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MUMBAI: Dwindling wireline revenues, consumer demand for greater control over viewing preferences, and the explosion of broadband in various high growth markets across Asia-Pacific represent the...
MUMBAI: The mobile video market in China will take off in 2008, driven by interest in the Beijing Olympics. A new study from ABI Research forecasts...
MUMBAI: The world’s most valuable media firm Google is competing with rival Baidu.com to find China’s answer to global online video social site YouTube. Both the...
MUMBAI: China has signed an agreement with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Business Software Alliance, Association of American Publishers and Britain’s Publishers Association to...
MUMBAI: Dentsu and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), governing body of the Asian Games, have inked an agreement under which Dentsu will maintain its position...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC’s commercial arm BBC Worldwide has sold the show Charlie and Lola to CCTV, the Chinese national broadcaster. The pre-school animation show...
MUMBAI: China has adopted a policy in disallowing the creation of new joint venture companies dealing with television and film production. The decision sets aside rules...
NEW DELHI: Media companies in India are achieving double the advertising revenue than in China due to a favourable regulatory regime, says the Credit Suisse report...
NEW DELHI: Despite ‘striking’ lack of infrastructure, India is one of the four BRIC countries that Credit Suisse believes has significant revenue and profit opportunity for...
Contrary to expectations, president Hu Jintao visit last fortnight to India, the first by a Chinese president in a decade, did not evoke much interest in...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC’s commercial arm BBC Worldwide has licensed the singing talent show format, Just the Two of Us, to Chinese terrestrial broadcaster, Hunan...
MUMBAI: On the heels of the luanch of the channel Vom HD launch at the recently concluded television trade eevnt in Mipcom, France Rainbow HD Holdings,...
MUMBAI: Zee Sports, the television partner to the All India Football Federation (AIFF), will produce and telecast the AFC Youth Championship from Kolkata and Bangalore starting...
MUMBAI: China will begin trial broadcasts of mobile television by mid-2007. The digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) technology will be tested next year and a satellite system...
MUMBAI: Archer Entertainment Media Communications Inc. will open its Beijing, China offices amid preparations to begin broadcasting of China’s first television-over-the-Internet (IPTV) channels exclusively for the...
MUMBAI: Buena Vista International Television-Asia Pacific (BVITV-AP) has received the television distribution rights to Fearless, starring international action superstar Jet Li, produced by Bill Kong and...
MUMBAI: MTV and Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions have joined forces to conduct a global study into the impact of technology on today’s youth. The study, commissioned...
MUMBAI: BBC News has appointed Damian Grammaticas to the post of South Asia correspondent, based in the BBC’s hub bureau in Delhi. A well-known journalist with...
MUMBAI: VSNL plans to pump in US$ 200 million to build undersea telecom cable linking Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. The telecom major will make this...
MUMBAI: China will soon unveil a locally developed terrestrial digital TV standard, Xinhua News Agency has reported. Wang Xiaojie, director of the technology department of State...
MUMBAI: Foreign cartoons will no more be a source of entertainment for Chinese kids. From 1 September, cartoon series produced outside of China will be banned...
MUMBAI: China is preparing to launch mobile TV in time for the 2008 Olympics. Although 3G licences are yet to be distributed in China, this move...
MUMBAI: The 2006 China International Sports TV Forum takes place in Beijing on 24 August. With technology breaking new ground for sports television decision-makers in sports,...
MUMBAI: MIH, part of the multinational media group Naspers Limited, is making a foray into the Indian internet and digital space. “MIH plans to develop internet...
MUMBAI: Ric Bailey has been appointed as the UK pubcaster BBC’s chief political adviser. He will leave his post as deputy head of political programmes to...
MUMBAI: The California-headquartered Silicon Image, Inc., a global player in semiconductors for the secure storage, distribution and presentation of high-definition content, has announced a landmark agreement...
MUMBAI: The Asia/Pacific region is leading the global revolution of IPTV in infrastructure deployments, applications development and subscriber adoption, reports global research firm In-Stat. The study...
MUMBAI: China Digital Media Corporation, a provider of cable and digital television services and content in China, has announced that it has reached a record level...
MUMBAI: In a significant development that the web business space witnessed, Yahoo! and Microsoft announced limited public beta testing of interoperability between their instant messaging (IM)...
MUMBAI: KyLinTV, which provides Chinese programming in North America, has signed on Woman TV via IPTV to give viewers a taste of the largest selection of...
Rik Dovey, formerly Senior Vice president of Production, Operations and Engineering at ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has taken over as managing director of ESS from Alexander...
MBAI: MTV Asia will roll out the red carpet and welcome the biggest stars of Asian and international movies when it stages its first movie awards...
SINGAPORE: BroadcastAsia 2006, which kickstarted on 19 June, has attracted more than 847 exhibiting companies (88.5 per cent from overseas) from 46 countries. The conference saw...
MUMBAI: The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) CEO John Kennedy delivered an address at the recently concluded China International Forum on the Audio Visual...
MUMBAI: China’s wireless internet company Tom Online Inc is acquiring a wireless entertainment company Infomax with the maximum valuation capped at approximately $75 million. Through the...
MUMBAI: China Mobile Limited, News Corporation and Star Group Limited have announced a broad strategic partnership to explore wireless media business opportunities. By leveraging the content...
MUMBAI: China Mobile (Hong Kong) Group Limited has purchased a 19.9 per cent interest in Phoenix from Star Group Limited. After the transaction, Star will continue...
MUMBAI: The Siam Paragon venue in Bangkok was illuminated with international and Asian stars celebrating the fifth spectacular MTV Asia Awards 2006 on 6 May. Destiny’s...
MUMBAI: Nokia has won a GSM network expansion deal with Sichuan Unicom, a subsidiary of China Unicom. Under the agreement, Nokia will deploy its GSM radio...
MUMBAI: China is planning to launch digital cable television across the country this year. The country had tested the switch from analogue to digital through a...
MUMBAI: India and China seem to be the key countries, that are likely to propel the growth and increase of broadband revenues in the Asia-Pacific region...
MUMBAI: Viacom owned music broadcaster MTV is planning to broaden its sphere in the areas of internet and mobile value-added services (MVAS) in China, according to...
MUMBAI: Venezuela and China have signed a mutual agreement on program exchange and training of television and radio broadcast professionals. The deal was signed between Venezuelan...
CANNES: National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) and China Central Television (CCTV) have announced the completion of a two-part high-definition television documentary Inside the Forbidden City. NGCI...
MUMBAI: Outsourcing is no longer restricted to IT, as it now enters global marketing. The Prannoy Roy promoted NDTV Ltd has entered this arena of outsourcing...
Wong Kar-wai believes that the culture and language of films in Hong Kong and mainland China share much in common. With the opportunities made possible by...
MUMBAI: China has approved the first batch of cartoon adaptations of classic mythologies and historical novels for 2006. However, The State Administration of Radio, Film and...
MUMBAI: Mobile television and e-mail access via mobile handsets have been identified as the most popular advanced multimedia applications in a survey conducted by the German...
MUMBAI: China is slated to launch nine satellites including its first direct broadcasting satellite (DBS) satellite — SinoSat-2 satellite by the end of this year. SinoSat-2...
MUMBAI: Europe’s UBS Securities estimates that Chinese IPTV users will reach 500,000 by 2007. The company expects the broadband subscriber base of China Telecom and China...
