While the main focus right now is on India's forthcoming tour of Pakistan next month, cricket fans can for the moment enjoy the battle of the...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today hinted to the Pakistani government that it should lift the ban on Indian TV channels...
NEW DELHI: All India Radio (AIR) has secured the rights for broadcasting the running commentary on the nine matches to be played during the India-Pakistan cricket...
MUMBAI: A few days ago the ICC Development International (IDI), and the Sportsbrand Media Group reached a three year agreement to produce and distribute on a...
MUMBAI: While peace talks between India and Pakistan continue, Pakistan’s information and broadcasting minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmed announced at a seminar on ‘Indo-Pak relations and Kashmir...
MUMBAI: Taj Television reached an agreement yesterday with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), which extends its telecast rights for the forthcoming Australia tour of the Emerald Isles...
NEW DELHI: A new player has now stepped into the convoluted CAS drama – the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). And, quite dramatically, the apex chamber...
NEW DELHI: On the eve of a meeting of the information and broadcasting ministry and the multi-system operators (MSOs) on conditional access system’s (CAS) implementation in...
NEW DELHI: BBC’s Washington correspondent Nick Bryant who will be the organisations’ new South Asia correspondent arrived in the Capital. Bryant has been at the heart...
LONDON: Australia and South Africa will be the first and second seeds respectively for the ICC Champions Trophy 2004. The event which takes place in England...
WELLINGTON: Here is some good news for Pakistan cricket fans. New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has set aside security threats regarding their upcoming tour of Pakistan. The...
KABUL: BBC World Service has announced the launch of a new dedicated schedule of programming for Afghanistan. This features all the key languages of the country....
NEW DELHI: Amid clouds of not-so-cordial relationship between India and Pakistan overshadowing crucial matters – like formulating model guidelines for transnational satellite broadcasting – prime minister...
MUMBAI: In India it may be Max that has C&S telecast rights for the World Cup, but in Pakistan it is Ten Sports. Ten Sports has...
MUMBAI: While in India it is Star Plus that rules, looking at the Asian region as a whole, leading English movie channel HBO is the winner...
CANNES: It is now official that The History Channel is coming to India. Today, AETN International, the division of A&E Television Networks, used the MipCom platform...
MUMBAI: It is not merely a story but an epic saga! This is the tagline that MAX is using for its latest programme initiative. This will...
MUMBAI: After Pakistan cricket, Dubai-based Ten Sports has added exclusive telecast rights for West Indies cricket for the next five years to its kitty. The reported...
HOLLAND: European broadcaster Eurosport will air the Rabobank Men’s Champions Trophy which takes place in Amsterdam from 16-24 August 2003. The deal, which was brokered by...
HONG KONG: Star’s news special FocusAsia is going from strength to strength. A few days ago, a reporter for the show Joe Kainz won first prize...
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...
LOS ANGELES: Tinseltown Entertainment has announced that its top-rated weekly entertainment program, Tinseltown Live, marks its first anniversary next week as the number one program in...
MUMBAI: It was always on the cards but now it’s official. Taj Television (parent company of Ten Sports) has secured the telecast rights for all cricket...
MUMBAI: BBC World is looking at increasing viewership in the Asian region through shows that build up intimate contact. Not too long ago, HardTalk’s Tim Sebastian...
LONDON: BBC World Service has announced the appointment of new regional heads for Africa, Eurasia, the Americas and Asia and Pacific region. The current head...
MUMBAI: B4U Network Worldwide airs California based production house Tinseltown Entertainment’s weekly Hollywood show Tinseltown Live, which is the first and only show to promote ‘Hollywood’...
MUMBAI: In a bid to liberalise its broadcasting policy, the Pakistani government is not only allowing the formation of private radio and television stations, but may...
A couple of months back, the Pakistan government had awarded Star TV a licence to sell and distribute its decoders, and its channels in that country....
NEW DELHI: BBC News has apppointed its first ever South Asia editor. The British broadcaster’s newsgathering division has appointed Paul Danahar to the newly created role...
LONDON: Andy Drake has been appointed as the senior producer for South Asia, by Associated Press Television News (APTN), the international video arm of the Associated...
MUMBAI: After soccer, its hockey that Ten Sports has in its kitty. From Saturday, 31 August, the 24th Men’s Champions Trophy 2002 hockey kicks off in...
NEW DELHI: The corporates, which have signed on Indian cricketers and may have to review their agreements with the players depending on the final outcome of...
MUMBAI: Pakistan is gaining use of a defective Boeing 601 satellite and plans to use it to provide commercial telecommunications services starting in early 2003, spacenews.com...
In the subcontinent, government controlled media has more often than not faced accusations of biased coverage. And in this regard, Pakistan’s state media must certainly classify...
MUMBAI: Kids’ channel Nickelodeon from the MTV stable has commenced 24 hours broadcast in Pakistan. Nickelodeon is available to the market through cable and is distributed...
Vikram joined the list of renegade engineers when he started with DCM as a Management Trainee in 1984. An MBA later he was with Procter &...
New Delhi, July 12, 2006- ESPN STAR Sports, India’s premier sports network, will showcase 4-test series to be played between England and Pakistan, LIVE and Exclusive,...
Pakistan is negotiating a satellite deal with European and US operators to buy two satellites, one to occupy the 38 E orbital slot allotted to the...
Waking up to the competitive environment in the most promising country after China, CNN has decided to launch a television service specific to south Asia beginning...
Subhash Chandra’s Zee Network’s plans to launch a separate encrypted beam for markets in the Middle East, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal under the Zee International banner...
Subhash Chandra’s Zee Network’s plans to launch a separate encrypted beam for markets in the Middle East, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal under the Zee International banner...
The National Geographic Channel on Sunday at 9 pm will be showing a documentary about an Afghan girl whose face has intrigued people ever since her...
The ongoing political stand-off between India and its neighbour has put paid to Sony Entertainment Television’s plans to launch in Pakistan for the foreseeable future. But...
Even as Indian officials hem and haw over promulgating broadcasting regulations, its neighbour and arch rival Pakistan has gone ahead and issued an executive order to...
More than two years after promising to open the floodgates to private TV channels, General Musharraf this week approved an ordinance that allows private sector television...
Zee Telefilms Ltd today announced its third quarter results (ended December 31, 2001). The Income from sales and services has gone down by 18 per cent...
The faceoff between ESPN-Star Sports and Mumbai’s cable TV trade continues as cable operators are adamant that they will continue to hold their ground and are...
Technology has been as much at the battlelines in Afghanistan as the journalists who reported in the foreground of the bomb-scarred skyline. Stratos, a satellite communication...
It’s Pakistan ahoy for Star TV. The network was granted the first pay TV licence by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) earlier this week. Following this,...
Sony Entertainment Television is on the move. It was on 4 August that the channel started beaming in Australia on the South Asia Television platform along...

