KOLKATA: A few days ago, when indiantelevision.com spoke to a cross-section of advertisers, media planners and broadcasters to find out if the current economic scenario had...
KOLKATA: City-based Chakra Group which runs a daily broadsheet newspaper ‘Ekdin’ from Kolkata, plans to sell the newspaper to Darpan Press, a highly placed media industry...
MUMBAI: Judging is not an easy task and especially when it is for the International Emmy Awards which are considered as the Oscars of the television...
MUMBAI: The month of July saw the tamasha related to the ratings – TRPs vs TVTs and it was for a fortnight that the whole industry...
NEW DELHI: The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) is a happy lot and why shouldn’t it be? After all its demands are being heard and openly expressed...
MUMBAI: Seven broadcast networks which have told TAM to shift to monthly reporting of TV ratings of their channels have been given 72 hours to revert...
MUMBAI: Breathtaking performances, rib-tinkling humour, loads of glitz and glamour and your favourite television stars. Find it all at the starry night that is the 12th...
NEW DELHI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (Asci) rejected six of the fourteen complaints relating to wrongful depiction of women in advertisements during 2012 and...
NEW DELHI: As the Delhi high court ordered a stay on the order of the inter-ministerial committee relating to suspending telecast for 24 hours from midnight...
NEW DELHI: Three weeks after the switch-off of analogue signals in a majority of the 38 cities covered under Phase II, the level of digitisation has...
NEW DELHI: The level of digitisation has reached around 88 per cent in the 38 cities covered in fourteen states and one union territory for Phase...
New Delhi: The news television industry came out in droves to celebrate success on 25 March evening at New Delhi’s Taj Palace Hotel. Representative of TV...
MUMBAI: With just two films like Ek Chaalis Ki Last Local and Kismet Love Paisa Dilli to his credit, director Sanjay Khanduri has decided to produce...
MUMBAI: A double-digit ad revenue growth has helped Zee News Ltd (ZNL) put up a performance better than the market expectations in the festive quarter but...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister Manish Tewari will meet a delegation of Delhi-based local cable operators (LCOs) on Wednesday to hear their complaints with...
MUMBAI: Gujarat Samachar, the largest read Gujarati daily, is venturing into the television regional-language news business through one of its owners, ahead of the state assembly...
MUMBAI: Everest Brand Solutions has bagged the creative duties of Parle‘s wafer brand. The account was earlier handled by Grey. Everest Brand Solutions president Dhunji Wadia...
MUMBAI: Deepak Lamba has resigned as business head of the English business news channel BloombergUTV. Lamba had joined the channel in January 2010. Highly placed sources...
MUMBAI: TV Today Network shares Monday climbed 15.23 per cent on the market buzz that Aditya Birla Group is picking up 25 per cent stake in...
NEW DELHI: Television news channels have made a special case for coverage of Big B‘s family matters. In a rare show of concern for protecting privacy,...
MUMBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Indian television news broadcasters continue to be at loggerheads. The ICC has maintained that the footage guidelines that...
NEW DELHI: Although the News Broadcasters Association is expected to take a final stand on the issue of telecast of news clips of the ICC Cricket...
MUMBAI: Bloomberg UTV has appointed CNBC-TV18 national editor Vivek Law as its editor. Law has resigned at CNBC-TV18 and will be joining Bloomberg UTV from 1...
It was in 2007, when global marketing communications holding company, Omnicom, entered India with its media planning and buying network OMD. Jasmin Sohrabji, a double...
For 10 years, HBO has warmed up audiences with big movie titles, library content and branding as a premium English movie channel. The arrival of...
It has not been an easy year for Star‘s English channels. In a nine-player nine scenario, Star Movies, however, has weathered the storm and held on to...
When Pix launched four years back, it had to be content with library movies. Now the English movie channel has evolved into a stage where it...
As the advertising industry prepares to come out of the slowdown clutter, Havas Media has found proper representation in India‘s two high-growth sectors: telecom and automobiles....
The top three Hindi general entertainment channels punched hard at the second-tier channels with differentiated content, high-cost reality shows and big ticket movies. Barring Sab, the...
MUMBAI: Former NDTV India managing editor Dibang, best known for his talk show Muqabala on NDTV, has joined Star News. “I joined Star News last week...
UTV Television, one of the foremost television production studios in India, has seen many ups and down in the past. At one stage it was one...
MUMBAI: Bloomberg UTV, the English business news channel, is eyeing a wider set of audiences with its new makeover. The channel, which has changed its tagline...
Simon Spalding is a bit of a homebody. When the Fremantle Media regional CEO Europe & Asia Pacific is not travelling around on business he likes...
Star Gold general manager Sameer Rao is known to be a numbers man. A chartered account and an MBA in finance, Rao has a 19-year career...
The Indian Premier League (IPL) defied financial gravity at a time when the world was struggling to fight the menace of recession. Even as capital became...
The Indian Premier League (IPL) is caught in the midst of a storm with dark clouds hovering over team ownership issues, sources of funding, corruption...
BAG Films and Media founder-promoter Anurradha Prasad has put up a mighty fight. Not many would have dared take her seat a year back as...
Bigger, better, richer. That is what the franchises hope the Indian Premier League (IPL) will grow into year after year. In an interview with Indiantelevision.com’s...
NEW DELHI: BAG Films and Media, which has diverse interests across broadcasting, television production and radio businesses, is planning to take its two channels to the...
NEW DELHI: Stung by high costs, shrinkage in the genre share and a slowdown in the economy, news channels have had a tough year. Expansion plans...
A late player in the news game, Times Now sits at the top with its hard news stance and round-the-clock news focus. The Mumbai terror...
NEW DELHI: A fresh row is brewing between the news channels and the Indian Premier League (IPL) organisers. Most television news channels in the country have...
2009 was an eventful year for Sony Entertainment Television (SET). Languishing behind the top three Hindi general entertainment channels (GECs) and even newcomer NDTV Imagine, the...
MUMBAI: Neel Chowdhury, CNBC TV18 and CNBC Awaaz VP marketing, has ended his two-year stint with the company to join US-based mobile payment service company Obopay...
Five years and counting big. CNBC Awaaz dominates the Hindi business news segment, leaving counterpart Zee Business behind, and even marching ahead of elder sibling CNBC...
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) has a pool of channels that would drive its topline. The transfer of the six regional entertainment channels from Zee News...
Badly bruised by MTV. Not really. Not really. Channel [V] has turned around to the same formula – cut down on music content while adding reality...
Wearing the International Cricket Council (ICC) hat isn‘t an easy job these days. With the Indian Premier League (IPL) becoming the new economic powerhouse, scheduling international...
Two years back, Dr Prannoy Roy-promoted NDTV Ltd crafted a growth path in the entertainment business. Riding a bull run, the news broadcasting company launched NDTV...
Venus Records & Tapes director Ratan Jain is a busy man, collecting box-office feedback from his new release De Dana Dan. Built on Rs 670...