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BANGALORE: Worldspace Satellite Radio has launched a Kannada satellite radio channel on 3 September. The radio channel Sparsha will cover programmes on art, culture, fashion, sports...
MUMBAI: Dubai TV, which is investing in a new television studio with cutting-edge high-tech equipment in the Dubai Media City, has signed on Barco to provide...
MUMBAI: Malayalam channel Asianet will celebrate its 11th anniversary with a 11-day long festivities starting tomorrow (20 August). The anniversary celebrations coincide with Kerala’s principal festival...
MUMBAI: Broadcast Worldwide’s regional language channel Tara Bangla plans to expand into satellite radio. The channel will be transmitting its audio feed through the radio channel....
NEW DELHI: Rampant piracy in the entertainment industry has leads to an estimated loss of Rs 4 million annually for the Indian film industry. Pointing out...
MUMBAI: Beehive Systems, a software and solutions company focusing on the broadcast industry, has set its foot in the Middle East. The multi-national company, which has...
Zee’s Marathi language channel Alpha Marathi has set its sights on the international market. According to Zee chairman Subhash Chandra, the channel would ‘hopefully’ make it...
MUMBAI: When it comes to sports in Pakistan, Ten Sports is ahead of the competition. It has the rights to Pakistan cricket. Now the Bukhatir-owned broadcaster...
MUMBAI: Turner Broadcasting System Europe (TBS) Limited is all set to bring transmission in house after doing a review of all strategic options for the future...
MUMBAI: Regional channel Asianet is set to launch a music talent hunt targeting Keralites living in the Middle East. The Coco Cola Voice of Arabia hunt...
MUMBAI: B4U’s head of international business Neeraj Arora has switched over to rival Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia). Arora, who was senior vice-president international business...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has made inroads into the co-production arena in Italy through an agreement with broadcaster Mediaset for the docu-drama Supervolcano. It is the...
MUMBAI: Star’s wireless services, thus far known by short code 7827, is to ready roll out in a charged up avatar by the end of July....
MUMBAI: Malayalam news channel Indiavision is one year old. The dedicated news channel will mark its first anniversary by beaming into the Middle East, while its...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) will stage the Casbaa Satellite Industry Forum on Monday 14 June 2004 in Singapore at the...
CANNES: TvFilmBiz Int’l has secured a long-term agreement for cable and satellite broadcast rights of Planet’s Funniest Animals on Animal Planet worldwide excluding the UK in...
CANNES: At the ongoing television event Mip TV in Cannes World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) announced that it concluded pay, satellite and Free TV agreements totaling over...
MUMBAI: After connecting Hollywood to Bollywood, Tinseltown TV founder and CEO Sheeraz Hasan now takes Hollywood to Dubai in an attempt to connect the West to...
New Delhi: The combined figure of non-resident Indians (NRIs) pay-TV subscription households from the Gulf region and Europe will definitely pale in comparison to the estimated...
MUMBAI: Motorola has tied up with MTV International to provide exclusive MTV-created wireless content. This will include an interactive series of games known as Plastikulture and...
MUMBAI: India and Pakistan are meeting on home ground after 15 long years of cricketing on neutral venues and Arab Digital Distribution, along with ARY Digital...
NEW DELHI: Universitas 21 Global, a leading global online business school, Wednesday announced the signing of an alliance with Zee Network’s education arm with a view...
MUMBAI: It is not just Dubai-based Taj Television that is expecting to make a killing out of India’s upcoming tour of Pakistan, India’s first tour to...
NEW DELHI: Continuing to report good financial performance, the publicly traded Television Eighteen Ltd (TV 18), the majority stakeholder in the CNBC TV18 business news channel...
MUMBAI: Nick Wrenn has been appointed as the managing editor of CNN’s production and newsgathering operations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to the...
LONDON: Associated Press (AP) has announced its expansion, with the establishment of its newly named division AP International. The new division is charged with expanding AP’s...
NEW YORK: The National Hockey League (NHL) in conjunction with ESPN International have announced that international distribution of NHL programming is at an all time high....
HONG KONG: Satellite operator Asiasat and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) have announced the renewal of lease agreements for the use of C-band capacity on AsiaSat...
LONDON: In a joint venture with Orbit Data Systems Limited (ODSL), Intelsat announced plans for a two-way, satellite-based broadband Internet access service to be available directly...
MUMBAI: Channel 7 to 9, a Hindi entertainment, terrestrial free to air channel, recently commenced airing Star Plus soaps Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and...
MUMBAI: A Kotak Securities report dated 29 July 2003 says that the firm has retained its ‘in-line’ rating for Zee Telefilms Ltd at a target level...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has added a dedicated Middle East beam to its geography-specific beams. With this, SET now has six localised feeds, one each...
HONG KONG: TVB 8 and TVB Xing He Channel have begun broadcasting on AsiaSat 3S. An official release informs that with AsiaSat 3S TVB’s two...
MUMBAI: News Corp’s Hong Kong-based Star Group has set up a new arm in Dubai Media City. Star will be using its Dubai Media City facility...
LOS ANGELES: Tinseltown Entertainment has announced that its top-rated weekly entertainment program, Tinseltown Live, marks its first anniversary next week as the number one program in...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide and Arabic news and documentary channel, Al Jazeera, signed an agreement at BBC Showcase 2003 in Brighton for a package of 1000 hours...
LONDON: Music has demonstrated its ability to cut across cultural barriers. Pan-Arab broadcasting group MBC is broadcasting its own version of the UK Top of the...
MUMBAI: What’s happening? A World Cup under way and none of the usual reports of rogue cable ops resorting to piracy and raids conducted to get...
CALIFORNIA: Amidst unfavourable economic conditions and the melt down in the telecommunications industry, the satellite transponder capacity leasing market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment has instituted some repositioning in its executive hierarchy both at the national and international level. Rajan Singh has been promoted to executive V-P...
MUMBAI: B4U Network Worldwide airs California based production house Tinseltown Entertainment’s weekly Hollywood show Tinseltown Live, which is the first and only show to promote ‘Hollywood’...
MUMBAI: ESPN which claims to be the worldwide leader in sports has announced that it has reached a new multi-year agreement for significant international rights for...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the BBC, has appointed Sandra Braun as its head of New Business Development for Europe, Middle East, India...
MUMBAI: “The window of opportunity is getting smaller as new technologies offer alternatives.” That was the warning sounded by Eutelsat’s regional director for Middle East and...
CALIFORNIA (US): MGM Worldwide Television Distribution and Premiere, the leading pay-television provider in Germany and Austria have entered into a long-term, multi- faceted agreement to launch...
CANNES: The largest contingent of children’s programme buyers ever registered in Mipcom Junior’s 10-year history visted the two-day screenings event ( 5 – 6 October at...
ABU DHABI: Click, Abu Dhabi TV’s IT show, is set to begin a new season with new additions and interactive competitions offering cash prizes to viewers....
Arianespace’s 10th mission of the year is scheduled for lift off today at the commercial satellite operator’s site in Kourou, French Guiana. The go-ahead was given...
Toon channel Cartoon Network has announced the signing of a deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution for over 600 half hours of programming to air...
MUMBAI: Jeevan TV the fifth Malayalam news channel, will begin telecasting 20 hours a day from Thursday. The channel, promoted by the Catholic Church of Kerala,...
