Star India's Bengali film channel, Jalsha Movies, has acquired the television rights to the Calcutta Football League and the IFA Shield Tournament in India. Broadcast coverage of the oldest football ...
The best of Indian comedy will feature in a week-long event on YouTube, with over 400 hours of comedy content running on the Google-owned video-sharing site until 12 September. Popular TV shows – including ...
Bollywood video-on-demand streaming service Spuul is being preloaded as an app on new smartphones from handset manufacturer Micromax, with a month's free premium subscription for anyone purchasing the ...
A star-studded charity event to raise funds for the Uttarakhand flood victims is to be shown live across the Star India TV network on 15 August. The seven-hour event, entitled Saath Hai Hum - Uttarakhand, ...
Ajay Chacko, the current president of A+E Networks/TV18, has been appointed chief operating officer (COO) of diverse Indian media group Network18. Chako will retain his role as president of the joint ...
Hindi television news channel Sahara Samay NCR has been rebranded as Samay Rajasthan, and will now concentrate on Rajasthan rather than the three Indian states of Rajasthan, Delhi and Haryana as before. ...
Bangalore start-up SureWaves has secured INR350 million (US$5.7 million) in a second round of funding, to invest in the company's cloud-based targeted cable TV advertising technology. Led by Canaan ...
Doordarshan (DD) Urdu is aiming to captivate audiences with a slew of new content – from literary fiction to reality TV shows – scheduled for transmission between 6.30pm and 10pm each evening. The ...
The family educational TV channel Da Vinci Learning has secured carriage on Indian direct-to-home (DTH) platform Airtel Digital TV, as well as leading multi-system operators' (MSO) Siticable and Digicable, ...
Zee TV's Tamil channel Zee Tamizh is to debut the Zodiak Media format Killer Karaoke in India, from Saturday 14 December. All 42 one-hour episodes of the entertainment show are being produced by Zodiak ...
The Multi Screen Media-owned sports channel Sony Six has won the exclusive broadcast rights for the Australian Open tennis championship from 2015 to 2019. While this is the first Grand Slam tennis ...
Three of India's six private direct-to-home (DTH) satellite operators have been sent ministerial show cause notices for not showing all of the mandatory TV channels from state broadcaster Doordarshan (DD). ...
Indian telecommunications giant Bharti Airtel has registered 400% growth in mobile TV consumption, according to its annual consumer trend report, which points to entertainment, sport and news as the top ...
Hyderabad-based Global Takeoff plans to launch a new over-the-top (OTT) video service across India by the third quarter of 2014. The OTT service, which will comprise live streaming, movies on demand ...
Maharashtra multi-system operator (MSO) UCN is to provide its customers with 7.1 channels of surround sound after choosing Dolby Digital Plus as the audio codec for its high definition (HD) set-top boxes. ...
Bharti Airtel has abandoned plans to sell a quarter of its stake in its direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV division Airtel Digital TV, according to the Times of India. Talks with prospective buyers, ...
Indian satellite TV operator Tata Sky has added nine standard definition (SD) and six high definition (HD) channels to its subscription-based direct-to-home (DTH) service. The nine new SD channels ...
The number of television news and current affairs channels now broadcasting under licence in India is now 392, with a further 400 general entertainment channels, according to the latest figures from the ...
The Indian cable and direct-to-home (DTH) TV industry requires around 140 million set-top boxes (STBs) to complete the remaining phases of the mandatory digitisation programme, according to the government. ...