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NEW DELHI: As part of several senior-level transfers in the media units of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B Ministry), Indian Information Service officer of the...
MUMBAI: If you look back a few years it was the MSOs who were arm twisting the Broadcasters and carriage subsidies shot up to an estimate...
NEW DELHI: While declining to stay Policy Guidelines for Television Rating Agencies in India, the Delhi High Court today directed that the sections relating to cross-holding...
The Telecom Regulaotry Auhtority of India (TRAI) was right in both identifying and bringing in new regulation in an attempt to curb content aggregator aggression (read:...
NEW DELHI: Kantar Market Research Services has managed to get the relief it wanted from the Delhi High Court on the cross-shareholding norms for television rating...
NEW DELHI: Kantar Market Research Services, a promoter of India’s only television ratings agency TAM Media Research, said today that any action relating to fundamental rights...
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s latest notification of regulations for content aggregators has attempted to curb their muscling power, even as it has allowed them to...
MUMBAI: Direct-to-home television service providers appear to be having a tough time retaining their subscribers. A large portion of their registered subscribers are inactive. Of...
NEW DELHI: The deadline for implementing the TV ratings agencies policy is inching closer. But Kantar Market Research Services, a shareholder of current and only ratings...
Updated – 08:05pm MUMBAI: Aggregation of television content from various broadcasters will soon be history and content aggregators will be able to act only as agents...
MUMBAI: The MIB has released the list of permitted private satellite TV channels in India as on 31 January, 2014. According to a report published by...
MUMBAI: When the entire process of digitisation started in the country, nobody would have thought it would be such a tough nut to crack and there...
NEW DELHI: The Union Government has approved that spectrum acquired in the current auction will be charged at five per cent of the AGR. In...
NEW DELHI: It was just a week ago that one of the shareholders of TAM – Kantar Market Research decided to move the High Court against...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister Manish Tewari today addressed the attendees of the fifth CEOs round table conference organised by the Confederation of Indian...
NEW DELHI: K Ganesan is being posted as the new director general of the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity in the Information & Broadcasting (I&B)...
MUMBAI: So Indian TV ratings agency TAM Media will not go down without a fight. At least if one goes by the action of one of...
MUMBAI: Within days of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) giving out its fact sheet on how digital addressable system (DAS) phase I and II...
NEW DELHI: There has been some hue and cry about the manner in which the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) has apparently rushed to notify the...
MUMBAI: Most of 2013 kept the industry preoccupied with the 12 minute ad cap saga. After the Supreme Court passed a judgment that barred the Telecom...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) may have once again extended the rope for stakeholders of digitisation but with a warning that they would...
NEW DELHI: In a directive that has not been taken kindly by the media, the Delhi High Court yesterday restrained the media from publishing and telecasting...
MUMBAI: The clock has started ticking as of yesterday, 16 January, when the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) passed its order regarding TV rating guidelines....
MUMBAI: The media industry went into a tizzy last week when the union cabinet accepted the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB)’s proposed regulatory framework for television rating agencies...
NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting minister Manish Tewari inaugurated the 20th International Conference and Exhibition on Terrestrial and Satellite Broadcasting – BES Expo 2014, today...
MUMBAI: The inter-ministerial committee in the information and broadcasting ministry (MIB) is likely to take up the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI’s) recommendations on controlling...
MUMBAI: To have foreign direct investment (FDI) in TV ratings or not, that is the question. And the recently-cleared TV ratings guidelines by the Cabinet Committee...
NEWDELHI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has listed 15 January as the last date for submission of application for the 1800 MHz and 900 MHz under...
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet today gave the go-ahead to the television ratings guidelines ,which had earlier been proposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
NEW DELHI: Come 13 January and the writ petition filed by Mouthshut.com, challenging the Information Technology Rules 2011 will be up for hearing in the Supreme Court....
NEW DELHI: While border control, visa regulations and immigration formalities were the ground realities in connecting the global youth, it is undeniable that the march of...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) of India has asked stakeholders for their views on whether the value of 800 MHz spectrum should be derived on...
MUMBAI: The debate regarding the need of an external body to govern broadcast media has been raging since long. It has now reached the Supreme Court...
MUMBAI: The year 2013 saw the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) cracking its whip on the broadcasters as well as every other party within the...
NEW DELHI: The deal between IndiaCast and Dish TV over the DTH operator’s ‘on request channels’ scheme has come into effect with the latter providing IndiaCast...
MUMBAI: In an attempt to speed up the filling of consumer application forms (CAFs), the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), along with major broadcasters, has relaunched its...
MUMBAI: Last week, there was a lot of brouhaha about the IndiaCast vs DishTV round of fisticuffs on the DTH operator’s “on request channel service” and...
By Ranjan Thakur The year 2013 witnessed a large number of activities in Prasar Bharati and Doordarshan. A major achievement of Doordarshan was in rebranding its...
MUMBAI: It seems like deja vu. It was around this time last year that Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister Manish Tewari was urging the Telecom Regulatory...
MUMBAI: The government broadcaster, Prasar Bharati is set to see a major advancement. Reportedly, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) is planning to invest close...
MUMBAI: The highly awaited Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) ad cap appeal in the Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has been dismissed by the...
MUMBAI: In September this year, the licence of India’s oldest DTH provider Dish TV was to expire after a period of 10 years and then there...
MUMBAI: The broadcasting industry that has been fiercely fighting the ad cap regulation by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) got a jolt last Friday...
KOLKATA: It was just last week that indiantelevision.com reported that Kolkata multi-system operators (MSOs) are likely to start the gross (consumer) billing process from 10 December...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the central government and the Gujarat state government has time until 13 December to submit their responses to...
MUMBAI: Its wings have been clipped. If one goes by the decision of the Supreme Court announced yesterday, all appeals against regulations set by the Telecom...
MUMBAI: In the midst of the digitisation process in India, several issues continue to be left unanswered. One such being the matter of unbundling of channels...
MUMBAI: It has come under flak in the past for being rather liberal in issuing licences to TV broadcasters. But the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting...
NEW DELHI : While lawyers dismantle many restrictions on political money, the rules affecting Morning Edition and Downton Abbey still stand tall. A federal court in...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released the consultation paper on the migration of FM radio broadcasters from Phase-II to Phase-III. As part of...
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NEW DELHI: Hamdard Laboratories gathered a cross-section of India’s achievers in New Delhi on Friday, handing out the Hakeem Abdul...
MUMBAI: For decades, creative storytelling has been the cornerstone of brand communication. The “big idea” amplified through catchy jingles, striking...
MUMBAI: Zepto has elevated Ahmad Muneeb to vice president – HR centre of excellence, placing him at the helm of...
