MUMBAI: Ritesh Batra‘s The Lunchbox has won a Jury Special Mention at the 29th CineMart, the co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The project...
MUMBAI: The Shah Rukh Khan starrer Don 2 will have a special screening at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival today. Don 2, an Indo-German co-production,...
MUMBAI: The New Jersey Independent South-Asian Cinefest (NJISACF) 2011 will screen films by Indian women filmmakers and focus on women from India and other South-Asian countries....
MUMBAI: Soccer’s governing body Fifa has announced that the Women’s World Cup Germany 2011 has set a new benchmark for the sport after viewers around the...
Akash Sharma has been at the forefront of acquiring, developing and launching high-quality prime-time hit shows in India since 2005. An economics graduate from the...
Electronics major LG Electronics India Ltd (LGIL) recently announced their foray and focus on digital audio video products in Bangalore. LG showcased their latest offerings in...
MUMBAI: MediaFlo USA, a subsidiary of Qualcomm has signed a deal with US sports broadcaster ESPN. The deal will bring sports programming to MediaFlo USA’s new...
MUMBAI: The Federation of Indian Publishers in association with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Geneva have announced a workshop on intellectual property issues in the...
MUMBAI: Widely considered to be the first Mexican actress to become a Hollywood movie star since Dolores Del Rio, Salma Hayek is known for her striking...
MUMBAI: Reliance Communications owned Falcon Undersea Cable System has started its operational from today unleashing international bandwidth between India, Middle East and Europe. The Flag Telecom...
MUMBAI: US TV industry’s biggest award show, the 58th Primetime annual sEmmy Awards, saw HBO sweeping aways with nine awards followed by NBC, which managed to...
Amrita Enterprises Pvt Ltd (AEPL), promoted by a group of investors closely associated with Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, launched Amrita TV in 2005 April on an initial...
MUMBAI: UTV Software Communications Ltd has entered into an agreement with Overbrook Entertainment Inc. to produce two full-length feature films. While one will be a live...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has published its annual review. It notes that it managed to enhance its reputation as the world’s leading international broadcaster throughout a...
MUMBAI: FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide (FLW) has appointed Jack Alfandary as vice president licensing and new business development. In this newly created position, Alfandary will be responsible...
MUMBAI: EuroNews has launched on digital cable in Mexico by Cablevision and has appointed Eurochannel as its exclusive representative for South America. As a result of...
MUMBAI: Ten year old Samrudh Canpadee from Chennai has won the grand prize of ‘Start Your Story Contest’ presented by Disney Channel in association with Microsoft...
MUMBAI: Five days after Nimbus Communications clinched a $612.18 million (Rs 27.24 billion) global media rights deal for cricket to be played in India for the...
MUMBAI: Satellite communications company Intelsat announced that it will provide transport services for Qualcomm’s MediaFLO USA mobile broadcast television network. Intelsat will offer satellite bandwidth to...
MUMBAI: Reliance Communication Inc., USA, a group company of Reliance Infocomm Ltd has appointed Michael P. Sauer as president. He will be based in New York...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate NBC Universal’s revenues for the year ended 31 December 2005, increased by 14 per cent to $14.7 billion, and profit increased by...
MUMBAI: Lifestyle channel Discovery Travel and Living will telecast Long Way Round Week on 16 January. The channel will air the adventure show featuring actors Ewan...
MUMBAI: The Cable TV Show 2005, organised by the Kolkata-based Cable TV Equipments Traders & Manufacturers Association (CTMA), commenced today. The three-day annual event expects participation...
MUMBAI: NBC Universal Television has announced restructuring. Jeff Zucker who used to produce the Today show is its CEO behind company chairman Bob Wright. Zucker will...
Mumbai, November 15, 2005: With the wedding season around the corner, STAR News, India’s trendsetting first homegrown news channel, today announced a new addition to its...
INTERVIEW WITH SAMIRA JUMANI The first wife of Abu Salem – Salem is a cowardly person – He almost killed me – Salem beat up Monica...
MUMBAI: US satellite television operator DirecTV is all set to launch its first original programming series. The weekly show CD USA will debut in 2006 January....
MUMBAI: Color Chips (India) Ltd has signed a 2D animation co-production agreement with BKN International, USA.The project, titled “Triple Threat,” is a 26 half-hour episode TV...
In this week’s “Jaanbaaz” STAR News features three sensational stories, one of Suniel Shetty’s – the ‘brave’ Bollywood actor – organization that helped Mumbaikars during the...
MUMBAI: USA Network, an American cable network, will cover the US Open tennis tournament for the 22nd time.The event, which kicks off on 29 August, will...
MUMBAI: Logo, MTV Networks’ gay and lesbian channel will launch on Thursday, 30 June. The channel will launch in 10 million digital cable homes in 22...
MUMBAI: Meanwhile, the FIPB has cleared a proposal of Hay House Publications (India) Pvt. Ltd for setting up a joint venture company with a foreign equity...
MUMBAI: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) will have a new home on American television. One of its flagship shows Raw will leave Viacom’s male channel Spike TV...
MUMBAI: US cable channel USA Network has come out with a reality TV concept. For this purpose it has tied up with the TV shopping network...
MUMBAI: US cable broadcaster USA Network has announced that its funny detective Monk is doing well in the ratings swepstakes. It claims that this Sunday 6...
MUMBAI: This is an initiative that takes interactive game shows to the next level in Europe. After the launch of interactive versions of game shows Family...
Now the newly acclaimed morality standard of America must fully realign itself with the messages and their deliveries to the right mindsets, while clearly explaining the...
There is no way that a comfortably nestled corporation in a successfully digitized-industrialized US economy can compete with the soft-information-skill-savvy workforce of the Indian subcontinent. There...
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT (HTMT) has signed an agreement with Georgeson Shareholder Communications, Inc. to acquire 100 per cent of Source One Communications Inc.USA (SOC) in an...
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT (HTMT) has signed an agreement with Georgeson Shareholder Communications, Inc. to acquire 100 per cent of Source One Communications Inc.USA (SOC) in an...
NEW DELHI: About seven companies have shown interest in doing work for broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), relating to global and...
NEW DELHI: Internationally acclaimed author and spiritual guru Deepak Chopra has joined the international advisory board of the iSOMES- International School of Media and Entertainment Studies...
MUMBAI: Broadcast Worldwide’s regional language channel Tara Bangla plans to expand into satellite radio. The channel will be transmitting its audio feed through the radio channel....
MUMBAI: Regional language channel Tara Bangla is set to make its entry into North America. The Ratikant Basu-promoted Broadcast Worldwide’s Bengali language channel will be launched...
MUMBAI: Essel Propack, laminated tubes manufacturer head quartered in India and promoted by Essel Group, today announced the un-audited consolidated global results for the first half...
MUMBAI: This is an initiative that should hook Americans who dream of getting away from a humdrum existence. NBC has announced plans for a reality show...
MUMBAI: Subhash Chandra promoted Essel Propack ltd has posted 29 per cent growth in its global sales for the first quarter that ended on 31 March,...
Americom Asia-Pacific (AAP) last week announced the appointment of Elias B. Zaccack as Managing Director, based in Singapore, replacing Cynthia Dickins. Dickins who had been the...
MUMBAI: News Corporation company NDS has formed an alliance with Korean companies for the development and certification of an OpenCable compliant CableCARD (formerly known as Point...
MUMBAI: Ficci Frames 2004 saw a lot of firsts in the entertainment industry. This was the fifth successive year of Frames which began in the year...