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NEW DELHI: Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union Minister P Chidambaram, will have to go to the trial court or the High Court in Delhi with...
MUMBAI: The recent developments in the Sheena Bora murder mystery seem nothing short of twists out of James Patterson’s crime thriller novels. If the media and...
MUMBAI: In what can be called one of the most shocking news to rock the Indian broadcast fraternity, the Mumbai Police reportedly arrested former Star India...
MUMBAI: 3 July, 2000 is a date Indian television industry folks will not forget. It was on this day that a new show hit TV screens...
MUMBAI: The news of New Silk Route (NSR) approaching buyers to divesting a part of its stake in 9X Media is out. And Pradeep Guha, the...
Uday Shankar had to wrestle with a thorny problem as soon as he took over as Star India CEO: How to be more successful than his...
Peter Mukerjea became the CEO of Star India at a crucial period of satellite television history in India when the relationship between two media moguls Rupert...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Eighteen months after it was bought over by Indi Media from Indrani and Peter Mukerjea, the English news channel NewsX is all set to...
NEW DELHI: Vir Sanghvi, CEO of INX News and editorial head of the group’s upcoming news channel News X, has finally left the INX group and...
MUMBAI: The rumours have been floating for a while of rumblings within Indrani and Peter Mukerjea’s news broadcast arm INX News Pvt Ltd. It can now...
For Sony Entertainment Television (Set) India CEO Kunal Dasgupta, the big wish for 2008 is to throw up that one hit narrative show that would get...
MUMBAI: Following the exit of its corporate CEO Peter Mukerjea as of 1 February, and the pending departure of its operational CEO Sameer Nair next month,...
MUMBAI: After Star CEO Paul Aiello, it is News Corp president and COO Peter Chernin, Rupert Murdoch’s right hand man, who will be coming to these...
Truth will out. After months of rumour and speculation, the pieces of the puzzle as to what exactly has been going on behind the scenes at...
MUMBAI: Star has appointed Paul Aiello, currently its president, as chief executive, replacing present CEO Michelle Guthrie, who has resigned. Guthrie’s departure will be effective 1...
NEW DELHI: A general consensus has emerged in the broadcasting industry that individual pay TV players would legally challenge the sector regulator’s directive on fixing pay...
MUMBAI: A day after the government issued a notification setting 31 December, 2006 as the deadline for the south zones of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata to...
NEW DELHI: It was day of lobbying here as print and electronic media met up with a government official on Thursday to express serious concern over...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: In what is a major organisational revamp within Star India, the functions and management of the group have been split between CEO...
Is global media baron Rupert Murdoch coming to town? If reports are to be believed a visit is being planned for the News Corp chief to...
Rupert Murdoch landed in his private jet at Mumbai’s Sahar International Airport with his entourage a short while back. Special arrangements were made at the airport...
NEW DELHI: Star India’s president corporate affairs Nitin Atroley has decided to quit the organization to pursue new challenges. A Star India spokesperson confirmed that Atroley...
MUMBAI: Senior Star India executives and representatives from Cable Operators and Distributors Association (CODA) met today to resolve issues relating to Star One and direct-to-home (DTH)...
1)Rupert Murdoch’s India visit. The revival of Star Plus under Peter Mukerjea and its great success following Kaun Banega Crorepati and Amitabh Bachchan. 2) The arrival...
MUMBAI: The first TV User Body Meet that was organized by MRUC (Media Research Users Council) in Mumbai on 9 September saw lot of issues being...
Size, the makers of Godzilla would vouch, definitely matters at the box-office. And Star India is getting bigger by the day. In terms of annual turnover...
MUMBAI:The digital era will set in motion a whole new revolution in the way television content is produced, distributed and consumed. “Viewers can have one minute...
MUMBAI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) today announced the launch of an India chapter in what it said was a part of...
Star TV India is on the prowl for a dot com chief. The company is scouting around for an individual who will steer its forway in...
NEW DELHI: What may bring smiles on the faces of many, the government today indicated that certified adult content could be allowed on television at late...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) initiatives have energised mangers of country’s first DTH service, Dish TV, 20 per cent owned by the...
NEW DELHI: Cable rates are set to go up by seven per cent (basic tariff excluding taxes) from 1 January, 2005. According to a statement released...
MUMBAI: Media Content and Communications Services India Pvt. Ltd. (MCCS), a joint venture between ABP TV and the Star Group, today announced its plans to launch...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), may have come out with its recommendations, but Star India, for one, feels...
MUMBAI: The stage is set for the 1 November launch of StarOne, the most ambitious channel offering from India’s lead broadcast network. With StarOne’s launch, the...
MUMBAI: Broadcasters are weighing the impact of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s recommendations. Of foremost concern is the suggestion that pay channels launched after December...
MUMBAI: They have been closely bonded for a while now. The Jeetendra Kapoor promoted Balaji Telefilms has been Star India’s leading winning content provider for more...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Presented below are reactions from a cross-section of the industry to Budget 2004. Zee Telefilms CMD Subhash Chandra: “The 2004 budget...
MUMBAI: Now this is what is called an award function. Hosted at the much suave south Mumbai’s NCPA, India’s lead entertainment channel Star Plus struck the...
One could be excused for wondering if the head honcho of India’s largest media house and largest-by-far broadcast company isn’t getting bored of the sameness of...
NEW DELHI: Well, we had alluded to this development happening in March, and so it has come to be. Not content with dominating the Indian cable...
As part of its newly-found camaraderie with UTV (see earlier story: UTV eyes foreign skies; to retain Star TV as an investor after IPO), News Television...
MUMBAI: There is some major churn happening at Star Group’s head office in Hong Kong. Three senior executives – Digital Platforms Group president Altaf Alimohamed, advertising...
NEW DELHI: Hong Kong-based Star Group Ltd., controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, plans to launch two more entertainment channels outside the direct-to-home (DTH) package of...
NEW DELHI: Hong Kong-based Star Group Ltd., controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, plans to launch two more entertainment channels outside the direct-to-home (DTH) package of...
Indian entertainment television’s first name in programming has a theory. And as Star India gets set to celebrate Year Four as top dog in the broadcast...
Sameer Nair, the chief operating officer of Star India, an arm of the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group Pvt Ltd, can be a reticent man. Very unlike...
NEW DELHI: The first broad meeting of Media Content & Communications India (MCCS) Private Ltd was held here today with the new board members expressing satisfaction...
The Indian Media Business penned by Business World senior editor Vanita Kohli, published recently by Sage Publications, treads territory few Indian writers have ventured into –...
MUMBAI: If last year, Star India had linked a 25 per cent drop in subscription rates per subscriber (from Rs 40 to Rs 30) to a...
