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MUMBAI: The grand finale of Sony reality soap opera Fame Gurukul seems to have delivered for the channel. Sony managed to beat Star Plus in terms...
MUMBAI: Media and consumer electronics giant Sony has announced its results for the second quarter ended 30 September 2005. Profits dropped 46 per cent to $246...
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: Fame Gurukul @ MTV. Before lawyers out there start licking their chops, a clarification. The music channel has NOT stolen the idea of SET’s latest...
MUMBAI: As the war over the high definition digital versatile disc (HD DVD) format gets more fierce in the US computer firms and Blu-ray Disc Association...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) India vice-president marketing and communications Tushar Shah has put in his papers. According to reliable industry sources, Shah is slated...
MUMBAI: Consumer electronics major Sony has announced a restructuring plan that involves a seven per cent reduction of its global workforce and the selling off of...
MUMBAI: March 2005 saw Abhijeet Sawant becoming a household name in India when the Mumbai boy was crowned the first ever Indian Idol on Sony Entertainment...
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...
MUMBAI: Looks like Sony is now gearing up to strengthen its weekends and is going the reality way to do the same. The channel is readying...
MUMBAI: Sony Online Entertainment’s Platform Publishing and Disney Online in association with Buena Vista Games announced an agreement that is scheduled to bring Disney’s Toontown Online,...
MUMBAI: Sony will be showcasing India’s most celebrated women on Fair & Lovely Shikhar, which will be aired on 28 August at 12.30 pm. An initiative...
MUMBAI: After months of negotiations, plans for a unified format for next-generation DVDs have been scrapped after the competing groups – Sony and Toshiba – failed...
Today, there are hundreds of once highly protected famous name brands, which were backed by multi-million dollar promotional budgets, now commonly used in daily lingo as...
MUMBAI: Sony’s reality soap opera Fame Gurukul may not be anywhere near working wonder numbers which its predecessor Indian Idol did, but it is on a...
5 August saw the second coming of the TV show that changed the viewing habits of Indians when it made its first in 2000 – Kaun...
MUMBAI: In a bid to create more excitement and increase the reach of tennis in America the United States Tennis Association (USTA) has announced a deal...
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: Two net crawling Spider-Man enthusiasts will have the chance to report breaking Spider-Man 3 movie news as the winners of Columbia Pictures’ Face of the...
When you’ve been in the television production business for as long as Fremantle Media director of productions India Gavin Wood has, there is probably very little...
MUMBAI: The Japanese anime channel Animax is turning one in India on 5 July. While the channel has not quite made a mark in the kids’...
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: The government may come out with a downlinking policy soon but Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra has reservations on whether it would be a complete...
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...
The telenovela format is going from strength to strength in India and across the globe. RCTV International, the distribution arm of RCTV, which claims to be...
MUMBAI: SET Discovery president Shantonu Aditya has quit and is joining Sahara One as chief executive officer. His responsiblity will extend to all Sahara’s media and...
MUMBAI: In its first ever arrangement with any US Studio, China Central Television (CCTV) has joined Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI)’s programme licensing division to distribute...
MUMBAI: Revenue growth for the Big Three of Indian broadcasting — Star India, Sony Entertainment TV India and Zee Telefilms — are likely to remain robust...
MUMBAI: The direct-to-home (DTH) market is set for an explosion. Revenues from DTH operations is expected to touch Rs 40 billion in 2010, up from Rs...
MUMBAI: France Televisions and Sony have chosen the ongoing French Open tennis Grand Slam as the location for an innovative demonstration of high definition television (HDTV)....
MUMBAI: Post the exit of Optimystix Entertainment as one of the two producers handling the production for Sony’s next reality based soap opera Fame Gurukul, the...
MUMBAI: Acacia Technologies Group’s wholly owned subsidiary KY Data Systems, LLC and Sony Corporation have entered a non-exclusive license covering a portfolio of patents that apply...
It‘s that time of year. When sports lovers of the non-cricketing variety (an extreme minority in a country that seems to swear by only one sport)...
Being out of action for a long time is not SET India chief executive officer Kunal Dasgupta‘s style. In 2004, he had quietly watched Star India...
MUMBAI: Always an aggressive marketer, SET is upping the ante even further for its next big proposition. Hitting the tube in early June is Fame Gurukul,...
MUMBAI: After acquiring Sab TV, SET-Discovery’s One Alliance has made the humour-centric channel a part of the platform’s second pay bouquet. As part of this move,...
MUMBAI: Sony sees itself to be “like no other”. And they have decided to focus their brand positioning on this tagline. Sony electronics is implementing a...
MUMBAI: Weekends will spell action at the Star Plus stable in the coming months. The channel is getting into launch mode for KBC 2, and is...
MUMBAI: SifyMax.in, the broadband content site from Sify Ltd, has entered in a partnership with Sony Entertainment Television for hosting previous episodes of Fame Gurukul, live...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television has partnered with Red FM in a unique association wherein the listeners of the radio channel will get an opportunity to listen...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has announced a deal with Ascent Media Group (AMG) and HP to convert its film and television content into digital form....
In the 1980s, when Anurradha Prasad, a jeans and T-shirt clad twenty-something journalist, went to cover Parliament proceedings, senior print journalists looked upon her rather curiously...
MUMBAI: MGM has announced that a consortium comprising Sony America, Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Comcast and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners has completed its acquisition...
MUMBAI: HBO, Cinemax and BBC America have won multiple Peabody awards in the US. The Peabody Award is considered to be very selective and prestigious and...
MUMBAI: As Sony prepares to seal the deal on its $4.8 billion acquisition of MGM, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has realigned its domestic and international television...
MUMBAI: There is a huge opportunity for media owners to leverage the digital media space globally. The online market for digital content is expected to reach...
MUMBAI: The ad revenue in China has been growing at the rate of 12 per cent a year. It reached $ 3.4 billion in 2004. This...
News channels are changing and how! When Sony’s plain Jane Jassi turned into a television temptress, NDTV India’s cameras went behind the-scenes to capture this metamorphosis....
Newsletters Email Story Print Comment Indiantelevision.com’s Media, Advertising, Marketing Watch Viral marketing, ground activities take center stage for Sony’s ‘Deal Ya No Deal’...
MUMBAI: Google ropes in two major music labels Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group to expand testing video advertising system. Google’s AdSense online ad...
