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NEW DELHI: DD Direct Plus, the Indian pubcaster’s proposed KU-band direct-to-home television service, just can’t seem to get going. Assertions to the contrary notwithstanding, the information...
MUMBAI: Information & broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy today signed a note allowing foreign institutional investors (FIIs) to invest in television news channels. The note prepared by...
NEW DELHI: An impassioned plea by the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) for political advertisements to be allowed on TV channels, which have a wider reach than...
NEW DELHI: It may be a bit surprising, but two big multi-system operators (MSOs), Siti Cable and Hathway Datacom, are among 32 applicants who have sought...
NEW DELHI: New information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy on his first day at the office tread the usual line: that his endeavour would be to...
MUMBAI: With the elections driving a stake through the NDA’s heart and taking the Congress off the life support system it had been on for several...
MUMBAI: Information and broadcasting secretary Pawan Chopra was in Mumbai on Monday evening to participate in a panel discussion on challenges in the infrastructure and technology...
MUMBAI: Given below is the full text of the letter issued by Telecom Regulatory Authority (Trai) chairman Pradip Baijal to information and broadcasting ministry secretary Pawan...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms, which had been set a deadline of 26 March by the information & broadcasting ministry to comply with the revised guidelines for news...
NEW DELHI: The Budgetary support to the information and broadcasting ministry for 2004-05 fiscal year has been hiked by over Rs 3,000 million, signifying hectic activity...
NEW DELHI: The last day of the year may just about witness another twist in the already twisted CAS tale. Delhi chief minister Sheila...
NEW DELHI: The last day of the year may just about witness another twist in the already twisted CAS tale. Delhi chief minister Sheila...
NEW DELHI: The much-touted community radio broadcast service, which was announced with great fanfare by former information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Sushma Swaraj last year, is...
NEW DELHI: This festive season, changes are taking place thick and fast in media organisations. If Zee Telefilms made changes in its hierarchy, the country’s biggest...
NEW DELHI: The government has taken several initiatives to bring about changes in the entertainment sector in the interest of the overall development of this sector....
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry has said that if a government-mandated task force on radio broadcast policy recommends allowing of news and current...
Zee, DTH licence, ASC Enterprises, Subhash Chandra, Siti Cable, Space TV, Dish TVNEW DELHI: Even as Music Broadcast Pvt. Ltd. (MBPL) moved the courts today as...
MUMBAI: The ministry of information and broadcasting seems to be pretty serious about the new conditional access system (CAS) deadline. The ministry has released 25*4 col...
NEW DELHI: Even as Zee News, from the Zee Telefilms stable, maintained there was nothing “official” about it, media reports indicated that the government is no...
MUMBAI: A special briefing session on the existing CAS (conditional access system) scenario was conducted for the benefit of Mumbai-based cable operators and last mile operators...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting ministry, grappling with the issue of implementing conditional access (CAS) in cable homes in metros, has decided to have representatives...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has sent off another set of queries to Media Content & Communication Services India Pvt. Ltd (MCCS), which has...
NEW DELHI: Fifteen days away from the implementation of CAS, decisions still remain to be taken; discussions are still to be had to iron out glitches...
MUMBAI: He came, he saw, he was not happy with what he saw. That reportedly sums up what was the feeling that information and broadcasting joint...
MUMBAI: Is the “non-negotiable” deadline of 14 July for the rollout of conditioinal access in the four metros about to be extended? Looks likely. ...
NEW DELHI: The chorus against conditional access system (CAS) has reached the office of deputy prime minister LK Advani. On the pro-CAS side, the information and...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The government today sent out a clear warning that it was willing to u se all in its powers to go after...
MUMBAI: With the countdown to the conditional access rollout deadline well and truely on, the information and broadcast ministry is attempting to “educate” the public on...
NEW DELHI: The government has made it clear that it will tolerate no nonsense from any stakeholder of the industry where conditional access is concerned. In...
NEW DELHI: It’s official. In a post CAS regime, the price of the basic tier of free to air channels will cost Rs 72. The ministry...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said that there are several new proposals for news channels that are pending the government’s...
MUMBAI: The cricket World Cup has wrecked havoc on the listed television companies, particularly because none of them had the rights to telecast the greatest cricketing...
NEW DELHI: The government is finally getting it right. It’s involving the industry where its diktat had failed, especially where surrogate and objectionalble advertising on various...
NEW DELHI: The programming staff association of Doordarshan and All India Radio have deferred a decision to go on strike from today. The decision comes after...
NEW DELHI: Even as broadcasters and cable operators disagreed over pricing of the basic tier of free to air channels in a post-conditional access regime at...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Minister of state for I&B with independent charge, Ravi Shankar Prasad, at his first day at the office today, has said the...
NEW DELHI:The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued guidelines for granting licenses to well established educational institutions/organizations like Universities and Institutes of Technology/Management and residential...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government now has advised the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) to hang on to a proposal from Star News broadcasting to pick...
NEW DELHI: The parliamentary consultative committee attached to India’s information and broadcasting ministry in a meeting earlier today came out in favour of forming a regulatory...
Despite consistent lobbying by a clutch of broadcasters right from Zee TV to Star TV to Prasar Bharati chief RR Shah, the government is not going...
NEW DELHI: The I&B Ministry, which recently sent showcause notices to four television channels for carrying surrogate advertisements for two liquor brands, last week sent a...
Cable TV addressability has been brought out into the open. Earlier this week, an Andhra Pradesh high court has said that all subscription channels should stop...
The vertically-challenged minister for I&B was given a special devise to stand tall on the dais as she spoke…a stool to help her gain a few...
