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MUMBAI: During Ad Age‘s Digital Conference Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia addressed the threat by CBS and News Corp to stop their channels from being free to...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) and The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) have requested the Indian government to roll back the increase...
MUMBAI: The curtains are slated to go down on a very long-standing practice in the media industry tonight. Sources in the broadcasting fraternity reveal that net...
MUMBAI: Come the end of the next advertising billing cycle, an age old practice is likely to come to an end in the Indian broadcasting industry,...
MUMBAI: The fight between the US broadcasters like Fox and Barry Diller-backed Aereo is likely to get hotter. There is possibility of the broadcasters could appeal...
MUMBAI: In a setback to US television broadcasters, a Federal Appeals court has ruled that Aereo can continue to stream live TV through its site and...
MUMBAI: The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) has said that 67 per cent digitisation target has been achieved in 38 cities with four cities –...
NEW DELHI: Worried about the implications of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India‘s (Trai) ad regulation policy on their business models, television industry‘s apex body Indian...
MUMBAI: In a single sport country like India, it is important for all the stakeholders in sports industry to come together and build other sports besides...
NEW DELHI: Even as it has sought clarity from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on its powers in acting against violators, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of...
The Indian television industry is poised for a dramatic transformation. 2012 saw significant changes in almost every aspect–increase in channel offerings, high-decibel launches, variety in content,...
MUMBAI: Despite criticism from broadcasters, satellite television service provider Dish Network has gone ahead and upgraded its ad skipping Hopper DVR system. Unveiling the upgraded Hopper...
Neeraj Vyas, the Executive Vice-President and Business Head of Max and Sony Mix, is excited with the way the year went for Max, the Hindi...
MUMBAI: Broadcasters and the media agencies representing advertisers will soon lock horns over commercial deals as India‘s four metros move to digital cable TV from 1...
MUMBAI: Broadcasters have earned a five-week vacation from the upsetting regulation of limiting ad time on their networks, as Tdsat has stayed the Trai notification till...
Price controls are limiting the revenue growth for broadcasters in India as they earn net income of $700 million from subscription after paying out carriage fees of $400 million....
The global slowdown in 2011 has made it clear for Indian broadcasters to have a long term strategy, exploit new media, study local content consumption patterns...
2010 was a year for sports where there was as much action off the field as on it. The two mega events, the Indian Premier League...
A sliding global economy has turned up the heat on the international businesses of the Hindi content broadcasters. In 2008, Zee group stretched its...
Churn. The television industry has been going through turbulent times with the economy downsliding and ad growth decelerating. Like its peers Zee News Ltd (ZNL) too...
Broadcasters are being hit hard by hefty carriage fees as bandwidth is getting choked both on analogue cable and DTH (direct-to-home). Building formidable distribution bouquets is...
NEW DELHI: The much delayed Content Code may get a push with the. government slated to hold a meeting with private broadcasters on this next week....
MUMBAI: According to the results of a YouGov poll, parents in Great Britain place a high value on originally produced, children’s programming and like to watch...
MUMBAI: Cookie Jar Entertainment has forged a deal with Kids’ WB! on The CW in the US, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and Radio-Canada to be the...
NEW DELHI: Broadcasters have expressed the hope that the government will ease the taxation structure for the initial three to five years and introduces policies...
NEW DELHI: Many cable households are unhappy with repeated signal failure and Trai is now faced with the issue of what to do about enforcing Quality...
NEW DELHI: Television channels that fail to comply by the ordinance promulgated late last week for compulsory sharing of live feeds with the national broadcaster Prasar...
MUMBAI: The concept of providing television services on a mobile device is generating much enthusiasm among the wireless industry, in turn driving the growth and development...
MUMBAI: More than half of communications industry executives believe that Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) can generate significant revenue within the first three years of service, according...
NEW DELHI: Mobile TV is going to be popular but there is a need to address compatibility issues by using a single chip on the hand...
Media research agency Tam is in an expansion mode. Recently, it increased the number of peoplemeters from 4800 to 6917. And as direct-to-home (DTH) and conditional...
MUMBAI: The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) has rolled out a new two-tier license framework for Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) that aims to further facilitate...
MUMBAI:The Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has fixed 12 December as the date for next hearing in the case filed by broadcasters against the...
MUMBAI: Under protest but within the deadline stipulated by the sector regulator, pay broadcasters today fell in line on the price fixed for the areas notified...
MUMBAI: The ICC proposes, the BCCI disposes. A day after ICC president Percy Sonn warned the Indian cricket board that it “could not continue as one...
MUMBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) today began meetings with broadcasters and agencies in Dubai, marking the latest stage of its sale of media and sponsorship...
MUMBAI: Dell, HP, AT&T, Sony, podcast firms and net broadcasting firms are among those who have come together to voice their dissent against a proposed treaty...
NEW DELHI: A general consensus has emerged in the broadcasting industry that individual pay TV players would legally challenge the sector regulator’s directive on fixing pay...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The broadcasters knew it was coming, but that in no way lessened their outrage over the CAS pricing broadside delivered by the...
NEW DELHI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is close to fixing prices of pay and free to air (FTA) channels, which will complete part of...
MUMBAI: chellomedia Interactive Services has launched a new interactive TV portal in the Netherlands on Sport1, this soccer season. Digital premium channel Sport1 now offers its...
SINGAPORE: As the downpour continues in Singapore, Day 2 of Broadcast Asia 2006 kickstarts at the Expo City. The first session addressed the issue of capacity...
NEW DELHI: The government has come out with a list of sports events, excluding cricket, which would have to be shared with the pubcaster on a...
CANNES: Producer of entertainment formats for the worldwide market Endemol via its U.K. arm Initial has signed a three-year deal with Cirque du Soleil Images to...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has decided to exhort the government to mandate all other addressable systems in the country like DTH and IPTV,...
CANNES: OpenTV Corp., which provides technology solutions for advanced digital television services, has released new Auction and Sales modules that will add support for television auctions...
MUMBAI: The Hong Kong Commerce, Industry and Technology Bureau has set up working groups with Asia Television Limited (ATV) and Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) to ensure...
MUMBAI: News monitoring agency Esha, which tracks more than 90 channels beamed into the country, has introduced a new service targeted to the channels – Archives....
One after another, the complaints are gathering. Not enough set-top boxes (STBs); insufficient time to effectively and smoothly roll out conditional access system (CAS); and no...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today directed DTH operators to file with the designated authority their inter-connect agreements with various broadcasters. This...
