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MUMBAI: After announcement of the Telecommunication (Broadcasting and Cable) Services Tariff Order 2004, a number of questions have been raised in regard to the underlying import...
NEW DELHI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chief Pradip Baijal’s meeting with India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in the last two days...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), which a short while ago issued its “CAS consultation note”, has frozen the prices of cable services...
Lists – don‘t we just love them, the best of…, the worst of…, the what not… But one list that everyone wants to be on is...
NEW DELHI : The Indian government has decided that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) would be the body that would regulate the broadcasting sector...
NEW DELHI: A new player has now stepped into the convoluted CAS drama – the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). And, quite dramatically, the apex chamber...
The new Lodestar report examines the performance of the news channels from different angles. It throws up interesting findings, apart from how the public perceives news...
NEW DELHI: A day after information & broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad rubbished Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit’s charge that there was a whole load of...
The Indian Media Business penned by Business World senior editor Vanita Kohli, published recently by Sage Publications, treads territory few Indian writers have ventured into –...
The following speech was given by BBC Director General Greg Dyke to the Emmy Board in New York on Monday 24 November. In the four years...
NEW DELHI: Minister for information and broadcasting Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that there is a definite need for a separate regulatory body for electronic media....
Conditional access system (CAS), new uplinking norms for the TV news channels, KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service finally on the horizon – it has been action...
LONDON: Investment in new, quality programmes on British television is the highest level per head in the world. Overall market investment is also encouraged by strong...
PARIS: The winners of the sixth Hot Bird TV Awards were announced a few days ago at a ceremony in Venice. Organised by Eutelsat and Eurovisioni,...
NEW DELHI: A Group of Ministers (GoM) on telecom, set up to study various issues related to the industry and allied fields, is slated to meet...
MUMBAI: UTV’s post-production and special effects division, USL-WOA has acquired a specialized post-production studio, STV. Close on the heels of acquiring Western Outdoor Advertising (WOA) earlier...
MUMBAI: The public broadcaster Doordarshan (DD) has made its hunt for a new ‘director general’ official. Prasar Bharati has released ads soliciting applications for the post...
NDTV’s Jai Jawan with Aamir Khan has definitely created some interest in the media. So has Zee TV‘s Independence Day special film The Hero (Its Thursday...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is studying whether a regulatory body for the broadcasting and cable sector can be put together ahead of a super-regulator for...
When CNBC India, now rechristened CNBC TV 18, launched its Indian operations in the late 1990s, it needed to have adequate data support.In Keeping with its...
LONDON: BBC Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the BBC has announced the broadcast of its flagship entertainment channel, BBC Prime, in Serbia and Montenegro for...
Ratings don‘t answer all issues facing planners and broadcasters alike, qualitative data is what is needed.Psychographics are becoming more important than ever before and insights into...
.O……..(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 4A, read with Section 9 of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995(7 of 1995)...
NEW DELHI: It took the Indian government and bureaucrats almost six months to realise that conditional access system may not turn out to be as consumer...
MUMBAI: He came, he saw, he was not happy with what he saw. That reportedly sums up what was the feeling that information and broadcasting joint...
When he was thrown out of the Air Force Golf Club in Delhi on charges of theft in 1994, Ashok Kumar’s aspirations of reaching the higher...
NEW DELHI: The apex body of all broadcasting companies operating in India (pay as well as free to air channels), Indian Broadcasting Foundation, stands on the...
It is still early days but a little over two weeks on air indicates that the of Sahara Samay Rashtriya‘s efforts to be different have succeeded...
NEW DELHI: The Russian roulette being played out involving the pricing of the basic tier of free to air channels appears to be coming to an...
NEW DELHI: The industry had been referring to it as the day when the CAS (conditional access system) rollout picture would become clearer. What transpired though...
Finally, the rules of the news channel game have been spelt out. It‘s as good a time as any to examine the implications. First the rules....
CNN‘s chief Chris Cramer‘s speech at Ficci Frames 2003 has really put “reality TV in India under perspective! Taking about reality TV, Cramer said that this...
NEW YORK: Turner Broadcasting System is in the middle of restructuring its divisions in order to increase strategy focus, align and expand operations. The aim is...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: After a “disappointing” budget, the Consumer Electronics Traders and Manufacturers Association (CETMA), the apex body of electronics goods manufacturers in India, had...
NEW DELHI: The ministry of defence, under minister George Fernandes, is understood to have suggested that foreign shareholding in a news channel should be capped at...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is exploring the possibilities of making some changes in the existing policies relating to foreign investment in the broadcasting sector. A...
NEW DELHI: With the CAS hurdle being crossed today, is the foreign direct investment (FDI) in broadcasting issue next on India’s Information and Broadcasting minister Sushma...
Jonathan Howlett, global director of airtime sales of BBC World, is no stranger to India. He has come to the sub-continent often and is a keen...
NEW DELHI: India may soon realise its dream of being the second country in the world to have a legislation in place for the convergence era,...
NONTHABURI (Thailand): Recently privatised international telecommunication operator Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) and Thailand’s Shin Satellite have signed a contract to provide premium satellite television transmission...
Tomorrow India‘s BJP-led 18-odd party coalition NDA government completes three years in office.So does the information and broadcasting ministry, in a way the nodal organisation for...
It is only the ‘privileged‘ urban homes that feature on satellite channels in India, finds a study conducted on gender representation on satellite television by the...
Television channels are trying to outdo each other in a bid to come up with the most innovative and original in coverage of the Ganesh festival…....
DELHI: It is broadcasting for only a couple of hours every evening but it’s a start. And for a country that has been wracked by war...
Riding on the success of it’s music channel, MTV has decided that it is the time when it can exploit its potential as a strong brand...
It’s extremely positive. It brings print on the same platform as broadcasting and telecom. There were concerns of national security and these have been addressed in...
Another year and the industry continues to scan the horizon for the chimera of clarity of purpose from the powers that be in the government. The...
The much delayed launch of the education channel Zed TV from the Zee TV stable finally took place late last evening at the hands of Indian...
The old bugbear is finally out of the way. Ku-band direct to home television (DTH) looks set to get the go-ahead finally after a three year...
Much is made of direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast as the new convergence mantra and conditional access these days, especially after Star TV Asia chairman James Murdoch, and...
