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MUMBAI: Now this is what is called an award function. Hosted at the much suave south Mumbai’s NCPA, India’s lead entertainment channel Star Plus struck the...
NEW DELHI: Star India, part of Rupert Murdoch’s pan-Asian venture, is going in for a flanking strategy to couch its bottomline – healthy though it looks...
NEW DELHI: Most of the pay channel operators today, once again, conveyed to broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), that certain things...
One could be excused for wondering if the head honcho of India’s largest media house and largest-by-far broadcast company isn’t getting bored of the sameness of...
NEW DELHI: Well, we had alluded to this development happening in March, and so it has come to be. Not content with dominating the Indian cable...
NEW DELHI: Okay, it’s time for some revamp of the management team at the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star India Pvt. Ltd., which is largely fuelling the Star...
MUMBAI: Star India’s head of its Tamil language channel Vijay TV has been given a new portfolio. Ajay Vidyasagar, general manager (regional channels), now heads marketing...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has directed Star India not to switch off its channel feed to Panchsheel Communication Network Pvt....
MUMBAI: There are those in the industry who say this was a case that Star India and Zee Telefilms were bound to lose and so it...
NEW DELHI: Fixing 14 April as the next date of hearing, the Delhi High Court today directed the centre, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) and...
MUMBAI: Ever since the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) bowled its bouncer at the cable fraternity recommending the 10 July 2003 notification on conditional access...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today came out with its first order through a notification — freezing the rates at...
NEW DELHI: No sooner has a regulator for the broadcast and cable sectors been notified by the Indian government than cracks have started appearing in the...
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...
Sameer Nair, the chief operating officer of Star India, an arm of the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group Pvt Ltd, can be a reticent man. Very unlike...
MUMBAI: Star World is set to accommodate an indigenously produced show after a long time, to give the only desi produced programme Rendezvous with Simi Garewal...
Sameer Nair, the chief operating officer of Star India, an arm of the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group Pvt Ltd, can be a reticent man. Very unlike...
NEW DELHI: Star India, the Indian arm of Rupert Murdoch’s pan-Asian television venture Star Group Pvt Ltd, has drawn up some ambitious plans for 2004, which...
People at NGC India, especially managing director for south Asia, Zubin Jehanbux Gandevia, these days chant the history mantra more than geography. And, why not? The...
The Indian Media Business penned by Business World senior editor Vanita Kohli, published recently by Sage Publications, treads territory few Indian writers have ventured into –...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Seems like information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has unwittingly created a controversy where there was none. Media reports yesterday quoted Prasad...
NEW DELHI: The market for entertainment products, including television, films, video games and music, is huge in India and Asia, in general. But for that a...
You have to give it to the Hong Kong-based James Field, director solutions, NDS Asia Pacific. Field might be staring at another tough assignment as he...
MUMBAI: Has Tarun Katial, Star India’s senior vice-president, programming, content and communication, put in his papers following his transfer to Star Asia’s head office in Hong...
MUMBAI: Has Tarun Katial, Star India’s senior vice-president, programming, content and communication, put in his papers following his transfer to Star Asia’s head office in Hong...
MUMBAI: When you have dominated the weekday afternoon and evening prime time for a length of time that probably has no parallels in television history, what...
NEW DELHI: The Subrata Roy-promoted Sahara India is “actively exploring” a foray into ground distribution of television channels. This is because the channel is facing competition...
NEW DELHI: Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea and the owner-publisher of the Anand Bazar Patrika (ABP) group Aveek Sarkar paid a courtesy call to senior government...
MUMBAI: It is advantage Star India in its battle with Zee Group cable arm Siti Cable over making available signals to the MSO’s HITS (headend in...
NEW DELHI: In what may be an embarrassing situation for the central government, CODA (Cable Operator and Distributor Association) spokesperson and Shiv Sena Vibhag Pramukh and...
NEW DELHI: ,-owned Hindustan Times Ltd, is keeping all its options open, including a deal with the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star India, but said no “conclusions” have...
There was a time when advertisers in India took BBC World, and CNN, as foreign news channels that ‘also’ beamed into India. But over the years,...
Star India has created a powerful public service message featuring Amitabh Bachchan to sensitise and encourage viewers to their extend support in rebuilding the flood-ravaged hill-state...
MUMBAI: The personal baby of Star India senior V-P content & Communication Tarun Katial has delivered and how. This month’s (Sunday, 6 July) Star Parivar Awards...
MUMBAI: A little over eight months after Star India filed a civil suit in the Bombay High Court seeking to enforce its contract against enstranged head...
BANGALORE: Nagging doubts over Siti Cable’s ambitious headend in the sky (HITS) project — through which it is seeking to implement the conditional access in the...
NEW DELHI: The MSOs cannot come to a consensus on the areas that may be first included for conditional access rollout in the four metros. The...
MUMBAI: First was Win Radio. Now another FM wannabe has sounded the death throes alarm. Radio Mid Day West India Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today gave permission to Media Content & Communication India Pvt Ltd, in which Star holds 26 per cent equity stake, to...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: With seven Indian stakeholders reportedly on board, Star India today announced it had applied to the information and broadcasting ministry for permission...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The government today sent out a clear warning that it was willing to u se all in its powers to go after...
MUMBAI: When reality bit, it chomped. The pay channel rate card circulated yesterday by Star India and Sony Entertainment (Zee disowned it) at the meeting with...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Today could well be the day that the public have a clear inkling of just what will be their payout if they...
NEW DELHI: It was supposed to be the day of reckoning for pricing in a post-conditional access regime. What it turned out to be was a...
MUMBAI: There are two new faces coming into Star India’s executive hierarchy. Joining India’s lead broadcaster when Star India’s financial year opens on 1 July...
Makers of software for the television industry will be among those to be hit by reduced budgets and a demand for more quality programming once CAS...
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...
CHENNAI: The battle for supremacy seems to be taking ugly turns in the capital of Tamil Nadu, one the metropolitan cities where conditional access system will...
Star India COO Sameer Nair may not look like it, but his colleagues say he is an extremely shrewd strategist. As part of the Star India...
MUMBAI: There is a new hiring in ad sales at ESPN Star Sports. Vijay Koshy officially joins duty on Monday as associate director, heading sales in...
