Connect with us
MUMBAI: From today, Channel [V] is wholly a Star subsidiary. The Hong Kong-based Star TV, a unit of media baron Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Ltd, today...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports has appointed Charles Less as vice president, advertising sales for Southeast Asia. Leading the sales team of Justin Sampson, Dennis Lim and...
MUMBAI: Gaurab Pandey, who has written and directed several telefilms for India’s mass entertainment channels, is ready with Bollywood actress Raveena Tandon’s feature film Stumped. The...
MUMBAI: Here is an announcement that seeks to marry television and reading. The 75-year-old Mumbai based publisher Popular Prakashan will bring content from broadcasters like Star...
Another player is eyeing the entertainment segment. This time it is the Prannoy Roy-promoted New Delhi Television (NDTV) which is quietly working on a plan to...
NEW DELHI: A Christmas present to a cable operator from the Indian judiciary? It seems so. On 24 December, a civil court of Faridabad, a town...
Militancy is not the only worry of the people of Jammu. Currently a vicious tussle is on between the Zee Telefilms’ owned cable network Siticable and...
A couple of months back, the Pakistan government had awarded Star TV a licence to sell and distribute its decoders, and its channels in that country....
The Star TV India management is confident that its music-channel-turned-youth-channel-turned music channel Channel V is going to hit the right rhythm now that it is 87.5...
Zee TV, finally deciding that discretion is the better part of valour, has decided to discontinue for the present its much criticised game show Sawaal Dus...
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...
Karan Thapar, Indian chat show host and head of production company UTV’s current affairs division, has won the Asian Television Award 2000 for Best News/Current Affairs...
Star TV India is bringing in television industry veteran Altaf Ali Mohammed to look after its digital platform – DTH and broadband – in India. Mohammed...
Despite consistent lobbying by a clutch of broadcasters right from Zee TV to Star TV to Prasar Bharati chief RR Shah, the government is not going...
Star TV India is on the prowl for a dot com chief. The company is scouting around for an individual who will steer its forway in...
HONG KONG: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has confirmed that civil action was launched in Hong Kong on Monday against five companies...
NEW DELHI: Star TV affiliate Space TV has made some changes in its application for permission to start a KU-band DTH venture that involves increasing the...
In order to ensure complete integration of various divisions of Star Network and facilitate the growth of the channel’s new business ventures fresh recruitments to senior...
For someone who came to Mumbai from a small town in Gujarat as a teenager and could hardly speak or even understand English, Vipul D Shah...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s Star TV is to let go or reassign 100 employees, many of them highly paid technical experts, when it closes its Hong Kong...
Taiwan : China Network Systems (CNS), Taiwan’s leading cable TV service provider, in which Rupert Murdoch’s Star TV has a stake, will be launching Asia’s first...
It’s been 18 months since Star Plus started beaming in the UK and it has made its presence felt in the interrim. The jewel in the...
In an interview given to a business television channel, R K Singh, CEO of Zee Telefilms has said that Zee will soon launch a new game...
If there is one person who seems to be smitten by the Big B’s charisma then it has to be Kerry Packer. The Australian media tycoon,...
MUMBAI: Media baron Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is reportedly examining the possibility of launching a new network devoted entirely to the reality genre. The tentatively titled...
UTV chairman Ronnie Screwvala denied any possibilities of Vijay TV being taken over by Star TV. This was to clear the faux pas made by The...
News TV India Ltd, the Indian arm of Rupert Murdoch-owned Star TV, is all set to acquire a 25% stake in Rajan Raheja-owned cable network, Hathway...
Alarmed by the recent fall in stock prices, dismal Q1 results for the year 2000 – Zee reported a mere 5% increase in the net profits...
Hotel Regent in Mumbai will see the hosting of a seminar on the fast changing media scenario in the country. The seminar dubbed Mediamorphosis will be...
Star TV and ANZ Grindlays have got into bed together with Mastercard International. And the result of the menage a trois: a bonny alive and kicking...
Star TV made a lot of hulabaloo about how the network would crack down on any one trying to corner the limelight by riding on the...
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...
Classic Hindi movie channel Star Gold, which was launched last month, is gradually clawing its way back into Indian viewers homes, thanks to a push from...
Star Gold was launched with a lot of song and dance last month in Mumbai. The classic Hindi movie channel has, however, not received the kind...
Much is made of direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast as the new convergence mantra and conditional access these days, especially after Star TV Asia chairman James Murdoch, and...
Channel [V] Popstars is all set to announce its first pop girl band. The names of the girls who have made it to the final five...
In order to ensure complete integration of various divisions of Star Network and facilitate the growth of the channel’s new business ventures fresh recruitments to senior...
As part of on-going initiatives to enhance the value of Asian pay television as an advertising vehicle, the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa)...
In order to ensure complete integration of various divisions of Star Network and facilitate the growth of the channel’s new business ventures fresh recruitments to senior...
If Saanjhi can do for Zee what Saans did for Star Plus, the beleaguered channel may have reason to smile. After Saans, Palchhin and Sonpari,...
It’s Pakistan ahoy for Star TV. The network was granted the first pay TV licence by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) earlier this week. Following this,...
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...
Urmila Gupta, one of the last executives brought in by former Star TV India head honcho R. Basu, has quit the company. Gupta was in charge...
Star TV Had set up ISKyB with a team of 300. When government decided to ban it, it hung on to the team for nearly two...
DATE EVENT December 1996: The United Front Government under Prime Minister Deve Gowda issues a notification saying that a licence has to be obtained for Ku-band...
After failing with two alliances (Star TV and Asianet) and struggling to forge a third (for Siticable for the past year), Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra...
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...
Reports of a concerted backlash from across the country to the 1 March increase in Star’s subscription rates appeared unlikely on Monday, with company officials confident...
Come 5 February and a new corporate campaign is slated to break across Asia. That of rebranding Star TV as Star. The campaign covers a high-pitch...
Responding to reported rumblings of discontent over payment terms among the producers of some of its hit serials, Star TV has said it is open to...
