MUMBAI: SET Discovery president Shantonu Aditya has quit and is joining Sahara One as chief executive officer. His responsiblity will extend to all Sahara’s media and...
MUMBAI: The mobile is a strong platform for channels to conduct interactivity. A case in point is MTV China. The broadcaster is partnering with China Mobile’s...
MUMBAI: The flood of reality-based or celebrity-driven offerings continue. Reality-heavy MTV is all set to premier its new series D-Tour, a travel-cum-reality programme. The show...
MUMBAI: MTV US has announced a star studded line up for the MTV Video Movie Awards which will take place on 4 June 2005 in...
MUMBAI: MTV celebrated the launch of its 100th channel worldwide and also MTV’s first ever African music channel – MTV Base – in South Africa yesterday....
Music channel MTV has announced that cult brands will take pride of place at the “5th MTV & Brand Equity Youth Marketing Forum”. The event, slated...
MUMBAI: Music broadcaster MTV has kicked off its initiative MTV Youth Icon of the Year 2005. Every year, young Indians vote for their favourite Youth Icon...
CANNES: Pyra Media of Egypt won the pitch for the best documentary on AIDS, at the UN-backed AIDS programming pitch held at the Palais on Tuesday....
MUMBAI: Broadband is the mantra being chanted by the broadcasters as they seek to leverage emerging new media platforms. MTV is no exception. Earlier this year,...
MUMBAI: The 2005 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) will return to Miami in the sunshine state of Florida for the second year in a row. The...
Music channels operate in a space that cannot be really defined as static or having set formulae. Certainly not in India. There was a time when...
News channels are changing and how! When Sony’s plain Jane Jassi turned into a television temptress, NDTV India’s cameras went behind the-scenes to capture this metamorphosis....
MUMBAI: Sanjay Hemady, national sales head for the Millennium Broadcast promoted Win 94.6 is moving to MTV India as group account director from 1 June. Hemady’s...
MUMBAI: Hutch and MTV Networks India are working together for new interactive chat showKya Baat Hai, billed as a platform for youth across India to express...
MUMBAI: In what appears to be a test case for the broadcast regulator’s diktat on providing content to all platforms on a nondiscriminatory basis, Dish TV...
MUMBAI: This is an initiative that seeks to take mobile content to the next level! Motorola, which provides mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems...
MUMBAI: The Star Group has elevated Gautam Kiyawat to senior VP of advertising sales, distribution and marketing. Kiyawat was earlier VP. Also promoted is Hamidah Hashim...
Director's Cut will features the director who interpretated Hellen Keller's execeptional life, none but Sanjay Leela Bhansali on 11 March at 7:30 pm. Bhansali 's cinema...
MUMBAI: Nitin Jain, general manager of MindShare, Delhi, has quit to join MTV India, replacing ad sales head Abraham Thomas who quit recently. Available indiacations are...
MUMBAI: MTV marks 8 March, International Women’s Day, with a special day long focus on the Women on Top. The music channel will bring a special...
MUMBAI: Pierluigi Gazzolo has been appointed MTV Latin America MD. In this capacity, Gazzolo is responsible for leading the business and creative development across all the...
MUMBAI: “The stock market is like sex! Sometimes up, sometimes down!” This is a sample of the many pithy quotes uttered last evening at the Budget...
MUMBAI: In a move that signals the potential of the mobile television category, Jarl Mohn aka Lee Masters has joined the board of directors of Idetic,...
MUMBAI: Catherine Nebauer has been promoted to Nickelodeon Asia Pacific senior vice president and general manager. Nebauer is currently Nickelodeon Australia general manager. She will be...
MUMBAI: Its Budget Time again! Besides news channels, the music channel is also initating a programme on budget. MTV, in association with CNBC, presents Budget Fundas,...
MUMABI: MTV Asia Awards 2005 winners were chosen through more than 16 million votes from viewers via the MTV website. According to media reports, just because...
MUMBAI: As the first anniversary of Janet Jackson’s infamous wardrobe malfunction during the Superbowl approaches the Parents Television Council (PTC) in the US has released a...
MUMBAI: How’s this for broadcaster-filmmaker synergy? After Ab Tak Chappan and Masti, MTV has taken innovation in film promotion to a higher level partnering exclusively with...
MUMBAI: The mobile phone is the name of the game for broadcasters seeking to broaden revenue sources. A case in point is MTV Networks US which...
This year MTV had six big marketing campaigns woven around MTV Youth Icon, Lycra MTV Style Awards, MTV Roadies, MTV Music Summit for AIDS, MTV IMMIES...
MUMBAI: This is an initiative which consumer durable LG Electronics is looking to strengthen its relationship with the bat and ball game. The International Cricket Council...
MUMBAI: A music album that consists of ringtones! That is the latest innovation that MTV will come out with. In order to take the music ringtone...
The battleground this year will be in the regional space. Mainline broadcasters like Zee Telefilms, Star India and MTV have designs to spread south, the most...
The battleground this year will be in the regional space. Mainline broadcasters like Zee Telefilms, Star India and MTV have designs to spread south, the most...
MUMBAI: Sony-Discovery’s revenue growth will stay flat in 2004-05, affected by the loss of premium movie channel HBO in its distribution bouquet. SET Discovery Pvt Ltd...
MUMBAI: Sony-Discovery has strengthened focus in the southern region even as it has a range of English-language channels in its distribution bouquet. While Karnataka and Andhra...
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Festival at the Gateway of India, which is being presented by exclusively MTV Networks India in association with BET Jazz, the US Department...
Sunil Rohra, who took over as B4U Network’s global chief executive officer in November, was recently in India to formulate a business plan. Based out of...
MUMBAI: Multiple Grammy Award-winning artist, Christina Aguilera, will be making her debut appearance in Asia as a host for the 2005 MTV Asia Awards, which are...
MUMBAI: Viacom’s premium music channel VH1, which launched in India this month, has had its best year ever in the US! The year, 2004, was VH1’s...
MUMBAI: Loudeye which provides business-to-business solutions has announced a new multi-year agreement with MTV whereby MTV will launch two new online music stores in Italy and...
MUMBAI: This will come as sweet news to Indian lovers of jazz music. MTV India has teamed up with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz in...
MUMBAI: The MTV Network has announced that it will launch three new customised MTV channels specifically designed to super-serve ethnic populations in the US. Of the...
MUMBAI: My favourite singer is Britney Spears! It was a ‘horrorble’ and a ‘Colourblind’ event last night as MTV held the second edition of its awards...
MUMBAI: Two years of “will it, won’t it?” is finally over with the launch in India of VH1, MTV’s upmarket sibling. Interestingly, the premium music channel...
NEW DELHI: There’s a new species of viewer out there tuning in to the Hindi entertainment space. And it is Star One that they are watching....
MUMBAI: “While Tam India is one of the best tracking agencies in the country today; one news channel in India gets half it’s SEC AB viewing...
MUMBAI: Lodestar has bagged the media duties for Nick, the dedicated kids channel and MTV’s sibling. Industry estimates indicate that the account size is pegged at...
MUMBAI: Promoting public message by means of movies and television programmes is not new in the television space. But for music channel MTV India, it is....
MUMBAI: Guess who is back? Not Eminem, but the whacky humour, courtesy MTV. The music channel is launching three new shows based on humour in December...

