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MUMBAI: Next month, Star World will air the felicitation ceremony of the original James Bond, Sir Sean Connery, with a lifetime achievement award from The American...
MUMBAI: Until now India was not as important a market for Sony Pictures Entertainment’s (SPE) anime channel Animax and that reflected in its poor and negligible...
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...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: It’s been a long time coming but after endless rounds of discussions, India’s first direct-to-home service Dish TV has finally reached mutually...
MUMBAI: Sony is all set to launch a new show Vaidehi… Ek Aur Agni Pareeksha. Produced by Aroona Irani, the show will be launched on 5...
MUMBAI: Revitalised by the recent reinvigoration of its motion picture distribution and marketing organisation as well as by the formation of its new media division, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
MUMBAI: Subhash Ghai-promoted Mukta Arts Ltd has invested Rs 500 million to set up Asia’s biggest film, television, animation and media arts institute in Mumbai. Whistling...
It was in early October 2005 that we last had a close look at the Hindi entertainment space. What did we see then? The top programmes...
headlines/y2k6/may/may196.htmMUMBAI: Reinforcing its commitment to reach the Hindi heartland, the ‘lighthearted’ general entertainment channel Sab is now launching a new show – Twinkle Beauty Parlour –...
MUMBAI: An attempt is being made to push the television programming envelope. Even if it is coming in the form of simple game show. Come this...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) India is now looking at strengthening its afternoon band, which so far aired repeats of prime time shows. Starting 15 May,...
MUMBAI: After Sony and Zee, it’s now the turn of kids’ channel Hungama TV to go the reality way. The 18-months old channel, which has grown...
MUMBAI: Japanese media and electronics major Sony has announced its financial results for the year ended 31 March, 2006. Net income fell 24.5 per cent to...
MUMBAI: With a view to increasing its presence in the gaming arena football’s governing body Fifa has announced that it has secured a long-term commitment from...
MUMBAI: The Asian video on demand (VOD) channel Anytime has reached a distribution deal in Taiwan with the interactive broadband platform TDMC. TDMC TV chairman Zhong...
MUMBAI: While in the regional space, Star Plus has managed to rise up on the charts more than any other Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC) in...
MUMBAI: King World Productions and Sony Pictures Television, the companies behind two of television’s most successful shows Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, have joined hands once...
“We will have to speak to our competitors and see how they are placed before scheduling our press conference,” says a PR executive who works for...
NEW DELHI: The epic one day international between South Africa and Australia, which saw eight records tumble during the record run chase by the Proteas, registered...
MUMBAI: Speaking at the MIX06 conference in Las Vegas, the director of the BBC’s new media and technology division Ashley Highfield, outlined the public broadcaster’s online...
NEW DELHI: At a time when relationship between India and Pakistan are thawing a bit for the better, Indian and Pakistani cable operators have joined hands...
MUMBAI: Endemol India is upbeat as the opening numbers of Fear Factor India have come in. The show opened with TVRs of 4.6 in the C&S...
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...
When in late 2003, a few months ahead of the general elections (in early 2004), the then Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition government in Delhi issued a...
MUMBAI: A couple of new shows, reshuffling, revamping and even canning some existing shows It’s all happening at Sony. This time the spotlight is on Fridays....
Is Disney getting into the Indian market? We have been hearing reports that the company is in conversation with Star TV to distribute the channel in...
MUMBAI: Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) and the largest English language publisher of comic books worldwide DC Comics have announced plans to...
MUMBAI: Mad about the movies! There were hugs all around as Sony announced the launch of its new English movie channel Pix on 1 April. There...
India is increasingly becoming an attractive destination for foreign television firms wishing to do business. Some of them are looking to set up shop. The latest...
MUMBAI: A day after Nimbus Communications clinched a $612.18 million (Rs 27.24 billion) global media rights deal for cricket to be played in India for the...
MUMBAI: Electronics major Sony has tied up with film educational institution Whistling Woods International (WWi) in Film City. Sony is the technology partner and will share...
MUMBAI: Following the successful creation of the global music recording joint venture Sony BMG Music Entertainment 18 months ago, the parent companies Sony America and Bertelsmann...
MUMBAI: French media firm Vivendi Universal is paying $1.154 billion for Matsushita Electric Industrial’s 7.66 percent stake in Universal Studios Holding I (USHI). The deal gives...
It is the fight, not for the first, but for the second position! Zee TV has surged ahead of Sony Entertainment Television with the charge led...
MUMBAI: Japanese media conglomerate Sony has posted a 17.5 per cent increase in third quarter net profit, to $1.4 billion, on revenues of $20.1 billion. This...
MUMBAI: Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman and CEO of Sony Corporation, delivered the opening keynote today at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas....
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (Set) India has called off its plans to buy a 50 per cent stake in Taj Television, the Dubai-based holding company that...
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: Taking a leaf out of Apple’s successful iPod experiment, Vodafone has launched an interactive radio service in association with Sony. The subscription service, called Vodafone...
MUMBAI: Telecom Communications (Tcom) has announced that its subsidiary, 3G Dynasty (3G) will provide China Netcom customers with exclusive, entertainment programming, created and distributed by Live...
Hathway Cable & Datacom CEO K Jayaraman has been in the thick of things in the rapidly evolving Indian cable TV market. His network has in...
MUMBAI: Cable operators have agreed to abide by the rules and regulations of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) regarding re-broadcasting of channels without ‘lending...
UMBAI: Viewers of US broadcaster NBC’s game show Deal or No Deal will have the opportunity to win $10,000 by playing the live interactive Lucky Case...
MUMBAI: After Star Plus, Sony and Zee, it is now Sahara One Television’s turn to reschedule its primetime shows from originally airing them four days a...
MUMBAI: Delivering on its promise of being a channel that caters specifically to the heartland after its relaunch under the Sony Entertainment Television umbrella, Sab has...
MUMBAI: Marking a major milestone for the digital distribution of movies, the US-based broadband video-on-demand (VOD) service provider Movielink has signed a distribution agreement with 20th...
MUMBAI: The North American TV and internet major Liberty Media, which is into various cable and Internet businesses, is taking 51 per cent stake in Toronto-based...
Zee Telefilms has been undertaking a restructuring for its English channels over the last six to seven months. One of the results of this is that...
MUMBAI: November sure seems to be a month for new launches. Hardly has the dust settled on the announcement of new shows from the Sony and...
MUMBAI: A new season, a new schedule, and expectations of a far, far greater impact! The last is the least of what Indian Idol, Sony Entertainment...
