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MUMBAI: Just three days after ESPN STAR Sports announced the acquisition of telecast rights to feature comprehensive daily highlights of all international cricket played in India...
Balaji Telefilms continues to be on a high despite Kutumb‘s hiccups and Kya Haadsa Kya Haqeeqat‘s teething problems. The production house is cautiously feeling its way...
MUMBAI: It’s a gamble that could pay off. Just about. Results of the latest indiantelevision.com poll seeking viewer response to the proposed Zee plan to run...
With a longish nose and speaking style that is slightly high-pitched, Ian Diamond, senior vice president and general manager of Turner Entertainment Networks Asia Inc fits...
Discovery Communications India’s managing director, Deepak Shourie, sits in a room in the Delhi office which does not reflect much change from the times of the...
NEW DELHI: Television Eighteen Ltd, the Indian joint venture partner for CNBC India, has questioned the Hinduja Group MSO INCablenet’s stand on the black out of...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The multi-system operator (MSO)-broadcaster face-off has taken another twist. Now the dramatis personae are the Hinduja group-controlled INCablenet and business news channel CNBC India....
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Star India and its executive vice-president sales and marketing, LS ‘Raj’ Nayak, are still grappling with the issue of making the latter’s...
When Vandana Malik started off in television, she was an absolute novice to the medium. It was TV18 promoter Raghav Bahl who propelled his then housewife-sister...
NEW DELHI: The cable operators-broadcaster face-off in the Capital is lurching from one controversy to another. While Win Cable-Hathway and Sony Entertainment TV India have called...
SAINT TROPEZ: A small Indian contingent consisting of Delhi French embassy representative Reghu Devraj, Delhi-based New Image Entertainment promoter HS Bedi, Mumbai-based CEO Star Entertainment Pvt...
The Hallmark Channel is planning a slew of programming and marketing initiatives in a bid to increase visibility in India. And coordinating these activities is Hallmark...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati is still dreaming of a news channel in the Doordarshan stable. And rightly so. In a two-day board, held yesterday and today,...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: On the eve of the kick-off of the Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka a major spat has developed on the distribution front. The cable...
NEW DELHI: The NK Singh committee on foreign direct investment (FDI), which presented its report yesterday to the Prime Minister, has recommended that FDI should also...
NEW DELHI: The Subroto Roy-promoted Sahara India group is still hopeful that a compromise formula may be worked out wherein it continues to remain the sponsor...
MUMBAI:The south seems to be emerging as a strong audience base for niche channels. After Discovery, it is the turn of National Geographic Channel to discover...
Sitting in the visitors‘ room, waiting for Raghav Bahl, managing director of Television Eighteen Ltd, at the company‘s headquarters in Delhi is an education in itself....
Sunil Lulla, the flamboyant ex-general manager of MTV India, and ex-CEO of indya.com, has officially been in charge as business head of Sony Entertainment Television India‘s...
In 1995 when ESPN came to India, not many had thought that it would become a force to reckon with where sports’ broadcasting was concerned. And...
NEW DELHI: As on 31 March, 2002, the outstanding dues owed to national broadcaster Doordarshan from various producers and agencies stood at Rs 1692.8 million, according...
Deutsche Welle (DW) Television entered India in 1996. A niche channel, it has been perceived as a channel only for the German speaking audiences. But the...
NEW DELHI: The Communication Convergence Bill, envisaging a super-regulatory authority for the IT, telecom and broadcasting sectors, is likely to be tabled in the Indian Parliament...
LUCKNOW (UTTAR PRADESH): In a rare show of unity, about 10 cable operators in Lucknow, one of the bigger cable TV markets in the state, have...
LUCKNOW (UTTAR PRADESH): In a rare show of unity, about 10 cable operators in Lucknow, one of the bigger cable TV markets in the state, have...
MUMBAI:The south seems to be emerging as a strong audience base for niche channels. After Discovery, it is the turn of National Geographic Channel to discover...
MUMBAI: Indiantelevision.com has tied up with the SportsBusiness Group (SBG) of the UK to market its clutch of products on the sports information business online to...
Even as it gears up to celebrate its third birthday on 26 August, ETC Networks is working at re-inventing itself with a host of new programmes...
MUMBAI: This is certainly a departure from the normal trend of private broadcasters retaining the rights of the serials telecast on their channels. B.A.G. Films, producer...
Music channel MTV is all set to stir up some buzz on the Hindi film scene.Its first venture into the world of movie making, Bas Yun...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms, which is scheduled to declare its results for the first quarter (Q1) ended 30 June 2002 today, is expected to post a roughly...
Tony D’Silva is an old hand in the distribution business. And when Star India hired the former head of international operations at Zee Telefilms, as executive...
The print media scene in the country is set for exciting times ahead. Recently the Financial Times of London announced that it picked up a 13.85...
KS Sarma, the 50-something chief executive of Prasar Bharati, overseeing the functioning of Doordarshan and All India Radio, is not new to the system. A few...
Prasar Bharati Corporation, the autonomous body modelled on the UK pubcaster BBC and overseeing the work of Doordarshan (DD) and the All India Radio (AIR), is...
“As far as 2002 is concerned, we are very confident and very well positioned. We have had strong distribution growth of 46 per cent in the...
Less than six months after Prasar Bharati shut down its Doordarshan News channel due to lack of viewership, the pubcaster is contemplating reviving it. This was...
Manish Goswami turned television producer in 1993 with the successful Zee serial Parampara. In a span of nearly a decade, he went on to produce several...
A man who happened to chance upon advertising, an individual who stands by his beliefs in this very pseudo world of advertising. A die hard Ilyaraja...
The Indian government would ideally like to keep the price of the basic tier of free-to-air (FTA) channels, once the conditional access system (CAS) is implemented,...
Pubcaster Prasar Bharati’s board these days is seized with matters mostly related to telecast rights. If it is not football, then it must be cricket. A...
To telecast or not to telecast (World cup soccer matches) is the question that is haunting Prasar Bharati and it is still attempting to salvage an...
It’s the festival of lights. And for many the festival of noise courtesy exploding fireworks. In the hope of reducing the number of those belonging to...
Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra today hinted that the group is not immediately interested in starting a direct-to-home (DTH) TV service. “DTH is not as big...
CNN has invested nearly one million dollars to step up security and safety training for news personnel stationed in different parts of the globe. Responding to...
The Union Cabinet gave the go-ahead to bring about amendments to The Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 to allow the imposition of conditional access systems...
James Paul Marturano is the executive vice president, HBO Asia and managing director of HBO South Asia. As executive VP of HBO Asia, Marturano heads the...
A small victory is in sight for cable operators who have been lobbying hard for the implementation of the conditional access system (CAS) – a move...
Looks can be deceptive…take for instance, the just-over-a-year old media company- K Sera Sera’s managing director Parag Sanghavi. Although Sanghavi looks like a pucca Delhi babu,...
Indiantelevision.com is adding another feather to its cap. The Mumbai based television information and services company will hold the first ever Sahyadri Navratna Puraskar 2002...
