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The company turns one, a week from now. The applause, however, is yet to make itself heard. 37-year-old Anshumaan Swami, the CEO of Applause Entertainment, however,...
Indian entertainment television’s first name in programming has a theory. And as Star India gets set to celebrate Year Four as top dog in the broadcast...
MUMBAI: Television viewing among children in India is growing strong, a fact that underlines the ambitious plans by several broadcasters to launch kids’ channels this year....
LV Krishnan, chief executive of TAM India, is a soft spoken man. But that could well have worked to an advantage for someone who been in...
Talk about talk show power. Oprah Winfrey, who turns 50 next week and marks the occasion with a public, three-day celebration, including a live broadcast from...
MUMBAI: Looks like television in the US is going to the dogs, literally. A recent survey in the country indicates that dogs are increasingly watching television....
MUMBAI: The long-awaited and much-discussed National Readership Survey 2003 has hardly rung in cheer this Yuletide season for media. At an all-India level, media reach...
“I think it is an understanding of the space we have gained,” CNBC-TV18 CEO Haresh Chawla reflects on the current scenario with the authority of someone...
Tony and Deeya Singh have been pulled in from the wilderness (their last well known work was Just Mohabbat and Banegi Apni Baat) by Sony Entertainment...
NEW DELHI: The issue of censorship on television cropped up in a different way today when members of a parliamentary panel expressed their concern at the...
The following speech was given by BBC Director General Greg Dyke to the Emmy Board in New York on Monday 24 November. In the four years...
BIRMINGHAM: Audiences want television and radio content to be regulated, but they can imagine a future in which a ‘multi-layered’ approach to regulating channels might be...
When Ten Sports from Abdul Rehman Bukhatir’s Taj Television stable launched last year it was greeted with a fair share of skepticism. After all ESPN Star...
MUMBAI: 72 per cent of television sets in urban Bihar are the black and white types. Close to 57 per cent of TV sets in the...
Conditional access system (CAS), new uplinking norms for the TV news channels, KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service finally on the horizon – it has been action...
PARIS: The winners of the sixth Hot Bird TV Awards were announced a few days ago at a ceremony in Venice. Organised by Eutelsat and Eurovisioni,...
Star World is counting on the science fiction genre to widen its audience base and maintain viewer loyalty. Dark Angel from the mind of Oscar winner...
NEW DELHI: How does the consumer perceive the conditional access regime? Is he ready for CAS? Questions, notwithstanding – the crux of the I&B Ministry-NFO Survey...
MUMBAI: Top level executives and advertisers have started relying more on the Internet for information, communication and research at least during workdays rather than reading newspapers....
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in association with leading market research firm NFO MBL India has concluded a consumer poll on CAS. The...
MUMBAI: The confusion over who holds the rights for cricket played in Sri Lanka has been resolved. The country’s cricket board, Sri Lanka Cricket, has decided...
LONDON: The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has announced that its public consultation on proposed changes to its Programme Code has now ended. ITC is the body...
PARIS: It is not just broadcasters and content distributors that are looking to take advantage of MIPCOM. The event which claims to be the worlds largest...
MUMBAI: The Pakistan cricket calendar which looked like a dead loss for the Abdul Rehman Bukhatir-promoted Ten Sports channel has received a fresh lease of life....
PARIS: French media company Vivendi Universal posted a narrower first-half net loss thanks to fewer exceptional charges and rising operating profits at its telecoms and pay...
MUMBAI: The wholly-owned subsidiary of Pentamedia Graphics, Intelivision Ltd has received a license from the information and broadcasting ministry to set up its own earth station....
MUMBAI: Ten Sports, which holds the broadcast rights for international cricket in Pakistan, was left holding the can yet again after South Africa called off their...
MUMBAI: In its annual general meeting held on 8 September 2003, the Gujarati daily newspaper Sandesh Ltd has declared a 50 per cent dividend on the...
NEW DELHI: Idea Cellular and Discovery Channel has entered a marketing tie-up that envisages brand promotion of Idea through innovative programming. The 13-part series is divided...
MUMBAI: At this rate, Sahara Manoranjan should be having all the Hindi film stars moonlighting as television actors. Close on the heels of Bollywood stars Karisma...
MUMBAI: Princell Hair has been named US chief of CNN’s news operations, replacing Teya Ryan, who has quit the company after a long spell of speculation...
MUMBAI: It’s nothing like the heady days of 1999 when the Raghav Bahl promoted TV18’s initial public offering (IPO) was oversubscribed 64 times, 55 times or...
MUMBAI: MTV has announced that the nominees for its Lycra MTV Style Awards have been finalised. The awards function will honour the countrys most stylish people...
MUMBAI: Malaysia’s Binariang Satellite Systems has announced it will be using the Proton Breeze M launcher from International Launch Services (ILS) for the launch of the...
MUMBAI: The new avatar MTV Ek Do Teen will now be hosted by the two Cyruses of MTV – Cyrus Broacha and Cyrus Sahukar – together...
NEW YORK: Fans of American football, National Football League (NFL) are in for a treat. Over 60 broadcasters from 223 countries and territories, throughout the world...
A mischievous twinkle greets you when you suggest that he would have made a good looking actor. Pat comes the response that probably he should have...
TAIPEI: The Taiwan Digital Cable TV Summit 2003, organised by Media Partners Asia and The Cable Broadband Institute in Taiwan, will be held at the Far...
NEW YORK: Most teenagers and young adults in the US prefer surfing the Internet or watching television over reading for recreation, the US-based Centre for Media...
LOS ANGELES: Arnold “Terminator” Schwarzenegger’s decision to run for the post of California Governor could see local television channels in the state pulling the plug on...
MUMBAI: Advent Computer Services Ltd will soon introduce its interactive TVs to the market, according to a press release dated 11 August. With this people can...
This is the tale of television viewers, Mr And Mrs Simpleton – conservative laymen (but notches above cartoonist RK Laxman‘s version of the common man) who...
SINGAPORE: MGM is pushing forward in its attempt to penetrate the Asian market through MGM branded film channels. The film and television studio has announced a...
LOS ANGELES: Good news for the peeping Tom! Playboy is gearing up to take reality television to a deeper level with The Extreme Truth. The show...
MUMBAI: TV Eighteen has posted a net profit of Rs 21.34 million for the first quarter of this fiscal. The TV 18 group includes TV 18...
NEW YORK : Teenagers and young adults in the US spend more time on the Internet than watching television. This denotes a shift in media consumption...
MUMBAI: The Radhikaa promoted Radaan Mediaworks is also entering the 3D animation television software arena, albeit for overseas markets. According to a notice posted by the...
Fresh off the success of last years desi adaptation of Who Dares Wins AXN is all set to unveil its first local adaptation of the year AXN Hot N...
When Harish Thawani announced he was handing over day-to-day management of Nimbus Communications Ltd (the company he incorporated in 1987) to Akash Khurana, it was met...
Theres a lot of wishful thinking going on in government. That it can and should control pricing. That too, in a country which is moving from...
