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MUMBAI: The ongoing face-off between sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports and cable MSO Hathway Datacom that has left soccer enthusiasts gnashing their teeth in frustration has...
NEW DELHI: The cable operators are at it once again and this time the allegations are more precise and mince no words. From conditional access to...
NEW DELHI: The present Congress-led coalition Indian government has an “open mind” on news on FM radio and foreign investment cap in news and DTH ventures....
MUMBAI: Discovery Networks International is set to launch a portfolio of lifestyle channels outside the US and has chosen India as the country to start with....
NEW DELHI: With a launch date still not fixed, a certain section in Doordarshan now thinks that starting a free Ku-band direct-to-home (DTH) TV service is...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), which is slated to come out with its recommendations on the cable industry...
NEW DELHI: Zee Telefilms and ASC Enterprise-promoted Dish TV, India’s first KU-band DTH televisions service, will hop on to NSS-6 from an Insat satellite in July....
MUMBAI: Zee network has joined hands with the television service provider Belgacom to broadcast its third television channel, regional language channel Alpha Etc Punjabi, on Eutelsat’s...
MUMBAI: The Los Angeles-based producer and distributor of entertainment news and lifestyle-related programming E! Networks is aggressively pursuing its South East Asia expansion plans. The channel...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Doordarshan, looking at launching a direct-to-home (DTH) television service in the third week of June, is hopeful that most of the popular...
MUMBAI: The animation industry seems to be gearing up and how! With deals galore being signed, the Indian animation industry has its plates full. Padmalaya Telefilms,...
MUMBAI:The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is now mulling if it should make it mandatory for broadcasters to have open access of their contents on non-discriminatory...
NEW DELHI: Even as Indian pubcaster Doordarshan is fine-tuning its act to launch its proposed KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service via a non-Indian satellite early June,...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms has reported net profit of Rs 876 million for the Q4 2004, an increase of 8.4 per cent compared to the corresponding quarter...
MUMBAI: Prannoy Roy’s NDTV channels have just completed a month on air on Pehla, the DTH platform in the Gulf targeting viewers from the subcontinent. Pehla...
CANNES: Zee TV group outfit Padmalya Telefilms will be developing a kids channel as part its relationship with Italian firm Mondo TV. The channel called Space...
CANNES: Zee TV group outfit Padmalya Telefilms will be developing a kids channel as part its relationship with Italian firm Mondo TV. The channel called Space...
NEW DELHI: The countdown to the launch of DTH services by pubcaster Prasar Bharati was upped a notch today after the pubcaster signed a memorandum of...
Indian entertainment television’s first name in programming has a theory. And as Star India gets set to celebrate Year Four as top dog in the broadcast...
NEW DELHI: Having managed to gain a toehold in the market, Dish TV, the first KU-band DTH service in the country, is now looking at expanding...
MUMBAI: The broadcast regulator announced today it had set up a committee whose mandate was to work on the various issues relating to cable television and...
MUMBAI: It has put all its fingers in as many pies and is gunning for more. Obviously, it needs funds to keep the mega plans going....
NEW DELHI: The Budgetary support to the information and broadcasting ministry for 2004-05 fiscal year has been hiked by over Rs 3,000 million, signifying hectic activity...
NEW DELHI: The sceptics can gulp. The ASC Enterprise and Zee combine promoted Dish TV direct-to-home (DTH) KU-band television service has signed a deal with ESPN...
MUMBAI: It was on Wednesday that the Telecom Authority of India (TRAI) chairman Pradip Baijal set the cat among the “cable pigeons” when he declared that...
MUMBAI: It is not just Dubai-based Taj Television that is expecting to make a killing out of India’s upcoming tour of Pakistan, India’s first tour to...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: News Corp’s Star Group and Tata Sons today announced the inking of a deal for a 20:80 joint venture agreement for a...
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has taken umbrage to Subhash Chandra companies — ASC Enterprise and Zee Telefilms — including more than the mandated number of Doordarshan...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms is at it again. And this time it wants to add a religious channel to the stable. The proposed...
Sameer Nair, the chief operating officer of Star India, an arm of the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group Pvt Ltd, can be a reticent man. Very unlike...
MUMBAI: BBC World will now be included on Hong Kong’s first direct to home digital pay TV platform, exTV, following an agreement signed with the operator,...
NEW DELHI: The Alva brothers promoted Miditech, a TV software production house, is looking at joining hands with a broadcaster (like the one TV 18 had...
NEW DELHI: Continuing to report good financial performance, the publicly traded Television Eighteen Ltd (TV 18), the majority stakeholder in the CNBC TV18 business news channel...
NEW DELHI: The Bill relating to the proposed Broadcast Content Regulatory Authority of India may not be taken up by policy-makers during the present winter session...
HONG KONG: Shin Satellite and Asia Satellite Telecommunications (Asiasat) have announced that the administrations of China and Thailand have concluded a frequency coordination agreement between both...
MUMBAI: British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) has hit a viewer milestone. On Friday, the UK/ Ireland satellite TV platform controlled by News Corp claimed that it had...
MUMBAI: In India it may be Max that has C&S telecast rights for the World Cup, but in Pakistan it is Ten Sports. Ten Sports has...
You have to give it to the Hong Kong-based James Field, director solutions, NDS Asia Pacific. Field might be staring at another tough assignment as he...
NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today evening okayed pubcaster Doordarshan’s forays into KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service and gave a nod to...
Conditional access system (CAS), new uplinking norms for the TV news channels, KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service finally on the horizon – it has been action...
CANNES: News Corp president and chief operating officer supported and defended the group’s proposal to put Star Asia boss James Murdoch at the helm at BSkyB...
MUMBAI: Three more exclusive movie channels are expected to come on board Zee’s direct-to-home (DTH) venture DishTV, after Smile and Premier TV – the two home...
NEW DELHI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) is looking at tapping the vast potential and opportunities that is offered by domestic Indian sports apart from cricket. As...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said, the government would soon formulate a comprehensive media policy after having wide-ranging consultations with...
NEW DELHI: India today dumped onto the backburner its attempt to have an over-arching law for the convergence era (telecom, broadcasting and infotech) with a high-powered...
NEW DELHI: Star may have decided to play it down where Star News and its proposed DTH venture were concerned, but on the Radio City, its...
NEW DELHI: Having managed to sew up a suitable deal and partner for Star News, the Rupert Murdoch’s pan-Asian media venture Star Group Ltd has now...
NEW DELHI: Consumer Electronics and TV Manufacturers Association (Cetma), an apex body of electronics goods makers in the country, today exhorted the government to ensure a...
NEW DELHI: The Essel Group promoted ASC Enterprises Limited (ASCEL) has become the first company in India to finally receive and sign the licence agreement for...
LOS ANGELES: MGM Networks has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement for the MGM Plus channel. This is a second branded network which will...
