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NEW DELHI: The government today said that copyright enforcement cells have been set up in most of the States and Union Territory administrations to check violation...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has brought to an abrupt halt pubcaster Doordarshan’s “unfettered acess” to coverage of the India cricket team’s tours abroad. In a...
MUMBAI: Consumer electronics company Weston has launched SAT-20, a Direct to Home (DTH) ready colour television targeted at millions of Indian households having no cable or...
MUMBAI: Production house Creative Eye Ltd has made a foray into sports marketing and celebrity management. The company has begun the innings by marketing the telecast...
MUMBAI: PanAmSat has received a top honour from Telecom Asia magazine. The publication awarded PanAmSat with the “Best Satellite Carrier” award at the 2006 Telecom Asia...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati’s bid to demand carriage fee from broadcasters to be on its DTH platform, DD Direct+, has met with initial resistance...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader and former information & broadcasting (I&B) minister Pramod Mahajan was shot this morning (Saturday) and remains in a critical...
NEW DELHI: Zee Sports, the youngest of the sports channel beaming into Indian cable homes, could breakeven within 12 to 18 months time, according to a...
NEW DELHI: ESPN Star Sports has reached an in-principal agreement with the government to make available the semi-final and final matches of FIFA World Cup soccer...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has decided to exhort the government to mandate all other addressable systems in the country like DTH and IPTV,...
The Zee Network launched the fourth of its regional language channels – Alpha Gujarati on 21 March. The launch took place at a bash attended by...
A comprehensive report on the entertainment industry, the first of its kind, has been compiled by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci)...
Century Direct Fund (CDF) of Mauritius LLC, which currently holds 18.42 per cent equity stakes in United Studios Ltd, will be increasing its stake by another...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has so far permitted 71 companies to uplink 179 private satellite TV channels from India, Information and Broadcasting minister Priya Ranjan...
NEW DELHI: The cricket soap opera continues to hold centre stage as All India Radio (AIR) today said it has managed to get hold of rights...
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: 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...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati arrested a trend of declining earnings in 2004-05 with national broadcaster Doordarshan earning its highest revenue (Rs. 6,700 million) since...
MUMBAI: The third and most critical piece of the India cricket telecast pie for the upcoming India-England series has now been settled with the unveiling of...
MUMBAI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan (DD) will be using MediaSentinel to protect their content distribution in a three month trial program. DD would be among the first...
NEW DELHI: A new floor price of $ 450 million set by the Indian cricket board for telecast rights of Indian cricket is being termed by...
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 cricket telecast rights saga just refuses to die down with new twists added at almost every juncture. Even as Indian pubcaster Doordarshan has...
MUMBAI: Jai Hind, the Congress party backed Malayalam infotainment channel, is planning an April launch. The channel is funded by a group of Kerala businessmen under...
At a time when the Indian media industry is again buzzing with activities, information and broadcasting minister Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, who took over from Jaipal...
NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket board is likely to invite bids for TV rights this week. This time the rights have been broken up in to...
NEW DELHI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) after initially rubbishing Indian government media norms on cricket content sharing with pubcaster Prasar Bharati, today diplomatically made no...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today asked Prasar Bharati to file its replies on a petition filed by Ten Sports challenging a government norm making it...
The big media story of 2006? Let’s say it is one which is being carried forward from 2005 (and to a certain extent, 2004). And that...
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...
If the tone in 2005 was set by second bouquets, the fight for band placements and the emergence of Tdsat as a settler of disputes, the...
Contrary to what used to generally happen in the past, these days not all the TV sets in Doordarshan are tuned into private satellite channels all...
Contrary to what used to generally happen in the past, these days not all the TV sets in Doordarshan are tuned into private satellite channels all...
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has admitted a petition filed by Ten Sports, challenging the Union Government’s uplinking guidelines on telecasting the India-Pakistan matches scheduled next...
NEW DELHI: If you thought with a new set of people taking over the Indian cricket board, the telecast rights controversy is over, then think again....
MUMBAI: Ten Sports has submitted a proposal before the Bombay High Court expressing its willingness to share the cricket telecast feed with Doordarshan only in rural...
MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati today said that Doodrashan’s Urdu channel is likely to go on air in the middle of 2006. Minister of Information & Broadcasting and...
MUMBAI: Ten Sports has done it again by going to court against the government / pubcaster Prasar Bharati over telecast rights issue. Dubai-based Taj TV Limited,...
MUMBAI: Private news channels have won themselves a significant hike in the amount of footage they can air of the ongoing India-South Africa cricket series. The...
As a career bureaucrat, KS Sarma is neither a stranger to the Indian political system nor the opportunities that it throws up if one wants to...
The Rs 750 million Marathi television market will have a new player as brothers Markand and Gautam Adhikari prepare for launch of their channel in December....
NEW DELHI: The government is studying various options, including holding equity against asset, which will facilitate a capital restructuring of the financially beleaguered pubcaster Prasar Bharati...
MUMBAI: What do Zee TV, Sony Entertainment Television, Star Plus, Star One, Star Utsav and Doordarshan have in common? This is what… all these channels have...
MUMBAI: Sports broadcasters say the downlink policy laid down by the information and broadcasting ministry will adversely affect them. “You have paid money to buy sports...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: An optimistic Prasar Bharati says that it would end up netting revenues to the tune of Rs. 1.5 billion from the one-day...
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: A group of ministers (GoM), looking into mandatory sports content sharing with Prasar Bharati, has recommended in favour of the pubcaster. Government sources told...
MUMBAI: The UK headquartered Omnibus System, the provider of broadcast automation and asset management solutions, announced that it will provide pubcaster Doordarshan with news automation and...
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...
