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MUMBAI: What is it about men (and women) pummeling each other to pulp that draws viewers? In India, one constant on Ten Sports’ top rated shows...
MUMBAI: Vissa TV, the Telugu channel from the Raj TV fold, launches today. Marred by hiccups and delays ( it was earlier scheduled to launch a...
LOS ANGELES: Tinseltown Entertainment has announced that its top-rated weekly entertainment program, Tinseltown Live, marks its first anniversary next week as the number one program in...
CHICAGO: With cable customers gradually realising its benefits high definition television (HDTV) is rapidly spreading its wings across the US. Cable customers in 78 of...
NEW YORK: In the US, four major ad agencies and at least one automaker are exploring the possibilities of addressable advertising. They have been mandated by...
MUMBAI: Debutante director Bharat Mehra, through his newly promoted company Kidszone, has lined up a series of TV serials and “patriotic” music videos. Mehra has already...
MUMBAI: With a slew of news channels entering the domestic television market, each of the new entrants wants to have an edge over the other. According...
WASHINGTON: The US government’s broadcasting board of governors (BBG) is planning to set up a new Baghdad TV channel to air Arabic captioned broadcasts of US...
NEW YORK: The US-Iraq conflict has hit ad revenues of US television networks but if media reports are anything to go by, matters are not as...
NEW DELHI: Star and the likes can breathe a bit easy as finally the Almighty may be smiling. Though the Indian government may have taken its...
NEW YORK: The Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) has awarded CNN four Gracie Allen awards. It has recognised senior international correspondent Christiane...
MUMBAI: B4U Network Worldwide airs California based production house Tinseltown Entertainment’s weekly Hollywood show Tinseltown Live, which is the first and only show to promote ‘Hollywood’...
TOKYO: Sony Corporation today announced its consolidated results for the third quarter ended 31 December 2002. Consolidated sales increased slightly year on year to achieve a...
NEW JERSEY: The ABC Television Network has committed to co-sponsor the 2003 Total TV Audience Monitor (T-TAM) study in the US. The study was announced by...
NEW DELHI: The new chairperson of Prasar Bharati, noted right wing columnist MV Kamath, feels that unlike private satellite channels, Doordarshan and All India Radio cannot...
MUMBAI: The BBC appears to be scenting an opportunity that will put a spoke in rival international news network CNN in the AOL Time Warner subsidiary’s...
MTV Networks is expanding its suite of channels available for digital distribution in America. Four new 24-hour channels for kids and music fans, including MTV Hits,...
NEW YORK (US): According to the latest Nielsen Media Research, the Emmy-winning political drama, The West Wing has shown a sharp decline in the popularity charts...
MUMBAI: Supported by a growing line-up of prime time original series and strong afternoon and late-night franchises, Cartoon Network US concluded the 2001-2002 television season charting...
MUMBAI: The third season Crime Scene Investigation (CSI), the highly acclaimed crime – thriller series received an overwhelming response in the US. With a viewership close...
MUMBAI: Europe, South Africa, Malaysia and Singapore are next on the broadcasting calendar of ETC Networks for the current fiscal. The company expects to add more...
LOS ANGELES:Producers of the Mortal Kombat feature film franchise, one of the biggest and best-known martial arts franchises of all-time have launched Blackbelt TV, the world’s...
AMSTERDAM (HOLLAND): News Corp subsidiary NDS claims that it has become the world’s first company to supply smartcards to 30 million active digital pay-TV subscribers. The...
The anniversary of the most significant event of last year “9/11” (11 September) is a few days away and all the news channels are gearing up...
MUMBAI: X Games VIII, which claims to be the worlds premier action sports event, is slated to receive the largest worldwide television distribution of any previous...
MUMBAI:There is a critical shortage of Asian American male broadcast journalists in the US, according to a first-ever study that quantifies the problem and addresses some...
USA: PanAmSat which claims to be the premier provider of global video and data broadcasting services via satellite and BT Broadcast Services have announced the formation...
MUMBAI: News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch and elder son Lachlan are being sued by shareholders in TV guide company Gemstar over the $30 billion fall in...
Liberate Technologies and sportscaster ESPN have got together to deliver enhanced programming on the Liberate TV Platform Compact software. Liberate enables cable programmers and operators to...
Discovery HD Theater is the latest innovation from the Discovery Channel stable. The new 24 hour definition television network will be launched on HD platforms being...
Could this happen in India? Wouldn’t our big broadcasters just wish it were so. The heavyweight showdown between reigning heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis and former undisputed...
National broadcaster Doordarshan is inviting sealed tenders from parties /agencies who are interested in distribution and marketing DD-World Channel of Doordarshan in the USA and Canada...
After being off for close to a month in the US, Hindi entertainment channel Sony Entertainment Television is looking at making a comeback by next month....
Sony Entertainment Television is off DTH television screens in the US for the past four days. The reason: DTH provider Direct TV has switched off the...
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....
Michael Connors, Sr. Vice President (Asia Pacific), Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA), believes Frames 2002 could not be better timed to discuss the new issues...
Everyone in television is talking movies. If not making them then promoting them. After the 2002’s biggest blockbuster by a mile, Gadar, Zee Telefilms is now...
MUMBAI: This is for those doomsayers who have been predicting the demise of the internet advertising market. Look into your crystal-balls once again, says the New...
Weather need no longer remain at the fag end of news shows. The first ever interactive weather channel using terrestrial digital television (DTV) spectrum has recently...
Viewers can now spice up their breakfasts with business and technology news from around the world with CNN’s new breakfast show that goes on air from...
The attack on Manhattan’s World Trade Centre Tower I and II and the Pentagon was timed to get maximum viewing audiences globally. 9 am in New...
Today, August 1, marks a red letter day for MTV. It completes 20 years of existence in the US. And to celebrate the unique occasion, it...
Types of Television Writing, documentary, drama and comedy Joyce Thierry, who conducted the second session of the first day, explored the anatomy of a TV programme,...
NEW YORK: A slump in e-revenues in the United States was on the cards post the dotcom bust. A study conducted by the Interactive Advertising Bureau...
CNN International has named Australian journalist John Darren Vause the network’s first US based correspondent, it was announced on Tuesday. Vause will report from the United...
