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MUMBAI: The Diwali fireworks have already hit Indian television’s Hindi Entertainment space with archrivals Star India and Zee Network locking horns over a copyright issue. The...
Arun Poddar is an industry veteran with an enriched experience and excellent track record of over 23 years in sales and distribution. He brings with him...
MUMBAI: The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) is entering the final stages of preparation for its “Big” bang entry into the FM radio field. The Ambani...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: An immediate fallout of the Trai mandated Rs 5 for all pay channels in CAS areas is that demands have started surfacing...
MUMBAI: Sahara One Television chief operating officer Purnendu Bose has resigned from the post. With Bose moving out, the hunt for the post has begun. Meanwhile,...
MUMBAI: Pushing the ‘digital’ envelope further, Star India has announced the full-fledged launch of its mobile audio entertainment service Voice. The service now offers audio capsules...
MUMBAI: The lifestyle and glamour channel Zoom has announced its latest client led initiative – The L’Oreal Paris Elite Model Look 2006. The event saw the...
MUMBAI: It has been a little over four months since Sony’s English movie channel Pix went on air. The channel positions itself as being different from...
MUMBAI: What is fact and what is fiction? In Hollywood it is often difficult to tell the diference. Now the National Geographic Channel (NGC) is set...
Discovery Lifestyle Networks VP Aditya Tripathi began his professional career with Living Media India Ltd., and has worked in senior positions with some of the biggest...
MUMBAI: Southern Spice Music (SS Music), the Chennai-based multi-lingual music channel targeting the youth, has entered its sixth year of operations. The channel is firing on...
NEW DELHI: What had been earlier put off has finally happened. Channel7 has been rechristened IBN7 and has been sporting the new name from India’s Independence...
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: ASC Enterprises has announced that Dish TV CEO Sunil Khanna has decided to move out of the company on completion of his two-year contract at...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Thursday held discussions with industry stakeholders, but was firm that a la carte pricing of channels...
NEW DELHI: Dish TV’s media campaign revolving round freedom-from-cable-problems theme has incensed a section of cable community, which feels it’s “unethical.” In a letter e-mailed to...
Live the Story! With the aim of competing better in the English entertainment space The History Channel is pursuing a new strategic direction in India. The...
MUMBAI: A day after the government issued a notification setting 31 December, 2006 as the deadline for the south zones of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata to...
NEW DELHI: A meeting on the draft Broadcast Bill 2006, which has been tormenting the media industry over the draconian clauses it contains, has decided that...
NEW DELHI: Indian policy-makers seem to be having second thoughts on a draft broadcasting legislation that was proposed to be introduced in Parliament session, which started...
MUMBAI: The Thiruvananthapuram-headquartered media house Asianet Communications Ltd is planning to launch two more channels in the Malayalam television space. One of these two projects will...
For both Sesame Workshop and its newly-appointed executive director for Indian operations, Sashwati Banerjee, India is a big challenge. The US-based Sesame Workshop might have revolutionized...
MUMBAI: After unleashing its fight against movie piracy with the launch of a full-fledged digital movie project last month, the Kerala entertainment space is now all...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Disney is reorganising its film division. The movie studio is looking to axe 650 employees in an effort to trim $90 to...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) is likely to call off its deal to acquire 60 per cent stake in Venus Films Pvt Ltd and Venus Records...
His is a tale that is not just about multiplexes. E-City Investments and Holdings chief Atul Goel is hooking up a film exhibition, distribution and digital...
MUMBAI: It is official now. Star Plus is not discontinuing Kaun Banega Crorepati 2 (KBC2) even though it has exhausted its fresh bank of episodes. Instead,...
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...
MUMBAI: Starting 7 August, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Asia Pacific will be called the Australia Network, offering news, documentaries, drama and lifestyle programs. In its...
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....
NEW DELHI: In view of divergent and contradictory view from broadcasting and telecom industry, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is set to withdraw a consultation...
MUMBAI: One of AXN’s initiatives for the year is the AXN Action Awards. This seeks to reward work done by Bollywood’s action stars. The show which...
MUMBAI: Television format owner and creator Endemol has announced that Elías Rodríguez-Viña Cancio is its CEO. Rodriguez-Viña comes from Telefónica, where he has been responsible for...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government yet again pleaded for more time to roll out CAS — six months to be exact — but a Delhi court...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government yet again pleaded for more time to roll out CAS — six months to be exact — but a Delhi court...
He is credited with having stitched some lucrative deals for NDTV — rather it’s said that the so-called one-sided deal that NDTV had with Star for...
After establishing its digital platform 2525 with a slew of activities in 2004, Sony India’s 2005 plan was to take it to the next level to...
If news channels are largely described as niche, then Awaaz is a niche within the niche. Positioned as a consumer Hindi news channel, it breaks the...
MUMBAI: Move over Apple. Music label Saregama India is set to enter the online music market aimed entirely at the “generation on the go”. The company...
BBC World Service on-air editor Steve Martin has been responsible for the present on-air image that BBC’s English Radio Network holds, be it the sound identity...
For the last six years, Viren Popli has been an integral part of the Star India system. As the international business senior VP, Popli reported to...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star’s news partner ABP Group is drawing up expansion plans envisaging niche news channels, film production and a sustainable...
MUMBAI: After striking a truce with Mumbai’s cable operators and gaining prime band occupancy on their networks, Star One is making all efforts to regain lost...
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: DD Direct Plus, the direct-to-home (DTH) service of Prasar Bharati, will undergo its first phase of expansion in June this year. As per the plans,...
MUMBAI: The Aroon Purie promoted TV Today Network has officially announced the launch of its fourth 24-hour news channel, targeting the local Delhi/NCR audience, for 29...
MUMBAI: As the second direct-to-home player Tata Sky gears for launch, the Telecom Disputes Redressal and Settlement Tribunal (TDSAT), in an interim order passed today, has...
CANNES: It’s official and its coming from DreamWorks SKG cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg’s mouth. “We are coming to India in a big way,” he told indiantelevision.com at...
NEW DELHI: A group of ministers (GoM) looking into a possible financial restructuring of pubcaster Prasar Bharati to boost its revenue generation capacity has said no...
Cable and direct-to-home (DTH) is where Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) chairman Subhash Chandra is planning to put the accelerator on. Wire and Wireless India Ltd (WWIL),...
