Qatar, under intense American pressure, is exploring ways to sell the controversial Al Jazeera television, according to a report in NYTimes. Read More ...

Intelsat, a global satellite communications leader providing services in over 200 countries and territories, announced the successful closing of the amalgamation under Bermuda law of Intelsat and a subsidiary of Zeus Holdings Limited. Read More ...

BBC World, the BBC’s international 24-hour news and information channel, is launching its biggest ever brand campaign since its launch 10 years ago. Read More ...

CETMA said that the increase in the prices of Steel and other commodities which are used for manufacturing TV, may hike the prices of TV by 8-12% in the near future. Read More ...

Zee Telefilms Limited today reported third quarter consolidated revenues of Rs 3,390 million. However, excluding Padmalaya, the consolidated revenues were Rs 3,550 million, representing a nominal 1% growth over the corresponding period in the previous fiscal, excluding Padmalaya. Read More ...

Thomson, which has been divesting its consumer goods businesses, is transferring production of cathode ray tubes for television sets to Indian firm Videocon. Read More ...

The government would set up a National Media Centre in the capital at an estimated cost of Rs 35 crore. Read More ...

The Patna High Court today vacated stay on telecast of popular TV serial 'Ram Khelawan N Family' which was put on hold in 2002 by the lower court after a suit was filed alleging the serial was derogatory to RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his family. Read More ...

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The Beijing Olympic Organizers and adidas-Salomon AG announced today that adidas will be the Official Sportswear Partner of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Read More ...

The European Union has said it has approved WPP Group's proposed $1.2 billion acquisition of Grey Global Group, removing a major hurdle for completion of the highly anticipated deal. Read More ...

The media planning & buying duties of Bangalore-based Arvind Brands has been won by The Media Edge (TME) group. An release mentions that the account is worth RS 250 million. Mediacom in advance stages handled the apparel major. Read More ...

Internet giants Yahoo and Google moved Tuesday into a new battleground in the search business -- video and television content. Read More ...

UTV creates the first ever fund raising seven-hour live Telethon in India for CRY. The Telethon, 'Help! Telethon Concert' would be aired Live on Sony and is slated to go on air on Jan 26 from 1 PM to 8 PM. Read More ...

MindShare India has been awarded the Tata Steel media planning and buying AOR. The planning and buying mandate of Tata Steel is pegged at RS 20 crore. Read More ...

SUN TV, leader in the Tamil general entertainment space, has started airing English movies dubbed in Tamil, in what is seen as a response to rival Star Vijay's success with such films last year. Read More ...

It appeared to be a day of forgive and forget for the BJP on Sunday when several leaders who had of late engaged in a war of words were seen together exchanging pleasantries at two separate events. Read More ...

Zee News was today censured by the Delhi High Court for sensationalising the synthetic milk issue, but was let off as the court dismissed the plea of state-owned Mother Dairy Read More ...

BFC Berliner Film Companie has partnered with Brooksfilms and MGM Domestic Television Distribution, a unit of MGM Studios Inc., to create an animated television series based on the classic Mel Brooks comedy "Spaceballs." Read More ...

US television entertainer Johnny Carson, who hosted NBC's night-time "The Tonight Show" for nearly 30 years, has died of emphysema at 79. Read More ...

With just six weeks to go for the India-Pakistan cricket series, advertisers are ready with media buying packages, despite uncertainity over the broadcast platform. Read More ...

For the past few months, the cable TV industry in Vadodara has enjoyed relative calm. Neither has there been an aggressive attempt at taking over areas as in the past, nor have the pay channels suddenly hiked rates, that may affect the subscriber. Read More ...

INDIA is among the top 10 markets for weekly fast food consumption, an online survey has found. Most of the countries are from the Asia-Pacific region, with the US being the exemption. Read More ...

RAYMOND Apparel Ltd has opened its first standalone store for its formal menswear brand, Park Avenue. The company is planning a series of exclusive brand stores for its apparel brands Parx and Manzoni. Read More ...

It is life that inspires art, which is a creative engagement with the reality. Human imagination is, hence, guided by the exposure to the world around us. Read More ...

Advertising is set for its best year since 1999, according to a report out this week. It says advertising agencies can put the bad years of the dotcom crash and the September 11 slowdown behind them. Read More ...

Philips India Limited, a subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics, launched its latest range of Flat TVs equipped with Pixel Plus 2 Read More ...

Square Communications has bagged the communication account for the O/o of DC [Handicrafts]. The Office of the Development Commissioner Read More ...

Wayne Newton says he won't need a panel of judges to decide the winner of his new talent contest, The Entertainer, which debuts on Sunday Read More ...

Vivek Prakash, head IT business and VP, Samsung India has put in his papers, though the company has not accepted his resignation. MR. Prakash was not reporting to the company for the last one week as he is on leave. Read More ...

IDLIS, bhajiyas, murukku, dhoklas, Manchurian... all from the same mix? In what is claimed to be the first of its kind in India, General Mills has launched
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CPI-M and All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) leaders met Union home minister Shivraj Patil on Friday and conveyed their opposition to allowing FDI in print media. Read More ...

