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MUMBAI: Star India has taken complete shareholding control of its Tamil regional language channel Vijay TV after buying out UTV Software’s 44 per cent stake. The...
UTV founder-promoter Ronnie Screwvala has shown again and again that he is a smart dealmaker. He got a string of private equity funds and News Corp....
MUMBAI: Hungama TV, the bilingual (Hindi and Tamil) kids’ channel floated by UTV, is now looking at an August-September launch. UTV CEO Ronnie Screwvala had earlier...
MUMBAI: Moving to fill the vacancies made by some recent exits, Ronnie Screwvala’s UTV has appointed Venugopal Chandrashekar as director channel management, Tina Kapoor (ex-Hungama) as...
MUMBAI: Close on the heels of the exit of creative director Monisha Singh, comes news of the resignation of another senior executive at UTV, Akhauri Sinha....
MUMBAI: UTV creative director Monisha Singh has called it quits. As of today, she is no longer an employee of UTV. The 27-year old Singh put...
MUMBAI: UTV Software Communications Ltd (UTV), today filed the prospectus with the Stocks and Exchange Board of India for entering the capital market with a public...
MUMBAI: Media speculation may have thrown up varied names, but the man who will be heading The Walt Disney Company’s diversified operations in India is Rajat...
MUMBAI: 2004 looks to be turning into the year for media public offerings. After Aaj Tak and NDTV, it is the turn of UTV promoter Ronnie...
MUMBAI: Hungama, the bilingual (Hindi and Tamil) kids’ channel floated by UTV and to be distributed by Star India, will begin airing by ‘a Sunday in...
MUMBAI: UTV’s to be launched channel for kids Hungama TV unveiled its brand identity today. Scheduled to be launched in August – September 2004, the 24-hour...
MUMBAI: UTV’s new baby – the distribution network for motion pictures has now appointed heads at the national and international level. While Sanjeev Mehta would be...
MUMBAI: UTV today announced the appointment of Vikas Varma as chief operating officer (COO) for its television content division. The appointment comes almost 10 months after...
MUMBAI: Programming overdrive! That is what Hungama is calling its latest venture. UTV’s to be launched channel Hungama TV has given commissioning letters to 16 production...
MUMBAI: Bringing professionalism into industry, that is what UTV aspires to bring about. In a bid to bolster its strength as a production and distribution house,...
MUMBAI: Production company K Sera Sera is training its guns on the bigs boys of the production business Balaji Telefilms and UTV. The aim is to...
As part of its newly-found camaraderie with UTV (see earlier story: UTV eyes foreign skies; to retain Star TV as an investor after IPO), News Television...
United Television is getting ambitious these days. And How. The content provider is looking at multi dimensional fields like Internet, entertainment & production of TV series...
MUMBAI: Samar Khan, the man behind Bollywood Tonight on Zee Cinema has quit Applause Entertainment and will be joining UTV shortly. Khan started his career as...
MUMBAI: UTV’s kiddies channel Hungama is on schedule as far as its August launch date is concerned and has got the necessary uplinking permissions, UTV group...
CANNES: Former UTV international partner Firdaus Kharas and south African Brent Quinn’s brainchild- 20 animated safe-sex public service announcements (PSAs), which tickle the funny bone, were...
Are the days of the subtly portrayed Laajojis on Indian television over? Has physical perfection taken precedence over histrionic talent? Indiantelevision.com speaks to various players in...
MUMBAI: Meher, a weekend Muslim social thriller produced by UTV will now be aired four days a week from 25 March 2004. The change in timing...
MUMBAI: The big question that was asked today was “If programmes were brands, would Kotler need to be rewritten?” The session, Improving ROI for television channels...
MUMBAI: Ronnie Screwvalas UTV Software Communications, which is launching a kids channel through its recently floated subsidiary United Home Entertainment (UHE), has finally homed in on...
MUMBAI: UTV today announced the appointment of Shalini Rawla as vice president, marketing for their upcoming Kids channel launched by UTV’s United Home Entertainment (UHE). Former...
MUMBAI: After fiction and animation, software major UTV has now trained its sights on the non fiction segment. Keen to tap into the huge potential for...
If there is a list drawn up of the hottest young television professionals in India, her name will surely figure in it. Coming from a family...
‘You see tourists stroll off hand in hand with children – and you wonder – am I being paranoid or is there more going on here...
MUMBAI: The longest running kids show on cable & satellite TV, Star Plus’ Shakalaka Boom Boom, has just undergone a reinvention (thankfully not another 20-year fast...
MUMBAI: UTV claims to have beefed up its television programming front with a clutch of new shows on channels, both domestic and overseas. From pubcaster...
MUMBAI: Even as United Television (UTV)’s air-time sales and syndication COO Anil Mishra confirmed his resignation yesterday, the production house has announced another addition to its...
MUMBAI: United Television (UTV)’s chief operating officer, air-time sales and syndication Anil Mishra, has put in his papers after nine year of service. He will be...
MUMBAI: Former UTV COO Manish Popat has joined the AV Birla promoted Applause Entertainment as senior vice president from 6 October 2003. Popat will handle all...
MUMBAI: Production house UTV, currently one of the major software suppliers to Star Plus, is going back to Doordarshan by November. On the cards is a...
NEW DELHI: After having retained Prasar Bharati CEO KS Sarma as its president and getting Zee Telefilms’ Jawahar Goel as the new vice-president, the Indian Broadcasting...
MUMBAI: It looks like UTV’s Kehta Hai Dil (KHD) is all set to give Des Mein Nikla Hoga Chand a run for its money if one...
MUMBAI: UTV’s post-production and special effects division, USL-WOA has acquired a specialized post-production studio, STV. Close on the heels of acquiring Western Outdoor Advertising (WOA) earlier...
MUMBAI: Ronnie Screwvala’s UTV is ready with a series of new shows that are being pitched with channels. The list includes India’s first silent comedy sitcom...
MUMBAI: When storylines hit a plateau, shake them up a bit with a fast forward seems to be the Star Plus credo. Kaahin Kissi Roz Three...
MUMBAI: Production house UTV, this morning, inked a three feature film deal with Star India. The deal envisages production of three big budget movies (each estimated...
MUMBAI: There has been another departure from the Ronnie Screwvala-promoted United Television. Manish Popat, COO UTV TV content has “been asked to go,” Screwvala confirmed to...
MUMBAI: Ronnie Screwvala’s UTV has readied four new show concepts that it is pitching to channels. First is an action thriller titled Sarfarosh, second an emotional...
MUMBAI: Looks like its spring time at the pubcaster. Doordarshan is sprucing up its content, and first step is to get in new shows. So joining...
It may just all be finally coming together for UTV group CEO Ronnie Screwvala. His organisation has regrouped in the last year and there is clarity...
MUMBAI: In an interview to indiantelevision.com last month UTV group CEO Ronnie Screwvala had stated that his company was looking to increase its exposure on the...
MUMBAI: Ronnie Screwvala-promoted UTV is working on “India’s first prime time animated TV show. The show, an out and out comedy targeted at family audiences, is...
MUMBAI: Dil Na Jaane Kyun, the first leaf out of Zee’s innovative Chausath Panne, which is poised to reach an unexpected climax in a couple of...
MUMBAI: The announcements made around the management restructuring at United Television had left out one name. Ashish Redij, currently with Sahara TV, is joining the Ronnie...
MUMBAI: Tulsi is on her way out. Or so UTV director Zarina Mehta believes. The next two years, said Mehta at a workshop on gender representation...
