MUMBAI: ESPN Classic Sport which showcases major sports events of the past is spreading its reach in Europe. It launched in Croatia over the Easter weekend...
Non-stop soccer action continues this weekend on ESPN Star Sports (ESS). Viewers can catch matches from the Fifa World Cup Qualifiers and the Paulista Championship. The...
ESPN Star Sports, which already boasts of a stellar football-programming that includes the English Premier League, the Spanish Primera Liga, the UEFA Champion’s League, the UEFA...
ESPN Star Sports' (ESS) interactive initiative Dream Job – Harsha Ki Khoj is reaching an exciting climax. The last of the three semi-finals airs on 3...
MUMBAI: While the media is full of reports over the cricket rights for the upcoming Indo-Pak series, a non cricket event with a local flavour is...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Even as ESPN Star Sports has asked Prasar Bharati to honour sharing clauses on cricket, the Indian Cricket Board is upset with...
NEW DELHI: Acting on expected lines, the Madras High Court, in an interim order today, ruled that the upcoming India-Pakistan cricket series telecast be done by...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Disney has announced that its shareholders have strongly supported its board of directors at the annual meeting which took place a few days...
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: 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,...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has just added the biggest soccer property of them all to its draw card. The sports broadcaster has acquired exclusive telecast...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has a feast of football action this weekend. It will showcase action from both the Spanish Primera Liga and the FA Cup....
The fourth episode of Closeup Dream Job-Harsha Ki Khoj will air on 27 January at 8:30 pm on ESPN. The show is aimed at the sports...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The spat between Hathway Datacom and ESPN Star Sports has been thrashed out — seemingly for the time being — and the channels are...
ESPN will telecast the studio round of Harsha Ki Khoj on 13 january at 9:30 pm. Targeted at the sports fanatic who has it in him...
It was once a whole lot easier. Three years ago, broadcasters would press for more subscribers and rates, multi system operators (MSOs) would ask for an...
MUMBAI: Sports broadcaster ESPN has announced that its channel ESPN Classic Sport which brings to life memorable sporting moments of the past will launch in Belgium...
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: 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: Sports channel ESPN today said it holds the exclusive right to telecast the India-Bangladesh cricket series and was not willing to share its revenue with...
MUMBAI: ESPN will use the mobile phone in a big way in the US to connect further with sports fans. The broadcaster will create a wireless...
MUMBAI: American Desi, which claims to be the first and only 24-hour English language American television network for South Asians living in the US has announced...
This has been more than just another busy year for ESPN Star Sports (ESS). The broadcaster has not given up hopes on getting the India cricket...
MUMBAI: DirecTV, Inc. today announced that it had expanded its South Asian programming lineup with the launch of Aastha Broadcasting Network, which is India’s most prominent...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks India has announced a line up of new appointments and promoted some senior executives to bolster its team. Ranjan Narayan has joined as...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports’ (ESS) latest marketing initiative Closeup Dream Job – Harsha Ki Khoj goes on air from 25 November 2004. 15 episodes of the...
MUMBAI: Despite the fact that it suffered major losses on the theatrical front with films like The Alamo failing badly at the box office and the...
MUMBAI: Russell Wolff has been promoted to ESPN International executive VP and MD. The announcement was made by ESPN and ABC Sports president George Bodenheimer. Wolff...
MUMBAI: Uefa has invited tenders for the TV rights for the European Football Championship (Euro) 2008. In India ESPN Star Sports had aired Euro 2004 a...
MUMBAI: ESPN is looking to build its brand further in China. The sports broadcaster will launch a Chinese-language monthly magazine in December. It will target the...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) recently renewed multi-year syndication deals in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar with terrestrial broadcasters Channel 3, BBTV7, VTV-3, TV5, CTN and...
MUMBAI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), an apex body of broadcasting companies, will soon submit before the information & broadcasting ministry its viewpoint on the recent...
MUMBAI: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US will kick off a consumer education campaign today 4 October. It will aim at highlighting the importance...
MUMBAI: Sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports will be telecasting live the much-anticipated Indian leg of the four-test India Pakistan hockey series. And continuing its efforts towards...
NEW DELHI: Arguments relating to the Indian cricket rights issue opened today in the Supreme Court. The Indian cricket board and ESPN-Star Sports were the first...
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court has adjourned to Tuesday its hearing of Zee Telefilm’s petition in the India cricket telecast rights case. Reflecting the seriousness with which...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today fixed Monday for hearing Zee Telefilm’s petition in the India cricket telecast rights case. According to sources in Zee Telefilms,...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: It has finally happened. Zee Telefilms this afternoon filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court challenging the cancellation of an earlier...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Match-fixing charges reared its ugly head in Indian cricket today, but on a surface different to that of the playing field. Following the Board...
MUMBAI: The latest New Generations 2004 Cartoon Network kid’s lifestyle survey suggests that achieving good grades in school and staying healthy are the two most important...
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....
MUMBAI: Following the success of its three Asian versions of the news show SportsCenter , ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has now introduced a fourth edition. This...
NEW DELHI: Zee Telefilms Ltd, which reported a 10.8 per cent growth in consolidated revenue for the quarter ended 30 June 2004, would be investing about...
Mumbai: Zee Telefilms Limited, India’s largest media and entertainment conglomerate today accepted the BCCI offer to increase the bid price to US$ 308 million, thus bagging...
MUMBAI: The Board for Cricket Control in India (BCCI) was today hit with a public interest litigation (PIL) filed in the Bombay High Court alleging irregularities...
MUMBAI: Disney has reported financial results for the third quarter ended 30 June, 2004. Revenues increased to $7,471 million from $6,377 million for the same quarter...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney company is looking to enhance its presence in China through its association with the National Basketball Association (NBA) by sponsoring the first-ever...
MUMBAI: ESPN is planning to make a TV movie on the first black heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson. On the other hand, filmmaker Ken Burns is...
MUMBAI: Television’s cricket audience are not just ‘dumb viewers’, at least that is what ESPN Star Sports (ESS) believes. The sports broadcaster, along with wireless solutions...