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  • Day 11: FM Phase III auction provisional winning price touches Rs 969 crore; Nasik shows sizeable rise

    Day 11: FM Phase III auction provisional winning price touches Rs 969 crore; Nasik shows sizeable rise

    NEW DELHI: Nasik became the only new city to enter the Rs 10 crore club even as the cumulative provisional winning price slowed down and touched Rs 969 crore against the aggregate reserve price of about Rs 425 crore at the end of 44 rounds on the eleventh day of bidding for FM Phase III.

     

    A total of 87 channels in 56 cities became provisionally winning channels with cumulative provisional winning price. Thus the summation of provisional winning prices surpassed the cumulative reserve price of the 87 channels by Rs 543.83 crore or 127.9 per cent.

     

    Overall, cumulative provisional winning price exceeded the total reserve price of Rs 550.18 crore of the first batch of 135 FM channels in 69 existing cities by Rs 418.68 crore or 76 per cent. 

     

    The Auction Activity Requirement remained for the second day at 90 per cent, which was raised after the 37th round on 7 August.

     

    The 13 cities for which no bids have come are Asansol, Gulbarga, Mangalore, Mysore, Puducherry, Rajahmundry, Siliguri, Tiruchy, Tirunveli, Tirupati, Tuticorin, Vijaywada and Warangal.

     

    The demand over the price in most cities fell down by up to three per cent and went down by four per cent below the aggregate demand in Gulbarga.

     

    The Percentage Price Increment (in INR) applicable for the Next Clock Round was just one per cent in Amritsar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, Hisar, Jaipur, Kolhapur, Mumbai, Nasik and Pune.

     

    The highest Provisional winning price – the same as the Clock round price at the start of the twenty-eighth round – was in Delhi at Rs 150.12 crore (for just one channel), followed by Bengaluru at Rs 106.04 crore and Mumbai at Rs 95.09 crore, showing marginal increase compared to yesterday.

     

    Among cities recording more than Rs 10 crore, it rose sizeably in Jaipur at Rs 25.92 crore and marginally in Chennai at Rs 44.23 crore, Pune at Rs 36.56 crore, Chandigarh at Rs 17.58 crore, Cochin at Rs 11.86 crore and Nasik where it crossed the Rs 10 crore figure today at Rs 10.20 crore.

     

    Thus Mumbai is the only citiy, which may soon cross the Rs 100 crore figure.

     

    Ahmedabad at Rs 42.68 crore, Hyderabad at Rs 18 crore, Patna at Rs 17.89 crore and Lucknow at Rs 14 crore remained static.

  • FM Phase III Day 10: Bengaluru provisional price crosses Rs 100 crore

    FM Phase III Day 10: Bengaluru provisional price crosses Rs 100 crore

    NEW DELHI: On the tenth day of FM Phase III bidding, Bengaluru became the second city along with Delhi to cross the Rs 100 crore figure even as the cumulative provisional winning price touched Rs 946 crore against their aggregate reserve price of about Rs 425 crore at the end of 40 rounds.

     

    A total of 86 channels in 56 cities became provisionally winning channels with cumulative provisional winning price. Thus the summation of provisional winning prices surpassed the cumulative reserve price of the corresponding 86 channels by Rs 521.45 crore or 122.7 per cent.

     

    Overall, the cumulative provisional winning price exceeded the total reserve price of the first batch of 135 FM channels in 69 existing cities is Rs 550.18 crore by Rs 396.15 crore or 72 per cent.

     

    The Auction Activity Requirement was raised to 90 per cent after the 37th round after being at 80 per cent from the beginning of the auction. 

     

    The 13 cities for which no bids have come in are Asansol, Gulbarga, Mangalore, Mysore, Puducherry, Rajahmundry, Siliguri, Tiruchy, Tirunveli, Tirupati, Tuticorin, Vijaywada and Warangal.

     

    The demand over the price in many cities fell by up to three per cent below the aggregate demand.

     

    The Percentage Price Increment (in INR) applicable for the Next Clock Round was five per cent in Jaipur and Nasik and just one in Amritsar, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, Hisar, Mumbai, Patiala and Pune.

     

    The highest Provisional winning price – the same as the Clock round price at the start of the twenty-eighth round – was in Delhi at Rs 144.27 crore (for just one channel), followed by Bengaluru at Rs 104.99 crore, which had a quantum jump and Mumbai at Rs 93.21 crore showing marginal increase compared to yesterday.

