MUMBAI: If 2015 was a good year for media and entertainment industry with a growth rate of 12.8 per cent taking it to Rs 1157 billion,(RS...
MUMBAI: The year 2014 witnessed the emergence of sports as it rekindled the nation’s hope and sports channels played a huge role in creating buzz in...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati chief executive officer Jawhar Sircar will be addressing the annual FICCI FRAMES convention commencing in Mumbai on how a public broadcaster can...
MUMBAI: India is witnessing an election with several firsts to its credit. Not only is it the first time that a million youth are voting, it...
MUMBAI: With elections just a couple of days away, the debate over the role social media will play in these Lok Sabha elections has just got...
MUMBAI: Earlier in the day the comment about the “media being sold” by Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal hit the headlines. And it was just...
MUMBAI: Companies and people logger heading over Intellectual Property (IP) is nothing new in India. Over decade, we have seen people taking each other to court...
MUMBAI: “It’s ironical that a journalist who has been labelled as ‘self opinionated’ has been called for the session on ‘The electronic news media: on fine...
MUMBAI: Two big regional broadcasters and two big production houses got together to discuss ‘TV content ecosystem: Adapting and amalgamating the regional and the national’ at...
MUMBAI: Television will continue to be a dominant medium notwithstanding the emergence of new means of consuming content. New mediums of content delivery are likely to...
MUMBAI: Star India CEO Sanjay Gupta while talking during the final session of day one at the 15th edition of FICCI Frames 2014 — “Talking Numbers:...
MUMBAI: The 15th edition of FICCI FRAMES witnessed a panel on ‘Television 3.1 Era’, where thought leaders discussed the future of the broadcast industry in terms of...
MUMBAI: It’s been a chaotic couple of years for the media and entertainment industry marked by a lack of clarity – be it digitisation, ad cap...
MUMBAI: The relationship between the media and entertainment industry and the government has “broken”. The industry and the new government that would be formed after the...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari feels the higher import duty levied on set top boxes (STBs) announced in the Union Budget will give...
MUMBAI: The Information & Broadcasting secretary Uday Kumar Varma has asserted that the government is firm on 31 March deadline. Giving a keynote at the Valedictory...
MUMBAI: In a single sport country like India, it is important for all the stakeholders in sports industry to come together and build other sports besides...
MUMBAI: IMAX Corporation and India’s largest film studio Yash Raj Films Pvt. Ltd. today announced an expansion of their partnership to release Paani as well as...
NEW DELHI: The Los Angeles India Film Council are in Mumbai to share global best practice on the topics of co-productions, tax incentives, building talent skills...
MUMBAI: Even though the Indian cinema is thriving and poised to become a $ five billion industry in the next two years, the government must act...
MUMBAI: Freeing of cash flow and focus. That primarily is what the split of Viacom into two entities at the beginning of the year means in...
MUMBAI: More than just a Q& A session, it turned out to be a live session of Koffee with Karan at the Ficci Frames. Except that,...
MUMBAI: “Distraction is a one night stand, attraction is a marriage,” said Star Entertainment CEO Sameer Nair. Speaking at FICCI Frames on ‘Attraction in the age...
MUMBAI: Star India has clarified that it supports industry’s stand on self-regulation and some parental control as far as content regulation is concerned. Making his stand...
MUMBAI: Dubai headquartered Geo TV, the flagship channel from the Pakistan-based Jang group of media companies, has now decided to spread it wings and is eyeing...
MUMBAI: It’s a new ‘revelation’. Multiplexes, digital cinema and electronic cinema are going to play a crucial role in the future of film entertainment business in...
MUMBAI: “Never take a consumer for granted if you want the consumer to turn to you as a trusted friend. But this is possible to attain...
MUMBAI: In the new converged paradigm, the boundaries of telecommunications, media and entertainment and information technology (IT) are blurring and the need to have a common...
MUMBAI: Today, the first day first show is the mantra for any producer, as BR Films’ Ravi Chopra puts it. That decides whether the movie is...
MUMBAI: Ficci Frames, which kicked off with much aplomb in Mumbai today, saw the Zee Network hogging the limelight with an overpowering brand presence at Hotel...
MUMBAI: When one talks about branded entertainment, the first thing that comes to mind is product placement. Consumers are bombarded with hundreds of advertising messages in...
MUMBAI: Information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy’s inaugural address at Ficci-Frames 2005 today gave the entertainment industry at large a reason to smile as he reiterated...
MUMBAI: FICCI Frames, the biggest convention in Asia on the business of entertainment, will bestow its Living Legend Award on veteran screen actors Shammi Kapoor and...
“All the important decision makers, including the information and broadcasting minister, the deputy prime minister, the finance minister and the Amit Mitra headed task force have...
MUMBAI: ‘Creating opportunities’ – the catchphrase for FICCI Frames 2004 is translating into actual deals taking place on the ground. Mumbai based animation company Crest Communications...
NEW DELHI: As one of the major milestones in Ficci Frames’ initiatives to bring Indian Media and Entertainment industry to a world platform, the Cable &...
MUMBAI: Venture capitalists (VCs) haven’t changed their outlook on the entertainment industry despite the recent sops offered by union minister of law & justice, commerce &...
NEW DELHI: A delegation of top level representatives of the French animation industry will be in Mumbai and in Bangalore from 14 to 17 March 2003...
MUMBAI: More than 50 overseas speakers, along with media industry leaders are expected to participate in over 24 business sessions at Ficci Frames 2003, the three...
Much is made of direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast as the new convergence mantra and conditional access these days, especially after Star TV Asia chairman James Murdoch, and...
It ended as it had begun. With a call to corporatise or perish. The film industry that is. The other key issue – piracy being the...
Whatever may be their shortcomings perceived or otherwise, data that ratings agencies provide still give the best possible understanding of the viewing profile was a point...
Legislation is required but at the end of the day the protagonists (read cable operators and broadcasters) have to come together at the table. This point...
The second edition of the annual global convention on the business of entertainment – Ficci Frames (Films Radio Audio-visuals Music Events and Shows) 2002, kicked off...
All is ready for the second edition of the annual global convention on the business of entertainment – Ficci Frames (Films Radio Audio-visuals Music Events and...
All is ready for the second edition of the annual global convention on the business of entertainment – Ficci Frames (Films Radio Audio-visuals Music Events and...
Ficci Frames has established itself as a networking unit by virtue of the quality of its speakers, says Biren Ghose, Chief Operating Officer – Strategy &...

