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The Ratikanta Basu promoted TARA channels are up for sales. The Broadcast Worldwide, which owns the four regional language channels, has been looking for buyers. The company has approached several broadcasters to either pick up substantial equity or buy ou
MTV India will air MTV Record Tod. The show will be aired seven days a week. MTV will visit college campuses across the country and invite students to create records—from a Sardar who wears a 20-meter turban to a 50-foot human pyramid etc. The show is
On the eve of the Abby awards, Lowe Lintas has decided to boycott the Mumbai Ad Club’s Advertising award function scheduled between March 29 and 31.
With radio FM plans having gone haywire due to regulatory policies, BPLInnovision’s 100 per cent subsidiary - Indigo Radio launched two new radio channels - a satellite radio service on Worldspace and an Internet FM service - aimed at tapping the youn
Star Gold, the 24-hour Hindi movie channel from Star India, is planning to launch a portal to elicit viewer participation. Once DTH is through, Star Gold plans to launch another Hindi movie channel. The rationale behind the Website is to help viewers to
Aakash, a 24-hour Bengali satellite television channel from Sky-B Bangla Pvt. Ltd., will be launched shortly. Aakash, unlike other Bengali channels, will be produced locally. This is expected to make it different from other Bengali channels. It promises
Reality seems to have struck the satellite TV channels after a boom year in 2000. That year saw a launch of more than 20 channels, pushing the total count for Indian channels to 70 plus. Some of them are now clearly finding the going tough. This is evid
Mudra DDB is setting up its local media AOR (Agency of Record) called OMS, or Optimum Media Solutions, to handle Rs 150-crore worth of media-only business, or clients who don’t repose their creative business with the agency. OMS is in talks with global me
Global satellite major Europestar plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) sector in the country by picking up below 20 per cent stake in an upcoming DTH venture, for which it has begun talks with players like Zee, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (VSNL) and B4U.
If you're thinking of bidding goodbye to the neighbourhood cable operator once Direct-to-Home (DTH) broadcasting service is in place, think again. Cable operators are now eyeing a larger slice of the DTH pie. The new mantra: DTH is not a threat, but an op
Zee Telefilms has shelved its plans to float a $1.5-billion American depository receipt (ADR) issue, to fund its proposed expansion, at least for the time being.
Sony Entertainment Television (SET) will be telecasting a two-part series featuring cine star Hrithik Roshan on April 16 and 23. Titled Hrithik: The Man Behind the Star, the series is being sponsored by Coca-Cola and will depict the star's life from his
The Rs 553-crore company Nicco group has launched a new Internet company called Nicco Internet Ventures Ltd. (NIVL), and its portal www.pilot your career.com. NIVL has formed a strategic alliance with the IIM, Kolkata, Institute of Career Studies, Luckn
The B4U group in talks with financial institutions like IDBI to put together a fund with a corpus of around Rs 100 crore to facilitate funding of films in an organised manner. The B4U group is also expected to hold 50 per cent stake in the entity, which
The race for the top slot is on as both Zee and Star have decided to unleash a slew of new programmes to woo the viewers and advertisers. If Star Plus has decided to start a daily thriller from third week of April four days a week, Zee TV has started ai
SABe TV has shed some workforce and has attributed it to “non-performance as per company standards.” The company is recruiting senior executives to run the company.
ZEE Network in Britain has launched a fight-back to hold on to its leadership of the South Asian television market that currently consists of 22 channels focused on Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan viewers. The new energy visible in Zee owe
Zee Music will go digital from March 27. It will, however, continue to be a free-to-air channel for the time being. The channel, on turning digital, will give its viewers sharper pictures and better audio quality.
Zee Telefilms Ltd., has whittled down its ambitious Net plans and is likely to have about only 10 channels on the Net focussing on entertainment, lifestyle and news. The original plan was to have 49 channels or verticals on the Net covering a wider area
Sony Entertainment Television will air a series of shows on the life and performance of cinestar Hrithik Roshan. In a two-part production of one hour each, Farah Khan-Ali, Hrithik Roshan's sister-in-law and a promoter of Numero Uno Productions, will put
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