     

    Among cities recording more than Rs 10 crore, it rose sizeably in Jaipur at Rs 23.27 crore and marginally in Chennai at Rs 42.50 crore, Pune at Rs 35.14 crore, Patna at Rs 17.89 crore, Chandigarh at Rs 17.24 crore and Cochin at Rs 11.40 crore.

     

    Thus Mumbai is the only city, which may soon cross the Rs 100 crore figure, besides Delhi and Bengaluru.

     

    On the other hand, Ahmedabad at Rs 42.68 crore, Hyderabad at Rs 18 crore and Lucknow – Rs 14 crore remained static.

     

    The next round of auctions will now take place on Monday, 10 August. 

  • Day 9: FM Phase III price touches Rs 900 crore; demand slows

    Day 9: FM Phase III price touches Rs 900 crore; demand slows

    NEW DELHI: Even as the cumulative provisional winning price touched Rs 900 crore against their aggregate reserve price of about Rs 407 crore at the end of 36 rounds on the ninth day of bidding for FM Phase III, the percentage price increment (in INR) applicable for the Next Clock Round was almost nil in most cities.

     

    A total of 85 channels in 56 cities became provisionally winning channels after four more rounds today (6 August). Thus the summation of provisional winning prices surpassed the cumulative reserve price of the 85 channels by Rs 493.19 crore or 121.2 per cent. 

     

    The cumulative provisional winning price exceeded the total reserve price of the first batch by Rs 349.89 crore or 63.6 per cent. The total reserve price of the first batch of 135 FM channels in 69 existing cities is Rs 550.18 crore. 

     

    The Auction Activity Requirement of 80 per cent set at the beginning of the auction continued to remain the same on the ninth day. 

     

    As was previously reported by Indiantelevision.com, the 13 cities for which no bids have come are Asansol, Gulbarga, Mangalore, Mysore, Puducherry, Rajahmundry, Siliguri, Tiruchy, Tirunveli, Tirupati, Tuticorin, Vijaywada and Warangal.

     

    The demand over the price in many cities fell by up to three per cent below the aggregate demand. 

     

    The Percentage Price Increment (in INR) applicable for the Next Clock Round was five per cent in Jaipur and a mere one per cent in Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, Mumbai, Nasik, Patiala and Pune.

     

    The highest Provisional winning price – the same as the Clock round price at the start of the twenty-eighth round – was in Delhi at Rs 138.64 crore followed by Mumbai at Rs 91.38 crore with both showing marginal increase compared to yesterday. 

     

    Among cities recording more than Rs 10 crore, the number rose sizeably in Jaipur at Rs 19.15 crore and marginally in Chennai at Rs 40.84 crore, Pune at Rs 33.77 crore, Patna at Rs 17.!5

     

    89,83,876;, Chandigarh at Rs 16,90,34,565, and Cochin – Rs 10,95,52,597.

     

    Thus Bengaluru and Mumbai are the only cities which may soon cross the Rs 100 crore figure, besides Delhi which did so early in the e-auctions.

     

    Bengaluru – Rs 98,02,16,503, Ahmedabad – Rs 42,68,76,267, Hyderabad at Rs 18,00,00,000, and Lucknow – Rs 14,00,55,000 remained static.

  • Doordarshan Freedish to hold e-auction; looks to tot 112 TV channels

    Doordarshan Freedish to hold e-auction; looks to tot 112 TV channels

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan will be holding its 21st e-auction for its free-to-air DTH platform Freedish on 12 August in an attempt to touch the target of 112 television channels in the next few months.

     

    While Doordarshan has set a reserve price of Rs 3.7 crore per slot for the online e-auction, according to information available with Indiantelevision.com, the bid amount is said to have gone up to Rs 4.2 crore in earlier e-auctions.

     

    However, DD sources refused to divulge the number of slots being auctioned to prevent bidders from forming a consortia to bid or resort to other malpractices.

     

    DD sources also said that while Freedish may be encrypted to keep a tab on the number of subscribers, it would remain free-to-air.

     

    The e-auction will be conducted by C1 India Pvt. Ltd., Noida on behalf of Prasar Bharati.   

     

    The reserve price in the 15th e-auction was Rs 3 crore and was raised to Rs 3.7 crore in the 16th auction.

     

    Currently, Freedish has 64 channels including its own channels, and Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha TV.

