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MUMBAI: The rumour has been doing the rounds for a while now. The much anticipated move of Star India’s senior vice president ad sales Joy Chakraborthy...
MUMBAI: Star has created a new post to handle government and regulatory affairs. Joe Welch has been appointed as senior vice president government affairs, and will...
MUMBAI: The movie awards season is in full swing. Star World will air the British Film and Television Academy (Bafta) awards on 20 February at 10...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms on Monday announced allotment of 21 per cent (13,694,193 equity shares) of the total post issued paid up share capital of the company...
MUMBAI: Post the restructuring of Sahara’s media and entertainment business under a joint venture management company with Percept, the company saw a couple of high profile...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) initiatives have energised mangers of country’s first DTH service, Dish TV, 20 per cent owned by the...
MUMBAI: Shortly after signing a deal with Disney to distribute its channels in India, the Rupert Murdoch owned broadcaster Star has renewed a multi-year agreement with...
MUMBAI: Star’s 24-hour general entertainment channel for Mainland China, Xing Xong has been launched in Singapore on StarHub CableTV channel 105. Featuring 900 hours of original...
MUMBAI: The Little Big Mouse is finally ready to make its entry into Indian television space. And expectedly, it is on the biggest network platform that...
MUMBAI:: With the aim of dominating the Chinese movies segment across key Asian territories, Star has signed an exclusive multi-territory pay television output deal with Hong...
MUMBAI: It was a night of music, colour, fun and recognition of behind the scenes talent in the Indian television industry. The 2004 edition of the...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Delhi High Court has observed that Star India should change the logo of its new channel (launching 1 November) from “One”...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Star’s plans to launch a new upmarket Hindi channel, Star One, has run into a roadblock. Sahara India Mass Communications has appealed in a...
MUMBAI: UTV expects to garner Rs 1.2 billion from its TV content production business in the current fiscal. “Movies will fetch us around Rs 75-80 crore...
Mumbai: Zee Telefilms Limited, India’s largest media and entertainment conglomerate today accepted the BCCI offer to increase the bid price to US$ 308 million, thus bagging...
NEW DELHI: No sooner has cable and broadcast regulator come out with its recommendations on the sector, protests are being made. National Cable & Telecommunications Association...
MUMBAI: They may be fierce rivals. However, one point that both Star and Sony agree on is the need for the authorities to stimulate growth in...
MUMBAI: Following up on the announcement made last week that Star Group affiliate Asian Broadcasting FZ LLC (ABF) was to take a 25.1 per cent stake...
MUMBAI: The 8-8:30 pm battle’s first week outcome is out. With Star Plus’ Spanish babyDekho magar pyaar se holding steady in its second week, all eyes...
MUMBAI: They have been closely bonded for a while now. The Jeetendra Kapoor promoted Balaji Telefilms has been Star India’s leading winning content provider for more...
MUMBAI: Reality shows rule the roost at Channel [V]. And it is paying rich dividends for Star’s music arm, the channel claims, detailing how its reality...
MUMBAI: Star has announced the appointment of Grace Gu as general manager of Channel [V] China. Gu will be replacing Scarlett Li, who has resigned for...
BANGALORE: The Karnataka cable fraternity have come away disappointed after yet another attempt by them to get the Udaya Network to rethink its decision to turn...
MUMBAI: BAG Films Limited recently announced its results for the quarter ended 30 June 2004. Highlights of the quarter: -Net revenue increases 57 per cent to...
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...
MUMBAI: Close on the heels of the exit of creative director Monisha Singh, comes news of the resignation of another senior executive at UTV, Akhauri Sinha....
MUMBAI: The first day of the first Promax & BDA conference in India concluded with two competitions. The first one was the Promo Challenge. It was...
MUMBAI: PCCW, Star Group and ESPN Star Sports (ESS) announced yesterday that they have entered into an agreement for the carriage of ESPN, Star Sports, National...
MUMBAI: The Music Broadcast Pvt Ltd promoted and Star India backed FM station Radio City could soon be available on foreign shores, if things work out...
MUMBAI: While the industry impatiently awaits an announcement as to who will be heading Disney in India, some news on what the three channels it is...
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...
MUMBAI: The first thing that hits you when you enter Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City (DAKC), the high security nerve centre of Reliance Infocomm located in Navi...
MUMBAI: Star India’s programming folks will be dealing with a new man in Star’s One Harbourfront head office in Hong Kong : Paul O’Hanlon. The Rupert...
Till two years ago, prime time for Marathi channels in Maharashtra ended at 8:30 pm. Cable and satellite viewers, fed with small doses of Marathi shows,...
MUMBAI: Star Plus’ Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii has taken a flight to Melbourne, Australia. In a strategic move to add zest to the prime time drama...
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...
MUMBAI: We really believe in this market and to help expand the pie, all players should work together. A point made by Star Group CEO Michelle Guthrie...
NEW DELHI: Hong Kong-based Star Group Ltd., controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, plans to launch two more entertainment channels outside the direct-to-home (DTH) package of...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Star India has readied a new line of programming missiles from its arsenal that it expects will have the competition running for...
MUMBAI: While marital bliss isn’t a likely option for his reel character Abhay Kapoor, Kusum’s on and off screen hubby Anuj Saxena is all set to...
MUMBAI: Former Star group COO Bruce Churchill is assuming greater responsibility within Hughes Electronics following Murdoch’s News Corp’s 34 per cent aquisition of the company. He...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has reported consolidated revenues of $5.6 billion for the second quarter ended December 2003. This represents a 19 per cent increase...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The cable industry feels that Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s assertions on mandating more service providers in cable areas to increase competition is something...
MUMBAI: Star Plus and Star News look set to get serious a leg-up in their UK distribution numbers. Come 1 March 2004, Star Plus and Star...
NEW DELHI: The new year has brought with it a wave of new appointments at various media companies, be it at Star, Sony or Zee. Yesterday...
NEW DELHI: Buoyed by growth in India and Taiwan, the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group Pvt. Ltd. is on track for $40 million FY 2004 profit as...
MUMBAI: Hong Kong based communications provider PCCW and Star have announced that Star Chinese Movies and Xing Kong will be available to Now Broadband TV customers...
MUMBAI: It’s time for celebrations at Star India. The Star network has walked away with nine awards at the Promax & BDA (Broadcast Designers’ Association) Asia...
MUMBAI: If last year, Star India had linked a 25 per cent drop in subscription rates per subscriber (from Rs 40 to Rs 30) to a...
NEW DELHI: The Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp’s jewel in the crown, Star India, is in discussion with Disney to distribute the channels that it proposes to...
