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MUMBAI: Radio in India is today where it was in UK 12 years ago. That alone should tell our radio broadcasters that there are miles to...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service asks the question Who Runs Your World?. This is patr of a season of programmes that turn the spotlight on power: who...
MUMBAI: Asian satellite service provider Asiasat and Music Media Enterprises Europe have signed a new lease agreement for the use of C-band capacity on AsiaSat 2...
MUMBAI: In a bid to create more excitement and increase the reach of tennis in America the United States Tennis Association (USTA) has announced a deal...
MUMBAI: With the government allowing foreign owned satellite radio services such as WorldSpace to operate in India, the latter is now going full steam ahead. Apart...
NEW DELHI: Thirty-eight educational institutions have been issued letters of intent for community radio service, while 23 such organizations have signed a licence agreement with the...
MUMBAI: The BBC and the Radio Independents Group (RIG) have agreed new Terms of Trade for commissioning radio programming from independents. The new terms apply to...
MUMBAI: Media stocks climbed steeply on Thursday, with companies involved in FM radio broadcasting the biggest advancers. The government today allowed the FM radio sector to...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), today gave the green signal for 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services with no entry...
MUMBAI: The BBC has launched the latest edition of its editorial guidelines, the corporation’s code of ethics for all BBC staff. The Corporation will introduce a...
MUMBAI: US media company Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) has announced that Charles Koppelman will be the chairman of the board of directors. Koppelman previously served...
MUMBAI: Jeremy Bowen has been appointed to the newly-created post of BBC Middle East Editor. He will take up his appointment after he leaves his current...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company (India) Pvt. Ltd. has appointed Shantanu Nalavadi as director of business development with immediate effect. This was announced by The Walt...
MUMBAI: The 30 th Radio and Television Advertising Practioners’ Association Award (RAPA) felicitated the best of content from the electronic media. These awards are conferred for...
MUMBAI: Nielsen Entertainment, which provides Actionable Entertainment Intelligence (AEI) in the US and BigChampagne Online Media Measurement, have entered into a strategic relationship. The two parties...
MUMBAI: Now you can download legally from the Internet. The BBC, Channel 4, the British Film Institute (BFI) and the Open University (OU) have launched the...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s attempts at using the Internet as an alternative means of delivering content to its viewers in the UK is gathering steam. The broadcaster...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has announced that its Learning English initiative has for the first time teamed up with China’s major universities for a multi-media English...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s international radio and online division has launched its biggest ever online marketing campaign for bbcnews.com. The campaign titled News for a non-stop world...
MUMBAI: After running a campaign seeking vital information to arrest international terrorist Osama bin Laden on Pakistani newspapers last month, the United States has now turned...
MUMBAI: BBC New Media in the UK has announced how it proposes to reallocate investment from its current online budget to help fund new broadband and...
MUMBAI: China has brought out new regulations for foreign investment, technology and expertise to promote the country’s broadcasting and film industry. Jointly issued by the State...
MUMBAI: The BBC faces a challenge in configuring the potential of digital media to support teachers in the UK in classrooms. Digital technology will, in the...
NEW DELHI: The government, today, stated there would be no rollback of foreign investment norms for the print medium, though a group of ministers (GoM) has...
MUMBAI: Shanghai Media Group (SMG) is geared to set up China’s second English-language satellite TV channel for foreign audiences. The other being the national broadcaster China...
MUMBAI: Sahara One is going for the jugular. Even as it has won the battle with Star TV on the One branding, it is now looking...
MUMBAI: An international committee is being established to investigate the dangers facing journalists around the world. The committee chaired by the BBC’s Global News division’s director...
MUMBAI: The last two sessions of the opening day of the Broadcast India 2004 (Technical) symposium saw different but very important topics being covered.. ...
The problem: Horlicks was perceived to be a fuddy-duddy brand amongst kids and it sought to transform itself into an exciting and vibrant brand. Research showed...
MUMBAI: Following the success of its three Asian versions of the news show SportsCenter , ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has now introduced a fourth edition. This...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The suspense continues for Zee Telefilms and ESPN Star Sports, the main title contenders for the biggest prize in Indian broadcast television today –...
MUMBAI: Sesame Workshop, whose India operations launched last week, plans to start airing its Indian content by December 2005. A research team comprising educators, media programmers...
MUMBAI: The eighteenth edition of the annual Independence Rock Show (I-Rock) held in Mumbai’s Rang Bhavan auditorium has found continued support from B4U Music channel and...
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...
NEW DELHI: The much-touted community radio broadcast service, which was announced with great fanfare by former information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Sushma Swaraj last year, is...
NEW DELHI: The issue of censorship on television cropped up in a different way today when members of a parliamentary panel expressed their concern at the...
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...
The fixed annual license fee (that escalates annually at the rate of 15 per cent) determined by the auction procedure in Phase-I of FM Licenses for...
BIRMINGHAM: Audiences want television and radio content to be regulated, but they can imagine a future in which a ‘multi-layered’ approach to regulating channels might be...
LONDON: The media is at par with mothers as a source of love and sex education as 66 per cent of young people say they learn...
BEIJING: China plans to make digital TV, popular because of its high-resolution images, available to everyone by 2010, the state media said. In seven years’...
MUMBAI: Although not in a big way, but the entertainment industry channels have started doing their bit for society. Radio also has adopted the do-gooders stance...
PARIS: Eutelsat and EADS Astrium have announced the signature of a contract for the construction the Hot Bird 8 broadcast satellite. This will be launched in...
CHICAGO: Media conglomerate Viacom’s president and COO Mel Karmazin will be inducted in the Radio Hall of Fame. Inductees were selected through a ballot process in...
MUMBAI: NumTV.com, one of the largest 24-hour live online multilingual entertainment portal for international Asians, has offered EAS (Easy Access System) to Indian broadcasters who are...
MUMBAI: Here is good news for the discerning music listener in Mumbai fed up of the non-stop Hindi pop being dished out on FM radio stations....
MUMBAI: Today is the day of reckoning for Star World as it unveils its new programming strategy. The niche English channel with international shows will now...
LONDON: In order to help the Iraqis cope with the severe trauma that came with Uncle Sam’s incessant attacks, the BBC World Service Trust will launch...
NEW DELHI: Finally the radio and TV licence fee issue has been laid to rest. There is no proposal to re-impose licence fee on television and...
MUMBAI: After news channels, its time for radio! Sahara Swar, the first satellite radio in Mumbai’s suburban trains, will start by July this year. ...
