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With the Synergy Communications’ produced India’s Child Genius, Star World makes its big time foray into indigenously produced English programming. While it may not have a...
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...
If there is a list drawn up of the hottest young television professionals in India, her name will surely figure in it. Coming from a family...
…and we knew that Ekta Kapoor had resorted on the secret mantra again. She did it with her flagship serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi,...
MUMBAI: The TRP war has spilled over to the infotainment channels as well. While these niche channels bag a small portion of the ratings pie, they...
When Deepak Chaurasia, the 30-year-old political editor of Aaj Tak, was announced the consulting editor of Prasar Bharati’s news channel DD News, critics speculated if the...
On 14 October, India's first 24-hour non-stop Punjabi music channel, Balle-Balle will complete one year of its existence. For Balle-Balle, it has been an eventful year,...
Her week never ends. You will find the Balaji head in her office on Sundays too. “Now that I have a public limited company in television...
If she is not slogging away on the sets to shape up her TV serials, she is seeking divine protection and blessings. “I just returned from...
Tent-pole programming — where one or two blockbuster shows are used to hook the viewers and ensure that they stay loyal to the channel just for...
MUMBAI: Star Plus is trying out a completely new treatment for two of its shows, which are not doing too brightly (by its standards) on the...
It may just all be finally coming together for UTV group CEO Ronnie Screwvala. His organisation has regrouped in the last year and there is clarity...
MUMBAI: After a fracas with Balaji Telefilms creative head Ektaa Kapoor two years ago, Ketaki Dave made a dramatic exit from Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu....
Understandably, he is quite excited these days. With his mega-scale war epic Mission Fateh launching on Sahara Manoranjan a few weeks ago, the man is on...
It may not have the best of reasons to be complacent, but RED, the FM offering from the India Today stable, is gung ho about its...
MUMBAI: Crisil risk evaluation for the Indian entertainment industry, a pioneering initiative undertaken by CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) would play a catalytic role in channelising...
NEW DELHI: Starting tomorrow, news channel Aaj Tak has a comprehensive programmes lined up for a quick recap of the year 2002. The finale Flashback Aaj...
The cell phone buzzes constantly, but Apurva Purohit, president of Zee TV, the flagship channel of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms, doesn’t mind attending to the...
The Subhash Chandra promoted Zee Telefilms could not have been going through a worse phase. With TRPs of programmes failing to register in the Top 50...
Channels all over the country are deep focusing on the housewife. And the afternoon is the time to get her undivided attention. Suddenly, the plain housewife...
MUMBAI: The semi final that topped the ratings heap last week was a mere trailer. The latest lot of the TRPs, just in, reaffirmed cricket’s hold...
Kahin Naa Kahin Koi Hai may have served up a lemon, but has not dampened the spirits of production house UTV, which is steathily climbing the...
She started as an assistant director, grew to be the director of the first and one of the most successful satellite soaps and has not looked...
MUMBAI:Jaya TV, floated by close associates of Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha, will soon have another Tamil sibling. The channel, wiser after events of last...
NEW DELHI: The war of soaps is on and the media covers the TRP & TVR to the hilt. But of late news is back in...
MUMBAI: It’s early days no doubt. But the first week’s TAM ratings of Sony Entertainment’s matchmaking blockbuster show hosted by Bollywood screen siren Madhuri Dixit, Kahin...
Kahin Naa Kahin Koi Hai may have served up a lemon, but has not dampened the spirits of production house UTV, which is steathily climbing the...
Alarmed by the recent fall in stock prices, dismal Q1 results for the year 2000 – Zee reported a mere 5% increase in the net profits...
NEW DELHI: So you thought national broadcaster Doordarshan was a pushover? Data says otherwise. Between 9-11 pm in all TV homes on all days among viewers...
Channel Guide, India’s first and only free to air digital satellite TV guide channel, is set to complete one year of operations. It now reaches over...
It‘s the Toon Match all over again; only this time it‘s Rugrats pitched in fierce battle against Tintin and Amanda Bynes pitting her wit against the...
It may sound Utopian, but the Entertainment Report, put out by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Ernst & Young, believes that a self-regulatory body...
While other channels are still biting the family soap bait, Sahara TV has decided to tread the untrodden path with a new series on the theme...
Broadcast Worldwide Business Development director Pradipto Sircar refuses to be cowed down by rival regional satellite channels that are stealing viewers, while the four Tara channels...
It’s not just Zee TV that has a lot riding on the new programming initiative that it instituted recently. Ronnie Screwvallah-promoted television production major United Television...
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation, which met yesterday to discuss the TRP issue, has set up a committee to go into the issue, it has been revealed....
It’s all happening at the Indian Broadcasting Foundation. The representative body of broadcasters is meeting today at 6:00 pm at The Club in Mumbai’s western suburb...
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...
The winner takes it all is an adage that Star India is using to its advantage and how. The industry is bracing itself for another hike...
The alleged TRP scam has literally become a case of the right hand not knowing what the left is up to. Chaos reigned when the TAM...
CNBC’s revelations on possible “rating fudge” are significant since priorities of television in India are set by Television Rating Points (TRPs). “Stunned”, “shocked” and “damaging” are...
A poll run on indiantelevision.com over the past seven days has revealed that industry believes that all is not okay with the ratings delivered by Intam...
SET India CEO Kunal Dasgupta is in an angry mood. The reason: the overkill of the TRP for sale coverage on CNBC India. Dasgupta told indiantelevision.com...
Business channel CNBC India today broke a story casting doubt on the efficacy of television peoplemeters in India, saying it was “not foolproof, not confidential and...
Last Monday Zee Telefilms unveiled its new face to the world. Not exactly the best of times to fix an interview with one of the key...
Star India’s new programming strategy for Friday nights has hit the right notes from Day 1 itself, as per information provided by the company. Market...
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...
