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NEW DELHI: The government today expressed optimism that the stakeholders of the industry would come out with solutions to various contentious issues, including the pricing of...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today further tightened the screws on the broadcast and cable industry on conditional access system (CAS) by issuing a notification that...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government wants to ensure a smooth rollout of conditional access system (CAS) in the first phase in the four metros — maybe...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government came in for flak from a certain section of policy makers in the Upper House (Rajya Sabha) of the Indian parliament...
NEW DELHI: The local law of the land cannot be taken for granted and its adherence should be must. This seems to be the strict message...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: In a move that puts paid to the pay channels’ plans to offer bundled bouquets in a post-CAS regime, the government is...
NEW DELHI: The government is contemplating going in for revenue sharing with the licence holders of the second round of licences for FM radio. The...
NEW DELHI: The government today announced a transitory arrangement in the guidelines for news channels desirous of uplinking from India, allowing a maximum period of three...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad seems to have set the cat amongst the pigeons when he informed the Indian parliament that there...
MUMBAI: The Consumer Electronics Traders and Manufacturers Association wants basic customs duty on set top boxes to stay at 10 per cent which will prevent fly...
MUMBAI: BJP member of parliament (MP) Kirit Somaiya is sending out a message that he means business. Apart from announcing on 15 February that he would...
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...
NEW DELHI: The government has issued guidelines for permitting 26 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in news and current affairs publications in a venture subject...
NEW DELHI: The government, in association with Prasar Bharati, has decided that cable TV services will be started in all those places in the country where...
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...
One thing that has been more than amply borne out in the communal conflagration that has engulfed Gujarat is that the government is speaking in different...
The winds of DTH they are a blowin? Last week indiantelevision.com had reported that news emanating from Delhi indicated that that Star India had applied for...
Except in print, other media seem to getting it easy from the government. The Indian government has further liberalised foreign direct investment (FDI) in advertising by...
In an effort to increase entertainment tax collections from cable operators, the Maharashtra government has announced that it will collect duty on cable television through public...
The government has permitted 13 companies to set up 14 uplinking hubs and teleports in the country. It has liberalised the uplinking policy to permit private...
Zee News, which has secured exclusive rights to the full transcript of the explosive Tehelka tapes, will be screening the tapes beginning Thursday, industry sources confirmed...
After interminable delays, the government yesterday finally issued an executive order on direct-to-home (DTH) telecast in India and it has confirmed the industry’s worst fears. There...
On Friday, 9 February, the Economic Times featured a report saying that the government may finally come around on the vexed issue of 20 per cent...
The government has made the following announcements relating to the entertainment, film and television industry in the Union Budget announced today: *Customs duties on cinematographic equipment...
