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NEW DELHI: Afganistan will have a news channel run by the public service Radio and Television Afghanistan (RTA) in the next three months which is expected...
NEW DELHI: The Times Now news channel is commencing today the telecast of ‘Star’, a new show giving a glimpse into the life of Bollywood actors....
NEW DELHI: After tasting success with India TV, founder-promoter Rajat Sharma is readying to launch his second news channel. Sharma has got the nod from the...
MUMBAI: Filmmaker Prakash Jha is all set to launch his news and current affairs channel, Maurya TV, in Bihar. To be based in Patna, the 24-hour,...
Much has happened this year and yet not a lot has happened. For India TV it has been a good year. Two years ago we were...
MUMBAI: Guwahati-based media company Positiv TV is planning to launch a bi-lingual national news channel ‘Focus.’ The target date is 26 January, 2008. “We will launch...
MUMBAI: B.A.G Films & Media Ltd has beefed up its editorial team for its upcoming news channel with a slew of new appointments. The position of...
MUMBAI: Iran’s state broadcaster has launched an English news channel Press TV, aiming to break the stranglehold of the West over the world’s media. Its competition...
Mumbai: The approximately Rs. 600-700 million news market in India may get radically stirred if a proposal being considered by the newly-formed News Broadcasters Association of...
NEW DELHI: What had been earlier put off has finally happened. Channel7 has been rechristened IBN7 and has been sporting the new name from India’s Independence...
MUMBAI: This is a piece of news that would bring some cheer in the Jayalalitha camp, after the assembly election debacle. Mavis Satcom Ltd, which operates...
MUMBAI: Lack of adequate bandwidth with cable networks be damned. And, notwithstanding the lingering uncertainty over CAS despite a favourable court ruling, TV companies are gung-ho...
MUMBAI: Broadcast News, Rajdeep Sardesai’s new venture in collaboration with Television Eighteen Group, has sought permission to uplink a news channel. A government source confirmed the...
MUMBAI: While Viacom is looking at splitting its business into two separate publicly-traded companies, the Rupert Murdoch owned media conglomerate News Corp is not looking at...
NEW DELHI: Rupert Murdoch’s India visit has removed one doubt, at least. A Bengali news channel, being proposed by Media Content & Communications Services India (MCCS),...
MUMBAI: This time round Sahara is not taking any chances with a new product. In a bid to have its distribution strategy in place before launch,...
MUMBAI: Sahara is all set to unleash D1 for the people of Delhi that will cover among other things, local news, campus happenings and shopping options....
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet today gave its approval to extend till 31 March, 2005 the deadline for conforming to the news channels’ uplinking guidelines. ...
MUMBAI: The Times of India Group is going the whole hog as far as making new appointments for their new business and news channel is concerned....
MUMBAI: Malayalam news channel Indiavision claims it has bettered its position in the last couple of months. Quoting TAM ratings for October and November, the channel...
MUMBAI: Come 2005, and the Indian news genre will witness a dedicated crime news channel from the Star News pad. With a tentative launch...
MUMBAI: The Delhi-based Senior Group of Companies, which recently announced its foray into the already cluttered news channels space, is on a hiring spree. The...
MUMBAI: BBC World was the most watched international news channel during India’s recent general elections, according to Tam Peoplemeter data. During the four-week campaign, BBC World...
MUMBAI: Pakistan will soon see the launch of it’s first satellite based 24-hour business news channel – Business Plus. Local and international business news, with a...
MUMBAI: New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) board today approved to launch a separate Business News channel. This, however, is subject to obtaining necessary approvals and premissions...
MUMBAI: Election time translates into boon time for the electronic medium. Touted as the make or break point for news channels, this time on, the election...
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: BBC World is the most watched channel amongst decision makers in India, according to an AC Nielsen ORG Marg Decision Makers Survey (DMS4), released recently....
MUMBAI: Come 28 December, the Ramoji Rao-owned Eenadu Television Network will launch its first 24-hours Telugu news and current affairs channel, ETV2 in Andhra Pradesh. The...
MUMBAI: Top DD (Doordarshan) producers who say they have committed software worth millions of rupees to DD-2 (Metro) are feeling cheated by the uncertainty that presently...
MUMBAI: First came the articles questioning the Star News equity structure in India Today and later in The Times Of India. It was followed up by...
MUMBAI: IndiaVision, which claims to be the first exclusive television news channel in Kerala, is to simultaneously launch today from Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Kozhikode and the United...
MUMBAI: Less than a fortnight before the conditional access system (CAS) gets implemented in Mumbai, the first of its kind suburban news channel has been launched....
NEW DELHI: The Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star expects to make an announcement over the next 15-20 days regarding probable partner(s) for its news venture, which would have...
NEW DELHI: The business news channel that the Zee Group has been talking about is taking shape. Zee Biz is expected to be launched around June...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: After much suspense and waiting, the TV Today Network has finally decided on a name for Aaj Tak’s sister English news channel....
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NEW DELHI: The government today announced a transitory arrangement in the guidelines for news channels desirous of uplinking from India, allowing a maximum period of three...
NEW YORK: Internet broadcaster The FeedRoom has announced the launch of Reuters Raw Video: Conflict in Iraq. The 24-hour online news channel offers ongoing coverage direct...
NEW DELHI: First there was one. In a quiet way, very unlike the group, Sahara Samay Rashtriya, the national news channel from the Subrata Roy-promoted Sahara...
NEW DELHI: News is now filtering out as to why the proposed news channel backed by the Videocon group of India still remains off air and...
CAIRO: Satellite broadcaster Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC) will launch a 24-hour Arabic news channel, Al Arabiya, in mid-February with an estimated investment of US $200...
If I look back on the year 2002 I don’t see anything major having happened. From the policy point of view I would like to point...
It all seems to be happening on the news channel front. The latest on this is that global news channel CNN International, whose parent company is...
Aaj Tak, the 24-hour news channel, is reaping the rewards of the hard work put in the year gone by. Helped along by events that pushed...
