Two people are killed by Typhoon Kanun in Okinawa, Japan, and at least 62 are injured.

Typhoon Khanun pummeled Japan's southwestern Okinawa and Kagoshima prefectures for a second day in a row with heavy rain and gusty winds on Thursday, leaving two people dead and moving so slowly that the storm's destructive impact could be prolonged.

Khanun, which means "ja...

More than 38 million households in Germany have televisions, making the German television market the most competitive and the largest in all of Europe.

The many regional and national public broadcasters, which are structured in accordance with the political framework of the federal government, compete with powerful commercial operators for audiences. Broadcasting is governed by local authorities in each of Germany's 16 states and federal sta...

The deadline to prevent an actors' strike in Hollywood has passed.

There isn't much time left for Hollywood studios in Los Angeles to negotiate with the biggest union in the sector and prevent a significant strike. On Thursday, a vote will be held to decide whether or not a strike should be called.

As a result of the passing of the deadline for Hol...

Hollywood studios and authors are in the midst of emergency negotiations to prevent a strike.

Late on Monday, representatives from Hollywood's film and television studios and the industry's writers met for contract negotiations in an effort to avoid a strike that would hamper TV production throughout an industry dealing with seismic shifts. If the Writers Guild of America and majo...

What you didn't see on television on Oscars night

On Oscar night, the audience at the Dolby Theatre really starts to liven up during the commercial breaks. Since they are actors, the stars don't mind playing for the cameras that are pointed at them during the global broadcast, but it seems like most of them would rather just talk to their fe...

BBC is adapting Les Misérables, a smash musical on Broadway, for television.

Dominic West of "The Wire" fame will play Jean Valjean in the upcoming BBC television production of "Les Misérables," which will be written by master adapter Andrew Davies. In the forthcoming movie, West will portray the role of Jean Valjean. The six-hour costume drama,...

Networks in France band together to compete with Netflix

On Friday, three French television networks revealed that they will be creating their own streaming website in an effort to compete with American behemoths Netflix and Amazon. The new site, dubbed Salto, will be a collaboration between France Televisions, a public broadcaster, and TF1 and M6, two...

French media demand that Iran free a journalist reporting the Mahdi Amini protests.

French media outlets have demanded the release of a journalist assigned to cover protests in Iran for the Franco-German television network Arte, which reported his arrest.

Iranian native and French resident Vahid Shamsoddinnezhad was arrested in Iranian Kurdistan a month ago, Arte repor...

Europe's largest animation and television series exhibition is called Cartoon Forum

The Cartoon Forum returns every September to Toulouse, in the South of France. It is the largest event in Europe specifically for TV shows and the animation industry. In front of 1,000 broadcasters, investors, and other possible partners from 40 countries, producers get three days to propose thei...

Film and television actor Sidharth Shukla passed away at 40, due to heart attack

Highlights

• Sidharth rose to fame by playing lead roles in hit television series
• The actor suffered from a heart attack

Popular actor Sidharth Shukla, who was the winner of the 13th season of the reality TV show Bigg Boss, passed away...

LG UPLUS’ NET PROFIT ROSE 35 PERCENT IN Q1 2021

Highlights –

• LG Uplus’ net profit rose 35 percent in Q1 2021.
• The mobile carrier company’s operating profit increased 25.4 percent to 275.6 billion won.
• Sales from its wireless service business grew 5.4 percent on-year.

AMAZON ONLINE INDIA WAS BIGGEST E-SHOPPING ADVERTISER IN 2020

HIGHLIGHTS

• In the online shopping category of E-commerce, Amazon Online India was the biggest advertiser in 2020.
• Compared to 2019, ad volumes of online shopping (mostly Amazon) on TV grew by 5% in 2020.

As per a Television Audience ...

INDIAN MINISTER LAUDS PLI SCHEME FOR REDUCING DEPENDENCE ON CHINESE ELECTRONICS

HIGHLIGHTS

• Indian IT Minister Sanjay Dhotre is confident about PLI Schemes to reduce dependence on Chinese electronics.
• PLI scheme has been rolled out Indian government for large-scale electronics manufacturing and IT hardware.

The P...

JAPAN LIKELY TO MAKE INBOUND TRAVELERS UNDERGO COVID-19 TEST A REQUIREMENT

Highlights –

• Japan likely to make inbound travellers undergo COVID-19 test a requirement.
• 24 designated countries are currently required to take additional testing three days after entering Japan.
• Japan tightened border controls on tr...

ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING TO CONTRIBUTE $1 TRILLION BY 2025

HIGHLIGHTS

• Domestic manufacturing of electronic gadgets may contribute one-fifth to India’s economy by 2025.
• Indian government has set a target of manufacturing mass-scale production of mobile phones, TV Sets, and 50 million hardware devices by ...

Kobe was not ‘just an Athlete'

Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Maria Onore Bryant, known as "GiGi," died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California on Sunday morning. They'd been on board with nine men, all killed in the crash.

The news of Bryant's death sent shock and sadness al...

Greece warns to the block the European Union’s peace deal for Libya

Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a statement on this Thursday that unless a maritime deal is introduced between the states of Turkey and Libya, Greece will block any of the European Union’s peace deal for the state, Libya.

Mitsotakis on the Greek television on...

Television Somanathan new use secretary in the money service

NEW DELHI: The administration named TV Somanathan, a 1987 bunch IAS official from the Tamil Nadu framework, as a consumption secretary in the money service. Ravi Mittal, a 1986-clump IAS official from the Bihar framework, will be the new data and broadcasting secretary, supplanting Amit Khare, th...

Only two-thirds of Americans use news sources they consider reliable

According to a new RAND Corporation report, two-thirds of the Americans consider their primary news sources trustworthy, that mainly includes broadcast television and print news while one-third of Americans rely on news platforms they acknowledge are less reliable, that mainly includes peers and ...

Sony expected to buy shares in Indian TV network

Sony Corp. is in discussions to purchase a stake in the Indian Television network governed by billionaire Mukesh Ambani as the Japanese giant aims to tap flourishing content demand in the Southeast Asian nation, as per people familiar with the situation.

The Tokyo-based company is curre...