The time allowed for advertising on Indian television is now 20 minutes per hour for news channels and 16 minutes per hour for general entertainment channels, after the regulator’s new cap came into force ...
Doordarshan is launching new 24-hour TV channels in Patna, Bhopal, Jaipur and Lucknow, to take its regional language channel tally to 15. India's public broadcaster says the soft launch is to trial ...
Tata Sky and Sun Direct are the latest Indian direct-to-home (DTH) TV platforms to carry Star Sports 2, the newest sports channel from the ESPN Star Sports stable, following a new agreement with ESPN Software ...
... Star India's partnerships with Fox Sports in Australia, BSkyB in the UK, Sky TV in New Zealand, SuperSport in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and Pehla in the Middle East and North Africa. It also ...
A new online Bollywood channel offering full length Hindi movies 24/7 has been launched globally by Yamgo TV, and is available free via the network's website, smartphone apps and Facebook app. The ...
India's public TV network Doordarshan (DD) will now be available to viewers in Canada, following the latest in a spate of new south Asian content deals for Asian Television Network (ATN). DD India, ...
... and managing network-wide properties. His new role as group COO will also see him implementing processes and models to add value across the entire Network18 business. Chako, who has been with Network18 ...
Endemol has landed new regional market deals for the Indian Big Brother. Big Boss, the Indian version of the international format, will now be produced by Endemol India in three different languages. ...
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 ...
Indian entertainment network Zee Media Corporation is to launch a new regional channel –Zee Rajasthan Plus – on 31 July, with a mix of entertainment and news programming. The launch will bring Zee's total ...
QW Naqvi has joined India TV as editorial director, following his departure last year from rival Hindi news channel Aaj Tak. Naqvi, said India TV in its announcement, "is known to be a tenacious mentor ...
TV Now, a new high definition Malayalam satellite TV channel from the Kerala Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is set to launch with a Grass Valley news production system. The 24-hour Indian news and ...
Star India is investing US$3.2 billion (INR200 billion) over the next three to five years to develop sports coverage in the country and take equity stakes in new football initiative the Indian Super League, ...
The Indian public broadcaster's satellite TV channel DD Direct+ is now broadcasting ABC International's Australia Network – a free-to-air 24-hour entertainment and news channel. To coincide with the ...
Pudhu Yugam, a new Tamil entertainment channel from Chennai-based New Generation Media Corporation, is set to launch on 23 October. A sister channel to the news channel Puthiya Thalaimurai TV, Pudhu ...
... to operate its DTH business, which was due to expire on 1 October 2013. However, in the absence of any Government policy on renewing such licences, Dish TV has been allowed to continue operations while ...
N Dilip Venkatraman is stepping down from his role as chief executive officer of Indian TV news channels CNN-IBN and IBN7 to pursue entrepreneurial interests. Network18's chief operating officer Ajay ...
... Punjabi, Malayalam, Gujarati and Kannada. In addition, YouTube is launching 35 new stand-up comedy shows in conjunction with Indian production houses. O4 Digital Media will launch YouTube channels featuring ...
Yugal Kishore Sharma has been appointed president, broadband by Indian cable TV giant DEN Networks to spearhead the cable company's double and triple-play media services. Sharma, who was previously ...
... From Friday 2 November, the BBC’s new TV programme in Hindi will air weekly at prime time on ETV Bihar / Jharkhand, ETV Uttar Pradesh / Uttrakhand, ETV Rajasthan, ETV Madhya Pradesh / Chhattisgarh ...