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MUMBAI: American organisation Consumers for Cable Choice has announced that 15 new groups have joined its effort to bring further competition to the US cable television...
MUMBAI: With US media regulatory body The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandating that broadcast signals be digitised, opportunities for switcher vendors in North America have opened...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman Pradip Baijal is keen to have competition in the cable TV sector. And he feels it is...
MUMBAI: India suddenly seems to have emerged as the preferred destination over China for the media bigwigs. Soon after News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch expressed discontent...
MUMBAI: The world’s most valuable media company Google, which is worth around $91 billion and Comcast are looking to jointly buy a stake in Time Warner’s...
MUMBAI: After four consecutive years of decline and steady erosion, Canada’s cable industry saw a modest increase in subscribers in 2004. Market research firm Statistics Canada...
BANGALORE: Cable signals are back in Karnataka as the state’s Multi System Operators (MSO) have called off their indefinite strike. This follows an assurance from the...
BANGALORE: Karnataka’s Multi System Operators (MSOs), switched off cable television signals today from 5 pm in protest against what they term as the “arbitrary demand of...
MUMBAI: Market valuations of the media industry in India has potential to go up but chaos at the distribution end is pulling it down, investment bankers...
MUMBAI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has launched an intensive enforcement campaign against Philippines’ pirate pay-TV operators, starting with police raids on...
MUMBAI: Maharashtra revenue minister Narayan Rane is threatening to take action against cable operators who underreport their subscriber figures. The way out: a survey to expose...
MUMBAI: The digital television revolution in the UK will change the way people consume TV. The challenge will rest in how broadcasters and advertisers respond to...
MUMBAI: Canada-based Rogers Cable has added Sony Entertainment Television Asia to its extensive list of multicultural programming available to Rogers Digital Cable customers in Ontario. ...
MUMBAI: Siticable has dropped plans to enter into a deal with Punj family-controlled Spectranet as the talks prolonged for too long. No settlement could...
MUMBAI: Nielsen Media Research’s new findings revealed that the number of ethnic television homes in the US has increased significantly since last year. Because of more...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom has lowered down the entry price of its broadband services and waived off rental cost on cable modems as part of...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom may get the exclusive rights to use and lease out electric poles in Hyderabad and Secunderabad for laying optic cable. In...
MUMBAI: Hathway has announced an attractive combo package for its digital cable service and high speed broadband Internet. The combined initial payment of the digital cable...
MUMBAI: The cable industry in the US is making massive investments to upgrade a nationwide broadband infrastructure for offering new interactive digital services. The sector has...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting ministry is now in two minds — to support fully or not — over a proposed ban from 2 October on...
Digital cable. Unique content channels. Broadband. These are the services we have to push forward. And we have to do it fast,” says Hathway Cable &...
MUMBAI: The Delhi high court today allowed Discovery-Sony joint venture One Alliance to file an amended writ petition in a case relating to a sector regulator...
MUMBAI: In a move that is likely to surprise many in the cable & satellite television industry, the Zee Telefilms controlled Siti Cable has concluded a...
MUMBAI: Multi system operators (MSOs) have resumed the service of Sun Network channels Teja News and Aditya on their cable networks after being assured by the...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Time Warner has reported financial results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2005. Operating income climbed by 10 per cent to $1.8...
MUMBAI: At an upfront presentation made a few days ago in New York, executives from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO) announced that the first production between...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom’s cable network dedicated to men Spike TV will adapt the Vampire movie Blade for a television film. The television movie based...
NEW DELHI: Former Star India distribution head Arun Mohan, who had started a cable TV distribution business in 2003, has shuttered it citing unviable business model....
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: It’s summer time. It’s Cas (conditional access system) time. Once again. This time, though, the role of skeptics has changed. The cable operators, and...
MUMBAI: In the US, the entertainment environment is rapidly evolving to be one where there will be intense competition among cable and telecom companies to offer...
