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Quaint wooden swings and benches strewn between potted plants dot the terrace that overlooks Dr. Akash Khurana’s neat and sleek office in the refurbished building recently...
NEW DELHI: The producers of TV programmes from the Northeast (comprising eight states of the country) have taken up cudgels against alleged malpractices prevailing in India’s...
NEW DELHI: With a launch date still not fixed, a certain section in Doordarshan now thinks that starting a free Ku-band direct-to-home (DTH) TV service is...
NEW DELHI: Even as the allies of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance coalition government increase pressure on changes in Doordarshan News, parent organization Prasar Bharati has...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Doordarshan, looking at launching a direct-to-home (DTH) television service in the third week of June, is hopeful that most of the popular...
NEW DELHI: New information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy on his first day at the office tread the usual line: that his endeavour would be to...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has taken strong exception to the fact that private satellite news channels relayed almost in full Doordarshan News’ exclusive coverage of the...
MUMBAI: Is the pubcaster looking at a complete image overhaul? Although the idea seems preposterous, if the new serial Miss India, which is set to air...
NEW DELHI: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has said that despite repeated pointing out, lapses have continued in India’s pubcaster Doordarshan for the...
NEW DELHI: Is Doordarshan News looking at axing privately produced programmes on the channel? If a certain section of the organization is to be believed, then...
NEW DELHI: Even as Indian pubcaster Doordarshan is fine-tuning its act to launch its proposed KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service via a non-Indian satellite early June,...
MUMBAI: No surprise here. Summer time is children’s time and the pubcaster is all geared to set the ball rolling. DD will kick start it’s summer...
MUMBAI: Election time translates into boon time for the electronic medium. Touted as the make or break point for news channels, this time on, the election...
MUMBAI: Although the top show on the channel is a supernatural thriller Aap Beeti, DD seems to be slowly warming up to women centric shows. Just...
A day after Prasar Bharati deputy director general Vijaya Laxmi Chhabra struck an “unconventional” cricket marketing deal with Zee Telefilms, we requested an immediate interview and...
The regional channel war has heated up as more and more players are taking a leap into the wave. India’s national broadcaster is not far behind....
MUMBAI: The last match in the India Pakistan one day series took no prisoners. Tam data C&S 4+ for the period 21-27 March shows that Ten...
NEW DELHI: The Empire strikes back? Seems so. And with a vengeance too as news market leader Aaj Tak lures back people to its fold. Among...
MUMBAI: Meher, a weekend Muslim social thriller produced by UTV will now be aired four days a week from 25 March 2004. The change in timing...
NEW DELHI: ‘The entire nation can only cheer, if the entire nation gets to watch.’ This is part of self-congratulatory advertisement that India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati...
NEW DELHI: DD would show the whole of the Indo Pak series. The cost is Rs 500 million. The Supreme Court today directed the party to...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is planning to bring in a legislation that would make it mandatory for all channels, foreign or domestic, being downlinked in...
NEW DELHI: After the day started like a Sehwag-Sachin hurricane inning with developments happening fast in the first 15 overs of the match, as the day...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Supreme Court today gave an interim order on a special leave petition (SLP) filed by exclusive telecast rights holder for the...
NEW DELHI: Kal Ho Na Ho (if tomorrow never comes). Even as pubcaster Doordarshan made a neat killing by airing advertisements booked by it while relaying...
MUMBAI: The telecast deal between Prasar Bharati and Ten Sports stands deadlocked as Prasar Bharati has not agreed to an offer of Ten Sports, which envisaged...
NEW DELHI: The high stakes poker game around the telecast of the historic cricket series between India and Pakistan looks to be entering the end game...
MUMBAI: Jasoos Vijay and Haath Se Haath Milaa, the two shows on Doordarshan that aimed at creating AIDS awareness have been given an extension. The shows...
MUMBAI: Newly launched Telugu news channel TV9 is now eyeing the Kannada space as well. For the news hungry Andhra Pradesh populace, TV9 is currently jostling...
NEW DELHI: The broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has said that it is yet to take a view on Indian pubcaster...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati’s CEO KS Sarma has been elected vice-president of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association for a two-year term. Sarma’s election to the...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan is all set to telecast a new serial next week. The serial titled Hawayein will debut on the national channel from Wednesday, 18 February...
MUMBAI: The latest buzzword among the Mumbai gliteratti and the janta is fitness, courtesy the Standard Chartered Mumbai International Marathon scheduled for this Sunday. National pubcaster...
MUMBAI: Officials from Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati are meeting their counterparts from Dubai-based Ten Sports tomorrow in a last-ditch bid to squeeze something extra on the...
If there is a list drawn up of the hottest young television professionals in India, her name will surely figure in it. Coming from a family...
MUMBAI: The Pakistan Cricket Board has denied a report in The News Pakistan which stated that it was reviewing the television rights deal it had signed...
MUMBAI: The good times continue to roll for Balaji. The soap factory’s latest show on pubcaster Doordarshan, Kyamaat – Jab bhi waqt aata hai, has started...
MUMBAI: Good work will continue on state owned Doordarshan this year. The co-production partnership between the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), BBC World Service Trust (BBC...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: At a time when the governments of India and Pakistan are talking peace, a different kind of tussle is going on –...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has taken umbrage to Subhash Chandra companies — ASC Enterprise and Zee Telefilms — including more than the mandated number of Doordarshan...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati today announced that Indian Administrative Service officers Naveen Kumar and Brajeshwar Singh have been appointed the director-generals of Doordarshan and All India...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan’s long running epic serial Shaktimaan is keeping an ear out for the hearing impaired. Henceforth on every episode, teachers who teach the hearing impaired...
NEW DELHI: It would be too optimistic to think that Star Plus and the whole Star Network would be dislodged from the top spot in 2004,...
NEW DELHI: It would be too optimistic to think that Star Plus and the whole Star Network would be dislodged from the top spot in 2004,...
NEW DELHI: With Prasar Bharati’s annual revenue on the slide as the gap between earnings and spending has increased over the years, a proposal has been...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR) may soon get full-fledged director-generals (DG), if everything goes well with the selection process which...
MUMBAI: Loads of action coming from the pubcaster in the week ahead. Doordarshan, aka DD1, will unleash three new shows next week. They are Unitech Indraprastha...
NEW DELHI: Miditech Private Limited is working on a new advertising/marketing show for BBC World. The 13-episode series is expected to go on air by March...
MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan was out in full strength on Saturday at the Goregeon Sports Club in Mumbai to honour and award its own. Information and...
MUMBAI: It will be an evening of song, dance and reward for hard working folk in the television industry. The third annual Doordarshan Awards will take...
