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There is no method in his madness, yet delivering mind-blowing content is what drives Channel [V]’s new captain, Amar Deb. The 30-something creative powerhouse is obsessed...
You have to give it to the Hong Kong-based James Field, director solutions, NDS Asia Pacific. Field might be staring at another tough assignment as he...
52-year old Peter Chernin does not come across like your typical media CEO. No flamboyance, no arrogance, no showing off. Just a regular business guy. The...
On 14 October, India's first 24-hour non-stop Punjabi music channel, Balle-Balle will complete one year of its existence. For Balle-Balle, it has been an eventful year,...
When the 20-something Sushanto Roy was named CEO of Sahara India’s media and entertainment division, sceptics tittered that it was father and chairman Subrata Roy’s way...
Associated Press Television News (APTN) is the world’s largest video news agency, breaking international news service delivered via satellite to 87 per cent of the world’s...
NEW DELHI: The FM radio task force, which is likely to submit its recommendations on radio broadcast policy, has more or less arrived at a consensus...
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: The Subrata Roy-promoted Sahara India is “actively exploring” a foray into ground distribution of television channels. This is because the channel is facing competition...
MUMBAI: Sahara Samay-Mumbai, Sahara Group’s western India-specific news channel, which was supposed to officially launch tomorrow (26 September), will make a “test launch at 9 am”,...
PARIS: French media company Vivendi Universal posted a narrower first-half net loss thanks to fewer exceptional charges and rising operating profits at its telecoms and pay...
Ever since HBO launched in India three years ago, the English movie channel scene has seen a jump in terms of the quality of films aired....
MUMBAI: Independent producers affiliated to Doordarshan (DD) kendras in Thiruvanthapuram, Hyderabad and Chennai are scheduled to join the stir started by the Bangalore producers – who...
NEW DELHI: Financial Times (FT) of London will be picking up 13. 8 per cent stake in Business Standard Ltd (BSL), a subsidiary of Kotak Mahindra...
India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which oversees the functioning of Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR), has always been looked upon as a slumbering behemoth. ...
If she is not slogging away on the sets to shape up her TV serials, she is seeking divine protection and blessings. “I just returned from...
Her week never ends. You will find the Balaji head in her office on Sundays too. “Now that I have a public limited company in television...
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena member of parliament Sanjay Nirupam is of the view that the I&B ministry is under some sort of a compulsion to go-ahead with...
She has been in India for only five years, but is already a key person in the Indian animation industry. Alice Manuel, who joined UTV Toons...
MUMBAI: The tiger roars at CAS again. Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray is slated to meet nearly 1,000 Mumbai-based cable operators on Sunday, 7 September 2003....
Kids channel Nickelodeon has announced a campaign to build awareness of environmental issues amongst children, putting into action a pledge it made to supporting kid’s rights...
MUMBAI: As the D-Day for the Indian Telly Awards 2003 approaches – entry forms, beta tapes and photographs galore from various channels – have started flooding...
There was a time when advertisers in India took BBC World, and CNN, as foreign news channels that ‘also’ beamed into India. But over the years,...
MUMBAI: indiantelevision.com and The Indian Telly Awards founder Anil Wanvari has been authorised by The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to collate entries from...
MUMBAI: “Real time television, which is effectively reality TV.” That about sums up what Sahara Samay Mumbai, which soft launches 1 September, is all about, according...
The paper lottery market in India stands at an overwhelming Rs 35,000 to Rs 50,000 crore. The fledgling online lottery business, on the other hand, currently...
The latest addition to Indiantelevision.com’s Young Turk gallery is Zain Verjee. In seven years Zain has gone from reading the traffic news updates for an African...
“Measuring the pulse of Indian TV audiences” – one sees these words almost everywhere in the Mumbai headquarters of TAM India. With services in more than...
Kunal Dasgupta has just completed eight years as chief executive of Sony Entertainment Television India, which makes him the longest serving professional CEO in the television...
MUMBAI: indiantelevision.com and The Indian Telly Awards founder Anil Wanvari has been unanimously elected by a majority vote as an Associate of the International Academy of...
Her gentle demeanour masks her grit, determination and risk taking abilities. Meet Prasar Bharati director marketing Vijaya Laxmi Chhabra. Originally from Orissa, Chhabra spent the formative...
MUMBAI: The trade was anxiously awaiting a decision but all they got was another date. A division bench of the Mumbai High Court comprising Chief Justice...
NEW DELHI: A “substantial” part of the revenues of ESPN India, as too with other pay broadcasters, is likely to get affected in the post-conditional access...
MUMBAI: A little over eight months after Star India filed a civil suit in the Bombay High Court seeking to enforce its contract against enstranged head...
NEW DELHI: Close on the heels of a meeting that the PMO officials had with broadcasters yesterday, leading MSOs today agreed that if there is an...
ETC Networks director and Broadband Pacenet India chairman Jagjit Singh Kohli is a man doing a tight-rope balancing act as far as the conditional access system...
Fresh off the success of last years desi adaptation of Who Dares Wins AXN is all set to unveil its first local adaptation of the year AXN Hot N...
MUMBAI: India’s First ever CAS Summit on the TV Advertising Scenario Post CAS will be held on 4 July at the Hyatt Regency Mumbai. Hosted...
When Harish Thawani announced he was handing over day-to-day management of Nimbus Communications Ltd (the company he incorporated in 1987) to Akash Khurana, it was met...
NEW DELHI: In a major communications overhaul, the Subhash Chandra-led Essel Group has decided to create a signature group under Corporate Brand Development Group (CBDG) for...
These days information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad does not look uncertain as he did some months back when he was allocated the I&B ministry...
His affable manner complements his shrewd business sense. UTV group CEO Ronnie Screwvala is literally one of the survivors who has seen many crests and troughs...
MUMBAI: The television business is all a matter of perception and Discovery is well aware of this. The broadcaster is trying to boost desi content through...
NEW DELHI: Not satisfied with passing a law, the Indian government now wants to do micro-management of the implementation of the law. Especially when it comes...
In his late twenties, ASC Enterprises Ltd’s group president and CEO Punit Goenka is not one of those high-profile, page three-type executives. Surprising, because he heads...
HTMT group director and CTO (chief technology officer) KV Seshasayee is the man in the centre of action. He is the man who will spearhead the...
In this concluding part of a two-part interview with indiantelevision.com’s Thomas Abraham, Star India COO Sameer Nair does some straight talking on programming issues. Excerpts: When...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today told policy makers that pubcaster Doordarshan was opting for a KU-band DTH scheme at an estimated...
It’s been a while out of the spotlight for ESPN Star Sports, what with the Champions Trophy last September and the World Cup in March. On the...
BBC World has appointed Seema Kotecha as the new head of marketing based in London. Kotecha will work closely with BBC’s director of marketing Jane Gorard...
