MUMBAI: As New Zealand celebrated 45 years of television broadcasting, industry leaders in the country met in Auckland a few days ago. The forum was an...
MUMBAI: He started out producing blockbuster films like Bad Boys and The Rock. However, over the past few years producer Jerry Bruckheimer has been making a...
MUMBAI: SCP Private Equity Partners, a private equity firm that invests in companies in high growth industries, announced that its portfolio company, BIAP Systems, Inc., has...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms and Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication Pune-based institute (SIMC) are jointly launching a programme in television writing (fiction). According to a media...
BANGALORE: This is one marketer which has aggressive ambitions for the humble grain of rice. Karnataka-based Embee Agro Foods recently introduced basic rice under the brand...
MUMBAI: TV-Turnoff Week 2005 will have its largest international participation yet. TV-Turnoff Network which is a US nonprofit organization that encourages children and adults to watch...
Let me start with a question? If it rains in Mumbai, why is there is no campaign for ice cream in the rest of India?If there...
MUMBAI: Last year it was raining shampoos on Indian television. This year its toilet soaps! But whether shampoos or soaps, when it comes to India’s top...
Starcom Delhi’s success percentage can be pegged as almost 50 per cent last year and the agency’s executive director Anita Nayyar is upbeat about the year...
Indiantelevision.com’s Seema Pherwani spoke to India TV editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma, in the eye of a controversy following the series of ‘sting operations’ his channel has conducted...
MUMBAI: As the first anniversary of Janet Jackson’s infamous wardrobe malfunction during the Superbowl approaches the Parents Television Council (PTC) in the US has released a...
MUMBAI: Film and television software production company K Sera Sera Productions has posted a net profit of Rs 3.01 million for the quarter ended 31 December...
He talks of a “marketing meltdown” in the country. FMCGs are his real targets. Harish Bijoor does not mince words while reasoning a greater ‘autonomy’ for...
MUMBAI: BBC New Media in the UK has announced how it proposes to reallocate investment from its current online budget to help fund new broadband and...
MUMBAI: French Electronics and media services company Thomson has outlined a strategic growth map for the next two years. As far as the media and entertainment...
MUMBAI: All roads for the television industry will lead to Chitrakut Grounds on New Link Road in Andheri (West) this evening. Reason: the industry’s biggest awards,...
MUMBAI: This should come as sweet music to lovers of architecture. The southern Chinese city Guangzhou plans to enter the record books by building the tallest...
MUMBAI: Shanghai Media Group (SMG) is geared to set up China’s second English-language satellite TV channel for foreign audiences. The other being the national broadcaster China...
MUMBAI: Yet another edition of the Broadcast India exhibition and symposium kicks off on 26 October 2004 at the World trade Centre. The symposium spread over...
MUMBAI: Uefa has invited tenders for the TV rights for the European Football Championship (Euro) 2008. In India ESPN Star Sports had aired Euro 2004 a...
The problem: Horlicks was perceived to be a fuddy-duddy brand amongst kids and it sought to transform itself into an exciting and vibrant brand. Research showed...
MUMBAI: Karuna Samtani has been appointed as the chief operating officer of SaharaOne Television, the television wing of SaharaOne. Sahara India has brought together its motion...
MUMBAI: Action star Jackie Chan is now going to star in a television series, which has been titled Silver Times. Apart from Chan, the series will...
MUMBAI: UK viewers want stricter controls over the amount of sex that children are exposed to on television. In a BBC survey, 86 per cent of...
MUMBAI: The Times of India Group having plans to enter into the television arena for quite some time has begun major recruitment drive for key positions....
MUMBAI: A Unicef -supported television and radio campaign to fight polio won a silver medal at this year’s EFFIE Awards given by the advertising industry. The...
MUMBAI: Make no mistake about it, broadband is coming. And it is not just Reliance Infocomm, which is scheduled to unleash its Netway offering at the...
MUMBAI: Hachette Filipacchi UK, Britain’s magazine publishing house which has magazine titles like: Elle, Elle Decoration, ElleGirl, Red, B, Sugar, tvhits!, Inside Soap and All About...
Are the days of the subtly portrayed Laajojis on Indian television over? Has physical perfection taken precedence over histrionic talent? Indiantelevision.com speaks to various players in...
It‘s that time of year. When people who couldn‘t care two hoots rustle up some contrived empathy for the cause of womanhood. But for those who...
MUMBAI: It may not be giving Max the viewership hoped for, but the Under19 cricket world cup is seeing a decent crowd attendance. The International Cricket...
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...
Some moved because they weren‘t happy with the way things were going, some to pursue other career interests, some chose to spend time with family and...
MUMBAI: The National Basketball Association (NBA) is rapidly expanding television coverage. It has signed deals in seven countries including China and Georgia. In India, NBA action...
MUMBAI: UTV’s post-production and special effects division, USL-WOA has acquired a specialized post-production studio, STV. Close on the heels of acquiring Western Outdoor Advertising (WOA) earlier...
PARIS: Eutelsat and EADS Astrium have announced the signature of a contract for the construction the Hot Bird 8 broadcast satellite. This will be launched in...
NEW YORK: The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced that veteran television broadcaster, Bob Costas, of HBO’s Emmy-winning On the Record with Bob Costas,...
NEW YORK: With the popularity of auto and motorcycle racing growing, the time seems right for a show that allows viewers a peek into the lives...
MUMBAI: NumTV.com, one of the largest 24-hour live online multilingual entertainment portal for international Asians, has offered EAS (Easy Access System) to Indian broadcasters who are...
It could be the small screen blockbuster of the decade. Or it could end up a dud. Whatever the outcome, Karishma – The Miracles of Destiny...
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...
MUMBAI: It is time to get into the spirit of testing knowledge in the best brains in the country. BBC World, the BBC’s commercially funded international...
Film fashion, heritage textiles and more designers is what FTV plans to unleash on the Indian viewer this year. It‘s bided its time well. Fashion TV...
The awards show saw 22 million kids taking part in the voting process either through the website or by calling a toll free number. Voting took...
NEW DELHI: India’s Information and broadcasting ministry has got itself a new additional secretary (broadcasting) – Vijay Singh as Anil Baijal has been moved to Delhi...
ROME: The lower house of the Italian parliament passed a fiercely contested bill intended to modernise television and create more choice on the Italian airwaves. A...
FRANCE: The uptake of the electronic medium shows no signs of slowing down. The average time spent by the television buff across the globe last year...
CNN‘s chief Chris Cramer‘s speech at Ficci Frames 2003 has really put “reality TV in India under perspective! Taking about reality TV, Cramer said that this...
MUMBAI: The advertising industry hasn’t reacted well to the fact that the service tax has been increased from 5 per cent to 8 per cent. However,...
(While some people love the shrews on television, others love to hate them. How important are they to a script ?Are the formulaic arched eyebrows, rolling...

