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  • DAS Phase III: Chhattisgarh gets two-month extension by Court

    DAS Phase III: Chhattisgarh gets two-month extension by Court

    MUMBAI: Chhattisgarh has become the newest addition to the list of stayed states allowed extension by the judiciary for the Phase III deadline of Digital Addressable System (DAS).

     

    The Chhattisgarh High Court, hearing the petition filed by Gentle Entertainment Private Limited, announced a two-month extension to complete the seeding process. The court ordered stakeholders to complete the proceedings in two months and ordered that during the process cable connections should not be discontinued.

     

    “The court’s main concern was shortage of set top boxes and the discomfort of common people. And that is why the honourable court decided to allow the extension,” a source present in the court tells Indiantelevision.com.

     

    The petition filed by Gentle Entertainment said, “Due to the shortage of STBs in the global market, and high demand here in India it is becoming impossible to have the adequate supply. To meet the necessary demand it will take at least two months more and hence we request the esteemed court to allow an extension of two months.” 

     

    “The question that one should ask now is, when the deadline was announced a year back why the process started so late. Are we trying to say that twelve months was not enough and we need fourteen? This leaves a bad impression on those who followed the deadline. Will the government compensate those who followed the deadline and executed things on time?” asked a senior executive from the cable fraternity.   

     

    As was reported earlier by this website, at present, the implementation remains stayed for varying periods in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Maharashtra, Orissa, Sikkim, and Telangana, apart from Tamil Nadu where prolonged legal cases have been pending since Phase I. The original deadline for DAS Phase III deadline was that of 31 December, 2015.

     

    Moreover, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry is now planning to move the Supreme Court to club the various orders in different High Courts, which ordered extension of DAS Phase III.

  • ABP News-Nielsen exit poll for Rajasthan & Chattisgarh

    ABP News-Nielsen exit poll for Rajasthan & Chattisgarh

    MUMBAI: BJP likely to win 110 seats in Rajasthan; ruling Congress to slide to 73: ABP News-Nielsen exit poll.

    BJP is projected to win 110 seats of the total 200 in Rajasthan assembly polls, as per the exit poll conducted by ABP News-Nielsen. While the ruling Congress would manage 73 seats, it has projected. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) would get only one seat, and the other parties 16 seats.


    According to the exit poll, BJP is projected to get a vote share of 38 per cent with 110 seats. Congress likely to get a vote share of 34 per cent with 34 seats. In 2008, the Congress had won 96 seats, the BJP 78, BSP six and others 20 seats. 

    The exit poll was conducted by ABP News-Nielsen on 2nd and 3rd of December, 2013 with 22755 respondents. The confidence interval (margin of error) assumed for vote share prediction lies in the ranges of ±5%.


    ABP News-Nielsen Exit Poll -Chhattisgarh
    Hung assembly likely in Chhattisgarh, neck-to-neck fight between BJP and Congress: ABP News-Nielsen exit poll

    Chhattisgarh would see a hung assembly, according to the ABP News-Nielsen exit poll projections of the assembly elections. There is a close battle between BJP and Congress. The ruling BJP is likely to be short of simple majority. The BJP is projected to win 43 of the total 90 seats. The Congress is likely to win 42 seats.

    As per the exit poll, BJP likely to get a vote share of 41 per cent with Congress following a close 40 per cent. In 2008, the BJP had won 49 seats, Congress 39 seats, and others two seats.
    There are about 15 seats which are being won by a narrow margin of 2%. At least 5 out of these 15 seats could impact the final outcome. As per the poll there could be two scenarios:

    1. If the 5 seats go in favour of BJP: The ruling party might get around 48 seats, Congress 38 and others 4.

    2. If the 5 seats go in favour of Congress: BJP likely to get 40 seats and Congress 46 seats.
    The exit poll was conducted by ABP News-Nielsen on 12th November for Phase 1 and 20th – 21st November, 2013 for Phase 2 of voting with 11012 respondents. The confidence interval (margin of error) assumed for vote share prediction lies in the ranges of ±5%.

  • Triveni Group to launch two news channels by year-end

    MUMBAI: Triveni Media Limited, part of the Rs 30 billion Triveni Group, is all set to launch two news channels in October-November. The company is also planning to come up simultaneously with a lifestyle channel.

    Triveni will make its appearance in the broadcasting space with a national Hindi news channel. It will also have a channel aimed at the UP-Uttranchal region.

    “We are coming up with a bouquet of four channels in October-November. This includes three launches and a religious channel which we acquired. We have obtained all the government clearances,” says Triveni Infrastructure Development Company managing director Madhur Mittal.

    The company is going to re-launch Sadhna, a religious channel.

    With an investment of Rs 2 billion, the company plans to set up 18 channels in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Maharasthra, Punjab and West Bengal within two years.

    “The debt component of the investment of Rs 2 billion will be 30 per cent. We are not looking at diluting equity now,” says Mittal.

    The channels will be uplinked from Noida, near Delhi. “The inflow of data from the different news bureaus will be collected at a single centre and disseminated into the various regional languages. By using this approach, we will keep our costs low,” says Mittal.

    Triveni Media has roped in Aaj Tak technical director Rahul Kulshetra to head the operations. Ram Kripal, also from Aaj Tak, is appointed as the group editor.

  • DD Direct Plus sets to be installed free of cost in low terrestrial density

    DD Direct Plus sets to be installed free of cost in low terrestrial density

    MUMBAI: Targeting the areas wherein the terrestrial coverage is negligible, the free-to-air direct-to-home (DTH) service of Doordarshan — DD Direct Plus will soon be available to states including — Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, North-East Region, Rajasthan and Uttaranchal.

    The Information & Broadcasting and parliamentary affairs minister P R Das Munshi has announced that 10,000 DTH receive systems including the dish and the set-to-box (STB) will be distributed free-of-cost.

    In an official statement issued, the free distribution of DTH sets is targeted to the states where the terrestrial coverage is lower than national coverage.

    This was done through public institutions viz. Anganwadis, Schools, Public Health Centres, Panchayats, Youth Clubs, Cooperative Societies, etc. The free distribution of DTH sets is targeted to the States where the terrestrial coverage is lower than national coverage.

    So far, 8,465 DTH receive units have been installed in the uncovered villages of above States and North-East Region.

    The DD Direct Plus platform includes the Doordarshan channels, private TV channels and audio channels of All India Radio. Prasar Bharati will provide 100 television channels and 50 radio channels by the end of this year (2006). The service is available on the high power transponders of NSS-6 satellite.