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  • Dish TV India Limited achieves ISO 27001 certification

    Dish TV India Limited achieves ISO 27001 certification

    MUMBAI: Dish TV India Limited, world’s largest single country DTH Company, has achieved the ISO 27001 Certification, the international standard that sets out and describes requirements and best practices for an Information Security Management System (ISMS). Dish TV India has received ISO 27001 certification for its Noida and Greater Noida facilities.

    ISO 27001, considered the gold standard for information security,ensures systematic examination of the organization’s security risks leading to design and implementation of a coherent and comprehensive suite of information security controls. The standard also includes establishing, implementing and operating an ISMS along with constant monitoring, review and improvement so that security controls meet the organization’s information security needs on an ongoing basis.

    Exhilarated at the achievement, Dish TV India Limited, Group Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Anil Dua said, “Our unwavering dedication towards ensuring the very best entertainment experience for our customers is evident from our efforts in achieving new milestones and setting very high standards. The prestigious ISO 27001 certification will help us set the highest standard of information security controls & measures to protect information from any internal or external threat.” 

    Delighted at receiving the certification, DishTV India Limited, Chief Technical Officer, Mr. V. K. Gupta said, “With ISO 27001 certification, we have reinforced our commitment to providing complete assurance to our customers towards our security protocols, controls and practices. Information security management encompasses all types of information and determines how information is processed, stored, transferred, archived and destroyed. Dish TV India will continue its endeavor towards protection of information assets from potential security breaches.”

    Under the certification, Dish TV India implemented 114 controls, spanning 14 domains encompassing various departments such as IT, HR, Sales, Revenue Assurance, Administration, Business Process Engineering, Call Centre technology, RF and Electrical.  With more than 10 months of planning and implementing stringent controls, Dish TV India defined well-rounded ISMS policies and ensured complete employee awareness and compliance.

    Dish TV India believes that secure information is one that ensures confidentiality, integrity and availability and therefore, the need to protect information through appropriate security controls and measures. 

  • Dish TV–D2H merger gets NCLT approval

    MUMBAI: Dish TV India has announced that the Mumbai bench of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has approved the scheme of arrangement for merger between Videocon D2h Limited and Dish TV India.

    The company informed BSE that a hearing held on 27 July 2017 the NCLT approved the agreement between the two companies and their respective shareholders and creditors under the provisions of Sections 230-232 and other applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013.

    The appointed date for the scheme is 1 October, 2017.

    On May 2017, the proposed merger of two DTH players, Zee group’s Dish TV and VideoconD2h received the approval of Competition Commission of India (CCI).  The merger was announced in November last year.  After merger, the new entity will be called Dish TV Videocon.  

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  • DSport bags rights of Chinese League, IPL on cards

    MUMBAI: Discovery’s newest offering in the sports industry, DSport, has acquired the rights of the Chinese Super League (CSL). The tournament will be aired from 11 March.

    Launched on 6 February, the channel is guided by former MD of ESPN Star and former CEO of Dish TV India R.C. Venkateish.

    Venkateish said that the star-studded tournament will be telecast from March 11. Big names like Oscar and Carlos Tevez have already joined the league. He is also looking forward to announce about getting the Wayne Rooney deal with the Shanghai team by the end of this month.

    The channel has also acquired rights for three other major national football leagues — the Brazilian League, Major League Soccer (MLS) and the Portuguese league.

    It will also telecast the Tour de France from this season, and it will also beam major horse racing events like the Dubai Racing World Cup as well as the Melbourne Cup.

    DSport is also willing to take part in the bidding process for bagging the rights to telecast the IPL later this year. Venkateish will steer the channel to bid for it.

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  • DSport, Discovery’s expansion into under-served areas beyond factual

    DSport, Discovery’s expansion into under-served areas beyond factual

    MUMBAI: After dividing its offering into two verticals- female & family entertainment product and real world entertainment product- Discovery Networks has now entered the sports genre with its latest offering. Priced at Rs 12.6 on reference interconnect offer (RIO), and Rs 32 for the  high-definition version, DSport provides access to unmatched live sporting action from around the world. With an aim to provide 4000+ hours of live content annually, DSport will air international sports properties ranging from horse racing to football, motorsports, rugby and cycling. Targeted at the passionate community of sports lovers, the channel will offer a daily dose of 10+ hours of live content for viewers across the country.

    The channel went live on 6 February and reached about 35 million households.

    In this fast evolving digital space where more and more digital platforms are providing live coverage of several sports events, Discovery Networks, in the current scenario, does not see owning a digital platform as the best profitable business in India. Though, it is entering the digital space with its remarkable IPs which they are licensing across multiple digital Over-The-Top (OTT) platforms.

    “The only thing we are not entering right now as is our own platform because I don’t think the economics of it are suitable for every broadcaster. Going on hypothesis, I think that owning a digital platform might not be the best profitable business in India because the consumer acquisition cost is very high and the retention rates of the platforms are very low. It’s the easiest thing to launch a technological platform with content offering but acquiring people to sign in on the platform is a high end cost. 80 per cent of the subscribers are out of the platform in a month. They have no stickiness to the platform. So, we will create remarkable IPs like we have for sports and then decide whether to sign exclusive deals with the existing platforms or to distribute it across a range of digital platforms. Whatever makes the best financial sense. Our push for digital is very aggressive,” said Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific senior vice president and general manager Karan Bajaj.

