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BANGALORE: Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 816.6 million units in 2005, a 21 per cent increase from 2004, as the leading six vendors increased their share...
MUMBAI: Trudy Corporation has inked a deal with Sesame Workshop for a new publishing license focusing on book and audio CD formats. The license territory includes...
MUMBAI: This piece of news signals further consolidation happening in the satellite industry. The world’s biggest satellite operator SES Global will buy New Skies Satellites (NSS)...
MUMBAI: Children’s brand management company – Dic Entertainment (Dic) announced that it had concluded sales deals at Mipcom 2005 with a few international broadcasters and pay...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Vivendi Universal has announced results for the third quarter ended 30 September 2005. Revenues amounted to 4,874 million euros compared to 4,353 million...
MUMBAI: One half of 1000 teens in the US are more glued to their mobile phones than television. This is part of the findings thrown up...
MUMBAI: US-based M8 Entertainment, Inc., a film entertainment company engaged in the production, financing and worldwide licensing of theatrical feature films, has awarded the North American...
MUMBAI: One of WPP’s media franchises Mediaedge:cia is merging three of its leading interactive and direct marketing specialist agencies to form one unit — MEC Interaction....
MUMBAI: The Chinese government has approved plans to lay an undersea cable, to increase the speed at which internet users in the Northern region access overseas...
MUMBAI: London-based Associate Press Television News (APTN) Library has agreed a mutual representation deal with CTV Archive Sales in Toronto, Canada. The deal signifies that for...
MUMBAI: Regional language channel Tara Bangla is set to make its entry into North America. The Ratikant Basu-promoted Broadcast Worldwide’s Bengali language channel will be launched...
MUMBAI: B4U’s head of international business Neeraj Arora has switched over to rival Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia). Arora, who was senior vice-president international business...
MUMBAI: UTV’s new baby – the distribution network for motion pictures has now appointed heads at the national and international level. While Sanjeev Mehta would be...
BERMUDA: Intelsat has announced that it has withdrawn its plan to launch an initial public offering. The communication company also declared its intention to explore strategic...
MUMBAI: North America’s leading video-on-demand (VOD) provider Anime Network will soon go on air as a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week network. The company has signed an agreement on...
MUMBAI: Gemstar-TV Guide International has announced appointment of Mike McKee as the COO of TV Guide Consumer Electronics. Gemstar-TV Guide International provides information and guidance regarding...
PanAmSat has announced a 15-year, transponder lease agreement with the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) which claims to be the world’s largest religious media network. The...
MUMBAI: The reality bandwagon continues to roll in the US. Fresh from the success of American Idol on Fox, the show’s producers Fremantle Media North America...
MUMBAI: 15 French production and distribution companies are scheduled to attend The National Association of Programme Executives (NATPE) event that will take place from 18-20 January...
WASHINGTON: Intelsat and Level 3 Communications Inc announced an agreement to launch a new video delivery network to serve North American broadcast customers, yesterday. Scheduled for...
CALIFORNIA: This is an alliance that aims at taking the concept of Video on Demand (VOD) beyond just films. TVN Entertainment which provides on demand television...
NEW DELHI: Moving Picture Company (India) Limited (MPCL) is test marketing its first long format 3D animation series Jungle Tales in the India International Trade Fair...
NEW DELHI: Sian Kevill has been appointed to the newly created position of editorial director of BBC World, the BBC’s commercially funded 24-hour international news and...
NEW YORK : Teenagers and young adults in the US spend more time on the Internet than watching television. This denotes a shift in media consumption...
BERMUDA: Intelsat, the global satellite communications leader, has announced that it has signed a $ one billion definitive asset purchase agreement with Loral Space & Communications...
LONDON: To accommodate increased customer demand for video services, Intelsat has appointed Doug Triblehorn and Jean-Philippe Gillet to head regional sales efforts for the company’s media...
NEW YORK: CNN’s Indra Sibal and Ash-har Quraishi will be honoured for their contribution to the field of journalism this weekend in New York. Both are...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment has instituted some repositioning in its executive hierarchy both at the national and international level. Rajan Singh has been promoted to executive V-P...
LOS ANGELES (California): NDS has countersued DirecTV Enterprises and two of its subsidiaries, along with a chip manufacturer and its North American sales affiliate. The countersuit...
NEW YORK/ LONDON: MTV has announced two mega concerts to mark World AIDS Day; one to be held in Seattle, Washington on 7 November and the...
Commercial launch services provider Arianespace has signed a launch contract for two SES Americom satellites, AMC-13 and AMC-15. AMC-13 and AMC-15, new-generation satellites weighing over 4,000...
Intelsat announced today that at 2:44 a.m. EDT the Intelsat 905 satellite was successfully launched aboard an Ariane 44L vehicle. The satellite is expected to be...
Seattle headquartered Getty Images has announced that it will be the exclusive distributor of still images collected from CNN footage. The company, which claims to be...
MUMBAI: In what it claims is a first for any television channel, MTV will be premiering its first multimedia visual image campaign, MTV Coordinates, from 1...
In what it claims is a first for any television channel, MTV will be premiering its first multimedia visual image campaign, MTV Coordinates, from 1 May...
CEOs of some of the top cable operating companies in North America, all members of the CableLabs board of directors’ executive committee, are among more than...
Scientific-Atlanta has developed a supercharged version of its Digital Network Control System (DNCS) software. The software will help cable ops give subscribers Video-on-Demand (VOD) and Subscription...
The Intelsat 903 satellite was successfully launched aboard an ILS Proton K/Block DM launch vehicle last Saturday 12:25 EST. According to an official release, the satellite...
