MUMBAI: To have foreign direct investment (FDI) in TV ratings or not, that is the question. And the recently-cleared TV ratings guidelines by the Cabinet Committee...
KOLKATA: Kolkata based multi-system operators (MSOs) mean business and how? Well! The fact that they have not been able to start gross billing in the city...
MUMBAI: The year 2013 saw the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) cracking its whip on the broadcasters as well as every other party within the...
KOLKATA: At a time when some multi-system operators (MSOs) in Kolkata are stuck in a legal battle with the government authorities over non-payment of taxes, city-based...
MUMBAI: Tamil Nadu’s giant multi system operator (MSO) Arasu cable is flexing its muscles again. Last week, it issued a public notice against aggregator MediaPro for...
MUMBAI: The last mile operators (LMOs) in Maharashtra have got a further extension until 21 January from filing joint affidavits along with the multi-system operators (MSOs)....
MUMBAI: CNN International has once again been recognized for its outstanding global journalism winning the coveted ‘Cable & Satellite Channel of the Year’, ‘Best News Story’...
KOLKATA: With cable operators liable to pay 12.36 per cent of the subscription amount collected per month from customers as service tax to the government, 12...
MUMBAI: Back in the eighties, veteran journalists Dr Prannoy Roy and Vinod Dua took the nation by storm when they co-anchored the first-ever election analyses programs...
MUMBAI: It was at indiantelevision.com & MPA’s (Media Partners Asia) India Digital Operators Summit (IDOS) that Mumbai-based cable TV heavyweight and MCOF (Maharashtra Cable Operators Federation)...
MUMBAI: Even as industry prepares for phase III of digitisation, here comes a technology that is likely to get more than a warm welcome from cable...
MUMBAI: Netflix is in talks with several US cable companies with the aim of making its video streaming app available on set-top boxes, according to various...
MUMBAI: Broadband and value added services are expected to be manna for india‘s rapidly digitising cable TV sector. And showing its intent to stash away some...
NEW DELHI: A total of 69,491 video spots were released to cable and satellite television channels for the first and second phases of the Bharat Nirman...
KOLKATA: With the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) strictly adhering to the 23 August deadline for collection of the customer application forms (CAFs) to help...
KOLKATA: First it was Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari who appealed to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to delay implementation of ad cap...
NEW DELHI: Highly addressable advertising has been a long-standing plan for the TV business, which wants to rival the ad targeting available online, and the biggest...
MUMBAI: With Delhi under control now, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is focusing increasingly on the other two metros to ensure that all the...
NEW DELHI: The Growth of OTT Content: Opportunities and Challenges for Service Providers, a new global survey of cable and broadband operators, finds that most are...
NEW DELHI: Cable is down, DBS and telcoTV is up, and more than 80 per cent of American broadcast TV signals are now high-definition, says the...
MUMBAI: Mumbai based Media Nucleus continued its impressive growth story with its first wins in the African continent.Media Nucleus has clients across India, South Asia, South...
MUMBAI: Even though the pay-TV industry has been shifting toward delivering services to computers, smartphones and tablets, the traditional set-top box (STB) continues to thrive, with...
Carriage fees have been a bane of the Indian television industry. Most broadcasters have been groaning and moaning how they have been choking up their capital,...
MUMBAI: Total advertising spending in the US in the first quarter fell 0.1 per cent from the year-ago period, at $30.1 billion, according to the latest...
MUMBAI: A research conducted by GfK Media & Entertainment shows that the estimated number of Americans relying exclusively on over-the-air (OTA) television broadcasting increased to 59.7...
MUMBAI: The days of rapid growth in pay-TV revenues are over, according to a Digital TV Research report, which predicts that global revenues from subscriptions and...
MUMBAI: For all those in the cable and satellite TV industry, you can take a breather. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) which had issued...
NEW DELHI: The government has amended the time bands for its advertisements on news and business television channels announced by it earlier in September 2012. In...
MUMBAI: In May 2013, more than 3,000 on-demand audiovisual services were identified as being established in European countries or received in at least one country. The...
MUMBAI: Is the rollout of DAS having an impact on cable & satellite TV’s reach? Prima facie it seems to be if one goes by the...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Ministry Secretary Uday Kumar Varma today said that the cable television sector would gain much more in the long run from...
MUMBAI: Americans‘ television viewing options continue to grow. First cable, and then satellite services, expanded the amount and variety of content Americans could expect to find...
MUMBAI: Radio and cinema, which reported negative growth for the past three quarters, have shown positive compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) for the first time since...
MUMBAI: SES is collaborating with Samsung to drive digital broadcasting via satellite in sub-Saharan Africa. Samsung will introduce LED television with an integrated free-to-air satellite...
MUMBAI: The cable and satellite (C&S) sector continued its growth momentum, posting a CAGR of 13.9 per cent as its reach rose to 462.38 million, according...
MUMBAI: Cable & Satellite (C&S) and Internet are two sectors, which are continuously showing robust growth in the total reach. As per the Indian Readership Survey...
NEW DELHI: A documentary about the lives of two disabled children in Japan has won the 2011 Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award for broadcasting. Iori and Ibuki...
MUMBAI: Cable & Satellite (C&S) and Internet are two sectors which are seeing robust growth in reach compared to the sequential quarter, whereas radio is continuously...
MUMBAI: Cable & Satellite (C&S) and Internet have seen a major jump in reach over the sequential quarter while radio has fallen, according to the latest...
After a lull driven by the recession, the media and entertainment sector is on a strong rebound amid restructuring. The combined turnover of 40 listed M&E...
STBs apart, industry feels left in the cold NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: While the 2008-09 budget has largely left the media and entertainment industry untouched, Finance Minister...
NEW DELHI: In the 2008-09 budget, the Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has no major giveaway to the media and entertainment sector except in the areas...
This is an executive summary of a Viewpoint Paper presented to the Prime Minister’s Office on 16 March 2007. The Paper was produced by research firm...
MUMBAI: Intelsat has announced that UK-based View Africa and ViewAsia Networks have launched two regional platforms on the Intelsat system, expanding their program offering in Africa...
MUMBAI: Neo Sports has announced the details of its Pan Asian expansion as part of its mission to be a Pan Asian cricket channel by the...
MUMBAI: A new draft report from the US media watchdog the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) suggests the US government may be able to limit violence on...
MUMBAI: Nielsen Media Research has released Arianna, a software tool used to analyse ratings data in local markets in the US. The software will enable local...
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...
MUMBAI: In the first contraction in profit that Star has had since it began generating profits in early 2003, News Corp’s Asian arm has reported second...
MUMBAI: In the era of digital services the mobile phone can well be referred as man’s best friend for the umpteen tasks it performs. Extending the...