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MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: It was too good to last. The “truce” reached last month (14 December) between sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports and Hinduja group...
NEW DELHI: MSO Hathway Cable and Datacom Pvt. Ltd., announced its ‘Best Buy’ value package scheme for the recently launched conditional access system (CAS) in South...
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: It may or may not spark off a trend, but in a quiet way, Zee Turner has conveyed to multi-system operators in Delhi that...
MUMBAI: They were eyeball to eyeball. Head to head. And it seemed like neither would blink. But the month long fracas between ESPN Star Sports (ESS)...
NEW DELHI: Former Star India distribution head Arun Mohan is back in business after keeping a low profile for over a year. And he is doing...
MUMBAI: For those hoping to see some resolution to the ongoing dispute between sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports and Hinduja group cable MSO INCableNet, the wait...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The end-of year big ticket cricket event, India’s tour of Australia, kicks off on ESPN Star Sports from tomorrow. However, for a...
MUMBAI: Seems like Hinduja Group’s MSO InCableNet has finally decided to even the scores with ESPN Software India. In a point-by-point rejoinder issued today, InCableNet accused...
NEW DELHI: A fragmented cable industry is once again attempting to come together to put up a united front against the pay broadcasters in India. Yet...
MUMBAI: While in India it is Star Plus that rules, looking at the Asian region as a whole, leading English movie channel HBO is the winner...
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...
NEW DELHI: Consumer Electronics and TV Manufacturers Association (Cetma), an apex body of electronics goods makers in the country, today exhorted the government to ensure a...
MUMBAI: The Central government must have been hoping that the courts would deliver a ruling on conditional access that would enable it to do what it...
MUMBAI: The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) today instructed Star, Sony and ESPN-Star Sports to file replies in the joint case brought before it...
MUMBAI: It is advantage Star India in its battle with Zee Group cable arm Siti Cable over making available signals to the MSO’s HITS (headend in...
MUMBAI: “I request you to be united in the face of media reports that the multi system operators and broadcasters are trying to adopt various strategies...
MUMBAIi: Is CAS happening or not? That’s a question which is on the top of many minds in the cable and satellite industry. But it doesn’t...
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 reason of an existing `great divide’ amongst stakeholders of the broadcast and cable industry – that the government uses to continue playing the...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will meet prime minister A B Vajpayee this evening on the issue of conditional access system(CAS),...
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: Now Zee News is going in for barter advertising deals with print publications and has extended a similar relationship to Mumbai’s tabloid Mid Day...
“Measuring the pulse of Indian TV audiences” – one sees these words almost everywhere in the Mumbai headquarters of TAM India. With services in more than...
MUMBAI: Content with the bottomline figures of Zee in the first quarter of this fiscal, Motilal Oswal has retained ‘buy’ status for the scrip at a...
MUMBAI: Cable operators in Mumbai are up in arms and have rejected the 11 July 2003 government notification that sought to modify the manner in which...
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court this afternoon dismissed the interim relief that the Consumer Action Network (CAN) had sought. CAN wanted the government to direct ESPN...
MUMBAI: There is no logic in banning advertisements on pay TV channels but higher subscription rates might allow pay channels to reduce their dependence on ad...
NEW DELHI: The MSOs cannot come to a consensus on the areas that may be first included for conditional access rollout in the four metros. The...
ETC Networks director and Broadband Pacenet India chairman Jagjit Singh Kohli is a man doing a tight-rope balancing act as far as the conditional access system...
MUMBAI: Mumbai based cable operators have expressed disappointment over the recent comments of I&B secretary Pawan Chopra that indicate that the government might soften its stand...
In all the confabulations around CAS, one assumption that has generally made is that broadly speaking the cable fraternity stands as one. Indiantelevision.com met a group...
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. ...
MUMBAI: More on the worry lines for the pay broadcasters over conditional access and its implications. A new report by international ratings agency Fitch estimates that...
MUMBAI: Although ETC Networks had earlier announced that its channels etc and etc Punjabi would become free-to-air after 14 July 2003, there is a possibility that...
Theres a lot of wishful thinking going on in government. That it can and should control pricing. That too, in a country which is moving from...
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: It was supposed to be the day of reckoning for pricing in a post-conditional access regime. What it turned out to be was a...
MUMBAI: A delegation of cable operators of Delhi met chief minister Mrs Sheila Dikshit yesterday and urged her to support the implementation of conditional access system...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Hook on early and get to see your favourite pay channels at an attractive “invitation price”. That is the proposition that the...
NEW DELHI: After the government ‘s summer offer in the form of slashed duties on import of set top boxes, it’s the turn of the broadcasters...
These days information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad does not look uncertain as he did some months back when he was allocated the I&B ministry...
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...
MUMBAI: The conditional access system (CAS) will provide several opportunities to production houses as well. One of the biggest players in the market is already mulling...
MUMBAI: The Rajan Raheja owned multi-system operator (MSO) Hathway Cable and Datacom, in which Star India holds 26 per cent equity stake, has announced that it...
MUMBAI: The Rajan Raheja owned multi-system operator (MSO) Hathway Cable and Datacom, in which Star India holds 26 per cent equity stake, has announced that it...
MUMBAI: Sony’s Sambhav Asambhav’s launch episode may have suffered due to the Hinduja group MSO IncableNet switching off the Sony bouquet in several parts of Mumbai,...
MUMBAI: Hinduja Group MSO INCableNet has charged Star India with bowing to pressure from “other broadcasters” in its decision to switch off Mumbai’s biggest cable service...
MUMBAI: Even as the Mumbai High Court decision on the cable industry issues involving consumers, broadcasters and cable operators is pending, a Mumbai based consumer activist...
MUMBAI: Even as several factions in the cable and satellite industry are rueing CAS and try to defer 14 July, Hinduja-run MSO IndusInd Media & Communications,...
