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NEW DELHI: As part of the revised uplinking policy, the Indian government has proposed that all foreign news channels like CNN and BBC seeking temporary uplink...
MUMBAI: Aliant, Atlantic Canada’s information and communications technology provider, has kicked off its digital television business with the launch of Aliant TV. The new, IP-based television...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting ministry proposes; the home ministry disposes. This could well be the case relating to news and current affairs programming on private...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting ministry is now in two minds — to support fully or not — over a proposed ban from 2 October on...
NEW DELHI: Formula One races with participants sporting logos of sponsors like Marlboro company may just sneak through on Indian television during a live telecast. Any...
MUMBAI: Sudarshan TV has been granted the go ahead by the Information and Broadcasting ministry to launch its 24 hour news and current affairs channel. In...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has mooted a proposal of minimum net worth for all TV channels uplinking from India on the lines of norms prevalent...
NEW DELHI: Sun TVs direct-to-home (DTH) service licence is on its way with the path being cleared for the issuance of a letter of intent (LoI)....
NEW DELHI: A day after information & broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad rubbished Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit’s charge that there was a whole load of...
After the initial few bumps on the runway, the take off seems to have been smooth, give or take a few continuing glitches. The seamless transition...
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...
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...
The government is likely to take a positive view on the recommendations of the Fali Nariman committee on convergence. Thus spoke communications minister Ram Vilas Paswan...
The old bugbear is finally out of the way. Ku-band direct to home television (DTH) looks set to get the go-ahead finally after a three year...
The group of ministers on DTH – headed by home minister L.K. Advani – met once again on 30 October and said they had no reservations...
All is ready for the second edition of the annual global convention on the business of entertainment – Ficci Frames (Films Radio Audio-visuals Music Events and...
It was brief to say the least. The amount of time that finance minister Yashwant Sinha devoted to the entertainment sector in his speech to parliament...
Representatives of the entertainment industry, led by information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj, held their first ever pre-Budget meeting with finance minister Yashwant Sinha on 16...
Hardly had the dust settled on the bombshell that programming head Rekha Nigam was leaving Sony Entertainment Television, its head office in Mumbai’s Andheri suburb had...
When the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)-organised Enter Media 2001 conference ended in Mumbai on 9 August, it had been declared that a white paper would...
The long awaited Communications Convergence Bill 2001, which has far-reaching implications on how the media industry is to be run in India, is expected to be...
The two-day global convention on the business of entertainment organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) concluded Saturday with a number...
On Friday, 9 February, the Economic Times featured a report saying that the government may finally come around on the vexed issue of 20 per cent...
