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NEW DELHI: The Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star can breathe easy a bit. The information and broadcasting ministry proposes to take the issue of uplinking of news channels...
MUMBAI: Duniya ko dika do kisme mein hai kitna dum! The latest programming initiative from Hindi general entertainment channel Sahara TV sees the channel muscling into...
LUCKNOW: Emotions before economics. Sounds good in advertisements, but don’t be mistaken that the Subrata Roy-promoted Sahara India group (current assets: over Rs. 320 billion) has...
MUMBAI: Kaalki , the first special effects-based show from the Balaji stable, might finally see the light of day after the World Cup. The show was...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s Star Group has won nationwide landing rights for Xing Kong Wei Shi, its Mandarin-language entertainment channel. With this , it joins the league...
NEW DELHI: With Star, Sahara, Zee and Aaj Tak announcing the launch of additional news channels, public broadcaster Doordarshan seems to have taken an initiative to...
MUMBAI: It’s BIG show time folks. With themes ranging from India’s partition, through to tales developed around the strife torn state of Kashmir, to blockbuster soaps,...
MUMBAI: While Star, Zee and Sahara are looking beyond the soap as far as their blockbuster offerings for the new year are concerned, Sony Entertainment is...
MUMBAI:Merrill Lynch’s India Media and Entertainment Industry report on the media sector post the conditional access (CAS) legislation, produced in conjunction with DSP Merrill Lynch Limited...
HONG KONG: The Star Group has signed an agreement to form a strategic alliance with Hunan Broadcast Group. The agreement represents a framework for joint financing...
INTRODUCTION The National Readership Survey 2001 reveals that cable is currently available in 33 million homes. The reach of television in urban areas is 84.7 %...
MUMBAI : It’s turning over a new leaf with the new year and almost going against the grain. While some channels would prefer to tread cautiously...
Leading sports channel ESPN-Star is set to hike its package rate by 8.5 per cent to Rs16 per subscriber home from 1 January, 2001 The rates...
With 2002 drawing to a close, most channels are geared to usher in the New Year with the usual masala mix – films, music and events,...
MUMBAI: You have to give it to Star India. It does not believe in half measures. The jewel in Rupert Murdoch’s Asia operations effectively re-set the...
MUMBAI: In what could be turn out to be a masterstroke in public perception management, the Star Network is likely to reduce its network rate price...
It‘s sweet revenge time for cinema theatres across the country. For long at the receiving end of cable piracy that weaned away the avid movie buff...
MUMBAI: Underdeclaration – the monkey on the backs of broadcasters and, apparently, MSO’s as well, may well have a solution if an initiative announced today proves...
It is only the ‘privileged‘ urban homes that feature on satellite channels in India, finds a study conducted on gender representation on satellite television by the...
NEW DELHI: The cable operators-broadcaster face-off in the Capital is lurching from one controversy to another. While Win Cable-Hathway and Sony Entertainment TV India have called...
NEW DELHI: It’s almost official now. Just stopping short of issuing a press release, Aaj Tak, the news channel from the India Today Group (ITG) stable,...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: On the eve of the kick-off of the Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka a major spat has developed on the distribution front. The cable...
MUMBAI: It’s raining new shows. Next week will see new releases from The Big Three Hindi entertainment broadcasters, Star, Sony and Zee And in three different...
The anniversary of the most significant event of last year “9/11” (11 September) is a few days away and all the news channels are gearing up...
MUMBAI: Another weekly serial launches on 10 September in the 8 pm slot on Star Plus. Khichdi is a concoction of characters and their emotions, idiosyncrasies,...
NEW DELHI: If paying up of tax is a yardstick, then it seems foreign satellite channels are doing better than their Indian counterparts. Foreign television channel...
MUMBAI:”Mr Boombastic! Simply Fantastic!” That could well be the song New teen romance Kyun Hota Hai Pyaar. that the guys at Star Plus are playing after...
NEW DELHI: The I&B Ministry, which recently sent showcause notices to four television channels for carrying surrogate advertisements for two liquor brands, last week sent a...
After a day of hard negotiations, Star India and Hinduja Group MSO INCableNet this evening appeared to have bought themselves some time to arrive at an...
It’s looking beyond its own living room. The Prasar Bharati, the holding company of DD and AIR, is looking at having non-Doordarshan channels and also the...
It’s not only Sony Entertainment that is bidding to push sporting spectacle on its entertainment channels. If Sony will be pushing ICC cricket on its SET...
With the soccer fever on the rise, ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has found that Chinese sports fans have already made their minds up about their favourite...
Kkusum, the long suffering soap on Sony has made it to the nominations for the ‘favourite drama on cable’ in the fifth edition of the Cable...
After going all out to jump into the Internet bandwagon, media companies are now hunting for people to head these ventures. Both the channels have given...
Getting the ground in order goes more than a long way in pushing through new subscription packages as well as in ramping up connectivity numbers. Star...
Getting the ground in order goes more than a long way in pushing through new subscription packages as well as in ramping up connectivity numbers. Star...
On the balance, the first half results of the Zee Network (of which Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) is a part) are not something worth shouting about....
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 past few weeks have witnessed some hectic lobbying for easing up of the bug bear clauses as far as DTH regulations are concerned. Star TV...
Jurassic Park, the 1994 record busting Spielberg epic that aired on Star Movies in the last week of March, has notched ratings that would make a...
CANNES: Walt Disney Television International president David Hulbert is quite gung-ho about India. At MipTV in Cannes, Hulber told a European media website that his company...
Star is unwilling to give up its hold over the 9-10 pm band. Even as Sony’s top two soaps, Kkusum and Kutumb continue to inch their...
It was brief to say the least. The amount of time that finance minister Yashwant Sinha devoted to the entertainment sector in his speech to parliament...
Divinity, unlike human frailty is more consistent at producing tangible results, at least for television production houses. Ask Creative Eye. The production house that has an...
Star Movies seems to have stolen a march over chief rival HBO in its bid to generate some Oscar buzz. Though the awards are a while...
Even as Indian officials hem and haw over promulgating broadcasting regulations, its neighbour and arch rival Pakistan has gone ahead and issued an executive order to...
Star Plus, the flagship channel of the Star group, seems determined to tap all genres in the slew of new programmes it is unleashing in 2002....
For the flagship channel of the Star network, it could be a tall order retaining a hold on audiences in the 9 PM slot after 9...
This Sunday, 9 December, kids rule the roost on the Star Network. After all it is International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB). Through a series of...
Star Plus' popular twenty minute news capsule Aaj Ki Baat has started airing at 6:40 pm from Sunday. Targeted at corporate executives and members of the...
