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MUMBAI: Spurred by the development of the regional technology and media industry in the region, the 10th edition of the Middle East International Cable, Satellite, Broadcast...
NEW DELHI: And so the blame game goes on. First it was the government that was in the line of fire of the broadcast and cable...
MUMBAI: It was on Wednesday that the Telecom Authority of India (TRAI) chairman Pradip Baijal set the cat among the “cable pigeons” when he declared that...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The cable industry feels that Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s assertions on mandating more service providers in cable areas to increase competition is something...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasters Forum (IBF) today held a preliminary discussions here ahead of its board meeting tomorrow and discussed various industry-related issues, including developments on...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), which a short while ago issued its “CAS consultation note”, has frozen the prices of cable services...
NEW DELHI: No sooner has a regulator for the broadcast and cable sectors been notified by the Indian government than cracks have started appearing in the...
NEW DELHI: The rates of cable subscription in non-CAS zones in Delhi are likely to go up by about Rs 90 from 1 January, 2004. Owing...
NEW DELHI: What has come as a surprise to the cable industry is the response to conditional access system (CAS) from the people of South Delhi....
Surajeet Dasgupta, living in the Chittaranjan Park area of South Delhi, is not unduly perturbed that at the stroke of midnight (or so the cable operators...
MUMBAI: If the response to the MTR Foods Indian Telly Awards 2003, organised by indiantelevision.com on 21 November, was overwhelming, the ratings the telecast of the...
The Indian Media Business penned by Business World senior editor Vanita Kohli, published recently by Sage Publications, treads territory few Indian writers have ventured into –...
NEW DELHI: The dead on its feet rollout of conditional access system (CAS) has just had a dose of oxygen pumped into it. In a ruling...
MUMBAI: If last year, Star India had linked a 25 per cent drop in subscription rates per subscriber (from Rs 40 to Rs 30) to a...
MUMBAI: The ratings roost was supposedly ruled by soaps and comedies – most of them from the Star Network, and Doordarshan (DD) was hardly the one...
The following speech was given by BBC Director General Greg Dyke to the Emmy Board in New York on Monday 24 November. In the four years...
MUMBAI: The longest running kids show on cable & satellite TV, Star Plus’ Shakalaka Boom Boom, has just undergone a reinvention (thankfully not another 20-year fast...
MUMBAI: Relaunched fledgling DD News seems determined to fight its way back into the reckoning. And it’s not made a bad start either, if statistics provided...
HONG KONG: The cable and satellite TV industry would have lost US$874 million in net revenues by the end of 2003 due to piracy. This was...
NEW YORK: Eurodata TV Worldwide and consulting company TVtracker.com that specialises in US television development tracking in broadcast, cable and syndication, have joined forces. Eurodata TV...
MUMBAI: The Central government must have been hoping that the courts would deliver a ruling on conditional access that would enable it to do what it...
MUMBAI: Will it be another date or will some ruling finally be delivered on the ongoing “cable case”. Going by the way the proceedings have gone...
NEW DELHI: As one of the major milestones in Ficci Frames’ initiatives to bring Indian Media and Entertainment industry to a world platform, the Cable &...
MUMBAI: The trade was anxiously awaiting a decision but all they got was another date. A division bench of the Mumbai High Court comprising Chief Justice...
NEW YORK: Northstar Media, a new and strategically diverse New York-based television programme distribution company, has positioned itself to serve as a comprehensive source of programming...
MUMBAI: The Karishma imbroglio notwithstanding, Sahara Manoranjan has been gaining viewership for its entertainment programmes. As per the recently released TAM media report for Hindi speaking...
NEW DELHI: A limited edition of conditional access in the four metros, especially in Delhi and Mumbai, is on its way. The MSOs and cable operators...
NEW DELHI: The cable fraternity today went before the politicians to make a spirited case for implementing the conditional access system . They were snubbed at...
NEW DELHI: The chorus against conditional access system (CAS) has reached the office of deputy prime minister LK Advani. On the pro-CAS side, the information and...
Theres a lot of wishful thinking going on in government. That it can and should control pricing. That too, in a country which is moving from...
MUMBAI: When reality bit, it chomped. The pay channel rate card circulated yesterday by Star India and Sony Entertainment (Zee disowned it) at the meeting with...
NEW DELHI: Further to its drive to educate and inform consumers and partners on the advantages of CAS, Zee Turner Ltd, the distribution arm of Zee...
MADRID: The former head of strategic alliances at Telefonica, Contenidos Ele Juarez, has formed a consultancy company Intuition Media SL, which will focus on the media...
MUMBAI: Cable Quest, a cable and satellite publication, has announced a seminar CAS Myth & Reality in The Park Hotel in New Delhi on 6 June....
NEW DELHI: The CAS conundrum is getting more confounding and murky. Even as consumer organizations were attempting to put forward their case at a press conference...
NEW DELHI: The CAS conundrum is getting more confounding and murky. Even as consumer organisations were attempting to put forward their case at a press conference...
MUMBAI: A report titled “Conditional Access or Catch 22 – Who Will Blink First?” compiled by the Citigroup Smith Barney (CSB) report (dated 15 May 2003)...
MUMBAI: The Rajan Raheja owned multi-system operator (MSO) Hathway Cable and Datacom, in which Star India holds 26 per cent equity stake, has announced that it...
MUMBAI: A report titled “Conditional Access or Catch 22 – Who Will Blink First?” compiled by the Citigroup Smith Barney (CSB) report (dated 15 May 2003)...
MUMBAI: The trade was anxiously awaiting a decision but none was forthcoming. A division bench of the Mumbai High Court comprising Chief Justice CL Thakker and...
MUMBAI: A division bench of the Mumbai High Court comprising Chief Justice CL Thakker and Dr Dhananjay Chandrachud today postponed the hearing of the “much hyped...
BOSTON: Awareness of high-definition television (HDTV) among US consumers is quite high, according to a newly-released Dove Consulting study. Eighty one per cent of survey respondents...
MUMBAI: A niche Hindi entertainment channel? Looks like that’s what the Adhikari brothers’ promoted SAB TV is setting out to be. To mark its turning three...
MUMBAI: Even as several factions in the cable and satellite industry are rueing CAS and try to defer 14 July, Hinduja-run MSO IndusInd Media & Communications,...
MUMBAI: Even as the the outlines of the basic tier in the conditional access environment are firming up (30 free to air channels at Rs 72),...
NEW DELHI: On one side the smiles have broadened, while on the other side the scowls have deepened. Broadcasters, specially those managing pay channels,...
SINGAPORE: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has announced the promotion of Adam Zecha from vice president to senior V-P, affiliate sales. Zecha was part of the...
MUMBAI: The broadcasting and cable fraternity is certainly not smiling. To add to their existing problems in an evolving market such as India, non-media companies are...
MUMBAI: It was some kind of an anticlimax considering the number of people who had assembled at the Mumbai High Court today! A division bench of...
NEW DELHI: The Russian roulette being played out involving the pricing of the basic tier of free to air channels appears to be coming to an...
