 years back, he has been fighting against one rival: himself. Now, after years of staying almost unchallenged in...
MUMBAI: A majority of cable networks in Kolkata have blacked out the Star group of channels, protesting against a seven per cent rate hike. Another contention...
NEW DELHI: The industry is hyping IPTV in India as the next revolution, but has actually done little on the content side, said former member of...
MUMBAI: Capitalising on a truly global game phenomenon, TVHead has secured the worldwide interactive TV rights for Tetris – including cable, satellite and IPTV – through...
MUMBAI: The terms of reference of a law that will bring about a separate broadcast regulator are almost ready. This was revealed to Indiantelevision.com by Information...
MUMBAI: Motorola, Inc. has announced it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Kreatel Communications AB. Kreatel is one of the leading developers of innovative Internet...
MUMBAI: Red Bee Media has been contracted to playout the BBC’s High Definition (HD) technical trial that will run from mid-2006. The trial will be transmitted...
BANGALORE: Several cable operators in Karnataka are against migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN) as they fear it will threaten their business. According to Karnataka State...
MUMBAI: The National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) in the US has announced that its theme for its annual show will be Cable: A Great American...
MUMBAI: The Internet appears to be the threshold of new technology these days, and the future of TV may be in its hands. A recent survey...
MUMBAI: Interactive Broadband Consulting Group (IBB), a consulting firm advising top management in the broadband-related sectors of cable, mobile, technology and digital media took part in...
MUMBAI: Tandberg Television has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SkyStream, the Sunnyvale, CA headquartered leader in IP video delivery solutions. Under the terms of the...
MUMBAI: The action oriented AXN has announced that the forensics crime drama CSI: Miami is growing in popularity. AXN says that the third season of the...
MUMBAI: Satellite operator Panamsat has launched Vis-a-TV in the US. This service provides an offering of international channels for US cable, DTH, IPTV and broadband platforms...
MUMBAI: NBC.com will launch an online interactive music competition StarTomorrow this summer. The programme allows users to vote for the next superstar band or singing group....
MUMBAI: CSI: Miami proves to be growing in popularity as viewership numbers increase through the years across the Asian region. In the recently concluded season three,...
MUMBAI: Cable operators in Mumbai have pushed Star One into a higher frequency, forcing the channel to move out of its prime band location in all...
MUMBAI: BroadcastAsia 2006, which takes place from 20 to 23 June 2006 in Singapore has revealed a new theme. The theme is Digital: The Journey Forward....
MUMBAI: The US House of Representatives on Monday approved a legislation to complete the transition to all-digital television broadcasts by 17 February, 2009. As per the...
NEW DELHI: The petition of Star India against the regulator-mandated cable TV price hike got admitted at the Delhi High Court today, but the next hearing...
NEW DELHI: The mutterings in the industry over the broadcast regulator’s decision to permit only an inflation-linked four per cent annual hike in cable TV prices,...
NEW DELHI: A section of TV broadcasters operating in India have approached the US government representatives here to take up certain issues in the downlinking norms...
MUMBAI: The North American TV and internet major Liberty Media, which is into various cable and Internet businesses, is taking 51 per cent stake in Toronto-based...
MUMBAI: After having dealt with some of the pressing matters of the broadcast industry, broadcast and telecom regulator has now trained its guns on removing hurdles...
MUMBAI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has launched an intensive enforcement campaign against Philippines’ pirate pay-TV operators, starting with police raids on...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today recommended that the first phase of digitalisation of cable TV should start from April 2006...
MUMBAI: Just two weeks after a spine-chilling accidental murder reportedly created waves in the Bollywood circuit for its original theme My Wife’s Murderhas now been released...
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: More than half the TV households in the US, 59 per cent or a projected 69 million digital subscribers to be be more precise, will...
MUMBAI: Corporate raider and financier Carl Icahn met with executives at media conglomerate Time Warner a couple of days ago. He will continue to have talks...
MUMBAI: The cable industry in the US is making massive investments to upgrade a nationwide broadband infrastructure for offering new interactive digital services. The sector has...
MUMBAI: Logo, MTV Networks’ gay and lesbian channel will launch on Thursday, 30 June. The channel will launch in 10 million digital cable homes in 22...
Size, the makers of Godzilla would vouch, definitely matters at the box-office. And Star India is getting bigger by the day. In terms of annual turnover...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that this year’s Wimbledon interactive service is proving more popular, More than two and a half million viewers have already pressed...
MUMBAI: Nielsen Media Research’s plan to introduce peoplemeters has upset several broadcast networks in the US including Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Their grouse: the metres will...
MUMBAI: The Chinese government has approved plans to lay an undersea cable, to increase the speed at which internet users in the Northern region access overseas...
MUMBAI: Despite softening regional economic growth, Asia media earnings are likely to remain robust over the next year. These are the findings put out in a...