Connect with us
MUMBAI: The MSO Alliance, a representative body of the cable TV industry, has demanded that the government should create a level playing field that would allow...
NEW DELHI: The government today referred to a group of ministers (GoM) the various changes being suggested in the uplinking policy. I&B minister Jaipal Reddy told...
NEW DELHI: The government today referred to a group of ministers (GoM) the various changes suggested in the uplink policy, including making sharing with Doordarshan on...
MUMBAI: Media stocks climbed steeply on Thursday, with companies involved in FM radio broadcasting the biggest advancers. The government today allowed the FM radio sector to...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), today gave the green signal for 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services with no entry...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has mooted a proposal of minimum net worth for all TV channels uplinking from India on the lines of norms prevalent...
MUMBAI: Now you see them now you don’t. The game of hide and seek that has been going on the last few years between adult channels...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today formally decided to allow publication of facsimile edition of foreign newspapers in the country as also investments by non-resident Indians...
NEW DELHI: The government today exhorted the telecom equipment manufacturers to ramp up their capacities to meet the burgeoning demands of the country’s telecom industry. ...
NEW DELHI: The government today said that it was not opposed to foreign direct investment (FDI) in the media, including print and electronic. Speaking at a...
NEW DELHI: The Government has promised to encourage private players in broadband. Speaking at the 13th Convergence India, the I&B minister Jaipal Reddy said, “We welcome...
NEW DELHI: The government has come under pressure on the issue of FM radio policy with a telecom and broadcast tribunal, TDSAT, asking it to come...
MUMBAI: The Ramesh Sharma-promoted Moving Picture Company India Ltd (MPCL) has received approval for uplinking its Delhi centric channel from the ministry of information & broadcasting....
NEW DELHI: The government today indicated that it is open to a revenue sharing model to help migrate the existing FM players into a new regime....
NEW DELHI: Turner International Inc of the USA, a Time Warner company, is expanding its activities in India envisaging localisation and increased production work, especially for...
NEW DELHI: What may bring smiles on the faces of many, the government today indicated that certified adult content could be allowed on television at late...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has approved Grey Worldwide India and B4U Multimedia International Limiter’s proposals involving foreign investment and changes sought in earlier clearances. B4U...
NEW DELHI: Kerala-based Asianet Communications Ltd is undergoing a shareholding restructuring that has got government approval Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, the government has given the...
MUMBAI: The Kerala government has issued a notification banning sale of all kinds of computer and online lottery tickets in the state. The order, which comes...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy today told a parliamentary panel that the government is considering putting a time limit for clearance of community...
BANGALORE: Finding the chief minister’s attitude ‘elusive’, the Kannada Film Producers Association (KFPA) has decided to start an agitation by taking to the streets against the...
NEW DELHI: The move will disappoint private players, but the government has formally ruled out any possibility of foreign investment in the private FM radio sector....
NEW DELHI: Fazed by the fact that dissemination of information on government’s achievements were not being done properly, the information and broadcasting ministry, has been made...
MUMBAI: Production staff of pubcaster Prasar Bharti have threatened to halt work across the country from 13 November if the government did not allow promotion of...
NEW DELHI: The government’s broadband policy announced today seems to be old wine in a new bottle and given to hype with a number of important...
MUMBAI: The government has reversed its decision to levy service tax on cable Multi-System Operators (MSOs). As per a notification issued on Friday; the decision was...
NEW DELHI: The government is unlikely to accept a recommendation of the broadcast and cable regulator that a revenue-sharing model be adopted during the second phase...
NEW DELHI: Whatever may be the final outcome of the bidding process for India cricket rights, on one thing there is certainty. All matches would be...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today admitted a petition seeking that direct-to-home (DTH) services available in the country be probed over what was termed the...
BANGALORE: Even as Bangalore had to forego its daily dose of the idiot box for the third consecutive day, the TV blackout is now threatening to...
Is what started with much promise, destined to end with a whimper? FM station Win, that pulled down shutters in Mumbai two months ago in protest...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is filing a caveat in the Delhi and Andhra Pradesh high courts in a case relating to the printing and publication...
NEW DELHI: The present government will not roll back any foreign investment norms in the media sector, including those changes brought about by the previous Bharatiya...
NEW DELHI: The finance ministry is likely to advise the information and broadcasting ministry that the licence fee of private radio FM players could be kept...
MUMBAI: It was a government announcement that was expected and so there it came as no surprise when the Centre issued a notification today putting the...
NEW DELHI: Even as the government is waiting for the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to come up with fresh recommendations on FM radio, the...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today hinted to the Pakistani government that it should lift the ban on Indian TV channels...
NEW DELHI: The government today admitted that from the time implementation of conditional access system (CAS) was deferred in the three metros of Kolkata, Mumbai and...
NEW DELHI: The government is not sure about the future of conditional access system (CAS) in either Delhi or in Mumbai and Kolkata. It is also...
The double speak from the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry continues. After announcing last week, that the government was throwing open the late night slot (between...
Presently, Government of India has a policy on uplinking of TV channels. The following two major benefits have accrued from this policy: (a) Outflow of...
The PBS (Public Broadcast Service in the USA) model and the BBC model for non-commercial channels are widely followed abroad, where the programmes are funded by...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court today reserved its judgement on a clutch of petitions on conditional access system (CAS) where the Central government is a...
NEW DELHI: The government today reiterated that it has nothing against any business venture run by Rupert Murdoch’s Star Group Pvt Ltd through its Indian arm...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today decided to tighten the screws for uplinking norms for news channels with foreign investment by bringing in safeguards against proxy...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is examining complaints regarding Music Broadcast Pvt. Ltd. (MBPL) being indirectly promoted and controlled by the Rupert Murdoch-owned Star Group. This...
NEW DELHI: The government feels that the case of Radio City should have been taken into consideration earlier while giving the licence to Music Broadcast Pvt...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: There is just no let-up for the team handling the Indian operations of Rupert Murdoch’s Star TV. After Star News, the latest...
MUMBAI: Following up on a suggestion made on Wednesday by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), industry and government officials today discussed...
NEW DELHI: It took the Indian government and bureaucrats almost six months to realise that conditional access system may not turn out to be as consumer...