     

    The eligibility terms and conditions including other relevant details for this e-auction are displayed on DD’s website- www.ddindia.gov.in. 

     

    However, the participation amount (EMD) in the e-auction is Rs 1.5 crore, which has to be deposited in advance on or before 12 August evening along with a non-refundable processing fee of Rs 10,000 in favour of PB (BCI) Doordarshan Commercial Service, New Delhi.

     

    Incremental amount for the auction will be Rs 10 lakh and the time for every slot e-auction will be of fifteen minutes duration.

     

    Of the reserve price, Rs 1.1 crore will be deposited within one month of placement and another Rs 1.1 crore within two months along with service tax of 14 per cent on the bid amount.

     

    The balance bid amount will be deposited within six months, failing which the reserve price will be forfeited. 

     

    Applicants must provide details of the uplink and downlink permission documents received from the concerned Ministries with the applications to ensure they are not rejected. 

     

    The demand drafts of unsuccessful bidders will be returned immediately or within a week after the e-auction process is completed.

  • FM Phase III Day 5: Delhi crosses Rs 100 crore as total bids touch Rs 714 crore

    FM Phase III Day 5: Delhi crosses Rs 100 crore as total bids touch Rs 714 crore

    NEW DELHI: Even as twenty rounds of FM Phase III e-auction ended with four more rounds today, the provisional winning price for one channel in Delhi crossed the Rs 100 crore mark.

     

    The bidding for this one channel in Delhi got Provisional winning price of Rs 105.23 crore, which is more than three times its reserve price of Rs 31.42 crore.

     

    At the close of the fifth day of bidding, 80 channels in 55 cities became provisionally winning channels with cumulative provisional winning price of around Rs 714 crore against their aggregate reserve price of about Rs 391 crore.

     

    Thus the summation of provisional winning prices exceeded the total reserve price of the first batch by about Rs 163.48 crore or 29.71 per cent. The total reserve price of the first batch of 135 channels in the existing 69 cities is Rs 550.18 crore.

     

    The fifth day of the e-auction was hectic but there were still no bids in as many as 14 cities though the provisional winning price steadied at the Clock round Price in the other cases.

     

    The Auction began for the fifth day with Auction Activity Requirement set at 80 per cent.

     

    The demand over the price in many cities fell by up to three per cent below the aggregate demand.

     

    The Percentage Price Increment (in INR) applicable for the Next Clock Round was five in the metros of Delhi and Mumbai, and in Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Rourkela, Jaipur, Kolhapur, Nagpur, Nasik, Patna, and Rajkot and eight per cent in Bhubaneswar.

     

    The highest Provisional winning price – the same as the Clock round price at the start of the twentieth round – was in Delhi – Rs 105.23 crore followed by Mumbai – Rs 82.72 crore with both showing sizeable increase compared to the first three days.

     

    Among cities recording more than Rs 10 crore, it rose sizeably in Bengaluru – Rs 54.58 crore; Ahmedabad – Rs 30.33 crore; Pune – Rs 29.11 crore and Chennai – Rs 29.82 crore and marginally in Chandigarh at Rs 15.92 crore.

     

    Hyderabad at Rs 18 crore, Lucknow at Rs 14 crore and Cochin at Rs 10.21 crore remained static.

  • Day 4: FM Phase III provisional winning price crosses Rs 550 crore mark

    Day 4: FM Phase III provisional winning price crosses Rs 550 crore mark

    NEW DELHI: The summation of provisional winning prices at the end of the fourth day of the FM Phase III surpassed Rs 550.18 crore, which is the total reserve price of 135 channels.

     

    The fourth day of the e-auction showed marked enthusiasm but there were still no bids in as many as 14 cities and the provisional winning price was lower than the Clock round Price in some cases.

     

    In all, 16 rounds of e-auction have been completed including four today (30 July) for the 135 FM channels in all the existing 69 cities of the first stage being opened.

     

    At the close of the fourth day of bidding, 80 channels in 55 cities became provisionally winning channels with cumulative provisional winning price of around Rs 643 crore against their aggregate reserve price of about Rs 391 crore.

     

    The auction began for the fourth day with Auction Activity Requirement set at 80 per cent.

     

    The demand over the price in many cities fell by up to three per cent below the aggregate demand.

     

    The Percentage Price Increment (in INR) applicable for the Next Clock Round was five per cent in the metros of Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, and in Bhubaneswar, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Rourkela, Jodhpur, and Pune.

