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MUMBAI: Even as the Mumbai High Court decision on the cable industry issues involving consumers, broadcasters and cable operators is pending, a Mumbai based consumer activist...
NEW DELHI: The apex body of all broadcasting companies operating in India (pay as well as free to air channels), Indian Broadcasting Foundation, stands on the...
NEW DELHI: The radio group, the umbrella body of Indian FM companies, made a presentation today to the I&B minister RS Prasad seeking a five per...
MUMBAI: Bollywood heroes are playing negative characters on the small screen. Aayub Khan, of Mrityudand fame, is firming plans to play Karisma Kapoor’s son on Sahara...
His reputation as a street fighter precedes him. His style of functioning may be debatable. His spoken language is not as savvy as those who sit...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Guess what? The Big Daddy of them all – Doordarshan – is about to enter the direct to home (DTH) arena. It...
She personifies the image and spirit of the two spirited channels from the Zee stable that have, in a short span, asserted their identity and are...
NEW DELHI: As they say in cricket, something’s about to give way. Either the Indian government will buckle under pressure from various factions of the broadcasting...
When it comes to blockbusters we are really the best.” This is the core of what HBO is trying to reinforce this Summer through its programming...
MUMBAI: A century on air and counting. Kagaz Ki Kashtti (KKK), a daily soap which airs on Sahara TV, completed 100 episodes yesterday. Shrishti Entertainment, promoted...
MUMBAI: Zee’s beleaguered Sunday morning show Kanhaiyya continues in suspended animation for another week. The Supreme Court, which was to deliver its final verdict on Friday...
Keertan Adyanthaya, Star India’s vice president content & communication for Channel [V], will soon complete his first anniversary with the organisation. It’s been quite a journey...
Sitting in his seventh floor sparsely furnished office at the Videocon Towers in the busy Central-West area of Delhi, Uday Shankar, the 30-something news director of...
MUMBAI: With reference to the article headlined Sony readying five new shows for launch post-World Cup, indiantelevision.com is issuing the following clarification. In the report a...
MUMBAI: With the union budget due to be announced on Friday news channels are gearing up with a slew of specials and in-depth analysis. Indiantelevision.com has...
NEW DELHI: Subhash Chandra companies Zee Telefilms and ASC Enterprises (which is implementing the Agrani satellite project), are preparing to launch a KU-band direct-to-home television service...
NEW DELHI: The ministry of defence, under minister George Fernandes, is understood to have suggested that foreign shareholding in a news channel should be capped at...
Ravi Shankar Prasad, the new minister of information and broadcasting is a no-nonsense man. He speaks haltingly, in a measured manner, mulling, chewing and pondering over...
No frills. All business. That’s Alexander “Sandy” Brown for you. In and out of meetings at his headquarters in Singapore’s International Plaza, head down to the...
Conditional access may have been okayed by Parliament, but questions still haunt the industry. In its constant endeavour to present views of several experts and industry...
Ashutosh Srivastava looks a man still getting used to the lonely at the top state he’s been in since he took over from Andre Nair in...
NEW DELHI: Star India today indicated that it is not afraid of cricket eating into its viewership base, even as it announced a series of new...
The Sahara India Parivaar, estimated to have a turnover of Rs 160 billion, has this knack of getting into the news and, most of the time,...
NEW DELHI: Though India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj would like the second phase of privatisation of FM radio to be completed within the next...
Zee folklore has it that when Zee Telefilms was riding the crest of success a few years ago, a journalist came to do a cover story...
It‘s a quiet revolution. After keeping a low profile for a while, Zee English and Zee MGM, the two niche channels from the Zee stable, are...
He cuts an impressive figure. One of the few to have seen the potential in the sports business and made money out of it. Meet Harish...
Doordarshan director general Dr S Y Quraishi was pretty upbeat on the evening of the announcement of its World Cup Cricket 2003 telecast plans on the...
Rajat Jain is the man in the hot seat as MAX prepares to stir up passions, drum up hype and hoopla. The next three months will...
NEW DELHI: The total assets of Prasar Bharati Corporation, the autonomous body modelled on the UK pubcaster BBC to oversee the work of Doordarshan (DD) and...
NEW DELHI: It was the day after for the I&B ministry as far as conditional access system (CAS) rollout is concerned. The outcome of a meeting...
NEW DELHI: The Cable TV (Networks) Regulation Amendment Bill 2002, the passage of which will bring in conditional access system (CAS) in the country, has been...
MUMBAI: You have to give it to Star India. It does not believe in half measures. The jewel in Rupert Murdoch’s Asia operations effectively re-set the...
MUMBAI: Star India may have announced a 25 per cent drop in subscription rates per subscriber from the current Rs 40 to Rs 30, but cable...
NEW DELHI: Some members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT and Telecom, which recently submitted its report on the Communication Convergence Bill 2001, have expressed...
NEW DELHI: India will have to wait for at least six months before having a legislation to regulate and govern the convergence space encompassing the sectors...
NEW DELHI: It may sound contradictory, but the government has admitted in Parliament that “market forces” guide the subscription fee of pay channels and at present...
NEW DELHI: India will have to wait for at least six months before having a legislation to regulate and govern the convergence space encompassing the sectors...
Jonathan Howlett, global director of airtime sales of BBC World, is no stranger to India. He has come to the sub-continent often and is a keen...
NEW DELHI: Continuing to be bullish on the Indian market, BBC World feels that the subcontinent still offers the channel great potential in terms of revenue...
NEW DELHI: Even as the fight for the non-fiction genre of programming hots up in India, Discovery India, quoting TAM figures, says it has a viewership...
The cell phone buzzes constantly, but Apurva Purohit, president of Zee TV, the flagship channel of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms, doesn’t mind attending to the...
The Subhash Chandra promoted Zee Telefilms could not have been going through a worse phase. With TRPs of programmes failing to register in the Top 50...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati Corporation (PBC) wants to add more flab to its 40,000 plus employee base. Reason: there are not enough programming and technical staff...
NEW DELHI: ESPN is understood to be negotiating with Star India to supply it sports news for Star News when the Rupert Murdoch company takes full...
NEW DELHI: Flush with the success of their Suno Aur Lakhpati Bano campaign and the way the market has responded, Star Radio, operating in the FM...
MUMBAI: Online polling for several categories for the second annual Indian Telly Awards has started on indiantelevision.com. Three programming awards are open for public polling. These...
NEW DELHI: The infrastructure at Prasar Bharati’s disposal is not adequate enough to start a Doordarshan news channel at the moment, a senior official of the...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to improve the Prasar Bharati infrastructure, the government sanctioned a special package of Rs 4300 million for improvement of AIR/Doordarshan infrastructure...
MUMBAI: The ultra competitive scenario of television channels in the South shows no signs of letting up. An important regional player, Raj TV, is currently in...
