MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC and ITV have announced plans for shared coverage of the UEFA Euro 2008 Championships in Austria and Switzerland. Live coverage of...
MUMBAI: UK terrestrial ITV launched its newest digital channel, the interactive gaming network ITV Play, on Freeview, with programming to include the first show spawned from...
MUMBAI: ITV, BT Group, Vodafone, Yahoo, Intel and Cisco are leading an alliance among the media and technology companies that have teamed to criticize proposed European...
MUMBAI: British trade body Pact has put out a report on the state of Britain’s television industry. Revenues from the export of British television programs rose...
MUMBAI: Fun Technologies Inc. has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, SkillJam Technologies Corporation has acquired WorldWinner.com, Inc. for $23 million. This acquisition further consolidates the...
MUMBAI: BBC’s kids’ channel, CBBC has promoted chief operating officer Richard Deverell to be its controller. On the other hand, Anne Gilchrist has been appointed CBBC...
MUMBAI: Nortel Networks and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. are setting up a joint venture to develop ultra broadband access solutions that will carry video content. The...
MUMBAI: Come 16 January and the UK network ITV is dumping its blue-and-yellow logo as part of a ?3 million ‘new look initiative’. In a major...
MUMBAI: UK’s commercial broadcaster ITV and 3, the UK-based mobile media company, have announced a far reaching output deal that delivers Britain’s most popular shows to...
MUMBAI: Independent sports producer Sunset+Vine has signed a deal with UK broadcaster ITV to provide coverage of the Volvo Ocean Race. Sunset+Vine will produce 32 weekly...
CANNES: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and actress Helen Mirren will be in attendance at the 33rd International Emmy Awards Gala, to be held on 21 November,...
A stellar cast of regulators, media owners and distributors, media buyers, brands, leading technologists, investment banks and private equity firms gathered together at the India Television...
he European Audiovisual Observatory has just published the first volume of the 2005 edition of its Yearbook – Cinema, television, video and multimedia in Europe. This...
MUMBAI: The ups and downs in the lives of the Fame Gurukul contestants have a direct relation to the shows’ TVRs or so it was proved...
MUMBAI: ITV and FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide (FLW) have inked a mobile video agreement for The X Factor. Fans of the UK’s biggest ever...
MUMBAI: More than half the TV households in the US, 59 per cent or a projected 69 million digital subscribers to be be more precise, will...
MUMBAI: Mobile Interactive Group (MIG), the global multimedia mobile services specialist, announced a unique technical partnership to provide Europes largest broadcaster, ITV, with a full range...
MUMBAI: interactive television company Open TV and adult content provider Playboy Enterprises, have signed a multi-year agreement. The two parties will jointly develop, integrate and...
MUMBAI: This year’s MIPTV will see Sky Networks’ Dawn Airey, Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki and Intel’s Kevin Corbett deliver keynote speeches. MIPTV will feature MILIA this year....
MUMBAI: BBC News is joining forces with ITV News to commission a joint exit poll at the next general election. The poll will be jointly undertaken...
MUMBAI: A UK panel that is reviewing the future of the BBC has produced a report which suggests keeping the licence fee for 10 more years....
MUMBAI: On Monday 6 December, UK’s leading television drama professionals will come together at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) in London. They...
MUMBAI: At the forefront of the interactive TV (ITV) experience is the sport genre. ITV shows great potential in enriching the sports viewing experience and deepen...
MUMBAI: So you want to be a TV presenter? Journalist? Scriptwriter? Web producer? Radio DJ in the UK? Step this way. Hundreds of media industry hopefuls...
MUMBAI: While in India Zee’s Direct To Home (DTH) platform Dish TV is adding customers everyday in Europe where the market is well developed the situation...
MUMBAI: Channel Ten and ITV will telecast live the UEFA Euro 2004 soccer championship. The tourney kicks off on 12 June to 4 July in Portugal.Channel...
MUMBAI: Sky TV’s out of the box campaign which will be launched by a series of iTV workshops announced at the D&AD Congress attempts to raise...
MUMBAI: The World Rally Championship (WRC) will move from Channel 4 to ITV1 in the UK. ISC, the TV and commercial rights holders to WRC has...
LONDON: Investment in new, quality programmes on British television is the highest level per head in the world. Overall market investment is also encouraged by strong...
NEW DELHI: Star may have decided to play it down where Star News and its proposed DTH venture were concerned, but on the Radio City, its...
“Measuring the pulse of Indian TV audiences” – one sees these words almost everywhere in the Mumbai headquarters of TAM India. With services in more than...
MUMBAI: The ongoing face-off between Hinduja Group MSO INCableNet and the major pay broadcasters in Mumbai has certainly benefited the smaller channels and other free-to-air channels...
MUMBAI: Ramayan, the epic that created history on Indian television in the late 1980s, has found new markets abroad. Improved, dubbed versions of the epic were...
MUMBAI: National Geographic’s (NGC) mission is clear-cut! Enable ordinary people to do the extraordinary by affording them the opportunity to tackle Mount Everest and at the...
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...
UK broadcaster BBC is now firmly in charge of making sure that the conversion from analogue to digital television in Britain proceeds smoothly. It has been...
B4U, the music channel, which is making a hard play at finding its place in the crowded channel bazaar in India, is slated to debut tomorrow,...
The television, ad and allied industries swear by them, swear at them, but cannot do without them. Televison ratings, indispensable to the media world when it...
Scientific-Atlanta has announced that over 30 per cent of the MSO systems using its digital platform and interactive set-tops are carrying some form of interactive television...
Nickelodeon may not be a “happening” channel in India in but that is not the case everywhere. The Viacom-owned kids channel is currently running a new...