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MUMBAI: The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has invited bids for the live television and radio broadcasting rights for the Asia Cup to be held in Sri...
MUMBAI: Small pay television license holders in Hong Kong, Hong Kong’s Yes Television and Taiwan’s TV plus have decided to say good bye to the country’s...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa), today took new steps to stamp out pay-TV piracy in Hong Kong, issuing “cease and desist...
MUMBAI: Asia’s premier electronic media event BroadcastAsia2004 will be held in Singapore from 15 – 18 June. Themed Redefining Broadcasting, BroadcastAsia2004 will encompass the entire spectrum...
MUMBAI: Chinese government has asked the country’s television presenters to stop dyeing their hair, exposing too much flesh and using English words. The government’s new policy...
MUMBAI: Looks like Zee English is taking a page out of AXN’s notebook. The Subhash Chandra broadcaster will go through a major programming shift this year,...
MUMBAI: Hong Kong’s local cable television operator i-Cable Communications Ltd (ICAB) has signed an agreement with neighbouring city Shenzhen’s Shenzhen TV allowing it to broadcast one...
NEW DELHI: He is 45 years old. He has traveled to more than 50 countries. He loves to eat popcorn and misses his eight-year-old daughter. Meet...
MUMBAI: Bringing professionalism into industry, that is what UTV aspires to bring about. In a bid to bolster its strength as a production and distribution house,...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has launched CASBAA Fast Facts 2004 handbook, a 92-page digest of regional pay-TV data highlighting the...
MUMBAI: There is some major churn happening at Star Group’s head office in Hong Kong. Three senior executives – Digital Platforms Group president Altaf Alimohamed, advertising...
MUMBAI: Satellite services company Globecast has announced that it has partnered with Brazilian telecommunications group Embratel to provide broadcast services, internet and telephony for Brazilian terrestrial...
MUMBAI: Satellite operator Asiasat has announces its 2003 annual results. Profit amounted to HK$424 million. In 2002 the figure was HK$555 million. This represents a significant...
MUMBAI: Crown Media which operates the Hallmark Channel has reported its operating results for the three months and year ended 31 December 2003. For the full...
MUMBAI: The launch of its channels in India may be delayed but in the rest of the Asia Pacific region, the mouse is not wasting time...
MUMBAI: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) and pan-Asian telecommunications services provider Asia Netcom have announced a strategic partnership to enhance our connectivity to the Asia Pacific...
As awareness campaigns go this one’s certainly off the beaten trail. Action channel AXN and the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) have tied up for...
CNN's programme Living Golf heads to Newport, Wales in the UK to report on preparations for the 2010 Ryder Cup. The show airs on 16 and...
MUMBAI: Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting Limited has announced the trial launch of its digital pay TV service – exTV, based on NDS technology. While the satellite broadcaster...
MUMBAI: Major organisational restructuring is currently underway at CNN International. As in a lot of cases, this one will leave a few people hunting for jobs....
MUMBAI: Having failed to find a buyer for its Blockbuster video-rental business media conglomerate Viacom is said to be nearing a decision to spin it off....
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: BBC World will now be included on Hong Kong’s first direct to home digital pay TV platform, exTV, following an agreement signed with the operator,...
MUMBAI: CNN has announced that its regional breakfast programme News Biz Today has introduced a Question of the Day opinion poll. The poll enables viewers to...
MUMBAI: Hong Kong viewers may be able to enjoy free digital television as soon as 2006. The local government has set 2006 as the date for...
MUMBAI: Twenty-four-hour news and information network CNN International has been named the ‘Cable and Satellite Channel of the Year’ at the 8th Asian TV Awards ceremony,...
MUMBAI: Twenty-four-hour news and information network CNN International has been named the ‘Cable and Satellite Channel of the Year’ at the 8th Asian TV Awards ceremony,...
MUMBAI: Ever since his promotion in early October, Steve Askew has been functioning as chief operating officer (COO) of Star Group Ltd, in all but name....
MUMBAI: Hong Kong based communications provider PCCW and Star have announced that Star Chinese Movies and Xing Kong will be available to Now Broadband TV customers...
MUMBAI: While stage is being set for the first ever MTV India music awards IMMIES, MTV Asia is gearing up for the 2004 MTV Asia Awards...
TOKYO: The first round of the FIVB World Cup of Women’s Volleyball has produced excellent television ratings both in the Tokyo area and throughout Japan. This...
NEW YORK: Bloomberg Television has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the First Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards For Business and Financial Reporting. ...
HONG KONG: Discovery Networks Asia has expanded its penetration in the Asia Pacific region. The broadcaster has signed a five-channel carriage deal with Hong Kong Cable...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is continuing to expand the line up of television channels in Asia. Animax Asia will launch in January 2004. The Singapore,...
You have to give it to the Hong Kong-based James Field, director solutions, NDS Asia Pacific. Field might be staring at another tough assignment as he...
On the inaugural day of the Mumbai Film Mart 2013, MPA (Motion Pictures Association) India MD Uday Singh, tried to define the ways in which Indian...
FRANCE: Philip Livingstone, who has been instrumental in the worldwide launch of the highly successful Who Wants To Be a Millionaire franchise, has been named Executive...
MUMBAI: The latest Pan Asia Cross Media Survey (PAX 2002/03 suggests that CNN’s audiences earned US$79.9 billion in the past year. According to the study posted...
NEW DELHI: The seventh Pan Asia Cross Media Survey (PAX) has found that BBC World has sustained the audience it gained in 2002. It has also...
Purchase of high-end products among elite consumers in Asia has shown an increasing trend, according to Synovate Pax – a survey conducted by global market research...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) has launched a new pay-TV service. The endeavour is aimed at realising the “triple-play” strategy, thus bringing a significant...
SINGAPORE: The action oriented AXN is growing viewer cachet in the Far East. According to Nielsen Media Research, the channel from Sony Pictures Television International’s (SPTI)...
LONDON: News Corp’s technology company NDS which claims to be the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV today announced its unaudited results for the...
LONDON: The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has announced it has concluded further television rights sales for the UEFA Champions League, carried out by UEFA’s...
WASHINGTON: BT Broadcast Services has announced that it has finalised an agreement with Crown Media International to become the cable network operator’s primary provider of broadcast...
HONG KONG: Rupert Murdoch’s Star Group claims that its Star Mandarin Movies has outperformed all Chinese and Hollywood movie channels in Taiwan in the first half...
HONG KONG: TVB 8 and TVB Xing He Channel have begun broadcasting on AsiaSat 3S. An official release informs that with AsiaSat 3S TVB’s two...
MUMBAI: News Corp’s Hong Kong-based Star Group has set up a new arm in Dubai Media City. Star will be using its Dubai Media City facility...
HONG KONG: Star’s news special FocusAsia is going from strength to strength. A few days ago, a reporter for the show Joe Kainz won first prize...
MUMBAI: To feed the appetite of cricket fans in Indonesia, ESPN STAR Sports and Kablevision jointly announced that they had reached an agreement to bring the...
