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MUMBAI: Special ads, a book release, a remixed music album. Its all happening to mark superstar Amitabh Bachchan’s turning 60 tomorrow. Soft drinks major Pepsi, for...
MUMBAI: It’s an indicator of DD Sahyadri’s continued popularity. The channel, rated one of the best Doordarshan regional channels, has commenced a half hour morning telecast...
MUMBAI: Monisha Shah, a member of the BBC Worldwide India Board, has been promoted as Head of Africa and South Asia for BBC Worldwide. The London...
Modi Entertainment Network expects to add four channels to its bouquet by November. The distribution network, which has national broadcaster Doordarshan’s DD Sports, the Dubai-based Taj...
MUMBAI: Actress Priya Tendulkar, best known for the cult series Rajani that aired on Doordarshan in the mid 1980s died following a massive heart attack in...
AMSTERDAM (Holland): Om Khushu has won this year’s international honour for excellence, the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) John Tucker Award. The award was given to Khushu...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati is still dreaming of a news channel in the Doordarshan stable. And rightly so. In a two-day board, held yesterday and today,...
French pay-TV major and technology supplier Canal Plus and the News Corp owned subscription and conditional access hotshot NDS are locked in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation. The...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The deadline was 1 September. And true to the warning issued earlier, the top channels including Star, Sony and Zee TV have stopped airing...
MUMBAI: The stage is set for the first Robocon Contest scheduled to be held at the Japanese capital Tokyo tomorrow. National broadcaster Doordarshan, the regional sponsor...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has agreed to accept a third-party guarantee for minimum revenue from Nimbus Communications Ltd for the ICC cricket matches to be telecast...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan has started airing Sanskrit news bulletins from Thursday. The five minute news capsule, started on World Sanskrit Day on 22 August, is being aired...
MUMBAI: The Prasar Bharati board has decided to drastically cut down its dependence on news agencies PTI and UNI by 2006. Currently the two news...
MUMBAI: The Prasar Bharati board has decided to drastically cut down its dependence on news agencies PTI and UNI by 2006. Currently the two news agencies...
Vinod Pande is not a run-of-the-mill filmmaker. Whether films or TV, his creations have stood out for being daringly different. Pande was the trendsetter in late...
MUMBAI:Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday commissioned national broadcaster Doordarshan’s Metro Low-Power Transmitter (LPT) and laid the foundation stone for an FM radio station in...
NEW DELHI: As on 31 March, 2002, the outstanding dues owed to national broadcaster Doordarshan from various producers and agencies stood at Rs 1692.8 million, according...
NEW DELHI: The Prasar Bharati board, which met here yesterday, has decided that Doordarshan should go in for narrowcasting by tying up with organisations like NGOs...
Anurradha Prasad started her career as a journalist. After her marriage to fellow journalist and now Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Shukla, the duo decided to focus...
MUMBAI: The Prasar Bharati has called for proposals from television producers for national broadcaster Doordarshan under the sponsored category for prime time, non-prime time and sub-national...
If there is one person who seems to be smitten by the Big B’s charisma then it has to be Kerry Packer. The Australian media tycoon,...
James Packer, son of the Australian media baron Kerry Packer was in India this week. He spoke to The Economic Times about Channel Nine’s (which is...
MUMBAI: PanAmSat, a major provider of global video and data broadcasting services via satellite has announced a 10-year transponder lease agreement with the Eternal Word Television...
KS Sarma, the 50-something chief executive of Prasar Bharati, overseeing the functioning of Doordarshan and All India Radio, is not new to the system. A few...
Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has invited bids for Hindi feature films to be telecast on public holidays for the rest of the year. The films are...
Trust Star to do it. It will soon start another daily soap beginning with ‘K’ a letter which has not only turned round the fortunes of...
Star India today announced the appointment of Zee News executive editor Sanjay Pugalia as news director Star News. His appointment will be effective 1 July and...
Here’s yet another twist to the convoluted tale of national broadcaster Doordarshan’s bid to arrange World Cup soccer telecast. DD now has to deal with a...
Software and film animation major Padmalaya Telefilms Limited has declared its unaudited financial results for the year ended 31 March 2002. The net sales of the...
To telecast or not to telecast (World cup soccer matches) is the question that is haunting Prasar Bharati and it is still attempting to salvage an...
Mickey Mouse is coming to Korea. Come 1 June, viewers in Seoul will be able to tune into the antics of Disney’s rodent on television. The...
Alarmed by the growing reach of private satellite channels, Doordarshan is finally getting its act together and is looking to increase the penetration of DD-2, or...
Sri Adhikari Brothers Television (SABTNL) continues its long association with national broadcaster Doordarshan with the launch on Monday of a new daily social drama Kuntee on...
The enabling provision giving the government powers to modify the The Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 to incorporate CAS raises questions which beg answers. Legislators...
Doordarshan has announced the line up of its film schedule to commence from 19 to 24 May 2006. The agenda for the feature films to be...
In a move aimed at demonstrating the government’s commitment to make all pay channels mandatorily routed through a conditional access system, national broadcaster Doordarshan is all...
Three new dailies from the Sri Adhikari Brothers stable will start beaming on Doordarshan Metro beginning 30 April. A bi-weekly thriller, produced by SABTNL, will start...
A fifth Malayalam channel is all set to hit the airwaves. India Vision, the long delayed satellite channel promoted by Muslim League legislator MK Muneer, began...
Doordarshan has rechristened its regional channel, DD-Marathi to ‘Sahyadri’. The renaming ceremony took place today at 4.00 pm and was telecasted live on the channel. The...
National broadcaster Doordarshan has flagged off a regional news unit in Ranchi yesterday, the capital of the new north Indian state of Jharkhand. Information & Broadcasting...
National broadcaster Doordarshan has flagged off a regional news unit in Ranchi yesterday, the capital of the new north Indian state of Jharkhand. Information &...
The World Cup Network is what it is now calling itself. Sony Entertainment made it official today that it has acquired the Indian television satellite broadcast...
While entertainment channels find it difficult to look beyond "saas-bahu" conflicts, national broadcaster Doordarshan soldiers on covering social responsibility issues. Launching 25 March on DD1 is...
The chickens may be finally coming home to roost for sundry officials in pubcaster Prasar Bharati. I&B minister Sushma Swaraj has informed Parliament that her ministry...
I&B Minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday gave further indication in Parliament that the government was close to mandating on conditional access systems (CAS) as a way to...
National broadcaster Doordarshan will show a 26-episode documentary about Indian paintings this month. The documentary titled The paintings of India has found a place in the...
Doordarshan has decided to offer digital transmission television (DTT) platform to private satellite channels in the coming weeks. After a hiatus of nearly two years, the...
Television and the Internet are the only media that have consolidated their reach in India in the period between December 2000 and June 2001, according to...
Varied renditions of the National Anthem will feature on all television channels in the country on Republic Day as the country gears to celebrate its 52nd...
Balaji Telefilms seems set to continue its winning streak with a clutch of new serials this year, three of which will premiere on Zee and Sony...
