MUMBAI: Family oriented Hallmark has announced that it has acquired three shows from Sony. The aim is to strengthen the late primetime programme slots, which air...
Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea these days rues the fact that he is not getting enough time for golf and, thus, relaxation and exercise. Shuttling between...
MUMBAI: The Cadbury Bournvita Quiz Contest team too has been bitten by the Kerala bug. The BQC team, comprising 100 students and teachers from 32 cities...
MUMBAI:The thrust has been given. Now it has to build on the momentum. Sony Entertainment Television will be launching five new shows once the World Cup...
It may not have the best of reasons to be complacent, but RED, the FM offering from the India Today stable, is gung ho about its...
MUMBAI: What’s happening? A World Cup under way and none of the usual reports of rogue cable ops resorting to piracy and raids conducted to get...
2002 will certainly be different. That was what the competition were convinced would be the case at the start of the year. And why not? Kaun...
LOS ANGELES : The US movie and the music industries have published a guide to help companies prevent copyright abuse on their computers and plan to...
The 50-something president of NDTV, Prannoy Roy, is not only his competitors’ envy and the idol of millions of Indian youngsters aspiring to make it as...
NEW DELHI: The One Alliance today announced a three year distribution tie-up with NDTV for its proposed two news channels (a story that was broken by...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment has instituted some repositioning in its executive hierarchy both at the national and international level. Rajan Singh has been promoted to executive V-P...
It’s a young woman’s world. That truism applies quite firmly on television today and has resulted in a sense of disillusionment amongst the older breed of...
It’s an incongruity but one any marketer would have no issue with! India may be a sports-dud country but when it comes to cricket we...
TOKYO: Sony Corporation today announced its consolidated results for the third quarter ended 31 December 2002. Consolidated sales increased slightly year on year to achieve a...
MUMBAI: Sony has announced that it is offering viewers a chance to choose their very own “Sony My Miss” for the fifth consecutive year. Viewers can...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television has acquired telecast rights of the much talked about blockbuster of the year -Devdas. Sony announced on Saturday that it has acquired...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Sony Entertainment Television India reacted with outrage today to an announcement by Harish Thawani’s Nimbus Communications that national broadcaster Doordarshan (DD) has...
MUMBAI: Sony may have managed a programming coup of sorts on the last day of 2002 by slotting Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (K3G) at prime time,...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has announced its Sports Award ceremony. The annual ceremony to be held at the Hilton, Park Lane will pay homage to...
2002 has come to a close and its time to take stock again. If truth be told, the singular feeling that seemed to pervade through last...
MUMBAI: While Star, Zee and Sahara are looking beyond the soap as far as their blockbuster offerings for the new year are concerned, Sony Entertainment is...
MUMBAI:Merrill Lynch’s India Media and Entertainment Industry report on the media sector post the conditional access (CAS) legislation, produced in conjunction with DSP Merrill Lynch Limited...
‘Work hard, party hard’ seems to be an adage applicable only to on screen talent on the telly. With 2003 less than 36 hours away, artistes we...
INTRODUCTION The National Readership Survey 2001 reveals that cable is currently available in 33 million homes. The reach of television in urban areas is 84.7 %...
Sony Entertainment Television’s Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke (JCPK), which is set for launch in January, is generating a tremendous response from the public with over 900,000...
NEW DELHI: The Sahara India Parivaar is set to unleash a countrywide media blitzkrieg on the group’s launch of new media products, including TV news channels,...
MUMBAI: A Salomon Smith Barney report estimated that Zee Telefilms would not fare well 4QFY03. The forthcoming World Cup cricket 2003 in February and March might...
Rohit Khanna is a specialist in real life dramas and docu-dramas. He has an impressive line-up of shows like Bhanwar and Haadsa behind him, apart from...
With 2002 drawing to a close, most channels are geared to usher in the New Year with the usual masala mix – films, music and events,...
Sony Entertainment Television, which has managed to successfully hold on to its number two slot in the face of Star Television’s Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) juggernaut,...
SINGAPORE: The television scene in India is exploding but the local channels failed to cut any ice at the recently concluded seventh edition of the Asian...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The switch-offs have started. Even as the World Cup cricket draws nearer, a face off has developed between Sony Entertainment TV and Zee Group...
NEW DELHI: The Subrata Roy promoted Sahara TV has decided that it would not start telecasting Karishma: The Miracles of Destiny serial, featuring Bollywood actress Karisma...
BBC World has emerged as the most-watched channel in a decision makers’ survey conducted by market research firm ORG-Marg for the news and information channel. The...
MUMBAI: Faruq Masudi, writer and director of successful Hindi soaps like Dastan, Chattan and Kasak, is now reportedly planning a series based on Quranic verses in...
MUMBAI: Om Namah Shivay , a mythological series that had a two year-run on national broadcaster Doordarshan’s main DD1 channel, is taking a bow on Sony...
NEW DELHI: After an exciting spell of selling sports and movies, Sanjay Reddy left Sony Entertainment TV India to join Rajat Sharma’s company to sell and...
Very few writers begin their foray into TV writing with a soap as popular as Kkusum. Bharavi Shah, who does the screenplay of Sony’s flagship soap...
Young Turks. The third in indiantelevision.com’s series profiling the brightest and the best among the youth brigade in the Indian television industry, focuses this time on...
MUMBAI: Latest Hindi films seem to have become the way to the audience hearts for all mainstream channels. After Zee and Sony, it is the turn...
MUMBAI: Even though Disney may not be entering India in the near future, the little mouse seems determined to derive the maximum mileage out of its...
Channels all over the country are deep focusing on the housewife. And the afternoon is the time to get her undivided attention. Suddenly, the plain housewife...
MUMBAI: The Broadcast India Exhibition & Symposium will take place from 29 October to 2 November in Mumbai. The symposium will be held on 29 and...
MUMBAI: The semi final that topped the ratings heap last week was a mere trailer. The latest lot of the TRPs, just in, reaffirmed cricket’s hold...
Young Turks. Indiantelevision.com introduces a new series profiling the brightest and the best among the youth brigade in the Indian television industry. Under the spotlight will...
CALIFORNIA: Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment has launched GoPlayTV, a service offering digital satellite viewers in the United Kingdom interactive versions of Sony Pictures’ globally recognized Wheel...
It may be fashion consciousness, it may be something else. But French fashion channel FTV is expanding its reach at a fast clip, or so it...
MUMBAI: Kalanithi Maran’s Sun TV is beaming without a pause in the US. The most popular Indian channel in the South, Tamil channel Sun TV, is...
It is only the ‘privileged‘ urban homes that feature on satellite channels in India, finds a study conducted on gender representation on satellite television by the...
MUMBAI: Ask anyone in Indian television land, and you will be told that it is only the woman viewer who can unlock the door to the...