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MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Bidding is officially open for cricket’s “BIG ONE”. The Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) today invited tenders for the live...
NEW DELHI: National broadcaster Doordarshan today announced it would be launching its classic series with the airing of Premchand’s acclaimed Godan (the Gift of a Cow),...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Doordarshan, proposing to launch its free KU-band direct-to-home television service on 15 August, expects to seed the market with over 10,000 boxes before...
NEW DELHI: Some are saying it’s poetic justice, but it can only happen in Doordarshan. The only broadcaster with the permission to cover the whole of...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Doordarshan, looking at launching a direct-to-home (DTH) television service in the third week of June, is hopeful that most of the popular...
NEW DELHI: The new Congress-led coalition government would like to de-saffronise Prasar Bharati, which would mean that people owing allegiance to it and other allies of...
MUMBAI: The third Sahyadri Navratna Awards ceremony took place at Doordarshan’s premises at Worli on Wednesday 14 April. Inaugurated by Prasar Bharati chief executive KS Sarma,...
A day after Prasar Bharati deputy director general Vijaya Laxmi Chhabra struck an “unconventional” cricket marketing deal with Zee Telefilms, we requested an immediate interview and...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court would have thought that it’s interim order would have settled matters for now. But the war of words continue.Even while lashing...
NEW DELHI: It can be called a classic case of on-field aggression and off-field diplomacy. By the Indian government, that is. The eyeball-to-eyeball face-off between Dubai...
MUMBAI: You can’t accuse Prasar Bharti CEO KS Sarma of not having tried. But by the looks of things Sarma looks to have run out of...
NEW DELHI: All is fair in love and war, they say. In case of a cricket series between India and Pakistan not only both the emotions...
MUMBAI: Officials from Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati are meeting their counterparts from Dubai-based Ten Sports tomorrow in a last-ditch bid to squeeze something extra on the...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati, managing Doordarshan and All Indian Radio, oft-accused of being dull, drab and unprofessional, especially where news is concerned, now finds...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has taken umbrage to Subhash Chandra companies — ASC Enterprise and Zee Telefilms — including more than the mandated number of Doordarshan...
NEW DELHI: Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), in association with the Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS), is working on a proposal to...
MUMBAI: Haath Se Haath Milaa, a TV show produced by BBC World Service Trust, Delhi, in partnership with Prasar Bharati and NACO (National Aids Control Organisation),...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati is going ahead with its news channel in great gusto and would see that government orders make it mandatory for cable operators...
NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today evening okayed pubcaster Doordarshan’s forays into KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service and gave a nod to...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan has been re-elected as a member of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union’s (ABU) administrative council for another three-year term. In the election held at...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which oversees the functioning of Doordarshan and All India Radio, is showing rare courage of accepting challenges set by the...
NEW DELHI: After having retained Prasar Bharati CEO KS Sarma as its president and getting Zee Telefilms’ Jawahar Goel as the new vice-president, the Indian Broadcasting...
MUMBAI: Independent producers affiliated to Doordarshan (DD) kendras in Thiruvanthapuram, Hyderabad and Chennai are scheduled to join the stir started by the Bangalore producers – who...
MUMBAI: The Asia Cup hockey tournament from 21-28 September at Kuala Lumpur will be aired live on Doordarshan. According to a report in The Indian Express,...
India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which oversees the functioning of Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR), has always been looked upon as a slumbering behemoth. ...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati Corporation may soon start playing some hard ball game to exploit the opportunities on Doordarshan (DD) Sports channel. This would include auctioning...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan would have a new director-general as the transfer orders of the present incumbent, Dr SY Quraishi, has finally been received by...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Doordarshan director-general S.Y. Quraishi may be staying put for the moment. His new posting orders have not come but the official hunt...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) met here yesterday to discuss various issues, including finding a replacement for executive director Bhuwan Lall whose three-year tenure...
MUMBAI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), which has been riven recently by persistent reports of major rifts between pay and free-to-air lobbies within it, sought today...
NEW DELHI: All India Radio (AIR) may soon get a full fledged director general (DG), a post that has been lying vacant for quite sometime now...
NEW DELHI: The apex body of all broadcasting companies operating in India (pay as well as free to air channels), Indian Broadcasting Foundation, stands on the...
MUMBAI: The times they are a changin’ on All India Radio and Doordarshan. Prasar Bharati will revamp the two by investing Rs 110 billion during the...
He wears several hats – producer, director, cinematographer, marketing director – and has contributed to the enviable success of the Ramanand Sagar family. Meet Prem Sagar...
NEW DELHI: Pubcaster Prasar Bharati has left over for another day a final decision on whether to go ahead with a proposal by ESPN Star Sports...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati is likely to take a decision by Monday as to whether it would agree to a proposal from ESPN Star Sports (ESS)...
NEW DELHI: As a part of an amicable settlement, the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms is likely to offer Prasar Bharati some serials in lieu of Budha...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: It would have been surprising if it hadn’t happened thus. Simply because of the big stakes for which some of the members...
NEW DELHI: Former Zee Telefilms chief executive and marketing whiz Vijay Jindal, who had been appointed as the chairman of the advisory marketing committee of Prasar...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to popularise programmes being broadcast on pubcasters Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR), Prasar Bharati Corporation is planning to come...
NEW DELHI: The infrastructure at Prasar Bharati’s disposal is not adequate enough to start a Doordarshan news channel at the moment, a senior official of the...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The deadline was 1 September. And true to the warning issued earlier, the top channels including Star, Sony and Zee TV have stopped airing...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati is willing to start negotiations with KK Modi company, Modi Entertainment Network (MEN), on the issue of converting national broadcaster Doordarshan’s DD...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati is willing to start negotiations with KK Modi company, Modi Entertainment Network (MEN), on the issue of converting national broadcaster Doordarshan’s DD...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Federation, which met in Hyderabad on Friday, discussed the issue of conditional access system, amongst other things, and has decided to...
NEW DELHI: If you really cannot beat them, then join them. And Prasar Bharati, the autonomous body which oversees the functioning of pubcasters Doordarshan and All...
NEW DELHI: In what is a strong defence of the conditional access system (CAS) Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj today likened CAS to a multi-cuisine...
At a meeting of the Prasar Bharati board today in Delhi, it was decided that a panel headed by the pubcaster’s CEO KS Sarma would be...
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...
