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MUMBAI: The implementation of conditional access systems (CAS) in the metros, for which the government has mandated a 14 July deadline, will take about three months,...
MUMBAI: The media sector has received the dubious distinction of being the top loser in market capitalisation in April 2003 as compared to September 2002, says...
MUMBAI: The main worrisome aspect of this Budget is the service tax that has shot up, affecting both the broadcasters and the cable operator community, says...
MUMBAI: The Consumer Electronics Traders and Manufacturers Association wants basic customs duty on set top boxes to stay at 10 per cent which will prevent fly...
MUMBAI: At the stroke of midnight (give or take a few minutes) viewers settling down for some late night movie action across Mumbai and Thane were...
There is a lot of talk within the CATV industry currently on Analogue and Digital and different perceptions floating around as to the advantages and disadvantages...
MUMBAI: BJP member of parliament (MP) Kirit Somaiya is sending out a message that he means business. Apart from announcing on 15 February that he would...
NEW DELHI: It was back to the slang match ways for broadcasters and cable operators yesterday at the meeting of the task force on conditional access...
MUMBAI: An ICICI Securities report released in December 2002 states that HITS (headend in the sky) will be preferred to the ground head-end system. The HITS...
NEW DELHI: With Star, Sahara, Zee and Aaj Tak announcing the launch of additional news channels, public broadcaster Doordarshan seems to have taken an initiative to...
MUMBAI: JP Morgan India’s report on the Indian cable industry titled: “CAS: The Medicine for a chronic ailment” points out that the consumer opting for pay...
MUMBAI:Merrill Lynch’s India Media and Entertainment Industry report on the media sector post the conditional access (CAS) legislation, produced in conjunction with DSP Merrill Lynch Limited...
NEW DELHI: Agrani Satellite Services has reacted in a positive manner to the tax holiday extended to domestic satellite companies. ASS is a subsidiary of the...
MUMBAI: What will broadcasters do with CAS being implemented? Will the FTA channels go pay? Or will the pay channels go FTA? Motilal Oswal Securities in...
MUMBAI: A Motilal Oswal Inquire Indian Equity Research (MOSt Inquire) report on impact of CAS has forecast that local cable operators (LCOs) could eventually lose their...
NEW DELHI: Broadcasters, mostly operating pay channels in India, are slated to meet India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj in the first week of January...
MUMBAI: Given below are relevant excerpts of a document prepared by Zee Telefilms and put out earlier (before the passage of the Bill in the Rajya...
Will conditional access prove to be the one shot medicine for all the ailments that afflict the various constituents in the Indian television industry and the...
MUMBAI: Given below are relevant excerpts of a document prepared by Zee Telefilms and put out earlier (before the passage of the Bill in the Rajya...
NEW DELHI:The Rajya Sabha today unanimously passed the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill. The Lok Sabha had earlier passed the Bill in May this year....
NEW DELHI: In a bid to push through a proposal to have a headend in the sky, the Subhash Chandra-promoted ASC Enterprises Ltd., which amongst other...
MUMBAI:It’s once again the turn of the Consumer Action Network (CAN) to air its views on conditional access. CAN president Ahmed M Abdi has welcomed the...
NEW DELHI: The cable operators are again taking a shot at forging a unity in a bid to neutralise the broadcasters and have the conditional access...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has won the Commonwealth Learning Award of Excellence for Institutional Achievement for the quality of its English teaching on radio and online....
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Federation, which met in Hyderabad on Friday, discussed the issue of conditional access system, amongst other things, and has decided to...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Federation, which met in Hyderabad on Friday, discussed the issue of conditional access system, amongst other things, and has decided to...
USA: PanAmSat which claims to be the premier provider of global video and data broadcasting services via satellite and BT Broadcast Services have announced the formation...
The BBC’s international broadcast wings, BBC World and BBC World Service, have appointed a creative agency WARL to handle a jointly branded creative campaign worldwide. London-based...
NEW DELHI: Even as the government has more or less decided to refer the conditional access issue (CAS) to a parliamentary committee in the face of...
Could this happen in India? Wouldn’t our big broadcasters just wish it were so. The heavyweight showdown between reigning heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis and former undisputed...
New Skies’ NSS-7 Atlantic Ocean region satellite entered into commercial service for premiere broadcast, Internet and telecom customers on 30 May. The milestone, says the global...
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) members met in New Delhi today to discuss the implication of the proposed Conditional Access Systems (CAS). Any propsoal that addresses...
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) members met in New Delhi today to discuss the implication of the proposed Conditional Access Systems (CAS). Any propsoal that addresses...
The Center for Advocacy and Research (CFAR) is organising a discussion on ‘The Cable Industry and the Viewers: Setting New Norms and Standards’ tomorrow, 30 April....
In a move aimed at demonstrating the government’s commitment to make all pay channels mandatorily routed through a conditional access system, national broadcaster Doordarshan is all...
BBC Worldwide is driving hard into the Indian market. It started outwith coverage of local events and followed it with the creation of a local programming...
Star India, Indian cable & satellite’s “price driver,” today announced a major hike in its monthly subscription rates, effective January, from the current Rs 30 to...
Broadcasters can relax somewhat now that the Revenue Department has ruled that commission paid to advertising agencies will not be included in the value of taxable...
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation, a 29-member association essentially representing broadcasters, has a new “a” priority issue on its agenda. It has scheduled a meeting for...
Six-month-old infotainment channel Channel Guide is all set to enter a new field of ‘Satellite Video Delivery Service’. Elaborating on the concept, Ravi Deshmukh, COO, Channel...
India’s most significant global convention of the entertainment industry, Ficci Frames 2001, organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, begins today at...
Star India, which in January was reported to have in place the blueprint for its DTH operations, appears to be having second thoughts after the government’s...
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...
