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NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry today is understood to be pushing ahead for the issue of conditional access system (CAS) to be included in...
NEW DELHI: The much-awaited Cable Networks (Regulations) Amendment Bill 2002, which aims at facilitating addressability in Indian cable homes through conditional access system (CAS), has not...
MUMBAI: The information & broadcasting ministry is laying the final groundwork for the tabling of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2002, that will bring...
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 information and broadcasting ministry has received an application from Aaj Tak for starting a news channel and seeking a no-objection for uplinking the...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry is understood to have sought the advice and opinion of the law ministry on conditional access system and whether...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), an apex body of broadcasting companies operating in India, has finalised a set of guidelines on ads which can...
NEW DELHI: The government has asked the cable and broadcasting industry to come back with more details on the investments that are likely to be needed...
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...
NEW DELHI: The issue of conditional access system (CAS) is getting not only getting curioser, but also hotter. Joining issue with a consumer activist group of...
NEW DELHI: The issue of conditional access system (CAS) is getting not only getting curioser, but also hotter. Joining issue with a consumer activist group of...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government now wants to crack down on movies shown on various TV channels and through it may attempt to control all genres...
NEW DELHI: Officials from the information and broadcasting ministry and the Bureau of Indian Standards are slated to meet on 20 August. The agenda: to discuss...
NEW DELHI: If it’s not this then it’s that. Yesterday it was the opposition uproar over the alleged irregularities by the petroleum ministry in the allotment...
NEW DELHI:The information and broadcasting ministry has asked the business advisory committee of parliament to relist the Cable TV Networks Amendment Bill 2002 next week and...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has requested the business advisory panel of the Indian Parliament to re-list the Cable TV Amendment Bill 2002 on...
NEW DELHI: So you thought national broadcaster Doordarshan was a pushover? Data says otherwise. Between 9-11 pm in all TV homes on all days among viewers...
NEW DELHI: Even as the government has more or less decided to refer the conditional access issue (CAS) to a parliamentary committee in the face of...
NEW DELHI: The case of the Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2002, is getting curiouser. Yesterday, though it was listed as part of the day’s...
NEW DELHI: The Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2002, has been listed for re-introduction in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) today. It was...
NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) adjourned today without the Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2002, failing to come up for discussion...
NEW DELHI: Not only is the Cable TV (Networks) Regulation Bill, 2002, which is supposed to be discussed in Rajya Sabha during this session of Indian...
NEW DELHI: To CAS or not to CAS mandatorily? This is the question that is being debated by the government. According to a senior government official,...
Officials belonging to the information and broadcasting ministry, along with officials from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) will meet representatives from the broadcasting and cable...
Manufacturers of liquor and tobacco products advertising on various TV channels under the garb of surrogate advertising, beware. The information and broadcasting ministry is in the...
There has been another fallout of the much-hyped issue of CAS’ failure to get the okay of members of Parliament from the Rajya Sabha (Upper House...
NEW DELHI: Officials from the information and broadcasting ministry and the Bureau of Indian Standards are slated to meet on 20 August. The agenda: to discuss...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has requested the business advisory panel of the Indian Parliament to re-list the Cable TV Amendment Bill 2002 on...
If this piece of unconfirmed news emanating from Delhi proves true, the industry’s wait for legislation on conditional access systems (CAS) may well be over sooner...
The outlay for the I&B ministry in the 10th Five Year Plan has been recommended at Rs 85,500 million, of which the broadcasting sector gets the...
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...
The Working Group on the I&B sector for the 10th Five-Year Plan has recommended 100 per cent digitisation of production facilities and automation of studio operations...
It’s taken long to arrive at a decision, but the Indian I&B ministry has finally decided to invoke special legal powers to crack down on cable...
When the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)-organised Enter Media 2001 conference ended in Mumbai on 9 August, it had been declared that a white paper would...
Come next week and the government guidelines on direct-to-home services should be out if information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj is true to her word. ...
The acting CEO of Prasar Bharti, RR Shah, has been shifted out of the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry , the Economic Times reported on Tuesday....
The group of ministers (GoM) on information technology and telecom, headed by finance minister Yashwant Sinha, on Tuesday approved the draft Communications and Convergence Bill 2001...
