Nokia ‘Comes With Music’ service to be launched in India soon to provide unlimited music access to the consumers. Apart from that, the service will be able to fight piracy in music.
 
"To fight piracy we need to develop content that is compelling, innovative, exclusive and ...

It is good news for the sections of the commerce industry dealing with the IPL (Indian Premier League)-3 particularly the broadcast industry as the broadcast revenues are likely to cross Rs.650 Cr this time in the third season.
 
The broadcast revenue this time is likely to be 44% more for ...

The $13 billion Indian media and entertainment industry is seen growing 13 percent annually over the next five years to net revenues of $24.25 billion by 2014, says a report.
 
The study by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) made the projection based on the ...

Facebook and PayPal have announced a tie-up by which PayPal will be used as the way to pay for Facebook's advertising and developer systems.
 
Facebook has currently over 400 million users worldwide, including 120 million in the US alone. PayPal is the popular online mode of payment for ...

 Reliance Media has tied up with In-Three a US based company to establish a facility that would convert 2D films and videos in 3D.
 
The alliance comes as a part of growing demand of Hollywood and other global content creators for converting new films and old ones into ...

Multiplex chain PVR Ltd is now the owner of DT Cinemas, which is the cinema business arm of DLF Group. The deal is based on cash-cum-stock.
 
 PVR would be issuing 25.57 lakh shares to DT Cinemas, which is about 10% of the fully diluted paid-up share capital of PVR while Rs.20.2 crore ...

The kid’s television channel Jetix would soon be rechristened as Disney XD. This decision adopted by Disney Television International India would be effective from Nov 14, which is celebrated as Children’s Day in India. This day marks the birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal ...

Now people will get news live on their mobile also. NewsX, an English news channel, has launched a new service which will enable the mobile phone users to get videos ion their handset with just 30 sec delay. According to the spokesperson for the news channel, Ajatshatru Singh, this service targets ...

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will be inaugurating the 2-day Annual Economic Editors' Conference at the National Media Centre on Tuesday. The conference will hold separate sessions with the cabinet ministers as well as senior officers.
 
The conference is meant for enabling economic ...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni has underlined the need for a self-regulatory mechanism in electronic media. This has been cited by Soni in wake of the increasing number of notices which have been issued by I & B ministry for violating the programme code.
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"The ...

Sun TV Network has plans for rolling out a new game show for all it four southern entertainment channels after the weekend movie.
 
The show, based on international show Deal or No Deal, will be a one hour show from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p m on the weekends on Sun TV, Surya, Udaya and Gemini. ...

Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni has mentioned that the new TV channels will have to wait till the body for the regulation of content comes into existence.
 
"Presently, there are around 500 private TV channels on air in our country. We will not give permit to ...

The Delhi High Court has ordered the Press Council of India to lie down the rules for media while covering sensitive issues.
 
Act Now For Harmony and Democracy, an NGO, had filed a petition with the Delhi High Court calling for action against police for making the confessional statements ...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni, while mentioning that there is no space for censorship or content regulation, mentioned a mechanism enabling the freedom of expression and sensitivities of civil society will be set up.
 
"The government's effort is to bring out a road ...

Four Indian channels, three Hindi and one Tamil, have been launched by STAR over Canada’s leading cable operator, Rogers Cable. It will be launching three more channels later this month, which will be of Mandarin language.
 
The bouquet of channels offered by STAR, wholly owned ...

The Direct To Home have adopted a new step for fighting piracy by telecasting the latest Bollywood movies at very nominal cost, a few days after these movies hit the theatres.
 
Tata Sky is now offering the latest Salman Khan- Kareena Kapoor-starrer ‘Main Aurr Mrs. Khanna’ from ...

Information and Broadcasting minister Ambika Soni has mentioned that government will not be intervening in the regulation of content over television channels. She added that an autonomous body will be formed for monitoring the same.
 
"Believe it or not, we are not putting a regulator ...

Thomson Reuters Corphas disclosed that it will be acquiring Breakingviews, so that it can increase its hold in the business news community.
 
Thomson Reuters has mentioned that the board of the Breakingviews have urged its shareholders to accept the offer. It also mentioned that the ...

The information and broadcasting ministry has mentioned that the content on the Indian TV should be regulated by private players, independent of the I&B ministry.
 
"The government feels that there must be some sort of independent regulation. Every country has it but India doesn't. ...

An official from the Information & Broadcasting ministry mentioned that India’s public television broadcaster, Doordarshan, will be completely digitized by 2017.
 
"Doordarshan will be fully digitised by 2017. That is the goal we have set. We are also preferring a full ...

A new FM channel will be launched by the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district. This channel will provide the farmers with the information about new technologies and methods for efficient livestock management.
 
The Information and Broadcasting ...

According to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), the Indian Entertainment and Media industry is expected to return to double digit growth in 2010.
 
"The slowdown in growth requires the E&M industry to revisit their short term business plans and strategies. However, double ...

With the media reeling under the financial crunch, Information and Broadcasting Minister, Ambika Soni, has backed increasing FDI (foreign direct investment) in print media to 49%, saying "it is safe". "I think it is a good suggestion," Soni said in an interview when asked about ...

The advertising group Mudra, which is being controlled by Anil Ambnai, on Tuesday, has launched a new company, Ignite Mudra, which is targeted towards building brands for new entrepreneurs.
"The Mudra group has been responsible for building several iconic brands such as Vimal, Dhara, Rasna, ...

Zillion TV has announced to launch an ad-supported internet TV service which will offer on-demand content. Zillion TV has entered in agreement with five major Hollywood studios including Walt Disney Co, NBC Universal, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros and Sony Corp for the personalized TV service. ...

World's leading information company, Thomson Reuters Corp is likely to launch a new video news service in June this year. The company that basically caters to financial professionals will offer live and searchable financial markets coverage, analysis and breaking news through its proposed service. ...

One of the largest advertising agencies in the US, JWT, has launched AnxietyIndex.com, an interactive site to help brands understand and navigate today’s consumer anxiety. JWT is the fourth largest advertising agencies in the world. The site is to be updated with daily contents along with ...

Bangalore-based ACT Television has launched the first interactive TV services (IPTV) in Bangalore on Thursday (February 26). The company also assured that its IPTV service will also be introduced in cities across Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. Under its newly launched services in ...

BIG TV is reportedly looking for an excuse to exit the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) due to lack of funds. IPL is Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) Twenty20 tournament in India. However, in his response IPL Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi has down played media ...

The chief executive officer of Multi Screen Media, Kunal Dasgupta has relinquished his job following sponsorship deal row with BCCI. The Multi Screen Media looks after the television business in India for Sony Pictures Television International. According to a company statement, Dasgupta has ...