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MUMBAI: Barely months after the studies indicated that television commercials are responsible for the alarming obesity growth amongst the teen and children in US, here comes...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms Limited, India’s largest vertically integrated media and entertainment company,has placed foreign currency convertible bonds worth upto $100 million (including...
MUMBAI: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in the US has announced that grants of over $ five million, in an attempt to help 76 public...
MUMBAI: Americans may be passionate about baseball but that does not stop the International cricket Council (ICC) from spreading cricket in US! The ICC is presently...
MUMBAI: Talk about targeted programming. Riot Media, a recently launched company based in New York, will develop, produce and market multi-platform entertainment programming and media products...
MUMBAI: Advanced technologies are making the early-adopters happy but most US consumers still like the plain old TV. Appointment viewing is still very important. This year...
MUMBAI: Gay television will shortly receive a shot in the arm. Media conglomerate Viacom is said to be interested in developing a homosexual themed channel for...
MUMBAI: The next edition of the annual TV-Turnoff Week l takes place in the US from 19-25 April. Founded in 1994, the TV-Turnoff Network has spent...
MUMBAI: Motorola has tied up with MTV International to provide exclusive MTV-created wireless content. This will include an interactive series of games known as Plastikulture and...
MUMBAI: One of the biggest television events of the year, the World Wrestling Entertainment’s (WWE) Wrestlemania XX tales place this year on 14 March. In India,...
MUMBAI: Publication Fortune magazine has reported that Walt Disney is America’s most admired entertainment company The magazine conducted a survey of top entertainment industry executives, directors...
NEW DELHI: Universitas 21 Global, a leading global online business school, Wednesday announced the signing of an alliance with Zee Network’s education arm with a view...
MUMBAI: It is now time for news broadcasting in America to get bitten by the high definition (HD) bug. Rainbow DBS’ Voom has launched the first...
MUMBAI: Distraction Formats which specialises in formatting and packaging shows in a unique manner has announced a deal with Jennifer Lopez?s Nuyorican Productions. As per the...
MUMBAI: One of the biggest sporting spectacles in the US Super Bowl XXXVIII gets underway on CBS on 1 February. It will co-produce a one-hour special...
MUMBAI: The fight over the sharing of music over the Internet is gaining steam. College students across America struck a note of belligerence after the Recording...
MUMBAI: It’s a man’s world- even more so in media! Shocking, but that’s the report released by German media website Media Tenor on 16 January 2004. ...
MUMBAI: It is not just Dubai-based Taj Television that is expecting to make a killing out of India’s upcoming tour of Pakistan, India’s first tour to...
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: Nigel Baker has been appointed the new managing director of Associated Press Television News (APTN). Prior to the appointment, Baker was APTN’s content director....
MUMBAI: The sixth annual Bollywood Awards will take place on 1 May 2004 at the Mark G Etess Arena in the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort...
MUMBAI: Nielsen//NetRatings, the global standard for Internet audience measurement and analysis has reported that 49.5 million, or 38 per cent of all US home Internet users...
MUMBAI: Football fans across the US tuned their televisions at impressive rates to National Football League (NFL) regular-season games. NFL viewership on US broadcast television...
MUMBAI: The elusive 18-34 year old male has finally turned up. Bigresearch conducted its latest installment of its half yearly Simultaneous Media Usage Survey (Simm), and...
MUMBAI: While the Hindi film industry is swarming with awards dime to a dozen be it national or international, it was just a while before the...
MUMBAI: Animal Planet has managed to build up viewer cachet in the US through its King Of The Jungle reality themed initiative. This has seen wannabe...
MUMBAI: The gap between the cost of a high-definition television (HDTV) and the amount US consumers are willing to pay is closing. The finding is contained...
MUMBAI: The action-oriented AXN is constantly looking to top off whatever it has done in the past. This year it managed to achieve that with shows...
MUMBAI: In conjunction with the Aids epidemic update issued by Unaids and the World Health Organisation, MTV Networks International has released findings from the Staying Alive...
CALIFORNIA: Reality TV shows are not simply hooking US viewers to the idiot box, they are also driving them to the web. The finding is contained...
MUMBAI: A true story about former president Ronald Reagan and his family generated a storm of criticism from the conservative majority in the US. Such was...
TOKYO: The first round of the FIVB World Cup of Women’s Volleyball has produced excellent television ratings both in the Tokyo area and throughout Japan. This...
LONDON: The BBC and Fox Television Studios in the US are joining forces to make a drama about a fictional terrorist attack on London. The three...
BANGALORE: UK’s commercial rock music station Virgin Radio will now be featured as a premium channel on WorldSpace Corporation’s satellite service. This strategic partnership has been...
LOS ANGELES: Hollywood may have broken box office records last year by raking up over nine billion dollars in terms of revenues but the pirates continue...
WASHINGTON: Ever since 9/11 happened, a couple of years ago, Al-Jazeera and other Arab news channels have gained tremendous momentum. Realising this, the Bush administration has...
LONDON: London-based broadcaster and distributor Zone Vision, has announced a breakthrough deal for the carriage of its flagship Reality TV channel in the US. the deal...
NEW DELHI: Walt Disney Television International (Asia Pacific) has reaffirmed its commitment to expand its TV distribution into India spanning Disney branded and non-branded programming across...
WASHINGTON: Four consumer advocacy groups in the US have indicated that they will lobby Congress to reimpose regulation on cable television operators. The aim is to...
NEW YORK: In October, Hallmark Entertainment arrives at the television trade fair MIPCOM with four new miniseries being offered for the first time. The content runs...
NEW YORK: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) and software giant IBM have announced the launch of www.usopen.org, the site for this year’s US Open. The...
BAGHDAD: The Iraq conflict may have closed a while ago but the journalist community continues to take casualties. The latest one is a Reuters camera man...
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...
CALIFORNIA: The outlook within many US creative departments may be increasingly optimistic. Around 42 per cent of advertising and marketing US executives polled said morale at...
LONDON: BBC Urdu is launching a 10-part weekly series Uncle Sam ka Des (The Land of Uncle Sam) starting on 10 August 2003. The main focus...
MUMBAI: The BBC’s two part special What The World Thinks Of America.? airs over the weekend. BBC’s political editor Andrew Marr presents these specials from the...
LONDON: Sky One has acquired Next Action Star – billed as the ultimate elimination contest from renowned film producer Joel Silver. The 10-episode series airing on...
NEW DELHI: The game is getting murkier as the Indian broadcasters have come together to take on the might of foreign-owned broadcasters. The likes of Aaj...
NEW YORK: The next paradigm shift in instantaneously gauging the popularity of music videos on music TV channels through mobile interactivity is here! Snap polls on...
NEW YORK: News Corporation has announced the reorganisation of its integrated advertising and corporate marketing operations. Formerly comprising the company’s News Corp One division, these operations...
