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  • DishTV launches Disney active service

    MUMBAI: They woke up a little late. Even though summer vacation is coming to a close, DishTV, Asia’s largest DTH service provider, and Disney India have announced the launch of Disney Active. Disney Active is available on Channel No. 966 on Dish TV.

    Disney Active, a fun and engaging service, brings home the magical world of Disney through a host of read-along-e-books and games.

    Disney has a legacy of timeless stories and characters and there is no better way to experience them than on one’s personal television. The audio-visual read-along stories are customised for children aged three and up, and will include Mickey & Friends, Disney Princess, Frozen, The Jungle Book, Disney. Pixar Cars, Toy Story and much more.

    The games feature classic Disney characters like Mickey & Friends, Tinker Bell and more. This service is available for free till 10 June, 2017, for all Dish TV subscribers, after which it will be available at an introductory price of Rs 40 per month.

    DishTV group CEO Anil Dua said, “Value added services has been a focus area, a clear differentiator and an integral part of our offering. We are delighted to announce our specialty offering targeted at the youngest generation. Kids segment is an area which is constantly in focus for us. Launch of Disney Active service is yet another step for us to enhance our value added services portfolio and cater to our subscribers. After having received a positive response to our earlier services, we take immense pleasure in now announcing the launch of Disney Active Service.”

    Disney India VP & head – media networks & interactive Abhishek Maheshwari said, “At Disney, we constantly strive to offer quality content to our consumers on their platform of choice. We are delighted to work with DishTV to launch the Disney Active service comprising games and stories. We do hope children enjoy this compelling content.”

  • DishTV adds two channels, takes total count to 620

    MUMBAI: While continuing the legacy to provide the best entertainment platform to its subscribers, Dish TV, Asia’s largest DTH brand has extended its collection by adding 2 new channels to its portfolio. With accumulation of “Mirror Now and Multiplex”. DishTV takes the total count of its channels and services to more than 620. 

    Being a trusted brand since five years now, DishTV keeps the entertainment quotient higher. With the addition of these channels they gauge to multiple genres namely; Mirror now for news, and Multiplex for Bollywood lovers. Details of the channels as follows:

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    Commenting on these additions DishTV India group CEO Anil Dua said, “We at DishTV have been at the forefront in enhancing TV viewing experience and exploring opportunities to bring wholesome entertainment to the audience. With a sharp focus on content, the move aims at connecting strongly to provide the best of entertainment to our subscribers. Addition of these two channels will not only strengthen our presence but will also diversify our offerings.”

    Further, keeping up the idea of providing the best of entertainment in industry DishTV recently added Arnab Goswami’s news channel “Republic TV” on their platform. Also, enhancing the kid’s genre, the largest DTH operator added “Sony YAY” to its platform last month. Both the channels will be available on LCN number 771 and 989 respectively.

  • Essel is Nurturing Young Seeds with NYS Leadership League

    MUMBAI: Nurturing Young Seeds, a venture of Essel Group, has created another milestone with the launch of NYS Leadership League which is one-of-its kind National Level leadership Competition for students. This leadership competition is organised in association with Essel Group and DishTV. NYS Leadership League will premiere on Zee News channel in the month of October this year.

    It will be a lifetime opportunity for a whopping 50,000 students (registration still going on) across India to participate and get exposure on Leadership with the NYSLL. The target audience defined for this landmark leadership programme is 11-18 years. This will help children to get multiple opportunities and eventually emerge as leader.

    Priti Goel, founder, Nurturing Young Seeds, said, “Nurturing young seeds leadership programme is a breakthrough in Indian education system. We launched this programme as we believe that every student should go beyond traditional school knowledge and sharpen their strengths. In this era of competition it is very important for students to garner leadership skills in order to stand out of the crowd. We at NYS, Dare the kids to dream”.

    The auditions have begun and the last date of registration is 31 May, 2017.

    NYS mission is to enable every child to know its potential and make them versatile so that they make a difference in this changing world. Each child is a leader and cannot be identified based on its academic results only.

  • DishTV launches Cartoon Network games, with Visiware tie-up

    MUMBAI: DishTV, Asia’s largest direct-to-home (DTH) brand, has strengthened their partnership with Visiware International, the leader in games for interactive television to launch Cartoon Network games in partnership with Cartoon Network India, the most loved kids’ channel in India.

