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MUMBAI: The multiple Emmy-winning NBC series Frasier ended its phenomenal run on Thursday.The one hour-long final episode had moments of slapstick comedy, warm emotional moments and...
MUMBAI: As the programme fair that would see them displaying their assets to advertisers in New York stands just a week away, leading broadcast networks in...
MUMBAI: Fresh of the back of acquiring Universal, NBC and NBC Universal Television have completed a multi-tiered agreement with Wolf Films and executive producer Dick Wolf....
MUMBAI: NBC has announced their signing of contract with star anchorman Tom Brokaw. The contract will see Brokaw anchoring NBC shows till 2014. Brokaw, who is...
MUMBAI: NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment (VUE) have completed the creation of NBC Universal, a global media and entertainment enterprise with expected 2005 revenues of $15...
MUMBAI: As NBC’s long-running show Frasier is all set to air its final episode on Thursday, 13 May, here is some good news for those who...
MUMBAI: As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Even Friends. One of the shows that gave a major boost to the...
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) would delay its annual meeting until late June to continue considering various strategic alternatives. The move signals that Sony Corp.’s $5 billion...
MUMBAI: Fox Broadcasting Company has named ED Wilson as president of the Fox Television Network. Wilson was a former senior executive of NBC and CBS. Wilson’s...
MUMBAI: Media giant Vivendi Universal has reported results for the first quarter. Cconsolidated revenues for the first quarter of 2004 amounted to 5,973 million euros a...
MUMBAI: America’s hit serial from NBC, Friends will air its final episode on Thursday 6 May. NBC estimates that 40 to 50 million viewers will experience...
MUMBAI: NBC prime-time development in-charge Kevin Reilly succeeds Jeff Zucker as the US television network’s entertainment president. Reilly, 41, will report to Zucker, who was promoted...
MUMBAI: The next few days could prove crucial to the American film and television industry. The Writers Guild Of America (WGA) has not yet been able...
MUMBAI: This is a programme initiative that gives the word competition a new meaning. On 6 May the final episode of Friends airs in the US...
MUMBAI: This finale of Fox network’s biggest hit American Idol has seen a dip in ratings when compared to last year. An estimated 31.4 million people...
MUMBAI: While on Indian shores, reality is still all about glamour hunts, the sports reality genre is heating up on the American television, this summer. Close...
MUMBAI: Kids’ channel Nickelodeon may have yet to make its presence felt in India, but it continues to garner accolades in the US. Its show Dora...
MUMBAI: Fox’s musical reality show American Idol is going from strength to strength in the US. Looking to expand the reality genre the Murdoch network is...
MUMBAI: US broadcast network NBC has signed on talk show host Jay Leno for a further four years. Leno hosts The Tonight Show. The earlier contract...
MUMBAI: Colour TV turned 50 on Thursday. It was on 25 March, 1954, that the Radio Corporation of America’s (RCA) plant in Bloomington, Indiana, produced the...
MUMBAI: Looks like US broadcasters will have to be on constant standby to watch out for offensive language during live events. A few days ago the...
MUMBAI: One of the media conglomerates looking at India in a major way is Disney. Walt Disney International president Andy Bird spoke on the importance of...
MUMBAI: Academy Award nominated actress Laura Linney You Can count On Me has signed a deal with Paramount for its sitcom Frasier. In India the show...
NEW YORK: The National Television Academy announced the nominees for the 31st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. The awards will air on 21 May on NBC in...
MUMBAI: Publication Fortune magazine has reported that Walt Disney is America’s most admired entertainment company The magazine conducted a survey of top entertainment industry executives, directors...
MUMBAI: Nevermind Nirvana, a pilot project for NBC Studios, are in the look out for Indian Americans actors for its latest sitcom. The auditions for the...
MUMBAI: Former CNN chief and veteran ABC executive Rick Kaplan was named president of MSNBC, on Tuesday. The announcement seems like latest effort in a bid...
MUMBAI: Ten veteran television personalities will this year share the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award given during the 31st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. The National Television Academy...
MUMBAI: A struggling ABC is looking to a new format of the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire to shore up the ratings and...
MUMBAI: Emmy award-winning journalist for MSNBC Jerry Nachman, who spent years in local television news and also edited the New York Post, died of cancer on...
MUMBAI: Fox’s music based reality show American Idol is in its third season. The first aired Monday night and attracted 28.2 million viewers. An AP...
MUMBAI: CBS’ chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves is said to be trying very hard to get the lead Ray Romano back for another season of the...
MUMBAI: “Goodnight, Seattle” should be the final line this May, when television’s favourite comic psychiatrist Frasier Crane bids good bye after a eleven year stint. After...
MUMBAI: Football fans across the US tuned their televisions at impressive rates to National Football League (NFL) regular-season games. NFL viewership on US broadcast television...
MUMBAI: To celebrate the final season of Friends , America Online, Warner Bros. Television and NBC have teamed up to offer fans an opportunity to choose...
MUMBAI: With $43 billion merger deal with Vivendi Universal Entertainment likely to be finalised in a few months time, NBC is all set to take on...
MUMBAI: The executive producers of the popular television sitcom Will & Grace have have filed a suit against NBC and NBC Studios. The producers allege that...
MUMBAI: The ship is shaking in unsteady waters at the moment for media conglomerate Disney. Its vice chairman Roy Disney who is the nephew of the...
NEW YORK: Since the start of the year there has been intense speculation that the current season of NBC’s hit sitcom Frasier may be the last....
CALIFORNIA: Icon Productions and Universal Network Television will make a comedy pilot at ABC. It will be executive produced by Oscar winning actor and director Mel...
NEW YORK: Bill Bolster, the former chairman and chief executive of financial news channel CNBC, is retiring, NBC said on 5 November. Bolster, 59, was...
MUMBAI: It’s not just a phenomenon on the Indian shores, even in the Hollywood actors cave in to the Television reach. While Will Smith and Jada...
PARIS: French media company Vivendi Universal posted a narrower first-half net loss thanks to fewer exceptional charges and rising operating profits at its telecoms and pay...
LOS ANGELES: There is too much damn cursing on American television these days! Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) may be drawing women towards AXN in India but...
GotoBavaria, Locations 2003, Dr. A Jayathilak, GotoBavaria, Oscar, The Black Forest PlagueLOS ANGELES: HBO led the way in the 55th Primetime Emmy Awards which concluded yesterday....
MUMBAI: After months of negotiations with different parties Vivendi is said to be close to taking a decision as to who will get the assets of...
MUMBAI: As a major player in the world of infotech, India is a ‘happening’ market for audiovisual presentation solutions. InfoComm Asia 2003, the premier show for...
NEW YORK: For all those lamenting the ever-increasing “crassness quotient” of many reality TV programmes, there is still hope. From 8 September US network NBC will...
NEW YORK: It has been two months since Vivendi formally invited bids for Vivendi Universal Entertainment. Initially, the company had claimed that the bids came in...
MUMBAI: General Electric’s NBC has emerged as a front runner in the acquisition of the entertainment assets of Vivendi Universal in the US. The other major...
