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For Asian satellite service provider Asiasat, the past year has been a period of expansion in a tight market. It recently announced the establishment of a...
For Raghav Bahl, MD of the publicly traded Television Eighteen India Ltd (present market cap: Rs 7,300 million), it has been a long trek from his...
When Subroto Roy announced last year his commitment to infuse a whopping Rs 15 billion for a makeover of his entertainment and media business, he was...
Reality talent hunt is one of the success pillars of Channel [V]. The music channel from the Star stable has launched a series of them –...
For the cable operators in India, there is much to learn from Taiwan. The industry, which was unorganised, has undergone changes: consolidation, network upgradation, and a...
A 1971 batch officer of the Indian Administrative Service, SK Arora is a man of few words and believes that actions should speak for themselves. But...
B4U Television Network has chalked out a revival plan. The company has paid carriage fee to cable operators, visibility of its two channels has improved, and...
He can be called an outsider to the broadcasting world, but he claims to have seen the media from both sides. Having spent close to 30...
MUMBAI: The next big phase of expansion in the news genre could well be the regional space. Most broadcasters, including India TV, think so. The Rajat...
He may not look like the typical corporate executive and globe-trotting businessman like his elder brother Subhash Chandra or appear to be as techno-savvy as his...
There’s no business like the news channel business. Three years and counting and there is still no let-up in the double digit growth this genre of...
A wave of consolidation is sweeping the satellite sector. The latest in a series of mergers and acquisitions is the announcement that Intelsat Ltd. would buy...
It’s been eight months since The Walt Disney Company set up shop in India and unleashed the magical world of the much adored Mickey and his...
Variety and innovation are becoming increasingly important in the niche English entertainment segment as channels fight to hold on to share and attempt to grow the...
MUMBAI: Malayalam news channel Indiavision will soon have a sibling in a youth-oriented entertainment channel. Indiavision Satellite Communications, promoters of Indiavision, is targeting an October launch...
One of staples of the English entertainment scene in India is AXN. The seven-year-old action channel constantly looks for ways to increase variety. For this purpose...
5 August saw the second coming of the TV show that changed the viewing habits of Indians when it made its first in 2000 – Kaun...
Overseeing network sales for a media firm is what you would least expect a National Defence Academy graduate to end up doing. But Zee’s Joy Chakraborthy...
The broadcast industry currency Tam ratings has been in the line of fire lately. Zee Telefilms and Sahara One have pointed fingers at the agency recently...
When Television Eighteen was started in 1994, critics dismissed it as a fad. As if on cue, the company went through a bad phase towards the...
NEW DELHI: Bollywood hero Salman Khan’s alleged dalliances with the underworld, which, reportedly led to an acrimonious separation from his arm candy and former world beauty...
Radio City FM 91, Bangalore launched in July 2001. Promoted by Music Broadcast Private Limited (MBPL), and with 75 per cent equity from GW Capital, Radio...
MTV Networks India is eyeing growth through acquisitions, be it in the area of local language TV channels, radio, print, production facilities and digital media. And...
When you’ve been in the television production business for as long as Fremantle Media director of productions India Gavin Wood has, there is probably very little...
Size, the makers of Godzilla would vouch, definitely matters at the box-office. And Star India is getting bigger by the day. In terms of annual turnover...
A few decades back, nobody would have imagined that the Rs 5 billion Jagran Prakashan, headqaureted in the north Indian industrial town of Kanpur, would straddle...
MUMBAI: Sahara One today officially announced the appointment of Shantonu Aditya as CEO of the company, while saying the restructuring of its media and entertainment business...
The telenovela format is going from strength to strength in India and across the globe. RCTV International, the distribution arm of RCTV, which claims to be...
The Southern television space, which is second only to the Hindi space in viewership and ad spend, has been a key market for the country‘s prominent...
Cho, Kyu Sang needs an interpreter to communicate when in India. But the director-general, media policy bureau of the Korean Broadcasting Commission, is confident that language...
These days when you walk into the offices of Sony Entertainment Television in the television suburb of Andheri (W) in Mumbai, you can feel the charged...
Space TV CEO Vikram Kaushik is a cautious person and knowing the controversial nature of the the company’s proposed DTH venture, he’s been extra cautious. A...
On 17 May, a Tuesday, even as the new information and broadcasting ministry secretary SK Arora, after taking over from his predecessor Navin Chawla, was telling...
Desperately trying to get across to somebody in Russia on his cell phone from Delhi, he mumbles to himself about the (in)efficiency of telecom companies around...
A father screaming at his 14-year-old daughter for undergoing an abortion! An HIV afflicted nurse who gives hope to patients! Cops getting high on steroids! These...
MUMBAI:Arup Ghosh, news director of Channel 7, the news channel from the Jagran group, has put in his papers after a short stint there. Contacted by...
The sports broadcasting genre is heading towards a period of expansion and change. With one new entrant ready to make its presence in the next month...
Sun Network continues to hold supremacy in the southern region and is on a major expansion spree to build a pan India empire. In an exclusive...
MUMBAI: India seems to be the favourite destination for media czars. After News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch it’s the turn of Walt Disney Company CEO Michael...
As Rajdeep Sardesai embarks upon a different role as an entrepreneur too, he insists that his forte is journalism and that it will remain so. Though...
BANGALORE: A division bench of the Karnataka High Court comprising justices AM Farooq and AB Hinchgeri passed an interim order on a petition by AV Amarnathan,...
CANNES: The future holds opportunities of connecting to audiences in unimaginable ways through content that is more personal and more meaningful for the consumer. That was...
MUMBAI: NDTV, which launched the business channel NDTV Profit along with the 24-hour news channel NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India, has decided to go the pay...
Music channels operate in a space that cannot be really defined as static or having set formulae. Certainly not in India. There was a time when...
Kalanithi Maran is getting ready for his next big project. The Sun Network chairman and managing director has applied for a license to operate a direct-to-home...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The much maligned — or the much massaged, depending on how one views it — Casting Couch has claimed another victim: the competitors of...
NEW DELHI: BBC World, the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Service, is evolving with the times. It’s not only in the process of unleashing a...
The southern market is undoubtedly becoming increasingly critical for marketers. Ironically, this region in terms of its sheer advertising revenue contribution is shrinking. O&M president (Chennai...
Starcom Delhi’s success percentage can be pegged as almost 50 per cent last year and the agency’s executive director Anita Nayyar is upbeat about the year...
Indiantelevision.com’s Seema Pherwani spoke to India TV editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma, in the eye of a controversy following the series of ‘sting operations’ his channel has conducted...
