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MUMBAI: The Sony Corporation of America has appointed Michael Lynton, the chief executive of AOL Europe, as to lead its entertainment arm in Hollywood. As chairman...
MUMBAI: Although Jassi… is the show that got Sony Entertainment back into the Top 50 ratings, weekends are when SET really gives leader Star Plus a...
MUMBAI: SET’s executive creative director Rajesh Devraj has put in his papers. The resignation confirms the buzz that has been doing the industry rounds since early...
MUMBAI: What’s with the K soaps and fast forward leap anyways? After the gradual phasing out of Kaun Banega Crorepati on Star Plus,Kkusum created a winning...
MUMBAI: The music industry is in consolidation mode battered and bruised as it is by Internet music sharing, poor retail revenues and competition with other sources...
MUMBAI: 72 per cent of television sets in urban Bihar are the black and white types. Close to 57 per cent of TV sets in the...
NEW DELHI: The battle between Subhash Chandra’s companies, ASC Enterprise and Siti Cable, and other broadcasters like Star India and Sony Entertainment Television (SET) hots up...
MUMBAI: Merchandising certainly is an exciting proposition – so what if you don’t make it? You can sell it! In association with Sony Music, Channel [V]...
The beautiful Poonam Narula Goel is one of the few privileged actors on Indian television who has cut across channels and featured in major soaps and...
MUMBAI: Former cricketer and MAX brand ambassador Kapil Dev will be seen in Sony Television’s detective series CID sometime in mid-October. Telecast on Fridays at 10:30...
MUMBAI: The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) today instructed Star, Sony and ESPN-Star Sports to file replies in the joint case brought before it...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (Set) is not leaving any stone unturned in promoting its existing shows and the new ones that are slated for a launch...
TOKYO: Japan’s biggest ad agency Dentsu Inc. has teamed up with with Toyota Motor Corporation and Sony Corporation to form a joint venture called Mediarag Corporation....
MUMBAI: Mona who? That could well be the question on everyone’s lips when Sony Entertainment Television India unveils on Monday the face it hopes will spell...
NEW DELHI: Sony Entertainment Television India (SET) is all set to take the fight into the den of No. 1 Star Plus, with big ticket programming,...
NEW DELHI: With the conditional access system (CAS) gone for a six at least in Delhi and Mumbai, Sony Entertainment TV (SET) India is looking at...
NEW DELHI: The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) has directed Star, Sony and ESPN Star Sports to provide signals to the Zee-promoted HITS platform...
NEW YORK: For the fourth year in a row and the sixth time in the last nine years, Sony has been chosen as the number one...
A mischievous twinkle greets you when you suggest that he would have made a good looking actor. Pat comes the response that probably he should have...
NEW DELHI: Satellite channels like Star Plus, Zee TV and Sony, beaming Hindi entertainment fare, and other Indian channels may have to face longer period of...
MUMBAI: Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin is not just Sony’s hope for the latter half of 2003. The Indianised version of the Hispanic show Yo Soy Betty...
NEW DELHI: Even as the channels distributed by One Alliance, a joint venture between Discovery India and Sony Entertainment TV India, continue to be off prime...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Just over 15 days to go but the CAS picture seems to be still stuck in pause mode. The second meeting today...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed American novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford’s petition challenging a Calcutta High Court order allowing telecast of mega...
Kunal Dasgupta has just completed eight years as chief executive of Sony Entertainment Television India, which makes him the longest serving professional CEO in the television...
PARIS: From today Playin’TV which claims to be the leading interactive games channel in the world, starts on TPS (channel 55/Bandiagara), France Télécom Câble (Channel 41)...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has added a dedicated Middle East beam to its geography-specific beams. With this, SET now has six localised feeds, one each...
NEW DELHI: Integrated Communication is a key to experiential marketing, says marketing guru and professor Dr. Bernd Schmitt. Defining experiential marketing as a tool for the...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has furnished statistics that show that the channel performs better than Zee TV on all day and prime time shares in...
MUMBAI: Madison Media’s analysis of TAM ratings for the week ending 21 June 2003 shows that Zee TV leads Sony in channel shares on weekdays (Monday...
MUMBAI: The Karishma imbroglio notwithstanding, Sahara Manoranjan has been gaining viewership for its entertainment programmes. As per the recently released TAM media report for Hindi speaking...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is not averse to the idea if the main channels, including the sports and entertainment ones like Star Plus, Zee TV,...
MUMBAI: More on the worry lines for the pay broadcasters over conditional access and its implications. A new report by international ratings agency Fitch estimates that...
When Harish Thawani announced he was handing over day-to-day management of Nimbus Communications Ltd (the company he incorporated in 1987) to Akash Khurana, it was met...
It is unlikely that any Indian is unfamiliar with the name Asha Parekh. One of the top heroines of the 60s, she started her career as...
NEW DELHI: MSOs now want to fix the price of pay channels and offer an invitation price of Rs 200. The cable fraternity is not giving...
NEW DELHI: Even as the broadcasters are still in the process of “making up their minds” — as one of them put it — on the...
MUMBAI: The peak of India’s fashion scene, The Lakme India Fashion Week, is shifting broadcast residence. The showcase event that has been hitherto airing on Star...
MUMBAI: Dil Na Jaane Kyun, the first leaf out of Zee’s innovative Chausath Panne, which is poised to reach an unexpected climax in a couple of...
MUMBAI: The announcements made around the management restructuring at United Television had left out one name. Ashish Redij, currently with Sahara TV, is joining the Ronnie...
Late into her teens, she was only known as Jeetendra’s daughter. Today, she has her own identity – as Ekta Kapoor, the creative head of Balaji...
In this concluding part of a two-part interview with indiantelevision.com’s Thomas Abraham, Star India COO Sameer Nair does some straight talking on programming issues. Excerpts: When...
The late night slot (10-11 pm) has over the past few months grown in importance for niche English channels. This has resulted in a rearranging of...
NEW YORK: Advertising spends in the US rose by a meagre 1.5 per cent in the first quarter of the year, says Nielsen Media Research. The...
MUMBAI: Seems the extra ‘k’ in the title did work after all. SET India’s top soap about a girl-next-door- Kkusum, has managed to hold on to...
MUMBAI: It’s changing all right. After jump starting the changing spree with musical game show Kuch Kehti Hai Yeh Dhun and later introducing a weekly thriller...
MUMBAI: When it finally happened, a terse three-paragraph statement was all that was offered. Viacom kids channel Nickelodeon India today formalised a break that has been...
Anita Horam's career graph reads like the glossary of television channels operating in India. In the 12 years she has spent in the profession, she has...
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system is forcing various stakeholders of the industry to go in for initiatives that were not on the top of their priority...
MUMBAI: It is that time of the year again when Sony Entertainment Television will be airing Sony to telecast the International Indian Film Festival (IIFA). The...
