NEW DELHI: Star may have decided to play it down where Star News and its proposed DTH venture were concerned, but on the Radio City, its...
NEW DELHI: Consumer Electronics and TV Manufacturers Association (Cetma), an apex body of electronics goods makers in the country, today exhorted the government to ensure a...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted ASC Enterprises, which has sought a licence from the Indian government to operate a KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service in India,...
MUMBAI: Tata Sky has signed an agreement with SaharaOne Media Entertainment to distribute Sahara One and Filmy channels on its direct-to-home platform. The two Sahara channels...
NEW DELHI: Media baron Subhash Chandra crossed another milestone today. The information & broadcasting ministry today cleared his Essel group’s letter of intent to operate a...
As uncertainty continues to swirl around the rollout of conditional access systems in the country, the belief that it might be better to wait for direct...
NEW DELHI: Since 29 May, the smile on Jawahar Goel’s face has broadened and the additional vice-chairman of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms just cannot hide...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today told policy makers that pubcaster Doordarshan was opting for a KU-band DTH scheme at an estimated...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Guess what? The Big Daddy of them all – Doordarshan – is about to enter the direct to home (DTH) arena. It...
NEW DELHI: The issue of standardisation of set-top boxes for KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service continues to be a thorny issue contributing to a delay in...
NEW DELHI: Subhash Chandra companies Zee Telefilms and ASC Enterprises (which is implementing the Agrani satellite project), are preparing to launch a KU-band direct-to-home television service...
PARIS: One of Eutelsat’s major clients, GlobeCast has announced the launch of its new proprietary digital DTH platform on the Eutelsat Hot Bird satellite via its...
MUMBAI: “The window of opportunity is getting smaller as new technologies offer alternatives.” That was the warning sounded by Eutelsat’s regional director for Middle East and...
MUMBAI: Andhra Pradesh Network (Apnet) – the interactive distance learning DTH project instituted by the Andhra Pradesh government – has moved up a gear as far...
MUMBAI: Kalanithi Maran’s Sun TV is beaming without a pause in the US. The most popular Indian channel in the South, Tamil channel Sun TV, is...
NEW DELHI: The recommendations of the NK Singh panel on FDI that the media cap of 20 per cent in a DTH venture should be hiked...
CHENNAI: Cable TV operators are looking into the eye of the administration gun in Chennai. They have exactly a month to register themselves with the Chennai...
The old bugbear is finally out of the way. Ku-band direct to home television (DTH) looks set to get the go-ahead finally after a three year...
The group of ministers on DTH – headed by home minister L.K. Advani – met once again on 30 October and said they had no reservations...
There is no official word out yet on direct-to-home (DTH) and digital terrestrial transmission (DTT) in India but if the various developments taking place are any...
Zee Group chairman Subhash Chandra today dismissed industry speculation that the government was about to ease the restrictions on DTH broadcast in India. Speaking on the...
Cable network test and management solutions major Acterna today announced the introduction of the Acterna Digital Service Activation Meter (DSAM), offering the cable modem installer a...
MUMBAI: When English movie channel Hallmark launched in Asia, not many industry watchers were confident that it would last out the long haul. The Asian viewer...
The Indian Broadcasting Federation (IBF) has said nyet to state-owned broadcaster DD’s DTH proposal. DD had proposed that it would own 20 per cent in a...
Another millionaire quiz game show is to make its debut on 11 November. Koteeswaran is, however, a show with a difference: it is the first time...
When the DTH notification was issued by the information & broadcasting (I&B) ministry this week, it was not clear whether the 20 per cent restriction was...
Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj has said that cable operators will have to compulsorily build in conditional access systems (CAS) into their networks. In an...
B4U Multimedia which has built up a successful music channel in B4U Music says it is interested in investing 20 per cent in a DTH platform,...
G.S.R. 18 (E) in exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 and 7 of the Indian Telegraph Act 1885 (13 of 1885) and sections 4...
DATE EVENT December 1996: The United Front Government under Prime Minister Deve Gowda issues a notification saying that a licence has to be obtained for Ku-band...
From today NRI’s and other Asians in America who feast on television programming that they can identify with have a new channel to look forward to....
Scientific-Atlanta, a leading supplier of digital content distribution systems, has entered into a distribution agreement with Mampaey, to provide its cable modems and transmission network products...
Sony Entertainment Television and the Rajan Raheja-owned Hathway Cable & Datacom are hopeful that their ongoing dispute over paid connectivity will be resolved in a day...
Is information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj listening to the pleas of wannabe players that the country should not take the open architecture route on the...
NDS, a News Corporation company and the leading provider of conditional access systems and interactive applications for digital pay TV, today announced it has launched the...
The Big Daddy is putting together its plans for direct-to-home (DTH) television and other aspirants can either try to beat them or join them. The Hindustan...