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MUMBAI: Veteran American cable television executive Betty Cohen has been named Lifetime Entertainment Services president and CEO. Media conglomerate Disney has a 50 per cent stake...
MUMBAI: Buena Vista International Television Asia Pacific, which is the distribution arm of Walt Disney Television International, has plans up its sleeve for India that go...
MUMBAI: When one talks about branded entertainment, the first thing that comes to mind is product placement. Consumers are bombarded with hundreds of advertising messages in...
MUMBAI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) today announced the launch of an India chapter in what it said was a part of...
MUMBAI: For the second consecutive year, Raven, star of Disney Channel’s hit series That’s So Raven, won the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice award for the favorite TV...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Disney has signed a 12-year marketing agreement with technology major Siemens AG.This includes rights for Siemens to sponsor attractions at Walt Disney World...
MUMBAI: While Viacom is looking at splitting its business into two separate publicly-traded companies, the Rupert Murdoch owned media conglomerate News Corp is not looking at...
MUMBAI: This is a piece of news that could have far reaching implications in terms of how Disney runs its film studio Miramax. The media conglomerate...
MUMBAI: Anne Sweeney, who is responsible for all of The Walt Disney Company’s non-sports, cable and satellite and broadcast properties globally including the ABC Television Network,...
MUMBAI: In order to address the rapidly evolving global business landscape US media conglomerate Disney has announced a restructuring of the company’s corporate strategic planning division....
MUMBAI: Disney has not yet opened its theme park in Hong Kong but already that country’s legislators have started asking awkward questions. Hong Kong Disneyland is...
MUMBAI: Disney Channel was nominated in nine categories for the 32 Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. Its sister studio, Walt Disney Television Animation, was also honoured with...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Disney has announced that its shareholders have strongly supported its board of directors at the annual meeting which took place a few days...
Hollywood film distribution companies have found the going tough in India, a market which has stood firm on local tastes and preferences. Rupert Murdoch’s 20th Century...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Disney spends quite a packet to make sure that its CEO Michael Eisner and COO Bob Iger are safe. The company revealed that...
9. RAJAT JAIN, DISNEY INDIA MANAGING DIRECTOR For making the big leap to Walt Disney to head its diversified operations in India. Contending for that coveted...
The battleground this year will be in the regional space. Mainline broadcasters like Zee Telefilms, Star India and MTV have designs to spread south, the most...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Disney has announced that it has completed an update of the company’s senior executive compensation programme. Its revised long term incentive programme has...
MUMBAI: Estee Lauder chairman global affairs Fred H Langhammer has been elected by Disney as an independent director. He takes up his post from January 2005....
MUMBAI: Disney Channel will bank on movies to drive family-viewing audiences. “We will be telecasting 60 movies a month. We have already dubbed 130 movies. The...
MUMBAI: Media and entertainment executives around the world are focused on the impact of technology on their industry. They believe that more technology-savvy managers are critical...
MUMBAI: Shortly after signing a deal with Disney to distribute its channels in India, the Rupert Murdoch owned broadcaster Star has renewed a multi-year agreement with...
MUMBAI: Two Blind Mikes. See how they run! Cable broadcaster Showtime in the US will make a television movie Two Blind Mikes. It examines the controversial...
MUMBAI: Fox Entertainment Group executive vice president business development and strategy Rich Battista has been appointed as Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. as chief executive officer. Battista...
MUMBAI: Media and entertainment executives around the world are focused on the impact of technology on their industry. They believe that more technology-savvy managers are critical...
MUMBAI: Shortly after signing a deal with Disney to distribute its channels in India, the Rupert Murdoch owned broadcaster Star has renewed a multi-year agreement with...
MUMBAI: The Disney Channel has acquired the television rights for Connie the Cow from TV-Loonland. The pay TV network has been broadcasting the series since September...
MUMBAI: The Little Big Mouse is finally ready to make its entry into Indian television space. And expectedly, it is on the biggest network platform that...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney Company (India) has put in place the regional distribution team for its television channels, but is yet to hire a national head. The...
MUMBAI: Despite the fact that it suffered major losses on the theatrical front with films like The Alamo failing badly at the box office and the...
MUMBAI: While the question of whether people will use the mobile to view entire episodes of television shows is still in the air one thing that...
MUMBAI: Fast food major McDonald’s will once again partner with Disney and Pixar in the US. In the past McDonald’s had tied up with films like...
with the ‘festival of lights’ round the corner, kids channels across the board have lined up special programming blocks for their young viewers. With the Diwali season...
NEW DELHI: Is information & broadcasting and culture minister Jaipal Reddy being relieved of one of his portfolios, notably I&B? The Capital is abuzz with rumours...
MUMBAI: The fate of BBC Worldwide hangs in the balance. While the Beeb is said to have decided against selling its commercial arm reports indicate that...
MUMBAI: The fate of BBC Worldwide hangs in the balance. While the Beeb is said to have decided against selling its commercial arm reports indicate that...
MUMBAI: Viacom Inc. and the Walt Disney Company have agreed to pay $1 million and $500,000 respectively to settle charges made by the Federal Communications Commission...
MUMBAI: Recently CG centric films like Spiderman and Shrek 2 have given stiff competition to our Hindi heroes. Now, we have Disney’s The Incredibles not competing...
MUMBAI: Even as Walt Disney is working overtime to have everything in place for what now looks increasingly like a year-end coming out party for its...
MUMBAI: A film partnership that lasted a decade and brought lots of Oscar awards may be coming to an end. Disney is said to be looking...
MUMBAI: For Disney’s beleaguered ABC network desperate for hits Desperate Housewives has delivered the goods.. 21.3 million viewers watched the premiere episode on Sunday night making...
MUMBAI: Building on its long-term relationship with the Croatian public broadcaster HRT, Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) has concluded a new multi-genre, Multi-year agreement with the...
MUMBAI: In an interesting turn of events, Walt Disney Co. president and chief operating officer Robert Iger said that it was unlikely that Disney would strike...
MUMBAI: The big mouse is all set to speak German. Disney is all geared to launch on KDG Germany this November. Disney, say media reports, would...
MUMBAI: Following a meeting that was held on 21 September, the board of the Walt Disney Company announced that a successor to CEO Michael Eisner would...
MUMBAI: The Disney-ABC Television Group has announced that it has instituted a new communications structure. It has promoted two key executives. Sue Binford will now oversee...
MUMBAI: The legal tussle over the India cricket rights between Zee, ESPN Star Sports and the BCCI has taken a fresh twist. This afternoon at a...
MUMBAI: Star Plus’ Priya Mishra has shifted loyalties to Disney. Mishra, who held the post of group head executive producer in Star Plus, has joined Disney...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney India has poached another senior executive from Sony Entertainment Television India. Nachiket Pantvaidya, V-P sales and marketing English channels, is joining Disney as...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney has elevated Raymund Miranda to managing director of Walt Disney International, South-East Asia. This will be in addition to his current responsibilities as...
