New Delhi: CNN-IBN's seven shows and IBNLive emerged winners at the News Television Awards on Wednesday evening. IBNLive was the winner in the Best News Website category at the NT Awards. CNN-IBN's show Bollywood Blockbusters on the renowned Bollywood music director Madan Mohan won the award for the Best Entertainment Feature at the NT Awards that took place in New Delhi. India at 9 was awarded in the Best Presented...
08:59 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: Manish Mehrotra has been cooking up delectable dishes for over 15 years, but if there's one learning he has carried back as the winner of the reality show Foodistan, these are the recipes of popular street food in Pakistan. Mehrotra, who works at Indian Accent restaurant, a fine dining restaurant at The Manor here, was in the much India vs Pakistan final round with chef Poppy Agha from...
03:04 PM, Mar 22, 2012
Mumbai: About 58.8 per cent of households in Maharashtra have TV sets while 13.3 per cent have computer/laptop and 69.1 per cent have telephone/mobile in their households, as per the data on "housing, amenities and assets" in the 2011 census. The respective figures at national level are 47.2, 9.5 and 63.2 per cent, Ranjit Singh Deol, director Census operations, Maharashtra, told reporters in Mumbai. The share of households having two...
10:59 AM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: At the time when 'Saas-Bahu' soaps and reality shows occupy most of the prime time, Sony Entertainment Television's 'C.I.D.' has successfully completed 15 years. Many shows tried to copy its format, but could not stay on-air for long. Obviously, there is only one ACP Pradyuman. Along with his extremely smart team, which includes Abhijeet, Daya, Fredricks and Dr RP Salunkhe, ACP Pradyuman has been entertaining us from years...
08:14 PM, Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: I am not going to talk about reality TV. Reality shows have destroyed the TV viewing experience everywhere, not just in India. They are a mindless, easier to produce sure-shot ratings hack and this post will not delve into that. This post is about fiction programming. There was a time, when Doordarshan was the only TV network (it still is), and programming was great. You had dramas -...
01:56 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Minsk: A gold bar weighing one kilogram was dropped into a charity collection box in the Belarussian city of Brest, a media report said on Friday The gold bar was discovered in a charity box set up in a grocery store to collect money for the Orthodox Church, the ONT television reported. The anonymous donor also slipped the $50,000 gold brick's certificate of authentication into the collection box. According to...
05:06 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Los Angeles: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is launching a Spanish-language broadcast TV network that aims to bring the flavor of the Fox network to Hispanic audiences in the US. The move is touted as a bold entry into a market dominated by top-ranked Univision and No. 2 Telemundo, in the same way that Fox rattled broadcasters ABC, CBS and NBC with its debut a quarter century ago. The company said...
12:04 PM, Jan 24, 2012
London: Black-and-white silent movie 'The Artist' scooped 12 nominations at the BAFTA with the Golden Globe winners George Clooney and Meryl Streep leading in acting categories. The French movie, a tribute to silent era of filmmaking, has been nominated for the best film, actor, actress, director and original screenplay by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, which were announced today by 'Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe and 'Great...
06:51 PM, Jan 17, 2012
London: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts unveiled an all-male shortlist for its 2012 Rising Star Award on Wednesday, including 'Thor' actors Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston. Previous winners of the annual prize, which honors up-and-coming acting talent and is sponsored by the Orange telecoms group, include Kristen Stewart, Shia LaBeouf and Eva Green. Australian Hemsworth, 28, shot to fame when he appeared in the title role of...
02:22 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Seoul: LG Electronics Inc said on Friday it would unveil its first Google TV next week, joining Sony Corp and Samsung Electronics Co in partnering with the search giant to get a foothold in the emerging Internet TV market. Google hopes to replicate the success of its Android mobile software in the TV market, but its attempt to conquer the living room has seen limited success so far due to...
01:31 PM, Jan 06, 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
New York: For flat-panel TVs, the choice for years has been between plasma and LCD. In the coming year, there'll be another choice, at least for those prepared to spend big. LG Electronics Inc. says it's planning to sell a 55-inch set based on organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs. The Korean company is set to show it off at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which starts Jan....
11:21 AM, Jan 02, 2012
Television shows have recently witnessed some unprecedented changes in content and style. We ask a cross-section of people which show had them glued to their TV sets this year. Compared to the kitchen sink dramas that have been hogging the top TRP slots on TV over the past years, mature love stories like Bade Achhe Lagte Hain and Kuch Toh Log Kahenge emerged on top this year. Our poll result...
02:33 PM, Dec 16, 2011
New Delhi: A proud moment for the channel as the Citizen Journalist show won the Asian Television Award in Singapore for the Best Cross Platform Television Program for two years in a row. This is the only award won by any Indian news channel this year. A unique concept on news television, the CJ Show makes citizens an intrinsic part of news gathering efforts. The award winning stories and episode...
11:01 PM, Dec 08, 2011
Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co, the world's top TV brand, said on Thursday its television sales hit a record 5.7 million units in November, helped by strong US sales during the long Thanksgiving weekend. November sales grew 14 per cent from the 5 million units sold in October and Samsung is certain to keep its top global title for all of 2011, the South Korean firm said in a statement. During...
09:58 AM, Dec 08, 2011
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Wednesday issued notice to over 50 TV channels, including Doordarshan, on a plea to implead them in proceedings in a petition. The petition sought a direction to the Centre to set up a separate statutory regulatory body to monitor and regulate their programmes. The petitioner claimed that censorship of TV channels had become an absolute necessity as many programmes motivated thought and action, assuring...
11:33 PM, Nov 02, 2011
