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The world of market research in India is growing. Both channels and advertisers are seeking more clearer understanding of the consumer and his/her evolving media behaviour....
MUMBAI: The digital set-top box (STB) that will sit in consumer homes to receive pay channels will come cheap. Facing the threat of competition from direct-to-home...
BANGALORE: DD Kendra Bangalore has recorded revenues of Rs 135.4 million during the 10-month period March 2005 to January 2006. These are figures for the revenues...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster CBS has announced that it will bring back its online extension of its reality show The Amazing Race on its site. Finish Line:...
MUMBAI: Veteran Malayalam actor M S Trippunithara died of a cardiac arrest, early today in Palakkad. The actor breathed his last, while returning to hometown Kochi...
MUMBAI: It looks like marriage season in the Indian broadcast sector. Close on the heels of Jagran’s Channel7 getting into an investment deal with Global Broadcast...
As the mobile continues growing as a source of entertainment, companies are looking at ways in which they can enhance the value that this medium provides....
NEW DELHI: “We have been doing quite well this financial year and expect to close our books in March 2006 with Rs 10 billion (Rs 1,000...
NEW DELHI: Even as all the FM radio companies have formed an association, the smaller and regional licencees are finalising a separate consortium to collectively tap...
MUMBAI: Sahara One has become an encrypted channel even as it has bagged the cricket telecast rights for the India-England series. The reason: the telecast signals...
With the government having completed the process of awarding the second round of FM radio licences, there’s a huge buzz in the industry. Coming soon to...
MUMBAI: It’s all about advertising sales. That is clearly the revenue story for England’s tour of India that kicks off 1 March. This is amply borne...
MUMBAI: The Star Group has strongly refuted a recent report in the Financial Times that News Corp “has discussed withdrawing from Phoenix Satellite Television, its Hong...
MUMBAI: After all the talk of a shutout, some good news for English cricket fans wishing to follow their team’s progress. Sky Sports has won the...
MUMBAI: Five days after Nimbus Communications clinched a $612.18 million (Rs 27.24 billion) global media rights deal for cricket to be played in India for the...
MUMBAI: Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) is for the first time funding an animation film project. It has agreed to lend $7 million to Crest...
MUMBAI: Hyderabad-based Color Chips (India) Ltd is considering a global depository receipts (GDR) issue of up to $10 million to fund its expansion plans. “We are...
MUMBAI: The James Murdoch-led BSkyB DTH operator in the UK has become the first broadcast platform to take a hit after Nimbus Communications won the telecast...
India is increasingly becoming an attractive destination for foreign television firms wishing to do business. Some of them are looking to set up shop. The latest...
BANGALORE: Europe’s satellite system specialist EADS Astrium and Antrix, the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), today formally signed a contract to provide a...
BANGALORE: Discovery is looking to make a sustained push this year as far as local production is concerned. A few days ago it had announced an...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Now that telecast rights to India cricket for the next four years have been sealed and delivered (though the signing on the...
MUMBAI: Star India has deputed Star One programming head Ravi Menon as Vijay TV general manager. Harsh Rohatgi, who had been heading the channel as deputy...
MUMBAI: Indias readiness to embrace new technologies, opposed to Chinas cautious approach, makes the former a more attractive market for suppliers of broadcast and related technologies,...
NEW DELHI: The government’s going radio ga GA looks like. Information & broadcasting secretary SK Arora today said that the government is exploring phase three after...
NEW DELHI: Star India’s president corporate affairs Nitin Atroley has decided to quit the organization to pursue new challenges. A Star India spokesperson confirmed that Atroley...
MUMBAI: Sahara One Media and Entertainment, at its board meeting held last Saturday (11 February), has cleared the way for the Times Group to pick up...
As OgilvyOne Worldwide Asia Pacific CEO, Kent Wertime is responsible for 16 offices in 12 countries in the region. That’s quite a wide geographical swathe that...
NEW DELHI: A new floor price of $ 450 million set by the Indian cricket board for telecast rights of Indian cricket is being termed by...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms has turned down Shiv Sena working president Uddhav Thackeray’s request to refrain from telecasting Zee Gaurav Awards. Zee Telefilms VP Ashish Kaul said...
MUMBAI: With a view to expand their programming content, lifestyle and entertainment channel Zoom has announced two new shows Kuoni Hot Spots and Love Bites. Whilst...
MUMBAI: In a bid to strengthen its line up of original content, English movie channel HBO will kick off the series Rome from 20 February 2006...
MUMBAI: The Zee-Turner distribution platform has appealed to the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (Tdsat) demanding that it issue a notice to the Star-India backed...
MUMBAI: Encouraged by the good performance its reality talent hunt Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005 has been putting up on the rating front, Zee...
NEW DELHI: The cricket telecast rights saga just refuses to die down with new twists added at almost every juncture. Even as Indian pubcaster Doordarshan has...
Making an entry into a genre that has three firmly entrenched channels – Zee Cinema, Max and Star Gold – will be Filmy on 12 February....
MUMBAI: HFCL Infotel Ltd.(HITL), a private telephony operator in Punjab, is planning to invest Rs 6 billion over the next two years for offering a convergence...
MUMBAI: Star Ananda might soon have competition as Zee News Pvt Ltd readies plans to launch a Bengali news channel. Going by a working name of...
In the world of music companies that put out original work one firm that is unique is Silva Screen Records (SSR). Among other activities it puts...
In a competitive market, CNN-IBN’s editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai believes that journalism has to be a collective enterprise. He also strongly feels that stories that are in...
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...
After a 14-year stint with JWT, Unilever Business, Albert Almeida took up his first job in television as Sony Entertainment Television senior vice president marketing. In...
A decade milestone crossed, Turner International's kids channel Cartoon Network is gearing up for the next 10! More competition in the space or not… the channel...
It has been a busy time for FremantleMedia in India. The company earlier this year finished co-producing the first season of Indian Idol. It is now...
Adlabs Films Ltd is Anil Ambani’s first big catch in the entertainment arena: Rs 3.6 billion for a 51 per cent stake. Moving rapidly to arm...
NEW DELHI: Tata Sky, proposing to start a DTH television service in India, can heave a sigh of relief as a nod from the telecommunication ministry...
When Zee Telefilms director Punit Goenka was appointed Zee TV business head in September this year, the industry by and large considered it a conscious decision...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd is gearing up to expand its business in the Middle East. The company is launching early next year a movie channel for...
Two years is a good time to take stock. It’s been just a little more than that since Michelle Guthrie, to the surprise of many a...
As a career bureaucrat, KS Sarma is neither a stranger to the Indian political system nor the opportunities that it throws up if one wants to...
