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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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 group of ministers is once again meeting and discussing the opening up Ku-band DTH television even as this copy is being posted on indiantelevision.com on...
Urmila Gupta, one of the last executives brought in by former Star TV India head honcho R. Basu, has quit the company. Gupta was in charge...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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