NEW DELHI: Consumer Coordination Council to information and broadcasting ministry: the conditional access system (CAS) is still not consumer friendly and should be implemented only after...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that the digital revolution and the phenomenon of convergence are creating a new model...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is reported to have sought an appointment with Prime Minister AB Vajpayee today after returning from...
NEW DELHI:Just in case if it interests you all in the industry, India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is reported to have sought an...
NEW DELHI: The radio group, the umbrella body of Indian FM companies, made a presentation today to the I&B minister RS Prasad seeking a five per...
MUMBAI: The clock for the start of the next edition of FICCI FRAMES 2003, the convention dedicated to the business of entertainment, is silently ticking away....
NEW DELHI: The media and entertainment industry is feeling a bit left out from Jaswant Singh’s first Budget. Though the finer print is yet to be...
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: India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said that the media and entertainment (M&E) industry needs to vigorously educate the policy-makers, government...
MUMBAI: Minister of state for I&B with independent charge Ravi Shankar Prasad has placed consumer interest above all. Prasad, today, asked broadcasters to find ways and...
NEW DELHI : The path has been paved and the first hurdle crossed as far as bringing addressability in Indian cable homes is concerned. But before...
NEW DELHI: Television Eighteen Ltd., the New Delhi-based 49 per cent joint venture partner in CNBC India, has sought government permission to explore whether its teleport...
Conditional access may have been okayed by Parliament, but questions still haunt the industry. I&B minister Sushma Swaraj feels that post-CAS quite a few pay channels...
NEW DELHI: Though India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj would like the second phase of privatisation of FM radio to be completed within the next...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Despite her comments to the contrary, consensus continues to elude I&B minister Sushma Swaraj on the passage of the Cable TV Regulation...
New Delhi; October 26, 2006 Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting, Shri M. H. Ambareesh today called on the I&B Minister, Shri P. R. Dasmunsi...
NEW DELHI: The much-touted revival of Doordarshan’s News channel has finally been put on the backburner. According to sources in Prasar Bharati, which oversees the functioning...
At the end of it all, speculation of her moving out of the information and broadcasting ministry proved unfounded. A major cabinet reshuffle undertaken by Prime...
Speculation is rife in the Capital that in the impending reshuffle of the Union Cabinet which Prime Minister AB Vajpayee is slated to undertake over the...
Indian information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Arun Jaitley said once again yesterday that the Broadcasting Bill is before the group of ministers telecom and IT convergence....
The chickens may be finally coming home to roost for sundry officials in pubcaster Prasar Bharati. I&B minister Sushma Swaraj has informed Parliament that her ministry...
Legislation is required but at the end of the day the protagonists (read cable operators and broadcasters) have to come together at the table. This point...
The 29 December deadline for payment of license fees by private FM radio players in metros has been extended by eight months, costing the national exchequer...
The contentious issue of service tax on broadcasters is expected to figure prominently on the agenda of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation, which holds its annual general...

