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MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan will telecast a new Series titled Kashmir from 26 June, 2005. The Series will be telecast on Sundays at 9:30 pm on...
NEW DELHI: Thus far, it has been Latin American telenovellas that have held Indian audiences in thrall. But the visiting delegations from Korea at the ongoing...
Circa: 2004. Characteristic of his verbosity, information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy had mentioned in Parliament that he’s “dusting” the Broadcast Bill that he had tabled...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan will telecast Kiran – a five minute spot on public service issues – from 25 April. The programme will be telecast from Monday to...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster, Doordarshan, may not have been able to engineer a windfall from the recently-concluded Indo-Pakistan cricket series, considering the controversies surrounding the telecast...
In the 1980s, when Anurradha Prasad, a jeans and T-shirt clad twenty-something journalist, went to cover Parliament proceedings, senior print journalists looked upon her rather curiously...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati today scored a moral victory when ESPN-Star Sports informed a city court that it would not any more telecast the highlights of...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today ordered Nimbus Sports to deposit Rs 55 million within a week, even as it gave the marketing rights to...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan will telecast live the One Day Internationals (ODIs) between India & Pakistan on the National Network on DD-1 and DD Sports. DD will...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: A delayed response if ever there was one. More than a day after ESPN Star Sports announced that it had secured a...
MUMBAI: DD Sports will stop beaming the Indo-Pakistan series via PAS-10 satellite from midnight, following strong protests from Sony. As the footprint of PAS-10 spreads across...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati, managing Doordarshan, seems to be on a roll. After landing the Indo-Pak cricket telecast rights “for free”, the pubcaster is out to...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati is not letting up in its determination to mop up revenue from channels for usage of video clips of the...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan will be telecasting live the forthcoming India – Pakistan cricket test match series and one day internationals (ODIs) on DD-1 and DD Sports...
MUMBAI: Smile TV, the fun and entertainment comedy channel from Zee stable, is experimenting with shows which have already proven their mettle. The channel has lined...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Even as ESPN Star Sports has asked Prasar Bharati to honour sharing clauses on cricket, the Indian Cricket Board is upset with...
MUMBAI: The Times of India group is gearing up for a mid year launch of their news channel. The channel’s vice president news and editor television...
How does a programmer really know he/she has hit the bull‘s eye with a story? Thinking of concepts and genres all the time; he/she could be...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Buoyed by the success of its free Ku-band direct-to-home TV service, Indian pubcaster now plans to hold parleys next week with television manufacturers urging...
5. DR PRANNOY ROY, NDTV PRESIDENT For taking NDTV India into a clear and undisputed second rung position behind leader Aaj Tak in the Hindi news...
The sports broadcast business in 2004 will be remembered for one dominant issue. The great Indian cricket rights trick. As in it had many a twist...
MUMBAI: Star News in an endeavour to alleviate in some measure the plight of the victims of the Tsunami devastation has set up the “Star News...
NEW DELHI: Finally, the information and broadcasting ministry has taken to the Cabinet secretariate the downlinking policy that aims at having all TV channels beaming into...
NEW DELHI: ESPN Star Sports, exclusive telecast rights holder for the ongoing Bangladesh-India series, this morning filed a special leave petition in the Supreme Court challenging...
NEW DELHI: Adding to the fears of the organisers of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006 on the threat of revenue loss, Indian pubcaster Doordarshan has said...
A look at the way the industry functions shows that broadcasters are largely self-censored and generally follow a certain content code that has been set by...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Supreme Court is hearing cricket-related cases, the Indian cricket board has asked Indian pubcaster Doordarshan to make a bid for the...
NEW DELHI: Kotak Mahindra subsidiary Business Standard Ltd., running the Business Standard financial daily, has applied to the government seeking clearance for foreign investment and the...
NEW DLHI: A delay in the formal launch — or dedication to the nation, as Prasar Bharati would like to put it — of pubcaster Doodrashan’s...
MUMBAI: The Champions Trophy for cricket which was held in September and aired on Max and DD was considered a let down by many followers of...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today in an interim order observed that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Prasar Bharati and Sony should...
NEW DELHI: As it had happened in the recent past with the historic India-Pakistan cricket series, the Supreme Court today stepped in to untangle the telecast...
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...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket rights imbroglio is fast entering the realm of the theatre of the absurd. Even as Zee Telefilms this morning...
NEW DELHI: People have chosen their bride and made the announcement too. But ironically, the prospective bride has yet to be informed of the marriage. Speaking...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Even as the Supreme Court today referred the telecast rights issue to a five-judge constitutional bench, the Indian cricket board submitted in...
MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan has roped in 13 private satellite channels to come onto its free-to-air (FTA) direct-to-home (DTH) service. “A total of 30 channels will...
DD Bangalore Kendra news director Achyuthan started his career in the late ’60s as the assistant registrar of newspapers of India, Shimla. He has undertaken extensive...
NEW DELHI: Even as a crucial Zee Telefilms board meeting on the cricket rights issue continued till late this evening, the Board for Control of Cricket...
BANGALORE: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan is looking at formally commencing its free-to-air (FTA) direct-to-home (DTH) television service from 15 September. Trail runs are being conducted all over...
MUMBAI: While the media focus in the past few weeks has been on who will get the rights for India cricket and on DD’s Olympic coverage,...
MUMBAI/DELHI: The cricket telecast rights mega show is all set to roll with the rights for BCCI (Board for Control of Cricket in India)-organised home series...
MUMBAI:Prasar Bharati has opened applications for supply of Hindi feature films. The invitation is open for the right holders of feature films for telecast on the...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Doordarshan director-general and information and broadcasting ministry secretary are in London to formally set up the European arm of Prasar Bharati,...
MUMBAI: A documentary on the city of Mumbai co-produced by pubcaster Prasar Bharati and German television channel Deutsche Welle (DW) is soon to be telecast on...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan, proposing to launch its free KU-band direct-to-home television service on 15 August, expects to seed the market with over 10,000 boxes before...
NEW DELHI: Astro, the entertainment major from Malaysia-based Measat, is once again attempting to tap the Indian market but this time it is doing it through...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati, managing Doordarshan and All India Radio, may be making a hue and cry about the high cost of acquiring sporting events for...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan has invited CD mastering firms to file a tender for its archives project. The tender notice that appeared in the leading dailies, on 16...
MUMBAI: UTV creative director Monisha Singh has called it quits. As of today, she is no longer an employee of UTV. The 27-year old Singh put...
