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The Indian music scenario keeps changing all the time. Where Bollywood ruled the roost earlier, gradually indi-pop grounded itself and with its buoyant marketing attracted the...
After carving out a separate space for Hungama TV in the kids genre, Zarina Mehta is at work again. Her challenge this time is to hook...
BANGALORE: Tata Indicom today announced the national launch of the ultra slim Motofone F3c on the CDMA platform in Bangalore today based on Qualcomm’s QSC 6010...
Violence, subtle and physical, has permeated the soaps of the small screen, according to a recent study. In a monitoring study that spanned 30 episodes of...
The Hindi General Entertainment Channel (GEC) space is back in the spotlight. Strategies, counter strategies, experiments and innovations enchant the market, though audiences remain cautious while...
MUMBAI: With the sixth anniversary celebrations of MSN India under way, MSN India has announced the launch of five new portals, MSN Hindi, MSN Tamil, MSN...
Indian television‘s Hindi general entertainment space is at its aggressive best.As the market is about to enter its ‘harvest‘ season — with the big stakes game...
Big movies. More wrap-around programming. Heavy marketing. That is the course Filmy, the Hindi movie channel from the Sahara stable, will take as it gears up...
MUMBAI: Broadband portal Sifymax is providing World Cup updates in five different languages – Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. This initiative is an attempt to...
Bollywood is becoming a game for the big boys. New upstarts like Sahara and UTV are pumping in money behind production and marketing to create mega...
MUMBAI: Disney Channel’s hit series for kids and tweens, That’s So Raven and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, will be made available in six...
MUMBAI: The television production arms of Nimbus Communications – Nimbus Television and its wholly owned subsidiary Nirvana Television Ltd are looking at doubling their production output...
MUMBAI: Malayalam general entertainment channel Asianet and cellular operator Idea Mobile have come together to launch Malayalam television’s first mobile-based talent hunt for singers. The Idea...
MUMBAI: A group of non resident Indians (NRIs) are getting together to float a multi-lingual entertainment channel The company, Manvik Vinjnan Communications Ltd (MVCL), will be...
MUMBAI: Keeping with its localisation initiatives to broaden its audience appeal, Nick is now going Hindi from 1 January, 2006. The Hindi feed Nick will be...
MUMBAI: Sahara India Mass Communication Ltd will unveil its Hindi movie channel Filmy on 25 October. With the entry that coincides with Diwali, Sahara One expects...
A look at the way the industry functions shows that broadcasters are largely self-censored and generally follow a certain content code that has been set by...
The “S” (as in sleaze) word seems to be all over the airwaves these days. And it‘s not all linked to the latest technology driven monster...
MUMBAI: Sun TV and Malaysia’s Astro All Asia Network have entered into a $ 25 million agreement for the establishment of a joint venture to originate,...
MUMBAI: Big it may not be, but it is carving out a distinct space on the television landsape. Good health content is finding an audience, particularly...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Delhi High Court has observed that Star India should change the logo of its new channel (launching 1 November) from “One”...
MUMBAI: At a time when its Hindi counterparts are devoting more night-slots for primetime shows, Zee Network’s Marathi channel Alpha Marathi doesn’t want to be left...
Selecting a subject that has all the shades of a typical Bollywood thriller. Producing a two-minute movie out of it. Releasing it in theatres across India....
MUMBAI: The stage is set for the 1 November launch of StarOne, the most ambitious channel offering from India’s lead broadcast network. With StarOne’s launch, the...
MUMBAI: Sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports will be telecasting live the much-anticipated Indian leg of the four-test India Pakistan hockey series. And continuing its efforts towards...
MUMBAI: NDTV India is holding on firmly to the number two position among Hindi news channels and has even managed to wittle down the lead “Sab...
MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan has roped in 13 private satellite channels to come onto its free-to-air (FTA) direct-to-home (DTH) service. “A total of 30 channels will...
MUMBAI: The leader is being given a run for its money. With the 14th general elections already underway, news channels have reached the last lap in...
NEW DELHI: As images of resurrected mummies, bare chested men and scorpions flit across the screen, Egyptians and English-looking persons mouth lines like “Kyunki pyaar hai...
MUMBAI: The two major international news organisations BBC and its American counterpart CNN are devoting a considerable amount of time to cover the Indian elections next...
MUMBAI: Its birthday time at Raj TV this December. The Tamil entertainment channel will celebrate Rajnikant’s birthday on 12 December with a non-stop Rajnikant bonanza. The...
This is the tale of television viewers, Mr And Mrs Simpleton – conservative laymen (but notches above cartoonist RK Laxman‘s version of the common man) who...
A silent revolution is taking place in the world of cinema while the television industry has tied itself up in knots over conditional access system (CAS).When...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to strengthen ts local content, Cartoon Network has gone in for its fourth local acquisition in two years. More such acquisitions,...
MUMBAI: Sahara Samay Mumbai, one of the Sahara news channels, claims that it is ready and raring to go. Sahara Samay Mumbai head Rajiv Bajaj says...
MUMBAI: A new 24-hour entertainment channel called “Simply Asian” was launched in UK on Tuesday. The channel which claims to be the first free-to-air Asian channel,...
MUMBAI: Even though Disney may not be entering India in the near future, the little mouse seems determined to derive the maximum mileage out of its...
MUMBAI: National broadcaster Doordarshan is taking its mantle of public broadcaster seriously once again, it would seem. Beginning 14 August, Chitrahaar on DD1 will no longer...
LONDON:The radio arm of the BBC has just received a shot in the arm from the British government. The BBC World Service, which commands a listenership...
Columbia Tristar is banking on film property Spiderman to weave a web of magic in India. That the movie major’s expectations are high can be gauged...
Rajan Raheja promoted Hathway Cable & Datacom, a cable TV network in which Star India has a 26 per cent stake, will soon be launching C-...
ESPN STAR Sports today announced it was launching the Hindi edition of SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship programme in the US. SportsCenter's Hindi edition is ESPN's first localisation...
