MUMBAI: Even as Tata Sky DTH service is set for a mid-2006 launch, Zee’s DTH service Dish TV is ramping up to stay ahead of the...
MUMBAI: Feeling the threat that direct-to-home (DTH) would offer, cable operators met in Mumbai today to discuss how they could beat the competition. They were particularly...
MUMBAI: Malaysia’s Direct-To-Home (DTH) and pay TV operator Astro All Asia Networks plc is planning to introduce 50 new channels in the next 12-month period with...
NEW DELHI: The Reliance magic is working on the DTH front. A clearance is expected soon, according to the government. “A DTH proposal from the Anil...
MUMBAI: The countdown is well and truly on for Tata Sky Ltd, the Tata-Star joint venture, to launch direct-to-home (DTH) services in India. Tata Sky announced...
MUMBAI: Zee Network will be launching three of its channels on the Direct to Home (DTH) platform in Nigeria. Zee TV, Zee Cinema and Zee Music...
MUMBAI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has informed Tata-Sky Ltd, the 80:20 joint venture between the Tatas and Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group, that the launch...
MUMBAI: The country’s first private DTH service Dishtv has launched a “mobile service” targeting long-distance bus and tour operators, ships, cruises and even trains. The service,...
MUMBAI: The country’s first private DTH service Dishtv has launched a “mobile service” targeting long-distance bus and tour operators, ships, cruises and even trains. The service,...
MUMBAI: Anil Ambani has changed the name of his direct-to-home (DTH) venture to Reliance Bluemagic, following objections by the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp to the word...
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Government has brought in a reduction in the entertainment tax on Direct to Home (DTH) service. The ‘A’ class municipal corporation areas, the entertainment...
MUMBAI: Anil Ambani has changed the name of his direct-to-home (DTH) venture to Reliance Bluemagic, following objections by the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp to the word...
MUMBAI: The television environment is changing constantly in India and now with addressablility coming in the form of more direct to home (DTH) platforms, which are...
MUMBAI: Tata Sky, the 80:20 joint venture between the Tatas and Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group, is gearing up for the launch of its direct-to-home (DTH) service....
MUMBAI: DirecTV CEO Michael White gave investors a reason to stick with the company after the results didn’t reflect positive results. He signaled in a call...
BANGALORE: Hathway unveiled its digital cable TV services in Bangalore yesterday following recent launch in Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune. Mysore is next on the roadmap....
NEW DELHI: Petroleum major Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) plans to foray into providing direct-to-home (DTH) TV, or content delivery to subscriber’s home using satellite, reports...
MUMBAI: As T- Sky is gearing to launch its direct-to-home (DTH) TV service, the 80:20 Tata-Star DTH joint-venture has appointed Vynsley Fernandes as principal consultant, project,...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom is scaling up its digital cable television services. The Rajan Raheja promoted multi system operator (MSO) is expanding its services to...
MUMBAI: Not “in a day or two” but in a few hours is how it finally panned out. The information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry this evening...
MUMBAI: Dubai headquartered Geo TV, the flagship channel from the Pakistan-based Jang group of media companies, has now decided to spread it wings and is eyeing...
MUMBAI: In what appears to be a test case for the broadcast regulator’s diktat on providing content to all platforms on a nondiscriminatory basis, Dish TV...
MUMBAI: At a function last evening CII-KPMG released a report titled Focus 2010-Dreams to Reality. The report focuses on film, television, radio and music. As far...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Sun Group has applied for a direct-to-home (DTH) license, planning to enter an arena already occupied by Subhash Chandra’s Dish TV. Also planning to...
NEW DELHI: News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch today held one of the longest meetings with a representative of the Indian Government, information and broadcast minister Jaipal...
HONG KONG: Waiting to exhale. That could well describe the story for the Star Group’s having to exercise Buddha-like patience over the Indian government’s lack of...
NEW DELHI: Loral Skynet, subsidiary of the US-based Loral Space & Communications, is now targeting India with its IP-led services and feels that the country’s DTH...
NEW DELHI: Those technologies like broadband and DTH are important for India can be gauged from the fact they find references in the Economic Survey and...
MUMBAI: Dubai-based Arab Digital Distribution (ADD) is planning to launch its Pehla Navratna bouquet of nine South Indian channels in March. The Direct to Home (DTH)...
MUMBAI: News Corp owned digital pay-TV technology encryption specialist NDS reported a 17 per cent increase in second quarter net profit (to 31 December) at $30.3...
MUMBAI: Aastha Broadcasting Network is planning to launch its international spiritual channel Aastha on the direct-to-home (DTH) platform in the UK market. This follows the channel...
MUMBAI: Teleport Access Services, Inc. (TAS) launched a Multiple Channels per Carrier (MCPC) digital television and radio platform on AsiaSat 4 satellite’s Ku-band Australasia beam to...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) plans to invest Rs 1 billion in its wholly owned subsidiary Siticable over the next one year to further expand its...
NEW DLHI: A delay in the formal launch — or dedication to the nation, as Prasar Bharati would like to put it — of pubcaster Doodrashan’s...
NEW DELHI: It seems that the Tata-Star combine may have to wait for some more time before it can lay its hands on a letter of...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s proposed DTH television venture is becoming a bit of a joke with a prolonged delay in launching the KU-band service increasingly...
MUMBAI: The DirecTV Group and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation announced yesterday that they are consolidating their pay platforms in Latin America through a series of deals...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati’s gains relating to Indian cricket rights may end up also benefiting Dish TV, the country’s first KU-band DTH service promoted...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s KU-band television services foray, it seems, hinges on the government okaying a proposal to allow private satellite channels to come on...
NEW DELHI: A public interest litigation (PIL) on direct-to-home TV services that clouds the sector with uncertianities notwithstanding, Dish TV has said it would now target...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable Internet has launched a high-speed broadband package- Hathway 256 kbps for Rs. 750 per month. The package introduces high speed surfing at the...
NEW DELHI: The present Congress-led coalition Indian government has an “open mind” on news on FM radio and foreign investment cap in news and DTH ventures....
NEW DELHI: With a launch date still not fixed, a certain section in Doordarshan now thinks that starting a free Ku-band direct-to-home (DTH) TV service is...
NEW DELHI: Zee Telefilms and ASC Enterprise-promoted Dish TV, India’s first KU-band DTH televisions service, will hop on to NSS-6 from an Insat satellite in July....
HONG KONG: Digital. The entertainment industry is rapidly swinging to the beat of this trend. Hence it was no surprise that the Filmart 2004 conference in...
MUMBAI: For the fourth consecutive year, Echostar and its pay TV service the Dish Network ranked above the competition for customer satisfaction among satellite and cable...
MUMBAI: EchoStar Communications Corporation recently announced that its Dish Network satellite television services had added ET News, ET Global, ET Drama, Yoyo TV, ET China, and...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Doordarshan, looking at launching a direct-to-home (DTH) television service in the third week of June, is hopeful that most of the popular...
NEW DELHI: The sceptics can gulp. The ASC Enterprise and Zee combine promoted Dish TV direct-to-home (DTH) KU-band television service has signed a deal with ESPN...
Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) announced yesterday that it was setting up a DTH television joint venture with Sterling group’s C.Sivasankaran. According to sources, the actual vehicle...