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MUMBAI: Star Group announced a new CEO this morning: Michelle Guthrie who was earlier executive vice president of Regional Distribution and Business Development for Star. She...
MUMBAI: The bubble burst forth in full flow this evening as Star’s music channel – Channel [V] celebrated its status as the number one music station...
NEW DELHI: The battle between Subhash Chandra’s companies, ASC Enterprise and Siti Cable, and other broadcasters like Star India and Sony Entertainment Television (SET) hots up...
MUMBAI: The Ronnie Screwvala-promoted production house UTV Asia hopes to sell and syndicate its two international co-productions Infinite Darcy and Bollywood Road at this year’s Mipcom...
NEW DELHI: Star may have decided to play it down where Star News and its proposed DTH venture were concerned, but on the Radio City, its...
NEW DELHI: For the suave bhadralok from Kolkata, the always immaculately dhoti and kurta clad Aveek Sarkar, it’s a “big achievement” to have managed to pick...
MUMBAI: The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) today instructed Star, Sony and ESPN-Star Sports to file replies in the joint case brought before it...
NEW DELHI: The two-judge bench of Santosh Hegde and B P Singh today reserved a judgment on a special leave petition (SLP) filed by Star last...
NEW DELHI: Sony Entertainment Television India (SET) is all set to take the fight into the den of No. 1 Star Plus, with big ticket programming,...
NEW DELHI: With the conditional access system (CAS) gone for a six at least in Delhi and Mumbai, Sony Entertainment TV (SET) India is looking at...
NEW DELHI: The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) has directed Star, Sony and ESPN Star Sports to provide signals to the Zee-promoted HITS platform...
CALIFORNIA: GRB Entertainment has anounced an extensive content lineup at the trade fair MIPCOM 2003. The event takes place from 10-14 October this year in Cannes,...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Just over 15 days to go but the CAS picture seems to be still stuck in pause mode. The second meeting today...
MUMBAI: Channel 7 to 9, a Hindi entertainment, terrestrial free to air channel, recently commenced airing Star Plus soaps Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and...
NEW DELHI: Star dabao, desh bachao (suppress Star and save the country). This seems to be the clarion call of the Indian Media Group (IMG), an...
MUMBAI: Production house UTV, this morning, inked a three feature film deal with Star India. The deal envisages production of three big budget movies (each estimated...
He is a man who is passionate about movies, music and cricket and is lucky enough to be handling all three. Sony Max senior VP and...
MUMBAI: The “print fight” (mainly) between India’s leading publication The Times Of India and leading broadcaster Rupert Murdoch’s Star has reached boiling point. Over the past...
MUMBAI: Even while Star News is living from week to week as far as permission for uplinking its content is concerned, come media reports that Kumarmangalam...
HONG KONG: Rupert Murdoch’s Star Group is looking to make further inroads into China. The broadcaster and Chinese wireless value-added services provider Linktone Consulting have joined...
MUMBAI: News Corp’s Hong Kong-based Star Group has set up a new arm in Dubai Media City. Star will be using its Dubai Media City facility...
MUMBAI: More on the worry lines for the pay broadcasters over conditional access and its implications. A new report by international ratings agency Fitch estimates that...
NEW DELHI: CAS is indeed turning out to be better than any of the soaps that most entertainment channels air with unexpected twists and turns. ...
NEW DELHI: MSOs now want to fix the price of pay channels and offer an invitation price of Rs 200. The cable fraternity is not giving...
HONG KONG: Ever since last year member channels of the Cable and satellite broadcast association of Asia (CASBAA) have been concerned over the sale of decoders...
MUMBAI: SET’s packaging, channel ID and on air look won kudos at the 25th annual BDA Design Awards at a ceremony in Los Angeles on 6...
HONG KONG: The Star Group has announced the promotion of Michelle Guthrie to executive vice-president, regional distribution and business development. She reports to the president and...
NEW DELHI: Zee Telefilms may be gung-ho that, for a change, it seems to be more ready than others for a conditional access system (CAS) regime,...
MUMBAI: The first to switch off and the last to do it, ESPN Star Sports and the Star Network respectively, ended their blackout of Hinduja group...
NEW DELHI: Star India is looking at forming a new company with multiple Indian partners, whose shareholding would total up to 74 per cent, in a...
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...
MUMBAI: Sony’s Sambhav Asambhav’s launch episode may have suffered due to the Hinduja group MSO IncableNet switching off the Sony bouquet in several parts of Mumbai,...
HONG KONG: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has welcomed the announcement that new legislation will be introduced into the Legislative Council in...
MUMBAI: Well, it happened finally. Hinduja Group MSO InCablenet can now virtually qualify as Mumbai’s first major free-to-air cable service provider. The Star network late this...
The 15-day gap between the expiry of its contract with Star and the launch of its English and Hindi channels could have been a boon in...
NEW DELHI: Unfazed by mounting losses – approximately Rs 360 million in the last financial year ended 31 March – Star and Music Broadcast Pvt. Ltd....
MUMBAI: A success story in the war against the cable pirate. Only it is far removed from Indian shores. The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of...
MUMBAI: The team behind Star’s weekly current affairs programme FocusAsia has something to crow about. Bear Baiting – a report produced by FocusAsia which deals with...
MUMBAI: After some months of giving over the limelight completely to sister channel MAX courtesy the World Cup, Sony Entertainment India’s flagship channel SET is ready...
NEW DELHI: Capitalising on the needs of the Indian television news segment, Norway-based Vizrt Limited, the world’s leading company in real-time 3-D graphics system for television,...
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system is forcing various stakeholders of the industry to go in for initiatives that were not on the top of their priority...
NEW DELHI: The issue of standardisation of set-top boxes for KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service continues to be a thorny issue contributing to a delay in...
NEW DELHI: Star and the likes can breathe a bit easy as finally the Almighty may be smiling. Though the Indian government may have taken its...
Indiantelevision.com’s feedback from speakers for next week’s FICCI FRAMES 2003 convention rolls on with comments from Mid-day Multimedia managing director Tariq Ansari. The last couple of...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Indian Cabinet is likely to take up the uplinking issue and news channels’ uplinking from India and their equity pattern early...
NEW DELHI: The Indian cabinet is unlikely to meet on Tuesday (11 March 2003) as it generally does as part of the two designated days in...
NEW DELHI: The uplinking issue keeps cropping up in the Indian parliament and government assurances keep coming, as it happened again in Lok Sabha (Lower House)...
MUMBAI: Star India’s chief finance officer (CFO) Shankar Narayan isn’t too happy with the budget. According to him even thought there is a clamour for the...
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Cable Operators’ Federation (MCOF) is getting active, following the announcement of its formation in the city on 13 February. (see Mumbai’s small cable...
MUMBAI: It had to happen some day! Star Plus has completed a clean sweep of the Top 50 shows for the first time. Star’s supreme dominance...