LG Electronics India Ltd (LGEIL) plans to introduce in the market the country's first direct-to-home television sets by February or March. Read More ...

Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez might be the star attraction in next month's British Awards in London, which is being billed as UK's answer to the Grammy Awards. Read More ...

Bennett, Coleman picks up stakes in companies to lock in advertising. Bennett, Coleman & Co's (BCCL) rivals, beware. Read More ...

LG Electronics India has launched Super Slim which it claims is the world’s slimmest flat CTR TV. The product will also be available globally across all countries. Read More ...

Not just tennis fans, but advertisers too have trained their eyes on tennis star Sania Mirza. Even as the young tennis star gears up for a historic third round clash against Serena Williams in the Australian Open on Friday Read More ...

Aaren Initiative, the outdoor company of Lintas India's Integrated Marketing Action Group, has bagged the the out-of-home solutions account for the Tamil Nadu circle of Tata Teleservices. Read More ...

The International Cricket Council and the leading consumer durable brand LG today announced that they have joined forces to produce and promote the LG ICC Test Championship Read More ...

In a throat cutting competition, Concept PR has won the BSNL account. With great expertise in handling large corporates & PSUs, Concept PR team is Read More ...

In keeping with its focus on innovation in the automotive industry and its contribution to the growth of industrial and consumer dynamism of the country Read More ...

ETC Channel Punjabi, the most popular Punjabi channel in the country is proud to announce the second annual music awards ETC Channel Punjabi Music Awards 2005. Read More ...

Animax India’s “Get Irfan to School Contest” has received tremendous response. With nearly one-lakh entries from 500 schools across the country Read More ...

As a Hollywood superstar and celebrity Buddhist, Richard Gere has been at the receiving end of many tongue-tying interview experiences. Read More ...

Sesame Workshop and Turner Broadcasting will CO-produce Sesame India, aimed at 157 million preschoolers in India. Read More ...

Renuka Chowdhury launched ‘Athiti Devo Bhava’ campaign aimed at providing the inbound tourist a sense of being welcomed in the country. Read More ...

Deccan Chronicle Holdings LTD, the publishers of the leading English daily Deccan Chronicle, rose 22.5 per cent on their debut. Read More ...

TV 18 has posted a Net Profit of Rs 8.15 crore during the quarter ended 31st December 2004 Read More ...

Don't look for a supersized, super-stuffed final episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond." Read More ...

NDTV has registered a consolidated net profit of Rs 14.9 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2004, against a loss of Rs 7.3 crore Read More ...

Deepak Sandhu, Press Registrar RNI, has been appointed as Director General (News), NSR, of All India Radio (AIR). Read More ...

Shripad Nadkarni, VP–Marketing and Sharda Agarwal, Director–Marketing of Coca Cola India have decided to quit the flavored water giant. Read More ...

JWT today announced the appointment of Vivek Sengupta as the President of IPAN, its PR division. IPAN, which was set up by JWT over seventeen years ago Read More ...

IFJ said that more than 125 media persons died in the year 2004, for there attempts to cover the News. Read More ...

Zee Turner has challenged the TRAI order and is going to approach TDSAT on the issue of TRAI Directives. Read More ...

An Indonesian boy who survived alone for three weeks after the Indian Ocean tsunami has been reunited with his family after being spotted by a British television news crew, a TV reporter said on Saturday. Read More ...

Intelsat Ltd., the second-largest global satellite operator, said its IS-804 satellite was lost as it suffered a catastrophic electrical power system on the 14 January. The loss of the satellite gives Zeus Holdings the right to not consummate the acquisition. Read More ...

Fuji Television Network, Incorporated (Tokyo Stock Exchange:4676) ("the Offeror") gives notice hereby that its Board of Directors resolved at its meeting today to acquire shares of Nippon Broadcasting System. Read More ...

NDTV LTD has finally turned to the arena of Business, the company has launched today its third channel, NDTV Profit at 09:30 AM, the channel is a 24 hr. business channel. Profit is launched as a free-to-air channel. Read More ...

The Election Commission has framed a new set of guidelines for media persons covering the elections, imposing a total ban on photography or videography inside the polling station building where the process of voting takes place. Read More ...

Want to be an instant millionaire in Nepal? Then eat instant noodles - and take part in a television game show where you can win millions. Read More ...

TRAI has issued show-cause notices to three basic telecom operators, Tatas, Reliance and MTNL, for 'misleading' the consumers by positioning their fixed wireless phones as similar to mobiles. Read More ...

Zoom — the entertainment and lifestyle channel from the Bennett, Coleman & Company stable — is all set to beam internationally. The channel would be available on major television networks in Nepal, US, UK and the Middle East. Read More ...

Television Eighteen, NDTV, Bennett, Coleman & Co join the fray. Television Eighteen Ltd, which runs CNBC-TV 18, launched Awaaz, a consumer affairs channel in Hindi, on Thursday. Read More ...

