MUMBAI: TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm, has completed a buyout of SpeedCast, a leading global network and satellite communications service provider, from...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The multi-system operators (MSOs) are considering the option of pulling channels out of the analogue cable system genre-wise in phases, ahead of the digitisation...
NEW DELHI: Communications and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal today said there would be no restrictions whatsoever on the use of internet. Addressing a curtain raiser...
BENGALURU : GSAT-10 satellite, ISRO’s 101st space mission, is ready to be launched from the Kourou launch base in French Guyana. Weighing 3400 kg at the...
GOA: A dual feed running on analogue and digital cable TV networks in the four metros of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai will not be easy...
MUMBAI: “How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when...
GOA: Broadband and value-added services, suppressed revenue streams so far, will get a major boost as India advances towards digitisation of cable TV. A few multi-system...
GOA: Cable TV networks need not focus on charging higher subscription rates from consumers in the early period of digitisation but revenue upswing during this period...
MUMBAI: After spending more than a decade in the media & entertainment sector, Rajesh Sawhney has launched GSF Accelerator, an initiative to give startups in the...
MUMBAI: UK pay TV service provider Sky and Warner Bros. have announced details of a film agreement that will see the two companies collaborate on the...
MUMBAI: Leading direct-to-home (DTH) operator Dish TV has associated with Ten Sports to offer Uefa Champions League and Uefa Europa League matches exclusively on its Football...
MUMBAI: The BBC has merged commercially-funded bbc.com/news and BBC World News services into a newly created company BBC Global News Ltd. BBC has appointed Jim Egan...
GOA: Multi-system operators (MSOs) should concentrate on basic packaging and consumers will be ready to pay only if they get good packages, according to Hathway Cable...
GOA: Global media companies are upping their investments in India in the wake of digitisation and the opening up of the pay-TV market. Sony is aggressively...
GOA: Multi-system operators (MSOs) and broadcasters do not want the digitisation deadline in the four metros to be deferred, industry leaders said at the Indian Digital...
GOA: The first day of the two-day Indian Digital Operators Summit (IDOS) 2012 concluded with stakeholders from different parts of the value chain wanting introduction of...
NEW DELHI: Arguments over appeals challenging the Trai Tariff Order concluded before the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Arbitration Tribunal (Tdsat) on Friday. Trai (Telecom Regulatory Authority...
MUMBAI: UK media watchdog Ofcom has said that UK pay TV service provider BSkyB is a fit and proper company to hold a broadcasting licence. However...
MUMBAI: US software major Microsoft has announced that Nancy Tellem, former CBS Network Television Entertainment Group president, has joined it as entertainment, digital media president. In...
GOA: Trai Principal Advisor N Parameswaran on Friday said multi-system operators (MSOs) have assured the regulator that they would soon announce the channel packages and their...
MUMBAI: ESPN Software India, the sports broadcaster, on Friday said it has obtained an injunction from the Delhi High Court against cable operators, hotels and websites...
PANAJI: Coinciding with the first phase of digitisation, the fifth annual India Digital Operators Summit, a joint initiative of Indiantelevision.com Group and Media Partners Asia, is...
New Delhi: Television set-top boxes (STBs), electronic video games, laptops/notebooks/tablets, plasma/LCD/LED television sets and electronic musical systems are among the fifteen items that have been brought...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch-controlled News Corp has the option of increasing its shareholding in direct-to-home (DTH) services provider Tata Sky to 50 per cent from the current...
Mumbai: Hungama Digital Media Entertainment has launched Lalbaugcha Raja – application / IVR services and WAP services to bring the experience of viewing live the aarti...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide Channels has launched BBC Entertainment in Malaysia on Telekom Malaysia‘s IPTV platform, Hypp TV. The channel joins BBC Knowledge, BBC Lifestyle and CBeebies,...
MUMBAI: Global mobile ad network Vserv.mobi has entered into an alliance with Sony Music Entertainment India to serve premium ads on the newly launched Coke Studio...
New Delhi: Cable TV consumers will be able to choose the 100 television channels as part of the basic service tier of free-to-air (FTA) channels only...
MUMBAI: The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has revealed that 68 per cent of Cable TV Digitisation has already been achieved in the four metro cities...
MUMBAI: The International Cricket Council on Tuesday launched first ever official ICC Cricket App in partnership with Reliance Communications to coincide with the start of the...
MUMBAI: Sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has tied up with DigiVive services, leading players in the Mobile VAS industry, for live streaming of the ICC World...
NEW DELHI: A Parliamentary committee has ‘strongly‘ emphasised to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry that the digitisation deadline in the border areas should be advanced by...
MUMBAI: Vistaas Digital Media, a secular devotional and spiritual content owner and developer, has acquired the exclusive LIVE Video rights of India‘s most awaited and vastly...
MUMBAI: The ICC has unveiled a range of social media activations to promote the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012, which begins on Tuesday in Hambantota....
MUMBAI: KIT digital, a leading video management software and services company, is planning to cut 22 per cent or 300 employees of its workforce as part...
Videocon d2h director Saurabh Dhoot and its CEO Anil Khera speak to indiantelevision.com about the after effects of the FDI hike. Here are their views on...
MUMBAI: Amid the euphoric sentiment in Indian cable and direct-to-home (DTH) companies to attract global strategic investors, two industry captains have cautioned that permission for more...
MUMBAI: Lifestyle apparel brand Sher Singh has unveiled a new look for their website. It has innovated itself to “optimise” the user‘s experience all from the...
MUMBAI: Maldives broadcaster Raajje Television has signed a lease agreement for C-band capacity on Asiasat 5 to distribute a Dhivehi language news channel across the country...
MUMBAI: In order to help professionals further their career through LinkedIn, the networking site has introduced new features. It has introduced Notifications along with a redesigned...
MUMBAI: Google is fast building up its fiber-based IPTV service. Close on the heels of adding Disney and ESPN network channels, it has included Turner Broadcasting...
NEW DELHI: DD Direct Plus has rejected two television channels to hop on to its free-to-air direct-to-home (DTH) platform, while 15 broadcasters have opted out of...
New Delhi: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Friday asserted that the Tariff Order for Digital Addressable Systems (DAS) had not ‘mandated‘ that multi-system operators (MSOs)...
MUMBAI: Jump Games, Reliance Entertainment Digital‘s mobile and web games developer and publisher, is launching the official mobile game of ICC T20 World Cup 2012. Through...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed that consumers will have to be given intimation prior to start of every “blackout” day...
MUMBAI: Former Financial Times CTO and CIO Michael Fleshman has taken up a new role within BBC Worldwide’s Consumer Digital business, overseen by MD and EVP...
MUMBAI: Harris Broadcast Communications has launched the Versio solution that it says alters the course of channel-in-a-box design for broadcasters, delivering an all-in-one solution to help...
MUMBAI: The government and the broadcasters have got together to launch a major campaign pushing digitisation in the four metros, making television viewers realise that they...
MUMBAI: eBay, an e-commerce marketplace, has announced a new look for the brand. The announcement was made by eBay president Devin Wenig. According to the company,...
NEW DELHI: The government has liberalised the broadcast sector ahead of India‘s shift to digital carriage of television channels, raising foreign direct investment (FDI) ceiling to...