• Politics interferes with entertainment, channel coerced into pulling out particular content

    MUMBAI: The film wing of a regional political party claimed that it has ‘forced’ a TV channel not to telecast content

  • Essel Group Chairman Dr Subhash Chandra files nomination for Rajya Sabha seat from Haryana

    MUMBAI: Media Mogul and the chairman of Essel group Dr.

  • CNN appoints Sumnima Udas as India correspondent

    MUMBAI: CNN International has elevated Sumnima Udas as the Delhi-based correspondent.

  • CNN needs to bring new viewers; is held to a higher standard: Zucker

    Submitted by ITV Production on Jun 01
    indiantelevision.com Team

    MUMBAI: "News is how you define it; we define it broadly as news and information. We?re expanding the audience that is watching CNN. In order to be successful, we need to bring new viewers." These remarks were made by news broadcaster CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker this week at the AllThingsD conference.

    He noted that CNN is held to a higher standard. He also feels that CNN needs to focus more on content that one normally finds on channels like Discovery. This way new viewers will come in and he gave the example of ?Anthony Bourdain?s Parts Unknown? to make his point.

    He said that Fox News and MSNBC have become political news channels, not news in general. And other channels are so focused on Washington and politics that they haven?t covered the many big non-political news events well over the past two months, which is why CNN has gained audience in that period. "While they are covering events in Washington from a political point of view that leaves the news for us to cover. That doesn?t mean we can?t cover politics, but politics is just one part of the news. We are covering politics and much more, and I think that is the opening for us."

    He also defended the news broadcaster from charges that it did not correct its report on the boston Marathon bombings soon enough. "We made a mistake in Boston where we reported there had been an arrest. In fact, we corrected that mistake with 45 minutes," Zucker added.

  • Rediff.com introduces new redesigned website

    MUMBAI: Rediff.com has launched the new version of its website featuring a new and enhanced homepage sporting a tiled

  • India TV announces Yuva Awards

    Submitted by ITV Production on Jan 30
    indiantelevision.com Team

    MUMBAI: India TV has announced its first "Yuva Awards", an award event that will honour the "most promising" young faces of the nation.

    Positioned as an aspirational salute to yuva (youth) icons who have shown leadership and extraordinary excellence in respective fields with achievements much bigger than their age.

    The awards will be given away in six categories: Politics, Sports, Music, Film, Television and Business.

    The honorees for the inaugural annual property by India TV will be decided through a process that involves the tabulation and stratified research by an international research agency and India TV viewers? votes and the diligent deliberations by the Jury.

    The jury will be chaired by Sarod Maestro Ustaad Amjad Ali Khan. The panel comprises of personalities like Kapil Dev, Vandana Luthra and Pushpesh Pant. India TV chairman and editor in chief Rajat Sharma will also be part of the Jury.

    India TV MD and CEO Ritu Dhawan said, "Yuva awards is a humble attempt to inspire iconic potential of Young Indians who will take our nation to newer heights. These youth icons will be those who have already displayed enormous potential and made it big at their young age. They have created benchmarks in their respective fields and brought pride to our nation."

    The winners of the awards will announced at an awards ceremony at the Taj Palace, New Delhi on the 18 of February and the show will be telecasted live on India TV.

    The awards have Real Estate Company Prateek Group as principle sponsor and Galgotias University as associate.

Subscribe to