NEW YORK: NBC, America’s Olympic Network and Clear Channel Advantage, a division of San Antonio-based Clear Channel Worldwide, announced a marketing alliance for the next five...
NEW YORK: The second anniversary of the events of 9/11 is expected to be a quiet affair for American television networks. While there will be news...
LONDON: Production executive Chris Pye is Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) VP Worldwide Formats. Pye formerly held top creative posts with Granada Content, BBC Production and...
LOS ANGELES: The 55th annual Primetime Emmy Awards scheduled to be held on 21 September will see a bunch of hosts. A report in the Hollywood...
NEW YORK: Ever since Vivendi formally invited bids for Vivendi Universal Entertainment — the Universal film and TV studio, theme parks, and cable channels nearly two...
MUMBAI: NDTV World, the wholly owned subsidiary of Prannoy Roy’s New Delhi Television Ltd, is being amalgamated into the parent company. With this move, Dr Roy...
LOS ANGELES: The darkly amusing drama Six Feet Under and its parent network HBO, dominated television’s Emmy Award nominations. The 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will...
NEW YORK: Has televising sports lost its sheen? Several US broadcasters claim that an ad slump has made televising sports a money-losing venture and they don’t...
MUMBAI: It’s called making hay while the sun shines. The final episode of Friends, to be telecast by the end of this fall in the US,...
MUMBAI: Over the past few years, action oriented AXN has succeeded in developing admirable viewer cachet with reality shows like Fear Factor, The Amazing Race.. The...
MUMBAI: Star World, the English entertainment channel, is making a conscious effort to become more India-specific and has announced a whole new programming strategy. ...
MUMBAI: Computer generated image (CGI) technology has made a major impression on the silver screen over the last couple of years. Shrek won Dreamworks an Oscar....
WASHINGTON: The US government’s broadcasting board of governors (BBG) is planning to set up a new Baghdad TV channel to air Arabic captioned broadcasts of US...
NEW YORK: David Bloom, an NBC News correspondent travelling with the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division outside Baghdad, died yesterday, The broadcaster said that the 39-year-old...
MUMBAI: It could be the fact that the US-led invasion of Iraq is not quite according to script, but viewers in America seem to be losing...
MUMBAI: AXN is going about its mission of providing thrills through the critically acclaimed espionage drama 24. Kiefer Sutherland plays a counter terrorism unit agent trying...
MUMBAI: The wheel has come full circle. CNN, which made its reputation covering the 1991 Gulf War from Baghdad, has been ordered to leave Iraq along...
NEW YORK : Nielsen Media Research and NBC have announced the signing of a seven-year landmark agreement for audience measurement services covering all of NBC’s television...
MUMBAI:Rupert Murdoch is one of the key names from media in Fortune magazine’s fourth annual list of ‘People to Watch in 2003’. The 71-year-old chairman and...
HOLLYWOOD, California: NBC may have to do some hard thinking about its comedy lineup. The days for serials such as Friends are numbered and now the...
CALIFORNIA: Underscoring the success of their alliance, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and NBC Enterprises have jointly announced that they have agreed to extend their international distribution agreement for...
LOS ANGELES: CBS has won the November sweep in viewers and households, according to Nielsen ratings through Wednesday night’s preliminary affiliate based ratings. The victory was...
LOS ANGELES: In the end, it was the clout wielded by ABC, NBC, FOX and CBS that prevailed over HBO’s bid to grab the rights to...
LOS ANGELES:The US telecast rights for the prestigious Emmy Awards hang in the balance. The problem stems from the fact that the Academy of Television Arts...
NEW YORK (US): According to the latest Nielsen Media Research, the Emmy-winning political drama, The West Wing has shown a sharp decline in the popularity charts...
MUMBAI: The Osbournes, MTV ‘s unexpected hit about the life of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, was named best reality series at the Creative Arts Emmys’ on Saturday...
The anniversary of the most significant event of last year “9/11” (11 September) is a few days away and all the news channels are gearing up...
MUMBAI: This piece of news should certainly interest Indian TV production houses looking to find a market for their programming beyond the traditional Indian Diaspora audience....
Noted filmmaker Subhash Ghai had a 20-year dream: to set up an international film and media institute in Mumbai. Whistling Woods International Ltd (WWIL) came up...
The MSN network and NBC have announced the launch of the official web site for “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.” The launch coincides with the...
“Reporting from USS Theodore Roosevelt.” US broadcaster National Broadcasting Company (NBC) did just that when it utilised a short-term satellite space lease in combination with occasional...
“Reporting from USS Theodore Roosevelt.” US broadcaster National Broadcasting Company (NBC) did just that when it utilised a short-term satellite space lease in combination with occasional...
Next year AXN the action channel will continue exploring the boundaries of reality based shows. A spokesperson for the company said that the channel was into...