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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...
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: Star India, the Indian arm of Rupert Murdoch’s pan-Asian television venture Star Group Pvt Ltd, has drawn up some ambitious plans for 2004, which...
MUMBAI: Has Tarun Katial, Star India’s senior vice-president, programming, content and communication, put in his papers following his transfer to Star Asia’s head office in Hong...
MUMBAI: Has Tarun Katial, Star India’s senior vice-president, programming, content and communication, put in his papers following his transfer to Star Asia’s head office in Hong...
MUMBAI: Keertan Adyanthaya, Star India’s vice president content & communication for Channel [V], has moved on to take over as brand director, Star News. Amar Deb,...
Her week never ends. You will find the Balaji head in her office on Sundays too. “Now that I have a public limited company in television...
There was a time when advertisers in India took BBC World, and CNN, as foreign news channels that ‘also’ beamed into India. But over the years,...
MUMBAI: Cable operators in Mumbai are up in arms and have rejected the 11 July 2003 government notification that sought to modify the manner in which...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Professional marketing in the business of entertainment is the need of the hour! That was the core theme at the Ad Club’s one-day seminar on ‘value...
NEW DELHI: After the government ‘s summer offer in the form of slashed duties on import of set top boxes, it’s the turn of the broadcasters...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The government today offered a significant concession to the pay broadcasters on the issue of their channel pricing by giving them some...
Makers of software for the television industry will be among those to be hit by reduced budgets and a demand for more quality programming once CAS...
In this concluding part of a two-part interview with indiantelevision.com’s Thomas Abraham, Star India COO Sameer Nair does some straight talking on programming issues. Excerpts: When...
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...
Keertan Adyanthaya, Star India’s vice president content & communication for Channel [V], will soon complete his first anniversary with the organisation. It’s been quite a journey...
2002 will certainly be different. That was what the competition were convinced would be the case at the start of the year. And why not? Kaun...
MUMBAI: After having established a stronghold among the female audience with soaps like Kyunki…..and Kahaani….. Star Plus is now gearing up to lure the youth. Shararath...
MUMBAI: Kaalki , the first special effects-based show from the Balaji stable, might finally see the light of day after the World Cup. The show was...
MUMBAI: The Advertising Club Bombay’s Value Creation seminar on marketing entertainment and their growing inter-dependence gave glimpses of the future of film production in India and...
NEW DELHI: Star India today indicated that it is not afraid of cricket eating into its viewership base, even as it announced a series of new...
MUMBAI: Star chief operating officer Sameer Nair is one of the Indo-American Society’s Young Achievers of the year 2002. The annual award ceremony will be held...
MUMBAI:Star News India has won the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) Award conferred jointly by UNICEF and International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (IATA...
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...
Deepti Bhatnagar’s career started with modeling, one that became an instant success. Her subsequent venture into acting however did not yield the same fruit. It was...
MUMBAI: Amitabh Bachchan is returning to Star Plus. The channel, which plans to bring the superstar back to the small screen early in 2002, is testing...
MUMBAI: Amitabh Bachchan is returning to Star Plus. The channel, which plans to bring the superstar back to the small screen early in 2002, is testing...
Watch out the [V] machine is coming. That is the message that the Star Network’s music channel is sending out to its rivals, principally MTV. Channel...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Federation, which met in Hyderabad on Friday, discussed the issue of conditional access system, amongst other things, and has decided to...
Zee Telefilms’ aggressive no holds barred campaign to convince advertisers and media planners that its shows Jeena Issi Ka Naam Hai (JIKNH) and Khelo Number Khelo...
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...
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...
This is a channel, which is crackling – crackling with electrifying programming. And if it does not regain its rightful place at the top of the...
This is the second installment of Anil Wanvari‘s three-part interview with Sameer Nair, executive vice-president, content and communications, Star India where in a really free-flowing account,...
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...
Programming head Sameer Nair had let it slip some time in December last that Star might at some point consider taking its Kaun Banega Crorepati gameshow...