MUMBAI: As Sony prepares to seal the deal on its $4.8 billion acquisition of MGM, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has realigned its domestic and international television...
MUMBAI: Intelsat announced that Firestone Communications has expanded its use of the Intelsat Americas fleet for distribution of cable programming in North America. The long-term contract,...
MUMBAI: Malayalam channel Asianet is targeting the Malayalee population in Singapore with the launch of a dedicated channel on StarHub Digital Cable. Asianet will be grouped...
CHENNAI: Sun Network is all set to acquire RPG Netcom, a move which will mark the company’s foray into cable TV business in the non South...
MUMBAI: The annual Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) brings a lot of excitement among the huge Malayali population in the Middle East and Malayalam channels capitalise on...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom has announced that Betsy Frank will be the executive VP, research and planning, Viacom’s Cable Networks, film and publishing. Frank will report...
MUMBAI: HBO is the favourite channel among Asia’s cable operators while Star network channels are also preferred, according to a survey conducted by Asian TV magazine...
MUMBAI: Okay, all those broadcast and cable industry people who were apprehensive that Reliance would be steam-rolling its way into their territory, can now breathe easy...
MUMBAI: Ten Sports has temporarily suspended its transmission on Pehla Europe to stop illegal re-distribution of signals on some cable networks in Pakistan. Arab Digital Distribution,...
MUMBAI: Sun Network-owned Sumangali Cable Vision, which was using its own developed software, has selected Hyderabad-based MagnaQuest Technologies to provide subscriber management and billing solution. Sumangali...
NEW DELHI: Siti Cable’s franchisee cable operators in Delhi have expressed their initial inability to cough up additional subscription money for new channels and have sought...
MUMBAI: Reliance Infocomm has indicated to cable TV operators that it wants to ally with them to deliver digital interactive television and value-added broadband services to...
NEW DELHI: Zee Telefilms has always loved to set the cat amongst the pigeons. Over two years back, when conditional access was a relatively unknown word,...
For over a year, Essel Group additional vice chairman and head of Siticable Network Ltd. Jawahar Goel has been busy lobbying hard for a mandated form...
A slow deployment of set-top boxes (STBs) will suit a small cable network like Seven Star. Which is why Nadir Ali, one of the founder-promoters, is...
What do you do when you are finding it hard to push your digital set-top boxes (STBs) and broadband Internet service? Bundle them. That is what...
It has been the worst period of inactivity in the cable TV industry. Since the price freeze on subscription rates imposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom is preparing for a digital cable television rollout by October-end with 140 channels in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. This will entail...
MUMBAI: Its time to put on the party hats at ARY Digital. The network is celebrating four years of broadcasting in the UK today (28 September)....
MUMBAI: The government has reversed its decision to levy service tax on cable Multi-System Operators (MSOs). As per a notification issued on Friday; the decision was...
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Streaming giant bets on a seasoned marketer who helped build Amazon and Netflix into household names
Communications leader exits after three years spanning MD office strategy and media outreach.
Cricket star named face of Delhi Khel Mahakumbh to fuel youth talent hunt.
Kolkata-based beverage maker reports stronger revenues and profits for December quarter.
A crime thriller steps out of the shadows as Telugu storytelling claims centre stage.
From boards to bytes, chess readies for a nation-first showdown in Riyadh.
Leadership change follows layoffs, protests and a bruising battle over trust.
Revenue rises 4.3 per cent to Rs 10,209.33 crore while deferred tax gain lifts bottom line sharply
Akshay Kumar and stars launch awards at NSCI Dome on Feb 28
Merger creates one-stop hub for content, digital, and delivery
NEW DELHI: Hamdard Laboratories gathered a cross-section of India’s achievers in New Delhi on Friday, handing out the Hakeem Abdul...
MUMBAI: For decades, creative storytelling has been the cornerstone of brand communication. The “big idea” amplified through catchy jingles, striking...
MUMBAI: Zepto has elevated Ahmad Muneeb to vice president – HR centre of excellence, placing him at the helm of...
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