     

    The highest Provisional winning price – the same as the Clock round price at the start of the sixteenth round – was in Delhi – Rs 86.57 crore, followed by Mumbai – Rs 78 crore with both showing sizeable increase compared to the first three days. On the other hand, Hyderabad was at Rs 18 crore, Lucknow at Rs 14 crore, Cochin at Rs 10. 21 crore and Chandigarh at Rs 15.76 crore.

     

    Among cities recording more than Rs 10 crore, it rose sizeably in Bengaluru – Rs 44.90 crore; Pune – Rs 29.11 crore; Chennai – Rs 25.50 crore and Ahmedabad – Rs 24.95 crore.

  • Day 2: FM Phase III sees increase of Rs 100+ crore in provisional winning price

    Day 2: FM Phase III sees increase of Rs 100+ crore in provisional winning price

    NEW DELHI: The second day of the e-auction for FM Radio channels in Phase III infused new enthusiasm though there were no bids in as many as 14 cities and the provisional winning price was lower than the Clock round price in some cases.

     

    In all, eight rounds of e-auction have been completed including four today for 135 FM channels in all the existing 69 cities of the first stage.

     

    At the close of second day of bidding, 79 channels in 55 cities became provisionally winning channels with cumulative provisional winning price of around Rs 479 crore against their aggregate reserve price of about Rs 377 crore.

     

    The auction began today with Auction Activity Requirement set at 80 per cent. A total of 26 bidders were allowed to participate in the auction. 

     

    The demand over the price in many cities fell by up to three per cent below the aggregate demand. 

     

    The Percentage Price Increment (in INR) applicable for the Next Clock Round was five per cent in the metros of Mumbai and Chennai, and in Bhubaneswar, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Rourkela, Jodhpur, and Pune, whereas in Delhi, it went up to eight per cent.

     

    The highest Provisional winning price – the same as the Clock round price at the end of the eighth round – was in Mumbai – Rs 55.43 crore; followed by Delhi – Rs 48.11 crore with both showing sizeable increase compared to the first day; Hyderabad – Rs 18 crore; and Lucknow – Rs 14 crore. Among cities recording more than Rs 10 crore, it rose sizeably in Bengaluru – Rs 30.39 crore; and marginally in Chennai – Rs 17.26 crore; Pune – Rs 19.7 crore; Ahmedabad Rs 16.89 crore and Cochin – Rs 10.21 crore (marginally lower than the clock round price), but fell just marginally in Chandigarh – Rs 15.61 crore.

     

    The ongoing auction is a Simultaneous Multiple Round Ascending (SMRA) e-auction, which is being conducted online from Auction Control Room No. 404 B Wing, Shastri Bhawan.

  • DD invites bids to conduct e-auction of vacant slots on Free Dish

    DD invites bids to conduct e-auction of vacant slots on Free Dish

    MUMBAI: On behalf of Prasar Bharati, Doordarshan has invited technical and financial bids from interested agencies to conduct e-auction of Direct To Home (DTH) vacant slots of DD Free Dish platform. 

     

    Prasar Bharati has decided to hire an agency for providing a secured e-auctioning platform to bring more transparency in the auctioning and process and allotment of DTH vacant slots of Free Dish to private channels on annual or monthly basis, which would enable legitimate bidders to participate in auction through internet using digital certificates (DSC). No physical presence of bidders would be required at DD premises at the time of bidding.

     

    Offered e-auction platform should be envisaged not only for time saving, but bring in transparency, cost effectiveness and efficiency in allotment of vacant slots of Free Dish, which would fetch better revenue for Doordarshan. 

     

    Interested bidders are expected to submit the “Financial and Technical” bids along with an Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) of Rs 1 lakh through demand draft/bankers cheque drawn in favour of “PB, BCI, DG: DD New Delhi” on any scheduled commercial bank payable at New Delhi to be enclosed with the technical bid. The last date for submission of the bids is 10 April, 2015. The opening of the financial bids will be intimated later to all technically qualified bidders.

     

    The bids will have to be submitted to  Facilitation Counter, Tower ‘A’, Doordarshan Bhawan, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi 110001.

     

    The Free Dish DTH platform is being expanded by increasing the capacity from the current 64 channels to 112 channels. The expansion would provide a total of 64 MPEG-2 channels and a total of 48 MPEG- 4 channels. Therefore more slots will be available on the Dish TV platform in future for private channels and all the vacancy will be filled purely on the basis of television.

