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MUMBAI: The complexion of the cable TV industry is fast changing. Cas (conditional access system) is paving the way for consolidation as cable operators need to...
MUMBAI: Singapore based pay-TV operator StarHub and French company Visiware, provider of interactive TV games channels, announced the launch of Playin’TV Triple Play -the first triple-play...
NEW DELHI: The hearing on the constitutional aspects of the ongoing case on whether Trai can at all fix tariffs for pay channels continued today. Set...
NEW DELHI: Millions of viewers who don’t have access to the Nimbus owned Neo Sports can finally heave a sigh of relief. The Delhi High Court...
MUMBAI: In what is a first on Indian Television, a home cricket series kicked off today without the telecast being available on national broadcaster Doordarshan and...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom has implemented Oracle 11i E-Business Suit as its ERP applications in order to manage data of different lines of its businesses....
MUMBAI: Paving the way to integrated digital cable-ready HDTVs with two-way interactive capability, LG Electronics recently showcased a TV platform in the US. The LG plasma...
MUMBAI: Conditional access system (Cas) is forcing multi-system operators (MSOs) to strike alliances as they take up the challenge of expanding their digital subscribers. The latest...
The cable TV industry is on the cusp of change. The multi-system operators (MSOs) have chalked out plans to roll out digital cable, a transition that...
MUMBAI: Americans spend more time watching TV, listening to the radio, surfing the Internet and reading newspapers than anything else except breathing. Data released by the...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom has launched digital cable TV service in Mysore through a fibre linkup from Bangalore. The multi-system operator (MSO) will have the...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable Network Pvt. Ltd is set to launch digital cable TV services in Mysore on 8 December, promoting the tagline ‘More entertainment than you...
The Media Research Users Council (MRUC) has released the topline findings of the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2006 (Round 16). The study, conducted for the period...
MUMBAI: BBC World has inked a deal with the first private direct-to-home operator Dish TV. The BBC’s 24-hour international news and information channel will be part...
Some like it; some don’t. But there’s no denying that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai)-mandated pay channel prices in CAS areas (Rs 5 for...
MUMBAI: The ad war between direct-to-home (DTH) service providers and cable TV operators has started. Soon after Dish TV ran a full page campaign on print...
MUMBAI: Animax has expanded its presence on major cable platform, Cable TC to make Animax more accessible to Hong Kong viewers as part of the channel’s...
NEW DELHI: Determined to clean up the Indian cable TV of what it feels is indecent content, the government brought in other regulation relating to airing...
The changes approved by the Cabinet in the Cable TV Act, 1995 are welcome said Ashok Mansukhani, who once headed MSO InCable. “The focus is on...
NEW DELHI: The broadcast regulator is at it again — issuing another set of consultation paper on cable TV prices for CAS areas. The Telecom Regulatory...
MUMBAI: The US House of Representatives have passed a bill that makes it easier for American telecom firms to enter the American cable TV market.Media reports...
Subject: Open House Discussion and posting of Gist of Comments on issues relating to Commercial Tariff for Broadcasting and Cable Television Services. The TRAI will be...
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT Ltd. will de-merge the company’s IT/BPO and media businesses into separate entities. The board of directors of the company are meeting tomorrow to...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to bring about a semblance of difference between cable TV pricing for commercial purpose (like in Hotels) and home subscribers, Telecom...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has decided to exhort the government to mandate all other addressable systems in the country like DTH and IPTV,...
The government in the western Indian state of Maharashtra has doubled the entertainment taxes that cable TV operators have to fork out to its coffers. Taxes...
NEW DELHI: Cable TV is to remain the core advertising and distribution platform for TV channels for some more time to come in India though DTH...
MUMBAI: Enraged by the television media’s alleged negligence of serious issues in the North East region, cable TV operators in Assam have blacked out three national...
MUMBAI: HFCL Infotel Ltd.(HITL), a private telephony operator in Punjab, is planning to invest Rs 6 billion over the next two years for offering a convergence...
NEW DELHI: Multi-system operators (MSOs) Sumangali Cable Vision, part of Sun TV Network Pvt Ltd, and Hathway, target of state government ire, feel that the proposed...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Give it as Round One to Ten Sports. Disappointing millions of non-cable TV viewers and radio listeners in India, Indian pubcaster Prasar...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) wants 74 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) to be allowed in cable TV which would bring...
NEW DELHI: Regional entertainment channels are dominant in Chennai with a viewership of 62 per cent, while Hindi general entertainment has the highest viewership in Delhi,...
MUMBAI: ImaginAsian Entertainment has announced the addition of two new executives to its team, as well as two promotions. The New York based firm provides cross-platform...
NEW DELHI: The government is examining the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) recommendations for a national plan for digitalisation of cable television. Informing fellow parliamentarians,...
MUMBAI: Cable TV operators feel the Bombay High Court’s interim order is impossible to implement on the ground. “We can’t monitor so many channels,” says Siticable...
MUMBAI: The Union government is examining the recommendations of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on digitalisation of cable television, the Lok Sabha was informed on...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today announced that its order imposing a four per cent cable TV price hike will not come into...
The year 2005 was a mixed bag for cable TV in India. Subscription revenues grew 20 per cent to around Rs 81 billion, according to industry...
MUMBAI: The Cable TV Show 2005, organised by the Kolkata-based Cable TV Equipments Traders & Manufacturers Association (CTMA), commenced today. The three-day annual event expects participation...
NEW DELHI: The petition of Star India against the regulator-mandated cable TV price hike got admitted at the Delhi High Court today, but the next hearing...
MUMBAI: Ten Sports has submitted a proposal before the Bombay High Court expressing its willingness to share the cricket telecast feed with Doordarshan only in rural...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman Pradip Baijal is keen to have competition in the cable TV sector. And he feels it is...
A stellar cast of regulators, media owners and distributors, media buyers, brands, leading technologists, investment banks and private equity firms gathered together at the India Television...
MUMBAI: Movie buffs in Singapore will have a new and convenient option to watch recently released movies in the comfort of their homes whenever they want....
NEW DELHI: Formula One races with participants sporting logos of sponsors like Marlboro company may just sneak through on Indian television during a live telecast. Any...
Now more than ever, cable companies realise the need to upgrade service and content as they face the threat from direct-to-home (DTH) and telecom operators who...
MUMBAI: The direct-to-home (DTH) market is set for an explosion. Revenues from DTH operations is expected to touch Rs 40 billion in 2010, up from Rs...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks is all set to launch a dedicated television channel to Caribbean music and culture. The channel will make its’ debut in October, this...
These days when you walk into the offices of Sony Entertainment Television in the television suburb of Andheri (W) in Mumbai, you can feel the charged...
