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For almost one year, IndusInd Media & Communications (IMCL) has been an organisation in turmoil. Several senior executives have left the company, frustrated at the slow...
With a nearly seven-million strong subscriber base, Siti Cable should have been ideally sitting pretty with a permanent smile pasted on the faces of the executives...
MUMBAI: The government may come out with a downlinking policy soon but Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra has reservations on whether it would be a complete...
In theory, the idea was good. In reality, the dividend yielded leaves much to be desired. Unlike the serials that it re-runs, free to air Star...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: It’s summer time. It’s Cas (conditional access system) time. Once again. This time, though, the role of skeptics has changed. The cable operators, and...
December, 2003. Give us some more time and next year, we would take issues like CAS, DTH, second phase of FM radio and the matter of...
December, 2003. Give us some more time and next year, we would take issues like CAS, DTH, second phase of FM radio and the matter of...
NEW DELHI: Evan as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) rides roughshod over the broadcast sector, the protagonists (read broadcasters vs the cable fraternity) are...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) plans to invest Rs 1 billion in its wholly owned subsidiary Siticable over the next one year to further expand its...
MUMBAI: Sun Network-owned Sumangali Cable Vision, which was using its own developed software, has selected Hyderabad-based MagnaQuest Technologies to provide subscriber management and billing solution. Sumangali...
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...
For over a year, Essel Group additional vice chairman and head of Siticable Network Ltd. Jawahar Goel has been busy lobbying hard for a mandated form...
MUMBAI: The payouts of smaller cable networks towards pay channels have been going up. And this is despite the price freeze on subscription rates imposed by...
MUMBAI: Saddled with bad debts and a “dud” investment on conditional access system (CAS), leading multi system operator IndusInd Media & Communications (IMC) has done a...
A slow deployment of set-top boxes (STBs) will suit a small cable network like Seven Star. Which is why Nadir Ali, one of the founder-promoters, is...
What do you do when you are finding it hard to push your digital set-top boxes (STBs) and broadband Internet service? Bundle them. That is what...
MUMBAI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), an apex body of broadcasting companies, will soon submit before the information & broadcasting ministry its viewpoint on the recent...
It has been the worst period of inactivity in the cable TV industry. Since the price freeze on subscription rates imposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority...
MUMBAI: Broadcasters are weighing the impact of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s recommendations. Of foremost concern is the suggestion that pay channels launched after December...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The cable and broadcast regulator has finally released its long awaited recommendations on the “Issues relating to Broadcasting and Distribution of TV...
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: Contrary to speculations and expectations – the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), it seems is unlikely to make a definitive recommendation on introduction...
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....
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today issued notices to the Government of India and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on a petition filed by...
MUMBAI: Despite indications to the contrary, India’s broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), looks to be making a move on. The Trai...
NEW DELHI: All those in the industry that have been waiting for India’s broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), to come out...
When CAS went kaputt last year, ETC Networks CEO JS Kohli put his energies behind strengthening the broadcast wing of the company. etc music and etc...
Media baron Aroon Purie, almost 60-but-looking-like 50, wears various hats as one of the most successful entrepreneurs of post-Independence India. He is the founding editor &...
BANGALORE: The decision by the Sun Network to turn four of its local channels — three Kannada and one Telugu — into pay channels from 1...
NEW DELHI: Proposing that any new TV channel seeking to beam into India ought to be mandated through a set-top box in a digital mode, multi-system...
This day, one year back, as per an earlier government notification, was when Indian homes were to experience addressability, aka conditional access system or confusion, anarchy...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), the broadcast and cable regulator, takes it own sweet time to come out with recommendations...
NEW DELHI: Infobroad minister S Jaipal Reddy today informed fellow parliamentarians that the government was thinking of setting up a broadcasting regulatory authority to enforce guidelines...
MUMBAI: “Set up a well defined monitoring system which will keep tabs on the services being provided by companies in the broadcast business.” This was one...
NEW DELHI: Star India, part of Rupert Murdoch’s pan-Asian venture, is going in for a flanking strategy to couch its bottomline – healthy though it looks...
NEW DELHI: Most of the pay channel operators today, once again, conveyed to broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), that certain things...
NEW DELHI: A delegation of cable operators and multi-system operators (MSO) today met the new information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy, exhorting him to implement the...
With the conditional access system (CAS) becoming a reality from July 2003, there is a marked increase in the number of marketing concessionaires or agents aggressively...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India today released another consultation paper on the broadcasting and distribution of TV channels, following talks with various stakeholders in...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court today left the vexed issue of conditional access system (CAS) to the broadcast and cable regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and telecom regulator today said that its order, ratified by the government, denotifying conditional access from the four metros would not be valid...
After the Big Event what? That must have been the dilemma confronting Sony Entertainment Television’s executive V-P ad sales and revenue management Rohit Gupta in the...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The much-hyped multi-system operators’ (MSOs) meet in Delhi today failed to come up with concrete conclusions, though various issues arising out of postponement of...
MUMBAI: Multi systems operators – the hardest hit by the government notification yesterday putting the rollout of conditional access into indefinite deep freeze – have scheduled...
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 broadcast regulator announced today it had set up a committee whose mandate was to work on the various issues relating to cable television and...
MUMBAI: Given below is the full text of the letter issued by Telecom Regulatory Authority (Trai) chairman Pradip Baijal to information and broadcasting ministry secretary Pawan...
MUMBAI: The regulator today bowled a beamer that is bound to send the votaries of conditional access into a spin. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
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...
