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In theory, the idea was good. In reality, the dividend yielded leaves much to be desired. Unlike the serials that it re-runs, free to air Star...
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...
Star Group owned Vijay TV has turned around, putting behind a history of losses over the years. "We have, for the first time, made a small...
MUMBAI: India seems to be the favourite destination for media czars. After News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch it’s the turn of Walt Disney Company CEO Michael...
CANNES: Star India has bought the rights of Endemol’s reality format The Match at the ongoing MIPTV. Endemol and Star will produce The Cricket Match, a...
INDIANS STAND OUT WHEN HEARD & SEEN THAT IS The Indian presence may not be overwhelmingly visible (an understatement if ever there was one) but when...
MUMBAI: Star India’s top management seems to be on the move. Considering the expanding business plans of the leading network, Star India is looking at infusing...
MUMBAI: Star India has clarified that it supports industry’s stand on self-regulation and some parental control as far as content regulation is concerned. Making his stand...
MUMBAI: Star in its endeavour to grow its advertising revenues has decided to refurbish its ad sales functioning. The network has decided to create specific ‘client...
5. DR PRANNOY ROY, NDTV PRESIDENT For taking NDTV India into a clear and undisputed second rung position behind leader Aaj Tak in the Hindi news...
The battleground this year will be in the regional space. Mainline broadcasters like Zee Telefilms, Star India and MTV have designs to spread south, the most...
The battleground this year will be in the regional space. Mainline broadcasters like Zee Telefilms, Star India and MTV have designs to spread south, the most...
MUMBAI: What’s it with Kyunki… and the protest brigade? After women’s groups, political activists have now taken up cudgels against Hindi entertainment television’s top soap. In...
MUMBAI: For the first time, Indian television will see a fitness-reality show where overweight individuals will seem themselves get fit in 100 days. Star One launches...
A look at the way the industry functions shows that broadcasters are largely self-censored and generally follow a certain content code that has been set by...
MUMBAI: The flurry of new channels entering the Indian broadcast arena is leading to new equations on the distribution front. Broadcasters are working out fresh arrangements...
The woman behind the leading entertainment channel in India talks about the ways of maintaining the lead and keeping viewers hooked. If there is a list...
MUMBAI: Channel [V]’s Super Singer, Star India’s response to Sony’s Indian Idol, which debuted on 2 December, has given reason enough for officials at India’s lead...
NEW DELHI: Evan as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) rides roughshod over the broadcast sector, the protagonists (read broadcasters vs the cable fraternity) are...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator is unlikely to come out with the final interconnect regulations this week as had been envisaged, even as it grapples...
NEW DELHI: Cable rates are set to go up by seven per cent (basic tariff excluding taxes) from 1 January, 2005. According to a statement released...
Have Hindi general entertainment channels (GEC) reached a stage of saturation? Will 2005 see a further regression of this genre or is this space going to...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney Company (India) has put in place the regional distribution team for its television channels, but is yet to hire a national head. The...
NEW DELHI: Zee Turner Limited, the distribution alliance between Time Warner company Turner International and Zee Network, has appointed Siddharth Jain as CEO of the company....
MUMBAI: Star World’s new talk show Koffee With Karan, with Karan Johar as its host, will hit the small screen tomorrow – 19 November at 10...
MUMBAI: Star Plus has acquired the worldwide telecast rights for blockbuster movie Main Hoon Na, even as Sony has run away with the two biggest hits...
MUMBAI: Sony’s mega budget show Indian Idol enjoyed a debut rating of 5.8, spurring the channel to launch new programmes to take Star Plus’ runaway success...
MUMBAI: Star has finally launched in the US on the News Corp controlled DirecTV platform. Alongside flagship channel Star Plus, the three other channels that launched...
MUMBAI: Asia’s premier awards programme for the broadcasting and production fraternity Asian TV Awards has released its list of nominees for the 2004 awards. Indian broadcasters...
NEW DELHI: Star India has been granted time till 31 December to complete changes in the logo of its new entertainment channel, which went on air...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), may have come out with its recommendations, but Star India, for one, feels...
MUMBAI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), an apex body of broadcasting companies, will soon submit before the information & broadcasting ministry its viewpoint on the recent...
NEW DELHI: The government today came down heavily on various private sector television channels on issues relating to content described as `indecent’ and threatened to invoke...
MUMBAI: Star India’s next big game show, its adaptation of UK-based Distraction Formats’ Dirty Rotten Cheater, is to be called Bluff Master. And it will be...
NEW DELHI: Star India is all set to launch its new channel, Star One, towards the end of October and the profile of the channel can...
NEW DELHI: Star India though doesn’t foresee Balaji Telefilms, in which a Star affiliate has picked up more than 20 per cent stake, as the only...
Star India COO Sameer Nair calls it a strategic investment. Which indeed it is. And it is not the first time that the Murdoch owned network...
Indian entertainment television’s first name in programming has a theory. And as Star India gets set to celebrate Year Four as top dog in the broadcast...
MUMBAI: Star India has taken complete shareholding control of its Tamil regional language channel Vijay TV after buying out UTV Software’s 44 per cent stake. The...
For Rupert Gavin, BBC Worldwide’s chief executive, a trip to India seems linked to announcing a new programming initiative with Star India. Last year he was...
NEW DELHI: Geo TV, the satellite television venture from the Pakistan-based Jung Group, plans to set up distribution base in India and also start an India-specific...
MUMBAI: Showing aggresive intent, Star India’s Hindi movie channel Star Gold has an eventful August-September planned out. Taking off on the Nimbu mar ke campaign of...
MUMBAI: The latest acquisition by Star India, The Apprentice, launches on Star World, in six weeks. The NBC produced reality series that tests competitors’ survival...
MUMBAI: Star World in its effort to appeal to a wider audience and cater to a variety of tastes, is attempting newer things. The latest one...
MUMBAI: This is a piece of news that could just revive the game show format in India. Star India is all set to play a game...
He has been, it would seem, waiting in the wings for quite a while now, biding his time for his moment in the sun. Sumantra Sumo...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Presented below are reactions from a cross-section of the industry to Budget 2004. Zee Telefilms CMD Subhash Chandra: “The 2004 budget...
MUMBAI: The ongoing face-off between sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports and cable MSO Hathway Datacom that has left soccer enthusiasts gnashing their teeth in frustration has...
At first glance, Star India’s senior vice president ad sales, Kevin Vaz comes across as unassuming to a fault. But there is no getting away from...
MUMBAI: Hungama, the bilingual (Hindi and Tamil) kids’ channel floated by UTV and to be distributed by Star India, will begin airing by ‘a Sunday in...
