NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- "I worry about CNN more than I do about CNN.com." Many news junkies already feel the same way, but when the person expressing concern about the state of the 24-hour TV news network is Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons, the guy who ultimately runs both properties, it's pretty telling. Mr. Parsons, who was discussing the company's entire portfolio at a London media conference...
Online news and information will supplant television network news as the leading news source over the next five years, but newspapers will remain a vital source on their own, and can become dominant if they successfully integrate online delivery as a part of what they offer the public, a new poll has revelaed. The findings are from a Harris Poll conducted last month by Harris Interactive in...
Television viewers have given the thumbs up to tabloid-like content on news channels by making Rajat Sharma’s India TV the second most popular after Aaj Tak. According to viewership measuring agency TAM’s latest Peoplemeter data, India TV has bagged 17.4 per cent share (up from 8.8 per cent at this time last year) among viewers aged 15 or more in cable and satellite homes in Hindi speaking markets...
TEHRAN -- Iran Monday lifted a ban on Al Jazeera imposed after the pan-Arab satellite television network aired a program deemed insulting to the most revered Shiite cleric in Iraq. "Following the relevant authorities' apology ... Al Jazeera's Arabic and English services can resume work in Iran," Iran's head of foreign media, Mohsen Moqaddaszadeh, said in a statement carried by the official IRNA...
BBC Worldwide has launched two pay-TV channels, CBeebies and BBC Entertainment, in India. The CBeebies channel will offer shows such as Tweenies, Tikkabilla and Big Cook Little Cook. BBC Entertainment will air dramas including Doctor Who, Waking the Dead, Cutting It, Hotel Babylon, Spooks and comedies such as Extras. The channels will each be available 12 hours a day to Indian viewers via the Tata...
LONDON (Reuters) - The BBC is to launch a range of web-based on-demand TV and audio services which could revolutionise the way people watch television. The BBC Trust, which oversees the corporation, said on Monday it had approved the service after examining the public demand and any impact it would have on commercial rivals. Broadcaster Channel 4 said on Monday that its on-demand service had been...
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India is set to become the top pay television market in Asia-Pacific by 2015, but excessive regulation could hamstring growth and commoditise the industry, research firm Media Partners Asia (MPA) said in a report. Indian pay TV revenue from advertising and subscription grew 17 percent in 2006 to $4.2 billion, and was likely to more than double to $10 billion by 2011 and then...
DOHA, Apr 2 (IPS) - The al-Jazeera television network could be emerging as a freedom champion against U.S. pressures on the channel, leading media figures say. "I support al-Jazeera because al-Jazeera has done more to propagate democracy in the Middle East region than anybody else, certainly more than the American government has done," media specialist Hugh Miles told IPS. "It's strange to me that...
India's national public service broadcaster Doordarshan is to launch two 24-hour channels in the UK, including a news service. The free-to-air channels, which will mostly broadcast in Hindi with 20% of their content in English, will be launched by private group Rayat TV on the Sky platform on 16 April. News channel DD News will feature breaking news as well as business and current affairs while...
The average U.S. household gets a record 104.2 television channels these days, but watches on average only slightly more than 15 of them, according to a new survey from Nielsen Media Research. Those figures are up from an average of 96.4 channels per home in 2005, when 15.4 were watched with any regularity, meaning about 10 minutes a week. An estimated 47% of all U.S. homes with televisions got...
