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MUMBAI: Veteran American cable television executive Betty Cohen has been named Lifetime Entertainment Services president and CEO. Media conglomerate Disney has a 50 per cent stake...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: After reporting news, media companies are making news. Literally. The Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel group and Bhopal-based Bhaskar group have dragged the big daddy of...
MUMBAI: Consumer media habits in the US are changing. Increasingly people are watching video-on-demand services through their cable or satellite provider (10 per cent in December...
MUMBAI: Disney Hour, the children’s block on Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is gearing up to build the Disney brand further with the younger generation in the...
MUMBAI: The UK based publication Asians in Media (AiM) which looks at how Asians are faring in the UK media space has launched two new forums...
MUMBAI: There are no two ways about the fact that sports, especially cricket is a driving passion in our country. Now with Sania Mirza and Narain...
NEW DELHI: If any media czar could whip up the appetite of the media, it certainly is Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, the fifth largest...
NEW DELHI: The government today said that it was not opposed to foreign direct investment (FDI) in the media, including print and electronic. Speaking at a...
Pay a high price to acquire a blockbuster movie, back it with heavy marketing, and hope the advertising money will follow. That is what Zee Cinema...
MUMBAI: The average American spends more time using media devices —television, radio, iPods and cell phones — than any other activity while awake, says a new...
MUMBAI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has expressed its inability to further postpone Pakistan’s tour of India, says a UNI report quoting a PCB official release. PCB...
MUMBAI: America may be the most sophisticated and complex country when it comes to the growth of media. However Americans often do not put much faith...
NEW DELHI: Not only media was in full force at the CNBC TV 18 Economic Conclave, organised on the occasion of completion of five years on...
MUMBAI: BBC New Media in the UK has announced how it proposes to reallocate investment from its current online budget to help fund new broadband and...
MUMBAI: Global online giant Yahoo has hired a former ABC television programmer Lloyd Braun to head its media and entertainment division. Braun was the brains behind...
MUMBAI: Delhi-based production house BAG Films has declared a 41 per cent increase in net profit for the quarter ended 30 September 2004 at Rs 4.8...
NEW DELHI: The Union minister for information and broadcasting and culture S Jaipal Reddy today said that the media representatives of SAARC countries should work towards...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide’s former CEO Rupert Gavin has set up an investment group Kingdom Media. The investment company would bid for the Corporations’ commercial assets, that...
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murodch owned media conlgomerate News Corporation has announced that its shareholders and optionholders have approved the company’s reincorporation in the US. News Corp...
MUMBAI: Gay Paris. This is not just a line that applies figuratively anymore as France today welcomed the country’s first cable and satellite TV station aimed...
BANGALORE: An attack on media persons covering a protest at a city multiplex unfolded one of the ugliest episodes in the Kannada filmdom ‘soap opera’. Media...
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: Huge Systems, Inc., a leading storage solutions provider for the content creation, broadcast and delivery markets, has announced the retention of Asia Media Products as...
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network features the television premiere of the animated series Digimon Adventures. Digimon Adventures will be aired on 6 October. The show will be aired...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that it has completed the procurement for a 10-year Technology Framework Contract (TFC) with Siemens Business Services worth almost ?2 billion....
MUMBAI: Buyers to the Asia Television Forum (ATF) and Asia Film Market and Conference (AFMC) 2004 exhibition that is scheduled to be held soon, have welcomed...
MUMBAI: Football’s governing body Fifa has announced a public tender for the broadcast and media rights to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Fifa will...
MUMBAI: She may be about to serve a five month jail sentence for having indulged in insider trading but that is not stopping Amercian media icon...
MUMBAI: A seminar ‘Media as Vehicles of Change’ held in Pune on 16 and 17 September explored subjects covering the aspects of academia, social and corporate...
MUMBAI: As per an advertisement appeared in The Times of India’s job supplement Ascent (dated 20 September), the BBC World Service and its ally, the independent...
MUMBAI: Disney’s CEO Michael Eisner has finally broken his silence and has anointed company’s second-in-command, the president and COO, Bob Iger as his successor. In the...
MUMBAI: Despite indications to the contrary, India’s broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), looks to be making a move on. The Trai...
JAIPUR: Zee Telefilms, India’s largest vertically integrated media and entertainment conglomerate, has decided to launch a comedy channel, Smile TV, as part of its cable service...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The rumour mills that have been doing the rounds for a while now can finally be confirmed. Media Content & Communication Services...
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murdoch-owned media conglomerate News Corporation has reported full year revenues of $21 billion. This marks an increase of 20 per cent over the...
MUMBAI: The Muppets are coming to India. The popular American TV series for kids Sesame Street is to don an Indian avatar with the help of...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today admitted a petition seeking that direct-to-home (DTH) services available in the country be probed over what was termed the...
MUMBAI: Diwan Arun Nanda, chairman, Rediffusion DYR and co-chairman of Dentsu Young & Rubicarn and Wunderman, Asia Pacific is the recipient of the AAAl-Premnarayen Award for...
MUMBAI: European news channel EuroNews is aiming at generating advertising sales reveune in India. The channel has signed an agreement with the Mumbai based Cutting Edge...
MUMBAI: After Viacom what does Mel Karmazin have next up his sleeve? That is the big question doing the rounds of US media circles. There has...
MUMBAI: Several brands seem to have been bitten by the fashion bug and are using youth specific events to communicate their features, advantages and benefits. In...
The Securuties and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has finally given the much awaited green signal to media, entertainment and telecom companies who had been demanding...
MUMBAI: Media-savvy children in the US are tuning into television programmes and are using increasingly sophisticated media at a younger age.. A report The US Kids...
MUMBAI: Across the globe, ad agency specialists and media specialists are talking about the fact that traditional media will no longer continue its monopoly over media...
It‘s that time of year. When people who couldn‘t care two hoots rustle up some contrived empathy for the cause of womanhood. But for those who...
MUMBAI: Microsoft Corp. and The Walt Disney Company yesterday announced a multi-year agreement to cooperate in several long-term digital media initiatives. The two companies said that...
NEW DELHI: Even as the government is waiting for the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to come up with fresh recommendations on FM radio, the...
MUMBAI: Spurred by the development of the regional technology and media industry in the region, the 10th edition of the Middle East International Cable, Satellite, Broadcast...
NEW DELHI: As an effigy of information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was burnt by National Akali Dal (NAD) activists on 7 January, demanding a...
The Indian Media Business penned by Business World senior editor Vanita Kohli, published recently by Sage Publications, treads territory few Indian writers have ventured into –...
