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After being absent for over a year on the cricket front, Max is all set to steal the limelight. It has two mouth-watering tournaments back to...
ESPN School Quiz 2004 has reached the final stages. Schools From Kolkata, Pune And Chennai will now slug it out for the title in the 'best...
MUMBAI: One normally does not associate country music with India. Yet that is the subject of Discovery’s latest documentary in its Discover India series. It involves...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports has won the worldwide telecast rights for next month’s Asia Cup. The rights, which include global exclusive television broadcast of the tournament,...
NEW DELHI: Zee Telefilms and ASC Enterprise-promoted Dish TV, India’s first KU-band DTH televisions service, will hop on to NSS-6 from an Insat satellite in July....
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa), today took new steps to stamp out pay-TV piracy in Hong Kong, issuing “cease and desist...
MUMBAI: Doug Miller has been appointed executive VP and MD of Walt Disney International Asia-Pacific and Walt Disney Television International Asia Pacific. He will oversee all...
In a deft move, Modi Entertainment Network, which currently distributes ESPN, Hallmark and Kermit in India, has gone ahead and signed a distribution agreement with B4U...
Cricket lovers are going to have a feast with speedsters Irfan Pathan, L Balaji and pace legend Imran Khan freewheeling in ESPN on this Friday 23...
MUMBAI: Sports broadcaster ESPN is celebrating 25 years of existence with an initiative that will bring sports fans from across the globe together to share their...
MUMBAI: For those who thought cable operators fighting with broadcasters over fees is an “Indian malaise”, think again. Much the same issues are behind the head-on...
NEW DELHI: Having managed to gain a toehold in the market, Dish TV, the first KU-band DTH service in the country, is now looking at expanding...
MUMBAI: Does the Walt Disney Company or rather its chairman and CEO Michael Eisner know what he wants? Is he waiting for a bid or not,...
MUMBAI: The Asian X Games VI and ESPN Junior X Games V presented by Toyota in Kuala Lumpur, saw Malaysia in exemplary form with the Bicycle...
MUMBAI: The constraint on broadband means that video streaming over the Internet is still limited in its scope in India. Globally however, the picture is the...
While the main focus right now is on India's forthcoming tour of Pakistan next month, cricket fans can for the moment enjoy the battle of the...
MUMBAI: Two days after Comcast announced its bid for Disney, there seems to be no definite turn of events on the matter. But one thing for...
MUMBAI: The latest buzzword among the Mumbai gliteratti and the janta is fitness, courtesy the Standard Chartered Mumbai International Marathon scheduled for this Sunday. National pubcaster...
NEW DELHI: ESPN Software India, part of the Disney group, has expressed its keenness to bid for the telecast rights of cricket matches organised by the...
MUMBAI: ‘Catch ’em young’, seems to be the buzz word at ESPN. With other sports channels slugging it out for the senior cricket properties, the sports...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has dropped the idea of going head to head and legally challenging the newly appointed broadcasting regulator the Telecom...
MUMBAI: The Pakistan Cricket Board has denied a report in The News Pakistan which stated that it was reviewing the television rights deal it had signed...
NEW DELHI: What has come as a surprise to the cable industry is the response to conditional access system (CAS) from the people of South Delhi....
NEW DELHI: Buoyed by growth in India and Taiwan, the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group Pvt. Ltd. is on track for $40 million FY 2004 profit as...
Surajeet Dasgupta, living in the Chittaranjan Park area of South Delhi, is not unduly perturbed that at the stroke of midnight (or so the cable operators...
MUMBAI: For those hoping to see some resolution to the ongoing dispute between sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports and Hinduja group cable MSO INCableNet, the wait...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The end-of year big ticket cricket event, India’s tour of Australia, kicks off on ESPN Star Sports from tomorrow. However, for a...
MUMBAI: Come 4 December, ESPN STAR Sports will air India’s tour Down Under, vying for viewership and ratings with election analyses on domestic news channels. ESS...
MUMBAI: First was the shut-off. Now the courts have been drawn into the dispute. A week after ESPN Star Sports (ESS) cut off signals to Hinduja...
CALIFORNIA: This is an alliance that aims at taking the concept of Video on Demand (VOD) beyond just films. TVN Entertainment which provides on demand television...
LONDON: The BBC will sell its wholly-owned commercial subsidiary BBC Technology. The move follows a strategic review of the BBC’s technology requirements for the next decade....
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati has threatened to take legal action against unauthorised use of its sports-related software by private satellite channels. Most satellite channels...
LOS ANGELES: Sports broadcaster ESPN has reached a new multi-year agreement for telecast rights to the Spanish Football League throughout Latin America and the Pacific Rim....
MUMBAI: The football crazy city of Kolkata gave ESPN excellent ratings. The broadcaster has stated that its live telecast of the final between East Bengal and...
NEW YORK: ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown commentator Rush Limbaugh resigned from ESPN Wednesday night, three days after making controversial statements against Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb....
NEW YORK: ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown commentator Rush Limbaugh resigned from ESPN Wednesday night, three days after making controversial statements against Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb....
FLORIDA: The WTA Tour and ESPN have reached a multi-year agreement for the cable network to broadcast the season ending WTA Tour Championships presented by Porsche....
NEW YORK: Fans of American football, National Football League (NFL) are in for a treat. Over 60 broadcasters from 223 countries and territories, throughout the world...
NEW YORK: UEFA has announced that ESPN International has been awarded the exclusive Pay and Terrestrial TV rights for the UEFA Champions League in North America....
Kunal Dasgupta has just completed eight years as chief executive of Sony Entertainment Television India, which makes him the longest serving professional CEO in the television...
NEW DELHI: A “substantial” part of the revenues of ESPN India, as too with other pay broadcasters, is likely to get affected in the post-conditional access...
MUMBAI: Sports broadcasting in high definition (HD) television has started growing in popularity in the US. Disney’s ESPN has a 24 hour HD service. In its...
NEW DELHI: Fifteen days away from the implementation of CAS, decisions still remain to be taken; discussions are still to be had to iron out glitches...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is not averse to the idea if the main channels, including the sports and entertainment ones like Star Plus, Zee TV,...
NEW DELHI: CAS is indeed turning out to be better than any of the soaps that most entertainment channels air with unexpected twists and turns. ...
NEW YORK: ESPN, Latin America’s leading pan-regional sports network, has sold out the sponsorships for its coverage of Super Bowl XXXVII. ESPN will televise Super Bowl...
MUMBAI: To feed the appetite of cricket fans in Indonesia, ESPN STAR Sports and Kablevision jointly announced that they had reached an agreement to bring the...
MUMBAI: While in India there may be much uncertainty around how conditional access will affect business, for cable ops, satellite platform operators, equipment suppliers and content...
MUMBAI: Now fans of the bat and ball game can place their bets on test cricket. Interactive Systems Worldwide (ISWI) has announced that ukbetting , a...
It’s been a while out of the spotlight for ESPN Star Sports, what with the Champions Trophy last September and the World Cup in March. On the...
