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In the 1980s, when Anurradha Prasad, a jeans and T-shirt clad twenty-something journalist, went to cover Parliament proceedings, senior print journalists looked upon her rather curiously...
CANNES: What’s hot in docs? The same as is to be expected if truth be told. Good content allied to the creative use of the latest...
News channels are changing and how! When Sony’s plain Jane Jassi turned into a television temptress, NDTV India’s cameras went behind the-scenes to capture this metamorphosis....
MUMBAI: The Big Picture! The entertainment industry, currently valued at Rs 222 billion, is expected to grow to over Rs 580 billion by 2010. The main...
MUMBAI: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Atas) in the US has announced that it will organise a seminar on 23 March 2005 in California....
MUMBAI: Can mobile phones be used to transmit video images live and be broadcast on to TV? That is what the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) did...
MUMBAI: US-based Wi-Fi solutions provider Abbas Sadriwalla’s Wireless Logix Group expects to increase India revenues to $ 5 million over the next 12 months. Sadriwalla has...
MUMBAI: US based The Motion Picture And Television Fund (MPTF) which works towards bettering the living conditions of workers within America’s film and television industry held...
MUMBAI: Toronto-based Asian Television Network (ATN) has announced that the company’s debenture holders have agreed to the extension and repayment plan agreement of its million dollar...
MUMBAI: At the invitation of UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, CEOs from leading international media companies will meet in Cannes, France, as a part of the UN-backed...
MUMBAI: As they get older, American tweens and young teens – the 8-14 year old crowd – become increasingly disinterested in watching television, and more and...
MUMBAI: News Corp owned digital pay-TV technology encryption specialist NDS reported a 17 per cent increase in second quarter net profit (to 31 December) at $30.3...
MUMBAI: What first began as the dream of African-American entrepreneur Robert Johnson has now reached a historic milestone. Media conglomerate Viacom has announced that its cable...
CANNES: Film soundtracks are a bum rap. And television backgrounds scores, well are they really important? That was an issue up for discussion at the Music...
Point of Purchase Advertising International (POPAI) is the only non-profit trade association exclusively committed to serving the interests of all those involved in POP advertising including...
FR Lobo (name changed) of Lucknow these days is grateful to an organisation that had little relevance in his upper middle class home replete with technical...
MUMBAI: National Geographic Television & Film (NGT&F) in the US has announced promotions for two senior members of its production team to the newly created positions....
The Left parties have sought his immediate dismissal for “criminal connivance” with private telecom operators who, they allege, are under-invoicing their access deficit charges (ADC) payments....
Have Hindi general entertainment channels (GEC) reached a stage of saturation? Will 2005 see a further regression of this genre or is this space going to...
MUMBAI: .The over-reliance on television income has left many soccer clubs in Europe alone either already out of business or on the brink of bankruptcy. This...
MUMBAI: An international committee is being established to investigate the dangers facing journalists around the world. The committee chaired by the BBC’s Global News division’s director...
The countdown has begun. Armed with a huge promotional blitz, Sony Entertainment channel‘s ‘big one‘, which makes its bow on the small screen Thursday (28 October),...
MUMBAI: CNN.com has being ranked as the no 1 news organisation website for July 2004, according to Nielsen/NetRatings’ Home and Work Panel, as stated in an...
Broadcast and cable TV regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has finally come out with its much-awaited recommendations. On first reading, the report is likely...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator, Trai, is expected to recommend a 5-8 per cent annual hike in the cable TV prices, in line with the...
MUMBAI: It is the first reality show where everybody emerges a lose and whoever loses the most wins. NBC will premiere The Biggest Loser on 19...
MUMBAI: Sports marketing agency IEC in Sports has announced a two year deal regarding Portuguese football.. IEC will distribute the 2004/5 and 2005/6 Portuguese Super League...
MUMBAI: Sohu.com, which is a Chinese online media, communications, commerce and mobile value-added services company, and Formula One have signed a long-term agreement wherein Sohu will...
MUMBAI: Pre-school programming should be interactive and educative, according to a research conducted by Taylor Nelson Sofers India for kids channel Nickelodeon. The results highlight the...
DD Bangalore Kendra news director Achyuthan started his career in the late ’60s as the assistant registrar of newspapers of India, Shimla. He has undertaken extensive...
MUMBAI This month the dog icon Lassie celebrates 50 years on television. Lassie has become a symbol of love, trust, and heroism since her series debuted...
MUMBAI: The new channel from the Times Group – Zoom, which started its test runs as of 10 September, has roped in Pooja Bedi and Yana...
NEW DELHI: Zee Telefilms Limited, India’s largest media and entertainment conglomerate, today announced the name of its news sports channel. “Zee Sports” will be formally launched...
MUMBAI: BBC’s decision to provide interactive services in the UK for the Olympics has paid off. As many as 8.96 million digital satellite viewers pressed the...
MUMBAI: A study conducted in the US by research organisation RAND Corporation has revealed that teens who watch sex on TV are likely to become sexually...
MUMBAI: The 36 finalists of the Sahara Manoranjan initiative Mr & Ms Bollywood from across the country will make it to the Indian celluloid and tele-screen,...
Maybe the new saying should be “A company is known by the men that run it. ” The camaraderie between Optimystix‘s trio – Rajiv Vyas, Sanjiv...
The Olympic Games, the biggest sporting spectacle on the planet, officially kicks off tomorrow in Athens. Over 10,000 athletes representing 202 countries, including 74 participants from...
MUMBAI: The Indian television content landscape has grown in leaps and bounds over the past decade. The country has moved from a single Doordarshan channel environment...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of Indian (Trai), which submitted its draft recommendations on Unified Licensing on 6 August, today justified the inclusion of ‘broadcasting services’ under...
Very often, an office speaks a lot about the person occupying it. One look at the pearl white walls and the chic steel furnishing, one knows...
At first glance, Star India’s senior vice president ad sales, Kevin Vaz comes across as unassuming to a fault. But there is no getting away from...
MUMBAI: News, probing and more meaningful, is Uday Shankar’s imminent agenda for the channel he now helms after the exit of channel president Ravina Raj Kohli....
Information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy hasruled out any immediate change in the board of India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which manages Doordarshan and All India Radio....
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...
Zee TV president Sunil Khanna has a lot on his plate at the moment. The largest serving he has to manage of course being the nationwide...
He’s a creative whizz, multi-talented, and collects awards the way some people collect postage stamps (harking back to the time of snail mail of course). He...
The chain of Fun Republics across the country are the more obvious face of this Essel Group subsidiary. E-City Entertainment, however, is much more than that....
MUMBAI: Media-savvy children in the US are tuning into television programmes and are using increasingly sophisticated media at a younger age.. A report The US Kids...
“This is Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Five years ago you gave me a chance to serve you. In these years, our country has come a long way…...
