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NEW DELHI: The government has banned duty-free import of flat screen television by air travelers in a bid to prop up the rupee, which has plummeted...
NEW DELHI: The government has categorically said there is no proposal at present to include all journalists in electronic media under the Wage Board. Minister...
NEW DELHI: Almost a year after guidelines were framed for the use of social media by government agencies and citizen engagement for e-governance projects, the proposal...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting minister Manish Tewari has said the process of mainstreaming self-regulation as a statutory mechanism should be led by the industry and...
NEW DELHI: Hindustan Photo Films Manufacturing which has for long suffered as being on the list of sick industries is one of the six companies to...
MUMBAI: News channels have been rather miffed with TRAI’s ruling that advertising air time should be restricted to just 12 minutes per hour. And they have...
MUMBAI: Undoubtedly, Farhan Akhtar’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is getting commendable responses from the viewers at large. Last week, it was the Maharashtra government that declared the...
MUMBAI: Is there some relief in store for India’s TV broadcast sector in terms of advertising allowed to be telecast per hour? A slight glimmer of...
An institution that has been the chronicler and mirror of India‘s history is feeling crippled. With a tenacious CEO under a dynamic Minister of Information &...
NEW DELHI: A special TV spot to promote the message of communal harmony on the occasion of ‘Sadbhavna Diwas‘, the death anniversary of former prime minister...
NEW DELHI: Only one applicant – SSTL – registered for the auction of 800 MHz spectrum while no applicants registered for the auction of 1800 and...
MUMBAI: A double-digit ad revenue growth has helped Zee News Ltd (ZNL) put up a performance better than the market expectations in the festive quarter but...
The year 2010 ended on a more positive note – at least as far as the private television channels were concerned. The commencement of the year...
So, as one captain of the industry says, if the advertisers stay with the credible, then some channels will die out and TAM would have to...
But, television viewer has only one option, to change the channel, if he/she doesn’t find the content interesting. Because TV viewers don’t have the option of...
NEW DELHI: Ministry for information and broadcasting secretary Asha Swarup today reiterated the fact that the government had no intention of forcing checks on...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi today wondered why news channels tended to sensationalise entertainment news, and said he would meet editors of...
NEW DELHI: Even as the AXN channel has been allowed to resume telecasts in India following an apology, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has expressed its...
MUMBAI: The government has cleared the decks for the return tomorrow of Sony’s action channel AXN, which had been banned on 17 January charged with showing...
NEW DELHI: Appreciating the need for empowering the citizen with modern information technology, President APJ Abdul Kalam today announced that the year 2007 will be the...
MUMBAI: Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs, PR Dasmunsi while addressing the session on ‘Media and Indian Diaspora’ at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divasstated...
The CAS word gets TAM India CEO LV Krishnan thinking about what this brave new world could mean for the likes of the airtime sales exec...
MUMBAI: Realistic funding through a new, long term licence fee settlement is essential if the BBC is to fulfil the Government’s ambitious goal for digital switchover...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government deferred a decision on cracking the whip on TV channels airing surrogate liquor and tobacco advertisements. A communiqué from the information...
NEW DELHI: Fazed by strident criticism of certain provisions in a proposed Broadcast Bill, the government on Monday agreed to take industry’s concerns into consideration while...
NEW DELHI: The government has put out a watered-down version of the much-reviled draft Broadcast Bill for feedback from all stakeholders. Seemingly fazed by all-round criticism,...
MUMBAI: The government today issued a notification setting 31 December, 2006 as the deadline for the three metros of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata to be be...
MUMBAI: The Information & Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs minister P R Dasmunsi in Lok Sabha has announced that three new TV centres are to be set...
NEW DELHI: The government is likely to exempt English movie channels from sourcing 15 per cent of their total weekly programming from India. “We realize that...
NEW DELHI: Private broadcasters and big MSOs in the country might soon be called to lend a helping hand in the financial restructuring of pubcaster Prasar...
MUMBAI: A BBC-commissioned report into public attitudes to the licence fee showed 47 per cent of the 2,000 adults questioned said they opposed the principle of...
NEW DELHI: The government has come out with a list of sports events, excluding cricket, which would have to be shared with the pubcaster on a...
MUMBAI: The Tamil Nadu Government today introduced in the Assembly an amendment to the Cable Television Network Bill to take over six more Multiple Service Operators...
NEW DELHI: In the government’s third and final list of companies cleared for making financial bids for FM radio licences in 91 cities, there is just...
With the information and broadcasting ministry seeing two ministers, two secretaries — not to talk about other officials being reshuffled —- and a string of litigations...
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...
With the information and broadcasting ministry seeing two ministers, two secretaries — not to talk about other officials being reshuffled —- and a string of litigations...
NEW DELHI: One hundred companies had expressed their intent to start FM radio operations in India, but 30 seem to have either fallen by the way...
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court put paid today to any hopes that Dubai-based Taj TV Limited, which owns Ten Sports, may have entertained that there would...
NEW DELHI: After having played the third umpire in the cricket telecast issue vis-?-vis Indian pubcaster, the government is now stirring up the ratings issue by...
MUMBAI: The Union Government is coming up with a legislation to regulate private television channels from telecasting objectionable programmes. The Centre in an affidavit informed the...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is expected to formally notify the amendments in the uplink norms together with the first-ever downlink guidelines some time next week...
NEW DELHI: After the stridency, comes the leniency. The deadline to comply with uplink norms for news channels has come and gone, but the government is...
NEW DELHI: The government has prohibited transmission or re-transmission of satellite channel ‘Free X-TV’ in the country as the content breaches the programming code. In a...
NEW DELHI: After the stridency, comes the leniency. The deadline to comply with uplink norms for news channels has come and gone, but the government is...
MUMBAI: National Geographic Channel (NGC) in the US has announced that its special Inside 9/11 managed to do well on the ratings front. The broadcaster states...
NEW DELHI: It’s not just terrestrial feed of sporting events that pubcaster Doordarshan is angling for. It wants rights for its DTH service too. And, a...
NEW DELHI: A section of the government today ruled out dismantling of the autonomous Prasar Bharati as has been demanded by the organisation’s employees’ union. ...
MUMBAI: As part of its ongoing ‘Nick 2015’ campaign, which urges kids to get involved with key issues affecting their world, Nick now gives Indian kids...
MUMBAI: The government has proposed that foreign news channels and wire agencies wishing to downlink to India are eligible for permission subject to a condition, amongst...
