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With a nearly seven-million strong subscriber base, Siti Cable should have been ideally sitting pretty with a permanent smile pasted on the faces of the executives...
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...
MUMBAI: In a far-reaching judgment, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Cable companies that offer broadband Internet access do not have to open their high-speed...
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 &...
Now more than ever, cable companies realise the need to upgrade service and content as they face the threat from direct-to-home (DTH) and telecom operators who...
MUMBAI: Care TV, a health channel floated by Tanu Healthcare Ltd, has shut down transmission due to non payment of dues to VSNL. The channel had...
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: Star India has discontinued services of its bouquet of channels to Asianet Satellite Communications, the largest cable TV network in Kerala. The signals were...
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....
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: An independent cable operator in Navi Mumbai was shot dead today afternoon, possibly bringing to surface the dirty face of cable wars. Sanjay Gupta was...
MUMBAI: US pay TV platform DirecTV has announced that its president and CEO Mitch Stern has left the company. DirecTV Group president and CEO Chase...
MUMBAI: Digitalisation of cable TV is necessary as analogue receivers can’t accommodate more television channels, said the Telcom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman Pradip Baijal,...
MUMBAI: Television will become the centre of communication convergence in India as computer penetration is still very low, experts at a seminar on Monday said. Content,...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable Internet has set its sights on netting the broadband internet mass market with two new packages – Liteway and Paceway.. The Liteway package...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to further extend its brand equity, multi-system operator Siti Cable has decided to hold city specific social and cultural festival fair...
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...
KANPUR: The forthcoming subscription hike and the cable tax were in focus in the recently concluded 10th Cable TV India Show here. The annual event which...
MUMBAI: Pehla, Arab Digital Distribution’s (ADD) pay television platform targeting viewers from the Indian subcontinent, has announced the launch of Pehla Bangla. This new buy thru...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s direct-to-home (DTH) service will formally be launched by prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh on 16 December at 6.30 pm in New Delhi. DD...
NEW DELHI: With the government committed to support a broadband thrust and a state area-wide network for data transmission reaching out to the interior, telecom services...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has discontinued services of its two channels to Hathway cable network in Delhi, Bangalore and Ludhiana due to non payment of...
MUMBAI: The settlement happened sooner than expected. Zee-Turner agreed late Wednesday to restore signals to Rajesh Cable, an independent operator in Mumbai. And Rajesh Cable, in...
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...
MUMBAI: Satellite television provider, Direc TV in a regulatory filing on Friday said that it may take up to $1.6 billion in pre – tax charges...
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: Cable TV prices need to be regulated as consumers have no freedom to switch their operators and face frequent hike in subscription charges, according to...
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...
Platforms get three years to add features for hearing and visually impaired
Strong word-of-mouth turns Pongal satire into remake pick
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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