MUMBAI: It’s yeah for Zee Music and nah for the big guns MTV and Channel [V] in Hindi speaking markets. Or so claims Zee Music. After...
William H Roedy’s belief in localisation is complete. When in India, his business cards are printed in Hindi on one side, English the other. The 55-year-old...
MUMBAI: The first phase has been rolled out.Bollywood film star Saif Ali Khan as brand ambassador and a tie up with Hum Tum is just the...
MUMBAI: This looks like a not to be missed musical extravaganza. Nearly two decades ago one of the most famous music concerts in history We Are...
MUMBAI: MTV has churned out five music programmes for international music lovers to feast on: MTV Imported, MTV Live, MTV Hoopla, MTV Alert and MTV Graveyard...
MUMBAI: MTV US has launched a campaign to mobilise the youth to support their presidential candidate. The PRElection is a four way partnership between MTV, Rock...
The results of the MTV and Indiatimes.com co-sponsored event, Youth Marketing Awards were announced yesterday. The criterion for the awards, which are divided into two sections:...
MUMBAI: Kids channel Nickelodeon, in its all-out bid to get a toe-hold in Indian TV homes, has renamed itself (on air) as Nick and become almost...
MUMBAI: Viacom, which has just released its results for the first quarter of 2004, says its revenues have jumped 12 per cent to a record $6.8...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks India today announced a tie-up with The One Alliance for distributing MTV, India’s leading music and youth channel and Nickelodeon, the children’s channel....
MUMBAI: Even as rumours of an affiliation with music major MTV do the rounds, relative greenhorn channel Southern Spice claims it is the reigning sound of...
MUMBAI: The 2004 MTV Video Music Awards will be broadcast live from Miami Florida on 29 August. This marks the first time in its 20 year...
MUMBAI: The imbroglio over fee payment between MTV Europe and independent record labels has been settled. The two parties arrived at an agreement that allows bands...
MTV's Bakra Din special roped in actors Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani and Ritiesh Deshmukh along with the inimitable VJ Cyrus Broacha to pull pranks on each...
CANNES: International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has announced Special award recipients for the 32nd International Emmy Awards. The winners of three special awards, which...
The queen of soaps may just lose her title this year. Not because there are any pretenders to her throne, but because she is expanding her...
MUMBAI: MTV has just taken the wind out of Channel [V]’s sails regarding next month’s Enrique Iglesias concert. In a deal that was stitched together last...
MUMBAI: As programming initiatives go, this one is certainly up there. Music channel MTV and soap factory Balaji Telefilms announced that they would soon be launching...
MUMBAI: Punjabi mundas – Josh who shot to fame with their bhangra track on Nelly Furtado’s song Powerless are all set to rock MTV the whole...
MUMBAI: MTV US’ next film will revolve around vampires. After a heated bidding war MTV Films and Maverick Films have acquired the film rights to Twilight....
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: For those who thought cable operators fighting with broadcasters over fees is an “Indian malaise”, think again. Much the same issues are behind the head-on...
MUMBAI: Elections are around the corner, and election programming seems to be in vogue. MTV’s third edition of Rock the Vote is back to beckoning 375...
MUMBAI: After tennis and basketball it is now the turn of wrestling to have its own channel. Satellite services company Globecast has announced that it has...
MUMBAI: “If ever you all come to Spain, keep one thing in mind – Don’t come alone or you’ve had it.” This can pass off as...
MUMBAI: Television viewing among children in India is growing strong, a fact that underlines the ambitious plans by several broadcasters to launch kids’ channels this year....
MUMBAI: It might be 29 year old, but it still remains one of a kind. The awards instituted to laud excellence in television and cinema AKA...
MUMBAI: What does every good movie need to succeed? Promotion blitz of course! Latest, Varma Corporation has signed an exclusive deal with MTV to promote all...
MUMBAI: Frontrunner music channel MTV is setting its sights south of the Vindhyas, even as struggling sibling kids channel Nickelodeon is set to make the switch...
MUMBAI: Valentine day held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium should be a “Khallas” affair, especially so with Ishaa Koppikar dazzling along side a line up of...
A major buzzword this Valentine weekend is SMS. Music channels have taken to this route in a big way for an event, which has over the...
MUMBAI: The only indigenous music channel south of the Vindhyas is sharpening its claws and getting ready for the fight that will break out in the...
MUMBAI: MTV has announced that its college network in the US will relaunch with a new name — mtvU – on 20 January. The channel, earlier...
MUMBAI: MTV has scored a coup with Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz. She has signed up with to present her own travel show for the broadcaster. The...
MUMBAI: Mikanos, in downtown Mumbai, rocked real hard last night. MTV had its nominees voting party at the popular hangout, to build up excitement over the...
MUMBAI: Music channel etc has scored a lead over recently revamped sibling Zee Music as well as other channels in the arena by grabbing a channel...
MUMBAI: It was its big event of the year and MTV pulled out all the stops yesterday. From the legendary Lata Mangeshkar and composer uncomparable AR...
MUMBAI: MTV has announced a variety of local acts for its awards function The MTV Immies. Actor Salman Khan, dancer Ishaa Koppikar, model Yana Gupta, Amrita...
MUMBAI: Good news for the twinkle toes. MTV network India is all set to launch a twin pack compilation of the best of 80’s music titled...
MUMBAI: It is not just Doordarshan and MTV that are looking to hook viewers on the occasion of World Aids Day. News broadcaster CNN has lined...
MUMBAI: It was a hip ‘n’ happening night where bellies shook and the cable fraternity had a blast courtesy the SET-Discovery One Alliance. If the enthusiastic...
MUMBAI: In conjunction with the Aids epidemic update issued by Unaids and the World Health Organisation, MTV Networks International has released findings from the Staying Alive...
MUMBAI: This is a piece of news that MTV could do without. A woman has filed a complaint saying that she was date raped while visiting...
MUMBAI: MTV Immies are all set to heat up the music scene with some international sensations. Latest news is that the youth channel has roped in...
MUMBAI: It was a fun evening alright, but it was with a good cause. Around 35 thousand screaming youngsters joined in to watch MTV VJs,...
MUMBAI: The war regarding who is numero uno among the music channels is getting red hot. Yesterday Channel [V] held a party boasting that it was...
NEW YORK: Things are looking up for media conglomerate Viacom. The MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures owner has announced record results for the third quarter ended 30...
NEW DELHI: A news channel of their own! It couldn’t have been a better Diwali gift for the 120-odd employees of the Rajat Sharma-promoted Independent News...
On 14 October, India's first 24-hour non-stop Punjabi music channel, Balle-Balle will complete one year of its existence. For Balle-Balle, it has been an eventful year,...
MUMBAI: On 5 October, DJ Manish was declared the winner of the MTV Motoalert DJ Challenge, in a final knockout at the Velocity, Mumbai. Manish was...

