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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...
MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan has taken the lead on a trial basis to apply technology to strengthen worldwide efforts to identify video pirates. The trial with...
NEW DELHI: “We have been doing quite well this financial year and expect to close our books in March 2006 with Rs 10 billion (Rs 1,000...
MUMBAI: One can have too much of a good thing! Even cricket is not immune to this phenomenon. The following data which deals with the India...
Is Disney getting into the Indian market? We have been hearing reports that the company is in conversation with Star TV to distribute the channel in...
NEW DELHI: Indian TV pubcaster Doordarshan has earned revenues of Rs 5857.4 million up to 31 January 2006 as compared to Rs 6652.7 million in 2004-05...
MUMBAI: It’s all about advertising sales. That is clearly the revenue story for England’s tour of India that kicks off 1 March. This is amply borne...
MUMBAI: Nimbus Communications, the global media rights owner of Indian cricket up to March 2010, last evening reached agreement with national terrestrial broadcaster Doordarshan for the...
MUMBAI: Can old still deliver ratings gold? The jury is still out on that one but Sahara One must certainly feel encouraged by the first week’s...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan and the Prannoy Roy-promoted NDTV, amongst others, bagged the Commonwealth Broadcasting Awards 2006, which were announced today here. Other winners included...
MUMBAI: The Indian television Industry turned up in strength at the Fifth Indian Telly Awards Trade Technical Channel and Programming Nite to recognize and celebrate excellence...
MUMBAI: After stating that it would be reissuing the Revenue Management Company tender, the Indian cricket board today scrapped the whole thing altogether and announced that...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court bowled another googly today that has stumped pubcaster Prasar Bharati. On a petition by Ten Sports, which is the exclusive rights...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is exploring some dilution in the downlink and uplink norms that makes it mandatory for private broadcasters to share sports content...
MUMBAI: The Prasar Bharti has joined hands with IGO TV from MIRC Electronics Ltd. to promote its DD Direct Plus channels. As per the deal, the...
MUMBAI: Hyderabad Doordarshan Kendra has bagged the prestigious Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) Award, sponsored by the World Bank, for a television feature that illustrates development issues...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan will air the one-day cricket matches between India and Pakistan, but will not be able to market the matches...
NEW DELHI: TV and film content producers can breathe easy for now on the smoking ban, but sports broadcasters beware on content sharing with the Indian...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Give it as Round One to Ten Sports. Disappointing millions of non-cable TV viewers and radio listeners in India, Indian pubcaster Prasar...
In the 1980s, when Siddharth Basu used to go to Delhi’s INA market shopping for vegetables on a scooter on Sundays, people looked at him curiously;...
MUMBAI / BANGALORE: Doordarshan has shifted all its channels from Insat 2E to Insat 3A and Insat 3C. This follows a request from the Indian Space...
MUMBAI / BANGALORE: Doordarshan has shifted all its channels from Insat 2E to Insat 3A and Insat 3C. This follows a request from the Indian Space...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has decided to convert to facilitate mobile reception of DD News in Chennai and Delhi. From 1 January 2006 it will operate...
MUMBAI: On the first anniversary of the natural disaster that affected millions, DD is paying tribute in the form of a documentary directed by Kevin Sim....
NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will finalise awarding of telecast rights in approximately 21 days time by when some uncertainties...
MUMBAI: Preparations are in its final stages for the launch of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) latest satellite, Insat-4A, on board the 169th flight of...
MUMBAI: Preparations are in its final stages for the launch of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) latest satellite, Insat-4A, on board the 169th flight of...
The Boys in Blue head into battle against Sri Lanka, the match to be played in Ahmedabad tomorrow, on a high note as regards the form...
NEW DELHI: The telecast rights of the Commonwealth Games 2006 have been bagged by pubcaster Prasar Bharati, beating competition from a pay TV operator that had...
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...
MUMBAI: After BBC, it is the turn of Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle to evince interest in India. DW is keen to enter the television and...
MUMBAI: In Mumbai you have to be happening today to make it big! And to make it big you have to get Bombay Talking about you!...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati has obtained an interim injunction from a Delhi court against TV channels using more than the set limit of cricket...
A new set of regulations relating to sports broadcasting, given the green signal by the Indian Cabinet earlier this week, is retrograde and highlights the height...
NEW DELHI: Even as a court case in the Delhi High Court relating to telecast rights got deferred today, the Indian cricket board in the interim...
NEW DELHI: Even as a court case in the Delhi High Court relating to telecast rights got deferred today, the Indian cricket board in the interim...
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet today gave approval to a host of stringent media related issues including mandatory sharing of sports content by private broadcasters with...
MUMBAI: Among broadcasters in India, only Doordarshan and Kalanithi Maran’s Sun Network used to follow the slot sale system, where time slots where sold to private...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan has virtually given up the race for getting an omnibus telecast rights for Commonwealth Games 2006, instead deciding to settle for just...
NEW DELHI: A consensus seems to be emerging within a group of ministers (GoM) mandated to study the amendments in the uplink policy and framing of...
NEW DELHI: The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) has warned against framing a law making it mandatory for sharing feed of listed...
MUMBAI: The battle for telecast rights to Indian cricket appears to have narrowed down to ESPN Star Sports versus Zee Telefilms, but one surety is already...
NEW DELHI: Even as industry bodies and private broadcasters cry foul, the government today stated in Parliament that there is a proposal to make it mandatory...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to apprise policy-makers of the ground reality of sports broadcasting, some private broadcasters have submitted a representation to group of ministers...
MUMBAI: To commemorate the birth centenary year of India’s former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, national broadcaster Doordarshan will produce a 110-minute film, I&B minister Jaipal...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Even as sports broadcasters grapple with the numbers for Indian cricket’s telecast rights, pubcaster Doordarshan is trying to upstage others by insisting on unbundling...
NEW DELHI: A day after the Supreme Court poured cold water on pubcaster Doordarshan’s hopes of arm-twisting the terrestrial feed from Ten Sports for the upcoming...
NEW DELHI: After uplink, it’s now time for downlinking a policy for a group of ministers (GoM) that would be headed by defence minister Pranab Mukherjee....
NEWDELHI: With a public interest petition pending in Kerala, Prasar Bharati has not only rejected Ten Sports offer related to the tri-series in Sri Lanka, but...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan is yet to revert to Ten Sports on an offer made by the Dubai based broadcaster relating to the forthcoming India Sri...