    Cartoon Network TV games, accessible on channel no. 967 within “PlayZone Active” on the DishTV platform, offers 8 games branded under the much loved and immensely popular major cartoon characters amongst kids, who lead the Cartoon Network portfolio–Ben10, Powerpuff Girls and Roll No. 21. A variety of games will be available under each of these characters to enhance the player’s experience and get them to engage closer with their favorite toons.

    Elated with the promising tie-up, DishTV CEO Arun Kapoor said; At DishTV, we have always believed in providing the best entertainment to our subscribers. Being India’s most trusted DTH brand, we ensure that our subscribers from all age groups get entertained. Keeping this in mind, we are glad to strengthen our partnership with Visiware International to launch a whole new set of Cartoon Network games on our platform.  We are delighted with this launch, since this service will offer games with India’s favorite characters such as Ben10, Powerpuff Girls, Roll No. 21 and more to mass audiences residing in smaller towns also. This strengthens our portfolio by penetrating not only the larger cities, but also the Tier II-Tier III cities and small towns.”

    Visiware International COO Frederic Fellague remarked, “We are delighted to partner with Cartoon Network India and DishTV for this product. We are strong believers in partnerships with TV channels and Pay-TV providers to create new kind of interactivity on Set Top Boxes. Our track record in that area is significant internationally and we hope to develop these in the near future.” Adventure Time* with Jake, the old dog Finn and the human boy.

    . Ben 10 * with Ben Tennyson and his brand new avatar as the feisty 10 year old and his new by-the-book rookie partner.

    . Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy* with the Grim Reaper as their forced best friend.

    . Roll no 21* with Kris stranded in a school run by a demon principal.

    . Powerpuff Girls* with Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, three super-powered little girls,

    . Regular Show* with Mordecai and Rigby, the two best of friends.

    The games will be rotated on a monthly basis with one game refreshed every month. What more, the player can resume playing at any level using the access code provided at the end of each level on a selection on games. The service is available from May 2017 to all Dish TV subscribers on Channel 967. This service will be available for free preview to all DishTV subscribers for one month post which the service will be charged Rs.40 (including taxes) per month.

    Visiware International, whose services have been deployed on 50+ networks worldwide, has for the last 20 years, been developing games for satellite, cable, IPTV and fiber networks as well as connected TV sets and OTT boxes. It’s partnership with Cartoon Network will enable Visiware International to put out high quality, premium content that is all set to redefine the casual gaming in interactive television for pay TV operators. Cartoon Network IPs and its much loved characters bring in that extra fun and thrill to gaming, like never before.

  • Service, quality & delivery: DishTV becomes world’s only CMMI L4-assessed M&E company

    MUMBAI: DishTV, Asia’s largest DTH brand, has announced that it has become the only Media & Entertainment organization in the world which has been appraised at Level 4 (CMMI-DEV and CMMI-SVC V1.3) of the CMMI institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) .

    This makes DishTV the newest member of an elite club. The SEI website lists only 15 companies, in India, in last three years together which have been certified for Level 4 or 5.

    Speaking on the achievement, DishTV CEO Arun Kumar Kapoor said, “We are glad to become world’s first Media & Entertainment Company to receive CMMI-DEV and CMMI-SVC V1.3 ML4 certification. At DishTV, we are committed to delivering products and services of highest quality to our subscribers.”

    “With the CMMI LEVEL 4 rating, we have demonstrated that we have built an infrastructure in our programme that clearly shows our on-going commitment to serving our customers with highest standards of service, quality and exceptional delivery in what we do,” Kapoor added.

    “However we don’t intend to rest on our laurels. For us, this is an incentive to keep refining and fine-tuning our system and processes in our quest to give non-stop entertainment to our valued subscribers,” Kapoor said.

    Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a Model developed by Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA, to improve process capability of organisations and benchmark capability of organisations worldwide. The first framework of Capability Maturity Model was established in the year 1987. It helps in improving timely delivery coupled with quality and cost effectiveness.

    CMMI benchmarking is the most prestigious recognition for IT and IT enabled organisations across the world. This framework consists of five maturity levels. Maturity Level 4 and 5 are known as high maturity levels and organisations assessed at these levels have a capability to quantitatively predict their delivery and quality performance using historical data based statistical models. These organisations demonstrate capability to accomplish and sustain their business objectives and performance.

    DishTV India Limited, IT division has been successfully appraised for combined CMMI-DEV and CMMI-SVC V1.3 ML4 in April 2017.

