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GOA: “There is no government interference in the acquisition of Network 18 by Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Industries Limited,” announced I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar, brushing aside...
Mumbai: News broadcasters have approached the ministry of information and broadcasting to increase the number of years they get security clearance for the channels they run....
All of us took stewardship of our companies in the last two decades, when robust economic growth created an air of optimism and confidence in the...
NEW DELHI: India and Senegal have agreed to form a joint working group in areas identified under the executive programme for cultural cooperation, including cinema and...
NEW DELHI: The government appears serious in reining in monopolistic tendencies in cable TV distribution. The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry has reiterated that it wants...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni today agreed to a suggestion by former I&B minister and leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha...
MUMBAI: The proposed nationwide strike that was called by the Film Federation of India (FFI) on 23 February has been called off. Speaking to Indiantelevision.com, filmmaker...
NEW DELHI: Even as advertising has grown from Rs 100 billion to Rs 300 billion in the last 20 years, consumers are rewarding those advertising agencies...
With India having touched the monumental figure of 512 in terms of television channels including 249 news channels, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry pushed the panic...
NEW DELHI: A clear chapter on news content code based on Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, will be put...
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: Broadcasters have reacted strongly to the move by the government yesterday banning for two months the telecast of Sony Entertainment’s action channel AXN on the...
NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has set a target of over five per cent from the present two per cent for as the global...
NEW DELHI: Popular pay TV channels at prices below Rs. 10 (Rs. 47=1US$) each for Indian cable TV subscribers? Might be hard to believe, but may...
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: You can kiss the Broadcast Services Regulation Bill 2006 – a draft of which is doing the rounds of various ministries and industry stakeholders...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi will review developments on CAS vis-a-vis court cases. The meeting was scheduled to happen either today or...
NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader and former information & broadcasting (I&B) minister Pramod Mahajan passed away this afternoon at Mumbai’s Hinduja Hospital following multiple organ failure....
The Indian government (read the information and broadcasting ministry) is suddenly finding itself caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, which more often than...
NEW DELHI: Whats common between I&B minister Priyaranjan Dasmunshi, Prannoy Roy, old BBC hand Mark Tully, ABC chairman Donald McDonald and BBC Worlds Richard Sambrook? Well,...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi today said that India is examining opportunities being thrown up by newer technologies like mobile broadcasting. Inaugurating...
MUMBAI: The Union government is examining the recommendations of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on digitalisation of cable television, the Lok Sabha was informed on...
NEW DELHI: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former information and broadcasting minister Ravishanker Prasad was wounded in an attack by a lone gunman at...
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system (CAS), which had fallen off the radar screen of the media industry and consumers, is set to stage a come back....
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...
MUMBAI: Some good news for the private FM radio players as Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (Tdsat) has directed the government to firm up its views...
NEW DELHI: Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who is in India on an official visit, on Tuesday, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Eisner and his colleagues...
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...
NEW DELHI: Contrary to expectations, the government has marginally increased its financial support to Prasar Bharati (translated in English as the Broadcasting Corporation of India), which...
NEW DELHI: Star Group, 20 per cent partner in a KU-band DTH venture with the Tatas of India, today made a detailed presentation to the Indian...
NEW DELHI: The cable operators are at it once again and this time the allegations are more precise and mince no words. From conditional access to...
NEW DELHI: A fortnight ahead of a crucial hearing in the Supreme Court relating to a cricket telecast row between Doordarshan and Ten Sports, senior executives...
NEW DELHI: The producers of TV programmes from the Northeast (comprising eight states of the country) have taken up cudgels against alleged malpractices prevailing in India’s...
NEW DELHI: Most of the pay channel operators today, once again, conveyed to broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), that certain things...
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: After a lot of bickering within the Congress party and its allies, the information and broadcasting ministry portfolio finally went to someone who really...
ISLAMABAD: Our neighbours are realising the value of advertising. Pakistan federal minister for information and broadcasting (I&B) Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has asked advertising agencies to play...
MUMBAI: Two weeks after I&B minister RS Prasad exhorted Pakistan to allow the return of Indian satellite channels into its airwaves, come reports that the country...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today hinted to the Pakistani government that it should lift the ban on Indian TV channels...
MUMBAI: Even the courts appear to be waiting for the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) offer some clarity of the vexed issue of conditional access....
NEW DELHI : The Indian government has decided that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) would be the body that would regulate the broadcasting sector...
NEW DELHI: The issue of censorship on television cropped up in a different way today when members of a parliamentary panel expressed their concern at the...
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: Multi-system operators (MSOs) are meeting the information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad around 3.30 pm today on conditional access system (CAS). One...
NEW DELHI: The reason of an existing `great divide’ amongst stakeholders of the broadcast and cable industry – that the government uses to continue playing the...
NEW DELHI: Star dabao, desh bachao (suppress Star and save the country). This seems to be the clarion call of the Indian Media Group (IMG), an...
NEW DELHI: The confusion over the alternative and seemingly unviable options being mooted by the information and broadcasting ministry have forced broadcasters to approach PMO officials....
NEW DELHI: The minister of information & broadcasting Ravi Shankar Prasad has called upon the media, both print and electronic, to exercise self-restraint while reporting on...
MUMBAI: Mumbai based cable operators have expressed disappointment over the recent comments of I&B secretary Pawan Chopra that indicate that the government might soften its stand...
NEW DELHI: The government today expressed optimism that the stakeholders of the industry would come out with solutions to various contentious issues, including the pricing of...
