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The 50-something president of NDTV, Prannoy Roy, is not only his competitors’ envy and the idol of millions of Indian youngsters aspiring to make it as...
Cartoons are serious business for Duncan Morris. As vice president of research, Turner International Asia Pacific, Morris is responsible for assessing the potential and effect of...
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...
MUMBAI: The grande finale of IN Mumbai’s annual beauty and personality pageant “White Mischief Miss IN Mumbai 2002” will be held at Hotel Tulip Star, Juhu,...
It’s a young woman’s world. That truism applies quite firmly on television today and has resulted in a sense of disillusionment amongst the older breed of...
NEW YORK : More Americans today consider the Internet more important a source of source of information than television or print publicaitons, but fewer believe all...
WASHINGTON DC: As part of a continuing commitment to facilitate communications with the customers worldwide, Intelsat has opened an additional field office located in Dubai, United...
LAS VEGAS: A “single, seamless platform across AV, PC and mobile devices, with TV at the centre” is at the core of Sony’s global strategy to...
‘Work hard, party hard’ seems to be an adage applicable only to on screen talent on the telly. With 2003 less than 36 hours away, artistes we...
MUMBAI: Media and entertainment stocks such as Zee Telefilms and Balaji Telefilms continued to dip in this week although there were some exceptions – notably SABe...
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...
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...
It is only the ‘privileged‘ urban homes that feature on satellite channels in India, finds a study conducted on gender representation on satellite television by the...
Sitting in the visitors‘ room, waiting for Raghav Bahl, managing director of Television Eighteen Ltd, at the company‘s headquarters in Delhi is an education in itself....
Vipul A Shah started off directing Gujarati serials in the late 1980s. In the nineties, came Jeevan Mrityu, Alpviram and Ek Mahal Ho Sapano Ka –...
Kanchan Adhikari started her career as an actress more than two decades ago. It took several years for her to don the mantle of director for...
Vinod Pande is not a run-of-the-mill filmmaker. Whether films or TV, his creations have stood out for being daringly different. Pande was the trendsetter in late...
He’s better known as an actor but Ananth Mahadevan, whose first big screen directorial venture Dil Vil Pyar Vyar hit the screens last week, would rather...
Ravi Rai should ideally rank among the most successful TV writers-directors-producers in India. The maker of hugely successful soaps – Sailaab, Thoda Hai Thode Ki Zaroorat...
In 1995 when ESPN came to India, not many had thought that it would become a force to reckon with where sports’ broadcasting was concerned. And...
Chairman of the entertainment committee of Ficci, Yash Chopra says the film industry will shortly unveil a task force to combat piracy, on the lines of...
MUMBAI:Two diverse studies on kids’ television viewing patterns would have us believe that while the couch potato is growing increasingly younger, television should not be blamed...
DoubleClick, which claims to be the leading provider of marketing tools for advertisers, direct marketers and web publishers, has released the results of its Cross Media...
Ronnie Screwvala promoted UTV has been in the media business for over 20 years, pioneering cable TV in 1981. The content business is just one part...
What has been done is logical. A lot of lobbying has prevented this from happening. Also the political class was not courageous enough. It’s good this...
“Last year was not good for all channels except one,” Markand Adhikari, vice-chairman and managing director, SABe (Sri Adhikari Brothers Entertainment) TV, has been quoted as...
Rakesh Sarang is one of the few cameramen in the industry who have made the transition to direction effortlessly. The fact that his work has been...
James Paul Marturano is the executive vice president, HBO Asia and managing director of HBO South Asia. As executive VP of HBO Asia, Marturano heads the...
The much delayed launch of the education channel Zed TV from the Zee TV stable finally took place late last evening at the hands of Indian...
After a number of postponements, Zed TV, the education channel from the Zee TV group is to be launched on 12 October. The channel is being...
Zee TV has pulled off the curtain on its Sawaal Dus Crore Ka game show format. For starters, the show will air at 8:30 pm three...
Sushma Swaraj does not cease to surprise you. The first statement she made after taking over as I&B minister was that she wanted TV to be...
Star TV made a lot of hulabaloo about how the network would crack down on any one trying to corner the limelight by riding on the...
The star has fallen from the heavens. From Rs 1,600 plus to Rs 290-odd is a great fall over eight months, but that’s the drop that...
Channel Nine India is quite pleased as punch about the performance of its shows on the 7-9 pm block on DD2. The company has sent out...
India’s most comprehensive TV exhibit, Broadcast 2000, launches into its 10th year at the World Trade Centre in Mumbai from 19-21 October. Broadcast India this year...
Classic Hindi movie channel Star Gold, which was launched last month, is gradually clawing its way back into Indian viewers homes, thanks to a push from...
Zee Telefilms Ltd’s organic channel, in planning for the past couple of years, has finally been given a name-Chakra and is being readied for a lauch....
I&B Minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday gave further indication in Parliament that the government was close to mandating on conditional access systems (CAS) as a way to...
The session started with Arun Arora, president, Bennet & Coleman, giving his views. On ‘Music In the age of convergence.’ ‘Music is a hobby which has...
“Success is not only about getting more money in whatever you are doing, but doing things in the best possible manner and getting recognition for that,”...
Whatever may be their shortcomings perceived or otherwise, data that ratings agencies provide still give the best possible understanding of the viewing profile was a point...
The pay TV debate is seriously hotting up in India. Even as channels slug it out over subscriber bases and rate hikes, the cable industry is...
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...
Television and the Internet are the only media that have consolidated their reach in India in the period between December 2000 and June 2001, according to...
Mountain-biker, long-distance runner and traveller – AXN Asia managing director Todd Miller seems to extend the action aspect of the channel he runs to his out-of...
Sandeep Goyal, group broadcasting CEO of Zee Telefilms has been elected director of the International Council of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The...
This is a channel, which is crackling – crackling with electrifying programming. And if it does not regain its rightful place at the top of the...
I. Income Tax on foreign telecasting Channels: a) Para 117 on page 36 of FM’s speech (Part B) says 177. The foreign telecasting channels will henceforth...
