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MUMBAI: The world consumer electronics fair IFA 2005 takes place from 2-7 September 2005 in Berlin, Germany. Apart from television and entertainment, personal communication, personal computing...
MUMBAI: A new research study carried out in the US has demolished common gender stereotypes regarding consumer uptake of TV technology – specifically the notion that...
NEW DELHI: Former Star India distribution head Arun Mohan, who had started a cable TV distribution business in 2003, has shuttered it citing unviable business model....
MUMBAI: In the US, the entertainment environment is rapidly evolving to be one where there will be intense competition among cable and telecom companies to offer...
MUMBAI: Broadcast magazine Cable Quest is attempting to educate everyone concerned with the various aspects of the new developments in broadcasting through a seminar to be...
NEW DELHI: Cable rates are set to go up by seven per cent (basic tariff excluding taxes) from 1 January, 2005. According to a statement released...
MUMBAI: Seems like Zee UK is bitten by the festive bug, the Networks music channel, Zee Music’s UK feed will now be free to air from...
MUMBAI: A survey on television audiences, conducted by Mediamark Research Inc. (MRI), has measured the New York based Bloomberg Television, a 24-hour news network, viewers as...
MUMBAI: Tam is ready to measure telivision ratings on any delivery platform – direct-to-home (DTH), broadband or conditional access system (Cas). Once a minimum penetration level...
NEW DELHI: Celebrating this festive season, Zee Network’s religious channel, Jagran has lined up a month-long Jagran Utsav 04, starting 28 October. During this period the...
MUMBAI: The cable and satellite broadcasting association of Asia (Casbaa) announced now Broadband TV of Hong Kong as the winner of the prestigious Casbaa Chairman’s Award...
NEW DELHI: Telecom regulatory Authority of India today came out with a draft of the inter-connect regulations. TRAI had, on 1 October, sent its recommendations on...
MUMBAI: Gay Paris. This is not just a line that applies figuratively anymore as France today welcomed the country’s first cable and satellite TV station aimed...
MUMBAI: Viacom Inc. and the Walt Disney Company have agreed to pay $1 million and $500,000 respectively to settle charges made by the Federal Communications Commission...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms today announced the official launch of three specialist movie channels – Premiere, Action and Classic Cinema – on cable networks. Aimed at being...
NEW DELHI: Making a strong pitch for broadband, a senior government official said that adequate solution to the vexed issues of carrier and content will have...
BANGALORE: Confronted with a backlog of approximately 12,000 applications for telephone connections, BSNL Bangalore is now planning to offer its ‘Tarang’ WLL connections to subscribers in...
MUMBAI: European cable and satellite companies will have to convince nearly 232 million households that TV is worth paying for if they are to lure audiences...
NEW DELHI: Cable and broadcast regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) may have to amend its tariff order dated 1 October 2004 to tackle the...
MUMBAI: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US will kick off a consumer education campaign today 4 October. It will aim at highlighting the importance...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator, Trai, is expected to recommend a 5-8 per cent annual hike in the cable TV prices, in line with the...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom is preparing for a digital cable television rollout by October-end with 140 channels in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. This will entail...
NEW DELHI: A section of the cable industry has said that the cable and broadcast regulator should be “empowered” to have a say in the final...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable sector regulator is giving the government various options to choose from in the case of conditional access system and pricing control....
Hungama TV, which marks its official launch Sunday, 26 September, will have to do battle with strongly branded international kids channels. Aimed at the 4-14-year-olds, the...
MUMBAI: The US cable giant Comcast Corporation has appointed David T Cassaro as the network advertising sales president. Comcast’s programming investments division recently established the ad...
JAIPUR: Zee Telefilms, India’s largest vertically integrated media and entertainment conglomerate, has decided to launch a comedy channel, Smile TV, as part of its cable service...
BANGALORE: With the one-month time given to MSOs to implement design guidelines issued by the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation (KPTC) about to expire, the Multi System...
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murdoch-owned media conglomerate News Corporation has reported full year revenues of $21 billion. This marks an increase of 20 per cent over the...
NEW DELHI: Hungama TV, the proposed kids’ channel from the UTV stable, which would be distributed by Star, will be priced at Rs. 6 per subscriber...
BANGALORE: The Karnataka cable fraternity have come away disappointed after yet another attempt by them to get the Udaya Network to rethink its decision to turn...
MUMBAI: Cable News Network’s website CNN.com has garnered the most users among news organisation websites for all four days of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, averaging...
MUMBAI: Computer peripherals manufacturer TVS Electronics Limited (TVS-E) launched the first Indian made set top box (STB) today, which have been manufactured at its newly commissioned...
BANGALORE: The decision by the Sun Network to turn four of its local channels — three Kannada and one Telugu — into pay channels from 1...
BANGALORE: The days of “free view” for Karnataka’s TV addicts are about to end. They will soon have to pay to watch their favourite Kannada language...
MUMBAI: Most US viewers are not only satisfied with cable programming, they find it more entertaining and original than broadcast programming, according to a study conducted...
Ravina Raj Kohli is a tenacious professional. The lady has come a long way from being an advertising professional to running a radio company in Singapore...
MUMBAI: Talk about targeted programming. Riot Media, a recently launched company based in New York, will develop, produce and market multi-platform entertainment programming and media products...
MUMBAI: The first ratings numbers for the ongoing Indo-Pakistan cricket carnival are in, and maybe not so surprisingly, they are certainly not looking bad for broadcast...
NEW DELHI: It was inevitable. Call it over-confidence or a comedy serial or a smart move, but cable operators attempting to turn politicians had to happen.Fazed...
MUMBAI: It was a government announcement that was expected and so there it came as no surprise when the Centre issued a notification today putting the...
MUMBAI: The Thai government has outlined a ten point plan to improve the pay TV piracy environment within Thailand, including commitments by cable ops to respect...
MUMBAI: Britain’s health authorities have come up with a novel way to convey health messages to non-English speaking Asians: a television drama series. Kismet Road, a...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today issued certain clarifications on doubts raised on an earlier order through which cable services prices were...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today said that new channels may be launched but the price cannot be out of sync with...
MUMBAI: After announcement of the Telecommunication (Broadcasting and Cable) Services Tariff Order 2004, a number of questions have been raised in regard to the underlying import...
MUMBAI: Former CNN chief and veteran ABC executive Rick Kaplan was named president of MSNBC, on Tuesday. The announcement seems like latest effort in a bid...
NEW DELHI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chief Pradip Baijal’s meeting with India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in the last two days...
MUMBAI: Even as the broadcasters scramble to respond to the latest missive from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), operators from the country’s most cable...
MUMBAI: The AMC-10 telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for Ses Americom was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a Lockheed Martin-built Atlas IIAS...
