MUMBAI: Essel Group promoted Dish TV has signed an agreement to distribute Malayalam channel Indiavision on its direct-to-home (DTH) platform. With this, Dish TV will be...
MUMBAI: The UK is leading the race to switch-off its analogue TV signal. As European regulators consider imposing a universal switch-off date, new research from Informa...
NEW DELHI: Country’s first free DTH service – DD Direct Plus- operated by pubcaster Doordarshan has claimed that 150,000 boxes have been sold till now, even...
NEW DELHI: It’s action time at the Subhash Chandra-controlled Zee Telefilms. The network not only has gone in for a complete makeover, including logos, but has...
MUMBAI: With the aim of expanding its programme lineup and maximising bandwidth efficiency Nanjing Radio and Television Network has done a deal with BigBand Networks which...
NEW DELHI: Dish TV, India’s first Direct-to-Home (DTH) service, has given football lovers in India cause to celebrate as it has added two ‘lifestyle football’ channels,...
NEW DELHI: DD Direct Plus, Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s DTH service, is gaining popularity with sales of set-top boxes zooming to over 700,000, according to latest figures...
NEW DELHI: Even though the government said today that it is planning a legislation to address concerns relating to DTH services in the country, it avoided...
MUMBAI: Tam is ready to measure telivision ratings on any delivery platform – direct-to-home (DTH), broadband or conditional access system (Cas). Once a minimum penetration level...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms today announced the official launch of three specialist movie channels – Premiere, Action and Classic Cinema – on cable networks. Aimed at being...
MUMBAI: DirecTV Group Inc. has agreed to acquire Pegasus Communications Corp.’s (PGTV) bankrupt satellite-television business for $875 million. The Pegasus Satellite Television provides DirecTV’s DTH services...
MUMBAI: Alcatel has signed a contract with China Satellite Communication (Chinasat). As per this the French communications solutions provider will design and produce a new-generation communications...
MUMBAI: Intelsat today announced that they have inked a new five-year contract with Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN). Intelsat will provide MTN with additional capacity to expand...
NEW DELHI: Having managed to gain a toehold in the market, Dish TV, the first KU-band DTH service in the country, is now looking at expanding...
NEW DELHI: The Essel Group promoted ASC Enterprises Limited (ASCEL) has become the first company in India to finally receive and sign the licence agreement for...
MUMBAI: Even as several multi system operators have announced tie ups with global conditional access companies and vendors for imports, a few Indian set top manufacturing...
MUMBAI: The disconnection virus seems to be spreading in Mumbai. Following ESPN-Star Sports, SET-Discovery One Alliance bouquet of channels has switched off its service to Hinduja’s...
NEW DELHI: Minister for information and broadcasting Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that there is no proposal to reconsider the FDI limits in DTH service. ...
MUMBAI: IBF members received a bit of a jolt on 23 April. Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati CEO and IBF chairman K S Sarma – the one...
New Delhi: The direct-to-home (DTH) platform of Doordarshan, which is expected to initially have about 50 free-to-air television channels, will be on ‘C’ Band and not...
NEW DELHI: At a time when the world over KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service works better in a monopolistic situation or at best in a duopoly,...
NEW DELHI: If it’s not CAS, then it has to be DTH. The government is now examining the issue of “open architecture” and whether a thing...
Hathway Cable & Datacom has announced a new scheme to promote Internet through cable as a viable alternative to dial-up. The Silver Starter rate plan offers...
Indian movies have always been a big draw in the former Soviet Union as well as the central Asian republics. it might not be too long...
Indian movies have always been a big draw in the former Soviet Union as well as the central Asian republics. it might not be too long...
The winds of DTH they are a blowin? Last week indiantelevision.com had reported that news emanating from Delhi indicated that that Star India had applied for...
Much is made of direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast as the new convergence mantra and conditional access these days, especially after Star TV Asia chairman James Murdoch, and...
French tech company Canal Plus and Rupert Murdoch’s NDS will lock horns in a California court on Thursday. This will be the first public hearing of...
The only constant in today’s Media industry is change. Given the growth and significance of this industry in the global economy, this change puts industry players...
The cricket match fixing saga has spilled over into the television industry. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the issue of corruption in...
The Living Media group (publisher of leading newweekly India Today and successful news capsule Aaj Tak) is to launch a 24 hours news channel in the...
It’s Pakistan ahoy for Star TV. The network was granted the first pay TV licence by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) earlier this week. Following this,...
Jain Studios Ltd chairman Dr J.K. Jain is keen on setting up a DTH platform and would do so, within three months of finding a partner....
It came somewhat like manna to travellers lost in the desert. The Union Cabinet’s decision on 2 November 2000 to lift the four-year ban on DTH...
India’s space segment will be a satellite poorer with the instability of Insat 2B, a seven year old satellite which has possibly is going through the...
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...
DTH Regulations worldwide Country Foreign Equity restriction Cross-media ownership Restriction Licence period Domestic uplink requirement Australia Limited to 35% in total; no individual to own...
The rights to the telecast of cricket matches played in Sri Lanka are likely to be decided before 6 November. The Sri Lankan cricket board has...
Broadband player Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd (HFCL) chairman and managing director Mahendra Nahata has announced that his company is not interested in getting into Direct to...
The Union Cabinet has cleared all the hurdles in the way of Ku-band direct to home television. The GoM had met earlier this week and this...
Direct to Home Television Service refers to distribution of Multi Channel TV programmes in Ku Band by using a satellite system by Providing TV signals direct...
Star TV Had set up ISKyB with a team of 300. When government decided to ban it, it hung on to the team for nearly two...
Turner International Asia Pacific, which manages the services TCM, Cartoon Network, CNN and HBO in Asia and in India, has appointed two senior executives to help...
Altaf Ali Mohammed, in charge of Star’s DTH and broadband operations in India, today rubbished reports in the press that Star had put together a $...
Satellite channels have driven growth in C&S households from only four channels in the early 1990s to around 100 today. And going by present indications, with...
Direct to home (DTH) television service, more popularly known as direct broadcast satellite service, is coming to India after a government ordained delay of three years....
New Delhi, 16th march, 2001 The union Government has decided to permit Direct-to-Home (DTH) TV service in Ku Band in india. The prohibition on the reception...
After interminable delays, the government yesterday finally issued an executive order on direct-to-home (DTH) telecast in India and it has confirmed the industry’s worst fears. There...
On Friday, 9 February, the Economic Times featured a report saying that the government may finally come around on the vexed issue of 20 per cent...
One of the major regulatory hurdles in the way of the launch of DTH services in India has been lifted. On Friday, a notification was issued...

