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The grande dame of Indian broadcasting is donning a new avatar from tomorrow. The launch of DD Bharati, the sleeker version of good old Doordarshan, timed...
It is just under a year since a massive earthquake devastated Gujarat. And to mark the day (26 January, Republic Day to be exact), national broadcaster...
Insat 3C will finally be launched tomorrow by an Ariane 4 rocket from the European spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana. The long delayed event will...
Border tensions are calling for some hasty programming changes in the subcontinent. The Beeb has voluntarily put on hold its reality series Commando on the Indian army, bowing...
The India Today group’s TV Today flagged off its 24 hour Hindi news channel Aaj Tak on 31 December. The channel was launched by Law, Justice...
The 29 December deadline for payment of license fees by private FM radio players in metros has been extended by eight months, costing the national exchequer...
Times are tough in television these days with the advertising pie shrinking. And channels are resorting to the tack of running older shows. Star, Zee, Sabe,...
The Indian Broadcasting Federation (IBF) has said nyet to state-owned broadcaster DD’s DTH proposal. DD had proposed that it would own 20 per cent in a...
The cricket match fixing saga has spilled over into the television industry. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the issue of corruption in...
Creative Eye has shelved its plans of making programmes for all of national Doordarshan’s 13 regional channels. The Dheeraj Kumar promoted production house had earlier this...
The group of ministers is once again meeting and discussing the opening up Ku-band DTH television even as this copy is being posted on indiantelevision.com on...
BBC and Star News – eat your hearts out. CNN looks set to win the viewership battle around the US elections coverage amongst upscale English speaking...
DD has sought bids from Indian and foreign production houses for live television production of these cricket matches to be conducted under the aegis of the...
When regional language channels Prabhat (Marathi) and Suprabhat (Kannada) shut down transmission recently no one was surprised. That it was facing severe financial problems was well...
Today was the day after as national broadcaster Doordarshan’s Metro channel turned the clock back a year after HFCL Nine Broadcasting took up the three-hour prime...
The latest TAM ratings are out. And the entire industry is agog about one revelation: not one of Zee TV’s new shows figures on the Top...
The latest TAM ratings are out. And the entire industry is agog about one revelation: not one of Zee TV’s new shows figures on the Top...
In the western Indian state of Maharashtra the Ganesh festival is huge. And this year the Marathi language channels have tried their levellest to outdo each...
National broadcaster Doordarshan has invited fresh sealed tenders to market and distribute DD-World and DD-News channel in the UK and rest of Europe on the DTH...
National broadcaster Doordarshan, in its efforts to give impetus to its own sports channels, is looking for fresh sports programmes and inviting proposals from producers under...
Private broadcasters just don’t seem to have anything going for them on the Doordarshan front. Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network (SAB) and Cinevista Communications, both major...
HFCL-Nine Broadcasting India Ltd (HNBIL) today closed the chapter on what has been an acrimonious relationship and declared it would not bid for the prime time...
A day after the industry’s nyet to Prasar Bharati’s efforts to attract bidders for Doordarshan’s Metro, a leading business daily reported that the pubcaster was planning...
Prasar Bharati has released its DD Metro tender document. It can be picked along with application forms along with general instructions/terms and conditions free of cost...
The latest satellite in the PanAmSat (PAS) series, the PAS-10, which will cover several countries in the Indian Ocean area, including India, was launched from the...
National broadcaster Doordarshan’s Metro channel’s light night slot will be up for bidding again, according to reports. Prasar Bharati, which got a pathetic response in January...
HFCL-Nine Broadcasting CEO Ravina Raj Kohli is in a pretty aggressive mood. Stung by rumours that her company is on the verge of closing down, that...
HFCL-Nine Broadcasting has denied reports that it had defaulted on payments to national broadcaster Doordarshan and said all its dues had been cleared. The clarification came...
National broadcaster Doordarshan has flagged off a regional news unit in Ranchi yesterday, the capital of the new north Indian state of Jharkhand. Information & Broadcasting...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television CEO Kunal Dasgupta is in a fiery mood. Just back from power packed meetings with senior Sony Pictures Entertainment executives in Los...
What a Knock Out it was! Cinevista promoters Sunil Mehta and Prem Krishen got the shock of their lives after they were told by Prasar Bharati...
B4U Entertainment on Wednesday confirmed that it was exploring various avenues of entering direct-to-home (DTH) television but denied reports that the international partners had already been...
The Big Daddy is putting together its plans for direct-to-home (DTH) television and other aspirants can either try to beat them or join them. The Hindustan...