    “This continual process improvement journey started couple of years back and with sustained disciplined and committed effort this organizational excellence of “Fast and Flawless” delivery coupled with “Future Readiness” was demonstrated in the rigorous appraisal,” says the leader of the nine member appraisal team Vinit Maheshwari of Maverick Quality Advisory Services (Worldwide CMMI Institute Partner).

  • Migrate registration to GST regime, DishTV persuades distributors & trade partners

    MUMBAI: DishTV India Limited has announced that it has become the first DTH Company who has fully migrated to the GST regime in almost all the states of India (except for Himachal Pradesh who have not opened the migration).

    Dish TV is Asia Pacific’s largest direct-to-home (DTH) company and part of one of India’s biggest media conglomerate – the ‘Zee’ Group. Dish TV has on its platform more than 615 channels & services including 30 audio channels and over 68 HD channels & services.

    Being the active partner of the biggest Indirect Tax reform, the company has persuaded and asked all their distributors and trade partners to migrate their registration to the GST regime and become a part of nation building and digital India. DishTV has a distribution network of over 2,272 distributors & over 243,740 dealers that span across 9,431 towns in India.

    Furthermore, the company has taken the pledge not to deal with the distributors and channel partners who have not been registered under GST regime till the enactment of Act.

    Now, DishTV has announced that 75% of distributors and trade partners have migrated to GST regime and have contributed their efforts along with the company in the objective of ‘One Nation and One Tax’ laid down by the prime minister.

    Dish TV leverages multiple satellite platforms including NSS-6, Asiasat 5, SES-8 and GSAT-15 which makes its total bandwidth capacity equal 846 MHz, amongst the largest held by any DTH player in India.

  • DishTV expands its portfolio by 23 channels

    MUMBAI: Dish TV has expanded its portfolio by adding 23 new channels. This includes nine high-definition channels and 14 standard definition channels, taking the total count of channels and services to more than 615.  

    High definition technology has taken the country by storm. Not only the urban but the rural hinterlands of the country have started adopting high definition viewing. 

    DishTV has taken the initiative to take HD to masses with the introduction of lowest entry pack and now with the addition of these 9 channels, the promise of widest range of HD channels continues. And with these additions, the company’s HD portfolio becomes stronger with a total of 68 HD channels on its platform. The list of channels are as follows:

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    Adding further to the offerings, DishTV has accumulated 14 standard definition channels to its gamut of channels and services. Having already built a strong connection with the regional audience through their eclectic range of regional channels, the addition of 14 more new regional standard definition channels exemplify DishTV’s commitment to cater to a wide range of viewers across all regions. The list of the respective channels are as follows-

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    In addition, to make HD more affordable and to get the most viewed HD channels at Rs.86 + taxes per month, DishTV has introduced HD Ala-carte (small HD entertainment add on packs) to capture the interest of consumers towards HD viewing by offering them more HD content and mix of genre at a nominal price of Rs.86+ taxes per month. This offering enables DishTV subscribers to select these ala-carte as per their preferences and needs. With this, DishTV made entry to HD very easy and simple with two-step process – select any base pack and add any of the HD ala-carte worth Rs.86 + taxes per month.

    Commenting on these additions DishTV India chief executive officer  Arun Kapoor said, “TV viewing in India has undergone a sea change over the years. From the days when people had a handful of channels, today, we live in an era where people are spoilt for choices. We at DishTV have always been at the forefront in enhancing TV viewing experience and exploring opportunities to bring wholesome entertainment to the audience. With a sharp focus on regional language content, the move aims at connecting strongly with the regional language subscribers. Addition of these 23 channels will not only strengthen our presence in the HD and SD space but will also diversify our offerings.”

  • DishTV partners with ICICI for digital payments

    MUMBAI: DishTV has tied up with ICICI Bank by consolidated assets, to make payments and recharges easier. The association enables subscribers of the DTH platform to recharge their connections on any Unified Payment Interface (UPI) enabled app and through *99#, a National Unified USSD Platform (NUUP) in a hassle free and cashless manner.

    Dish TV India CEO Arun Kapoor said, “This is another customer oriented initiative in the DTH industry to recharge through UPI transactions. This alliance with ICICI Bank through UPI will drive higher customer adoption and allow them to be a part of the digital economy. This will also aid our vastly spread customers with or without internet access to recharge conveniently. The nation is becoming cashless, so are our DishTV subscribers.”

