Come 1 November, TV studio owners, editors, animation and graphic artists are going to be headed towards Mumbai’s World Trade Centre. The reason: the eleventh edition...
MTV India threw cold water today on a recent report that it was seriously considering a proposal by the Hinduja-owned INCablenet whereby it would be able...
Star has announced that its Star Movies channel has signed an output deal with DreamWorks Distribution to acquire the exclusive pay-television rights for 40 DreamWorks SKG...
MUMBAI: You can’t miss the eyes. Splashed across hoardings in the city a mysterious woman, revealing only her forehead and eyes, asks: “Kaun hoon main (who...
The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), which on 24 August is launching a campaign to increase confidence in Indian advertising on television and print media,...
Zee Interactive Learning Systems Ltd, the multimedia education subsidiary of Zee Telefilms, is currently in the middle of a major drive to increase awareness around its...
The Hallmark Channel, using the platform of the popular programmes like Sesame Street, Scholastic Clifford and Caillou on its Kids Block, has teamed up with well-known...
Just under three months after Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra announced he was looking to induct an international media major as strategic partner, the field for...
The predominantly music-based etc, quoting market research agency Intam figures, has claimed the top spot in the music channel stakes. According to Intam figures for...
Zee TV today announced it was ready and willing to take on the best that Star had to dish out while unveiling the relaunch of the...
Subhash Chandra is likely to square the remainder of the amount that is to be paid back to Zee Telefilms Ltd by offloading about 7.5 million...
A little over a month after media baron Subhash Chandra’s Zee Telefilms Ltd, announced its promoters had placed 5 million shares with a U.S.-based institutional investor,...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) and Astro, its Malaysian Pay TV Partner, have reached an agreement to make available exclusive coverage of the English Premier League soccer...
To promote its new blockbuster movie ‘Planet Of the Apes’ 20th Century Fox has tied up with popular music network MTV International as its only global...
It’s been a year and ten months since the Viacom-owned kid’s channel Nickelodeon entered Indian air space but it might as not have come at all...
It’s not just cricket series that SET MAX, the movies and cricket channel from the Sony Entertainment stable, is lining up for viewers. Launching tomorrow, every...
Participants also got an insight into the legal aspects of scriptwriting from Film Writers’ Association’s Rajendra Singh, who spoke of the problems faced by Indian scriptwriters....
India’s next generation communication satellite Insat-3C, which was scheduled for launch on 11 September on an Ariane 5, is likely to be lifted into orbit only...
Yet another family drama targeted at the Indian housewife (or should that be North Indian housewife) hits the small screen today with the launch of “Kangan”...
Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) Television was in the process of working out a plan to increase ad sales for the French channel Fashion TV CEO Rajan...
US-based Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the India launch of Adobe After Effects 5.0, a new version of the company’s motion graphics and visual effects software....
ESPN Star Sports yesterday introduced an Asian version of the popular sports news show Sportscenter. SportsCenter will be Asia’s first live half-hour sports news programme...
B4U Networks has terminated its distribution deal with Modi Entertainment Network (MEN) blaming it for what it says is the surreptitious manner in which the channel...
Sports in India means cricket, cricket, and only cricket. To the world at large however there is far more to sport and that is what ESPN...
One of the recurring themes in the just-concluded Enter Media 2001 conference organised by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) in Mumbai was the issue of...
Watch out Femina Miss India, there is competition on the horizon. The Zee Network has announced plans to foray into one as yet unexplored arena –...
National broadcaster Doordarshan has invited fresh sealed tenders to market and distribute DD-World and DD-News channel in the UK and rest of Europe on the DTH...
National broadcaster Doordarshan, in its efforts to give impetus to its own sports channels, is looking for fresh sports programmes and inviting proposals from producers under...
The battle to gain control over the cellular service market is getting hot. To face competition from MTNL’s Dolphin and Hutchison Max, BPL Mobile has entered...
The The convergence bill may be a long way away but it was very much on the radar screen as the two-day Enter Media 2001 conference...
The battle for the No 4 slot in the general Hindi entertainment channel sweepstakes is hotting up. Sahara TV has refocused itself and is readying for...
Television software major TV18 came out with miserable results showing the down turn in media sector. The Net profit has gone down by more than 69...
Star Group Limited and UTV announced in Chennai today the formation of a joint venture which will oversee Tamil regional language channel Vijay TV. Star has...
As ad spend becomes increasingly more difficult to access, channels are having to innovate to make sure the ad rupee goes as long a way as...
The Entermedia 2001 conference kicked off in Mumbai’s western suburb of Andheri today with the issue of addressability forming the core of discussions at the session...
The two-day Entermedia 2001 conference was flagged off today in Mumbai by chief minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh who announced that the state government would not...
The sports television juggernaut rolls on. Come 15 August 2001, ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) broadcaster is going to launch two new services Star Sports Southeast Asia...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) and Hong Kong pay-TV operator Cable TV have reached an agreement for non-exclusive distribution of ESPN and Star Sports channels in Hong...
Star India and Ronnie Screwvala’s UTV are set to formalise a deal to hand over control of the Tamil language channel Vijay TV it owns to...
Business news network CNBC Asia has incorporated cellular phone short message service (SMS) into its programming. Viewers can now send questions and comments to analysts, market...
The Broadcast Worldwide-promoted Tara regional channel bouquet has recently launched a collection of Hindi and Punjabi songs in partnership with Milestone Entertainment. The audio cassette has...
Three months into his position as head of Discovery Communications in India, managing director Deepak Shourie today announced a new programming strategy – ‘My Time on...
Go digital. That seems to be the mantra amongst Indian TV channel managers these days. ETC Networks Ltd’s etc channel is taking the same tack. The...
Star India’s new programming strategy for Friday nights has hit the right notes from Day 1 itself, as per information provided by the company. Market...
The stage is set for the Enter Media 2001 conference to be held in Mumbai on 7 and 8 August. The seminar for the media...
The media has been pretty critical of the performance put up by Zee Telefilms in Q1 of FY 2001-002. And it has also been going hell...
Sony Entertainment Television and the Rajan Raheja-owned Hathway Cable & Datacom are hopeful that their ongoing dispute over paid connectivity will be resolved in a day...
In a reflection of the importance that the Ronnie Scewvala-promoted UTV attaches to the “nonfiction area”, it has formed a separate division (set up a month...
He's wanted in eight states and has committed crimes under 50 names. His total convictions add up to 117 years and has escaped from nine different...
The media has been pretty critical of the performance put up by Zee Telefilms in Q1 of FY 2001-002. And it has also been going hell...