Guwahati: The Assam government on Saturday announced that its planned TV channel would go on air in January 2013 and it would focus on sectors like agriculture, education, health and tourism. This was decided at a meeting of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi along with senior members of his Cabinet and other senior state government officials in Guwahati. "The main aim of the channel would be to bring a progressive turn...
06:46 PM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: Conceding to a major demand of broadcasters, telecom regulator TRAI on Monday barred Multi-System Operators (MSOs) from demanding 'placement fee' from channels in lieu of placing them in select slots. In a statement issued on Monday, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said it had issued amendments to the Interconnection Regulations which were earlier issued on April 30, and applicable to Digital Addressable Cable TV Systems. "Multi-system operator...
11:23 PM, May 14, 2012
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee has also announced that the West Bengal government will launch its own current affairs television channels and a newspaper. The Trinamool Chief had accused a section of the media of painting a bad picture of her government. With her former supporters turning vociferous critics a clearly perturbed Mamata has decided to give herself an image boost. It's not too strange a decision coming from the Chief Minister...
11:36 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Kolkata: After asking people not to watch certain channels, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said that the state would launch its own television channel and newspaper. The Trinamool Congress chief said that the television channel and the newspaper would publicise the activities and achievements of the government. "In one year, this government has far exceeded development promises it had made," said Mamata. She further said, "We are...
03:24 PM, Apr 21, 2012
London: Three people have been sentenced to lengthy terms in jail for the killing of a prominent Indian-origin television executive in 2011 in a sensational case in Britain. Gagandip Singh, 21, was allegedly lured to a house in Brighton by medical student Mundill Kaur Mahil, 20, with whom he was in love. At the house, Singh was set upon by Mahil's friends Harvinder Shoker, 20, and Darren Peters, 20. Mahil,...
07:58 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: Upset over the coverage of the attack on an Israeli diplomat's car, Delhi Police have complained to News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) asking it to restrain TV channels from telecasting "unverified and unconfirmed" information. Though no specific news item was mentioned, police claimed that time and again reporters of electronic media have been requested not to broadcast any unverified or unconfirmed report in cases related to terror-related incidents....
10:48 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Madrid: The Spanish tennis federation said it plans to sue a French TV channel for using its logo in a video that poked fun at Rafael Nadal. In the video skit on the satirical programme called The Puppets, a life-size cartoon figure of Nadal is shown urinating into a gas tank before racing off and being pulled over by police for speeding. A message of "Spanish athletes. They don't win...
11:45 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Beijing: China's first 3D television channel started a trial broadcast Sunday, officials said. The channel - China 3D TV Trial Channel - is being jointly operated by China Central Television (CCTV) and five local TV stations in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Shenzhen. It will be formally launched during the upcoming Spring Festival or Chinese Lunar New Year starting Jan 23, Xinhua reported. The channel broadcasts programmes for 13.5 hours...
11:36 AM, Jan 02, 2012
Beijing: Television viewers in China can expect a totally different viewing experience as the country's hopes to launch its first 3D television channel Jan 1, 2012, the government has announced. The TV channel will go into official operation during the Lunar New Year Festival in late January, Xinhua reported. "We have officially started preparations for the country's first experimental 3D TV channel and have issued two technical guidelines on the...
04:42 PM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: Government has taken a serious note of the telecast of a CD purportedly showing nurse Bhanwari Devi and former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna in a compromising position and issued show cause notices to two news channels why action should not be taken against them. Official sources said that the notices have been sent to news channels P7 and Sahara Samay who have also been directed not to repeat...
10:44 AM, Nov 12, 2011
Tamil Nadu's first independent news channel, Puthiya Thalalimurai, launched on August 24 has created history by becoming that top news channel in the state. The back-to-back news channel with an aggressive punch line "unmai udanuk udan" (truth as it happens) has claimed number 1 position in record 60-days. As per TAM (Television Audience Measurement) ratings released by AC Neilson Puthiya Thalaimurai has scored a Gross Rating Point or GRP of...
12:41 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Kochi: Apple a Day Properties directors KA Saju and Rajiv Kumar have been on the run for two weeks now. The duo is charged in the over Rs 130 crore real estate fraud in Kochi. But they seem to be elusive only to the Kerala police, and not to regional channels, who tracked them down for interviews. "If you have high-level political connections, and if you have the capacity to...
09:37 AM, Jun 10, 2011
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09:24 AM, Apr 12, 2011
New Delhi: The deadlock between electronic media and ICC over coverage of Wednesday's Indo-Pak World Cup cricket semifinal got resolved on Tuesday, following a request from the Indian Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Ambika Soni. Ambika Soni proposed a 24-hour 'truce' in a dispute created by Indian non-rights holders (NRH) breaching the terms and conditions they had agreed to follow when they were awarded accreditation for the ICC Cricket World...
10:51 PM, Mar 29, 2011
Melbourne: Top bosses of New Zealand's state-owned TV channel, whose former host Paul Henry had made racial remarks against Indian-origin Governor General Anand Satyanand, have apologised to the leader in person. TVNZ's Chairman John Anderson and CEO Rick Ellis called on Satyanand at the Government House in Auckland and apologised over the Henry episode, the channel said today. Satyanand "very graciously" accepted the apology they offered to him, it said....
01:10 PM, Oct 14, 2010
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