    He further added, “I think that we should possess content that is so remarkable that every network wants to own it, which is much more profitable business rather than owning your own platform. We are acquiring linear and digital rights for every property. We are creating digital brands with digital native players which we will be licensing through multiple platforms. My objective is to serve the digital consumers; the consumers who are looking at things digitally. And launching a digital platform is subscale for us.”

    Former MD of ESPN Star and former CEO of Dish TV India R.C. Venkateish will be working closely with DSport especially in areas related to content acquisition for the channel.

    The channel will be a part of the sports tier via a subscription model on both DTH and cable in both HD and SD. It has already partnered with Hathway and bunch of other cable platforms and are in talks with several DTH players. “The channel will be distributed in the same way as our other channels,” added Bajaj.  

    Bajaj also opined that the channel has received very strong response from the advertisers. In its initial phase, the channel does not plan to have any advertisements to hit the scale and distribution for a lucrative business of its advertisers.  

    The network is marketing the channel thoughtfully. It is promoting the channel community wise rather than massively. “It is best to target specific communities to market the channel rather than doing one or two big promotional activities,” added Bajaj.  

    DSport redefines sports coverage in India with a wide repertoire of exciting properties from across the world of sports. These will initially include:

    ·  Horse Racing: exclusive rights to telecast daily live racing from the best of UK and Irish tracks totaling over 7000 races/ year

    ·  Football: Brazilian League, Chinese Super League, Portuguese League, Major League Soccer (USA)

    ·  Golf: British Open (The Open Championship), US Open, PGA Championship, LPGA

    ·  Motorsports: NASCAR, FIA World Rallycross Championship

    ·  Rugby: 6 Nations Rugby

    · Cycling: Tour de France (a property of Eurosport)

    DSport is in advanced negotiations for selected high quality cricket events to add to the above-mentioned portfolio.

    The other channels of the network, Discovery, Science, Turbo, Animal Planet, TLC, ID, Kids, will perceive a complete change in its look and feel starting with Discovery channel by June end followed by the rest. It plans to have 200 hours of original localized content not limited to infotainment but diversifying into other genres like crime, adventure, automation, etc. The key focus, apart from localisation and number of hours, will be on the nature of storytelling.

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  • Dish TV gets shareholder assent to borrow up to Rs 3000 crore

    Dish TV gets shareholder assent to borrow up to Rs 3000 crore

    MUMBAI: Dish TV India, on 8 August, had called on its shareholders to participate in a postal ballot to decide a few key decisions which will help it rev up its business going forward. The company announced that majority of its stakeholders have approved the resolutions.

     

    They have authorised the board of directors (BOD) to borrow up to Rs 3000 crore over and above the company’s paid up share capital and free reserves. This was passed as a special resolution under Section 180{1) (c) of the Companies Act, 2013 and 98 per cent of the total voters were in favour.

     

    It also authorises the BOD to create a charge/mortgage on its assets that will aid the borrowings. This was passed as a special resolution under Section 180{1) (c) of the Companies Act, 2013 and 98 per cent of the total voters were in favour. Out of 87 crore, only 1.6 crore voters weren’t in agreement with this resolution.

     

    Additionally, the postal ballot result also allows the BOD to offer or invite for subscription of non-convertible debentures (NCD) on private placement basis up to Rs 500 crore. This move will allow the company to make offers within one year seeking subscription for secured and/or unsecured, redeemable NCDs in one or more series/tranches/currencies to persons such as FIIs, mutual funds, banks, body corporate, persons etc. For this resolution, 98 per cent of 87 crore voters were in conformity.

     

    Finally, the last resolution authorises the BOD for making investment/giving any loan or guarantee/providing security up to Rs 500 crore. The investments, guarantees and securities will bring about optimum utilisation of the company’s funds and achieve long term strategic and business objective. Of 87 crore voters, only 2 crore weren’t in agreement.

     

    The postal ballot took place between 8 August and 6 September. On 22 July 2014, BOD had approved the postal ballot notice and postal ballot form for seeking consent on important matters.

  • Dish TV crosses one lakh downloads of DishOnline

    Dish TV crosses one lakh downloads of DishOnline

    MUMBAI: The newly launched DishOnline application by Dish TV crossed one lakh downloads in less than 30 days of its launch.

    The DTH operator was quick on its feet to understand the trend of consumers preferring to watch TV anywhere anytime. This prompted Dish TV to launch its DishOnline application that is a first-of-its-kind online video streaming service that allows customers to watch TV across devices like smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc.

    Dish TV India COO Salil Kapoor said: “This trend in the Indian market is in line with the global market where device shift for TV content consumption is clearly visible (from one TV to multi-screen TV/ tablets/ smartphones/ laptops). As a pioneer and market leader, it was imperative that we demonstrate thought-leadership and launch this new service for the benefit of our subscribers. We are thankful to our subscribers for this encouraging initial response. New products such as this have a tremendous potential to grow and we look forward to capturing an even wider subscriber base in the times to come.”

    It is a unique service from Dish TV that allows subscribers to watch live and catch up TV including videos and movies. DishOnline has a huge library of movies (1000 plus titles) which can be enjoyed anywhere anytime on the go.

    It is a paid service priced at Rs 129 for the Jumbo pack and at Rs 69 for the Starter pack (currently being offered at Rs 69 and Rs 29 as an introductory offer). The initial success of this product proved that the consumption of content by consumers is evolving and they are ready to pay extra for convenience that includes both time and screen. 

    Dish TV launched this innovative path-breaking service – DishOnline – in early October that proposed to redefine TV viewing in India. This service is being provided to the family of 15 million plus subscribers of Dish TV. It is a full-fledged OTT (over the top) streaming application.