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NEW DELHI: National Geographic Channel (NGC), part of the Star bouquet of channels in India, is open to the idea of making available its fare on...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan India has won the Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) Award 2004 for the best TV programme on local children issues. The film...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan, sitting happily on the ringside watching the cricket telecast soap opera unfurl with twists and turns, today hinted that it would...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s KU-band television services foray, it seems, hinges on the government okaying a proposal to allow private satellite channels to come on...
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: The BCCI is caught between a rock and a hard place. At the moment it is caught up in a legal tussle with ESPN Star...
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has adjourned hearing in the much-contested BCCI cricket telecast rights case to Monday after Zee Telefilms exhaustively put forward its argument....
NEW DELHI: Union minister for information and broadcasting Jaipal Reddy said that financial autonomy of public broadcaster was essential for giving true autonomy to Doordarshan and...
NEW DELHI: As ESPN-Star Sports and Zee Telefilms slug it out for the Indian cricket rights, another party, apart from the Indian cricket board, that is...
MUMBAI: With the mini world cup, The Champions Trophy, kicking off today (10 September) it will be a fight between Max and Doordarshan to see who...
MUMBAI: Beehive Systems’ says that Star News, Zee News and Doordarshan have successfully used its laptop-based digital newsgathering system called vid’linkMoblie to help them cover 2004...
NEW DELHI: Sony Entertainment TV India is out and Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati is in. The cricket telecast drama continues to experience one twist after another....
MUMBAI: While the soon-to-be-launched Hungama TV is enjoying the limelight now, it doesn’t mean that the production arm UTV is lying low. In an official communique,...
NEW DELHI: The government may be worried about Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s indifferent annual revenues, but surprisingly one of its own arms, National Film Development Corporation (NFDC),...
NEW DELHI: When the pubcaster wants, it manages to gets its dues. Private satellite channels like Aaj Tak have said that they would pay for the...
MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati has invited bids from agencies for language dubbing of serials, documentaries, tele-films and other television shows for Doordarshan. Additionally, the pubcaster has also...
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...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting ministry proposes to set up a committee to look into the regulatory framework for the KU-band DTH sector and possibly...
MUMBAI: The working committee of the Board for Cricket Control in India (BCCI), which met in Kolkata today to discuss the telecast rights of cricket matches...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Seeing what it had assumed till now was a deal done and sewn up suddenly having slipped out of its grasp, ESPN...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government expects that the broadcast and cable regulator would submit a favourable recommendation within “a few days” on making available TV channels...
NEW DELHI: Whatever may be the final outcome of the bidding process for India cricket rights, on one thing there is certainty. All matches would be...
MUMBAI: The Indian television content landscape has grown in leaps and bounds over the past decade. The country has moved from a single Doordarshan channel environment...
NEW DELHI: National broadcaster Doordarshan today announced it would be launching its classic series with the airing of Premchand’s acclaimed Godan (the Gift of a Cow),...
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court today said it was setting up a three-member committee to determine the quantum of damage, if any, suffered by the parties which...
NEW DELHI: In a surprising move, the grants-in-aid to Prasar Bharati, which manages India’s pubcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio, has been shaved off marginally, though...
MUMBAI: BAG films limited today announced its financial results for the year that ended 31 March 2004. The revenues for the financial year 2004 are listed...
NEW DELHI: A fortnight ahead of a crucial hearing in the Supreme Court relating to a cricket telecast row between Doordarshan and Ten Sports, senior executives...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy, today, said that the government is studying the issue whether foreign financial institutions’ (FIIs) investments in news ventures...
MUMBAI: Television software company Nimbus will add four shows to the existing 20 sponsored programmes it markets by the end of the third quarter. Two of...
NEW DELHI: Some are saying it’s poetic justice, but it can only happen in Doordarshan. The only broadcaster with the permission to cover the whole of...
Information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy hasruled out any immediate change in the board of India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which manages Doordarshan and All India Radio....
MUMBAI: And the southward expansion continues. In a bid to buttress its south market reach, Mudra Videotec will be producing shows for Udaya TV and Sun...
MUMBAI: The tooing and froing of personnel from the news channels continues. Leading Hindi news channel Aaj Tak’s senior manager distribution Anoop Varma has called it...
NEW DELHI: The present government will not roll back any foreign investment norms in the media sector, including those changes brought about by the previous Bharatiya...
North-East Monitor a programme focussing on Mizoram and its literacy levels will telecast on Doordarshan on Tuesday 8 June at 9.30 am on the National Channel...
Jaipal Reddy’s second inning at the information and broadcasting ministry has one similarity — nothing much has changed since the time he was last here in...
NEW DELHI: The new Congress-led coalition government would like to de-saffronise Prasar Bharati, which would mean that people owing allegiance to it and other allies of...
A television channel war will soon hit the southern Indian state of Kerla. The state marked by religious sentiments and a huge television viewing audience has...
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from the Chandni Chowk constituency in Delhi, Tulsi Virani aka Smriti Z Iraani may find herself in a tight spot...
NEW DELHI: The cricket series is about to get over, but the fight between Doordarshan and Ten Sports continue; with the former today asking the latter...
MUMBAI: The third Sahyadri Navratna Awards ceremony took place at Doordarshan’s premises at Worli on Wednesday 14 April. Inaugurated by Prasar Bharati chief executive KS Sarma,...
The national broadcaster Doordarshan’s commercial and advertising revenues have soared to an all time high of Rs 6.1 billion for the financial year 1999-2000 as against...
NEW DELHI: D P S Lamba, a management professional with over 30 years senior level experience, has assumed charge as Member (Personnel) of Prasar Bharati. As...
MUMBAI: Hit Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company have reached an agreement on a five-year global rights and production venture. Hit will now distribute Henson’s family...
MUMBAI: DD Sahyadri continues to be the cash cow among the pubcaster’s regional horde. The Marathi channel from the Doordarshan fold has earned revenues of Rs...
NEW DELHI: Telecom and V-sat company Essel Shyam Communications Ltd. is bullish on garnering increased business from providing teleport-related services to broadcasting companies in India. Having...
NEW DELHI: Didn’t we tell you that country’s “sab se tez” news channel is poaching and with a vengeance too? Apart from at least three persons...
MUMBAI: Both Ten Sports and Doordarshan have propelled into the top ten in the ratings charts this week, the satellite broadcaster a whisker ahead of the...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The match is on. On Doordarshan and all cable networks in the country, even those that have not signed on the dotted line with...
