Looks like the common assumption that ESPN Star Sports will be airing the India telecast of next year’s Cricket World Cup in South Africa may be...
It seems to be Sony’s turn to ride the crest of the Balaji wave. Kkusum and Kutumb, both family soaps from the Balaji stable have peaked...
Television and the Internet are the only media that have consolidated their reach in India in the period between December 2000 and June 2001, according to...
Divinity, unlike human frailty is more consistent at producing tangible results, at least for television production houses. Ask Creative Eye. The production house that has an...
Sony Entertainment’s programming strategy is clear. Keep launching new shows at regular intervals and make sure the shows are consistently different. The 9 to 10 pm...
The Forum of Viewers with Disability, a wing of the Centre for Advocacy and Research, has recently released a study of TV viewing habits of people...
Balaji Telefilms seems set to continue its winning streak with a clutch of new serials this year, three of which will premiere on Zee and Sony...
Within a week of asking cable TV operators to refrain from relaying Indian satellite channels, the Pakistan Telecom Authority has re-allowed transmission of five Star TV...
The soap brigade has elbowed its way into the top position in the 9 to 10 pm band as well. The waning KBC has helped Sony’s...
If you haven't had enough of the hype around Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, get behind the scenes of the year's most talked about film on 9...
A new channel ID. A handful of new shows. Sony Entertainment Television has been moving slowly but surely in an effort to stand equal to its...
It came somewhat like manna to travellers lost in the desert. The Union Cabinet’s decision on 2 November 2000 to lift the four-year ban on DTH...
Cable TV addressability has been brought out into the open. Earlier this week, an Andhra Pradesh high court has said that all subscription channels should stop...
Suddenly, there seems to be more to the Hindi entertainment television scenario than Star, Sony and Zee. There is a buzz around B4U Television Network, which...
Ever since Javed Sayyed’s first directorial venture Heena went on air in 1998, the soap has been one of Sony’s key programmes. Heena’s success has brought...
B4U Television Network, which relaunched B4U Entertainment as B4U Movies on 2 October, expects to achieve operating profits of $ 2 million by the end of...
Matches they say are made in heaven or as in this case on heavenly sets. Sony Entertainment Television’s soon to-be-launched mega-programme Shubh Vivaah (happy marriage) has...
Some 62 of Star Plus’ shows figure in The Top 100 Intam ratings chart for the week ended 2 September 2001. 19 shows each of Zee...
The latest TAM ratings are out. And the entire industry is agog about one revelation: not one of Zee TV’s new shows figures on the Top...
Star Plus continues to rule the roast in the latest TRP ratings released by A.C. Nielsen’s TAM service. 40 of its shows occupy the Top 100...
The Laffaire TRPs for sale has raised a few questions. Even indiantelevision.com was at the receiving end of an anonymous docket yesterday evening containing the same...
Come 1 November, TV studio owners, editors, animation and graphic artists are going to be headed towards Mumbai’s World Trade Centre. The reason: the eleventh edition...
The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), which on 24 August is launching a campaign to increase confidence in Indian advertising on television and print media,...
Scriptwriting for Thrillers Scriptwriter Sridhar Raghavan, who spoke on developing thrillers as a genre, regaled audiences with his experiences in the field, and also gave some...
It’s hoping to act as a guide in the maze that is Indian cable & satellite television today. Channel Guide a specific preview and menu channel...
HFCL-Nine Broadcasting India Ltd (HNBIL) today closed the chapter on what has been an acrimonious relationship and declared it would not bid for the prime time...
Starting tomorrow, Sony Entertainment Television will be showcasing "King of Hearts – The Yash Chopra Film Festival. Featuring 14 films created by Yash Chopra under his...
Television companies have significantly increased the use of hoardings to increase awareness about the shows they have on air. Although print medium (specifically newspapers) still...
Zee TV is now the confirmed No. 2 channel on Indian television in prime time, more so among women, figures released by the company indicate. ...
If there were any doubts as to how Kaun Banega Crorepati‘s superstar host Amitabh Bachchan would perform while dealing with precocious kids in the junior variant...
Its unofficial!!! Industry sources confirmed today that Sony Entertainment will become encrypted from 30 June. The channel will be priced at Rs 8 per subscriber with...
It’s getting rather disconcerting. Ekta Kapoor’s overbearing presence across time bands and channels that is. Kapoor’s Balaji Telefilms is about to add another to the ever-growing...
In bid to revive the sagging fortunes of its Kaun Banega Crorepati riposte, Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke, Sony Entertainment Television is set to introduce some bells...
Pawan Chopra, secretary of the I&B mministry observed that we were living in rapidly-changing, exciting times and we must keep pace with the changing trends and...
First there was cine heartthrob Hrithik Roshan on Star’s Rendezvous With Simi Garewal. Now Sony has gone two up, and lined up three shows about Tinseltown’s...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television is premiering a new serial, Hum Pardesi Ho Gaye on 4 March at 9:05 pm, according to a company release. Shot extensively...
Despite official denials from B4U Entertainment, industry sources confirm that there is a shakeout in progress at the company’s headquarters in Mumbai’s western suburb of Andheri....
Sony Entertainment Television and the Rajan Raheja-owned Hathway Cable & Datacom have reached agreement on a dispute that had developed over unpaid dues as well the...
Down, down, down with no end in sight at least in the near term is the verdict that media sector investment analysts have given regarding the...