After being absent for over a year on the cricket front, Max is all set to steal the limelight. It has two mouth-watering tournaments back to...
Quaint wooden swings and benches strewn between potted plants dot the terrace that overlooks Dr. Akash Khurana’s neat and sleek office in the refurbished building recently...
MUMBAI: After a ten-day war of words in which accusations flew back and forth, sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports today morning switched on its signal to...
Ravina Raj Kohli is a tenacious professional. The lady has come a long way from being an advertising professional to running a radio company in Singapore...
The man needs no introduction. Madison Communications’ chairman and managing director Sam Balsara can boast of having built up, that too from scratch, one of the...
At first glance, Star India’s senior vice president ad sales, Kevin Vaz comes across as unassuming to a fault. But there is no getting away from...
What are little girls made of? “Sugar and spice and all that‘s nice.” And little boys? “Frogs and snails and puppy-dogs‘ tails.” Most of us would...
One could be excused for wondering if the head honcho of India’s largest media house and largest-by-far broadcast company isn’t getting bored of the sameness of...
William H Roedy’s belief in localisation is complete. When in India, his business cards are printed in Hindi on one side, English the other. The 55-year-old...
The name is Shroff… Shravan Shroff. Claim to fame: Fame Adlabs. Armed with an MBA degree, this alumnus of Melbourne Business School, Australia came back to...
While the competition in the music sphere is hotting up in the Hindi segment, etc claims to have a clear lead over the others. Not content...
With the Synergy Communications’ produced India’s Child Genius, Star World makes its big time foray into indigenously produced English programming. While it may not have a...
Zee TV president Sunil Khanna has a lot on his plate at the moment. The largest serving he has to manage of course being the nationwide...
He’s a creative whizz, multi-talented, and collects awards the way some people collect postage stamps (harking back to the time of snail mail of course). He...
The chain of Fun Republics across the country are the more obvious face of this Essel Group subsidiary. E-City Entertainment, however, is much more than that....
This year promises to be a cricket fiesta like no other. It started in January with India finishing their tour of Australia followed by India-Pakistan. We...
MUMBAI: On 7 May one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year – Mel Gibson’s The Passion Of The Christ will be released in...
MUMBAI: Looks like the Western is turning out to be a shaky bet for movie studios. Last year The Missing turned into a loss making proposition...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms today announced that it would be publishing its audited accounts for the year ended 31 March 2004 within three months of the close...
With the government relaxing the FDI norms for leisure and general interest print publications, among the international publishers to take advantage of this is BBC Worldwide...
A day after Prasar Bharati deputy director general Vijaya Laxmi Chhabra struck an “unconventional” cricket marketing deal with Zee Telefilms, we requested an immediate interview and...
MUMBAI: The country’s most influential press publication, The Times of India Group, looks to have more or less finalised the channels with which it will make...
The company turns one, a week from now. The applause, however, is yet to make itself heard. 37-year-old Anshumaan Swami, the CEO of Applause Entertainment, however,...
MUMBAI: Hit Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company have reached an agreement on a five-year global rights and production venture. Hit will now distribute Henson’s family...
From being a junior minister to former information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj few years back, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has come a long way to become...
After the Big Event what? That must have been the dilemma confronting Sony Entertainment Television’s executive V-P ad sales and revenue management Rohit Gupta in the...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The much-hyped multi-system operators’ (MSOs) meet in Delhi today failed to come up with concrete conclusions, though various issues arising out of postponement of...
MUMBAI: International surveys show that events are being increasingly used as highly effective brand building and selling tools. Only they need to be used in synergy...
Elections 2004 and Indo-Pak cricket 2004. Get set for the tidal wave. On the media front that is. From a purely media perspective, these two events...
LV Krishnan, chief executive of TAM India, is a soft spoken man. But that could well have worked to an advantage for someone who been in...
W ith Zee Telefilms having appointed him as the chief executive of its films division, Nittin Keni currently has movies, movies and more movies on his...
NEW DELHI: Just two days after TV Today Network CMD Aroon Purie told indiantelevision.com that the organization was zeroing down on a replacement for Uday Shankar...
If there is a list drawn up of the hottest young television professionals in India, her name will surely figure in it. Coming from a family...
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...
MUMBAI: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has issued a call for entries for the 32nd International Emmy Awards. The deadline for entries is...
MUMBAI: Apurva Purohit, the soon to be former employee of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms, is joining the Times Group as head of its television project....
NEW DELHI: As reported by indiantelevision.com earlier, Zee Telefilms is launching its religious channel, Jagran, tomorrow. In the Hindu calendar, the day is celebrated as Makar...
MUMBAI: Indiantelevision.com continues to gather accolades. At the 3rd Indira Awards for Marketing Excellence, which were presented at a glittering ceremony in Pune on Sunday, India’s...
MUMBAI: First, it was the Bajoria murmur that set the market grapevine abuzz. Now, it is the offloading of shares by Balaji promoters to foreign institutional...
‘You see tourists stroll off hand in hand with children – and you wonder – am I being paranoid or is there more going on here...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has big plans for Asia in the animation area. It will have three dedicated feeds for Animax Asia by the end...
Sameer Nair, the chief operating officer of Star India, an arm of the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group Pvt Ltd, can be a reticent man. Very unlike...
MUMBAI: Get set for a fresh round of jousting between pay broadcasters and cable operators. The Shiv Sena backed Cable Operators and Distributors Association (CODA), which...
Ever since last year’s Hollywood flick Spider-man set the box office records in India, there has been no looking back for Columbia Tristar. This year, the...
Crest Communications, one of the leaders in 3D animation in India, has big plans up its sleeve. It is constantly looking to set benchmarks in this...
Tony and Deeya Singh have been pulled in from the wilderness (their last well known work was Just Mohabbat and Banegi Apni Baat) by Sony Entertainment...
The name Nittin Keni reminds one of the chart-busting and revenue-raking Hindi film Gadar – Ek Prem Katha, featuring Sunny Deol and Amisha Patel a few...
When Ten Sports from Abdul Rehman Bukhatir’s Taj Television stable launched last year it was greeted with a fair share of skepticism. After all ESPN Star...
NEW YORK: Since the start of the year there has been intense speculation that the current season of NBC’s hit sitcom Frasier may be the last....
When Deepak Chaurasia, the 30-year-old political editor of Aaj Tak, was announced the consulting editor of Prasar Bharati’s news channel DD News, critics speculated if the...