Rakhi Tandon shot into prominence as the chirpy, imbecilic teenager in the TRP buster Hum Paanch five years ago. While she continues to be as vivacious,...
MUMBAI: If last year was a stellar year for Balaji Telefilms Ltd, this year promises to be no less on the financial front. Balaji is targeting...
MUMBAI: There may be a cloud hanging over the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy but programming preparations at SET MAX, which is telecasting the event to C&S...
In 1995 when ESPN came to India, not many had thought that it would become a force to reckon with where sports’ broadcasting was concerned. And...
MUMBAI: Balaji is set to bolster Sony’s weekend programming with a ‘socio thriller’ mini series that kicks off this Friday. Kya Haadsa Kya Haqeeqat hopes to...
MUMBAI: Indian kids fled Zee TV ever since it lost the Disney animation block to Sony Entertainment and replaced it with Nickelodeon programming. Somehow it seemed...
MUMBAI: It’s early days no doubt. But the first week’s TAM ratings of Sony Entertainment’s matchmaking blockbuster show hosted by Bollywood screen siren Madhuri Dixit, Kahin...
MUMBAI: It’s early days no doubt. But the first week’s TAM ratings of Sony Entertainment’s matchmaking blockbuster show hosted by Bollywood screen siren Madhuri Dixit, Kahin...
Tony D’Silva is an old hand in the distribution business. And when Star India hired the former head of international operations at Zee Telefilms, as executive...
Sony Entertainment Television has secured the cable and satellite television rights for all ICC-designated One-Day cricket for the next seven years, which includes the next two...
It’s not only Sony Entertainment that is bidding to push sporting spectacle on its entertainment channels. If Sony will be pushing ICC cricket on its SET...
Sony Entertainment Television has announced the world television premiere of Salaam Namaste on Sunday 21 May 2006, at 8 pm. A Yash Raj Films production Salaam...
Six months after former Sony Entertainment International president Michael Grindon initiated a “rightsizing exercise” in Sony Entertainment Television that swept away a number of high profile...
Six months after former Sony Entertainment International president Michael Grindon initiated a “rightsizing exercise” in Sony Entertainment Television that swept away a number of high profile...
Taking over at a time when issues like the conditional access loomed large over the pay channels’ horizon and Sony Entertainment’s tom-tomming over the cricket World...
Ratings are important but there is a lot more to media planning and buying than just GRPs (gross rating points) and CPRPs (cost per rating points)....
“Everyone is talking to everyone.” That was all Lalit Modi, vice-chairman and president, Modi Entertainment Network, would offer other than a “no comments” when asked about...
MUMBAI: Action channel AXN is keeping the thrill seekers firmly in its sights. Ready to roll are three new series – Fear Factor, Scariest Places on Earth and David Blaine....
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment’s programming strategy is clear. Keep launching new shows at regular intervals and make sure the shows are consistently different. The 9 to 10...
The clock is ticking for the entry of a new ratings currency. Market research agency ORG Marg’s Intam data, the older of the two established ratings...
Take Percept Advertising into the Top Ten in the next five years. That is the brief that former Sony Entertainment No: 2 and new CEO Rajesh...
The malaise of executive departures, which has hit other broadcasters such as Sony Entertainment, and Zee TV, seems to have made it to Star India’s doors...
Star India, Indian cable & satellite’s “price driver,” today announced a major hike in its monthly subscription rates, effective January, from the current Rs 30 to...
It’s all about strategy. If Zee tried the “its raining serials” approach as part of its relaunch, Sony Entertainment believes in building the brand “brick by...
Spread the message is what it is all about. AXN is aggressively pushing its brand through its celebrated Need That Buzz? ad campaign. Consisting mainly of...
In House Productions is in a fever of activity these days. Flinging itself seriously into the TV software race, it has branched out into all kinds...
Sony Entertainment, the flagship channel of the SET network, celebrated its sixth 6th anniversary yesterday and CEO Kunal Dasgupta asserts it is as good a time...
As senior V-P programming and production Rekha Nigam gets ready to clear her desk over the next few days, the reports coming out of Sony Entertainment...
Hardly had the dust settled on the bombshell that programming head Rekha Nigam was leaving Sony Entertainment Television, its head office in Mumbai’s Andheri suburb had...
The rumours have been doing the rounds for a while now about an impending shakeout in Sony Entertainment Television. It began today. Senior V-P programming and...
The toothless tiger is attempting to bare its teeth. The Indian Broadcasting Foundation – a representative body of a small but powerful interest group of...
After a long while in which Sony Entertainment seemed to be in hibernation while the Zees and the Stars did all the running, the channel today...
It’s not just cricket series that SET MAX, the movies and cricket channel from the Sony Entertainment stable, is lining up for viewers. Launching tomorrow, every...
The battle for the No 4 slot in the general Hindi entertainment channel sweepstakes is hotting up. Sahara TV has refocused itself and is readying for...
It takes one cine star to get not just one, but a host of them to add glamour and fun to television viewing. And that’s what...
The television industry has dismissed Sahara TV as a lost cause. Eyes have mainly been on Star, Zee and Sony Entertainment. However, if the aggressive stance...
Moved but not shaken is Shekhar Suman, former anchor of Sony Entertainment’s hit talk show Movers and Shakers. Suman is all set to get back to...
Five new soaps and a handful of in-house produced shows. That’s the first of Zee TV’s artillery as it starts its offensive against Star Plus and...