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MUMBAI: Opentech Inc, a Korean company, that produces high end digital satellite broadcast receivers of DVB-S and MPEG-2 standards, is planning to set up a liaison...
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Communications and IT has raised the issue of interoperability of set-top boxes (STBs) to be used in the implementation of conditional...
NEW DELHI: The battle between Rupert Murdoch and his one-time-but-now-estranged-ally Subhash Chandra has taken a new turn with Essel Group – the umbrella entity under which...
NEW DELHI: Even as Noida Software Technology Park Ltd (NSTPL) becomes the fifth applicant for a direct-to-home (DTH) television service licence, Dish TV, a DTH venture...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is contemplating whether pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which manages the affairs of Doordarshan and All India Radio, can be given some concession...
NEW DELHI: If the news channel was not enough of a pain for Star, the government today admitted in Parliament that Space TV’s application for direct-to-home...
MUMBAI: A Kotak Securities report dated 29 July 2003 says that the firm has retained its ‘in-line’ rating for Zee Telefilms Ltd at a target level...
MUMBAI: The “print fight” (mainly) between India’s leading publication The Times Of India and leading broadcaster Rupert Murdoch’s Star has reached boiling point. Over the past...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has added a dedicated Middle East beam to its geography-specific beams. With this, SET now has six localised feeds, one each...
NEW DELHI: In case people have forgotten, today was when CAS was supposed to have become effective as per the original deadline. ‘Indian broadcasters’ marked the...
NEW DELHI: After the turn of KU-band DTH, print media and satellite uplinking, it’s the turn of foreign news agencies to be under the scanner of...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: On Wednesday it was the big broadcasters (excluding Zee Telefilms) that threw their “pricing spanner” in the works of the conditional access...
As uncertainty continues to swirl around the rollout of conditional access systems in the country, the belief that it might be better to wait for direct...
MUMBAI: “The post-CAS scenario – good interplay of market forces; healthy intervention of the government!” These were the words with which information and broadcasting minister Ravi...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government may open up FM radio sector to news and current affairs programming as also the content being provided by a foreign...
NEW DELHI: Since 29 May, the smile on Jawahar Goel’s face has broadened and the additional vice-chairman of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms just cannot hide...
NEW DELHI: There is some opposition brewing to the information and broadcasting ministry’s recent issuance of a conditional letter of intent (LoI) to Star India-promoted Space...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel group is looking at having over 20 third party television channels and 12 satellite radio channels as part of the...
NEW DELHI: CNBC Asia has taken an equity position in Television Eighteen India – the quantum has not been revealed. The Mauritius registered company, which earlier...
NEW DELHI: Television Eighteen India has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that it will comply with the government order issued in mid-March restricting foreign equity investments...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today told policy makers that pubcaster Doordarshan was opting for a KU-band DTH scheme at an estimated...
NEW DELHI: Zee Telefilms today announced the launch of Trendz, a 24-hour fashion and style channel from 1 May (reported first by indiantelevision.com on Friday). Subhash...
NEW DELHI: The Zee-Turner distribution platform is taking in another entrant. Zee is set to announce next week the addition of a lifestyle channel T (Trends)...
NEW DELHI: Minister for information and broadcasting Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that there is no proposal to reconsider the FDI limits in DTH service. ...
New Delhi: The direct-to-home (DTH) platform of Doordarshan, which is expected to initially have about 50 free-to-air television channels, will be on ‘C’ Band and not...
SINGAPORE: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has announced the promotion of Adam Zecha from vice president to senior V-P, affiliate sales. Zecha was part of the...
MUMBAI: The broadcasting and cable fraternity is certainly not smiling. To add to their existing problems in an evolving market such as India, non-media companies are...
NEW DELHI: Do you want to watch a cricket match on television while stretched out on the backseat of your car and receive live news and...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Guess what? The Big Daddy of them all – Doordarshan – is about to enter the direct to home (DTH) arena. It...
NEW DELHI: At a time when the world over KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service works better in a monopolistic situation or at best in a duopoly,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Atlas 3B(AC -204), the two-stage rocket capable of lifting payloads of upto 4500 kgs carried an Asian communication satellite, Asiasat 4, in space...
MUMBAI: Ministry of company affairs has rejected most of the contentions of the information and broadcasting ministry relating to Space TV application, while upholding a clause...
NEW DELHI: The issue of standardisation of set-top boxes for KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service continues to be a thorny issue contributing to a delay in...
MUMBAI: There is a lot of uncertainty amongst the cable trade in Mumbai, the country’s business capital, about the roll-out of conditional access system (CAS) in...
NEW DELHI: Time to pop the double bubbly at Essel/Zee, it seems. First HITS, now DTH! It is learnt from government sources that the file relating...
Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea these days rues the fact that he is not getting enough time for golf and, thus, relaxation and exercise. Shuttling between...
MUMBAI: A JP Morgan report concludes that direct to home services (DTH) could suffer and are unlikely to commence in the medium term. The JP Morgan...
Finally, the rules of the news channel game have been spelt out. It‘s as good a time as any to examine the implications. First the rules....
MUMBAI: “The potential is there as an alternate platform. But to drive DTH forward the government should rethink its stand on cross media ownership restrictions as...
NEW DELHI: Cold water has been poured over the expectations of Star and Zee-ASC combine if they thought the government would move away from its promised...
NEW DELHI: At a time when the Economic Survey has said that India continues to lag behind other Asian developing countries like China, Hong Kong, Singapore...
NEW DELHI: A group of ministers (GoM) is slated to discuss tomorrow foreign direct investment (FDI) in various sectors, including direct to-home television broadcasting venture, and...
MUMBAI: A recent JP Morgan report titled “Budget FY04 Preview – easy on consumers, harsh on corporates” says the media sector will receive a positive impetus...
NEW DELHI: DTH has always been a controversial issue in India, if one takes into account the much-hyped press conference by Star in Delhi on DTH...
PARIS: Satellite operator Eutelsat, which claims to be the main capacity provider for TV and radio broadcasting in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, has...
NEW DELHI: With the latest buzz in the information and broadcasting ministry being self-regulation, it seems that former I&B minister Sushma Swaraj’s grand plans to have...
NEW DELHI: If the availability of set-top boxes (STBs) is one of the speed breakers to a smooth passage of implementation of conditional access system in...
PARIS: One of Eutelsat’s major clients, GlobeCast has announced the launch of its new proprietary digital DTH platform on the Eutelsat Hot Bird satellite via its...
CALIFORNIA: Amidst unfavourable economic conditions and the melt down in the telecommunications industry, the satellite transponder capacity leasing market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
NEW DELHI: The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has decided to form a task force to come up with recommendations on the specifications of set-top boxes...