     

    The successful bidder is expected to design, structure and implement the overall process of e-auction on a simultaneous, controlled, ascending basis including the e-aspects with the approval of Prasar Bharati.

     

    Further details can be availed here

  • DD Freedish revenue from e-auctions to reach Rs 120 crore by March

    DD Freedish revenue from e-auctions to reach Rs 120 crore by March

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s free-to-air direct-to-home Freedish platform, which was telecasting 59 channels until recently has added two more channels to its kitty. What’s more, the platform is further looking at adding three more channels to its offerings soon, taking the total number of channels to 64.

     

    In fact, another channel will come on board the platform before the end of the month, according to deputy director general C K Jain.

     

    Clarifying the situation, Jain told Indiantlevision.com that 61 channels had been allotted and another three would be allotted shortly. The last two channels to be allotted were Sony Pal and Dillagi, which is still to go on air.

     

    A total of 20 e-auctions have been held so far, the latest being earlier this week. DD expects to reach a target of Rs 120 crore through these auctions by the end of March this year.

     

    Doordarshan had set a reserve price of Rs 3.7 crore per slot for the 20th online e-auction, though Indiantelevision.com learnt that the bid amount went up to Rs 4.2 crore in the 17th e-auction held on 12 November.

     

    The attempt is to touch the target of 112 television channels in the next few months, Jain said. He said that the delay had been partly due to some technical problems, which were being sorted.

     

    Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar had said recently that the future of Doordarshan was in Freedish and digitisation. He had added that this may mean that some channels would have to be attracted to Freedish by means other than e-auction.

     

    DD sources also said that while Freedish may be encrypted to keep a tab on the number of subscribers, it would however remain free-to-air.

     

    As all these channels are on MPEG2. Freedish, which uses Insat 4B, is migrating from its old platform to a new upgraded platform with MPEG4 in an attempt to increase its capacity. The migration would result in increase of TV channels from 59 to 64 and radio channels from 22 to 24.

     

    Sircar had said in November that while most were coming through e-auctions, some popular channels may have to be ‘attracted’ to join Freedish since satellite television was the future.  

     

    To access the upgraded platform, the viewers need to edit the transponder parameter by changing only the symbol rate from 27500Ksps to 28500 Ksps in four transponders and retune/rescan their Set Top Box (STB) to receive the upgraded TV and radio channels.

     

    Viewers/subscribers who do not rescan their STB will continue to get ten channels for a period of seven days only from the date of upgradation. Out of these ten channels, one channel is an informative channel, which will show detailed procedure for re-tuning the STBs. 

  • Doordarshan’s Freedish to switch to an upgraded platform to increase capacity

    Doordarshan’s Freedish to switch to an upgraded platform to increase capacity

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s Freedish, India's only free direct-to-home (DTH) service, is migrating from its old platform to a new upgraded one with effect from midnight of 9 January (12.05 am of 10 January) in its attempt to increase its capacity.

    The migration would result in increase of TV channels from 59 to 64 and radio channels from 22 to 24.

    Prasar Bharati chief executive officer Jawhar Sircar said recently that the pubcaster would have to strengthen its DTH platform, Freedish if it has to survive.

    He had announced in November that Freedish was expected to go up to 112 television channels in the next few months but he had made it clear to the government that while most were coming through e-auctions, some popular channels may have to be ‘attracted’ to join Freedish since satellite television was the future. He said he was not opposed to digital terrestrial transmission but advances in technology may make it obsolete.  

    In fact in a pace that has surprised many, Doordarshan has held 19 e-auctions for Freedish as on 12 December.

    DD Sources also said that while Freedish may be encrypted to keep a tab on the number of subscribers, it would remain free-to-air.

    To access the upgraded platform, the viewers need to edit the Transponder Parameter by changing only the Symbol Rate from 27500 Ksps to 28500 Ksps in four transponders and retune/rescan their Set Top Box to receive the upgraded TV and radio channels.

    Freedish viewers can get further information regarding retuning/rescanning of their Set Top Boxes on DD's official website: ddindia.gov.in

     Viewers/subscribers who do not rescan their Set Top Box will continue to get only ten channels for a period of seven days only from the date of upgradation. Out of these ten channels, one channel is an informative channel which will show detailed procedure for re-tuning the Set Top Boxes.