MUMBAI: Hinduja Group MSO INCableNet has charged Star India with bowing to pressure from “other broadcasters” in its decision to switch off Mumbai’s biggest cable service...
MUMBAI: Responding to yesterday’s disconnection by the Zee Turner alliance, Hinduja Group MSO INCableNet has disputed the reasons given for the switch-off. Zee had cited large...
MUMBAI: As part of Zee’s initiative of bringing the best to their viewers the Subhash Chandra network upgraded transmission signals to cable operators yesterday. Viewers of...
MUMBAI: At the rate the Hinduja Group MSO InCablenet is getting switched off by the different pay bouquets, it could soon qualify as a free-to-air platform....
MUMBAI: A report titled “Conditional Access or Catch 22 – Who Will Blink First?” compiled by the Citigroup Smith Barney (CSB) report (dated 15 May 2003)...
MUMBAI: Streaming media will continue to register double-digit growth gains for both audio and video through 2005, according to market forecasts published by AccuStream iMedia Research....
MUMBAI: A division bench of the Mumbai High Court comprising Chief Justice CL Thakker and Dr Dhananjay Chandrachud today postponed the hearing of the “much hyped...
MUMBAI: Even as several factions in the cable and satellite industry are rueing CAS and try to defer 14 July, Hinduja-run MSO IndusInd Media & Communications,...
MUMBAI: Hinduja Group MSO INCablenet has lashed out at ESPN-Star Sports for switching off signals saying the sports broadcaster was resorting to “pressure tactics” despite “being...
NEW DELHI: On one side the smiles have broadened, while on the other side the scowls have deepened. Broadcasters, specially those managing pay channels,...
Indian television takes a leap forward once every decade. While television entered into our country in the early seventies, the first major television revolution took place...
MUMBAI: The tug of war between cable ops and broadcasters shows no signs of slowing down. ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has discontinued its service to Hinduja’s...
MUMBAI: The broadcasting and cable fraternity is certainly not smiling. To add to their existing problems in an evolving market such as India, non-media companies are...
NEW DELHI: So near, yet so far. When the task force on the conditional access system (CAS) recently wrapped up most of its proceedings by recommending...
MUMBAI: There is a lot of uncertainty amongst the cable trade in Mumbai, the country’s business capital, about the roll-out of conditional access system (CAS) in...
NEW DELHI: After surrogate advertising and ‘offensive’ music videos on television channels, it’s the turn of news channels to feel the heat from the government. The...
NEW DELHI: The Russian roulette being played out involving the pricing of the basic tier of free to air channels appears to be coming to an...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Just ahead of the government-sponsored task force meeting on conditional access slated for 27 March, a seemingly somnambulant and fragmented cable fraternity...
NEW DELHI: A section of cable operators (mostly comprising independent operators) are not a happy lot after the finance ministry proposed the costing of Rs 45.90...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Two leading multi-system operators of India, Siti Cable and the Hindujas-controlled INCableNet, are pushing ahead with conditional access (CA). While Siti Cable,...
NEW YORK: In India, the Communications Convergence Bill is still to be introduced in Parliament. In the US, however, the cable industry is readying itself for...
The Indian cable industry goes through another churning. Revenue collections fall, defiant consumers get strident as CAS plods towards a deadline. A clutch of 35-odd representatives...
NEW YORK: MTV’s social conscience regarding the Aids menace saw it host a series of concerts, documentaries, specials and fund rasing events across the globe last...
MUMBAI: The legal authorities in Mumbai have their hands full with the various petitions and public interest litigations (PILs) which have been filed by politicians, cable...
There is a lot of talk within the CATV industry currently on Analogue and Digital and different perceptions floating around as to the advantages and disadvantages...
MUMBAI: The battle lines between individual small cable operators and the Multi Service Operators (MSOs) have been clearly drawn as the CAS (Conditional Access System) deadline...
The road to a digital future ought to be paved with good intentions! Or so the powers that be would have liked to have it! But...
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NEW DELHI: Paul Anderson is to be the new Islamabad Correspondent for BBC News. Anderson, currently a reporter on BBC World TV, is one of the...
HONG KONG: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has confirmed that civil action was launched in Hong Kong on Monday against five companies...
SINGAPORE: Newly registered as Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia Pvt Ltd, Casbaa is all set to step up its activities in Singapore. The region’s...
MUMBAI: Underdeclaration – the monkey on the backs of broadcasters and, apparently, MSO’s as well, may well have a solution if an initiative announced today proves...
MUMBAI: Cable operators have plenty to be concerned about. First, the introduction of the Conditional Access System Bill continues to hang fire. Now, state governments like...
MUMBAI: The following is the statement issued by INCablenet in response to CNBC India’s charges: Indusind Media and Communications Ltd has learnt that a press release...
MUMBAI: INCablenet is increasing the number of channels offered in its bouquet from 90 to 105 within a week. The 15 new channels will include three...
MUMBAI: The Hinduja Group MSO INCableNet announced today that it will be telecast the Ganapati Visarjan live from Girgaum Chowpatty on 20 September 2002. 'The channel,...
MUMBAI: Fun, thrill, excitement, cheer and mother’s plea… this is what makes Rin Mera Star SUPERSTAR the most awaited show every week. Coming Friday’s episode will...
ATLANTA: Cable set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta announced that the US International Trade Commission has ruled in its favour in a suit by Gemstar-TV Guide International brought...
MUMBAI:It’s once again the turn of the Consumer Action Network (CAN) to air its views on conditional access. President Ahmed M. Abdi has welcomed the government’s...
NEW DELHI: The cable operators are again taking a shot at forging a unity in a bid to neutralise the broadcasters and have the conditional access...
NEW DELHI: The government has asked the cable and broadcasting industry to come back with more details on the investments that are likely to be needed...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms’ cable arm SitiCable is planning to launch a 24-hour interactive entertainment channel aimed at family audiences, The Asian Age has reported. Siti has...
MUMBAI: Consumer body Mumbai Grahak Panchayat has called a meeting of all state-level consumer organisations and cable consumer organisations in Maharashtra on 18 August in Mumbai....
Cable TV operators in the metro city of Mumbai are on a two day strike to protest against a hike of 100 per cent in the...
NEW DELHI: If it’s not this then it’s that. Yesterday it was the opposition uproar over the alleged irregularities by the petroleum ministry in the allotment...
MUMBA: Cable ops, owing allegiance to different associations, have planned to hold a conference to discuss the issue of conditional access in the country. The Karnataka...
LUCKNOW (UTTAR PRADESH): In a rare show of unity, about 10 cable operators in Lucknow, one of the bigger cable TV markets in the state, have...
LUCKNOW (UTTAR PRADESH): In a rare show of unity, about 10 cable operators in Lucknow, one of the bigger cable TV markets in the state, have...
LUCKNOW (UTTAR PRADESH): In a rare show of unity, about 10 cable operators in Lucknow, one of the bigger cable TV markets in the state, have...
MUMBAI: The ministry of information & broadcasting is seriously considering farming out the monitoring of television channels for surrogate advertising to an external agency, it has...

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