Date: 5 Nov, 2009
Broadcast India 2009 was held from October 29 to October 31, 2009 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai. In its 19th year, this time the exhibition and conference hosted an even more prestigious, global platform for the film, television and infotainment industry than ever before. Visitors pou.......................................

Date: 14 Oct, 2009
FICCI has been cheerleading the potential of the Indian Media & Entertainment Sector for the last ten years. The FICCI Entertainment Division works extensively with the entertainment industry, interfaces with the government, publishes studies and explores the various commercial nuances of this .......................................

Date: 22 Sep, 2009
 Director Vipul Shah was taken by surprise at the objections raised by the Central Board of Film Certification over the trailers of his forthcoming musical, ‘London dreams’. Apparently, the Board was skeptical about the rock number, ‘Barso re barso’, as it had Salman Kha.......................................

Date: 20 Sep, 2009
Sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has inked bulk deals with companies like Maruti Suzuki India, Bajaj Auto, Hero Honda, Samsung, Tata Motors, Havells, Philips and Adidas for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy, according to an executive with the company. “We have got a good response fro.......................................

Date: 6 Sep, 2009
 The National Film Awards for 2007 were announced today. The complete list of winners below: .......................................

Date: 5 Sep, 2009
After a hiatus of four years, Amitabh Bachchan has decided to return to the small screen as the host of the controversial reality show, ‘Bigg Boss’. But Colors, the channel on which the show returns, would rather call him ‘a pop philosopher’, rather than a host or anchor. Ba.......................................

Date: 2 Sep, 2009
Adlabs Films, which is a part of the Reliance ADA Group, has proposed to change its name to Reliance MediaWorks subject to approval from its shareholders. Adlabs has appointed adman and lyricist Prasoon Joshi as a director on the company’s board. Joshi is the executive chairman for McCann Worl.......................................

Date: 7 Jul, 2009
The Indian DTH market has successfully resisted the impacts of the current eonomic slowdown & has certainly proved to be a boon for the Indian DTH industry as people have now started to cut back  on their entertainment expenditure and instead of viewing movies at theatres, they are preferri.......................................

Date: 22 Jun, 2009
In less than two years of operation, the Middle East subsidiary of NDTV “NDTV Arabia”  has ceased operations, citing poor economic conditions. NDTV Arabia will go off air at the end of this month, although the Dubai office was shut down much earlier and its six staff made .......................................

Date: 16 Jun, 2009
TV stations in the United States will stop their analog broadcast signals come Friday midnight on the 18 th of June & switch to digital TV, ending the analog era that began in 1928.   Earlier, large TV stations were broadcasting analog and digital signals simultaneously. Th.......................................

Date: 5 Jun, 2009
The two month old tug of war between the Bollywood producers and multiplex owners over revenue sharing has finally come to an end. The two parties reached a deal in Mumbai late last night. The two parties had been at loggerheads for over four months after the producers had demanded for 50:50 revenue.......................................

Date: 2 Jun, 2009
  Call it the only silver lining of the multiplex strike. Or call it sudden interest in superior quality, non-commercial cinema.  Anybody who has recently opened the newspapers couldn’t possibly have failed to notice the numerous ads for screenings of movies from all over the worl.......................................

Date: 21 May, 2009
The ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ effect continues to create ripples in more ways than one. Riding on its success and hoping to capitalize on the growing awareness of Bollywood internationally, marketers in the U.S. and elsewhere are now planning promotions targeted specifically at Indian Am.......................................

Date: 20 May, 2009
The recent dearth of movie releases, combined with heavy entertainment taxes and stiff competition from multiplexes have started  taking a toll on Mumbai’s oldest and best known single-screen theatres like Regal, New Empire, Eros, Liberty and New Excelsior. But the biggest casualty ha.......................................

Date: 17 May, 2009
  In a first-ever achievement for Indian cinema, Dev Benegal’s film, ‘Road, Movie’, has been picked up in Cannes for world-wide distribution by Fortissimo Films, a world-renowned distribution company. The deal covers markets outside Indian territories. To celebrate this path-.......................................

Date: 16 Apr, 2009
NFDC’s recent online initiative, www.cinemasofindia.com, has been created to pay tribute to award-winning Indian films in various Indian languages.   The films can be selected on basis of different categories like award-winning films, different languages, etc. Subscription charges are .......................................

Date: 12 Apr, 2009
Colors, the joint venture of Viacom and Network 18, which entered the television market last July, has usurped Star Plus from its position as India’s No.1 channel.   Star Plus had been ruling the roost for the past nine years. According to market research agency, TAM, for the week ende.......................................

Date: 9 Apr, 2009
Campaigners against piracy in the entertainment industry in India, which loses four billion dollars a year to counterfeiters, have taken their battle to the US Congress. Veteran Indian filmmaker Bobby Bedi said "We are losing 90 per cent of our home video market in the United .......................................

Date: 9 Apr, 2009
In an attempt to put pressure on television programme producers to sort out their wage-related stalemate with agitating television workers, all major general entertainment channels (GECs), have started airing reruns of their shows starting Monday, the 10th of November. This inclu.......................................

Date: 9 Apr, 2009
If the government accepts the recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to make television content fair, all television channels owned by religious and political bodies, and run by their office-bearers, may be phased out. According to a TRAI official, &quo.......................................