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MUMBAI: A JP Morgan report concludes that direct to home services (DTH) could suffer and are unlikely to commence in the medium term. The JP Morgan...
NEW DELHI: Divisions seem to be appearing within the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), the apex body of broadcasters operating in India, even as Sahara TV president...
MUMBAI: The cricket World Cup has taken its toll on Zee, notwithstanding its aggressive promotions that include the Daily Dhoom Megawin Zee promo. The Zee Telefilms...
MUMBAI: The implementation of conditional access systems (CAS) in the metros, for which the government has mandated a 14 July deadline, will take about three months,...
NEW DELHI: Taking due note of the mounting pressure from the cable fraternity, the Indian government piloted task force on conditional access has agreed to rope...
MUMBAI: Post-CAS, will bundled bouquets become a no-no? That is what what the future holds, at least in the big cities, say some industry veterans. Negotiation-based...
The recent past has surely been a testing one for Carat India but its newly appointed chief executive officer, Sulina Menon, seems to be unfazed. With...
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT executive vice-president (corporate affairs) Ashok Mansukhani , in his presentation at ficci FRAMES 2003 on ‘Conditional Access System : a mid term review’,...
MUMBAI: With 14 July 2003 , the date decided by the government for the final rollout of CAS (conditional access system) fast approaching, it was one...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Two leading multi-system operators of India, Siti Cable and the Hindujas-controlled INCableNet, are pushing ahead with conditional access (CA). While Siti Cable,...
MUMBAI: In the future, broadcasters will gain from subscription revenues; public broadcasters will continue to play an important role; digital platforms will rule; consumers will continue...
NEW DELHI: HITS (headend in the sky), pushed by Zee Telefilms, seems to have become a hit with conditional access technology providers with the France-based Canal+...
The Indian cable industry goes through another churning. Revenue collections fall, defiant consumers get strident as CAS plods towards a deadline. A clutch of 35-odd representatives...
We continue the countdown to FRAMES 2003 with an interview with Indiantelevision.com founder and CEO Anil Wanvari. At the convention, he will moderate entire session on...
NEW DELHI: Well, the government gave some way but the cable industry continues to cry foul. At today’s extended meeting of the task force on conditional...
NEW DELHI: The next meeting of the government – piloted task force on conditional access system (CAS), scheduled to be held on Friday, may be crucial,...
MUMBAI: Turner International’s MD Anshuman Misra has expressed disappointment with the budget as reagrds the entertainment sector. He said,” The government has not paid any heed...
MUMBAI: Finance minister Jaswant Singh has ended his budget speech. Service tax has been increased from five per cent to eight per cent, even as 10...
MUMBAI: The war between cable operators and consumers has taken an interesting twist with the Consumer Action Network (CAN), a city based consumer group filing a...
MUMBAI: Media scrips rebounded today and beat the downturn which they have been witnessing recently. In Budget 2003-4, the positive impetus for the media sector is...
MUMBAI: A recent JP Morgan report titled “Budget FY04 Preview – easy on consumers, harsh on corporates” says the media sector will receive a positive impetus...
MUMBAI: Consumers are playing safe considering the uncertain circumstances related to the implementation of conditional access system – CAS – in the country. Consumer Action Network,...
MUMBAI: A Merrill Lynch report titled “Pre Budget Views – A Balancing Act” dated 24 February 2003 says that reduction in the duties of set top...
MUMBAI: The cable industry, represented by the Cable Operators Federation of India, Cable Network Association and the National Cable and Telecommunication Association has put forth its...
MUMBAI:The emergence of the HITS (headend in the sky) operator is on the anvil in the fast changing broadcast scenario in the country, even as confusion...
MUMBAI: Pandora’s box is finally open. The CAS bill, which has thrown up more questions than answers at least for the present, was the subject of...
NEW DELHI: The meeting between the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) and the MSOs is continuing here on various issues relating to CAS and no concrete decision...
NEW DELHI: The meetings that the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) panel had separately today with some of the MSOs in Delhi over various issues relating to...
Media maven Ashish Bhasin is a man on the move! Literally, as the scholarly looking jet-setting Bhasin is constantly thinking of new ways to innovate; exploring...
MUMBAI: The battle lines between individual small cable operators and the Multi Service Operators (MSOs) have been clearly drawn as the CAS (Conditional Access System) deadline...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said that the media and entertainment (M&E) industry needs to vigorously educate the policy-makers, government...
NEW DELHI: Even as broadcasters and cable operators disagreed over pricing of the basic tier of free to air channels in a post-conditional access regime at...
The road to a digital future ought to be paved with good intentions! Or so the powers that be would have liked to have it! But...
No frills. All business. That’s Alexander “Sandy” Brown for you. In and out of meetings at his headquarters in Singapore’s International Plaza, head down to the...
MUMBAI: Confusion may still shroud the actual implementation of conditional access in the country, but the industry cannot be faulted for not trying its bit to...
NEW DELHI: The government has completed the formation of the task force that will decide the pricing and composition of the basic tier of service in...
MUMBAI: All the channels are stepping up preparations for gearing towards the implementation of conditional access system (CAS). Raj TV plans to go pay with effect...
MUMBAI: Will the Indian consumer get a raw deal after the implementation of the conditional access system (CAS) Experts, who beg to differ with the popular...
The debate over conditional access system continues in India even as the government has set July 14, 2003 as the deadline for completing implementation of CAS...
MUMBAI: The board of directors of Balaji Telefilms will meet on 30 January 2003 to consider and approve amongst the other items on the agenda, the...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Even as Siti Cable pushes aggressively for implementing conditional access through its headend in the sky (HITS) plan, India’s information and broadcasting...
2002 has come to a close and its time to take stock again. If truth be told, the singular feeling that seemed to pervade through last...
NEW DELHI: The last legislative requirement as far as bringing addressability in Indian cable homes has been cleared. President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam yesterday gave his...
MUMBAI: Merrill Lynch’s India Media and Entertainment Industry report on the media sector post the conditional access (CAS) legislation, produced in conjunction with DSP Merrill Lynch...
NEW DELHI : The path has been paved and the first hurdle crossed as far as bringing addressability in Indian cable homes is concerned. But before...
Conditional access may have been okayed by Parliament, but questions still haunt the industry. I&B minister Sushma Swaraj feels that post-CAS quite a few pay channels...
MUMBAI:The Motilal Oswal Inquire Indian Equity Research (MOSt Inquire) report dated 20 December 2002 has stated that CAS is unlikely to have any financial impact on...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj does not foresee any “bottlenecks” in the implementation of conditional access systems (CAS) in the country and...
NEW DELHI: The parliamentary consultative committee attached to India’s information and broadcasting ministry in a meeting earlier today came out in favour of forming a regulatory...
NEW DELHI: Broadcasters, mostly operating pay channels in India, are slated to meet India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj in the first week of January...
