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MUMBAI: Twenty-five years ago, Uday Shankar was planning a 24-hour Hindi news channel that didn’t exist anywhere in the world. Ten years ago, as Star TV’s...
MUMBAI: Uday Shankar isn’t going anywhere. That’s according to a report on storyboard18.com. The vice-chairman of JioStar has quashed speculation about selling his stake in India’s...
MUMBAI: When the lights came up at Ficci Frames’ silver jubilee edition, JioStar Entertainment CEO and president of the Indian Digital Media Industry Foundation Kevin Vaz,...
MUMBAI: India’s media and entertainment industry is sitting on the edge of a blockbuster sequel—if it can get the script right. That was the central message...
MUMBAI: JioStar India’s JioHotstar has reached a milestone of 200 million paying subscribers, making it “one of the biggest streaming services anywhere in the world,” according...
MUMBAI: In a candid conversation during Indian Express’ Idea Exchange earlier week that laid bare the tensions between broadcasters and cricket administrators, JioStar vice-chairman Uday Shankar...
Mumbai: The Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) and the Subhas Ghosal Foundation (SGF) have announced that award-winning independent digital journalist Faye D’Souza will deliver the...
MUMBAI: By partnering with Nielsen, Uday Shankar and Ishan Chatterjee have revolutionised the way advertising revenue is allocated in media. With all relevant consumption metrics now...
MUMBAI: It’s a winner! All we can do is doff our hats to Uday Shankar and his band of JioStar men. The vice-chairman of JioStar and...
MUMBAI: He’s got a premium job at JioStar. Aditya Narayan has just transitioned from Disney Star India to the Uday Shankar-headed behemoth continuing with his earlier...
MUMBAI: Almost every leading TV executive – whether Uday Shankar or Punit Goenka or Gaurav Banerjee – has spoken about his or her belief that television...
MUMBAI: Gaurav Banerjee does not come across as CEO nor as MD material when you meet him the first time. The bespectacled unassuming 47-year-old actually reminds...
Indiantelevision.com brings you the folks who made a difference in 2024 to the media and entertainment industry. It will cover an eclectic bunch of executives and...
MUMBAI; They could have gone in for a single CEO like Disney Star India – or Star India before that – had done in the past....
MUMBAI: Here’s more on the Reliance-Viacom18-Disney Star India. Disney Star India distribution and international head Gurjeev Singh Kapoor is moving on. That came across as a...
MUMBAI: Uday Shankar has been lying low for quite a while, avoiding mixing and sharing his wisdom with journalists – a breed from which he emerged...
MUMBAI: The big fusion has been given the go ahead. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the proposed merger involving Reliance Industries Limited, Viacom18...
Mumbai: Reliance Industries Ltd (“RIL”), Viacom 18 Media Private Ltd (“Viacom18”) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (“Disney”) today announced the signing of binding definitive...
Mumbai: Former Disney Asia Pacific head Uday Shankar, who has now teamed up with James Murdoch for a JV Bodhi Tree Systems and who is also...
Mumbai: Network18 Media and Investments Ltd announced on Tuesday the results for the financial year (FY) 2021-2022 and for the fourth quarter ending on 31 March....
Mumbai: Reliance and Viacom18 have announced a strategic partnership with Bodhi Tree Systems, which is a platform of James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems and Uday Shankar, to...
Mumbai: Uday Shankar and James Murdoch’s private investment company Lupa Systems has announced that it is forming Bodhi Tree, an investment platform that will be financially supported by...
Mumbai: Lupa India, the investment company set up by former Star & Disney India chairman Uday Shankar and his boss from Star James Murdoch, is under...
Mumbai: The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has announced that Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) chairman and MD Sanjiv Mehta will succeed veteran...
KOLKATA: Former top Disney executive Uday Shankar and Lupa Systems founder and CEO James Murdoch are getting on the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) rush. Months...
New Delhi: Creator-led franchises will be more powerful and more profitable in the years to come if they can take a little more risk and own...
MUMBAI: When The Walt Disney Co international operations and direct-to-consumer chairman Rebecca Campbell was scouting for an executive to fill the big shoes of former Star...
MUMBAI: 31 December 2020. A chapter ended in the history of Disney Star India. According to public announcements by the mouse house, it was the last...
MUMBAI: Here’s another stripe he’s adding to the numerous ones he has got during his fascinating career. Disney Star India chairperson and Walt Disney Co Asia...
KOLKATA: ‘Will OTT platforms be put on leash?’ is the question being discussed and debated lately, especially after being brought under the ambit of the ministry...
MUMBAI: Back in 2007, when Uday Shankar was picked out of nowhere to lead Star India, the organisation was a minnow. It had been a leader...
MUMBAI: This is big in the world of media and entertainment. The professional who helmed Star India for the past 11 years and saw it through with...
MUMBAI: Disney Star India chairman Uday Shankar seems to thrive in crisis moments. The ongoing pandemic seems to have brought out the best in the former...
KOLKATA: One of the major issues which have been daunting the media and entertainment industry, especially the broadcast sector, is the regulatory burden. Although senior officials...
MUMBAI: Cricket lovers – specially those who thrive on the short format of the game, the T20 – can now rejoice. The IPL 2020, which was...
NEW DELHI: FICCI Frames, for the first time, conducted a digital virtual conference on the media and entertainment industry. Discussing the role of the creative economy...
KOLKATA: Disney+ Hotstar is not going to limit itself to sports and classic Disney+ library in India. While last year Hotstar went into original content, after...
KOLKATA: An unprecedented crisis has compelled producers to re-imagine the film distribution model suddenly. As theatres remain shut across the country, producers are developing camaraderie with...
MUMBAI: Disney+Hotstar takes direct-to-digital film releases one step ahead as it announces the launch of 'Multiplex' – a new section within the Disney+ Hostar platform. Between...
MUMBAI: It seems like nothing can put this journalist-turned-CEO down. Even as most would have been wringing their hands in despair following the disruption in the...
MUMBAI: It is hard to measure the impact of COVID2019, harder to predict when everything will get back to normalcy. The uncertainty created by a virus,...
MUMBAI: The SARS CoV2 (COVID-19) virus is leaving its impact on even the big players of the media and entertainment industry; Disney Star India, for instance....
MUMBAI: COVID-19 pandemic has stalled the entry of Disney+ in India. The scheduled launch of the streaming service has been paused and the new date is...
MUMBAI: The last six months have been rather unsettling for the television sector what with the regulator the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India revising tariff regulations...
MUMBAI: Even as the curtains have gone down on 2019, Indiantelevision.com is happy to reveal its list of senior executives from the business of TV and...
MUMBAI: Ten years ago when Uday Shankar was looking for a professional to be his deputy in Star India, he looked outside and roped in Sanjay...
MUMBAI: Technology changes swiftly. However, sometimes, the market receptiveness for these changes is even faster. Take for instance some of the revelatory insights thrown by the...
MUMBAI: He came. He spoke. They listened. He conquered. That, in summation, defines how the Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific president, and Star & Disney India...
MUMBAI: For years, the spotlight has been on former journalist-turned-media executive Uday Shankar at Star India (now Disney Star India). Reams of copy have been written...
MUMBAI: The Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) and Subhas Ghosal Foundation (SGF) are pleased to announce the Subhas Ghosal Memorial Lecture which will see The...
