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MUMBAI: India’s prominent spiritual network, Aastha Broadcasting Network Ltd (ABNL), is setting up a Wholly Owned Subsidiary (WOS) in Singapore. The subsidiary will take care of...
MUMBAI: Satellite communications provider Intelsat has announced that the IA-8 satellite has been successfully launched aboard Sea Launchs Zenit-3SL rocket. Intelsat states that the satellite, built...
MUMBAI: Satellite communications company New Skies Satellites (NSS) has signed an agreement with Hong Kong-based Asia Times Online to deliver direct-to-home (DTH) television in Southeast Asia...
MUMBAI: Several Bengali language channels have recently hit the market, fighting for space in an expanding environment. The latest is Bangla Music Television, floated by UK-based...
NEW DELHI: After having proposed that all TV channels beaming from outside India, should register themselves in India, the government is now toying with cross-media restrictions....
MUMBAI: Even as the government gives a green signal to the Tata-Star DTH venture — Space TV and Sun Network’s DTH platform, consumer electronics company Oscar...
Digital cable. Unique content channels. Broadband. These are the services we have to push forward. And we have to do it fast,” says Hathway Cable &...
MUMBAI: China Central Television (CCTV) has signed a multi-year expansion agreement with PanAmSat for the distribution of its premium programming to Western Africa. The new contract...
MUMBAI: Zone Vision Networks has signed an agreement with CBNSat to launch its Reality TV channel in Sri Lanka. The channel will be among those being...
MUMBAI: Reality TV is expanding its reach in Asia. Zone Vision Networks, which owns and operates the channel, has signed an agreement with CBNSat to launch...
MUMBAI: Some European channels like Euro News and Euro Sport News are looking at hopping on to Doordarshan’s DTH platform to increase visibility in India. Indian...
Now more than ever, cable companies realise the need to upgrade service and content as they face the threat from direct-to-home (DTH) and telecom operators who...
The Southern television space, which is second only to the Hindi space in viewership and ad spend, has been a key market for the country‘s prominent...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company (India) Pvt. Ltd. has appointed Shantanu Nalavadi as director of business development with immediate effect. This was announced by The Walt...
MUMBAI: The direct-to-home (DTH) market is set for an explosion. Revenues from DTH operations is expected to touch Rs 40 billion in 2010, up from Rs...
NEW DELHI: Sun TVs direct-to-home (DTH) service licence is on its way with the path being cleared for the issuance of a letter of intent (LoI)....
MUMBAI: Sun Network will launch its Tamil channel Sun TV on the Malaysian Astro Direct-To-Home satellite multi-channel television platform in July this year. “Early this year,...
On 17 May, a Tuesday, even as the new information and broadcasting ministry secretary SK Arora, after taking over from his predecessor Navin Chawla, was telling...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: European broadcaster Thema TV, which has five channels in its stable, is targeting India and Asia aggressively through DTH and cable platforms and has...
NEW DELHI: Country’s first free DTH service – DD Direct Plus- operated by pubcaster Doordarshan has claimed that 150,000 boxes have been sold till now, even...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Cricket or no cricket, the Subhash Chandra promoted Zee Telefilms is ready to play ball and much more with its proposed sports...
MUMBAI: Essel Group’s 24-hour interactive and gaming channel PlayTV, managed by Dakshin Media Solutions, is now on air. The channel, which was soft-launched on 1 April,...
NEW DELHI: Thema TV is here from France and brings along a slew of channels and content, including Trace TV, formerly known as MCM, which is...
MUMBAI: CTV Specialty Television Inc, along with US-based Discovery Communications, has filed an application with the CRTC for a new High Definition television specialty service called...
MUMBAI: In a significant development, the Star Group today announced the formation of a new division called Star Ventures to manage and maximise the value of...
MUMBAI: The ministry of company affairs has not come out openly in support of the information and broadcasting ministry’s contentions on Space TV. Preferring to lob...
MUMBAI: TAM India will be presenting three papers at the WAM conference in Canada this June. This comes close on the heels of TAM’s success at...
MUMBAI: The Dubai-headquartered Geo TV, flagship channel of the Pakistan-based Jang group of media companies, has decided to shift from a single channel entity to being...
MUMBAI: Dubai headquartered Geo TV, the flagship channel from the Pakistan-based Jang group of media companies, has now decided to spread it wings and is eyeing...
MUMBAI: With new technologies like broadband emerging, the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is developing a treaty, which will update the rights of broadcasters in...
MUMBAI: Information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy’s inaugural address at Ficci-Frames 2005 today gave the entertainment industry at large a reason to smile as he reiterated...
NEW DELHI: The Department of Company Affairs (DCA) willing, Space TV may finally see some light at the end of the long bureaucratic tunnel. The information...
NEW DELHI: Channel 7 from the media group Jagran went formally on air today, promising different treatment to its programming tilted towards non-fiction and hopped on...
MUMBAI: In what appears to be a test case for the broadcast regulator’s diktat on providing content to all platforms on a nondiscriminatory basis, Dish TV...
Kalanithi Maran is getting ready for his next big project. The Sun Network chairman and managing director has applied for a license to operate a direct-to-home...
MUMBAI: At a function last evening CII-KPMG released a report titled Focus 2010-Dreams to Reality. The report focuses on film, television, radio and music. As far...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Sun Group has applied for a direct-to-home (DTH) license, planning to enter an arena already occupied by Subhash Chandra’s Dish TV. Also planning to...
NEW DELHI: News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch today held one of the longest meetings with a representative of the Indian Government, information and broadcast minister Jaipal...
HONG KONG: Waiting to exhale. That could well describe the story for the Star Group’s having to exercise Buddha-like patience over the Indian government’s lack of...
NEW DELHI: Loral Skynet, subsidiary of the US-based Loral Space & Communications, is now targeting India with its IP-led services and feels that the country’s DTH...
NEW DELHI: Flushed with the success its free DTH service (over 2.5 million subscribers claimed) is enjoying, national broadcaster Doordarshan is now toying with the idea...
“Is it going to rain today? Let me check the news.” How many of us in India say that? Not too many, is the guess. But...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Bewafaa (unfaithful)! The title of Bollywood’s latest “masala” offering could well describe what the media and entertainment industry might be thinking of...
MUMBAI: The Korea Digital Cable TV Summit 2005, organized by Media Partners Asia (MPA) and the Korean Cable TV Association (KCTA), will be held on 8...
NEW DELHI: Its now official. News Corp chairman and media czar Rupert Murdoch is coming on his fifth visit to India in the second half of...
NEW DELHI: The Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group, News Corps pan-Asian venture, is expected to clock a profit of over $ 100 million for financial year (FY)...
MUMBAI: Dubai-based Arab Digital Distribution (ADD) is planning to launch its Pehla Navratna bouquet of nine South Indian channels in March. The Direct to Home (DTH)...
MUMBAI: While lauding its efforts to migrate to a digital era, affluent industry bodies like the Motion Picture Association of America (MPA) and US-India Business Council...
MUMBAI: Satellite operator Panamsat has announced that its subsidiary, Panamsat Asia has acquired some business assets from the receivers of Tarbs World TV Australia. Tarbs is...
Regulation, as opposed to the market, largely determined trends in India’s cable and satellite distribution business over the past 12 months. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of...
