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It’s the festival of lights. And for many the festival of noise courtesy exploding fireworks. In the hope of reducing the number of those belonging to...
While the Olympics recorded strong viewership in a lot of countries, India remained among the bottom three markets in terms of television viewership for the Olympics....
MUMBAI: The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Iatas) has announced the 2009 International Emmy Awards winners for its News and Current Affairs categories. ...
There‘s no business like news business. Or at least that’s what it appears given the way new players are surfacing with amazing regularity. The national news...
On a typical day, you could see Sujay Gupta juggling three phones, hurriedly taking notes and issuing advisories to his team of reporters. The chief of...
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. –...
News is back,” said Anurradha Prasad at the launch of B.A.G Films and Media‘s Hindi news channel News24. Now does that simply indicate that news channels...
With national news broadcasters feeling the need to expand into regional markets, it is the Marathi space that is grabbing their attention.Joining Zee 24-Taas and Star...
MUMBAI: Finance minister P Chidambaram‘s `no nothing‘ offer to the media sector came as no surprise except in the area of set-top boxes (STBs) where one...
SABTNL vice chairman and managing director Markand Adhikari assures us that his long-in-the-pipeline channel ‘Mi Marathi’ will finally be making its appearance in February 2007. With...
MUMBAI: First, it dared to go off the beaten track with a programming mix in four languages including Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi and English. And now, Kerala...
In the 1990s when a rookie TV producer called Anurradha Prasad started B.A.G. Films — (some old hands in the company say the strange acronym stands...
Laxmi Goel is taking time to settle down in his new role as Zee News Ltd. (ZNL) director. Now in his baggage will fall a clutch...
MUMBAI: This summer, MTV US will launch three new series out of its News & Docs division. This follows the success of the True Life series....
MUMBAI: NBC Universal Television has announced restructuring. Jeff Zucker who used to produce the Today show is its CEO behind company chairman Bob Wright. Zucker will...
MUMBAI: A scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute (SERI) Dr.Eli Peli, found that increasing the contrast of details of certain sizes was of special importance in...
MUMBAI: Markand Adhikari is all set to launch two channels in October. His initial investment: Rs 250 million. “It will be a 50:50 debt equity ratio....
MUMBAI: National Geographic Specials, the award-winning series for PBS, and National Geographic Explorer, both won the News and Documentary Emmys at the National Television Academy’s 2005...
MUMBAI: News Corporation announced today that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire IGN Entertainment, Inc, a leading community-based Internet media and services company for...
MUMBAI: Broadcast News, the new venture that ex-NDTV stalwarts Rajdeep Sardesai and Sameer Manchanda have floated in collaboration with TV 18 Group, has identified prime space...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today formally decided to allow publication of facsimile edition of foreign newspapers in the country as also investments by non-resident Indians...
Have Hindi general entertainment channels (GEC) reached a stage of saturation? Will 2005 see a further regression of this genre or is this space going to...
MUMBAI: Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG) is becoming popular for all the news channels in India as the competition is on to be the first to...
MUMBAI: With the US Presidential election around the corner Euro RSCG Worldwide has released an online survey of 2,000 US respondents. 63.1 per cent of the...
MUMBAI: Looks like the promotional ad campaign is beginning to pay off for TV Today Network’s English news channel – Headlines Today. An official release from...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Confirming a report filed by indiantelevision.com yesterday, Arabian satellite news channel Al-Jazeera this afternoon announced an alliance with Rajat Sharma’s India TV...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, in its recommendations on private FM radio released today, has suggested a new licensing regime consisting of a...
MUMBAI: The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced its four nominees for the 2004 International Emmy in News Coverage category. NHK Japan has got...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable Internet and Site Police have come together to stop abuse of the Internet by providing solutions for its subscribers. Siti Police is the...
MUMBAI: While in India streaming downloads are very little absent thanks to the lack of bandwith in the US a study has found that streaming video...
“This is Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Five years ago you gave me a chance to serve you. In these years, our country has come a long way…...
From outside, 24 Akbar Road looks like just any other bungalow in Lyuten‘s Delhi – big with a huge lawn in the front amidst which sits...
Front page readership is very high while sports and edit sections get less readers. These are just a few of the findings that the survey SPARR...
The following speech was given by BBC Director General Greg Dyke to the Emmy Board in New York on Monday 24 November. In the four years...
Phase-I licensees were not permitted to broadcast news and current affairs. The Committee recommends that the restriction on news and current affairs should be lifted and...
Conditional access system (CAS), new uplinking norms for the TV news channels, KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service finally on the horizon – it has been action...
The unwritten media book puts down a universal rule of thumb – guys dig news, sports, reality shows and action movies. Women prefer comedies, romance and...
PARIS: The winners of the sixth Hot Bird TV Awards were announced a few days ago at a ceremony in Venice. Organised by Eutelsat and Eurovisioni,...
NEW DELHI: The FM radio task force, which is likely to submit its recommendations on radio broadcast policy, has more or less arrived at a consensus...
MUMBAI: News, the USP of AIR’s FM channels will become the driving force of the programming in Mumbai shortly. All India Radio launched its phone in...
MUMBAI: “Real time television, which is effectively reality TV.” That about sums up what Sahara Samay Mumbai, which soft launches 1 September, is all about, according...
NDTV’s Jai Jawan with Aamir Khan has definitely created some interest in the media. So has Zee TV‘s Independence Day special film The Hero (Its Thursday...
NEW YORK: The 24th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Award nominees have been announced. The award ceremony takes place on 3 September at the Marriott Marquis...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government may open up FM radio sector to news and current affairs programming as also the content being provided by a foreign...
MUMBAI: Mobile service provider Orange and BBC World Service have announced the launch of a new ‘BBC news on SMS’ service. The service has been launched...
MUMBAI: US-based Narrowstep Inc, the TV on the Internet Company, has launched Sail.tv, the world’s first 24X7 sailing broadband television channel. The channel is completely free...
24 intense television minutes of rigorous quizzing, rapid fire questioning and reflex action replying, snappy dialogue and dizzy triumph don’t come in just that much time....
Another player is eyeing the entertainment segment. This time it is the Prannoy Roy-promoted New Delhi Television (NDTV) which is quietly working on a plan to...
NEW YORK: The Associated Press (AP) and Yahoo have announced the release of AP Archives, a fee-based news archive on Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com). An official release...
Jonathan Howlett, global director of airtime sales of BBC World, is no stranger to India. He has come to the sub-continent often and is a keen...
