Top Stories

LONDON, January 18: Tessa Jowell, the U.K.’s Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport, has announced that the BBC’s license fee will increase from £131.50 to £135.50 on April 1, rising gradually every two years to £151.50 in 2012. Mark Thompson, …

NEW YORK, January 18: Four families have filed suit against News Corporation and MySpace alleging that their underage daughters were solicited online and sexually abused by adult users of the popular social networking site. Arnold & Itkin LLP and Barry …

HONG KONG/MUMBAI, January 18: STAR Group’s Internet portal indya.com has launched a downloadable video service featuring content like Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii from its Indian networks. The content available on the platform will be culled from STAR’s various services in …

NEW DELHI, January 18: The Indian government has banned the Sony Pictures Television International channel AXN from local airwaves for a period of two months over supposedly lewd content. "It has been decided to prohibit transmission or retransmission of the …

LOS ANGELES, January 18: American Idol returned to FOX on Tuesday night with an all-time high opening viewership of 37.3 million. This was the highest ever opening for the FremantleMedia show in its history. Viewership for the season six premiere …

NEW YORK, January 18: According to TNS Media Intelligence, advertising during the Super Bowl game has accounted for 682 minutes—over 11 full hours—of commercial time throughout the past 20 years, representing 221 different advertisers and translating into $1.72 billion in …

LOS ANGELES, January 18: This spring, FOX will launch the tentatively titled When Women Rule the World, an unscripted series that promises to turn traditional gender roles upside down. The unscripted series will reveal how women and men react in …

LOS ANGELES, January 18: CBS has ordered the 15th and 16th editions of Survivor for broadcast during the 2007-2008 season. As Survivor enters it’s 14th edition this spring, it remains one of television’s highest-rated reality series. This fall, Survivor: Cook …

SINGAPORE, January 18: Singapore has become the first Southeast Asian nation to offer commercial HDTV services, with the launch of StarHub’s HD Plus today featuring Discovery HD and National Geographic Channel HD. The launch follows StarHub’s successful HDTV trial that …

PARIS, January 18: TV France International is moving its annual Rendez-Vous from Saint-Tropez to Biarritz for the first time this year so that it can double its exhibition space. Rendez-Vous takes place September 3 to 7 at Le Bellevue Conference …