NEW DELHI: To CAS or not to CAS mandatorily? This is the question that is being debated by the government. According to a senior government official,...
Do the amendments being sought in the Cable TV (Networks) regulation Act, 1995 address the issue of subscriber management system? Will there be a penalty for...
The increasing frequency with which India’s pubcaster DD is being left out of business of sports telecasts has got the goat of Doordarshan director general SY...
At the end of it all, speculation of her moving out of the information and broadcasting ministry proved unfounded. A major cabinet reshuffle undertaken by Prime...
Ronnie Screwvala promoted UTV has been in the media business for over 20 years, pioneering cable TV in 1981. The content business is just one part...
Speculation is rife in the Capital that in the impending reshuffle of the Union Cabinet which Prime Minister AB Vajpayee is slated to undertake over the...
TELECOM REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF INDIA 10th May 2006 PRESS RELEASE No.39/ 2006 Subject: Public Notice inviting stakeholders to make representation /submission in the matter of an...
Broadcasters and sections of the television industry who were just about heaving a sigh of relief that the Cable TV amendment on conditional access, proposed by...
The meeting of cable TV operators to discuss issues around conditional access systems and the CATV Act which was to be held today (17 May) in...
Well, Madame won out after all. Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj’s single point agenda of imposing set top boxes and conditional access on the Indian...
Cable TV industry professionals are aghast at the AIADMK-led Jayalalitha government’s proposal to push through an act at the state level which basically overrides Central government...
The Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2002, incorporating mandatory conditional access for cable TV systems was introduced in the lower house (Lok Sabha) of parliament...
Shamim Shaikh is managing director and spokesperson of one of the most proactive cable TV network coalitions in India – the Seven Star Cable Network which...
The new Indian information and broadcasting Sushma Swaraj seems hell-bent on earning that sobriquet. Reason: not even two days into the job and she is already...
The Consumer Action Network (CAN) has censured the central government for failing to implement the recommendations of the task force on the introduction of a Conditional...
Delhi-based citizen’s forum Consumer Action Network (CAN), has censured the Central government for failing to implement the recommendations of the task force on the introduction of...
New Delhi 24th March 2006: Subject: “Amendment to Telecommunication (Broadcasting and Cable) Services (Second) Tariff Order, 2004 (6 of 2004) dated 1.10.2004. 1.TRAI, in pursuance to...
A batch of petitions was filed by a couple of Associations of Hotels and Restaurants against leading broadcasters in Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal. The...
The pay TV debate is seriously hotting up in India. Even as channels slug it out over subscriber bases and rate hikes, the cable industry is...
The year that was in television 2001: it was a year of upheaval for the Indian television industry. A year that was characterised by: *deflating ad...
With cable operators in Mumbai taking a decision to pull the plug on ESPN-Star Sports for three days, the ESPN Software India management has issued a...
Cable TV MSO InCable says it does not want to indulge in a trial by media following the switching of the transmission of ESPN-Star Sports channels...
The India Today group’s TV Today flagged off its 24 hour Hindi news channel Aaj Tak on 31 December. The channel was launched by Law, Justice...
An effort is being made to set up a unified apex body for the Indian entertainment industry. The professional mooting the exercise: UTV Net Solutions CEO...
Direct to Home Television Service refers to distribution of Multi Channel TV programmes in Ku Band by using a satellite system by Providing TV signals direct...
Cable TV addressability has been brought out into the open. Earlier this week, an Andhra Pradesh high court has said that all subscription channels should stop...
It’s been a year and ten months since the Viacom-owned kid’s channel Nickelodeon entered Indian air space but it might as not have come at all...
ESPN Star Sports (ESS) and Hong Kong pay-TV operator Cable TV have reached an agreement for non-exclusive distribution of ESPN and Star Sports channels in Hong...
Tamil Nadu politics has this tendency to rotate the party that occupies the seat in the state legislature. So when the DMK received a whipping from...
The one thing that caught your attention about Dewang Mehta was his passion for the Indian software industry and the dramatic manner in which he spoke....
An effort is being made to set up a unified apex body for the Indian entertainment industry. The professional mooting the exercise: UTV Net Solutions CEO...

