NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The battle for grabbing the coveted telecast rights to Indian cricket has started. According to industry estimates, ESPN Star Sports has bid...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to apprise policy-makers of the ground reality of sports broadcasting, some private broadcasters have submitted a representation to group of ministers...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Even as sports broadcasters grapple with the numbers for Indian cricket’s telecast rights, pubcaster Doordarshan is trying to upstage others by insisting on unbundling...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today poured cold water on pubcaster Doordarshan’s efforts to arm-twist the terrestrial feed from Ten Sports for the upcoming tri-series cricket...
It‘s that time of year. When sports lovers of the non-cricketing variety (an extreme minority in a country that seems to swear by only one sport)...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms today filed an appeal in the Supreme Court challenging a Madras high court order that upheld Indian cricket board’s...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati today scored a moral victory when ESPN-Star Sports informed a city court that it would not any more telecast the highlights of...
MUMBAI: As a special initiative to mark the cricket World Cup, Zee News has gone interactive by launching a two-way messaging contest via SMS for the...
NEW DELHI: The cricket comedy show continues to roll on. Pubcaster Doordarshan moved the Delhi high court on Saturday, getting the court to restrain ESPN Star...
NEW DELHI: After having made some aggressive forays to come at par with competition, SET Max, the Hindi movie-cricket hybrid channel, now is on a consolidation...
MUMBAI: One of the ways for an American broadcaster to tap into the rich pockets of the non resident Indian is cricket. Realising this US pay...
NEW DELHI: In what could be termed a moral victory for Zee Telefilms, the Madras high court today ruled that the cancellation of the tender order...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati, managing Doordarshan, seems to be on a roll. After landing the Indo-Pak cricket telecast rights “for free”, the pubcaster is out to...
MUMBAI: One of the biggest cricket events for this year- the India Pakistan series kicked of today 8 March. The Asian Television Network (ATN) has announced...
MUMBAI: Extra Passion Nite! That is how Set Max christened the party it threw on the night of 4 March for its patrons, partners and well-wishers....
MUMBAI: In a development late last evening, Sony Entertainment Television wrested the international cricket telecast rights (for all countries with the exception of the Indian Subcontinent)...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Even as ESPN Star Sports has asked Prasar Bharati to honour sharing clauses on cricket, the Indian Cricket Board is upset with...
NEW DELHI: Acting on expected lines, the Madras High Court, in an interim order today, ruled that the upcoming India-Pakistan cricket series telecast be done by...
NEW DELHI: India’s largest vertically-integrated media company Zee Telefilms has extended an olive branch to the Indian cricket board with an aim to resolve the deadlocked...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has teamed up with QA Konsortium, a mobile content aggregator in Bangladesh, to launch a SMS news service in Dhaka. The service...
MUMBAI: International cricket showed today it had a heart. And a big one at that. A one-day charity match to raise funds for the victims of...
NEW DELHI: ESPN Star Sports’ woes continue. The Supreme Court will hear ESS’ appeal against a Kerala high court order sometime in January. This would mean...
MUMBAI: Lights! Camera! Music! The countdown to find the Indian Idol gets down to brass tacks as it were! After months of combing through singing hopefuls...
NEW DELHI: The much anticipated cricket cases could not be taken up by the Supreme Court today. A fresh listing would be made later. In a...
MUMBAI: News Corp controlled digital television service provider DirecTV today officially announced a multi-year agreement with the Star Group making available four Star India channels as...
MUMBAI:One of the main ways a sports channel can build share in India is to create specials around cricket. With this in mind Ten Sports has...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati’s gains relating to Indian cricket rights may end up also benefiting Dish TV, the country’s first KU-band DTH service promoted...
MUMBAI: Dubai Sports City has announced that it will serve as the venue for the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) first global cricket academy. The academy will...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Separate legal moves at different courts in the country today are together posing the most serious threat to the untrammeled authority Jagmohan...
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court has adjourned to Tuesday its hearing of Zee Telefilm’s petition in the India cricket telecast rights case. Reflecting the seriousness with which...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today fixed Monday for hearing Zee Telefilm’s petition in the India cricket telecast rights case. According to sources in Zee Telefilms,...
MUMBAI: Sky Television has renewed their contract by signing a new five-year deal and hereby secured exclusive rights to all domestic and international cricket coverage for...
NEW DELHI: Even as a crucial Zee Telefilms board meeting on the cricket rights issue continued till late this evening, the Board for Control of Cricket...
NEW DELHI: Though this may not be directly linked to the cricket telecast issue, the cricket story just gets hotter by the day. In a recent...
NEW DELHI: As ESPN-Star Sports and Zee Telefilms slug it out for the Indian cricket rights, another party, apart from the Indian cricket board, that is...
A quick question: Why is Zee Telefilms CMD and maverick media baron Subhash Chandra willing to stick his neck out by bidding a humungous $308 million...
MUMBAI: ESPN-Star Sports has won a potential reprieve in its bid for the India cricket rights after the Bombay High Court this morning proposed that the...
MUMBAI: After the Sahara show Ruby Duby Hub Dub, Creative Eye is working on two more kids shows. This time the production house is making the...
Mumbai: Zee Telefilms Limited, Indias largest media and entertainment conglomerate today accepted the BCCI offer to increase the bid price to US$ 308 million, thus bagging...
MUMBAI: One of the biggest cricket tournaments the Champions Trophy in England is a mere 10 days away. Max, which will air the event in India...
MUMBAI: Cricket is hotly followed not only among Indians in India but also among the NRI population. US-based Echostar Communications and its Dish Network are trying...
NEW DELHI: Whatever may be the final outcome of the bidding process for India cricket rights, on one thing there is certainty. All matches would be...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Who all would bid for the telecast rights of BCCI-organised home series? Or, who won’t ? Who are the serious players? How are the...
MUMBAI: Impossible is nothing! Impossible is not a fact! It is an opinion! It is a dare! Impossible is potential! This in a nutshell summarises footwear...
MUMBAI: Yahoo! India is all geared to capture the current cricket fever. The Internet communications and media company is adding new dimension to the recent Indo-Pak...
MUMBAI: Videocon International, the Rs 5.5 billion consumer durables major, launched its Khel Ke Dekho offer for its consumers starting prior to the ICC World Cup...
MUMBAI: Americans may be passionate about baseball but that does not stop the International cricket Council (ICC) from spreading cricket in US! The ICC is presently...
Soon after Virender Sehwag, aka as Najafgarh (a Delhi locality)‘s Nawab, completed his triple ton against Pakistan in the first Test at Multan on Monday, a...
NEW DELHI: The broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has said that it is yet to take a view on Indian pubcaster...
NEW DELHI: All is fair in love and war, they say. In case of a cricket series between India and Pakistan not only both the emotions...
