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India is emerging as the only country where so many direct-to-home (DTH) service providers have expressed their intent to join the race. Tata Sky Ltd, a...
Passionate about directing ever since her college years, director Swapna Waghmare Joshi has come a long way. She first came to the limelight with Balaji Telefilms’...
The second of a three-part special series examining the three main channels that now constitute Subhash Chandra‘s Hindi entertainment play, we examine Zee Smile… Early this...
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...
MUMBAI: Presently, Zee Smile is sporting a grin. What has buoyed the fun and entertainment channel is some good news on the ratings front. The channel...
MUMBAI: Some European channels like Euro News and Euro Sport News are looking at hopping on to Doordarshan’s DTH platform to increase visibility in India. Indian...
NEW DELHI: The broadcasting sector in Korea accounted for over 40 per cent of the total turnover of the culture industry in 2004, an industry that...
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...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: European broadcaster Thema TV, which has five channels in its stable, is targeting India and Asia aggressively through DTH and cable platforms and has...
At Jaya TV, KP Sunil is preparing for a bigger role. As head of news, he is eagerly waiting for the news and current affairs channel...
NEW DELHI: The cricket comedy show continues to roll on. Pubcaster Doordarshan moved the Delhi high court on Saturday, getting the court to restrain ESPN Star...
NEW DELHI: Contrary to expectations, the government has marginally increased its financial support to Prasar Bharati (translated in English as the Broadcasting Corporation of India), which...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom regulatory Authority of India today released a consultation paper on private terrestrial TV broadcasting service, indicating that the sector could be thrown...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan has launched a Physics Helpline from 24 February to 28t February. 2005. The programme is being telecast live on the National Network Channel (DD-1)...
MUMABI: Doordarshan News channel will telecast live special programmes on the Economic Survey, Rail Budget and Union Budget-2005. The channel will air the Economic Survey on...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan will telecast a new Serial titled Har Jawan ki Kassam from 9 March, 2005. The serial will be telecast on Wednesdays at 9:00 pm...
MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) stated today that Pakistan’s upcoming tour of India would in all likelihood be delayed by four...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The Madras High Court today passed an injunction restraining the Indian cricket board from awarding television telecast rights to any broadcaster or party till...
NEW DELHI: Fazed by high cost of acquisition, the Indian pubcaster Doordarshan has written to the government and the Indian Olympics Association (IOA) seeking intervention, if...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan is aggressively attempting to recover dues to shore up its bottomlines, while continuing to programme acquisitions of events held outside India....
NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket board is toying with the idea of handing over the telecast rights of the upcoming India-Pakistan home series to pubcaster Doordarshan,...
Doordarshan will telecast live the Standard Chartered Mumbai International Marathon which is to be held at Mumbai on 16 January. The coverage will air at 7:30...
The year gone by saw more and more Indian television channels featuring news and current affairs programmes entering an already-crowded space. Apprehensions of an imminent shake-out...
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...
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...
NEW DELHI: Finally the information and broadcasting ministry has taken the downlinking policy to the Cabinet that aims at having all TV channels beaming into India...
NEW DELHI: ESPN Star Sports’ woes continue. The Supreme Court will hear ESS’ appeal against a Kerala high court order sometime in January. This would mean...
MUMBAI: In a ruling on similar lines to one laid down earlier this year by the Supreme Court in the Ten Sports Vs Doordarshan case, the...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s direct-to-home (DTH) service will formally be launched by prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh on 16 December at 6.30 pm in New Delhi. DD...
MUMBAI: The Kerala High Court has asked pubcaster Prasar Bharati to indicate how much it would be willing to pay for simulcasting live the ongoing India-Bangladesh...
MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan may continue to drain the public exchequer but the launch of new channels “in the public interest” continues unabated. Speaker Somnath Chatterjees...
NEW DELHI: Some Indian policy makers today took note of the modern technology involved in broadcasting and suggested set-top boxes should be cost-effective for Doordarshan’s KU-band...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) plans to invest Rs 1 billion in its wholly owned subsidiary Siticable over the next one year to further expand its...
MUMBAI: Matters cricketing take centre stage once again in the legal arena with the Supreme Court scheduled to hear arguments in three important cases from tomorrow....
A legendary maker of the epic serial Ramayan, Dr Ramanand Sagar has achieved several milestones including the Padma Shri award. On Friday, added another one to...
NEW DELHI: It seems that the Tata-Star combine may have to wait for some more time before it can lay its hands on a letter of...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan and Prakash Jha have called a truce, after the film-maker agreed to most of the cuts suggested by the broadcaster relating...
NEW DELHI: You can term this as a Diwali gift from the government to the employees of the Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati Corporation, which manages Doordarshan...
There was a time when DD7 or Indian pubcaster Doordarshan‘s Bengali channel was the only fare available to Bengali understanding audiences in the country, especially those...
NEW DELHI: Star anchors Arup Ghosh and Shireen, who had quit NDTV almost three years back to join the Sahara group’s television news venture, have left...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s proposed DTH television venture is becoming a bit of a joke with a prolonged delay in launching the KU-band service increasingly...
NEW DELHI: Fazed by the fact that dissemination of information on government’s achievements were not being done properly, the information and broadcasting ministry, has been made...
MUMBAI: The animation industry in India would receive a fillup if the government took steps to supports it. One of the steps could be that it...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), may have come out with its recommendations, but Star India, for one, feels...
BANGALORE: Dr. DK Rabha, the serving director Doordarshan kendra Guwahati, died probably due to heart failure, at the Bangalore airport on 17 October at 5 am....
NEW DELHI: DD Direct Plus, the Indian pubcaster’s proposed KU-band direct-to-home television service, just can’t seem to get going. Assertions to the contrary notwithstanding, the information...
NEW DELHI: The Information and broadcasting ministry today served marching orders on a defiant Anupam Kher from the helm of affairs of the Central Board of...
MUMBAI: The Athens Olympics in August broke global TV viewing records, with nearly four billion people tuning in,. As had been reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com Doordarshan...
NEW DELHI: National broadcaster Doordarshan, which will cough up Rs 1,000 million, for telecast rights to 31 days of upcoming cricket, will have to share the...
NEW DELHI: All channels beaming into India may soon have to open their profit and loss accounts and ownership patterns to the government or a regulatory...
