Recent legislation in India mandates the use of conditional access systems (CAS) for pay TV channels. Presently, every subscriber to the network receives all the channels...
MUMBAI: Solomon Smith Barney (SSB) claims that the subscription revenues will eventually be linked to the content quality and the viewership. This will reiterate the fact...
MUMBAI : Salomon Smith Barney (SSB) has not revised its earnings estimate nor the 12 month price target for the Zee Telefilms scrip following the clearance...
NEW DELHI: An early rollout of CAS looks unlikely, though the government (read the information and broadcasting ministry) would like an early implementation in the four...
BANGALORE : Converging World 2002, held at the Sree Kanteevera Stadium in Bangalore from 3 to 5 December ended on a single note – Conditional Access...
Will conditional access prove to be the one shot medicine for all the ailments that afflict the various constituents in the Indian television industry and the...
MUMBAI: AC Nielsen’s TAM Media offers its viewpoint on the government’s plans to introduce conditional access systems (CAS). What CAS is expected to deliver: Security, reliability,...
Will conditional access prove to be the one shot medicine for all the ailments that afflict the various constituents in the Indian television industry and the...
Information and Broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj has ruled out any change in the prevailing policy of pubcaster Doordarshan being barred from airing surrogate liquor and tobacco...
NEW DELHI: The cable TV (Network) Regulation Amendment Bill 2002, was passed in the Rajya Sabha, Upper House of the Indian parliament, with a minimum of...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj has done it again. The government is confident that the process of implementation of the conditional access system...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: It would have been surprising if it hadn’t happened thus. Simply because of the big stakes for which some of the members...
NEW DELHI: The Upper House of Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) has not been able to take up the issue of conditional access system today as of...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has done it. The Cable TV Network (Amendment) Bill 2002, which aims at facilitating addressability in Indian cable homes...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry today is understood to be pushing ahead for the issue of conditional access system (CAS) to be included in...
MUMBAI: The information & broadcasting ministry is laying the final groundwork for the tabling of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2002, that will bring...
MUMBAI: SCat India 2002, the country’s largest Cable TV and satellite broadcasting event will be held from 23-25 October, at the World Trade Centre in Mumbai....
Tomorrow India‘s BJP-led 18-odd party coalition NDA government completes three years in office.So does the information and broadcasting ministry, in a way the nodal organisation for...
MUMBAI:It’s once again the turn of the Consumer Action Network (CAN) to air its views on conditional access. President Ahmed M. Abdi has welcomed the government’s...
MUMBAI:It’s once again the turn of the Consumer Action Network (CAN) to air its views on conditional access. CAN president Ahmed M Abdi has welcomed the...
NEW DELHI: The cable operators are again taking a shot at forging a unity in a bid to neutralise the broadcasters and have the conditional access...
NEW DELHI: Reiterating that AXN will continue to be a pay channel even after conditional access system is introduced in India, whenever that is, V-P marketing...
NEW DELHI: Reiterating that AXN will continue to be a pay channel even after conditional access system is introduced in India, whenever that is, V-P marketing...
NEW DELHI: The government has asked the cable and broadcasting industry to come back with more details on the investments that are likely to be needed...
NEW DELHI: The government has asked the cable and broadcasting industry to come back with more details on the investments that are likely to be needed...
NEW DELHI: The issue of conditional access system (CAS) is getting not only getting curioser, but also hotter. Joining issue with a consumer activist group of...
NEW DELHI: The issue of conditional access system (CAS) is getting not only getting curioser, but also hotter. Joining issue with a consumer activist group of...
MUMBAI :Cable ops, owing allegiance to different associations, have planned to hold a conference to discuss the issue of conditional access in the country. The Karnataka...
NEW DELHI: As expected, the gridlock in Parliament put paid to information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj’s hopes of getting the amendments to the Cable TV...
NEW DELHI: With the adjournment of the Indian Parliament sine die today, the fate of conditional access system becomes that much more nebulous. Though, some government...
NEW DELHI: With the adjournment of the Indian Parliament sine die today, the fate of conditional access system becomes that much more nebulous. Though, some government...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Federation, which met in Hyderabad on Friday, discussed the issue of conditional access system, amongst other things, and has decided to...
NEW DELHI: If it’s not CAS, then it has to be DTH. The government is now examining the issue of “open architecture” and whether a thing...
NEW DELHI: If it’s not CAS, then it has to be DTH. The government is now examining the issue of “open architecture” and whether a thing...
NEW DELHI: If it’s not this then it’s that. Yesterday it was the opposition uproar over the alleged irregularities by the petroleum ministry in the allotment...
MUMBA: Cable ops, owing allegiance to different associations, have planned to hold a conference to discuss the issue of conditional access in the country. The Karnataka...
NEW DELHI: The fate of conditional access system is becoming increasingly uncertain – something that was looking highly unlikely about a fortnight back when information and...
NEW DELHI:The information and broadcasting ministry has asked the business advisory committee of parliament to relist the Cable TV Networks Amendment Bill 2002 next week and...
NEW DELHI: The Cable TV Amendment Bill 2002 has been listed for business on the agenda of the Rajya Sabha (RS – the Upper House) for...
NEW DELHI: The Cable TV Amendment Bill 2002 has been listed for business on the agenda of the Rajya Sabha (RS – the Upper House) for...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has requested the business advisory panel of the Indian Parliament to re-list the Cable TV Amendment Bill 2002 on...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Even before the champagne bottles could be opened, a chasm seems to have appeared in the cable operators’ fragile unity. After meeting information and...
NEW DELHI: In what is a strong defence of the conditional access system (CAS) Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj today likened CAS to a multi-cuisine...
NEW DELHI: The temperatures have cooled a bit on the the vexed issue of the introduction of conditional access systems (CAS) among the cable fraternity. Mollified...
NEW DELHI: The Hong Kong based Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) – a representative organisation of close to 120 pay TV and related...
MUMBAI:There was no prime time in Mumbai tonight. All across the city from 9 pm onwards, cable feeds went blank for an hour. This followed a...
NEW DELHI: Even as the government has more or less decided to refer the conditional access issue (CAS) to a parliamentary committee in the face of...
NEW DELHI: The case of the Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2002, is getting curiouser. Yesterday, though it was listed as part of the day’s...
NEW DELHI: The Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2002, has been listed for re-introduction in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) today. It was...
NEW DELHI: The issue of conditional access system (CAS) is generating renewed heat on the eve of its expected passage in the Indian Parliament’s Upper House...