Cricket, cricket and cricket. That is the exciting scorecard SET India will have for display in the fiscal 2006-07. A lineup of eight sponsors that is...
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has laid out a fertile ground for digital cable TV take off. The formula is simple: price everything low...
His is a tale that is not just about multiplexes. E-City Investments and Holdings chief Atul Goel is hooking up a film exhibition, distribution and digital...
Cable and direct-to-home (DTH) is where Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) chairman Subhash Chandra is planning to put the accelerator on. Wire and Wireless India Ltd (WWIL),...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS), a monopoly in satellite sports broadcasting for years, has found challengers like Ten Sports, Max and Zee Sports with cricket content being...
Adlabs Films Ltd is Anil Ambani’s first big catch in the entertainment arena: Rs 3.6 billion for a 51 per cent stake. Moving rapidly to arm...
When Zee Telefilms director Punit Goenka was appointed Zee TV business head in September this year, the industry by and large considered it a conscious decision...
When Subroto Roy announced last year his commitment to infuse a whopping Rs 15 billion for a makeover of his entertainment and media business, he was...
For the cable operators in India, there is much to learn from Taiwan. The industry, which was unorganised, has undergone changes: consolidation, network upgradation, and a...
When it comes to India, CLSA’s media and entertainment investment banking head Simon Dewhurst has a pretty good handle on the dynamics at work in the...
B4U Television Network has chalked out a revival plan. The company has paid carriage fee to cable operators, visibility of its two channels has improved, and...
A wave of consolidation is sweeping the satellite sector. The latest in a series of mergers and acquisitions is the announcement that Intelsat Ltd. would buy...
MTV Networks India is eyeing growth through acquisitions, be it in the area of local language TV channels, radio, print, production facilities and digital media. And...
Kalanithi Maran is getting ready for his next big project. The Sun Network chairman and managing director has applied for a license to operate a direct-to-home...
When Adhikari brothers floated Sab TV, they had the vision of growing from a pure content to a broadcasting company. But facing competition from biggies like...
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...
Sunil Rohra, who took over as B4U Network’s global chief executive officer in November, was recently in India to formulate a business plan. Based out of...
UTV founder-promoter Ronnie Screwvala has shown again and again that he is a smart dealmaker. He got a string of private equity funds and News Corp....