Anand Mahendroo
The maverick returns

With over 600 ad films, documentaries, short films, educational, motivational and corporate films and an experience of over two decades in the audio-visual media to his credit, Anand Mahendroo is a true veteran and also a force to reckon with in the television industry.

Prime Time
Whose medium is it anyway?

If Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan or Shatrughan Sinha were to come and perform on television, they would go on performing week after week tirelessly and would still not be able to extort as much as they could from a single endeavour in films.

Music channels refuse to air songs from Noor Jahan

It is simply the most original music we have heard in a long time - the melodies of Cinevista’s TV epic Noor Jahan. And the music channels have refused to air it!

Split screen

IT’S CRIME TIME ON PRIME TIME

There are programmes purporting to recreate real-life crimes submerging the small screen in delusions of grand gore. Now take the latest in these socially conscious dream busters on Doordarshan entitled Insaaf. Since Sony had one - Bhanwar - which still remains the best of the hot lot, and Zee started one last year - Agnichakra) I suppose Doordarshan had to purchase one of ‘those ones’ for itself.

Prasar Bharati should go for DTH platform, cable TV arm: panel

Prasar Bharati should move quickly to create a DTH (direct-to-home TV) platform as also explore the feasibility of a strategic tie-up initially with MTNL to set up an independent cable TV arm, an expert committee has said.

Country’s first educational TV channel will air for 16 hours

The country’s first dedicated educational television channel, which was launched on Republic Day with a daily beam of eight hours, has doubled its telecast time to 16 hours.

New act to be formulated to stop “vulgar programmes”: Jaitley

Information and broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley has said a new act would be formulated soon to stop telecast of vulgar programmes by foreign channels.

DoS squeezes channels out of analogue space

The Department of Space (DoS) has signed a contract with the Thailand-based Shin Satellite for three C-band transponders for use by Doordarshan, the national TV operator, and for telecommunications.

STAR back on IN, blacks out 7 STAR

Star TV has resumed its pay channel services to the Hinduja-owned INCablenet after extracting an assurance that arrears of Rs. 2 crore would be cleared within three months.

Discovery India launches three new branded programme blocks

Close on the heels of the launch of the branded block Discovery Kids, Discovery India announced the launch of Discovery Health Channel as a two-hour block (19:00 to 21:00 hrs) on weekends and Discovery Travel & Adventure Channel as a two-hour block (22:00 to 24:00hrs) on Saturdays beginning July.