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Sam Balsara is man with a lot on his plate. Besides chasing an aggressive growth rate for Madison Communications, he is also chairman of MOMS (Madison...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: On the eve of the kick-off of the Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka a major spat has developed on the distribution front. The cable...
MUMBAI: It’s raining new shows. Next week will see new releases from The Big Three Hindi entertainment broadcasters, Star, Sony and Zee And in three different...
MUMBAI: A few months short of three years after he was appointed as the head of the human resources division at Sony Entertainment Television India, Nalin...
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...
Till a few weeks back, Leena Yadav was riding a high with expectations for her latest directorial venture – Kahin Na Kahin Koi Hai – touching...
NEW DELHI: If paying up of tax is a yardstick, then it seems foreign satellite channels are doing better than their Indian counterparts. Foreign television channel...
NEW DELHI: The Indian and NRI shareholders may dilute their stakes further in Sony Entertainment TV (SET) India, according to one of the Indian shareholders of...
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:Sony’s ace in the pack has donned new robes. Kutumb, the love-hate saga that started in late October last year, has relaunched in a fresh format....
MUMBAI:Sony’s ace in the pack has donned new robes.Kutumb, the love-hate saga that started in late October last year, has relaunched in a fresh format. After...
Nupur Asthana has just two soaps in her portfolio- Hip Hip Hurray and Hubahu, apart from a few one-offs for Zee’s Aap Jo Bole…. But the...
MUMBAI: Religion is a stronger bait than marriage on the tube, it would seem. Madhuri Dixit’s attempt at fixing marriages on Sony may have taken an...
MUMBAI: Religion is a stronger bait than marriage on the tube, it would seem. Madhuri Dixit’s attempt at fixing marriages on Sony may have taken an...
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...
FILMY, India’s youngest Hindi movie channel, has achieved an all-time high of 58 GRPs according to TAM (CS4+, HSM) W eek 30 data. This remarkable benchmark...
NEW DELHI: It’s war out there in the cricket broadcasting arena. Sony Entertainment Television may have ICC cricket, including the next two World Cups, but for...
MUMBAI:Marriages are the in thing on television, it would seem. Zee Television has joined the bandwagon with a new series Love Marriage directed by Manisha Sharma...
NEW DELHI: The I&B Ministry, which recently sent showcause notices to four television channels for carrying surrogate advertisements for two liquor brands, last week sent a...
It was a celebration of survival. Sony‘s court battle scarred Shubh Vivaah, now officially christened Kahin Na Kahin Koi Hay (KNKKH numerology, Balaji tactic) celebrated its long...
NEW DELHI: Sony Entertainment Television, part of the Japanese conglomerate Sony, is in a restructuring mode both in Singapore and India. Though company executives did not...
Almost 11 months to the day after Sony Entertainment announced plans to launch Shubh Vivaah with Bollywood queen bee Madhuri Dixit as host, the mega matchmaking...
The I&B Ministry, which sent showcause notices to four television channels for carrying surrogate advertisements for two liquor brands, is set to “get serious” on a...
The recently launched docu-drama travelogue “Jahan Jahan Ram Charan Chali Jahi” by Zee Telefilms spiritual channel Zee Jagran, opened with excellent ratings on its very first...
It’s looking beyond its own living room. The Prasar Bharati, the holding company of DD and AIR, is looking at having non-Doordarshan channels and also the...
The World Cup Network (not the Fifa World Cup, please note. We are talking cricket here) is what Sony Entertainment now calls itself. Post-acquisition of the...
Achanak… 37 saal baad the weekly late night supernatural thriller on Sony is all set to conclude the first cycle with a ‘major revelation’ this Friday. Series...
Hubahu, the twin dilemma on Sony Entertainment Television, is packing up. High costs of production and corresponding low ratings are the primary reason for the series...
If there is one talismanic individual that represents India’s greatest triumph in the one-day cricket arena it is Kapil Dev, the captain of that 1983 winning...
Sony Entertainment Television yesterday announced the launch of a new daily soap Kaun Apna Kaun Paraya, part of an initiative on SET’s part to repackage its programming...
After being off for close to a month in the US, Hindi entertainment channel Sony Entertainment Television is looking at making a comeback by next month....
“We are on track to achieve our aim of becoming the number one network as far as subscription revenues are concerned.” This is what Shantonu Aditya,...
The Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2002, incorporating mandatory conditional access for cable TV systems was introduced in the lower house (Lok Sabha) of parliament...
Kkusum, the long suffering soap on Sony has made it to the nominations for the ‘favourite drama on cable’ in the fifth edition of the Cable...
After going all out to jump into the Internet bandwagon, media companies are now hunting for people to head these ventures. Both the channels have given...
The Showman – as Subhash Ghai is known – has found a buyer for his 15 strong movie library, a year after B4U failed to deliver...
Hi! Everybody, well, great, great intro there, thanks Cyrus. I’d like to thank Mtv and Brand Equity for inviting me here today and Provogue. Just set...
On the balance, the first half results of the Zee Network (of which Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) is a part) are not something worth shouting about....
The star has fallen from the heavens. From Rs 1,600 plus to Rs 290-odd is a great fall over eight months, but that’s the drop that...
India’s most comprehensive TV exhibit, Broadcast 2000, launches into its 10th year at the World Trade Centre in Mumbai from 19-21 October. Broadcast India this year...
After Sony now it is the turn of Zee Television to announce new programming initiatives. In the press conference in Mumbai, Zee elaborated on its programming...
MUMBAI: Sports TV production magazine and sports summit is holding its second annual All-Star Awards, recognizing individuals for their leadership and excellence in sports television production...
Target the class that has the capacity and the inclination to spend. Madison has pursued this dictum with a recent survey that studies the spending and...
Is it the precursor to a parting of the ways? Maybe, maybe not. Raghav Bahl’s Television Eighteen India Ltd declared today that henceforth it would be...
Is it the precursor to a parting of the ways? Maybe, maybe not. Raghav Bahl’s Television Eighteen India Ltd declared today that henceforth it would be...
CANNES: Walt Disney Television International president David Hulbert is quite gung-ho about India. At MipTV in Cannes, Hulber told a European media website that his company...
Sony has set its sights on leading prime time ratings every Friday with innovative fare. To this effect it has announced the launch of two shows...
It has been a marriage a long time in the making. Sony Entertainment Television (SET) India and Discovery Networks International (DNI) announced yesterday a distribution alliance...
Star is unwilling to give up its hold over the 9-10 pm band. Even as Sony’s top two soaps, Kkusum and Kutumb continue to inch their...
It was brief to say the least. The amount of time that finance minister Yashwant Sinha devoted to the entertainment sector in his speech to parliament...
