Advertising Rocks S4 winners shine at Goafest 2026 grand finale

Day 2 of Goafest 2026 concluded on a high note with the grand finale of Advertising Rocks Season 4, one of the festival’s most anticipated events celebrating creativity beyond the boardroom. The musical competition brought together professionals from the advertising, media and marketing industries, showcasing their talent as performers and musicians. According to a Goafest […]

As Indian b’cast deal eludes FIFA for WC26, officials come visiting

FIFA media rights officials are visiting India this week, three sources said, ahead of next month’s World Cup for which soccer’s ruling body has not struck a broadcast deal with India due to differences over pricing, a Reuters report stated yesterday. Millions of soccer fans in India risk not being able to watch the tournament due […]

DD, Council for Cultural Relations in pact to expand content reach

In a significant step towards strengthening India’s cultural diplomacy and global outreach, the country’s national broadcaster Doordarshan  signed a pact with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to expand the reach of the country’s cultural content globally using the broadcaster’s wide reach. The pact, which was signed earlier this week in New Delhi, was done […]

Govt publications Yojana, others now available on WAVES OTT

In a major push towards digital knowledge access, the Indian government’s Publications Division has made its flagship journals Yojana, Kurukshetra, Aajkal and Bal Bharati, along with the weekly Employment News, available free of cost on Prasar Bharati’s WAVES OTT platform, bringing its rich repository directly to readers nationwide. This initiative, announced formally yesterday through an […]

DD Free Dish clocks Rs.1,060 crore revenue, reaches 49 mn homes

Prasar Bharati’s free-to-air DTH platform DD Free Dish continues to anchor the broadcaster’s financial performance, generating Rs.1,060.71 crore in revenue for the financial year 2024–25 while expanding its reach to nearly 49 million households across India. According to Prasar Bharati’s latest annual report, the platform remains a key revenue driver despite a marginal 1.54 percent […]

Murugan: Govt. pushing D2M b’casting for mass communication

The government is promoting direct-to-mobile (D2M) broadcasting as a transformative technology to deliver video, audio and data directly to mobile handsets without requiring SIM cards or internet connectivity, the Lok Sabha was informed yesterday. In a written reply,हमारी टीम | Ministry of Information and Broadcasting L. Murugan said D2M, along with digital radio, optimises spectrum […]