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MUMBAI: China Mobile Limited, News Corporation and Star Group Limited have announced a broad strategic partnership to explore wireless media business opportunities. By leveraging the content...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star’s news partner ABP Group is drawing up expansion plans envisaging niche news channels, film production and a sustainable...
MUMBAI: TiVo is all set to launch the TiVo Guru Guide recommendations. TiVo’s newest feature will allow subscribers to discover exciting programming and automatically record great...
MUMBAI: The cable fraternity is wasting the huge first mover advantage they already have in hand vis-a-vis pushing addressability in chasing the mandating of CAS, feels...
Is Disney getting into the Indian market? We have been hearing reports that the company is in conversation with Star TV to distribute the channel in...
MUMBAI: The Star Group has strongly refuted a recent report in the Financial Times that News Corp “has discussed withdrawing from Phoenix Satellite Television, its Hong...
MUMBAI: The sixth edition of Frames, the convention for the Indian media and entertainment industry takes place in Mumbai from 22 to 24 March 2006. It...
MUMBAI: Senior Star India executives and representatives from Cable Operators and Distributors Association (CODA) met today to resolve issues relating to Star One and direct-to-home (DTH)...
Hathway Cable & Datacom CEO K Jayaraman has been in the thick of things in the rapidly evolving Indian cable TV market. His network has in...
It has been a busy time for FremantleMedia in India. The company earlier this year finished co-producing the first season of Indian Idol. It is now...
A stellar cast of regulators, media owners and distributors, media buyers, brands, leading technologists, investment banks and private equity firms gathered together at the India Television...
MUMBAI: Toyota Kirloskar has decided to launch its latest offering Toyota Innova, India’s first three-row seating passenger car, with an exclusive television event on Star Plus...
MUMBAI: Star has inked a deal with Indonesia’s national network ANTV wherein it has acquired a 20 per cent stake in the company. ANTV, which is...
MUMBAI: India continues to be the engine that drives the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group, News Corp’s pan-Asian venture. Star raked in operating profits (EBIDTA) of $...
MUMBAI: Vijay TV has lined up special programmes for Vinayaka Chaturthi day. The special show will be beamed on 18 September. The Patti Mandram will air...
MUMBAI: Sahara One CEO Shantonu Aditya calls it a path breaking strategy that could change the way movies for satellite television are bought and sold in...
MUMBAI: Star India has joined hands with Rakesh Roshan’s Filmkraft Productions (India) Pvt. Ltd. for their forthcoming film Krrish. The alliance includes exclusive appearances of Hrithik...
In this week’s “Jaanbaaz” STAR News features three sensational stories, one of Suniel Shetty’s – the ‘brave’ Bollywood actor – organization that helped Mumbaikars during the...
NEW DELHI: Hong Kong-based PCCW’s IPTV platform NOW Broadband TV (NOW) has secured exclusive long term agreements with HBO and Star Group, comprising 14 channels that...
MUMBAI: ITV’s production arm Granada has signed a substantial TV movie output deal with News Corp’s Star Movies. The announcement was made by Nadine Nohr, managing...
MUMBAI: Asian satellite operator Asiasat and pan Asian broadcaster Star have announced that the broadcaster will be utilising Asiasat 2 C-band capacity to provide programming primarily...
When you’ve been in the television production business for as long as Fremantle Media director of productions India Gavin Wood has, there is probably very little...
MUMBAI: One of CNBC-TV18 faces Mini Menon has switched over to the proposed news channel from the Times of India Group. In a statement issued by...
MUMBAI: Star’s Tamil channel Vijay TV is back with another event property. In association with The Banyan, a home for the mentally ill and destitute women,...
MUMBAI: US direct-broadcast satellite-television provider EchoStar Communications Corp. has appointed Michael A Neuman as president and chief operating officer, overseeing day-to-day operations. The company has also...
MUMBAI: The government may come out with a downlinking policy soon but Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra has reservations on whether it would be a complete...
MUMBAI: Even as the government gives a green signal to the Tata-Star DTH venture — Space TV and Sun Network’s DTH platform, consumer electronics company Oscar...
The telenovela format is going from strength to strength in India and across the globe. RCTV International, the distribution arm of RCTV, which claims to be...
MUMBAI: A guardian angel sent to earth to protect a girl! A woman and man trying to escape their suffocating existence! These are the themes of...
MUMBAI: Mumbai kid Komal Dubey has won Nick’s ‘I want to be with Jadoo’ contest, which was conducted from 7 March to 17 April. Dubey will...
MUMBAI: Revenue growth for the Big Three of Indian broadcasting — Star India, Sony Entertainment TV India and Zee Telefilms — are likely to remain robust...
MUMBAI: Toon Disney is celebrating Donald Duck’s birthday on 9 June with much pomp and aplomb. The channel will air a six-hour Quack Pack Marathon from...
MUMBAI: Metty Oli, Sun TV’s longest running daily soap, is coming to an end. The soap will air its final episode on 17 June. Metty Oli...
MUMBAI: The direct-to-home (DTH) market is set for an explosion. Revenues from DTH operations is expected to touch Rs 40 billion in 2010, up from Rs...
MUMBAI: The fate of pop icon Michael Jackson hangs in the balance. Yesterday the prosecution and the defense presented their closing arguments in the case that...
MUMBAI: Two former Star executives have tied up with Ram Gopal Varma to co-produce a Rs 50 million comedy movie, Mr Ya Miss. Horseshoe Pictures, a...
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...
On 17 May, a Tuesday, even as the new information and broadcasting ministry secretary SK Arora, after taking over from his predecessor Navin Chawla, was telling...
MUMBAI:Star’s interactive service – 7827 has added a new feature for those interested in astrology and predictions. Star Interactive has tied up with the celebrity astrologer,...
MUMBAI: After a recent visit of News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch to India, Star is looking at sharing more with its Indian partner global experiences relating...
MUMBAI: Star India has discontinued services of its bouquet of channels to Asianet Satellite Communications, the largest cable TV network in Kerala. The signals were...
MUMBAI: Star India has discontinued services of its bouquet of channels to Asianet Satellite Communications, the largest cable TV network in Kerala. The signals were...
MUMBAI: Star India has appointed Reliance Infocomm’s Sanjeev Sethi as its new business development head. Sethi will be joining Star in the capacity of senior vice-president...
MUMBAI: Perhaps reality is stranger than fiction, after all. Though the weepy soaps still rule primetime on many channels, format shows have been gaining ground in...
MUMBAI: Channel [v] has adopted the simulcast strategy for the grande finale of Super Singer, for 2 April at 8 pm on four channels of the...
Kalanithi Maran is getting ready for his next big project. The Sun Network chairman and managing director has applied for a license to operate a direct-to-home...
NEW DELHI: Rupert Murdoch’s India visit has removed one doubt, at least. A Bengali news channel, being proposed by Media Content & Communications Services India (MCCS),...
Indian Idol‘s finale has done for Sony Entertainment Television (SET) what no other show has done for it till date. The year on year monopoly of...
MUMBAI: Actor and producer Samuel L. Jackson Pulp Fiction will join forces with Japan’s largest TV network, Fuji Television and with Japanese anime studio Gonzo. Jackson...
MUMBAI: Whether the cash registers are going to start ringing again for Star will be known in due course, but what is certain is that participants...
