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MUMBAI: The newest American Idol Carrie Underwood, who was crowned last week, has signed a $1 million recording contract with Arista Records. Underwood first single, Inside...
MUMBAI: As US broadcasters increasingly use reality shows to bolster the ratings, CBS has come up with a concept that winks broadly at NBC’s show The...
MUMBAI: The 16 May finale episode of CBS Network’s Everybody Loves Raymond, one of TV’s most beloved sitcoms, attracted 33 million viewers. This is the largest...
MUMBAI: As the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond heads toward its final episode on 16 May US broadcaster CBS is continuing to roll out an aggressive multi-platform...
MUMBAI: For the third year in a row, US broadcaster CBS has catalogued efforts by its television network, programming arms and local television stations in a...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom has reported a hike in revenues for the first quarter ended 31 March 2005. Revenues increased by five per cent to $5.6...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster CBS is poised to stop NBC’s traditional dominance as the leader in ad sales at the annual “upfront” market for the 2005-2006 season....
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom has announced that Larry Kramer has been named CBS Digital Media president. Kramer, who founded Dow Jones’ MarketWatch will now oversee all...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster CBS is rolling out an aggressive multi-platform marketing and publicity campaign to support the finale of its sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. In India...
MUMBAI: The host of CBS’ popular reality show The Amazing Race Phil Keoghan will embark on a 10-city, cross-country Tour in the US from 2 March....
MUMBAI: US broadcaster CBS has ordered the eighth and ninth installments of the reality show The Amazing Race. The Emmy winning adventure reality series pits teams...
MUMBAI: The Viacom owned US broadcast network CBS has announced that a new mini series Elvis will start production in New Orleans in January 2005. The...
MUMBAI: Television entertainment programmes in the US mention God more often than they did in the mid-1990s but tend to depict organised religion negatively This information...
MUMBAI: With Friends and Frasier coming to a close earlier this year the share of sitcoms in primetime programming in the US has gone down. However...
MUMBAI: Top-rated daytime drama The Young and the Restless will be staying on CBS for another five years as the network has secured a five-year extension...
MUMBAI: The Viacom owned CBS network is going from strength to strength. It has come out on top for November in the 18-49 demographic for the...
MUMBAI: The controversy over the Janet Jackson episode at the Super Bowl last Sunday has led to CBS trying to clean up its act. The broadcaster...
MUMBAI: CBS may lose out financially on account of Janet Jackson flashing her tits on its broadcast of the Super Bowl half time show on Sunday....
MUMBAI: A multi-ethnic coalition has praised US TV networks for boosting the profile of Latino talent. On the flip side they still have a long way...
MUMBAI: CBS, in a corporate social responsibility (CSR) endeavor, has catalogued efforts by its television network, programming arms and local television stations has released a 94-page...
MUMBAI: CBS News has fired a producer for interrupting the hit show CSI on flagship channel CBS with a special report on the death of the...
MUMBAI: Encouraged by the continuing success of CSI, US broadcaster the Viacom owned CBS has ordered another crime based show. Numbers deals with an FBI agent...
MUMBAI: One of the brand building initiatives that AXN has done over the last couple of years in India is organise ground events. It started in...
MUMBAI: While there has been much debate over the future of the sitcom CBS’ Everybody Loves Raymond is going from strength to strength in the US.....
MUMBAI: Zee English will premiere the thriller series The Fugitive. The weekly action-adventure series launches on 27 October, and will air every Wednesday at 8 pm....
MUMBAI: This is one awards show that is decidedly non elitist. Nominees for the 31st People’s Choice Awards have been announced. Unlike the Academy Awards or...
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murdoch owned broadcaster Fox has gotten itself into regulatory trouble in the US. Federal regulators have proposed a record indecency fine of nearly...
MUMBAI: For Disney’s beleaguered ABC network desperate for hits Desperate Housewives has delivered the goods.. 21.3 million viewers watched the premiere episode on Sunday night making...
MUMBAI: CBS has announced that television journalist Joan Lunden will host its upcoming reality series Finding The Next Designing Diva. The series will pit 12 people...
MUMBAI: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US will kick off a consumer education campaign today 4 October. It will aim at highlighting the importance...
MUMBAI: Going by what Viacom co-president and co-chief operating officer Leslie Moonves reportedly told the Television Critics Association on Sunday, the Viacom owned CBS Television Network...
MUMBAI This month the dog icon Lassie celebrates 50 years on television. Lassie has become a symbol of love, trust, and heroism since her series debuted...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom has announced the promotion of key executives to new roles at CBS and Paramount Network Television. This will create a new management...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster CBS has announced a new reality series called The Cut and has roped in American fashion icon Tommy Hilfiger for the same. The...
MUMBAI: Bruce Taub has been named Viacom executive vice-president, operations, a newly created position at the company. The announcement was made by Viacom co-president/ co-chief operation...
MUMBAI: With the aim of further positioning itself as the preeminent television rights, sales and production house, Octagon CSI has announced the appointment of two senior...
MUMBAI: France Telecom subsidiary GlobeCast, which supplies satellite services for international sporting events, has announced a slew of new clients for its one-stop broadcast facility in...
MUMBAI: Viacom is reorganising its international television distribution operations with the creation of CBS Paramount International Television – a new global television sales and distribution entity...
MUMBAI: It is not just original content that is bringing in the ratings for CBS. The Viacom broadcaster has announced that viewers flocked to rebroadcasts of...
MUMBAI: A few days ago, Viacom-owned broadcaster CBS kicked off the fifth season of its reality show The Amazing Race , which airs in India on...
MUMBAI: Mel Karmazin, president and COO of media major Viacom, is out. That brief line about sums up the manner in which the announcement of Karmazin’s...
MUMBAI: CBS has crafted a traditionalist’s schedule, bringing in Jason Alexander, Rob Lowe and John Goodman to anchor new series. The nation’s most popular network unveiled...
MUMBAI: Alfred Haber Distribution has reached a deal with Italy’s Lux Vide to distribute the mini-series Mother Teresa in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has...
MUMBAI: The days of the sitcom are numbered. Friends and Fraiser recently said goodbye. However Viacom’s broadcaster CBS has managed to convince comic Ray Romano to...
MUMBAI: Fox Broadcasting Company has named ED Wilson as president of the Fox Television Network. Wilson was a former senior executive of NBC and CBS. Wilson’s...
MUMBAI: The next few days could prove crucial to the American film and television industry. The Writers Guild Of America (WGA) has not yet been able...
MUMBAI: Viacom’s US broadcast network CBS has announced that two of its reality shows Big Brother and the Emmy Award-winning The Amazing Race will kick off...
MUMBAI: For quite a while now ABC has struggled to bring in the ratings and compete with the other three US broadcast networks NBC, CBS and...
MUMBAI: Fox’s musical reality show American Idol is going from strength to strength in the US. Looking to expand the reality genre the Murdoch network is...
MUMBAI: One of the media conglomerates looking at India in a major way is Disney. Walt Disney International president Andy Bird spoke on the importance of...
