News about TV
More than 1,000 chosen for one-way Mars reality-TV mission
More than 1,000 candidates -- from 200,000 hopefuls -- have been chosen to train for a private Mars colonisation mission to be partly funded by a reality-TV show following their training and subsequent steps, organisers said Thursday.
03 January 2014 14:47
Brazil's TV dream machine fueled by 7,000 people
In a Rio suburb, wealthy and beautiful heiresses, orphans and assassins lunch together in a mini-city where Globo television creates the soap operas that captivate more than 50 million Brazilians.
10 December 2013 10:21
Suleiman the Magnificent reconquers Arab world, Balkans
Can a smash TV soap bring closure for historical wrongs and succour from contemporary turmoil? Check out a Turkish series on the 16th-century Ottoman monarch Suleiman the Magnificent.
09 December 2013 13:31
Gay parents the 'new normal' on small screen
Married with two kids? How boringly 20th-century. Blended families and same-sex parents are increasingly vying for space with the nuclear family on the small screen in line with shifts in Western society.
08 December 2013 11:36
Move over Dickens: TV series are new academic mainstay
Television series, once considered too low-brow to be worthy of academic study, have become a mainstay of university curricula and frequent fodder for critical analysis.
05 December 2013 14:20
Football: Spanish clubs fined for TV rights breach
Spanish financial regulators on Monday fined four football clubs including Real Madrid and Barcelona, as well as a big television producer millions of euros for allegedly breaking the rules on the sale of television rights.
03 December 2013 12:34
Zhauzhurek Myn Bala to hit American screens
Kazakhstan's historical drama Zhauzhurek Myn Bala (1000 Brave Boys) directed by Akan Satayev will be released on Video on Demand in North America.
29 October 2013 19:25
Sex, cops and undead push foreign success of French TV
When a murdered boy and serial killer came back to life in French supernatural series "The Returned", hundreds of thousands of viewers in Britain tuned into what became a surprise Gallic hit.
25 October 2013 11:35
Panasonic to exit plasma TV display business: report
Panasonic will stop making plasma television screens by early next year, a report said Wednesday, as the struggling electronics giant undergoes a huge corporate overhaul.
09 October 2013 11:24
'Specially for Men' channel launched in Kazakhstan
A new TV-channel called Turan has been launched in Kazakhstan.
20 September 2013 18:20
UK Islamic TV channel fined for inciting violence
Britain's broadcasting watchdog fined an Islamic television channel £85,000 ($133,000, 99,700 euros) after a presenter said anyone disrespecting the Prophet Mohammed should be killed.
22 August 2013 18:49
Al-Jazeera America goes live, woos viewers
Al-Jazeera America went live Tuesday, accompanied by a campaign of traditional and social media for its cable channel launch, as it pledged to outdo its rivals with serious, in-depth journalism.
21 August 2013 14:43
Online video forces change on TV industry
Having turned print media upside down, the Internet now is disrupting television, forcing broadcasters to adapt to tablets and video-on-demand to hold onto views and advertisers.
14 August 2013 16:57
Republicans to TV networks: Don't 'promote' Clinton
The US Republican Party on Monday threatened to prevent two US television networks from carrying party primary debates if they don't abandon planned documentaries on Hillary Clinton.
06 August 2013 15:06
My political career is over: Strauss-Kahn
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn declared in an interview broadcast on Russian television that his political career was over and he was instead working as an economic advisor.
01 August 2013 17:05
Al-Jazeera America to launch August 20
The US news channel of Qatar-based Al-Jazeera will be launched August 20, the group said Monday as it unveiled its top executive team.
23 July 2013 18:22
Bidders vie for online video website Hulu
The Wall Street Journal on Monday reported that several bidders have stepped up to vie for Hulu, an online video website that Internet pioneer Yahoo was said to be eyeing as an acquisition.
10 July 2013 12:06
Japan broadcasters ban Panasonic 'smart' TV commercial
Japanese broadcasters are refusing to air commercials for Panasonic's new "smart" television, the manufacturer said Monday, amid speculation they feel threatened by its combined TV-Internet function.
08 July 2013 13:10
First sport TV channel to be launched in Kazakhstan on July 1
The first Kazakhstan widescreen sport channel KAZSPORT will start broadcasting on July 1, 2013.
22 May 2013 14:12
Boxing: Golovkin can fight Martinez, if he wins Macklin
A fight between WBC middleweight world champion Sergio Martinez and WBC middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin of Kazakhstan may take place if the Kazakh fighter wins British Matthew Macklin, Lou DiBella says.
20 May 2013 19:05