NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The government today set in motion the opening up of the FM radio sector while acceding to a longstanding demand of the...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), today gave the green signal for 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services with no entry...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting ministry proposes; the home ministry disposes. This could well be the case relating to news and current affairs programming on private...
MUMBAI: Kalanithi Maran’s Sun Network has bought out Tamil publication giant Dinakaran. With this deal, Maran, who enjoys prominence in television and FM radio, has now...
MUMBAI: Innovation is what news channels have to look for to survive in a cluttered space.. Speaking today at the second of a series of interactions...
NEW DELHI: In what might be I&B minister Jaipal Reddys swan song— political buzz, says he, may be shunted back to the Congress Party in a...
BANGALORE/MUMBAI: As part of the Union Government’s plans through Prasar Bharati (PB), Bangalore University (BU) plans to start a FM radio channel. The channel will be...
MUMBAI: Making official a licensing agreement that had been inked in January, it was announced yesterday that EMI Music will be marketing Warner Music’s repertoire in...
CANNES: While MIPTV 2005 was all about trying to get a grasp on the new technologies and applications out there, it was refreshing to hear someone...
NEW DELHI: Aimed at liberalising the regime, information and broadcasting ministry has cleared 20 per cent FDI for the private FM radio sector, but stuck to...
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: Television advertising in India is expected to grow by 14 per cent by 2007, while over the next one year the increase is likely to...
NEW DELHI: The government today indicated that it is open to a revenue sharing model to help migrate the existing FM players into a new regime....
NEW DELHI: In what could be taken as a major setback to private FM radio operators, the Delhi high court today dismissed a petition filed by...
December, 2003. Give us some more time and next year, we would take issues like CAS, DTH, second phase of FM radio and the matter of...
NEW DELHI: The move will disappoint private players, but the government has formally ruled out any possibility of foreign investment in the private FM radio sector....
NEW DELHI: The Indian entertainment industry is at the threshold of emerging as a big market internationally with an expected growth rate of 20 per cent,...
Media baron Aroon Purie, almost 60-but-looking-like 50, wears various hats as one of the most successful entrepreneurs of post-Independence India. He is the founding editor &...
NEW DELHI: The government is unlikely to accept a recommendation of the broadcast and cable regulator that a revenue-sharing model be adopted during the second phase...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has set the ball rolling for the second phase of privatization of FM radio...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, in its recommendations on private FM radio released today, has suggested a new licensing regime consisting of a...
NEW DELHI: The radio broadcast industry has to wait for some more time before the broadcast and cable regulator comes out with its recommendations, which would...
NEW DELHI: Astro, the entertainment major from Malaysia-based Measat, is once again attempting to tap the Indian market but this time it is doing it through...
NEW DELHI: The present Congress-led coalition Indian government has an “open mind” on news on FM radio and foreign investment cap in news and DTH ventures....
MUMBAI: The FM radio station 93.5 Red has announced yet another initiative on all its stations. The FM radio will be introducing a daily show featuring...
Is what started with much promise, destined to end with a whimper? FM station Win, that pulled down shutters in Mumbai two months ago in protest...
NEW DELHI: A delegation of private FM radio players met information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy, today, to exhort him to expedite work on the recommendations...
NEW DELHI: Is it action time in the media? If the meetings that have been lined up for information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy today are...
NEW DELHI: The present government will not roll back any foreign investment norms in the media sector, including those changes brought about by the previous Bharatiya...
NEW DELHI: The finance ministry is likely to advise the information and broadcasting ministry that the licence fee of private radio FM players could be kept...
MUMBAI: The FM radio airwaves are hotting up again. As the deadline for paying license fees ends tomorrow, private FM players in the metros are taking...
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court is scheduled to hear Entertainment Network India Ltd (Radio Mirchi)’s petition seeking an injunction against the government from encashing its bank...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is likely to agree to partial sops for private players in the FM radio sector, though he...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), has issued a consultation paper on the second round of opening of the FM...
NEW DELHI: Even as the government is waiting for the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to come up with fresh recommendations on FM radio, the...
NEW DELHI: The government is contemplating on taking a final view on the recommendations of an expert panel, on FM radio broadcast policy, before the country...
NEW DELHI: This could turn out to be music to the ears of the financially beleaguered private players in the FM radio sector. In what...
NEW DELHI: The much-awaited second phase of radio FM expansion is likely to be kicked off soon with the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry set to...
MUMBAI: The Indian Music Industry (IMI) has stepped up the fight against piracy in association with Holoflex – a hologram manufacturer. The two will join hands...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government may open up FM radio sector to news and current affairs programming as also the content being provided by a foreign...
MUMBAI: Television channels are realising that FM Radio is an effective way to create and build up brand awareness about their programming. Star World and Hallmark...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government wants to ensure a smooth rollout of conditional access system (CAS) in the first phase in the four metros — maybe...
MUMBAI: Prashant Sanwal, director of all the Zee Network’s regional language Alpha channels, is moving on. Sanwal, who put in his papers at Zee on 31...
NEW DELHI: The government is contemplating going in for revenue sharing with the licence holders of the second round of licences for FM radio. The...
MUMBAI: It has become a case of swim or sink for India’s beleaguered music industry. Over the past three years the industry has been battered and...
NEW DELHI: Though India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj would like the second phase of privatisation of FM radio to be completed within the next...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj does not foresee any “bottlenecks” in the implementation of conditional access systems (CAS) in the country and...
Tomorrow India‘s BJP-led 18-odd party coalition NDA government completes three years in office.So does the information and broadcasting ministry, in a way the nodal organisation for...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms’ cable arm SitiCable is planning to launch a 24-hour interactive entertainment channel aimed at family audiences, The Asian Age has reported. Siti has...
After television, www.perfectmonitoring.com has turned its attention to FM radio by introducing a reporting solution for the all the five FM Channels in Mumbai and those...
