NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has dropped the idea of going head to head and legally challenging the newly appointed broadcasting regulator the Telecom...
NEW DELHI: As an effigy of information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was burnt by National Akali Dal (NAD) activists on 7 January, demanding a...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms is at it again. And this time it wants to add a religious channel to the stable. The proposed...
NEW DELHI: The federal government has thrown the CAS ball back into the state’s court by saying, it would be unwarranted to conclude that the Union...
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system, like Banquo’s ghost, just refuses to go away. Just when everybody, including the government, thought it has been given a quiet...
NEW DELHI: If the cable operators of Delhi have their way, then conditional access system (CAS) would be rolled out by them tomorrow. So upbeat are...
NEW DELHI: Zee News may be lagging behind Aaj Tak, which seems to be living up to its image of ‘subse tez’ channel till now, but...
NEW DELHI: Zee Telefilms vice-chairman Jawahar Goels 20-something daughter, Sarika Gupta, died here last evening at the Apollo Hospital of suspected dengue. Sarika, niece of...
MUMBAI: Ashok Kumar Goel, the youngest of the four Goel brothers after Subhash Chandra, Laxmi Goel and Jawahar Goel, has been appointed vice-chairman and managing director...
MUMBAI: Three more exclusive movie channels are expected to come on board Zee’s direct-to-home (DTH) venture DishTV, after Smile and Premier TV – the two home...
NEW DELHI: After having retained Prasar Bharati CEO KS Sarma as its president and getting Zee Telefilms’ Jawahar Goel as the new vice-president, the Indian Broadcasting...
NEW DELHI: Multi-system operators (MSOs) are meeting the information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad around 3.30 pm today on conditional access system (CAS). One...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: In the capital it has been buried but in the country’s commercial capital of Mumbai, as in the other two metros of...
NEW DELHI: The consumers of cable television in Delhi may have to bear the wrath of the cable industry if indications are anything to go by...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: CAS has crashed out! Almost. And the frustration of a section of a disappointed industry was echoed by Hathway Datacom’s vice-president (North India) SN...
NEW DELHI: The venue could have very well been the government-run Ashoka Hotel here where all official functions are held, and the event could have been...
NEW DELHI: Even as Noida Software Technology Park Ltd (NSTPL) becomes the fifth applicant for a direct-to-home (DTH) television service licence, Dish TV, a DTH venture...
NEW DELHI: Though a total cable blackout did not happen in Delhi or in other parts of the country as had been threatened by a section...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: It’s another day of meetings over CAS for the major pay broadcasters in the Capital with the Prime Minister’s Office officials Today’s meeting at...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: On Wednesday it was the big broadcasters (excluding Zee Telefilms) that threw their “pricing spanner” in the works of the conditional access...
NEW DELHI: MSOs now want to fix the price of pay channels and offer an invitation price of Rs 200. The cable fraternity is not giving...
NEW DELHI: The multi-system operators are serious on implementation of conditional access system (CAS). The first consignment of set-top boxes (STBs) ordered by the Subhash Chandra-promoted...
NEW DELHI: The prices of pay channels are not expected to be revised upward over the next 12 to 24 months after conditional access system in...
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: Star India today conveyed to the government-piloted task force on conditional access system (CAS) that it would take another three to four weeks time...
NEW DELHI:To lend some weight to those who are for quick implementation of conditional access, Zee Telefilms chairman and managing director Subhash Chandra has also accompanied...
NEW DELHI: On one side the smiles have broadened, while on the other side the scowls have deepened. Broadcasters, specially those managing pay channels,...
His reputation as a street fighter precedes him. His style of functioning may be debatable. His spoken language is not as savvy as those who sit...
NEW DELHI: The government has completed the formation of the task force that will decide the pricing and composition of the basic tier of service in...
Zee folklore has it that when Zee Telefilms was riding the crest of success a few years ago, a journalist came to do a cover story...
NEW DELHI: It was the day after for the I&B ministry as far as conditional access system (CAS) rollout is concerned. The outcome of a meeting...