MUMBAI: The best came, saw and conquered. Indiantelevision.com’s The MTR Indian Telly Awards held tonight at the Tulip Star in Mumbai had the best of talent...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: In the end the “bhadralok” from Bengal, Aveek Sarkar, held firm and had his way in the matter of how much stake...
NEW DELHI: Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea and the owner-publisher of the Anand Bazar Patrika (ABP) group Aveek Sarkar paid a courtesy call to senior government...
NEW DELHI: In what may be an embarrassing situation for the central government, CODA (Cable Operator and Distributor Association) spokesperson and Shiv Sena Vibhag Pramukh and...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today decided to tighten the screws for uplinking norms for news channels with foreign investment by bringing in safeguards against proxy...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Just over 15 days to go but the CAS picture seems to be still stuck in pause mode. The second meeting today...
MUMBAI: CAS on schedule! This was the common message delivered by broadcasters and MSO (multi-system operators) representatives after the first meeting today of the recently constituted...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government now is setting up a conditional access system (CAS) implementation committee to monitor the preparedness for a phased out rollout of...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The clock is ticking for the latest uplinking extension given to Star India for its news channel and it runs out Wednesday...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) met here yesterday to discuss various issues, including finding a replacement for executive director Bhuwan Lall whose three-year tenure...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: It’s another day of meetings over CAS for the major pay broadcasters in the Capital with the Prime Minister’s Office officials Today’s meeting at...
MUMBAI: “This is our World… And the rest of the World is still in black and white.” A Kodak moment? Not quite. Just the tag line...
NEW DELHI: The MSOs cannot come to a consensus on the areas that may be first included for conditional access rollout in the four metros. The...
MUMBAI: “This is our World… And the rest of the World is still in black and white.” A Kodak moment? Not quite. Just the tag line...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today gave permission to Media Content & Communication India Pvt Ltd, in which Star holds 26 per cent equity stake, to...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is not averse to the idea if the main channels, including the sports and entertainment ones like Star Plus, Zee TV,...
NEW DELHI: MSOs now want to fix the price of pay channels and offer an invitation price of Rs 200. The cable fraternity is not giving...
NEW DELHI: It was supposed to be the day of reckoning for pricing in a post-conditional access regime. What it turned out to be was a...
NEW DELHI: Star India is looking at forming a new company with multiple Indian partners, whose shareholding would total up to 74 per cent, in a...
Star India COO Sameer Nair may not look like it, but his colleagues say he is an extremely shrewd strategist. As part of the Star India...
Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea these days rues the fact that he is not getting enough time for golf and, thus, relaxation and exercise. Shuttling between...
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...
MUMBAI: You have to give it to Star India. It does not believe in half measures. The jewel in Rupert Murdoch’s Asia operations effectively re-set the...
MUMBAI: Star India may have announced a 25 per cent drop in subscription rates per subscriber from the current Rs 40 to Rs 30, but cable...
Star TV India is bringing in television industry veteran Altaf Ali Mohammed to look after its digital platform – DTH and broadband – in India. Mohammed...
MUMBAI: In what could be turn out to be a masterstroke in public perception management, the Star Network is likely to reduce its network rate price...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms is certainly not letting any grass grow under its feet following the defection of movie channel HBO from...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Star India and its executive vice-president sales and marketing, LS ‘Raj’ Nayak, are still grappling with the issue of making the latter’s...
MUMBAI: Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea met up with Star India executive vice-president sales and marketing Raj Nayak in the afternoon yesterday to review the situation...
MUMBAI: Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea is meeting up with Star India executive vice-president sales and marketing Raj Nayak in the afternoon today to review the...
Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj set the ball rolling again today on the conditional access issue following her trip to Cannes. Swaraj convened a meeting...
Star India finally made it official today. The Rupert Murdoch-promoted company announced the appointment of Ravina Raj Kohli as president – Star News Channel. Kohli starts...
Star India finally made it official today. The Rupert Murdoch-promoted company announced the appointment of Ravina Raj Kohli as president – Star News Channel. Kohli starts...
The man who is widely regarded as the creative brain behind the rise of Star Plus to its pre-eminent position in India’s channel stakes – Sameer...
The man who is widely regarded as the creative brain behind the rise of Star Plus to its pre-eminent position in India’s channel stakes – Sameer...
In order to ensure complete integration of various divisions of Star Network and facilitate the growth of the channel’s new business ventures fresh recruitments to senior...
Awesome. That about sums up the scale of the plans the Star Group has charted out to take Channel [V] to the top of the music...
Star India, Indian cable & satellite’s “price driver,” today announced a major hike in its monthly subscription rates, effective January, from the current Rs 30 to...
It’s all happening at the Indian Broadcasting Foundation. The representative body of broadcasters is meeting today at 6:00 pm at The Club in Mumbai’s western suburb...
It was a meeting that was most talked about – one that would help smoothen, ease and clear some of the issues relating to viewership ratings....
Star Group Limited and UTV announced in Chennai today the formation of a joint venture which will oversee Tamil regional language channel Vijay TV. Star has...
Star Plus is today the numero uno cable and satellite television channel in India. A year or so ago, industry watchers and rivals would have laughed...
MUMBAI: The Star Network on Tuesday announced its new subscription package of RS 30 per month. A company release said the hike worked out to...
Responding to reported rumblings of discontent over payment terms among the producers of some of its hit serials, Star TV has said it is open to...