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MUMBAI: This is an important step in the goal towards leveraging the online medium as a means of showcasing sporting events. Today 21 June arguably the...
MUMBAI:The digital era will set in motion a whole new revolution in the way television content is produced, distributed and consumed. “Viewers can have one minute...
MUMBAI: The Aroon Purie-controlled TV Today Network is once more on the march with plans to unveil a new channel and a media institute. TV Today...
MUMBAI: Middle East airline Qatar Airways is set to become the first international airline to install live onboard satellite television. It has signed a $100 million...
MUMBAI: Satellite communications company New Skies Satellites (NSS) has signed an agreement with Hong Kong-based Asia Times Online to deliver direct-to-home (DTH) television in Southeast Asia...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting ministry is now in two minds — to support fully or not — over a proposed ban from 2 October on...
NEW DELHI: After having proposed that all TV channels beaming from outside India, should register themselves in India, the government is now toying with cross-media restrictions....
MUMBAI: Malayalam channel Asianet has launched a new comedy programme in the 9:30 pm slot. The show Comedy Nagar 2nd Street is a Monday – Friday...
MUMBAI: With an aim to further beef up its distribution activities, Sahara India has got itself a new national distribution head in Rakesh Lamba. Lamba would...
MUMBAI: Monday’s total legal victory for Michael Jackson on charges of child molestation, conspiracy and other counts was a verdict that brought a huge cheer for...
MUMBAI: It’s now official. Anuj Gandhi, senior V-P sales and marketing, has replaced Shantonu Aditya as president of SET Discovery. Confirming a development first put out...
MUMBAI: Television comic icon Bill Cosby whose father character Cliff Huxtable was a staple on American television for many years on The Cosby Show has been...
MUMBAI: Zee Smile, which is currently exercising in programming high drive, is planning to pick up some globally accepted comic formats. In this regard, the fun...
MUMBAI: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has cleared Jagran TV and Bloomberg’s foreign investment proposals. Jargan TV proposal entailed offloading around 25.7 per cent stake...
MUMBAI: Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that the heaviest commercial satellite ever iPStar-1 satellite has arrived at the Arianespace spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. It is...
MUMBAI: UK public broadcaster The BBC has announced an interactive initiative in the UK Wordhunt. This aims at rewriting the the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). BBC...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has mooted a proposal of minimum net worth for all TV channels uplinking from India on the lines of norms prevalent...
MUMBAI: TiVo Inc. is planning to offer the first television-based advertising search solution in mid 2006. Leveraging TiVo’s television search capabilities that enhance the TV viewing...
MUMBAI: One Chinese television drama is making waves in the Asian market. The soap Talented Girl, Pretty Boy, starring Taiwan actress Ruby Lin and mainland actor...
MUMBAI: Tom and Jerry might bid adieu to China’s prime time television shows soon! As the country’s cartoon industry aspires to get self-sufficient, a ban on...
MUMBAI: Zone Vision Networks has signed an agreement with CBNSat to launch its Reality TV channel in Sri Lanka. The channel will be among those being...
MUMBAI: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) forecasts that broadcasting rights revenues will top $3.5 billion in the run-up to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. This represents...
MUMBAI: Despite softening regional economic growth, Asia media earnings are likely to remain robust over the next year. These are the findings put out in a...
MUMBAI: Toon Disney is celebrating Donald Duck’s birthday on 9 June with much pomp and aplomb. The channel will air a six-hour Quack Pack Marathon from...
MUMBAI: British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) has started offering video and text updates on the latest sports, news and weather to mobile users. The downloadable application is...
MUMBAI: Nimbus Communications Ltd has acquired the 50 per cent shareholding of World Sport Group Ltd in World Sport Nimbus — the Singapore based sports joint...
MUMBAI: Leading publishers Harlequin have found the next ‘Mr Romance’ to grace the covers of its books. Harlequin has teamed up with Oxygen to find the...
MUMBAI: Mobile Interactive Group (MIG), the global multimedia mobile services specialist, announced a unique technical partnership to provide Europes largest broadcaster, ITV, with a full range...
MUMBAI: Audience Measurement and Analytics (AMA), which in June 2004 announced the launch of online television ratings system Audience Map (aMap) in India, has signed on...
MUMBAI: The fate of pop icon Michael Jackson hangs in the balance. Yesterday the prosecution and the defense presented their closing arguments in the case that...
MUMBAI: CNN celebrated its 25th birthday on 1 June 2005. Its founder Ted Turner said that the network should be covering international news and the environment,...
Cho, Kyu Sang needs an interpreter to communicate when in India. But the director-general, media policy bureau of the Korean Broadcasting Commission, is confident that language...
MUMBAI: The Mobile Media Company announced a three-year agreement with China’s Hunan Movie and Television Channel (HTV1), to provide mobile interactive TV shows and services to...
MUMBAI: NDTV Profit’s popular weekly show “All About Ads” will be devoting two upcoming episodes to the 2005 Clio Awards, the globe’s most recognized international advertising...
MUMBAI: Media stocks showed varied movements on the stock market and rallied smartly after the government today announced FIIs, non-resident Indians and overseas corporate bodies will...
MUMBAI: Star World has given the chat show with Oprah Winfrey a prime time slot. The show which it is calling Oprah Prime Time will air...
MUMBAI: Britain’s export earnings from exploitation of television programmes has touched $974 million in 2004, up from $921 million a year ago. The figures were released...
BANGALORE: The Garden City will play host to Nasscom ITES-BPO Strategy event for the third time in succession. The summit, with the theme ‘Global Leadership and...
MUMBAI: In 1960 the Kiwis first welcomed television into their homes. The first broadcast was only two hours long, in black-and-white, and for the first six...
On 17 May, a Tuesday, even as the new information and broadcasting ministry secretary SK Arora, after taking over from his predecessor Navin Chawla, was telling...
MUMBAI: Let the message spread faster than the virus. That is the key point of the Entertainment Television Summit on HIV/Aids which is taking place today....
MUMBAI: Research group Informa Telecoms and Media predicts that there will be 124.8 million broadcast mobile TV users worldwide by 2010. An inflection point is...
MUMBAI: The 30 th Radio and Television Advertising Practioners’ Association Award (RAPA) felicitated the best of content from the electronic media. These awards are conferred for...
MUMBAI: American youth are more interested in a free ad-supported mobile video service than in a subscription video service, such as those offered by Verizon Wireless....
MUMBAI:An interesting innovation in the US might just change the kids viewing patters in America. A final year student at the Brunel University has come about...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom’s cable network dedicated to men Spike TV will adapt the Vampire movie Blade for a television film. The television movie based...
MUMBAI: Consumer technology prices in Asia dropped significantly between 2003 and 2004 despite recent concerns about increases in commodities prices used to manufacture these goods. GfK...
MUMBAI: Now you can download legally from the Internet. The BBC, Channel 4, the British Film Institute (BFI) and the Open University (OU) have launched the...
CANNES: Hamburg companies Beck Office and Mineus’ project enabling people viewing the German finals of the Eurovision song contest to send videos of themselves via their...
CANNES: The future holds opportunities of connecting to audiences in unimaginable ways through content that is more personal and more meaningful for the consumer. That was...
