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MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has announced several measures to protect the interest of consumers. TRAI guidelines in this regard are given below for...
If the task of a regulator is to keep consumers happy, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has quite achieved that. But it has irked...
MUMBAI: Facing an uphill task to sell digital set-top boxes (STBs), Hinduja-owned, Incablenet, has decided to offer them free on a trial basis to their direct...
B4U Television Network has chalked out a revival plan. The company has paid carriage fee to cable operators, visibility of its two channels has improved, and...
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system (CAS), which had fallen off the radar screen of the media industry and consumers, is set to stage a come back....
Subhash Chandra is strengthening his arsenal in the Punjabi language market. Already armed with two channels, he will soon launch Khalsa World to narrow down the...
For almost one year, IndusInd Media & Communications (IMCL) has been an organisation in turmoil. Several senior executives have left the company, frustrated at the slow...
With a nearly seven-million strong subscriber base, Siti Cable should have been ideally sitting pretty with a permanent smile pasted on the faces of the executives...
MUMBAI: Several Bengali language channels have recently hit the market, fighting for space in an expanding environment. The latest is Bangla Music Television, floated by UK-based...
Digital cable. Unique content channels. Broadband. These are the services we have to push forward. And we have to do it fast,” says Hathway Cable &...
MUMBAI: MUMBAI: Hathway Bhawani Cabletel & Datacom is facing pressure of a switch-off from Zee-Turner. In the first week of this month, the multi system operator...
Now more than ever, cable companies realise the need to upgrade service and content as they face the threat from direct-to-home (DTH) and telecom operators who...
MUMBAI: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has announced that it has expanded the reach of its subscription video on demand service (SVoD) WWE 24/7 in the US....
NEW DELHI: Former Star India distribution head Arun Mohan, who had started a cable TV distribution business in 2003, has shuttered it citing unviable business model....
MUMBAI: In a significant development, the Star Group today announced the formation of a new division called Star Ventures to manage and maximise the value of...
Kalanithi Maran is getting ready for his next big project. The Sun Network chairman and managing director has applied for a license to operate a direct-to-home...
MUMBAI: Sumangali Cable Vision is on the prowl. The Chennai-based multi system operator (MSO) is in talks to acquire RPG Netcom, a move which coincides with...
MUMBAI: SET Discovery has filed a complaint with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) against Hathway Bhawani Cabletel & Datacom for switching off Sony TV...
The year 2005 was a mixed bag for cable TV in India. Subscription revenues grew 20 per cent to around Rs 81 billion, according to industry...
MUMBAI: The flurry of new channels entering the Indian broadcast arena is leading to new equations on the distribution front. Broadcasters are working out fresh arrangements...
NEW DELHI: Animation channel Animax has exceeded Sony Picture Entertainment (SPE)’s first year expectations with a current cable & satellite distribution base of 16 million in...
MUMBAI: US based Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO) has announced that Susan Lyne, an experienced television, film and publishing executive, will be its president and CEO....
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), today said that the charges levied on a cable operator by a broadcaster would...
MUMBAI: The payouts of smaller cable networks towards pay channels have been going up. And this is despite the price freeze on subscription rates imposed by...
NEW DELHI: The cable and broadcast regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, today reiterated an earlier stand that content should not be denied to any platform...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The cable and broadcast regulator has finally released its long awaited recommendations on the “Issues relating to Broadcasting and Distribution of TV...
NEW DELHI: Contrary to speculations and expectations – the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), it seems is unlikely to make a definitive recommendation on introduction...
NEW DELHI: Zee-Turner, the distribution joint venture of Zee Telefilms and Turner International India Pvt. Ltd, has switched off its bouquet of channels on the RPG...
BANGALORE: Claims and counter claims continue to overcast the Karnataka airwaves over the issue of Udaya network making Udaya TV, Udaya News and Ushe TV pay...
BANGALORE: The cup of woes overfloweth for the Bangalore cable operators and harassed viewers who are likely to miss out on the Asia cup if the...
NEW DELHI: Proposing that any new TV channel seeking to beam into India ought to be mandated through a set-top box in a digital mode, multi-system...
NEW DELHI: Multi System Operators have one more issue to add to their “litany of woes”. The government has brought under the expanded tax ambit, MSOs...
MUMBAI: After a ten-day war of words in which accusations flew back and forth, sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports today morning switched on its signal to...
MUMBAI: The ongoing face-off between sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports and cable MSO Hathway Datacom that has left soccer enthusiasts gnashing their teeth in frustration has...
MUMBAI: It’s that time of year again. When sporting action is on (in this case Euro 2004) can switch-offs be far behind Star India associated MSO...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has appointed Henry K. Middleton as CASBAA general manager, Singapore & Southeast Asia. This new position...
NEW DELHI: Most of the pay channel operators today, once again, conveyed to broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), that certain things...
MUMBAI: The first thing that hits you when you enter Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City (DAKC), the high security nerve centre of Reliance Infocomm located in Navi...
NEW DELHI: A delegation of cable operators and multi-system operators (MSO) today met the new information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy, exhorting him to implement the...
Siticable is going through a bout of restructuring what with Zee Telefilms chief executive R.K. Singh and president (distribution) Tony D’silva, putting their imprint on the...
MUMBAI: The National Geographic Channel (NGC) has announced that it has signed a multi-million dollar joint venture (JV) deal with CJ Media in Korea. The new...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today said that new channels may be launched but the price cannot be out of sync with...
MUMBAI: Given below is the response in full issued by the Indian broadcasting Foundation to the Telecom Authority of India: Without Prejudice To The Preliminary Submissions,...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: A fresh Telecom Regulatory Authority (Trai) order on interconnect agreements, issued on a day when the nation is grappling with the interim Budget, can...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The cable industry feels that Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s assertions on mandating more service providers in cable areas to increase competition is something...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), which had promised to come out with a consultation note within ten days of the notification entrusting...
NEW DELHI: A new player has now stepped into the convoluted CAS drama – the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). And, quite dramatically, the apex chamber...
MUMBAI: To say that the relationship between broadcasters and cable operators has been rough would be putting things mildly. However, ESPN Star Sports is looking to...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Indian government is weighing various options, including promulgation of an Ordinance junking CAS (conditional access system) for all practical purpose, a...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Pogo, the new kids channel from the Turner stable, seems to have become a victim of the ongoing CAS controversy. At least in North...
