International News

Zee Telefilms Limited plans to pick a minority stake in Buffalo Network. This investment are part of its long term strategic investments to ensure a strong linkages with creative producers for ensuring quality contents to its network, thereby maximising va

exchange4media Staff Mar 17, 2001 5:21 PM

CNBC India has chalked out an investment plan to set up additional facilities in telecom and infrastructure in the coming quarter, which will enable its financial channel to uplink directly to Singapore. As part of its branding strategy, the company has l

exchange4media Staff Mar 17, 2001 5:20 PM

ModiCorp, the joint venture telecom company of Modi Holdings and Singapore Technologies Telemedia (STT) has forged a strategic alliance with Singapore-based Star Hub to foray into national and international long-distance operations.

exchange4media Staff Mar 17, 2001 5:19 PM

Star TV plans to rope another multiple system operators (MSO) to service cable and satellite (C&S) subscribers in Kolkata and some of its surrounding areas. For this the channel may approach an MSO like Hathway to invest in setting up a base in Kolkata.

exchange4media Staff Mar 17, 2001 5:18 PM

STAR Movies has tied up with George Lucas’ famed Lucas Films. The STAR-Lucas deal will find the premier movie channel swinging the rights to the entire bank of the Star Wars trilogy. Though the full sweep of the Lucas armoury to which STAR Movies has picke

exchange4media Staff Mar 17, 2001 5:18 PM

STAR is planning a foray into that country with its twin channels-Star News and Star Plus from August 15, 2001, in the US and later the same package will be extended to Canada. Star has recently tied up with two multiple-systems operators (MSOs) in the UK

exchange4media Staff Mar 17, 2001 5:17 PM

Information and broadcasting ministry is studying a proposal to create a media council which will subsume the present Press Council of India within itself and look after the content regulation in print, electronic and the Internet. If this happens, the pro

exchange4media Staff Mar 17, 2001 5:16 PM

Tata Internet Services Limited is looking at forging partnerships with local and regional ISPs, as a part of its expansion plan. The category `A' ISP promoted by Tata Industries Limited with the brand name `Tatanova' was launched on March 1, 2001, in Mumba

exchange4media Staff Mar 16, 2001 5:14 PM

Techno Fab Manufacturing Ltd. has developed and launched `Multi-Ad' - a totally automated, indexing type and space saving advertising/display medium for commercial ads. In this medium, real products can be displayed in place of photographs to enable the ta

exchange4media Staff Mar 16, 2001 5:13 PM

With an aim to take on the market leader The Times of India’s Ascent appointment supplement, three leading newspapers Hindustan Times, The Indian Express and Mid-Day, announced an alliance to provide advertisers a common platform to release their appointme

exchange4media Staff Mar 16, 2001 5:11 PM

The earnings of Doordarshan have increased by 47.8 per cent between the period April 2000-January 2001, as compared to the same period in 1999-2000. While the total earnings of Doordarshan through commercials during this period is a sizeable Rs 510.01 cror

exchange4media Staff Mar 16, 2001 5:10 PM

Zee’s Siticable, Hathaway’s Wincable and the Hinduja-owned Incable are all busy buying out sub-operators from rival networks or otherwise. Increasing number of acquisitions have been reported from several areas in Delhi, Mumbai and other cities. This new a

exchange4media Staff Mar 16, 2001 4:58 PM

Star Plus has also lined up its sponsors for "Ji Mantriji". A remake of "Yes Minister", this half-hour show will be sponsored by General Motors, Kelvinator, Mortein and Medimix. This political satire will be telecast every Thursday during prime time.

exchange4media Staff Mar 16, 2001 4:56 PM

Come end-April, and viewers will witness Amitabh Bachchan playing host to children on Junior Kaun Banega Crorepati. The kids version which will be aired on Sunday morning on Star Plus has attracted SSI, TI Cycles, Novartis, Cadbury's, Nestle, Parle, Britan

exchange4media Staff Mar 16, 2001 4:55 PM

Top officials of the Prasar Bharati and the ministry of information and broadcasting met on Wednesday to review the Kashir channel of Doordarshan, which is a dedicated channel for Jammu and Kashmir. The review was necessitated by the fact that the channel

exchange4media Staff Mar 16, 2001 4:54 PM

The guidelines for the Direct-to-Home (DTH) television service, which have been hold for some months were put up on the website of the Information and Broadcasting ministry www.mib.nic.in.

exchange4media Staff Mar 16, 2001 4:53 PM

As per the detailed guidelines issued by the government on Thursday, the sectoral cap of 20 per cent for broadcasters and cable network companies remains. The total foreign investment in a DTH broadcasting project, including FDI/NRI/OCB/FII, will not excee

exchange4media Staff Mar 16, 2001 4:51 PM

Touch and feel the channel, shape perceptions and drive eyeballs to the channel-that's the three-dimensional marketing mantra that MTV follows in India. The channel touches life of youth everywhere they turn to-be it home, college, office or hangouts. MTV’

exchange4media Staff Mar 15, 2001 12:00 AM

The marketing mandate for Sun TV's game show Koteeswaran is all set to change hands from New Age Entertainment to UTV. As per the new agreement, UTV will handle the marketing for the game show from 31 March 2000.

exchange4media Staff Mar 15, 2001 12:00 AM

MediaCom, the media independent division of Grey Worldwide, has released its third edition of the MediaCom Ready Reckoner, a nationally compiled database. The MediaCom Ready Reckoner is a handy pocket-sized database on media related and other general broad

exchange4media Staff Mar 15, 2001 12:00 AM