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MUMBAI: Multi-system operators (MSOs) can line up several content monetisation avenues in a digitised cable TV environment. The probability of commercial exploitation is more in the...
MUMBAI: There could soon be caps on market shares of multi-system operators (MSOs) and local cable operators (LCOs) in a city, district, state and the country....
MUMBAI: Pune-based Sterlite Technologies has got the order for supplying two lakh set-top boxes to Tamil Nadu government-owned Arasu Cable TV Corporation Limited (ACTCL), according to...
T he Hindujas have started the first round of cable TV digitisation in the three metro cities of Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata. The second phase will...
MUMBAI: Hinduja-owned IndusInd Media and Communications (IMCL) is in talks with private equity investors to raise $75 million to fund the second phase of cable TV...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom plans to invest Rs 3 billion for the second phase of digitisation as it details a requirement of around 3.5 million...
MUMBAI: Amas Mauritius, a Hinduja group company, now owns 5.1 per cent equity stake in the country’s leading multi-system operator (MSO) IndusInd Media and Communications Ltd...
MUMBAI: Trai’s ad regulation proposal has divided two of the country’s leading multi-system operators (MSOs) into opposite camps with Digicable coming out in support while Hinduja...
India is one of Discovery‘s key priority markets along with Latin America where there is tremendous scope for pay-TV growth. Bullish about digitisation in India,...
Indian TV viewers and Internet surfers never had it so good. Seven DTH operators, 500 plus TV channels, MSOs and cable ops who are upgrading the...
Hathway Cable & Datacom has an ambitious investment plan of Rs 10 billion as India opens up to digitisation across the country. In the first...
MUMBAI: Sai Prasad Media, part of the Rs 15 billion Sai Prasad Group, has earmarked Rs 400 million for the distribution of its upcoming national Hindi...
MUMBAI: India Talkies, the pan India Hindi movie channel, has outsourced its ad sales to Guru Time Media. India Talkies is the brainchild of Jagjit Singh...
Citi Venture Capital International-owned You Telecom India has resized its investment plan amid the economic downturn. The trimmed-down plan will mean a fresh investment of Rs...
Hinduja-owned IndusInd Media & Communications Ltd (IMCL) has survived the scare from a wave of new multi-system operators (MSOs) that threatened to land grab even in...
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting today placed before the Delhi High Court a Self Regulatory Guidelines for the Broadcasting Sector (2008) that proposes...
Nripendra Misra is a suave IAS officer with a reputation of being completely above board, and perhaps lacking the ‘guile‘ that puts many others in the...
NEW DELHI: The government is likely to revert to the Delhi High Court with a status report on CAS’ rollout early next week even as the...
MUMBAI: Kolkata-based multi-system operator (MSO) Manthan Broadband Services has integrated its enryption system using the Irdeto system and has gone totally online with it. Manthan is...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) today upheld the tariff of Rs 5 per channel fixed by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai)...
SET Discovery has been riding high on the wave of ICC cricket for over four years. Having the ICC Championship and World Cup in a single...
BANGALORE: The impasse over the airing of Tamil channels continues here, the capital of the southern state of Karnataka, with seemingly no end in sight since...
NEW DELHI: Even as President A P J Abdul Kalam declared that the year 2007 will be the ‘Year of Broadband’, there are plans to increase...
NEW DELHI: Many cable households are unhappy with repeated signal failure and Trai is now faced with the issue of what to do about enforcing Quality...
BANGALORE: The blackout of Tamil channels by the cable TV trade in Karnataka continues following the Cauvery water verdict. At the time of writing, a section...
NEW DELHI: Multi-System Operators have told the sector regulator that there is no shortage of STBs anywhere in the country, but admit that there has been...
MUMBAI: US media research firm Nielsen is consolidating its initiatives involving digital television set top box data into a new service offering named Nielsen DigitalPlus. Nielsen...
MUMBAI: Availability of set-top boxes (STBs) is one of the key concerns for the successful roll out of conditional access system, speakers at a workshop on...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) feels Cas (conditional access system) should roll out voluntarily rather than be mandated in other parts of the...
MUMBAI: v, a free-to-air channel owned by Ushodaya Enterprises, is to be converted to an encrypted (pay) channel in the areas covered by Conditional Access System...
MUMBAI: The complexion of the cable TV industry is fast changing. Cas (conditional access system) is paving the way for consolidation as cable operators need to...
MUMBAI: Foloowing the rollout of conditional access system (Cas) in parts of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, broadcast regulator Trai has conducted a round table meeting on...
MUMBAI: They are the faces behind Indian television, the ones that make sure that the impact is registered in a news story, the glamour quotient high...
NEW DELHI: With 178,000 STBs seeded in the South Delhi Cas area, and an overall of just a little under 450,000 STBs seeded in the three...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court bench hearing the case on the issue of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai) constitutional standing to be a...
NEW DELHI: The government has banned, with immediate effect, the telecast of Sony Entertainment’s action chanel AXN for two months for showing “obscene programmes”. The information...
MUMBAI: Conditional access system (Cas) is forcing multi-system operators (MSOs) to strike alliances as they take up the challenge of expanding their digital subscribers. The latest...
MUMBAI: The debut performance of Wire & Wireless India Ltd (WWIL) and Zee News Ltd (ZNL), Zee Group’s demerged entities, on the boursess was along market...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today completed hearing arguments from both sides, Star TV and Sea TV, a franchise of WWIL, on the question of whether...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has sent back the case related to MSO’s demanding a share of the Rs 77 for FTAs...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has warned all the MSOs that strict action would be taken against anyone beaming analogue signals in...
MUMBAI/DELHI: Multi-system operators (MSOs) are under stress and strain to meet the demand for set-top boxes (STBs) as conditional access system (Cas) has come into effect...
Cable TV is in the midst of transition. We are seeing Cas being just implemented. Consumers are wanting set-top boxes (STBs) so that they can see...
Subhash Chandra is betting big on his cable TV business. Wire & Wireless Ltd (WWIL), the demerged entity of Zee Group, plans to invest Rs 7.14...
The cable TV industry is on the cusp of change. The multi-system operators (MSOs) have chalked out plans to roll out digital cable, a transition that...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed multi-system operators (MSOs) to start trial runs on homes where they have seeded the digital set-top...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom has launched digital cable TV service in Mysore through a fibre linkup from Bangalore. The multi-system operator (MSO) will have the...
MUMBAI: Zee Network’s Wire & Wireless India Ltd. (WWIL) is in the process of lining up a debt of Rs 2 billion for funding its digital...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom is integrating its broadband and digital pay TV billing solutions. The multi-system operator (MSO) has selected MagnaQuest as its subscriber management...
MUMBAI: Multi-system operators (MSOs) have initiated talks with some broadcasters for providing their bouquet of pay channels at special rates in the conditional access system (CAS)...
