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Times are tough in television these days with the advertising pie shrinking. And channels are resorting to the tack of running older shows. Star, Zee, Sabe,...
Nine's loss has been Star's gain. Star Plus will commence airing Sanjay Khan's Jannat, bought over as part of the Channel Nine library, from 8 December...
Channel V is looking to make a dent in the lucrative Japanese market. To this end, the joint venture between Star and EMI Music will work...
While Star banks on saas bahu soaps and game shows to retain the top slot, Zee pegs its hopes on mythologicals after its relaunch debacle and...
Suddenly, there seems to be more to the Hindi entertainment television scenario than Star, Sony and Zee. There is a buzz around B4U Television Network, which...
The decision has been taken. The once hugely popular Kaun Banega Crorepati is being phased slowly out of Star Plus, and family drama serials are taking...
B4U Television Network, which relaunched B4U Entertainment as B4U Movies on 2 October, expects to achieve operating profits of $ 2 million by the end of...
Sony Entertainment, the flagship channel of the SET network, celebrated its sixth 6th anniversary yesterday and CEO Kunal Dasgupta asserts it is as good a time...
It now appears that efforts are on to discredit the ratings system further. Industry sources say that recently two individuals claiming to be the representatives of...
The race to be numero uno among television channels is hotting up what with tumbling TRPs, declining ad revenues and bumbling repetitive programmes. Over the past...
Reports that there was a dispute between Star India and Balaji Telefilms over the Tamil reworking of the hit soap “Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi...
Horrific. Ghastly. Dastardly. Inhuman. Unbelievable. Catastrophic. Deadly. Words that have been used to describe the airplane attacks on the World Trade Centre I and II –...
Today was the day after as national broadcaster Doordarshan’s Metro channel turned the clock back a year after HFCL Nine Broadcasting took up the three-hour prime...
Some 62 of Star Plus’ shows figure in The Top 100 Intam ratings chart for the week ended 2 September 2001. 19 shows each of Zee...
The latest TAM ratings are out. And the entire industry is agog about one revelation: not one of Zee TV’s new shows figures on the Top...
Launching 24 September is a new sitcom from the Star India stable, fare somewhat different in flavour from that of the staple soap variety stock that...
Star India’s long awaited direct to home (DTH) project has taken another step towards becoming reality and it has teamed up with consumer electronics and telecom...
After a long while in which Sony Entertainment seemed to be in hibernation while the Zees and the Stars did all the running, the channel today...
The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), which on 24 August is launching a campaign to increase confidence in Indian advertising on television and print media,...
Star Group Limited and UTV announced in Chennai today the formation of a joint venture which will oversee Tamil regional language channel Vijay TV. Star has...
The television industry has dismissed Sahara TV as a lost cause. Eyes have mainly been on Star, Zee and Sony Entertainment. However, if the aggressive stance...
It’s hoping to act as a guide in the maze that is Indian cable & satellite television today. Channel Guide a specific preview and menu channel...
Keeping in line with its runaway success in The Indian Telly Awards 2001, Star has pocketed 24 awards – seven gold, 13 silvers and seven bronze...
The Raghav Bahl-promoted Television Eighteen India Ltd, a television software producer and broadcaster which holds 49 per cent stake in CNBC India, has just signed a...
Is information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj listening to the pleas of wannabe players that the country should not take the open architecture route on the...
Television companies have significantly increased the use of hoardings to increase awareness about the shows they have on air. Although print medium (specifically newspapers) still...
Continuing a re-branding exercise that kicked off in February, Star has integrated its corporate logo across all its channels from Sunday, 20 May. The new logo...
Finally closing a deal which has been in the making since last October, Star and the Koos Group of Taiwan today announced an agreement to digitise...
The Star bouquet of channels, which has been blacked out in Kolkata due to a continuing dispute with cable operators over subscription fees, should be back...
Star India, which announced a new Rs 30 monthly price tag for its bouquet, effective 1 March, has from Thursday begun an “educative ad campaign” on...
Game shows are losing their fizz. Star’s Kaun Banega Crorepati’s viewership has been slipping. Zee’s Sawaal Dus Crore Ka came and went without a by your...
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...
Programming head Sameer Nair had let it slip some time in December last that Star might at some point consider taking its Kaun Banega Crorepati gameshow...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television CEO Kunal Dasgupta is in a fiery mood. Just back from power packed meetings with senior Sony Pictures Entertainment executives in Los...
Down, down, down with no end in sight at least in the near term is the verdict that media sector investment analysts have given regarding the...
