MUMBAI: Zee Learn Limited (ZNL) has appointed Umesh Pradhan as the chief financial officer of the company with effect from 2 January. Pradhan replaces Arun...
MUMBAI: Zee News Ltd (ZNL) has appointed Punit Goenka as managing director of the company. Goenka has replaced Laxmi N Goel, whose resignation was accepted by...
MUMBAI: The handkerchief signature campaign on Zee Kannada is said to have drawn a good response from people across the country. The campaign was kicked off...
Bangalore: Team India will appreciate all the support it can get. If the initiative is as novel as Zee Kannada’s signature campaign it will also bring...
NEW DELHI: No other company selling anything or providing any service from now on will be able to use the trade mark “Zee”, the Delhi High...
The sports genre will be known for four key things in 2007. Firstly, the upheaval that happened regarding cricket. Second, a breakaway initiative by the Essel...
MUMBAI: United Film Organizers (UFO) Moviez, a subsidiary of Apollo International Ltd, is in the process of raising venture capital (VC) funding of $25 million (Rs...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) expects its two demerged entities, Wire & Wireless India Ltd (WWIL) and Zee News Ltd, to be listed by February 2007....
MUMBAI : Essel Shyam Communication Ltd, a 50:50 joint venture between Essel Group and Shyam Group, is looking at an initial public offering (IPO) size of...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd. has acquired 50 per stake in Ten Sports in an all-cash deal for $57.15 million. Confirming the development Essel Group CEO of...
MUMBAI: Parag Kamani has joined Cornershop Entertainment – An Essel Group Enterprise – as Business Head Wireless. Parag will be reporting to director Cornershop, Chirag Shah...
MUMBAI: Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel Group will unveil a set of digital initiatives under the banner of its newly-formed digital arm Digital Media Convergence Ltd (DMCL) by...
MUMBAI: Starting 9 September, the interactive and gaming channel PlayTV will launch a show named Quizmaster. The one hour show, will air at 8 pm. The...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel Group, which is the co-owner of DNA newspaper along with the Dainik Bhaskar group, has joined the United News of...
MUMBAI: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has paved the way for repurchase of shares by ETC Networks Ltd. The market regulator has granted...
MUMBAI: Foreign media companies seem to have hit a wall when it comes to China. Star Group, for example, continues to bleed in that market despite...
MUMBAI: The Essel Group and its flagship, Zee Network, have unveiled an ambitious Awards programme aimed at recognising institutions or individuals who have made a significant...
MUMBAI: Subhash Chandra’s Dishtv has expressed serious intent to increase its channel offerings on the direct-to-home (DTH) platform. The company has selected Scopus Video Networks, a...
MUMBAI: Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel Group is planning to expand its media education venture, Zee Institute of Media Arts (ZIMA). The company will invest about Rs 350...
Laxmi N Goel, director Zee News Ltd and the second of the three brothers of Essel Group chairman Subhash Chandra, is not given to hype and...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd. (ZTL) chairman Subhash Chandra will be transferring his foreign holdings to an investment company in India. Under ZTL’s demerged restructuring into separate...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd. (ZTL) today said its shareholders will get 23 shares of ASC Enterprises Ltd (ASCE) for every 10 shares held. The ZTL board...
NEW DELHI: Two companies related to the consumer service business of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel Group’s DTH platform are poised to be merged with ASC Enterprise...
MUMBAI: Subhash Chandra-promoted E-City Digital Cinemas Pvt Ltd plans to invest Rs 1 billion in digitising 500 cinema theatres by 2007-’08. The company will start delivering...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel Group has launched DMCL (Digital Media Convergence Ltd) as a company that will facilitate the availability of digital content in...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: India’s finance minister P Chidambaram, while presenting the 2006 Union Budget, hailed by experts as a “fine” one, today preferred to ignore...
MUMBAI: Indias readiness to embrace new technologies, opposed to Chinas cautious approach, makes the former a more attractive market for suppliers of broadcast and related technologies,...
MUMBAI: Dishtv, Subhash Chandra’s Essel Group-promoted DTH platform, has announced the launch of its movie-on-demand (MoD) service. The feature will offer two movies per week, allowing...
MUMBAI: Former Zee Bangla business head J K Ray has been appointed as VP corporate Essel Group, West Bengal. Based out of Kolkata, Ray reports to...
MUMBAI: Essel Group has entered into a multi-year license agreement with San Franscisco-based OpenTV Corp, the provider of enabling technologies for advanced digital television services. The...
The regulatory environment is quite strict in India when it comes to adult content as India is largely a country driven by heritage and culture. The...
NEW DELHI: E-City Ventures, part of the $5 billion Essel Group, which is promoted by Subhash Chandra, today announced a Rs 2.5 billion expansion of business...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms is planning to launch its regional channel ETC Punjabi in Australia and New Zealand by the end of this financial year. “We are...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd is gearing up to expand its business in the Middle East. The company is launching early next year a movie channel for...
MUMBAI: In order to expand its international reach, global interactive digital broadcaster – Cellcast plc – has set shop in Mumbai. The new subsidiary company will...
MUMBAI: Subhash Chandra is planning to revive his satellite project. Essel Group owned Agrani Satellite Services Ltd (ASSL) is in negotiations with three companies including Indian...
November 4, 2005- Dish TV, India’s first Direct-to-Home service launched a unique offer in India titled ‘Buy Me Only with a Dish TV’ for all those...
MUMBAI:The Delhi High Court has declined to grant an injunction against the scheduled launch tonight of Zee TV’s big budget primetime weekly Time Bomb. The court...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Daily News and Analysis (DNA), an English newspaper promoted by the Essel Group-Dainik Bhaskar 50:50 joint venture, is targeting a late July-early...
MUMBAI: His colleagues turned up in full strength to pay tribute to his family and him. As did the chairman of Zee Telefilms Subhash Chandra and...
MUMBAI: Essel Group’s 24-hour interactive and gaming channel PlayTV, managed by Dakshin Media Solutions, is now on air. The channel, which was soft-launched on 1 April,...
NEW DELHI: Play TV, India’s first proposed 24 hours interactive and gaming channel, will be managed by Dakshin Media Solutions, which is an enterprise of the...
MUMBAI: Essel Group is launching an interactive and gaming channel PlayTV, the first in the country. Aiming at a mid-March launch, the channel will telecast games,...
MUMBAI: Its launch has been delayed somewhat, but it looks like the wait will have been well worth it. Zee TV’s reality hunt Business Baazigar –...
A few years ago an Indian business newspaper had profiled Subhash Chandra as the Entrepreneur of the Year soon after he bought out Rupert Murdoch in...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) initiatives have energised mangers of country’s first DTH service, Dish TV, 20 per cent owned by the...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) plans to invest Rs 1 billion in its wholly owned subsidiary Siticable over the next one year to further expand its...
MUMBAI: E-City Entertainment (India), promoted by Subhash Chandra’s Essel Group, has lined up a debt of Rs 1.5 billion as it has earmarked an investment of...
MUMBAI: Reality shows, events and original movies. That’s Zee TV’s plan of action to buttress its weekend view. Despite vehemently denying that the channel tweaking its...
MUMBAI: Zee TV still feels that focusing on SEC B and C segments, primarily the Indian middle class, would drive in the ratings at a time...

