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MUMBAI: Netherland-based Exset has entered into a strategic technology and business partnership with Delhi-based Surbhi Broadband to provide solutions aimed at small and medium-sized cable TV...
NEW DELHI: West Bengal government is again headed for a showdown with the Information & Broadcasting Ministry as the deadline for compulsory switchover to digital cable...
MUMBAI: The Madras High Court has adjourned the hearing of Chennai cable operators petition for extension of digitisation deadline to Wednesday due to recusal of Justice...
MUMBAI: The news channels, which were boasting of fast and latest footage of terror attacks in Mumbai, were finally asked to discontinue live reportage, following the...
MUMBAI: Availability of set-top boxes (STBs) is one of the key concerns for the successful roll out of conditional access system, speakers at a workshop on...
MUMBAI: Cable operators dry of cash for digital implementation can now look forward to Cisco Systems, Inc. The global networking equipment and network management giant is...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed Nimbus Sports Broadcast Pvt Ltd to reduce the price of its two channels by Rs...
MUMBAI: Southern Indian broadcast powerhouse Sun TV Ltd will switch its flagship channel Sun TV to the pay mode starting 2 December. The channel has been...
MUMBAI: Cable operators in Kerala went on a ‘6 am to 6 pm’ strike demanding rollback of the five per cent luxury tax proposed in the...
MUMBAI: Star One will be back on prime band location in cable networks across Mumbai following an agreement with operators. The channel was pushed into a...
Nothing can get more complex than this. It is not only the pay-TV broadcasters and the government who are wanting to take time out for implementation...
MUMBAI: Cable operators have agreed to abide by the rules and regulations of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) regarding re-broadcasting of channels without ‘lending...
MUMBAI: For Anil Ambani, it has been the hardest part of the game. The last mile, crucial for offering triple play services, has so far been...
MUMBAI: The Union Government is coming up with a legislation to regulate private television channels from telecasting objectionable programmes. The Centre in an affidavit informed the...
MUMBAI: Blue films is a big business market. Star News popular crime show Red Alert on 18 June will feature an exclusive on rampant sale of...
MUMBAI: HBO is the favourite channel among Asia’s cable operators while Star network channels are also preferred, according to a survey conducted by Asian TV magazine...
MUMBAI: Okay, all those broadcast and cable industry people who were apprehensive that Reliance would be steam-rolling its way into their territory, can now breathe easy...
NEW DELHI: The cable and broadcast regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, today reiterated an earlier stand that content should not be denied to any platform...
NEW DELHI: Content on the idiot-box and its regulation may have become a hot issue (no pun intended here), but a parliamentary panel has shot down...
NEW DELHI: The All India Cable Operators Forum, today said it is “suspending” (not calling off) its indefinite agitation against imposition of service tax “in the...
NEW DELHI: Multi System Operators have one more issue to add to their “litany of woes”. The government has brought under the expanded tax ambit, MSOs...
MUMBAI: “Set up a well defined monitoring system which will keep tabs on the services being provided by companies in the broadcast business.” This was one...
NEW DELHI: A delegation of cable operators and multi-system operators (MSO) today met the new information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy, exhorting him to implement the...
MUMBAI: Below is a presentation made by InCableNet to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce clearing up the air on “Some myths propagated on CAS”....
MUMBAI: Get set for a fresh round of jousting between pay broadcasters and cable operators. The Shiv Sena backed Cable Operators and Distributors Association (CODA), which...
NEW DELHI: What has come as a surprise to the cable industry is the response to conditional access system (CAS) from the people of South Delhi....
MUMBAI: “We cable operators are like mice and Balasaheb is our Ganesha.” This was just one of the more sycophantic lines thrown up in a fawning...
MUMBAI: Even as the implementation of CAS in Mumbai remains in limbo, with a grace period till the Ganesh festival acting as the buffer zone, West...
NEW DELHI: Satellite channels like Star Plus, Zee TV and Sony, beaming Hindi entertainment fare, and other Indian channels may have to face longer period of...
WASHINGTON: Four consumer advocacy groups in the US have indicated that they will lobby Congress to reimpose regulation on cable television operators. The aim is to...
NEW DELHI: In a written reply in the country’s Lower House of Parliament (Lok Sabha) today Prasad said that officers of the I&B ministry had visited...
NEW DELHI: Stepping up pressure on the government to review the free-to-air package rates fixed at Rs. 72, over 100 cable operators belonging to the Cable...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Information Technology, which also looks into issues related to broadcasting and convergence, in its latest report, has made...
A silent revolution is taking place in the world of cinema while the television industry has tied itself up in knots over conditional access system (CAS).When...
NEW DELHI: The government’s compromise solution seems to have hit a speed breaker! On conditions of anonymity, government officials say that the cable operators, who met...
In all the confabulations around CAS, one assumption that has generally made is that broadly speaking the cable fraternity stands as one. Indiantelevision.com met a group...
MUMBAI: Zee proposed and the government disposed. When the Zee Network made its request on Saturday seeking a waiver on declaration of individual channel rates in...
MUMBAI: “The post-CAS scenario – good interplay of market forces; healthy intervention of the government!” These were the words with which information and broadcasting minister Ravi...
MUMBAI: Modi Entertainment Network, after an apparently failed attempt to patch up matters with Fashion TV, Paris, has issued a statement today claiming that the fashion...
MUMBAI: The conditional access system (CAS) will provide several opportunities to production houses as well. One of the biggest players in the market is already mulling...
NEW DELHI: Does the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), leading the coalition government in India, want the implementation of conditional access to be deferred? As of today,...
NEW DELHI: It’s official. In a post CAS regime, the price of the basic tier of free to air channels will cost Rs 72. The ministry...
NEW DELHI: Do you want to watch a cricket match on television while stretched out on the backseat of your car and receive live news and...
NEW DELHI: A section of cable operators (mostly comprising independent operators) are not a happy lot after the finance ministry proposed the costing of Rs 45.90...
MUMBAI: The war between cable operators and consumers has taken an interesting twist with the Consumer Action Network (CAN), a city based consumer group filing a...
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...
NEW DELHI: The broadcasters seem to have been cornered for the moment even as the MSOs, cable operators and the government took a strident stand over...
MUMBAI: BJP member of parliament (MP) Kirit Somaiya is gunning for the television trade. Somaiya today announced that he is going to file a criminal, cognizable,...
MUMBAI: BJP member of parliament (MP) Kirit Somaiya is gunning for the television trade. Somaiya today announced that he is going to file a criminal, cognizable,...
MUMBAI: The battle lines between individual small cable operators and the Multi Service Operators (MSOs) have been clearly drawn as the CAS (Conditional Access System) deadline...