    With an aim to increase digital transactions, DishTV will be rolling out special offers for its customers. DishTV subscribers can benefit from 50 per cent cashback (up to Rs.100) on their first UPI merchant transaction from ICICI Bank’s iMobile or Pockets app.

    ICICI Bank senior general manager and head digital channels Abonty Banerjee added, “ICICI Bank has played a key role in conceptualizing the UPI initiative along with NPCI to bring in interoperability among banks for ease in payments. We are happy to be associated with Dish TV to launch a unique solution that enables customers to renew their subscriptions simply from ICICI Bank’s iMobile, Pockets and other UPI enabled apps like BHIM among others. I am confident that Dish TV consumers will widely use the solution.”

    A DishTV subscriber can make a payment to UPI ID which is specific for each subscriber in the format. Payments can also be made without using internet through NUUP. Customers have to just dial *99# from their mobile number registered with their respective bank accounts, select the option ‘send money’ and enter the UPI ID as the payment address for making the payment.

  • DishTV adds Discovery’s sports channel ‘DSports’

    MUMBAI: DishTV has added the newly launched sports channel ‘DSports’ from the house of Discovery Communications. With this addition, DishTV now offers a total of 13 sports channels in Standard Definition, the highest to be offered by any DTH service provide.

    The all new premium sports channel in India, ‘DSports’ aims to redefine sports engagement and provide viewers an unmatched ‘live’ sporting action from across the globe, through its dynamic coverage of sporting events. The channel will broadcast football from Brazilian League, Chinese Super League, Portuguese League, and Major League Soccer (USA); golf from British Open, US Open, PGA Championship and LPGA; NASCAR motor racing, and six Nations Rugby along with UK and Irish horse racing events.

    On diversifying DishTV’s sports portfolio, DishTV Indiab chief executive officer Arun Kapoor said, “Being a pioneer and the market leader, DishTV has always stood up to the promise of providing uninterrupted and unlimited entertainment to the subscribers. By adding ‘DSports’ we intend to align India’s sports culture with international sporting events, and offer global exposure to our subscribers. We are delighted with this addition and will continue to enrich our portfolio for the viewers.”

    ‘DSports’ offers a rich catalogue that covers 4000+ hours of ‘live’ content every year. The channel is available on DishTV platform on LCN 654. As a promotional offer, the channel is free to preview for DishTV subscribers for a limited period.

  • Jahan Desh ke Rakshak wahan tak DishTV; special offer launched

    Jahan Desh ke Rakshak wahan tak DishTV; special offer launched

    MUMBAI: There is no greater love, than the love for one’s country. As India celebrated the 69th Army Day on 15 January, DishTV paid tribute to the valour, indomitable spirit and determination of the brave soldiers of the Indian Armed Forces.

    DishTV network reaches far-flung areas where the jawans of the Indian Army are posted. Highlighting this strength, DishTV has launched a campaign under the aegis ‘Jahan Desh ke Rakshak wahan tak DishTV.’

    Saluting the spirit of The Indian Armed Forces – DishTV has also announced special offers. The offers that are extended on the occasion of Army Day, give distinct benefits to the jawans of the Defence and Paramilitary forces and their families, to avail discounts on DishTV connections under the ‘Jai Jawan’ scheme. Under this scheme, on new acquisition of SD or HD connection, a Jawan can enjoy a host of special offers on the new set top box as well as on monthly recharge amount. The extra relocation charges have also been waived off for our brave sentinels.

    DishTV India CEO Arun Kapoor expressed, “It is truly an honour to salute our superheroes and brave hearts on Army Day. As an acknowledgement of their devotion to the nation, we have launched special offers for our Jawans in the Indian armed forces and their families. This is our commitment to recognising the armed forces’ selfless services and sacrifices.”

    As a tribute to the Armed forces altruistic services, the brand has extended services to the nation’s protectors by introducing a relocation plan specifically designed for armed force personnel and families who constantly on the move and are deputed to numerous locations. DishTV will waive off the relocation charges when the officers and Jawans shift to a new location. With these bundle of offers, they can take their DishTV connection everywhere they go at pocket-friendly prices and convenience.

    As an extension to the brand’s tribute to the army’s altruistic service to the nation, DishTV has also come up with a relocation plan specifically designed for armed forces personnel, who are constantly on the move and are posted to different locations. DishTV will waive off the relocation charges whenever the person shifts to a different area. Along with the bundle of benefits offered to the Jawans, they also take their DishTV connection everywhere they go at pocket-friendly prices and convenience.