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NEW DELHI: There has been a hue and cry over the last month or so that broadcasters and MSOs have been extremely slothful in signing channel...
NEW DELHI: A notification issued on 27 February 2009 on surrogate advertising has still not been operationalised as the government has failed to work out a...
MUMBAI: DTH TV in India is doing very well thank you. Bouoyed by the mandated digitisation of India’s cable TV sector and increased marketing activity by...
BENGALURU: Headend in the sky (HITS) service provider JainHITS has got another aspect of its business piece in place. It has forged a strategic alliance with...
MUMBAI: India‘s John Malone is on a roll. Earlier this week, the Sameer Manchanda headed cable TV MSO Den Networks announced that it was going for...
Mumbai: That India’s cable TV digitization drive in phases is going to soak up a lot of investment – running into a few billion dollars –...
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...
NEW DELHI: Concerned with the increase in the number of petitions that have been filed in the past two weeks leading to a stay on the...
NEW DELHI: In order to ensure a smooth migration of customers from one service provider to another without having to re-invest in a new STB, the...
NEW DELHI: The Foundation (IBF) has got itself involved in the on-going legal battle between MSOs and LCOs over extension of digitisation deadline in Bengaluru...
NEW DELHI: Ever since the ministry of information and broadcasting ministry announced that it was enforcing 31 March 2013 for Phase II cable TV digitization and...
MUMBAI: They are being pretty direct. DTH TV operators have categorically stated that they can definitely fill the gap should there be any shortage of set...
MUMBAI: The cable TV digitisation in India and other Asian countries will drive pay TV revenues in Asia Pacific which are expected to reach $43.9 billion...
NEW DELHI: Turning the heat on broadcasters again, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has notified the Standards of Quality of Service (Duration of Advertisement...
MUMBAI: Zee Americas has launched Zee TV Canada on Shaw Cable, Canada‘s leading cable TV service provider. Zee TV Canada, which recently became a full-fledged 24/7...
NEW DELHI: Just two days after stakeholders expressed fears that imported digital set top boxes would become more expensive with the doubling of customs duty, the...
NEW DELHI: Cable TV operators from Bangalore and Mysore staged a black flag protest here to oppose the deadline for the second phase of digitisation on...
NEW DELHI: Cable TV networks will need to have their set-top boxes (STBs) conformed to the standards set by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) by...
MUMBAI: The worldwide pay-TV market grew at a steady pace in 2012 generating $238 billion by end-of-year, up from $223 billion in 2011, according to ABI...
MUMBAI: New options are emerging in the consumer television landscape in the US though traditional pay TV operators and broadcaster networks still dominate, according to The...
MUMBAI: After tossing between a public float and a rights issue for nearly two years, Ortel Communications Ltd, Odisha‘s leading multi-system operator (MSO), is gearing up...
MUMBAI: The Information & Broadcasting ministry has asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to expedite the process of re-examining granting of Digital Addressable System...
Kids channels, bogged down in an analogue cable TV environment, suddenly find space to grow. Segmented channels is the new mantra. After launching an action and...
T he Hindujas have started the first round of cable TV digitisation in the three metro cities of Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata. The second phase will...
MUMBAI: By 2016 satellite TV revenue will overtake cable TV revenue for the first time. Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its November 2012...
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: Advertisers are pressing for structuring of advertising deals with television broadcasters to reflect the likelihood of a section of homes going without cable TV connections...
Mumbai: Advertisers may have to enter into transitory arrangements with broadcasters if some homes are left without digital cable connections in the four metros after 1...
NEW DELHI: The Government has not been able to take a decision on allegations of surrogate or misleading advertising in television advertisements of as many as...
MUMBAI: India‘s advertising watchdog, ASCI, has upheld complaints made against nine advertisements in May, including that of Tata Sky‘s tirade against cable TV and Marathi newspaper...
MUMBAI: Total ad expenditures in the first quarter of 2012 in the US increased by 2.6 per cent from a year ago and finished the period...
MUMBAI: The ferocious growth of the digital medium notwithstanding, television continues to hold the lion’s share of ad dollars and consumers media time in the US,...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India does not have the mandate to regulate advertising and any content-related issues, according to a majority of the...
Hathway Cable & Datacom has an ambitious investment plan of Rs 10 billion as India opens up to digitisation across the country. In the first...
MUMBAI: Following that of Singham and Bodyguard, the Delhi High Court has given the much-needed relief to Hari Om Productions, producer of Speedy Singhs, towards its...
MUMBAI: Total ad expenditure increased 6.5 per cent in 2010 and finished at $131.1 billion, according to data released by Kantar Media which provides strategic advertising...
Circa 1994: Star Movies decides to convert from a free-to-air service to become the first pay TV channel in India. Negotiations between the pay channel and...
Star Gold general manager Sameer Rao is known to be a numbers man. A chartered account and an MBA in finance, Rao has a 19-year career...
Citi Venture Capital International-owned You Telecom India has resized its investment plan amid the economic downturn. The trimmed-down plan will mean a fresh investment of Rs...
Hinduja-owned IndusInd Media & Communications Ltd (IMCL) has survived the scare from a wave of new multi-system operators (MSOs) that threatened to land grab even in...
Cable TV companies have attracted private equity funding and used it for consolidation and digitalisation. But tight liquidity credit markets, intense competition to woo local cable...
There may be pressure on Citigroup Inc. to remove the flab with the US government agreeing to infuse $20 billion of capital as part of a...
NEW DELHI: The government is likely to revert to the Delhi High Court with a status report on CAS’ rollout early next week even as the...
NEW DELHI: Amidst an overwhelming sense of dismay, all three industry bodies are lining up their lobbies to get the demands of the entertainment...
NEW DELHI: In the initial reactions to the 2007-08 budget proposals by Union Finance Minister, the media industry seemed distraught that none of the reliefs it...
BANGALORE: The impasse over the airing of Tamil channels continues here, the capital of the southern state of Karnataka, with seemingly no end in sight since...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has take up the demands of stakeholders in the broadcasting industry and recommended to the...
BANGALORE: The blackout of Tamil channels by the cable TV trade in Karnataka continues following the Cauvery water verdict. At the time of writing, a section...
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: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) feels Cas (conditional access system) should roll out voluntarily rather than be mandated in other parts of the...
