Ahead of India visit of News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch, the proposal for the direct-to-home venture by Star is shuttling between ministries raising doubts whether the Rs 1,600 crore
The chairman of the diversified Aditya Birla group, Kumar Mangalam Birla, has bought a 25 per cent stake in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp-owned Indian news channel, Star India said.
While in some parts of the world reality TV sets out to see who can survive the longest eating bugs on an island or in a house with roommates from hell, in India the focus is more cerebral -- finding the brightest kid in the land.\n\n\n\n
Two racehorse magnates seized nearly a quarter of the club by buying TV firm BSkyB's stake in the English football champions.
After Zee Telefilms, it may be Star, which joins the race for direct to home service and is likely to tie-up with the Tatas in an estimated Rs 250 crore (Rs 2.5 billion) venture.
Some investors have questioned whether James is less attached to some parts of the media empire that his father built
Liberty Global and Discovery Communications have made a joint approach to CVC Capital about buying a 49 percent stake in Formula One, the Telegraph reported, without citing sources.
The venture, they said, would focus on technology and media opportunities in emerging markets. Industry sources said the focus would be on digital media, with India being the big driver.
Even today when news organisations and their owners have stooped before the powers that be when they were only asked to bend, Prannoy is still standing tall, asserts Sanjay Ahirwal, , former managing editor, NDTV Worldwide.
Rupert Murdoch's Star group have bagged the broadcast rights for events to be held during an eight-year cycle after next year's World Cup, the governing body said on Sunday.
Market experts have valued Housing.com at $700 million.
Openly backing the ISL as the country's elite competition for the first time, the Indian FA (AIFF) said its recommendation was based on the Master Rights Agreement it signed in 2010 with its commercial partners Football Sports Development Limited.
The focus was on the role that the media and entertainment industry can play in development and generation of employment opportunities in India
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last week, in 9 images.
Rupert Murdoch owned top-selling British tabloid The Sun has scrapped its infamous Page 3 which featured topless women, ending a 44-year-old tradition that has been criticised for being sexist, offensive and anachronistic.
The chairman of the Essel Group says he has settled 91.2 per cent of the estimated Rs 11,000 crore debt on the group's books.
British media regulator Ofcom said on Tuesday it would investigate whether the method used by the Premier League to sell live media rights for soccer matches to its home market distorted competition.
Aizawl FC have threatened to 'fast unto death' after finding themselves in the bizarre position of staring at relegation next season despite winning India's top division title on Sunday.
The British police have opened a second investigation into allegations of match-fixing after claims emerged that a player rigged a Championship game for cash.
Britain will unveil new rules regulating press in the country after politicians rejected a proposal for self-regulation by the media industry.
A Muslim television reporter for a British news channel on Friday filed a complaint against a columnist for Rupert Murdoch's 'Sun' newspaper who singled her out for wearing hijab while reporting on the recent terror attack at Nice in France.
8 CEOs on the list are female, and they far outpace the median pay for the Equilar 100 as a whole
Online portals have become the preferred tool.
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The network also unveiled a new brand identity for Star Sports across six channels and has renamed all the ESPN channels, subsequent to the buyout of ESPN Inc's stake in their 16 year old joint venture ESPN STAR Sports.
The Sun mocked its critics who celebrated the apparent disappearance of topless women.
Where does Gideon Haigh see the future of the T20 game?
The diminutive batsmen believes that football might one day emulate the national sport of cricket in India.
News International, the subsidiary of media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, was on Wednesday renamed 'News UK' as the group sought to rebuild the brand tarnished by the phone-hacking scandal.
It is significant that the PM's appeal to invest in India comes at a time when the global economy is facing a difficult phase
Andy Coulson, a former aide of British Prime Minister David Cameron, was on Friday sentenced to 18 months in jail for his involvement in the highly controversial phone-hacking scandal that rocked Rupert Murdoch's media empire here and brought down his popular tabloid.
Ex-News International CEO Rebekah Brooks was on Tuesday cleared of all charges but her former colleague Andy Coulson was found guilty of phone hacking, bringing a dramatic end to the eight-month trial involving Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the UK.
Stadiums across eight cities have often been packed and the second season witnessed a 20 percent rise in viewership, and the third edition which concluded last month saw a further 35 percent increase.
It is not every day that one of the planet's richest men is arrested by his government.
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