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MUMBAI: Whatever may be the scene in C&S homes, in the all-India market Doordarshan rules. It has been no different for the ongoing ICC World Cup...
Media maven Ashish Bhasin is a man on the move! Literally, as the scholarly looking jet-setting Bhasin is constantly thinking of new ways to innovate; exploring...
NEW DELHI: Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ravi Shankar Prasad reiterated on Monday that developmental information can also be presented in a way that is both...
NEW DELHI: The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has decided to form a task force to come up with recommendations on the specifications of set-top boxes...
NEW DELHI: The programming staff association of Doordarshan and All India Radio have deferred a decision to go on strike from today. The decision comes after...
NEW DELHI: Hype is a necessity and parties are results of that. Sounds like a Sidhuism? With India catching the cricket fever, why not? Not to...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan is “struggling” to meet its annual revenue target, a senior official of Prasar Bharati said today. While speaking to the journalists about Doordarshan’s...
Over the last decade or so, broadcasting markets around the world have changed dramatically. De-regulation of terrestrial markets, growth of multi-channel radio and television and emergence...
AHMEDNAGAR: Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Ramesh Bais on Tuesday said that there were no plans to privatise either Doordarshan or All India...
NEW DELHI: In a major development that is bound to bring a sigh of relief within the ranks of Sony Entertainment Television India, Prasar Bharati today...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has decided against having an outside organisation like ESPN Star Sports producing pre and post match programmes during the cricket World Cup...
NEW DELHI: The ESPN-Star Sports-Doordarshan cricket case took another twist today with ESPN Software country head, Manu Sawhney, reported to have met up with Prasar Bharati...
NEW DELHI: The new chairperson of Prasar Bharati, noted right wing columnist MV Kamath, feels that unlike private satellite channels, Doordarshan and All India Radio cannot...
NEW DELHI: The latest survey on the impact of the HIV and AIDS awareness media campaign by Doordarshan, National AIDS Control Organisation ( Naco) and BBC...
NEW DELHI: The Prasar Bharati Corporation board, which met here Friday here for the first time under the chairmanship of new incumbent MV Kamath, took a...
MUMBAI: The original mytho moghul is looking to tread new ground. BR Films is producing four new serials: Dhristi and Kaamna on Doordarshan; Asha Nai Asha...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has decided to step on the gas pedal as revenue is the buzzword in the Corporation’s headquarters here, a la other broadcasting...
MUMBAI: Media focus in the run-up to the ICC Cricket World Cup has been on ambush marketing. Maybe “ambush programming” also needs to be considered. That...
NEW DELHI: As a part of an amicable settlement, the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms is likely to offer Prasar Bharati some serials in lieu of Budha...
DELHI: The first ever `native’ recording in India, done professionally by the engineers of the Gramophone Company, England – one of the two major companies in...
Former big screen superstar turned TV deity Amitabh Bachchan on Thursday paid off nearly half the dues amount of Rs203.1 million his company, ABCL (rechristened AB...
MUMBAI: Sanjay Khan’s Numero Uno International Limited (NUIL), is launching two mega serials under its banner during the next week on DD National. Maharathi Karna, a...
She has been played a large role in taking the Sam Balsara promoted Madison Advertising , a 14-year old agency with capitalsied billings of Rs 4...
MUMBAI : Doordarshan this year has special musical fanfare arranged for the new year. The National pubcaster DD will bring in the new year with Yeh...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has so far earned a total revenue of Rs 1550.12 million from open auctions of FM radio stations, which includes earnest...
He cuts an impressive figure. One of the few to have seen the potential in the sports business and made money out of it. Meet Harish...
Rajat Jain is the man in the hot seat as MAX prepares to stir up passions, drum up hype and hoopla. The next three months will...
MUMBAI: Even as Star India’s licence for uplinking Star News from Indian shores gets short shrift, Hindi entertainment channel Sahara TV looks to have stolen a...
NEW DELHI: The total assets of Prasar Bharati Corporation, the autonomous body modelled on the UK pubcaster BBC to oversee the work of Doordarshan (DD) and...
Information and Broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj has ruled out any change in the prevailing policy of pubcaster Doordarshan being barred from airing surrogate liquor and tobacco...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati, overseeing the functioning of Doordarshan and All India Radio, is slowly starting to shed its `babu’ (bureaucratic) attitude. It is increasingly going...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan is confident that it will reach its revenue target of about Rs 6,250 million by the time the current financial year comes...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan today took a pot shot at the TV rating points saying “manipulations” are common, even while maintaining that efforts should still be on...
NEW DELHI: Taking a leaf out of private satellite broadcasters’ strategy book, India’s Prasar Bharati is contemplating hiring the services of a top notch advertising professional...
NEW DELHI: There is a big gap between running expenses of India’s pubcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio and the revenue being generated by the organisation,...
MUMBAI: For the first time ever, Doordarshan has agreed to telecast one of music channel MTV’s concerts, in a prime time 90-minute weekend slot on DD...
NEW DELHI: Outstanding dues owed to Doordarshan by private parties have increased to a whopping Rs 1648.2 million as of 31 October 2002. As regards All...
MUMBAI: The master of quiz, Siddharth Basu is slated to return to Doordarshan with a unique game show shortly. Basu, who made quizzing popular in India...
NEW DELHI: Amongst all the news channels, Doordarshan is way ahead of others even if all TV homes and cable and satellite homes are taken into...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has extended by a year an agreement to telecast all football matches held under the aegis of the All India Football Federation...
MUMBAI: It’s an incentive that could well help upgrade the quality of programmes on Doordarshan, not to mention encourage talent that usually goes unnoticed in the...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan has extended the invitation date concerning proposals for commissioning of programmes primarily for its DD Bharati Channel and Regional Kendras. The date set was...
MUMBAI: Soaps featuring squabbling relatives continue to rule the roost among Indian houeswives. So it comes as no surprise that national broadcaster Doordarshan has introduced two...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to popularise programmes being broadcast on pubcasters Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR), Prasar Bharati Corporation is planning to come...
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: Doordarshan is commencing the broadcast of locally relevant programmes, popularly known as ‘narrowcasting’, beginning 29 October. The programmes will be originated and telecast from 12...
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...
MUMBAI: For those who thought the spat between Hathway and Modi Entertainment Network Limited had ended; think again. Although both parties claim to have reached an...
MUMBAI: SET MAX, the channel that paid through its nose for the rights to ICC cricket rights, has been finally vindicated with the ratings helping it...
MUMBAI: The Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2002 was released Tuesday at a formal launch function in Mumbai. Among the highlights of IRS 2002 as far as...
