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SINGAPORE: The excitement was palpable at the opening of the Asia Media Festival in Singapore this morning. The hustle and bustle of TV and animation professionals...
MUMBAI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) and CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets today announced the results of CLSAs independent assessment of the cost of...
Times are busy for HBO. The channel recently claimed to have emerged as the number one English movie channel this year. Quoting Tam data for...
MUMBAI: BBC World claims that it sustains the greatest audience loyalty post-Iraq war. Quoting the latest results from the Pan Asia Cross Media Survey (PAX), BBC...
MUMBAI: It may be struggling to build up viewer cachet in India but Nickelodeon India will nonetheless participate in a global initiative – Worldwide Play of...
MUMBAI: Zee is kicking off its Telugu campaign tonight with the launch of its Telugu channel Alpha Telugu. The channel will start beaming from 8 pm...
MUMBAI: International sports market research firm, Sports Marketing Surveys has expanded its presence into South East Asia by opening an office in Singapore. Complementing...
MUMBAI: Singapore’s dominant cable platform StarHub and ESPN Star Sports have finally struck a deal guaranteeing live coverage of English Premier League football. SCV and ESPN...
NEW DELHI: ASC Enterprise’s Dish TV, country’s first KU-band DTH service, has signed an exclusive deal with ABC Asia Pacific, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s free-to-air international...
MUMBAI: One of the leading dailies reported today that market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has initiated an investigation into the insider trading...
MUMBAI: Broadcast Worldwide’s regional language channel Tara Bangla plans to expand into satellite radio. The channel will be transmitting its audio feed through the radio channel....
MUMBAI: Zee Network, which launched a dedicated beam of Zee TV for Singapore on 1 June, is now concentrating on getting Zee Cinema launched in the...
MUMBAI: Judging for the semi-final round of the International Emmy awards for the Asia/Africa region in the children and young people and drama categories has come...
MUMBAI: Samsung Electronics has announced the second consecutive year of its largest Asian social program — Samsung DigitAll Hope. The company plans to contribute $1.05 million...
MUMBAI : Disney has extended the reach of its pre school channel Playhouse Disney in Asia. The broadcaster has announced that the channel has been launched...
MUMBAI: The Los Angeles-based producer and distributor of entertainment news and lifestyle-related programming E! Networks is aggressively pursuing its South East Asia expansion plans. The channel...
MUMBAI: This is an initiative through which ESPN Star Sports (ESS) is hoping to connect further with the Indian expat population in Singapore. The broadcaster and...
MUMBAI: Ajay Patadia, former Balaji Telefilms president has taken the entrepreneurial plunge. The 29-year-old has teamed up with Prima Entertainment, a South East Asian media company,...
MUMBAI: Asia’s premier electronic media event BroadcastAsia2004 will be held in Singapore from 15 – 18 June. Themed Redefining Broadcasting, BroadcastAsia2004 will encompass the entire spectrum...
MUMBAI: The Singapore government has earmarked a further US$37.8 million for a media development fund over the next five years. The money will be used mainly...
MUMBAI: Looks like Zee English is taking a page out of AXN’s notebook. The Subhash Chandra broadcaster will go through a major programming shift this year,...
MUMBAI: There is no word still on when Disney will make its India debut but there is action happening elsewhere in Asia. Preschool educational ‘Playhouse Disney...
MUMBAI: If you place a call to Singapore’s MediaCorp hq, you’d better be armed with this report. The multimedia firm has gone in for a sweeping...
MUMBAI: Bringing professionalism into industry, that is what UTV aspires to bring about. In a bid to bolster its strength as a production and distribution house,...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has launched CASBAA Fast Facts 2004 handbook, a 92-page digest of regional pay-TV data highlighting the...
MUMBAI: Singapore Exhibition Services (SES) and the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) have announced the Infocomm Media Business Exchange (imbX) which will be held from 14-18...
MUMBAI: The shareholders of Zee Telefilms have approved the issue of $100 million foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) on the Singapore Stock Exchange. The shareholders’ nod...
MUMBAI: The fifth International Indian Film Academy (IIFA), the annual convergence of stalwarts of Indian cinema and stars from the reel world, will this year have...
MUMBAI: One of the major television events in the region BroadcastAsia2004 takes place at a time when region prepares itself for a wave of digitisation in...
MUMBAI: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) and pan-Asian telecommunications services provider Asia Netcom have announced a strategic partnership to enhance our connectivity to the Asia Pacific...
MUMBAI: Frontrunner music channel MTV is setting its sights south of the Vindhyas, even as struggling sibling kids channel Nickelodeon is set to make the switch...
MUMBAI: The Star Group is expanding and how! It today announced that Star Chinese Movies will be launched in Singapore on StarHub CableTV Channel 62 on...
MUMBAI: Former Channel News Asia presenter Vidya Shankar Aiyar lost a sexual harassment case in Singapore yesterday. District judge Victor Yeo sentenced him to 16 months’...
MUMBAI: Twenty-four-hour news and information network CNN International has been named the ‘Cable and Satellite Channel of the Year’ at the 8th Asian TV Awards ceremony,...
MUMBAI: Twenty-four-hour news and information network CNN International has been named the ‘Cable and Satellite Channel of the Year’ at the 8th Asian TV Awards ceremony,...
MUMBAI: Ever since his promotion in early October, Steve Askew has been functioning as chief operating officer (COO) of Star Group Ltd, in all but name....
MUMBAI: Turner India managing director Anshuman Misra is all set to take on additional responsibilities to manage Turner’s distribution and content sales in South East Asia....
MUMBAI: Nickelodeon’s Spongebob Squarepants Bikini Bottom Bash is all set for a world premier at Singapore on 28 November 2003 after which it will be open...
MUMBAI: While stage is being set for the first ever MTV India music awards IMMIES, MTV Asia is gearing up for the 2004 MTV Asia Awards...
NEW YORK: Bloomberg Television has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the First Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards For Business and Financial Reporting. ...
MUMBAI: Ashok Kumar Goel, the youngest of the four Goel brothers after Subhash Chandra, Laxmi Goel and Jawahar Goel, has been appointed vice-chairman and managing director...
NEW DELHI: National Geographic Channel (NGC) has announced the launch of a global production unit in Singapore in 2004, to take advantage of the huge documentary...
MUMBAI: The latest Pan Asia Cross Media Survey (PAX 2002/03 suggests that CNN’s audiences earned US$79.9 billion in the past year. According to the study posted...
Purchase of high-end products among elite consumers in Asia has shown an increasing trend, according to Synovate Pax – a survey conducted by global market research...
SINGAPORE: Star’s music channel Channel (V) is looking to gain a firm foothold in Singapore with the help of its show Channel [V] Smash Hits which...
MUMBAI: Singapore Exhibition Services (SES) today announced that it would host three comprehensive technology tradeshows in Singapore next year: BroadcastAsia 2004, CommunicAsia 2004 and EnterpriseIT 2004....
SINGAPORE: The action oriented AXN is growing viewer cachet in the Far East. According to Nielsen Media Research, the channel from Sony Pictures Television International’s (SPTI)...
MUMBAI: If its News Corp company Global Cricket Corporation (GCC) that is claiming damages from the International Cricket Council (ICC) for non-delivery of various rights and...
MUMBAI: Looks like reality bags awards. BAG films production’s serial Haqeeqat, based on human rights cases, has bagged two Rapa awards for the year 2003, says...
HONG KONG: The Star Group has announced the promotion of Michelle Guthrie to executive vice-president, regional distribution and business development. She reports to the president and...
