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NEW DELHI: Comments of the home ministry are still awaited on Star India’s proposal to uplink from India for its news channel. It is only after...
HONG KONG: Asia Satellite Telecommunications has signed telecoms carrier Reach Ltd as the first subscriber on its AsiaSat 4 to be launched in March this year....
On a macro perspective, one of the biggest challenges that Zee will have to face is the current national as well as international political and economic...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch may be having problems getting clearance for his Star News and DTH projects in India but in China he appears to be making...
MUMBAI: JP Morgan India’s report on the Indian cable industry titled: “CAS: The Medicine for a chronic ailment” points out that the consumer opting for pay...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: AsiaSat 4, which will launch in March is completing its final integrated system test. Critical tests are being conducted to achieve the highest...
2002. Now that the Convergence Bill has been tabled, we should have a convergence law by mid to late this year. After five years of wait...
NEW DELHI: It’s a classic case of so near, yet so far. The debate over open architecture set top boxes continues even as broadcasters twiddle their...
Recent legislation in India mandates the use of conditional access systems (CAS) for pay TV channels. Presently, every subscriber to the network receives all the channels...
The Zee Group, in a major restructuring bid as advised by AT Kearney, has brought all of its diverse activities and businesses under four broad categories...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia’s (Casbaa 2002) conference ended on 5 December in Singapore’s splendid Esplanade Theatres on Bay complex on a...
NEW DELHI: NDTV’s proposed news channels in Hindi and English are slated to be launched between end-March and early April 2003, according to a senior executive...
Star TV India is bringing in television industry veteran Altaf Ali Mohammed to look after its digital platform – DTH and broadband – in India. Mohammed...
The Prasar Bharati board yesterday gave the corporation the go-ahead to explore a DTH service in partnership with non-broadcasters. The corporation is believed to be exploring...
SINGAPORE: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has released the latest figures and forecasts for Asia Pacific’s pay-TV industry. The figures can be...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj told Parliament that it was not possible to indicate as to when KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) service will...
Despite consistent lobbying by a clutch of broadcasters right from Zee TV to Star TV to Prasar Bharati chief RR Shah, the government is not going...
MUMBAI: “The window of opportunity is getting smaller as new technologies offer alternatives.” That was the warning sounded by Eutelsat’s regional director for Middle East and...
MUMBAI: Andhra Pradesh Network (Apnet) – the interactive distance learning DTH project instituted by the Andhra Pradesh government – has moved up a gear as far...
NEW DELHI: For those broadcasters and media companies who were thinking that the Indian government would relax and / or review the DTH policy guidelines, there...
Tomorrow India‘s BJP-led 18-odd party coalition NDA government completes three years in office.So does the information and broadcasting ministry, in a way the nodal organisation for...
NEW DELHI: The recommendations of the NK Singh panel on FDI that the media cap of 20 per cent in a DTH venture should be hiked...
NEW DELHI: Action seems to be happening slowly on the DTH front. Now, the information and broadcasting ministry will prepare a note on set-top boxes for...
Deutsche Welle (DW) Television entered India in 1996. A niche channel, it has been perceived as a channel only for the German speaking audiences. But the...
NEW DELHI: Broadcasters like Star that were hoping that the government may relax various investment and revenue sharing clauses in the policy guidelines announced on direct-to-home...
NEW DELHI: If it’s not CAS, then it has to be DTH. The government is now examining the issue of “open architecture” and whether a thing...
NEW DELHI: If it’s not CAS, then it has to be DTH. The government is now examining the issue of “open architecture” and whether a thing...
The conditional access system (CAS) issue took another political hue today when Samajwadi Party politician and member of Parliament Amar Singh lashed out at the government...
The Indian government is believed to be considering a proposal to lift the 20 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) cap in direct-to-home broadcasting ventures to...
The three member high-level committee appointed for the restructuring of Prasar Bharati has finally submitted its report to the government after much delay. The committee consisting...
The Indian government is a in a no-nonsense mood. It has asked Mumbai-based Space Television, a little known company which is the first company to apply...
Sony Entertainment Television is off DTH television screens in the US for the past four days. The reason: DTH provider Direct TV has switched off the...
The old bugbear is finally out of the way. Ku-band direct to home television (DTH) looks set to get the go-ahead finally after a three year...
The new Indian information and broadcasting Sushma Swaraj seems hell-bent on earning that sobriquet. Reason: not even two days into the job and she is already...
Sushma Swaraj does not cease to surprise you. The first statement she made after taking over as I&B minister was that she wanted TV to be...
Urdu Television Network which has been beaming a test signal for the past three months is making its debut on 1 November. UTN is promoted by...
The group of ministers on DTH – headed by home minister L.K. Advani – met once again on 30 October and said they had no reservations...
Much is made of direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast as the new convergence mantra and conditional access these days, especially after Star TV Asia chairman James Murdoch, and...
Indian movies have always been a big draw in the former Soviet Union as well as the central Asian republics. it might not be too long...
The second edition of the annual global convention on the business of entertainment – Ficci Frames (Films Radio Audio-visuals Music Events and Shows) 2002, kicked off...
No one seems to be knowing this piece of wisdom better than Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra. The doughty businessman is fighting back. And how. Over...
It may sound Utopian, but the Entertainment Report, put out by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Ernst & Young, believes that a self-regulatory body...
The year that was in television 2001: it was a year of upheaval for the Indian television industry. A year that was characterised by: *deflating ad...
In order to ensure complete integration of various divisions of Star Network and facilitate the growth of the channel’s new business ventures fresh recruitments to senior...
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) and GlobeCast have signed a new lease agreement for half of a 36 MHz C-band transponder on AsiaSat 2. GlobeCast...
The only constant in today’s Media industry is change. Given the growth and significance of this industry in the global economy, this change puts industry players...
When the DTH notification was issued by the information & broadcasting (I&B) ministry this week, it was not clear whether the 20 per cent restriction was...
Jain Studios Ltd chairman Dr J.K. Jain is keen on setting up a DTH platform and would do so, within three months of finding a partner....
DTH Regulations worldwide Country Foreign Equity restriction Cross-media ownership Restriction Licence period Domestic uplink requirement Australia Limited to 35% in total; no individual to own...
The group of ministers is once again meeting and discussing the opening up Ku-band DTH television even as this copy is being posted on indiantelevision.com on...
