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NEW DELHI: The government has asked the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) and the News Broadcasting Association (NBA) to finalise within three weeks their strategy relating to...
NEW DELHI: A fresh row is brewing between the news channels and the Indian Premier League (IPL) organisers. Most television news channels in the country have...
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting officials will be meeting news broadcasters tomorrow in the afternoon to discuss the way the television media has...
MUMBAI :The information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry has issued an advisory to the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) and News Broadcasters Association (NBA) to direct their member...
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting will soon call the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) for a meeting on the issue of the Code of...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation, the largest body of television channels in the country, has urged the Finance Ministry to exempt CVD, cess charges...
NEW DELHI: With growing pressure following the infamous Uma Khurana sting operation, broadcasters are working towards finalising their Content Code before the end of this month,...
NEW DELHI: The government is likely to revert to the Delhi High Court with a status report on CAS’ rollout early next week even as the...
The biggest bouquet of channels on Indian television and the second largest player in the GEC space, the Zee Network has been in the limelight recently,...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Federation has sent several pre-budget demands to the ministry of finance, including the expansion of the definition of Industrial...
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: After the Indian Broadcast Federation (IBF – representing broadcasters) and the Indian Media Group (IMG – representing Indian media companies), Indian news broadcasters are...
MUMBAI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) is crying foul against the Broadcast Services Regulation Bill, 2006. Submitting a detailed proposal on the Bill to the information...
NEW DELHI: A general consensus has emerged in the broadcasting industry that individual pay TV players would legally challenge the sector regulator’s directive on fixing pay...
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: The Indian Broadcast Federation (IBF) and the Indian Media Group (IMG) today met the Information & Broadcast secretary S K Arora for an interaction...
MUMBAI: Media bodies are now waking up to condem on the draft of Broadcast Bill prepared by the information and broadcasting (I&B). After the Indian Broadcast...
Joy Chakraborthy took charge of Zee Network as ad sales head in early 2005, at a time when Zee TV was going through a crucial phase....
MUMBAI: The International Badminton Federation (IBF) and its marketing agency Total Sports Asia (TSA) have launched Badminton Manager, an interactive fantasy game. IBF executive deputy president...
NEW DELHI: The MSO Alliance, an apex body of multi-system operators, has hit back with a point-by-point rebuttal of issues raised by Indian Broadcasting Foundation on...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has decided to exhort the government to mandate all other addressable systems in the country like DTH and IPTV,...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has turned down a request from the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) to extend the 180-day deadline for fulfilling newly-formulated downlinking norms...
These are busy times for sports marketing firm Total Sports Asia (TSA). A little over a year has gone by since it launched operations in India...
MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati chief executive officer K S Sarma has been re-elected as president of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) for the fourth consecutive year. Sarma...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) now has its own website. The site was launched by information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy on Wednesday....
NEW DELHI: Evan as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) rides roughshod over the broadcast sector, the protagonists (read broadcasters vs the cable fraternity) are...
NEW DELHI: A tough stance against errant companies has helped broadcasters get back outstanding dues in jiffy. Only into the second day of an embargo put...
NEW DELHI: A joint committee of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) and Association of Advertising Agencies in India (AAAI) has decided that no television channel would...
MUMBAI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), an apex body of broadcasting companies, will soon submit before the information & broadcasting ministry its viewpoint on the recent...
NEW DELHI: The government today came down heavily on various private sector television channels on issues relating to content described as `indecent’ and threatened to invoke...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) today decided, in principle, to form a sub-committee that would be responsible for presentation and submissions before the government...
NEW DELHI: Pay broadcasters who are members of Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) want that the organization should have separate panels for free to air channels and...
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 Indian Broadcasting Foundation has urged the government to exempt the broadcast industry from service tax as part of its wish list for the forthcoming...
MUMBAI: Given below is the response in full issued by the Indian broadcasting Foundation to the Telecom Authority of India: Without Prejudice To The Preliminary Submissions,...
NEW DELHI: It’s jockeying that’s going on big time as the different stakeholders try to get their point across to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
NEW DELHI: It’s jockeying that’s going on big time as the different stakeholders try to get their point across to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
NEW DELHI: It’s jockeying that’s going on big time as the different stakeholders try to get their point across to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has dropped the idea of going head to head and legally challenging the newly appointed broadcasting regulator the Telecom...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasters Forum (IBF) today held a preliminary discussions here ahead of its board meeting tomorrow and discussed various industry-related issues, including developments on...
NEW DELHI: After having retained Prasar Bharati CEO KS Sarma as its president and getting Zee Telefilms’ Jawahar Goel as the new vice-president, the Indian Broadcasting...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Hook on early and get to see your favourite pay channels at an attractive “invitation price”. That is the proposition that the...
NEW DELHI: After the government ‘s summer offer in the form of slashed duties on import of set top boxes, it’s the turn of the broadcasters...
MUMBAI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), which has been riven recently by persistent reports of major rifts between pay and free-to-air lobbies within it, sought today...
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system (CAS) keeps on throwing up different issues and aspects that serve to make matters more complicated and confusing. Now the Indian...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) today decided that it should put up a united front and thrash out various differences, including those on conditional...
NEW DELHI: The apex body of all broadcasting companies operating in India (pay as well as free to air channels), Indian Broadcasting Foundation, stands on the...
MUMBAI: IBF members received a bit of a jolt on 23 April. Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati CEO and IBF chairman K S Sarma – the one...
NEW DELHI: A delegation of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) today made a strong pitch for some relaxation in the government-mandated deadline for implementation of conditional...
NEW DELHI:To lend some weight to those who are for quick implementation of conditional access, Zee Telefilms chairman and managing director Subhash Chandra has also accompanied...
