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If there was one person who brought about the biggest change in sports broadcasting in India in 2006, it was Nimbus chairman Harish Thawani. He took...
2006 has been a rocky year for sports broadcasters. Cricket properties were acquired at humungous prices, SET India decided to walk out of bidding wars, Harish...
MUMBAI: The International Archery Federation (FITA) has announced that due to the Meteksan Archery World Cup and the Field World Championships an estimated 900 million people...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court bench hearing the case on the issue of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai) constitutional standing to be a...
MUMBAI: Uefa Euro 2008 will have unprecedented television coverage around the world after Uefa announced it had agreed the sale of broadcast rights to key territories...
MUMBAI: The Delhi High Court has ruled in favour of ESPN Star Sports, the official broadcaster of the India-South Africa Series, in its suit for permanent...
MUMBAI: Comcast Corporation and The Walt Disney Company announced that they have entered into long-term comprehensive distribution agreements that will extend their relationship into the next...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports is set to launch a bi-weekly comedy series Full Toss, a satirical take on the functioning of a fictitious cricket organisation. The...
MUMBAI: The bidding for the audio-visual rights for International Cricket Council (ICC) conducted events from late 2007 to 2015 is certainly not going according to the...
MUMBAI: ESPN STAR Sports, Asia’s sports broadcaster, has acquired the exclusive telecast rights to the French Open Grand Slam tournament for a period of five years...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Disney has reported a fourth-quarter net profit of $782 million, or 36 cents per share, compared with $379 million, or 19 cents...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television India, the “incumbent” holder of telecast rights for ICC cricket in the subcontinent, has withdrawn from the bidding process for the next...
Unlike last two years where the league had two tiers with five teams each, the third edition of the PHL will have the top seven teams...
Unlike last two years where the league had two tiers with five teams each, the third edition of the PHL will have the top seven teams...
Unlike last two years where the league had two tiers with five teams each, the third edition of the PHL will have the top seven teams...
MUMBAI: It’s a week of hectic activity ahead for sports broadcasters, with the deadlines for submission of tenders for a number of big and not so...
MUMBAI: The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), which has issued a tender to sell marketing rights including those for television and the Internet for six years until...
MUMBAI: Acting on expected lines, broadcasters have finally taken legal recourse against the Rs 5 tariff that the sector regulator had set as the price for...
MUMBAI: Hercules MTB Himachal 2006, the second edition of India’s first Mountain Cycling ride and race is scheduled to take place in Himachal Pradesh from 4-13...
Early this year in February, Nimbus shook up the sports broadcasting sector by bidding $ 612.8 million for the rights to India cricket. Driven by the...
MUMBAI: The global television trade event Mipcom has announced the nominations for the second annual Mobile TV Screenings & Awards. 23 nominations and 10 special mentions...
Arun Poddar is an industry veteran with an enriched experience and excellent track record of over 23 years in sales and distribution. He brings with him...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Walt Disney reported a higher quarterly profit from strong performances by its television, films and theme parks businesses. The company’s fiscal third quarter...
MUMBAI: 13 television channels in Bangladesh are off the air. Cable operators had earlier switched off all foreign channels on 29 July to protest a government...
Rik Dovey, formerly Senior Vice president of Production, Operations and Engineering at ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has taken over as managing director of ESS from Alexander...
MUMBAI: Disney’s distribution arm Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) along with Walt Disney Internet Group, Disney Channel, ESPN, ESPN Star Sports, and its US television network...
MUMBAI: Webaroo, the provider of the searchable web offline launches ‘World Soccer 2006’ web pack just in time for the World Cup. The pack is a...
MUMBAI: The biggest global sporting event on the planet kicked off in Germany with the hosts playing Costa Rica. Around 1.5 billion viewers around the globe...
Live goal alerts. Live match updates. Live fixtures. Download mobisodes of previews and predictions. Contests and much more. The soccer World Cup anywhere and anytime. Football...
MUMBAI: ESPN Software India has won its case against Pune’s biggest MSO Intermedia Cable Communication (ICC) for recovery of dues that go back to December 2004....
MUMBAI: The satellite-based digital radio services, WorldSapce Satellite Radio has announced that Gregory B. Armstrong and Alexander P. ‘Sandy’ Brown have been appointed co-chief operating officers...
MUMBAI: Riding on the strong ratings success of ABC Network and cable channels shows coupled with the increased attendance at its theme parks, The Walt Disney...
MUMBAI: ESPN Software India has approached the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) for recovery of dues from Pune’s biggest cable operator Intermedia Cable Communication. ESPN,...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS), a monopoly in satellite sports broadcasting for years, has found challengers like Ten Sports, Max and Zee Sports with cricket content being...
MUMBAI: ESPN has launched the 10th international version of its news and information show SportsCenter. The Japanese edition will air on J Sports ESPN every Monday...
NEW DELHI: The numbers are going beyond believable as far as India cricket is concerned. Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms has secured the rights for the latest...
MUMBAI: Consistent with its strategic focus to pursue technologies that deliver outstanding creative content and services in new ways, The Walt Disney Company unveiled Disney Mobile...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Cricket and controversy in India are synonymous now. The latest round of allegation and counter-elucidations relates to overseas cricket telecast rights for Indo-Pakistan cricket...
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...
MUMBAI: One of ESPN Star Sports’ (ESS) biggest properties for the year is the football World cup. While the event is still a few months away...
NEW DELHI: The epic one day international between South Africa and Australia, which saw eight records tumble during the record run chase by the Proteas, registered...
ESPN-Star Sports has denied that it has any immediate plans to launch sports bars and theme restaurants in India. An ESPN-Star TV spokesperson said that the...
MUMBAI: ESPN will provide coverage of the Triple Crown of Polo (TCP) across multiple outlets, in the US and internationally, including mobile, pay per view and...
Is Disney getting into the Indian market? We have been hearing reports that the company is in conversation with Star TV to distribute the channel in...
MUMBAI: A day after Nimbus Communications clinched a $612.18 million (Rs 27.24 billion) global media rights deal for cricket to be played in India for the...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports has launched a soccer based show called Kick Off. The game show based on a quizzing format features two popular ex-EPL players;...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Now that telecast rights to India cricket for the next four years have been sealed and delivered (though the signing on the...
MUMBAI: The official song of the 2006 Fifa World Cup in Germany will be Time of Our Lives by the vocal group Il Divo. Il Divo’s...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Disney has announced that first quarter profits rose by seven per cent to $734 million. Revenues grew marginally by two per cent...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has announced new time slots for three of its originally-produced programs SportsCenter Asia, Tiger First Edition and Nokia Football Crazy. Effective...
