MUMBAI: have become the prime medium for video consumption. As per the reports sent by sonyliv.com, 53 per cent of viewers watch videos on their mobile...
MUMBAI: From 9:30 pm onwards this independence day, Sony Entertainment Television has ambitions to gives to its viewers a breath of fresh air. How? Well! One,...
MUMBAI: Remember the “Unwanted” girl who goes on to win Kaun Banega Crorepati? The power of knowledge (Sirf Gyaan Hi Aapko Aapka Haq Dilata Hai) helped...
NEW DELHI: Time Warner Cable (TWC) has made available its TWC TV application on compatible Samsung Smart TVs to enable customers to see television without a...
Nitesh Kripalani is a man on a mission. His weapons: a MacBook Pro, a high tech smartphone and a 3G internet connection. His battleground: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube...
MUMBAI: It‘s not only Gayle, Bravo and Pollard who have been hitting the maximum in the sixth season of the Indian Premier League. Sony Max has...
MUMBAI: RCN, the all-digital cable, internet and phone provider in New York City, has added Sony Entertainment Television (Set) Asia as part of its 100 per...
MUMBAI: Hindi general entertainment channel Sony Entertainment Television (SET) Asia has signed a multi-year TV essentials contract with Rentrak, the multi-screen media measurement service provider, for...
MUMBAI: Sony Mix, Multi Screen Media‘s (MSM) Hindi music channel, has launched on leading US direct-broadcast satellite service provider, Dish Network. Moving into the gap created...
MUMBAI: A battle royale is set to take place in the Karnataka High Court tomorrow. On the one hand are national and Karnataka‘s multi system operators...
MUMBAI: It’s hoping to hit the jackpot itself. Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is looking at more than doubling its advertising revenues from its flagship reality game...
Sony reaps IPL rewards for innovation, concerted effort The Indian Premier League‘s success has exceeded everybody‘s expectations, including that of broadcast rights holder MSM India‘s...
MUMBAI: Riding high on the ICC cricket World Cup wave, SET Discovery expects to garner a revenue of Rs 4.5 billion in 2006-07. This would mean...
MUMBAI: In an attempt to sort out its declining fortunes, Sony has decided to ride the comeback wave. The channel brought in CID, Aahaat and even...
NEW DELHI: The hearing on the constitutional aspects of the ongoing case on whether Trai can at all fix tariffs for pay channels continued today. Set...
MUMBAI: Consumer elctronics firm Panasonic and US cable major Comcast have announced that they will begin joint testing on an interactive digital cable-ready high-definition plasma television...
MUMBAI: The American version The Ugly Betty or the original Colombian show Yo Soy Betty La Fea or the Indianised version Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin has...
MUMBAI: Acting on expected lines, broadcasters have finally taken legal recourse against the Rs 5 tariff that the sector regulator had set as the price for...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment India (SET) India senior VP and programming head Anupama Mandloi has resigned. After a nine-and-a-half-year stint at the flagship channel SET, Mandloi officially...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) India is gearing up full on for the Champions Trophy in October and the World Cup in West Indies early next...
MUMBAI: Last year around this time, Star India’s young launch Star One was enjoying a successful run in the market. Properties such as The Great Indian...
MUMBAI: It’s now official. The Sony-Discovery One Alliance today announced a distribution tie-up with India’s first direct-to-home service Dish TV to carry their channels. The announcement...
MUMBAI: OpenTV Corp. a provider of enabling technologies for advanced digital television services has announced a multi-year license agreement with Time Warner Cable to deploy the...
Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has denied that Calcutta-based cable TV operator RPG Netcom has switched off AXN, a channel it distributes in India, a claim the...
In business as in life, timing is everything. And despite all the expected noises from the government (state elections are due in Kolkata after all) and...
It was one piece of news that cable TV networks were waiting to hear for long, too long in actual fact! Buffeted by potential competition...
After two years, finally, some light ahead on the narrative television sightscreen? Hindi entertainment certainly needs it. 24 April will witness the launch of five new...
Sony has set its sights on leading prime time ratings every Friday with innovative fare. To this effect it has announced the launch of two shows...
MUMBAI: Its prime time reshuffle at Sony Entertainment Television (SET) India. In a bid to get some traction going for its tent pole property Indian Idol,...
MUMBAI: Thailand prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s family has sold its 49.6 per cent stake in the telecom company Shin Corp. to Singapore’s Temasek Holdings. In its...
MUMBAI: “We will not buy a Big Brother, which will not at all work in India.” So said Sony Entertainment Television (SET) India CEO Kunal Dasgupta...
MUMBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) Full member countries will meet in Karachi on 12 January to discuss the issue of television rights in India. Representatives...
This is one of such rare occasions when all players in the entertainment industry vie for the maximum eyeballs.Speaking about television‘s programming strategy for the New...
MUMBAI: After launching NDTV 24×7 in Canada recently, the Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) has launched three more channels on Canada’s digital satellite service provider...
After FremantleMedia, it’s now Who Wants To Be a Millionaire format rights holders Endemol N.V. to set shop in India. The company announced its first subsidiary...
MUMBAI: Zee TV is locking horns with Sony Entertainment Television (SET) in the gameshow space. The channel will telecast its big-ticket gameshow Kam ya Zyaada Monday...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is looking at re-positioning the “only smiles no tears” comedy channel Sab TV as a “light” general entertainment channel (GEC) targeting...
CANNES: Buena Vista International Television Asia Pacific, the distribution arm of Walt Disney Television International, does things in twos it looks like. BVIT-AP has just announced...
MUMBAI: UK satellite operator BSkyB is close to buying high-speed internet provider Easynet, media reports indicate. The telcom firm has invested heavily in providing broadband services...
MUMBAI: After the Murdochs, Eisners and Igers of the world, it’s now time for Sony Corp’s first non-Japanese chairman and CEO Howard Stringer to come on...
MUMBAI: The stage is set for the 21st edition of the television event Mipcom. The event takes kicks off on 17 October and runs till 21...
MUMBAI: Sahara India Mass Communication Ltd will unveil its Hindi movie channel Filmy on 25 October. With the entry that coincides with Diwali, Sahara One expects...
MUMBAI: Market research group Analysys International has predicted that Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) will become the next global industry, with a potential market of 200 billion...
MUMBAI: Toronto-headquartered Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) has received regulatory approval to add Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia), to the list of eligible satellite...
When it rains, it pours. Just as Mumbai’s television industry was in the process of picking up the pieces left after the ravages of last Tuesday’s...
MUMBAI: Hungama TV’s first mini marathon for kids, Surf Excel Hungamathon, is ready to roll on 23 October in Mumbai. Apart from Total Sports & Entertainment...
Great gambler! If there is one head honcho in the broadcast business on whom that title sits well, it is without doubt the broad-girthed chief executive...
MUMBAI: Panchali Chakraverty, who was earlier with SET India’s movies and events channel Max handling movie acquisitions, has joined Sahara One Motion Pictures as head of...
MUMBAI: It’s now official. Anuj Gandhi, senior V-P sales and marketing, has replaced Shantonu Aditya as president of SET Discovery. Confirming a development first put out...
MUMBAI: SET Discovery president Shantonu Aditya, who quit the company last week, takes charge as chief executive officer of Sahara India Entertainment Management Co Ltd (SIEMCL)...