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NEW DELHI: Not only is the Cable TV (Networks) Regulation Bill, 2002, which is supposed to be discussed in Rajya Sabha during this session of Indian...
NEW DELHI: To CAS or not to CAS mandatorily? This is the question that is being debated by the government. According to a senior government official,...
Do the amendments being sought in the Cable TV (Networks) regulation Act, 1995 address the issue of subscriber management system? Will there be a penalty for...
The conditional access system (CAS) issue took another political hue today when Samajwadi Party politician and member of Parliament Amar Singh lashed out at the government...
NEW DELHI: Not only is the Cable TV (Networks) Regulation Bill, 2002, which is supposed to be discussed in Rajya Sabha during this session of Indian...
At the end of it all, speculation of her moving out of the information and broadcasting ministry proved unfounded. A major cabinet reshuffle undertaken by Prime...
While broadcasters, MSOs, cable ops and consumers grapple the possibilities and frailties of CAS in India, set top box (STB) manufacturers are dealing with the more...
Interactivity in TV viewing will see the light of day in India with the proposed introduction of Conditional Access Systems (CAS), says Canal+ Technologies general manager...
The big question mark on the introduction of conditional access systems in India will be how to keep a check on the subscriber management systems (SMS)...
The Indian government would ideally like to keep the price of the basic tier of free-to-air (FTA) channels, once the conditional access system (CAS) is implemented,...
If the government decides to go ahead with the promulgation of an Ordinance (executive order) by the President of India making implementation of conditional access system...
That the Rajya Sabha (Indian Parliament’s Upper House) could not take up the Cable TV Networks Regulations Amendment Bill on 17 May (last Friday), the last...
A new scare has emerged in the television industry about the possibility of the current government controlling and muzzling the media – more specifically television through...
The Consumer Guidance Society of India has recommended that the government should first ensure that CAS addresses the critical issue of dismantling the on ground cable...
A day before the amendments to the Cable TV Networks Regulations Act, 1995, is slated to be introduced in Parliament, information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj...
It is not just Subhash Chandra and his Zee TV that have struck a discordant note vis–vis the Indian Broadcasting Federation’s (IBF) opposition to the government’s...
Shamim Shaikh is managing director and spokesperson of one of the most proactive cable TV network coalitions in India – the Seven Star Cable Network which...
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) members met in New Delhi today to discuss the implication of the proposed Conditional Access Systems (CAS). Any propsoal that addresses...
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation meeting on CAS – or conditional access system – held at the offices of Discovery in New Delhi ended after a marathon...
If the IBF is meeting on CAS, can Mumbai’s powerful cable TV lobby be far behind? Well not really. IndusInd Media & Communications executive vice-chairman R....
CAS – or conditional access systems – is causing indigestion amongst players in the broadcasting busines. The Indian Broadcasting Federation meeting which was slated to be...
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) members met in New Delhi today to discuss the implication of the proposed Conditional Access Systems (CAS). Any propsoal that addresses...
Subhash Chandra, chairman of Zee Telefilms, one of the biggest broadcasting companies in India, today set the cat amongst the pigeons when he said that he...
The Union cabinet okay on 7 May to CAS, increasingly becoming synonymous with a Can of Assorted Sorrows rather than Conditional Access System, has compelled both...
Demand for a regulatory authority and implementation of the CAS ranked high on the agenda of the seminar on ‘Cable TV : New Age Dictatorship’ held...
The Union Cabinet gave the go-ahead to bring about amendments to The Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 to allow the imposition of conditional access systems...
There’s been a lot of yo-yoeing on whether the Indian government would today consider modifying the Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act 1995 to accomodate compulsory migration...
A small victory is in sight for cable operators who have been lobbying hard for the implementation of the conditional access system (CAS) – a move...
Even as the government is readying to formalise the implementation of the conditional access system (CAS), chairman of the Hong Kong-based Star Group Ltd, James Murdoch,...
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...
If this piece of unconfirmed news emanating from Delhi proves true, the industry’s wait for legislation on conditional access systems (CAS) may well be over sooner...
If this piece of unconfirmed news emanating from Delhi proves true, the industry’s wait for legislation on conditional access systems (CAS) may well be over sooner...
Delhi-based citizen’s forum Consumer Action Network (CAN), has censured the Central government for failing to implement the recommendations of the task force on the introduction of...
Delhi-based citizen’s forum Consumer Action Network (CAN), has censured the Central government for failing to implement the recommendations of the task force on the introduction of...
NEW DELHI: At today’s extended meeting of the task force on conditional access, a basic tier price of Rs 71.30 with taxes extra was reportedly acceptable...
Mumbai and Delhi will lead the country in the growth of CAS. Kolkata will be slow in catching the trend, and Chennai will comprise mostly of...
The National Cable & Telecommunications Association has asked the central government to pass a legislation making it mandatory for conditional access set top boxes to be...
Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj has said that cable operators will have to compulsorily build in conditional access systems (CAS) into their networks. In an...
