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NEW DELHI: Sell, sell and sell more to get out of debt. Dispose off those businesses that are either not profitable or where the shareholding is...
NEW DELHI: The new year has brought with it a wave of new appointments at various media companies, be it at Star, Sony or Zee. Yesterday...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati today announced that Indian Administrative Service officers Naveen Kumar and Brajeshwar Singh have been appointed the director-generals of Doordarshan and All India...
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...
MUMBAI: As an answer to MTV’s dominant music video and pop culture programming, leading record label company Universal Music Group is planning to launch a music...
NEW DELHI: It is not only the likes of Star News, CNBC-TV18 and Zee News that have to restructure their shareholding pattern to comply with 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...
NEW YORK: It promises to be a one-of-a-kind show for Rupert Murdoch’s Fox and could very well bring in bumper ratings that flatten the competition. Fans...
NEW YORK: Media and Entertainment honchos from New York and Los Angeles will raise a glass to News Corporation president and COO Peter Chernin when he...
MUMBAI: Star Group announced a new CEO this morning: Michelle Guthrie who was earlier executive vice president of Regional Distribution and Business Development for Star. She...
ADELAIDE: Rupert Murdoch said on Wednesday that his sons will have to face a long wait before taking over at the helm of his global media...
52-year old Peter Chernin does not come across like your typical media CEO. No flamboyance, no arrogance, no showing off. Just a regular business guy. The...
NEW YORK: John Malone’s entertainment group Liberty Media has exercised its right under a March 2003 agreement to buy US $500 million of News Corp preferred...
NEW DELHI: Star may have decided to play it down where Star News and its proposed DTH venture were concerned, but on the Radio City, its...
LOS ANGELES: There is too much damn cursing on American television these days! Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) may be drawing women towards AXN in India but...
MUMBAI: The “Asian” star continues its ascent. Star chairman and CEO James Murdoch looks set to have another attachment to his title – chairman of British...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation Ltd’s subsidiary companies have been granted exemption by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) from making an open offer...
MUMBAI: Princell Hair has been named US chief of CNN’s news operations, replacing Teya Ryan, who has quit the company after a long spell of speculation...
NEW YORK: Production for a Popeye 3-D computer-animated TV and home video special has commenced, to celebrate the cartoon character’s 75th anniversary next year, King Features...
MUMBAIi: Is CAS happening or not? That’s a question which is on the top of many minds in the cable and satellite industry. But it doesn’t...
MUMBAI: “A record end to a record year. The most profitable fourth quarter ever and the most profitable year in our company’s 80 years of existence.”...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is examining complaints regarding Music Broadcast Pvt. Ltd. (MBPL) being indirectly promoted and controlled by the Rupert Murdoch-owned Star Group. This...
NEW DELHI:The Indian government today said that it received another set of replies from Star News to queries including those on editorial control of the channel...
NEW DELHI: Star News may get a shot in the arm from a section of the government as the department of company affairs (DCA) feels the...
NEW DELHI: A delegation of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the regulator for Internet, telecom and broadcasting in the US, will discuss with Indian government officials...
MUMBAI: There is a shift in positions in the just released annual top 100 list of UK based publication MediaGuardian. Last year, News Corp CEO Rupert...
HONG KONG: Rupert Murdoch’s Star Group is looking to make further inroads into China. The broadcaster and Chinese wireless value-added services provider Linktone Consulting have joined...
LONDON: The litigation between News Corp’s NDS and Canal Plus may have been resolved earlier this year but Rupert Murdoch still has a fight on his...
MUMBAI: SET’s packaging, channel ID and on air look won kudos at the 25th annual BDA Design Awards at a ceremony in Los Angeles on 6...
MUMBAI: While in India there may be much uncertainty around how conditional access will affect business, for cable ops, satellite platform operators, equipment suppliers and content...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government may open up FM radio sector to news and current affairs programming as also the content being provided by a foreign...
In his late twenties, ASC Enterprises Ltd’s group president and CEO Punit Goenka is not one of those high-profile, page three-type executives. Surprising, because he heads...
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...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: A little over a month after the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry issued a letter of intent (LoI) relating to the DTH...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government came in for flak from a certain section of policy makers in the Upper House (Rajya Sabha) of the Indian parliament...
MUMBAI: The gloves are off. Literally. The irrepressible founder of CNN Ted Turner has called his pet hate of long standing Rupert Murdoch a warmonger for...
MUMBAI: Computer generated image (CGI) technology has made a major impression on the silver screen over the last couple of years. Shrek won Dreamworks an Oscar....
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system is forcing various stakeholders of the industry to go in for initiatives that were not on the top of their priority...
NEW DELHI: The issue of standardisation of set-top boxes for KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service continues to be a thorny issue contributing to a delay in...
MUMBAI: The timing was certainly apt. As American-led forces marched into Baghdad, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire News Corp, which has made no bones about it’s unambiguous...
MUMBAI: From today, Channel [V] is wholly a Star subsidiary. The Hong Kong-based Star TV, a unit of media baron Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Ltd, today...
MUMBAI: It could be the fact that the US-led invasion of Iraq is not quite according to script, but viewers in America seem to be losing...
MUMBAI: AOL Time Warner has announced that its Mandarin-language China Entertainment Television Broadcast (CETV) channel has won a limited nationwide broadcast licence. CETV will be...
BRUSSELS: The European Union has given Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp the go ahead for buying Italian pay-TV firm Telepiu from Vivendi Universal. A new entity Sky...
NEW DELHI: Close on the heels of the government giving a 90-day reprieve to Star News under a Transitory Arrangement clause in the new guidelines for...
MUMBAI: Media baron Rupert Murdoch has been, thus far, known as the biggest share holder of NewsCorp. Turns out that he shall not be the title-holder...
LONDON: Rupert Murdoch has strengthened the Murdoch family presence on the board of BSkyB by appointing his son non executive director. 30 year old James Murdoch...
NEW YORK: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has done well in the fourth quarter of 2002; thanks to video and DVD sales of its Oscar nominated animated...
The 50-something president of NDTV, Prannoy Roy, is not only his competitors’ envy and the idol of millions of Indian youngsters aspiring to make it as...
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...
