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MUMBAI: News Corp controlled digital television service provider DirecTV today officially announced a multi-year agreement with the Star Group making available four Star India channels as...
MUMBAI: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch must be one happy man. If the brilliant first quarter results his News Corp has just delivered were not enough, that...
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murodch owned media conlgomerate News Corporation has announced that its shareholders and optionholders have approved the company’s reincorporation in the US. News Corp...
MUMBAI: Darlene Investments a minority shareholder in DirecTV Latin America has filed a lawsuit against the Rupert Murdoch owned News Corporation, The DirecTV Group and their...
MUMBAI: The DirecTV Group and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation announced yesterday that they are consolidating their pay platforms in Latin America through a series of deals...
MUMBAI: The dominance of CNBC in the US business and financial news landscape has claimed a victim. CNN has announced that it will close its financial...
MUMBAI: US-based DirecTV has announced its plans for the launch of four next-generation satellites, on Wednesday. The first two satellites, Spaceway 1 and Spaceway 2, will...
MUMBAI: The customer satisfaction annual survey conducted by JD Power & Associates in the US has satellite TV leading over cable TV. The study observes that...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate News Corporation has announced that a special committee of non-executive directors and the full board of directors have recommended the proposed reorganisation of...
MUMBAI: DirecTV Group Inc. has agreed to acquire Pegasus Communications Corp.’s (PGTV) bankrupt satellite-television business for $875 million. The Pegasus Satellite Television provides DirecTV’s DTH services...
MUMBAI: International Launch Services (ILS) will launch the DIRECTV 8 satellite next year on a Proton M/Breeze M vehicle. It signed a new contract with DirecTV....
MUMBAI: The US-based digital video recorder (DVR) maker TiVo’s stock price fell more than 14 per cent as DirecTV sold its stake in TiVo. The sale...
MUMBAI: DirecTV Group Inc. vice chairman Eddy Hartenstein has stepped down from TiVo Inc.’s board of directors after an eight-month commitment. The US-based digital video recorder...
MUMBAI: For the fourth consecutive year, Echostar and its pay TV service the Dish Network ranked above the competition for customer satisfaction among satellite and cable...
MUMBAI: Phoenix Maricopa County sheriff’s investigators arrested 21 people Thursday in connection with a scam to steal satellite television services. Working with DIRECTV officials, investigators lured...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which raised its forecast for the 2003-04 fiscal after its fiscal third quarter net income rose 69 per cent to $465...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that it has shortlisted three bidders for the final round in the procurement process for the technology services agreement and the...
MUMBAI: He may not be running against Bush at the upcoming US presidential elections but former US vice president Al Gore has found a way to...
MUMBAI: Satellite services provider Panamsat and DirecTV, which is the major stakeholder in the company, have announced that they have signed a definitive transaction agreement with...
MUMBAI: Reflecting the burgeoning growth of its business in America Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate News Corp is planning to shift its incorporation to the US from...
MUMBAI: Former Star group COO Bruce Churchill is assuming greater responsibility within Hughes Electronics following Murdoch’s News Corp’s 34 per cent aquisition of the company. He...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has reported consolidated revenues of $5.6 billion for the second quarter ended December 2003. This represents a 19 per cent increase...
MUMBAI: Given below, is the letter addressed to Disney’s Michael D Eisner from Comcast’s president and CEO Brian L Roberts. I am writing following our conversation...
MUMBAI: MTV parent Viacom Inc and recent Rupert Murdoch acquisition DirecTV on Wednesday signed a deal that ensures continued carriage of all MTV Networks’ programme services...
WASHINGTON: The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) resumed its informal 180-day clock for reviewing News Corp Ltd’s plan to acquire control of US satellite television provider...
LONDON: The BBC will sell its wholly-owned commercial subsidiary BBC Technology. The move follows a strategic review of the BBC’s technology requirements for the next decade....
MUMBAI: News Corp’s proposed takeover of General Motor’s Hughes Electronics Corp has received shareholder approval. In a statement issued yesterday, GM said that of the stockholders...
LONDON: US satellite television provider DirecTV and NDS have agreed to a stay on the litigation between them. This is applicable until NDS’ parent News Corp...
LONDON: Hughes Network Systems (HNS), has reported an 8.1 per cent increase in the overall 2003 second quarter revenues amounting to $2.37 billion, compared to $2.192...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch is snapping at Indian shores again. Murdoch’s News Corp has announced that it would make an open offer to acquire 20 per cent...
MUMBAI: US pay TV platform DirecTV and Twentieth Television, DirecTV’s ad sales partner, announced the expansion of their current ad sales agreement. This will...
NEW YORK: News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch has been quoted as saying that the technology is not far away from allowing satellite carriers to retransmit local...
MUMBAI: The timing was certainly apt. As American-led forces marched into Baghdad, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire News Corp, which has made no bones about it’s unambiguous...
MUMBAI: News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch looks to be within touching distance of becoming arguably the most powerful media magnate on the planet. The...
LONDON: News Corp technology arm NDS Group said on Tuesday a United States district court judge has dismissed most of a lawsuit filed last September by...
LONDON: News Corp technology arm NDS Group has responded to the latest suit filed against it by Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan’s satellite group, MEASAT Broadcast Network...
MUMBAI: Suits and countersuits are flying thick and fast around the technology arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, NDS Group. A day after NDS countersued DirecTV,...
LOS ANGELES (California): NDS has countersued DirecTV Enterprises and two of its subsidiaries, along with a chip manufacturer and its North American sales affiliate. The countersuit...
MUMBAI: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rejected the proposed $ 18.5 billion merger between the two largest satellite-television companies in the US, EchoStar Communications Corp....
MUMBAI: It may be on the fringes in India, but the Hallmark Channel is growing leaps and bounds in the US. The channel claims that in...
Arianespace yesterday announced three new contracts for Ariane launches of the DIRECTV-7S, iPSTAR-1 and STAR ONE C1 satellites. “We are pleased that despite the market downturn,...
The Hallmark channel may be struggling to find an audience in India but in America the story is different. Hallmark Channel has once again outranked all...
MUMBAI: Two new television public service announcements (PSAs) that discourage ethnic stereotyping of Arab and Muslim Americans have been released. This is a joint effort between...
Now that News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has had to bow out of the race to acquire to DirecTV from General Motors, it may well be...
Direct to home (DTH) television service, more popularly known as direct broadcast satellite service, is coming to India after a government ordained delay of three years....
