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NEW DELHI: The order posting Veena Jain to head the news channel of Doordarshan as director general and noting that the officer ‘will report to the...
NEW DELHI: Veena Jain, a 1984 Indian Information Service officer, will be taking over as director general (DG) of News in Doordarshan. Additionally, Jain has...
MUMBAI: In its efforts to make the channel available far and wide especially on new platforms, DD News has launched the new mobile app to make...
NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court has barred public broadcaster Doordarshan from sharing the live feed of the 2015 Cricket World Cup, of which ESPN and Star...
NEW DELHI: Despite major shortage of staff, Prasar Bharati has informed the Information and Broadcasting Ministry that it is not feasible to regularize services of contractual...
NEW DELHI: This month’s edition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ on All India Radio (AIR) will have two special features: it will feature...
NEW DELHI: In keeping with its pledge to give a new look to all its properties, Doordarshan has revamped its website www.ddindia.gov.in. The new look...
NEW DELHI: After giving a new look to its national and Bharati channels, Doordarshan has now given a new look to DD News, with a totally...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan has got a new ADG for its news side in Akshay Rout. He will take over as the former ADG Mayank K Agrawal...
MUMBAI: In an interview with Manoj Tibrewal Aakash, Bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee said “I have been a daughter and a wife. Now I wish to become...
NEW DELHI: Neelam Kapur, who has been holding the post of principal director general of media and communication of the Press Information Bureau (PIB), has been...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan News will telecast live the opening of the Commonwealth Games from Glasgow. The telecast of the Games being held from 24 July...
NEW DELHI: ‘Taaki Bahti Rahe Ganga,’ a show that traces the course of the holy river Ganga from its source Gangotri to Gangasagar even as it...
MUMBAI: All the action will shift to Delhi, as Indians all over the world wait for the verdict of the world’s largest democracy. But you don’t...
M UMBAI: The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has issued an advisory to all news TV Channels stating that all channels interested in telecasting the live...
NEW DELHI: The live telecast of the Republic Day parade by Doordarshan channels will have an additional facility this year – a sign language interpreter. ...
MUMBAI: A week after notices were sent by the ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) to three DTH operators for not carrying the mandatory 24 Doordarshan...
MUMBAI: Asian Television Network (ATN) International has launched six new channels on Bell Fibe TV, an IP based TV service offered by Bell Canada. Four of...
The non-coverage of the last historic test match of Sachin Tendulkar by Doordarshan entailed numerous explanations by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. Prasar Bharati – on...
MUMBAI: Indian state-owned pubcaster Doordarshan is headed to Canada, the land of the maple leaf. And partnering it on its journey there is Asian Television Network...
MUMBAI: Television news channels are crusading against corruption as never before. Corruption coverage in primetime bulletins by the six television news channels during 2005 to 2011...
NEW DELHI: The contractual employees of Doordarshan News who have been protesting peacefully by wearing black bands for a salary hike and better working conditions are...
NEW DELHI: In India’s highly cluttered private satellite television news market, the Prasar Bharati chief executive officer BS Lalli has a message: maintain sobriety instead of...
NEW DELHI: Is state-owned broadcaster DD saddled with an ageing news correspondent network? If one goes by information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni’s admission in parliament,...
NEW DELHI: DD News will telecast daily a 30-minute special sports programme titled Beijing 2008 – Quest for Glory, from 7-25 August at 7 pm. The...
R iding high on the claim of carrying ‘exclusive’ and ‘breaking’ stories, news channels are rating their success stories. The route is not through digging a story...
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...
NEW DELHI February 13th, 2006 DD NEWS CHANNEL Doordarshan will telecast the Pre-rail Budget, Rail Budget and Pre-Budget and General Budget – 2006 on the DD...
NEW DELHI: Media barons Rupert Murdoch and Subhash Chandra believe that the rules of television are changing as consumer demands change with the advent of digital...
MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati has come out in the open defending Doordarshan against allegations that the pubcaster failed to provide adequate news coverage on Amitabh Bachchan regarding...
NEW DELHI: After having played the third umpire in the cricket telecast issue vis-?-vis Indian pubcaster, the government is now stirring up the ratings issue by...
MUMBAI: Zee News, the country’s first Hindi news channel, claims it has seen a rise in viewership in the four metros riding a slew of new...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The much maligned — or the much massaged, depending on how one views it — Casting Couch has claimed another victim: the competitors of...
MUMBAI: What a night. And the fact that it was for a great cause made it even better. The ‘HELP! Telethon Concert’: an event that brought...
MUMBAI: NDTV India is holding on firmly to the number two position among Hindi news channels and has even managed to wittle down the lead “Sab...
MUMBAI: Is the “Sabse se Pehla” (the first) news channel becoming “Sabse (bar one) aage”? An official communiqué issued by Zee’s news arm asserts that among...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Its time to return home to Aaj Tak for Doordarshan News consulting editor Deepak Chaurasia and the formalities are likely to be completed by...
MUMBAI: Aaj Tak continues to reign supreme in the Hindi news channel stakes but the challenge posed by NDTV India is getting stiffer. On budget day...
NEW DELHI: DD News consulting editor Deepak Chaurasia and a few other contractual employees have decided that they would leave the organisation before the situation gets...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry is not in favour of taking direct action against political appointees made by the previous government in Prasar Bharati,...
NEW DELHI: Even as the debate on the fate of DD News continues in political and government circles, 16 senior people associated with the channel have...
NEW DELHI: To have them, or not? Failing to answer the question fully, Doordarshan News has gone in for a compromise formula regarding the private producers...
NEW DELHI: Even as the allies of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance coalition government increase pressure on changes in Doordarshan News, parent organization Prasar Bharati has...
NEW DELHI: Is Doordarshan News looking at axing privately produced programmes on the channel? If a certain section of the organization is to be believed, then...
NEW DELHI: Buoyed by the success of the DD News in terms of viewership ratings, Prasar Bharati has introduced a revised rate card for the channel,...
MUMBAI: DD News has garnered advertising revenues of Rs 20 million from the coming Lok Sabha elections. The news channel from pubcaster Doordarshan’s fold, which has...
NEW DELHI: Well, well! Doordarshan News, the channel that was relaunched late last year, is getting another face-lift as the country gets into the general elections...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati, managing Doordarshan and All Indian Radio, oft-accused of being dull, drab and unprofessional, especially where news is concerned, now finds...
MUMBAI: By the looks of it, there has been a change of baton as far as the Number 2 position in the Hindi news channel space...
MUMBAI: Barely a month old, National broadcaster’s news channel is all set to spruce its image. Doordarshan has invited tenders from experienced creative agencies for creative...
