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NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The $ 24 billion News Corporation COO, Peter Chernin, came, saw and will be going back from India more or less satisfied. On a...
MUMBAI: News Corp’s Asian arm Star’s first quarter FY 2006 operating income has declined versus a year ago as revenue growth of 22 per cent, primarily...
MUMBAI: On the last day (today) of a week-long auction on eBay, the public is yet to whet up a serious appetite for the offer of...
NEW DELHI: In the November of 2004 when Star India COO Sameer Nair told his colleagues that wait for a year and Star One channel would...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate News Corp has said that its chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch received a salary of $4.5 million and a bonus of $18.9...
India is emerging as the only country where so many direct-to-home (DTH) service providers have expressed their intent to join the race. Tata Sky Ltd, a...
MUMBAI: Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes has been appointed to the additional position of chairman of Fox Television Stations, which includes Twentieth Television, producer of...
With a nearly seven-million strong subscriber base, Siti Cable should have been ideally sitting pretty with a permanent smile pasted on the faces of the executives...
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: Subhash Chandra and partner-turned-rival Rupert Murdoch are at loggerheads again. News Corp promoted Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation has moved the Delhi High Court, challenging...
MUMBAI: Three years after it was given the unceremonious heave-ho for “infringing” state broadcasting rules, BBC is eyeing a return to China with the launch of...
MUMBAI: Nielsen Media Research’s plan to introduce peoplemeters has upset several broadcast networks in the US including Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Their grouse: the metres will...
Space TV CEO Vikram Kaushik is a cautious person and knowing the controversial nature of the the company’s proposed DTH venture, he’s been extra cautious. A...
MUMBAI: In what could be construed as a move towards self-sufficiency, Star News is absorbing professionals from outside. While its marketing head has quit, the engineering...
Star News has always been under a canopy of controversy from the time the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star group took control of the news channel after divorcing...
MUMBAI: The name has been fixed, and so has the launch date (at least targeted). The Bengali news channel from the ABP Group-Rupert Murdoch stable, Star...
MUMBAI: As the clock ticks for the launch of the Bengali news channel from the ABP Group-Rupert Murdoch stable, a name has been zeroed on. The...
MUMBAI: The Bengali new year, 15 April, has good news for, who else but, Bengalis. A proposed Bengali channel from the ABP Group-Rupert Murdoch combine is...
MUMBAI: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is looking at focusing at the Internet space with renewed vigour. In a meeting with the top American editors of various...
MUMBAI: The ministry of company affairs has not come out openly in support of the information and broadcasting ministry’s contentions on Space TV. Preferring to lob...
MUMBAI: The Dubai-headquartered Geo TV, flagship channel of the Pakistan-based Jang group of media companies, has decided to shift from a single channel entity to being...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-controlled Zee Network, India’s largest vertically integrated media company, today announced that it would “soon launch” an English language global news network...
MUMBAI: While Viacom is looking at splitting its business into two separate publicly-traded companies, the Rupert Murdoch owned media conglomerate News Corp is not looking at...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: It’s been five years since media mogul Rupert Murdoch last visited India, and much has changed in the interim. The biggest of...
Though not exactly an Indian Idol watcher, I took to watching the show towards the fag end just when the whole world around me seemed to...
NEW DELHI: Its now official. News Corp chairman and media czar Rupert Murdoch is coming on his fifth visit to India in the second half of...
NEW DELHI: The Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group, News Corps pan-Asian venture, is expected to clock a profit of over $ 100 million for financial year (FY)...
NEW DELHI: In an effort to live up to its promise of ‘aapko rakhe aage’ (keeping the viewers interest in mind), which also is indicative of...
Hollywood film distribution companies have found the going tough in India, a market which has stood firm on local tastes and preferences. Rupert Murdoch’s 20th Century...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch owned News Corp. has reported second quarter consolidated revenues of $6.6 billion, which is an 18 per cent increase over the $5.6 billion...
A few years ago an Indian business newspaper had profiled Subhash Chandra as the Entrepreneur of the Year soon after he bought out Rupert Murdoch in...
17. AVEEK SARKAR, OWNER-PUBLISHER ANAND BAZAR PATRIKA GROUP For putting his stamp of authority on Star News and planning launch of a Bengali news channel on...
The year gone by achieved a significant benchmark in the television media space. Whether one talks about the burst of different genres of television channels or...
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murdoch owned US broadcaster Fox is under pressure to abandon a scheduled adoption game showWho’s Your Daddy? Thousands of people have protested at...
MUMBAI: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has finally cleared a proposal for Star Group’s acquisition of up to 26 per cent stake in Balaji Telefilms...
MUMBAI: Media moghul and billionaire chairman of News Corp Rupert Murdoch has, according to agency reports, offered to buy a penthouse in New York’s upscale Manhattan...
MUMBAI: One more of Britains crown jewel sports is set to fall completely off UKs terrestrial television map and into the all-encompassing embrace of BSkyB. The...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan wants to travel to the UK to woo TV audiences of Indian diaspora, but doesnt have the requisite fund of its...
MUMBAI: Shortly after signing a deal with Disney to distribute its channels in India, the Rupert Murdoch owned broadcaster Star has renewed a multi-year agreement with...
MUMBAI: Fox Entertainment Group executive vice president business development and strategy Rich Battista has been appointed as Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. as chief executive officer. Battista...
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murdoch owned media conglomerate News Corp has named Jack Abernethy as Fox Stations CEO. Abernethy previously served as Fox News executive VP. The...
MUMBAI: The Viacom owned CBS network is going from strength to strength. It has come out on top for November in the 18-49 demographic for the...
MUMBAI: Shortly after signing a deal with Disney to distribute its channels in India, the Rupert Murdoch owned broadcaster Star has renewed a multi-year agreement with...
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murdoch owned broadcaster Fox in the US will premiere the fourth season of its music based reality show American Idol on 18 January...
NEW DELHI: It seems that the Tata-Star combine may have to wait for some more time before it can lay its hands on a letter of...
MUMBAI: This is a unique way of cross promoting a show using the mobile. In conjunction with the fourth season premiere of Fox’s drama series 24...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Ltd. Today took preventive action in a bid to insulate itself against any hostile bid from the US cable company Liberty...
MUMBAI: The Simpsons, Fox’s animated series will kick off its 16th season on Sunday in the US. In India the show airs on Star World. To...
MUMBAI: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch must be one happy man. If the brilliant first quarter results his News Corp has just delivered were not enough, that...
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murdoch owned media conglomerate News Corporation has announced that Arthur M. Siskind will retire as group general counsel at the end of the...
