MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) is likely to call off its deal to acquire 60 per cent stake in Venus Films Pvt Ltd and Venus Records...
MUMBAI: In another 15 days time, all Star channels may well be made available to the country’s only private direct-to-home operator Dish TV. Subhash Chandra’s DTH...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms International has opened a state-of-the-art digital studio in Sharjah, UAE. The studio been launched with the purpose of telecasting locally-produced programmes in the...
MUMBAI: Foreign media companies seem to have hit a wall when it comes to China. Star Group, for example, continues to bleed in that market despite...
Zee Telefilms along with its subsidiaries has registered what could be its lowest Q1 net profit in the recent past. The company showed a rise of...
Subhash Chandra touts his plans to disassemble Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) into four separate entities as a necessary move to unlock value. As he stands on...
MUMBAI: One area where Zee Telefilms is clearly ahead of rivals Star and Sony is in channel initiatives internationally. Keeping that tradition alive, Zee is launching...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: After many years of meandering on the margins (since 1997), the information and broadcasting ministry is ready with a final draft of...
MUMBAI: US-based Corpus Inc. has acquired Recreate Solutions, a media and entertainment software outsourcing company floated by former Zee Telefilms employee Bhaskar Majumdar, for Rs 600...
Laxmi N Goel, director Zee News Ltd and the second of the three brothers of Essel Group chairman Subhash Chandra, is not given to hype and...
She’s one woman who’s been there, done that! However, hers has been a long journey spanning 25 years wherein she has faced a lot of brickbats...
MUMBAI: It was truly a Manic Monday for Dalal Street. For the second time in the indices’ history (the first being on 17 May, 2004), trading...
NEW DELHI: The Rupert Murdoch-controlled News Corp.’s pan-Asian venture, Star Group, operating income grew 28 per cent year-on-year to reach almost $30 million, propelled by ad...
MUMBAI: The last time indiantelevision.com analysed the Hindi General Entertainment Channel rankings (CS4+HSM) in February 2006, Zee TV had gone ahead of its nearest competitor Sony...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms’ proposed Kannada general entertainment channel Zee Kannada is now ready for launch. According to market sources, the channel will hit the airwaves on...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms has posted a 30 per cent fall in consolidated net profit at Rs 2.21 billion for the fiscal ended 31 March 2006, as...
NEW DELHI: Two companies related to the consumer service business of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel Group’s DTH platform are poised to be merged with ASC Enterprise...
MUMBAI: One part of the process set in motion late last month by the Subhash Chandra promoted Zee Telefilms board to split its broadcasting business into...
NEW DELHI: Even as Siti Cable today made a presentation on conditional access system to stakeholders during a government-sponsored meeting, the broadcasters said the issue of...
MUMBAI: There is a Zee-BCCI face off in the offing as the former has decided to sue BCCI VP Lalit Modi for using “abusive and unparliamentary...
MUMBAI: Sahara One Media & Entertainment Ltd has plans to raise up to $50 million in one or more tranches. The board, which met on 5...
NEW DELHI: The numbers are going beyond believable as far as India cricket is concerned. Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms has secured the rights for the latest...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Cricket and controversy in India are synonymous now. The latest round of allegation and counter-elucidations relates to overseas cricket telecast rights for Indo-Pakistan cricket...
MUMBAI: Sahara One Media and Entertainment Ltd is planning to raise Rs 1.5 billion to meet its expansion plans. The company is also likely to bid...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) is buying out broadband services provider Broadband Pacenet, which is promoted by Jagjit Singh Kohli, Yogesh Shah and Yogesh Radhakrishnan. Kohli,...
Two English entertainment channels were launched on 15 March by Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra and Chief Executive R.K. Singh in Mumbai. Zee Movies and Zee...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra promoted Zee Telefilms board today approved splitting of its broadcasting business into three entities — news operations, broadcast and...
MUMBAI: A venture capital (VC) fund with a corpus of Rs 200 million will support the compelling business ideas from contestants of a reality show on...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel Group has launched DMCL (Digital Media Convergence Ltd) as a company that will facilitate the availability of digital content in...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms, which is planning a restructuring of its businesses, is toying hiving off its distribution activities as a separate company....
MUMBAI: “It’s the end of TV, the way we know it.” That was Zee group chairman Subhash Chandra introducing his keynote at the plenary session today...
NEW DELHI: Now Mumbai denizens need not worry about cleaning their countless shoes at home or go looking for the friendly neighbourhood cobbler. A shoe laundry,...
NEW DELHI: At a time when relationship between India and Pakistan are thawing a bit for the better, Indian and Pakistani cable operators have joined hands...
It’s been a long haul back on the upward curve for Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms but things are certainly moving north for his network (including the...
MUMBAI: Cable TV operators will have much to cheer with this recommendation from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). The broadcast and telecom regulator has...
NEW DELHI: Zee TV, the flagship of Zee Telefilms, has announced a brand new show with the same flavor of its successful Sa Re Ga Ma...
Is global media baron Rupert Murdoch coming to town? If reports are to be believed a visit is being planned for the News Corp chief to...
MUMBAI: Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005, the show which has become Zee TV’s driver property, has completed its run on a high note. The...
MUMBAI: Journalists under attack is becoming an increasingly common phenomenon. The capital Lucknow of India’s largest state Uttar Pradesh was the scene of an attack today...
NEW DELHI: India is set to emerge as Asia’s leading revenue generating pay-TV market by 2015 with multichannel video industry (cable, DTH and IPTV) turnover growing...
MUMBAI: Indian media companies are finding Dubai a hot destination. After Zee Telefilms and Mukta Arts, it is the turn of K Sera Sera Productions which...
MUMBAI: From 24 February Entertainment Ka Naya Funda, Interesting! is Siti Channel’s new catch line. Siti, which “upgraded” from a cable channel to a satellite channel...
MUMBAI: A day 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: The Indian cricket board announced today that Nimbus Communications Ltd has won the telecast rights to India cricket for the next four years after putting...
MUMBAI: Fear is the key? Fear of losing out on a piece of the India cricket telecast pie could well decide just how high the bids...
MUMBAI: Indias readiness to embrace new technologies, opposed to Chinas cautious approach, makes the former a more attractive market for suppliers of broadcast and related technologies,...
NEW DELHI: A new floor price of $ 450 million set by the Indian cricket board for telecast rights of Indian cricket is being termed by...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms has turned down Shiv Sena working president Uddhav Thackeray’s request to refrain from telecasting Zee Gaurav Awards. Zee Telefilms VP Ashish Kaul said...
MUMBAI: In the next 30 days, music channel MTV and kids channel Nick may well be available on direct-to-home service provider Dish TV, 20 per cent...
MUMBAI: Star Ananda might soon have competition as Zee News Pvt Ltd readies plans to launch a Bengali news channel. Going by a working name of...