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When Vandana Malik started off in television, she was an absolute novice to the medium. It was TV18 promoter Raghav Bahl who propelled his then housewife-sister...
NEW DELHI: It’s small comfort but some comfort for Sony Entertainment TV India. Talk in the trade that Nimbus Communications, which is doing the marketing of...
Television channels are trying to outdo each other in a bid to come up with the most innovative and original in coverage of the Ganesh festival…....
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has agreed to accept a third-party guarantee for minimum revenue from Nimbus Communications Ltd for the ICC cricket matches to be telecast...
Sitting in the visitors‘ room, waiting for Raghav Bahl, managing director of Television Eighteen Ltd, at the company‘s headquarters in Delhi is an education in itself....
Sitting in the visitors’ room, waiting for Raghav Bahl, managing director of Television Eighteen Ltd, at the company’s headquarters in Delhi is an education in itself....
MUMBAI: Doordarshan has started airing Sanskrit news bulletins from Thursday. The five minute news capsule, started on World Sanskrit Day on 22 August, is being aired...
NEW DELHI: Even as national broadcaster Doordarshan continues to take market research agency TAM Media’s data on television ratings, it has decided to lay greater emphasis...
MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati is likely to initiate legal proceedings against defaulting production houses, which owe it dues amounting to nearly Rs 1450 million. Prasar Bharati CEO...
NEW DELHI: As on 31 March, 2002, the outstanding dues owed to national broadcaster Doordarshan from various producers and agencies stood at Rs 1692.8 million, according...
NEW DELHI: The Prasar Bharati board, which met here yesterday, has decided that Doordarshan should go in for narrowcasting by tying up with organisations like NGOs...
MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan is taking its mantle of public broadcaster seriously once again, it would seem. Beginning 14 August, Chitrahaar on DD1 will no longer...
MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan is taking its mantle of public broadcaster seriously once again, it would seem. Beginning 14 August, Chitrahaar on DD1 will no longer...
NEW DELHI: If you really cannot beat them, then join them. And Prasar Bharati, the autonomous body which oversees the functioning of pubcasters Doordarshan and All...
NEW DELHI: In what is termed a bid to strengthen its marketing efforts, national broadcaster Doordarshan has brought in former Zee Telefilms CEO Vijay Jindal to...
NEW DELHI: If Doordarshan revenues are on the downswing, then blame it on those who owe DD money and the inadequacy of the current system to...
NEW DELHI: So you thought national broadcaster Doordarshan was a pushover? Data says otherwise. Between 9-11 pm in all TV homes on all days among viewers...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television, which has the cable and satellite telecast rights for all ICC cricket tournaments including the next two World Cups, has a serious...
Prasar Bharati is close to sewing up a terrestrial deal for the ICC-organized cricket telecast rights. “We have explored various options and are close to hammering...
Almost 11 months to the day after Sony Entertainment announced plans to launch Shubh Vivaah with Bollywood queen bee Madhuri Dixit as host, the mega matchmaking...
State-owned pubcaster Doordarshan is getting gung-ho about DD Metro under new director-general S.Y. Quraishi. The reason: out of the 35 prime time slots on DD Metro...
Doordarshan’s run of bad luck continues where sporting events are concerned. The latest is that India’s pubcaster has been served out of Wimbledon, the tennis extravaganza...
Doordarshan has entered into an agreement with France-based Canal France International (CFI) to telecast 26 French films on DD Metro beginning 5 July at 11 pm.. ...
The increasing frequency with which India’s pubcaster DD is being left out of business of sports telecasts has got the goat of Doordarshan director general SY...
As the Fifa World Cup heads for its grand finale tomorrow between perennial favourites Brazil and a determined Germany, some tallies are already being made. B4U...
Undeterred by the fate of the Bhagat Singhs at the box office, the small screen is all set to see the unfurling of another mega scale...
National broadcaster Doordarshan (DD) has invited proposals from television programme producers for programmes on Diwali and New Year’s Eve. The programme on Diwali, which falls on...
Manish Goswami turned television producer in 1993 with the successful Zee serial Parampara. In a span of nearly a decade, he went on to produce several...
Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has invited bids for Hindi feature films to be telecast on public holidays for the rest of the year. The films are...
Stung by telecast rights holder like World Sports Group Nimbus and Taj Sports (managing Ten Sports channel) not willing to play ball, Prasar Bharati has decided...
Sport. A programming property that keeps millions glued to their TV sets in India, especially when cricket and Tendulkar are in full flow. In recent times,...
The rather sorry deal national broadcaster Doordarshan has got for the ongoing FIFA World Cup seems to have galvanised Prasar Bharati to get proactive on the...
Staid Doordarshan may not have managed the soccer World Cup well, but for fans of Bryan Adams, Ozzy Osbourne and Eric Clapton, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee...
After a long hiatus, Mudra Videotec, the television software production and marketing arm of advertising major Mudra Communications is all set to renew the golden relationship...
With just three days left for the kick-off the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and Korea, indications are that B4U Networks and Doordarshan are on...
B4U Networks and Doordarshan thrashed out an agreement today that clears the way for the deferred telecast on DD of four matches and a daily highlights...
Following yesterday’s announcement made by B4U Networks that it had secured the terrestrial telecast rights for the FIFA soccer World Cup from Taj Sports, the promoter...
Pubcaster Prasar Bharati’s board these days is seized with matters mostly related to telecast rights. If it is not football, then it must be cricket. A...
Ten Sports, which holds the telecast rights for the upcoming FIFA World Cup, looks like having a six-hour lead time over national broadcaster Doordarshan as far...
Ten Sports had announced earlier this week that it has the exclusive telecast rights of the FIFA World Cup and that state-owned broadcaster DD will be...
National broadcaster Doordarshan expects to officially launch digital terrestrial transmission (DTT) in the four metros of Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai by June. According to Girish...
In a move aimed at demonstrating the government’s commitment to make all pay channels mandatorily routed through a conditional access system, national broadcaster Doordarshan is all...
Media company UTV’s Singapore subisdiary is in talks with state-owned broadcaster DD to promote its online initiative, ddindia.com in Singapore. UTV Chairman Ronnie Screwvala says that...
Channel Nine India is quite pleased as punch about the performance of its shows on the 7-9 pm block on DD2. The company has sent out...
BBC Worldwide is driving hard into the Indian market. It started outwith coverage of local events and followed it with the creation of a local programming...
It’s show time folks. Doordarshan has called for bids from television producers for three time slots on DD- Metro (DD-2): 7:55 am, 5:25 pm, and 6:55...
The state broadcaster is in the process of switching satellite loyalties. Almost all of Doordarshan’s regional channels have started migration to Insat 3C which became operational...
Doordarshan Mumbai’s inhouse music-n-dance show Tak Dhina Dhin will soon reach an unsurpassed milestone of completing 250 episodes among the state broadcaster’s programmes The landmark achievement...
Close on the heels of an agreement with Prasar Bharati for TV production of international cricket in India from 2002 to 2004, Nimbus has signed another...
The outlay for the I&B ministry in the 10th Five Year Plan has been recommended at Rs 85,500 million, of which the broadcasting sector gets the...
