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MUMBAI: Percept Picture Company is gearing up to release three movies in the next four months. The collective budget for the three movies is Rs 250...
MUMBAI: Over the years one way that AXN has managed to build up its brand equity has been by organising on ground events. It has done...
MUMBAI: It’s now official. Anuj Gandhi, senior V-P sales and marketing, has replaced Shantonu Aditya as president of SET Discovery. Confirming a development first put out...
MUMBAI: SET Discovery president Shantonu Aditya, who quit the company last week, takes charge as chief executive officer of Sahara India Entertainment Management Co Ltd (SIEMCL)...
MUMBAI: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has cleared Jagran TV and Bloomberg’s foreign investment proposals. Jargan TV proposal entailed offloading around 25.7 per cent stake...
MUMBAI: A guardian angel sent to earth to protect a girl! A woman and man trying to escape their suffocating existence! These are the themes of...
MUMBAI: Sahara One is gearing up for a new show in the afternoon band called Hare Kaanch Ki Chudiyaan (HKKC). The show is slated to launch...
MUMBAI: On 11 July US broadcaster CBS wil kick off its reality show Rock Star. It will see 15 participants trying to become the newe singer...
MUMBAI: The Television Critics Association in the US has unveiled the 2005 TCA Award nominations. ABC’s hit show Desperate Housewives received five nominations. As had been...
MUMBAI: Audience Measurement and Analytics (AMA), which in June 2004 announced the launch of online television ratings system Audience Map (aMap) in India, has signed on...
MUMBAI: Sun Network will launch its Tamil channel Sun TV on the Malaysian Astro Direct-To-Home satellite multi-channel television platform in July this year. “Early this year,...
MUMBAI: ‘Understanding Cinema’ — a workshop and film appreciation programme jointly orgainsed by the Indira School of Communication (ISC) and Aashay Film Club, began in Pune...
MUMBAI: Satish Menon, who recently left Sahara One, is joining Nimbus Communications as president – sports and media. He will be based in Mumbai and report...
MUMBAI: A government diktat stubbing the use of tobacco products on the big and small screen has had the “filmwallahs” fuming, but not so the television...
MUMBAI: Raj TV has undertaken major restructuring for its top mangement. The first step is the re-appointment of B Shankar, who joins as vice president sales...
MUMBAI: Come 25 January and leader of the Hindi television roost Star Plus will be incorporating some major changes in its 9-10 pm slot. The band,...
KANPUR: The forthcoming subscription hike and the cable tax were in focus in the recently concluded 10th Cable TV India Show here. The annual event which...
MUMBAI: Sony-Discovery bouquet will reduce the monthly subscription rate of its existing bouquet by Rs 5.60 to Rs 49.40 a month per subscriber in the New...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has discontinued services of its two channels to Hathway cable network in Delhi, Bangalore and Ludhiana due to non payment of...
And all they want is world peace? The ‘beauty pageant‘ simile is not too far stretched if one accepts the criticism hurled at the “cosmetic nature”...
BANGALORE: The Karnataka Film Exhibitors Association (KFEF) has announced its plans to promote Kannada films. “We’ve (the KFEF) unanimously decided to promote Kannada language during a...
NEW DELHI: The government’s broadband policy announced today seems to be old wine in a new bottle and given to hype with a number of important...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The cable and broadcast regulator has finally released its long awaited recommendations on the “Issues relating to Broadcasting and Distribution of TV...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate News Corporation has announced that a special committee of non-executive directors and the full board of directors have recommended the proposed reorganisation of...
MUMBAI: News, probing and more meaningful, is Uday Shankar’s imminent agenda for the channel he now helms after the exit of channel president Ravina Raj Kohli....
MUMBAI: As predicted by indiantelevision.com, senior Congress leader S. Jaipal Reddy was allotted the information and broadcasting minister’s portfolio late last night. Reddy, who has been...
NEW DELHI: A ministerial note being given final touches at the information and broadcasting ministry may bring smiles on the faces of listed media companies running...
“This is Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Five years ago you gave me a chance to serve you. In these years, our country has come a long way…...
The queen of soaps may just lose her title this year. Not because there are any pretenders to her throne, but because she is expanding her...
Front page readership is very high while sports and edit sections get less readers. These are just a few of the findings that the survey SPARR...
Conditional access system (CAS), new uplinking norms for the TV news channels, KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service finally on the horizon – it has been action...
MUMBAI: Has Tarun Katial, Star India’s senior vice-president, programming, content and communication, put in his papers following his transfer to Star Asia’s head office in Hong...
Tamara Nedungadi started off as an assistant editor in the late eighties to the veteran late Renu Saluja and went on to assist Ashutosh Gowarikar in...
MUMBAI: After a series of successful scriptwriting workshops, Indiantelevision Dot Com now offers aspiring writers a much needed full fledged, well rounded and complete script writing...
Ratings don‘t answer all issues facing planners and broadcasters alike, qualitative data is what is needed.Psychographics are becoming more important than ever before and insights into...
In all the confabulations around CAS, one assumption that has generally made is that broadly speaking the cable fraternity stands as one. Indiantelevision.com met a group...
The late night slot (10-11 pm) has over the past few months grown in importance for niche English channels. This has resulted in a rearranging of...
MUMBAI: UTV Motion Pictures has lost a good resource. Its chief operating officer (COO) Sanjay Bhattacharjee will be leaving the organisation after 11 years on 10...
NEW DELHI: Unfazed by mounting losses – approximately Rs 360 million in the last financial year ended 31 March – Star and Music Broadcast Pvt. Ltd....
NEW DELHI:To lend some weight to those who are for quick implementation of conditional access, Zee Telefilms chairman and managing director Subhash Chandra has also accompanied...
MUMBAI: Broadcaster-MSO payment disputes are coming out in the open in Mumbai after what has been many months of relative calm. Premium sports channels ESPN and...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: “Experienced journalists, not news readers is what we offer!” Thus, Dr Prannoy Roy sought to differentiate his soon-to-be-launched channels from the rest...
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court, which was expected to deliver its final verdict on Monday, 10 April 2003 about the Zee’s beleaguered Sunday morning show Kanhaiyya, has...
NEW DELHI: TV Today Network’s new English channel Headlines Today is all set to make its appearance on Monday, 7 April 2003. Headlines Today,...
On International Women‘s Day, indiantelevision.com goes behind the small screen to check out life in the television industry as seen by women professionals. The women of...
Rohit Khanna is a specialist in real life dramas and docu-dramas. He has an impressive line-up of shows like Bhanwar and Haadsa behind him, apart from...
An investigation by the indiantelevision.com team into the issue of “objectionable shows” on the small screen threw up some startling findings. Was there more to I&B...
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...
Ravi Rai should ideally rank among the most successful TV writers-directors-producers in India. The maker of hugely successful soaps – Sailaab, Thoda Hai Thode Ki Zaroorat...
Nupur Asthana has just two soaps in her portfolio- Hip Hip Hurray and Hubahu, apart from a few one-offs for Zee’s Aap Jo Bole…. But the...
