The BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, is to launch a further 30 channels internationally, as well as a high-definition outlet and an on-demand service in the United States, as part of the next stage of its aggressive expansion plan. The launches, which will be based on four thematic brands – BBC Entertainment, with shows such as [...]

SINGAPORE : More than 8 in 10 adults above 15 years old watch television on an average daily basis, according to a Nielsen Media Research survey. While this is a marginal decline from one year ago, Nielsen said free-to-air channels are holding their own against cable television and the Internet. If a viewer was watching television yesterday, [...]

Fox Business Network, which launched Oct. 15, won’t be rated until sometime next year. But the fledgling financial service during its first four days on the air apparently took some viewers away from segment leader CNBC. CNBC saw viewership decline across several measures from Monday Oct. 15 through Thursday Oct. 18, when compared with prior-week results. However, [...]

The team leading the Fox Business Network into battle with CNBC, the entrenched leader in cable business news, has made no secret that it intends to do in the realm of business news exactly what the Fox News Channel did in general news. As in: conquer. And even before today’s premiere, there are already indications of [...]

NEW DELHI: The government on Friday lifted the month-long ban on TV news channel Live India — earlier called Janmat . The I&B ministry had banned the channel on September 20 for telecasting an allegedly “fake” sting operation against a government school teacher Uma Khurana. This was [...]

The industry has tried to get the word out, but many consumers still aren’t getting the message: In a year and a half, millions of television screens could go dark. Not the fancy high-definition TVs or those connected to cable or satellite. But the 70 million sets relying on rooftop or “rabbit ears” antennas will end [...]

When Al-Jazeera Intl. finally launched in November of last year following a series of delays, expectations were high for the English-language newscaster. With $1 billion reportedly spent on building four interconnected global news centers in London, Washington, Kuala Lumpur and Doha, in addition to some 30 international news bureaus and a splashy lineup of reporters including [...]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The government banned a TV news channel for a month on Thursday after it aired a misleading sting operation in which it accused a Delhi teacher of blackmailing her students into becoming prostitutes. Live India showed hidden camera footage and an anonymous interview with a supposed victim last month, accusing the teacher [...]

MUMBAI (Reuters) – More than 100 new TV channels are scheduled to launch in India over the next 12 months, delivering ever smaller audiences to broadcasters and nudging up their cost of distribution and marketing. With the total number of channels on air set to hit 700 by 2009, broadcasters will be forced to slash advertising [...]

More than 100 new channels are awaiting government approval in India as media companies jostle for position in a second wave of expansion in the television industry. However, the surge towards 300 channels could come at a heavy cost for new entrants, as up to $1 billion (£500 million) is pumped into a fast-growing market with [...]

Ignored or shunned by almost every cable TV provider in the U.S., the Al Jazeera English news channel has turned to the Internet to reach American viewers. Since April, when Al Jazeera struck a distribution deal with YouTube, the popular video site owned by Google Inc., the channel has received 2 million hits and on one [...]

Television broadcasters have taken on media buying houses over the use of TAM Media’s AdEx to validate telecast of advertisements. Early this month, the India Broadcasting Federation is believed to have raised the issue with agencies to consider the elimination of third-party audit services of AdEx, which monitors the ad telecast schedules for media agencies and [...]

NEW DELHI: News channels in India are facing a qualitative crisis today because programmes that cater to the “lowest common denominator” are lapping up the viewers, according to heads of prominent news channels. The “race for eyeballs” is forcing news channels into crime shows and sex shows that are voyeuristic and unless the broadcasters regulate [...]

NEW DELHI: In a move aimed at transparency, the government plans to authorise a high-level of panel comprising vice-president, Lok Sabha speaker and Leader of the Opposition to decide on the head of the proposed regulatory authority for the broadcasting sector. This was being contemplated to ensure that the regulator inspires confidence, Information & Broadcasting [...]

GURGAON: Advertisers looking for more bang for their buck can take heart that efficacy of television spends in India ranks among the top three across all Asian markets, trailing only behind Taiwan and Malaysia. For every $1,000 spent in India on national television, an advertiser delivers a purchasing power parity of 6.82%, against 9.54% in [...]