MUMBAI: Kishore Ajwani has joined IBN 7 as deputy managing editor. He will work closely with Prabal Pratap Singh and Rahul Joshi. It might be recalled...
New Delhi: Doordarshan National spent Rs 132.77 crore out of the budget of Rs 140.38 crore allocated for 2014-15. (Note : 100,00,000 = 10 million =...
New Delhi: Doordarshan National spent Rs 132.77 crore out of the budget of Rs 140.38 crore allocated for 2014-15. (Note : 100,00,000 = 10 million =...
MUMBAI: The sports channels’ genre emerged as the gainer in Chrome’s opportunity to see (OTS) analysis across India by registering an increase of 3.7 per cent....
MUMBAI: The sports channels’ genre emerged as the gainer in Chrome’s opportunity to see (OTS) analysis across India by registering an increase of 3.7 per cent....
MUMBAI: The Hindi News and Sports genres were the only two gainers in Chrome’s opportunity to see (OTS) analysis on an All India basis in week...
NEW DELHI: DD Sports, the country’s only free-to-air (FTA) sports channel, will be telecasting the Indigenous Games, which commenced today (10 December) in Imphal. Slated...
MUMBAI: Sports genre emerged as the top gainer across India with the growth of 4.1 per cent, making DD Sports the number one channel with 74.1 per...
NEW DELHI: While the channels in the sports genre follow the champions, the country’s only free to air sports channel DD Sports is starting four new shows including one on the digital world connect from 2 October to coincide...
MUMBAI: A great orator and a crowd puller, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who addressed the nation on Independence Day proved to be an audience puller for...
NEW DELHI: While multi-system operators (MSOs) and direct-to-home (DTH) operators are expected to mandatorily carry a total of 24 Doordarshan channels in digital addressable system (DAS)...
MUMBAI: English News emerged as the gainer in Chrome’s opportunity to see (OTS) analysis for eight metros. The sector registered a two per cent increase and...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan (DD) has successfully implemented the first phase of automating its commercial operations in the first week of July this year. It may be...
MUMBAI: Week 25 of opportunity to see (OTS) data collated by Chrome Data, Analytics and Media depicted a decline in Religious category in Hindi speaking marker...
NEW DELHI: The World University Games – Gwangju Summer Universiade – in South Korea are being covered live and extensively by the country’s only free-to-air sports channel,...
KOLKATA: At a time when some cable television viewers in Kolkata are worried about their TV sets going blank for not filling up consumer application forms...
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...
Looking at the larger perspective, what have been the big challenges the broadcast sector faced and will face, going forward? The pathetically slow pace of digital...
MUMBAI: The Australian television network Nine has announced an all-star team of over 40 presenters, commentators and reporters for its telecast of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth...
New Delhi: September 20, 2005: DD Sports Channel will showcase Davis Cup Tie India Vs. Sweden. Doordarshan will have live telecast of the Davis Cup Tie...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati believes it has got the telecast rights for the upcoming “blockbuster” cricket series between Indian and Pakistan for...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati believes it has got the telecast rights for the upcoming “blockbuster” cricket series between Indian and Pakistan for...
India is not a sporting nation. Nothing sells in India except cricket. Haven’t we heard these before? A nation of a billion people is yet to...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom on Monday dismissed ESPN Star Sports (ESS) charges against it as “malafide, baseless and false.” “ESPN has been billing us erroneously...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s proposed DTH television venture is becoming a bit of a joke with a prolonged delay in launching the KU-band service increasingly...
NEW DELHI: Dish TV, Zee Group’s direct-to-home service, has discontinued two of Doordarshan’s channels on its platform. This “arrangement” will be in force for the duration...
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...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan, sitting happily on the ringside watching the cricket telecast soap opera unfurl with twists and turns, today hinted that it would...
MUMBAI: This is a piece of news that should make the media planning community sit up and take note. When the biggest sporting spectacle the Athens...
NEW DELHI: Some are saying it’s poetic justice, but it can only happen in Doordarshan. The only broadcaster with the permission to cover the whole of...
MUMBAI: The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced that the eight first round ties of the 2004 Davis Cup competition attracted encouraging television numbers from around...
MUMBAI: DD Sports will have a 25 minute highlight package of The Commonwealth Chess Championship every night. The event takes place at Hotel Mirador in the...
MUMBAI: The ratings roost was supposedly ruled by soaps and comedies – most of them from the Star Network, and Doordarshan (DD) was hardly the one...
HAMILTON: New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has launched its strategic plan Pushing the Boundaries. NZC chief executive Martin Snedden said that the four year plan was...
MUMBAI: Besides the saas bahu soaps, the other big draw for the Indian television viewer is India cricket. Tam data for C&S homes all India 4+...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which oversees the functioning of Doordarshan and All India Radio, is showing rare courage of accepting challenges set by the...
NEW DELHI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) is looking at tapping the vast potential and opportunities that is offered by domestic Indian sports apart from cricket. As...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati Corporation may soon start playing some hard ball game to exploit the opportunities on Doordarshan (DD) Sports channel. This would include auctioning...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan’s sports channel, DD Sports, has managed to break out of the Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) grip, which was contracted to distribute it,...
MUMBAI: A Salomon Smith Barney report estimated that Zee Telefilms would not fare well 4QFY03. The forthcoming World Cup cricket 2003 in February and March might...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati Corporation is attempting to keep up with the times and distribution of DD — and maybe even All India Radio — programmes...
MUMBAI: The Chinese have invaded the cable industry in India. And how. At the Scat India trade show 2002 that began at the World Trade Centre...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today said the dispute between national broadcaster Doordarshan and TransWorld International /Stracon over the telecast of ongoing India-West Indies cricket...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Modi Entertainment Network, the distributors of DD sports and the Star India-backed MSO Hathway Cable and Datacom, appear to have declared a...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Hathway-Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) face-off seems to be spreading. According to indications, if negotiations do not work out between the two...
MUMBAI: DD Sports is suddenly sporting the kind of aggro shown by private broadcasters like rival ESPN Star Sports in protecting its turf. Almost in tandem...
NEW DELHI: The government has asked the cable and broadcasting industry to come back with more details on the investments that are likely to be needed...
NEW DELHI: The government has asked the cable and broadcasting industry to come back with more details on the investments that are likely to be needed...
MUMBAI: The Prasar Bharati appears to have decided to let DD Sports go free. CEO KS Sarma told the press on Monday while in Chennai that...
MUMBAI: The Prasar Bharati appears to have decided to let DD Sports go free. CEO KS Sarma told the press on Monday while in Chennai...