• January 18, 2012
• Broadcasting

KARACHI: Pakistani film ‘Bol’ by Shoaib Manzoor, has won the best Hindi/Urdu film award from the Lucknow-based civil society Institute for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences (IRDS). The award has been given to the topical and thought-provoking film for raising many social issues including the regressive attitude of a male-dominated society. Shoaib Manzoor earlier […]

• January 16, 2012
• Broadcasting

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has served last warning to all cable operators to close unauthorised and illegal channels forthwith, failing which strict punitive action shall be taken against them. No channel other than PEMRA licensee would be let distributed on cable TV networks and any operator found defying the orders henceforth would […]

• January 16, 2012
• Broadcasting

PRIVATE TV channels are airing misleading advertisements, including the ones which are risking the health and lives of citizens. Companies through such misleading ads claim that their products can control diabetes etc. through food supplements they are advertising. We also see advertisements of some oil daily on TV. I have sent such advertisements clips to […]

• January 12, 2012
• New Media, Television

I AM a Pakistani and have been residing in Beijing for the last few months. One thing that I miss here most is the entertainment provided by news channels and spicy talk shows back home. But some time we get a chance to view these shows on the Internet, getting in touch with the recent […]

• January 10, 2012
• Broadcasting

KARACHI: Karachi TV Cable Operators (KTCO) Action Committee, the body of all city TV cable operators, on Monday slammed the All Pakistan Cable Operators Association (APCOA) and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) for clandestinely replacing the analog system with an expensive digital box that airs foreign TV channels. Speaking to a press conference at […]

• January 7, 2012
• Broadcasting

ISLAMABAD: Enforcement teams of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) raided several illegal cable TV networks operating in various parts of country after issuing several warnings to them. The excessive CD channels on cable networks shown by cable operators were a peril to social fabric and a source of content piracy and plagiarism against which […]

• January 4, 2012
• Broadcasting

Peshawar: A meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday agreed on the establishment of Abasin TV, a Pashto channel, after signing of MoU between Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government and management of the PTV. Senator Haji Ghulam Ali, Chairman of the Senate Committee on I&B presided over the meeting held at PTV Centre […]

• January 3, 2012
• Television

Farooq Sulehria Children glued to TV screens, watching cartoon fare mostly from the US, is a common sight these days in almost every urban household in Pakistan. With the disappearance of playgrounds in the country, children have not much of a choice either. Similarly, housewives coping with daily household chores find a convenient babysitter in […]

• January 2, 2012
• Broadcasting

By Farooq Baloch / Rafay Mahmood KARACHI: Struggling for its survival for the past few decades, Pakistan’s cinema industry has recovered dramatically, only to emerge as a lucrative business witnessing ‘biggest opening’ records made and broken one after another. However, the industry — despite surpassing Rs1.5 billion annual turnover — falls way short of fully […]

• January 2, 2012
• Broadcasting

By Rafay Mahmood KARACHI: The time has come to replace the old and overused phrase ‘revival of cinema in Pakistan’ with ‘cinema has revived in Pakistan’. Tehulka Filmed Entertainment, who are the official distributors of Don 2 and their strategic partners Mandviwalla Entertainment have the facts to support this positive notion. The sequel to director […]

• December 29, 2011
• Broadcasting

Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday eulogised the role of media in creating awareness among the masses against extremism and terrorism. Speaking at the ceremony organised in connection with regularisation of 490 Pakistan Television employees, he said, “our media created awareness among the people against the terrorism and extremism with great responsibility. Gilani […]

• December 28, 2011
• Broadcasting

RAWALPINDI: President Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday that they (the PPP) did not want to fight with Geo and they want to let them live. Addressing a PPP gathering at Garhi Khuda Bux on the fourth death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto, the president particularly mentioned Geo and said some anchors under a plan ask […]

• December 28, 2011
• Broadcasting

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), commonly known Radio Pakistan, is facing severe financial crunch due to which its over 3,000 employees and artists all over the country are facing problems. Permanent employees of the corporation have not been paid the 15 per cent salary increase announced in the federal budget 2011-12, while contractual and […]

• December 27, 2011
• Broadcasting

By: Zulqernain Tahir LAHORE: PTV Managing Director Yousuf Baig Mirza may be shown the door after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s assurance to Federal Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan on installing the team of her choice. A sobbing Ms Ashiq had on Sunday, in a cabinet meeting in Karachi, offered her resignation complaining that “interference […]