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MUMBAI: This is an initiative that takes interactive game shows to the next level in Europe. After the launch of interactive versions of game shows Family...
MUMBAI: Football’s governing body Fifa will invite tenders for the European media rights of the 2010 World Cup on 20 December 2004. The public tender comprises...
MUMBAI: Media and entertainment executives around the world are focused on the impact of technology on their industry. They believe that more technology-savvy managers are critical...
NEW DELHI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India chairman Pradip Baijal today called for further reduction in tariffs to enable broadband penetration into rural areas to make...
MUMBAI: .Monkeys rule the roost on Animal Planet this month. The broadcaster has announced a new series. Monkey Business which will air on Tuesdays at 6...
MUMBAI: .The over-reliance on television income has left many soccer clubs in Europe alone either already out of business or on the brink of bankruptcy. This...
MUMBAI: Women who take the battlefield like their male counterparts! That is the subject of the five part series Warrior Women that Discovery India recently acquired...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has announced the creation of BBC Japan. The new channel will bring the best of BBC programming to TV audiences in Japan. It...
MUMBAI: Europe saw a record number of new television channels launched in 2003/2004 and 2005 is hotting up to be another bumper year for new TV...
MUMBAI: Following successful installations in six countries in the European broadcast market over the past two years, Silicon Graphics has launched Silicon Graphics Broadcast Europe under...
MUMBAI: Intelsat has singed a three-year contract with Radio e Televisao de Portugal (RTP), Portugal’s State broadcaster, under which Intelsat will provide end-to-end international distribution of...
BANGALORE: Worldspace Satellite Radio has launched a Kannada satellite radio channel on 3 September. The radio channel Sparsha will cover programmes on art, culture, fashion, sports...
NEW DELHI: Rampant piracy in the entertainment industry has leads to an estimated loss of Rs 4 million annually for the Indian film industry. Pointing out...
MUMBAI: Following a thorough review of all strategic options for the future of the playout of its entertainment channels, Turner Broadcasting System Europe (TBS) Limited is...
MUMBAI: B4U Network has appointed Sunil Rohra as its CEO for UK and Europe. Rohra, who till the end of last month was CEO of Zee...
MUMBAI: B4U’s head of international business Neeraj Arora has switched over to rival Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia). Arora, who was senior vice-president international business...
MUMBAI: While in India Zee’s Direct To Home (DTH) platform Dish TV is adding customers everyday in Europe where the market is well developed the situation...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has made inroads into the co-production arena in Italy through an agreement with broadcaster Mediaset for the docu-drama Supervolcano. It is the...
MUMBAI: Channel [V]’s former general manager Jules Fuller and former production head Elias Kazmi have been appointed consultants to oversee Pogos first-ever original production unit in...
MUMBAI: Nielsen Media Research has won a new, seven-year contract to provide television audience ratings in Sweden with effect from September 2005, the terms of which...
MUMBAI: Pan-European integrated children’s entertainment broadcaster Fox Kids Europe has announced financial results for the six months ended 31 March 2004. Revenues increased by 17 per...
MUMBAI: The tooing and froing of personnel from the news channels continues. Leading Hindi news channel Aaj Tak’s senior manager distribution Anoop Varma has called it...
MUMBAI: The BBC is looking to take advantage of the growing net penetration in Europe. It is launching the bbcnews.com site’s latest innovation a breaking news...
MUMBAI: Content providers across the globe are hedging their bets on the fact that the mobile is going to open up a considerable source of revenue....
PanAmSat has announced a 15-year, transponder lease agreement with the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) which claims to be the world’s largest religious media network. The...
MUMBAI: The imbroglio over fee payment between MTV Europe and independent record labels has been settled. The two parties arrived at an agreement that allows bands...
CANNES: TvFilmBiz Int’l has secured a long-term agreement for cable and satellite broadcast rights of Planet’s Funniest Animals on Animal Planet worldwide excluding the UK in...
MUMBAI: Zee Group subsidiary Padmalaya Telefilms has reached preliminary agreement for co-production and licensing of cartoons with Italian animation major Mondo TV Group in a deal...
MUMBAI: US Kids may now interact with their favourite animated character Hugo through SMA on Live TV, courtesy Orion. The company has announced that it will...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News has signed a deal with digital satellite radio service provider Worldspace, making the channel available to subscribers of Worldspace throughout Asia,...
NEW DELHI: European television format, production and distribution company Fact Based Communications (FBC) is gearing up to enter Indian market, following a tie-up with Rossellini &...
MUMBAI: Motorola has tied up with MTV International to provide exclusive MTV-created wireless content. This will include an interactive series of games known as Plastikulture and...
NEW DELHI: India seems to be shining. Or at least its media and entertainment industry is. The $20 billion Bertelsmann AG, Europe’s largest media conglomerate, is...
MUMBAI: In a bid to cater to the global spiritual citizens, the Sony Entertainment Television Asia has planned to present an exclusive coverage of the ‘Ram...
MUMBAI: Taj Television reached an agreement yesterday with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), which extends its telecast rights for the forthcoming Australia tour of the Emerald Isles...
MUMBAI: It is not just Dubai-based Taj Television that is expecting to make a killing out of India’s upcoming tour of Pakistan, India’s first tour to...
MUMBAI: Nick Wrenn has been appointed as the managing editor of CNN’s production and newsgathering operations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to the...
LONDON: Intelsat signed a new multi-transponder agreement with Belgacom, on 25 November 2003. One of the leading Belgian telecom operator, Belgacom moved to Intelsat’s global satellite...
HONG KONG: Shin Satellite and Asia Satellite Telecommunications (Asiasat) have announced that the administrations of China and Thailand have concluded a frequency coordination agreement between both...
PARIS: The future of Disney’s theme park in France Euro Disney is in doubt. The amusement attraction has reported 700,000 fewer visitors in 2002-2003 than the...
NEW DELHI: Sian Kevill has been appointed to the newly created position of editorial director of BBC World, the BBC’s commercially funded 24-hour international news and...
MUMBAI: The Dubai-based Arab Digital Distribution (ADD) DTH platform’s Pehla bouquet has started beaming into mainland Europe. Pehla, which targets South Asian audiences, launched on...
PARIS: The trend towards high definition television (HDTV) is growing steadily. In the US, 2.5 million HD sets will be sold this year according to the...
MUMBAI: Broadcasters from the Asia-Pacific region and Europe have agreed to step up the exchange of information on digital terrestrial broadcasting, to help eliminate the information...
NEW DELHI: One out of three persons, among the highest level of financial managers in Europe, North America and Asia, watches BBC World regularly, according to...
MUMBAI: US broadcast network CBS has given the producer of The Amaing Race Jerry Bruckheimer the go ahead for a fifth edition. In India the show...
PARIS: Eutelsat and EADS Astrium have announced the signature of a contract for the construction the Hot Bird 8 broadcast satellite. This will be launched in...
MUMBAI: Sun TV launched in the UK on Sunday, the only Indian regional broadcaster to telecast ‘live’ internationally, according to Sun TV chairman and managing director...
LONDON: To accommodate increased customer demand for video services, Intelsat has appointed Doug Triblehorn and Jean-Philippe Gillet to head regional sales efforts for the company’s media...
LOS ANGELES: Tinseltown Entertainment has announced that its top-rated weekly entertainment program, Tinseltown Live, marks its first anniversary next week as the number one program in...
