MUMBAI: Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific has appointed Melissa Tinker as vice president of its licensing and merchandise division, Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE). Tinker brings over...
MUMBAI: Deepak Lamba has resigned as business head of the English business news channel BloombergUTV. Lamba had joined the channel in January 2010. Highly placed sources...
NEW DELHI: NDTV has appointed Rajiv Lulla as the CEO of its city channel network NDTV MetroNation. Lulla replaces Sanjay Nigam who was heading NDTV MetroNation....
MUMBAI: Nickelodeon, a division of Viacom Inc.’s MTV Networks, has launched new kid-targeted virtual community titled Nicktropolis on 30 January. It promises to offer visitors multi-media...
MUMBAI: There seems to be no end to the executive departures at Sumner Redstone’s Viacom Inc. A day after Gail Berman resigned as president of Viacom’s...
MUMBAI: Bennett Media Worldwide (BMW) has licensed select productions from its vast library of high-definition programming to Microsoft Corp. for the company’s Xbox 360. Included in...
MUMBAI: Viacom veteran Bob Bakish has been appointed president, MTV Networks International (MTVNI), reporting to Bill Roedy, who will retain oversight of MTVNI in addition to...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks (MTVN), a unit of Viacom has announced a new global digital media executive team. The central team will provide strategic guidance to the...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks (MTVN), a unit of Viacom, has announced the formal creation of the MTVN Entertainment Group, a multi-platform portfolio featuring the company’s adult- directed...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks’ Music and Logo Group have announced an aggressive development of more than 20 “hyper-programmed” online experiences or vertical channels, that are web content...
MUMBAI: On its one-year anniversary Xbox 360, is digitally delivering an initial lineup of TV shows and movies to gamers in the U.S. via Xbox Live,...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks today announced the launch of two of its brands MTV and Nick in Pakistan. While MTV is being launched through a licensing agreement...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks and international game publisher Nexon have announced a partnership to create a new user experience for MTVN’S Neopets. one of the youth communities...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom has appointed Carl D. Folta as executive VP, corporate communications. Folta, who will serve as Viacom’s chief communications strategist and spokesperson,...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom has announced that Mika Salmi has been named President of Global Digital Media for MTVN. Salmi was formerly CEO...
MUMBAI:MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc., has announced, that on 27 October 2006, it closed its $175 million acquisition of Harmonix Music Systems. Harmonix Music...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks, a division of Viacom Inc has acquired Quizilla.com, an online, user-generated community of original teen authors, aged 14 and above, who create and...
MUMBAI: The bloodletting that Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone initiated early last month when he abruptly sacked Viacom Inc CEO Tom Freston, appears to be having it’s...
NEW DELHI: MTV India and Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division have joined forces to develop unique programming content for Xbox 360, the online gaming service across...
MUMBAI: Viacom’s MTV Networks has selected parenting site BabyNames.com for their new pilot program to distribute their video content online. BabyNames.com and other targeted sites will...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks (MTVN), a division of Viacom, Inc., has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Atom Entertainment, Inc., a portfolio of four leading online destinations...
MUMBAI: MtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network and a division of Viacom Inc., has announced an agreement to acquire Boston-based Y2M, the parent company of an online...
MUMBAI: Nick India general manager and vice president Hema Govindan has put in her papers. An official release cites personal reasons as the reason for her...
MUMBAI: AOL, live and on-demand entertainment video programming and video search provider, has announced that it will preview a beta version of its new AOL Video...
MUMBAI: AOL, live and on-demand entertainment video programming and video search provider, has announced that it will preview a beta version of its new AOL Video...
MUMBAI: Move over Apple. Music label Saregama India is set to enter the online music market aimed entirely at the “generation on the go”. The company...
MUMBAI: Viacom division’s MTV Networks chief digital officer Jason Hirschhorn has resigned from his post. MTVN digital executive vice president Nick Lehman will replace Hirschhorn as...
MUMBAI: After establishing its second position in the Hindi general entertainment (GEC) space, Subhash Chandra’s Zee TV is now trying to replace a weak link in...
MUMBAI: As the second direct-to-home player Tata Sky gears for launch, the Telecom Disputes Redressal and Settlement Tribunal (TDSAT), in an interim order passed today, has...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks India is expanding its bouquet of channels. The latest to plan an entry into India is MTV2, a channel from the Viacom stable...
MUMBAI: With a view to let Viacom and its MTV Networks unit connect online gamers, Viacom has acquired Xfire, a Silicon Valley company that makes free...
MUMBAI: MTV Asia has announced that Todd Phillips is its senior VP, communications. Phillips will provide leadership and direction to the corporate and regional Asia-Pacific communication...
MUMBAI: Nickelodeon has named Dominique Crosby as Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids & Family Group senior vice president strategy and business development. The announcement was made by...
MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures will premiere an exclusive look at this summer’s most highly anticipated action-thriller, Mission: Impossible III (M:i:III) as Tom Cruise introduces the new trailer...
MUMBAI: MTV Intl creative president Brent Hansen who is also the chief editor has put in his papers. He spent 15 years at MTV, which was...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks and Apple announced that hit television programming from MTV, MTV2, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and The N will now be available for purchase and...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks India is stepping up its digital agenda. The first step has come in the form of Srinivas Gopal’s appointment as director digital (online,...
MUMBAI: Intel Corporation and MTV Networks has announced that MTV Networks is optimising its Comedy Central, MTV, Vh1 and mtvU broadband networks for the new Intel...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks vice chairman and Nickelodeon Networks president Herb Scannell has put in his papers at the company to pursue other business opportunities. In conjunction...
MUMBAI: A showcase featuring the latest applications of IPTV from across the globe will be one of the highlights of Europe’s leading dedicated IPTV event, IPTV...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks International has promoted its Australia head Nigel Robbins to the position of MTV Networks Asia-Pacific president. Robbins replaces Frank Brown, who announced he...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks will kick off its global Aids campaign with its first-ever made-for-TV movie. The movie Transit will be shown across all its channels worldwide...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks Europe is lining up new channels for France and Netherlands after signing carriage contract with satellite operator SES Astra. The Viacom company states...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc. has acquired substantially all the assets of GameTrailers LLC, including the internet site GameTrailers.com. The acquisition clearly signifies,...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks has appointed Jason Hirschhorn as the chief digital officer (CDO). Effective immediately, this new executive position creates a senior global leader of MTV...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks has acquired IFilm Corp, which is one of the leading video destinations on the web, for $49 million. The announcement was made by...
MUMBAI: US cable television organisation The Cable Center which aims to create further awareness about the cable TV industry has announced the presenters for The 2005...
MUMBAI: Comcast and MTV Networks (MTVN) have reached an affiliation agreement for Logo, a new network from MTVN offering entertainment programming for the gay and lesbian...
MUMBAI: With the launch date drawing nearer, Times Global Broadcasting Co Ltd, the joint venture news broadcasting company of The Times of India Group and Reuters,...
Entering July and the private FM radio players finally have more than a sob story to recount to the world. The government today set in motion...

