BENGALURU: Reports fly thick and fast, some speculation, some part truth across the global media about the aftermath of Time Warner’s rejection of Twenty First Century...
BENGALURU: Both the companies have issued official statements about the offer and rejection. Twenty-first Century Fox (Fox) issued a short, cryptic three sentence statement –“21st Century...
BENGALURU: If it had gone through, it would have been the second largest media deal ever in the history and created a mega media powerhouse, but...
MUMBAI: Essel Group’s subsidiary Siti Cable Network has decided to raise funds worth Rs 600 crore through the issuance of securities. This will be used for...
MUMBAI: The Indian cable TV market is about to witness the emergence of a major multisystem operator: one which is backed by industry veteran Nagesh Chhabria....
MUMBAI: The state owned multi system operator (MSO) from Tamil Nadu (TN), Arasu Cable, is looking at running awareness campaign for its subscribers. The campaign will...
MUMBAI: The heavy hand of the law is coming down on those involved in the distribution of TV signals. Last month, the cops swooped down on...
BENGALURU: Indian multi system operator (MSO) Hathway Cable and Datacom has informed the bourses that it has received shareholder approval and passed special resolutions as under:...
MUMBAI: JAINHITS, India’s first and only HITS based Direct to Network (DTN) service, attracted a large number of local cable operators (LCOs) at its first ever...
KOLKATA: The last mile owners (LMOs) in Kolkata are yet again gearing for owning their subscribers. While earlier a group comprising 100 LMOs had announced their...
NEW DELHI: After she failed to convince him through a memorandum presented last month, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has now written to the Prime...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable and Datacom is expanding its business. The multi system operator (MSO) has now entered into the movie streaming service. With this, the Hathway...
MUMBAI: The Information and Broadcasting Minister (I&B) Prakash Javadekar wants a happy Media and Entertainment industry. And for the same, he has been meeting the members...
MUMBAI: Cable TV subscribers in Odisha will soon get to watch Hindi soaps in high definition (HD) provided they have an Ortel cable connection. The last...
NEW DELHI: JAINHITS, India’s only HITS platform in operation at present, is extending audio feeds in dual languages to three more channels at no additional cost...
MUMBAI: Grant Investrade, which is a 100 per cent subsidiary of Hinduja Ventures, today paid the Rs 10 crore licence fee to the Ministry of Information...
KOLKATA: The average revenue per user (ARPU) of cable operators can go up only with introduction of additional services. This has been stated enough and more...
NEW DELHI: Although carriage fees saw a reduction of 15-20 per cent after the first two phases of digitisation, the delay in implementation of the various...
MUMBAI: Giving more power to the local cable operator (LCO), India’s only HITS service JAINHITS has come up with special schemes that will enable LCOs to...
KOLKATA: Cable TV viewers in the Kolkata Municipal Area (KMA) will have to face another price hike in their cable TV bills, starting 1 August. This,...
MUMBAI: Enhancing its set top boxes (STBs) and gateways for its six million subscribers, DEN Networks has tied up with STMicroelectronics (ST), the global semiconductor manufacturer...
When he is not actively focused on growing the business of the company, he is a family man. He spent eight years at his current group’s parent company– Indian...
KOLKATA: It’s been five months, since multi system operators (MSOs) started gross (consumer) billing. However, according to cable industry sources, consumers in certain pockets of the...
KOLKATA: A revision in channel package rates is on the cards following the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) directions to multi system operators (MSOs) last...
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has once again raised the issue of granting a digital addressable system licence to Arasu Cable TV Corporation,...
MUMBAI: Multi system operator (MSO) Den Networks is not only expanding its business, but with that is looking at enhancing customer experience as well. And with...
BENGALURU: Hathway Bhawani Cabletel and Datacom Limited (HBC&DL) reported consolidated loss of Rs 4.05 crore in FY-2014, 3.19 times the loss of Rs 1.27 crore in...
BENGALURU: Sea TV Network Ltd, (Sea TV) an MSO and a media and entertainment house of Uttar Pradesh & Uttrakhand reported loss of Rs 6.82 crore...
BENGALURU: At a time when most companies involved in carrying television signals from the broadcaster to the consumer via cable have reported losses and are complaining...
MUMBAI: The Headend In The Sky (HITS) platform Jainhits has announced the company’s strategy to spruce up its presence in Andhra Pradesh. The HITS operator has signed...
BENGALURU: Indian Multi System Operator (MSO) Hathway Cable & Datacom Limited (Hathway) reported a jump of 39.8 per cent in consolidated net Total Operating Income (Op...
MUMBAI: Digi-JPR Networks, Mumbai based cable TV network operator has selected Dolby Digital Plus as the audio solution for its HD set-up boxes (STBs). With this...
BENGALURU: The Essel group’s Subhash Chandra-led Siti Cable Network Ltd (Siti Cable) has reported a 44.7 per cent jump in operating profit (EBIDTA) in FY-2014 to...
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Cable Operators Federation (MCOF) that had recently approached the Bombay High Court challenging the payment of entertainment tax, billing and the carriage fee has...
MUMBAI: The last mile owners (LMOs) will no longer be a fragmented body. This arm of the cable TV chain has decided to finally form a...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has directed Kolkata based multi system operator (MSO) Manthan Broadband Services to cough up dues worth Rs 2.3...
MUMBAI: DEN Networks is looking at serving its Kochi subscribers better. The multi system operator (MSO) has announced the launch of its HD package comprising 22...
MUMBAI: Volicon today announced that NSTPL (Noida Software Technology Park Limited), part of India’s Jain TV Group, is using the Volicon Observer® Media Intelligence Platform™ digital...
MUMBAI: Jagjit Singh Kohli is furious. The cable TV industry veteran and promoter of Digicable has reportedly filed a police complaint against Hathway Cable and a...
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court of India has refused the request of ETV and MAA TV to give stay on the order of the Telecom Disputes Settlement &...
MUMBAI: Digital pay TV is slowing down in Asia. That was the key takeaway from Media Partners Asia (MPA) executive director Vivek Couto’s annual report on...
MUMBAI: Multisystem operators (MSOs) are in for some serious competition. This time from a MSO cooperative formed by the Maharashtra Cable Operators Federation (MCOF) along with...
MUMBAI: It has been touted as one of the leading get together of the last mile owners (LMOs) in Maharashtra. The Maharashtra Cable Operators Federation (MCOF)...
MUMBAI: Hathway has announced an exciting new service christened H-tube which will give TV viewers an opportunity to telecast their videos and watch themselves on TV....
MUMBAI: For quite a while now, multi-system operator (MSO) IndusInd Media and Communications Limited (IMCL) has been focused on distribution though it started out with local...
BALI: Viren Raheja is a man with a mission: to change the culture at India’s leading cable TV multi system operator Hathway Cable & Datacom. With...
NEW DELHI: JAINHITS has started providing voice feeds in dual languages on its platform at no additional cost for its customers. While initially, it is...
Having served as Indian Revenue Service Officer in the income tax department for 22 years, Ashok Mansukhani’s last government posting was as Doordarshan deputy director general...
MUMBAI: It was in January this year when the IndusInd Media & Communications Limited (IMCL), a subsidiary of Hinduja Ventures Limited (HVL) brought in huge top...
MUMBAI: Two hard-to-miss campaigns have been doing the rounds of television, radio and digital media lately. One, launched by sports broadcaster Star Sports, hits out...

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