Sahara Samay, the TV news channel of Sahara India Parivar, Saturday launched a new 24-hour free-to-air regional news channel for Bihar and Jharkhand. Read More ...

The Asia Pacific Advertising Festival (AP AdFest) will be held from Mar 10 - 12 in Pattaya, Thailand. The theme of AdFest will be "Fear No Change". Read More ...

With more number of television channels planned for this year, the merrier it will be for advertisers. According to senior media planners, downward pressure on advertising rates seems inevitable. Read More ...

Telecom operators can look forward to offering all telecom and broadcasting services, including cable TV, DTH, STD, ISD and radio, through a single licence by paying a one-time fee of Rs 107 crore besides . . Read More ...

CNN Headline News will be dropping its thirty-minute news wheel format during primetime, it was confirmed today. Read More ...

WHAT'S an adhesive company doing in the snack market?

Unthinkable it may seem but Pidilite Industries Ltd, makers of Fevicol, an adhesive brand, has launched a snack product. Read More ...

Newly appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham, will speak out for the Tsunami affected children in a UNICEF TV . . Read More ...

A day after reprimanding Zee-Turner for switching off TV channel signals to a subscriber without proper notice, Telecom Regulatory Authority on wednesday .. Read More ...

Overseas Indians who have been roped in to give a thrust to the FDI in the country, aim to boost the inflows from $5 billion to $15 billion in three years. Read More ...

The Andhra Pradesh government is contemplating setting up an animation academy to infuse trained professionals in the industry, YSR said on Wednesday. Read More ...

Balaji Telefilms has allotted 13,694,193 equity shares aggregating to 21 percent of the total post issued paid up share capital of the Company to Asian Broadcasting FZ LLC Read More ...

The union minister for Information & Broadcasting, MR. Jaipal Reddy, who was in Andhra Pradesh's Mylavaram, said that the central government would soon mull a Censor Board for TV, in view of Increasing vulgarity in the TV programs and in TV channels. Read More ...

The family of a baby boy formally named China's 1.3 billionth citizen has turned down advertising deals from many companies making everything from diapers to infant formula, state media said on Monday. Read More ...

MTV Networks today announced a series of new wireless initiatives as part of their extended plans to provide music entertainment Read More ...

Sanjeev Roy, Director, Euro RSCG, who palyed the key role in bidding of Set Max for the World Cup Matches and the techniques used Read More ...

The screens may be tiny and the batteries overworked, but the wireless industry is bringing TV to a cell phone near you Read More ...

Nai Dunia of Madhya Pradesh,- Naidunia, will now be printed and published from Gwalior too. . Read More ...

MTV Networks Asia will reposition the annual MTV Asia Awards into a global benefit, in support of the recovery efforts taking place Read More ...

TRAI has told Tata Teleservices and Reliance Infocomm to pull off the advertisements of their fixed wireless Read More ...

MAX, the premium Movies and Special Events channel, MAX will telecast the one day cricket match on Monday, 10 January to raise funds for tsunami . . Read More ...

Estates company, Senior Group, is all set to launch an all new Hindi news channel, by the end of Feb. S1, is the suggested name for the Read More ...

Independent cable networks, representing around 25,000 players across the country, are planning to send a memorandum to the parliamentary standing committee on information technology objecting to Prasar Bharati’s direct-to-home (DTH) broadcasting. Read More ...

The contest follows the marriage earlier this year of Interbrew and the Brazilian brewer Ambev, a merger that created the world’s biggest brewer by volume. Read More ...

ESPN, for its ESPN Original Entertainment division, has won the 2004 Media Eclipse Award for national television in the features category for a documentary on Smarty Jones. Read More ...

HP is ready to introduce a device for successive recording, organizing digital media and play back television for photos, music Read More ...

JWT and MindShare, the WPP companies, will now handle both the Products division and Corporate remit of the Electronics major Samsung Read More ...

. . with cable operators, MSOs, DTH and Head-ends In The Sky (HITS) operators, including amendments and modifications made . . Read More ...

With few foreign investors interested in locking in their capital in a lifestyle channel, BCCL is said to have recognised that Zoom Read More ...

GoM on print media had the first meeting on Friday. Earlier, the meet was deferred thrice during this month Read More ...

Coverage of deadly tsunamis that pummelled South Asia fuelled a sharp crest in CNN's audience this week, capping a year in which its ratings and those of rival cable networks fell from war-driven heights in 2003. Read More ...

Mutual fund advertising spend on television has risen 48% this year (January to November), compared with the corresponding period last year, according to an analysis by AdEx, a division of Tam Media Research. Read More ...

. . Comcast has opened up the signals to India's leading general ent. channel Zee TV (Channel 246) and TV Asia (Channel 247) . . Read More ...

The share prices of NDTV LTD, TV Today, Television Eighteen India LTD, rose to a whooping percentage by 19.99 per cent, 9.2 per cent and 3.04 per cent . . Read More ...

The year 2004, a historical year in the history of Indian Television, was a year of ups and downs. The year saw may Highs & Lows after a strong gap phase. Read More ...