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MUMBAI: Multi system operators (MSOs) have bought themselves some more time to collect duly filled consumer application forms (CAF) from cable subscribers across 38 cities falling...
NEW DELHI: A new broadband optical fiber access solution is being launched soon by Alcatel-Lucent for cable multiple-system operators (MSOs). The Ethernet Passive Optical Networking (EPON),...
KOLKATA: This year, not only has the economic recession dampened Kolkata’s festive fervour, customers are now complaining about the inability to view their favourite television...
MUMBAI: It is teeing once again and it surely is good news for golf lovers and players. 24 hour Zeel group golf channel Ten Golf, will...
MUMBAI: Innovative software developer Metrological Group has announced that it has received financial backing from new strategic investor Liberty Global, the leading international cable operator....
MUMBAI: As India‘s government-mandated cable TV digitisation rolls out, one person who has been feeling threatened is the local cable operator (LCO). To address this...
KOLKATA: The Kolkata based Multi System Operators (MSOs) and local cable TV operators (LCOs) had uninvited guests last week. They were taken by surprise when the...
KOLKATA: With the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) pressuring service providers in Kolkata to disconnect the television connections of customers for not submitting the subscriber...
NEW DELHI: It has been saying it will bring some order to the TV channel aggregation and distribution business. And the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) held a meeting with the leading Multi System Operators (MSOs) in Kolkata to review the progress of implementation...
MUMBAI: 10 July and all the heads of India’s cable TV MSOs are going to be at the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) office. Reason:...
BENGALURU: Leveraging its extensive and global experience from engagements with leading MSOs, OEMs and SoC vendors, Tata Elxsi has unveiled its latest system integration program for...
MUMBAI: There was a time not so long ago when Sony Entertainment Television‘s Six HD channel was getting almost no TV commercials. It was the place...
NEW DELHI: The second phase of Digital Addressable System (DAS) in India marched on even as the month of March 2013 came to and end as...
Much has happened this year and yet not a lot has happened. For India TV it has been a good year. Two years ago we were...
Much has happened this year and yet not a lot has happened. For India TV it has been a good year. Two years ago we were...
Marvel Entertainment is tapping the comics business in India. Holding the rights to iconic characters like Spiderman, X-Men and Hulk, it has appointed Kids Media India...
After working for decades on the analogue system, 2007 was a huge learning year. Whether from the regulator or from the ministry’s side, or from the...
NEW DELHI: With an eye on future media regulations, the government has asked MSOs and cable operators to furnish the details of TV channels they re-transmit...
MUMBAI: The Tamil Nadu Government today introduced in the Assembly an amendment to the Cable Television Network Bill to take over six more Multiple Service Operators...
NEW DELHI: Multi-system operators (MSOs) Sumangali Cable Vision, part of Sun TV Network Pvt Ltd, and Hathway, target of state government ire, feel that the proposed...
MUMBAI: The Tamil Nadu government has introduced a legislation that gives it the powers to acquire and take over bigger cable TV networks in the state,...
MUMBAI: Broadcom Corporation, dealing in wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors, has announced the industry’s first front-end cable TV set-top box chip with integrated channel bonding...
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system or CAS moved one step ahead towards likely implementation. The Indian government today submitted before a Delhi court that by 16...
Litigation and sting operations. These two were the dominant themes of 2005 that overshadowed other happenings in the Rs 150 billion broadcast and cable industry. There...
Litigation and sting operations. These two were the dominant themes of 2005 that overshadowed other happenings in the Rs 150 billion broadcast and cable industry. There...
Hathway Cable & Datacom CEO K Jayaraman has been in the thick of things in the rapidly evolving Indian cable TV market. His network has in...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has allowed an inflation-linked four per cent annual hike in cable TV prices (exclusive of taxes) with effect...
BANGALORE: Cable signals are back in Karnataka as the state’s Multi System Operators (MSO) have called off their indefinite strike. This follows an assurance from the...
BANGALORE: Karnataka’s Multi System Operators (MSOs), switched off cable television signals today from 5 pm in protest against what they term as the “arbitrary demand of...
MUMBAI: Maharashtra revenue minister Narayan Rane is threatening to take action against cable operators who underreport their subscriber figures. The way out: a survey to expose...
MUMBAI / BANGALORE: Karnataka’s couch potatoes can breathe easy. For now. The state’s multi system operators (MSOs) have suspended their threat to black out signals against...
MUMBAI: Multi system operators (MSOs) have resumed the service of Sun Network channels Teja News and Aditya on their cable networks after being assured by the...
MUMBAI: The Dubai-headquartered Geo TV, flagship channel of the Pakistan-based Jang group of media companies, has decided to shift from a single channel entity to being...
MUMBAI: Dubai headquartered Geo TV, the flagship channel from the Pakistan-based Jang group of media companies, has now decided to spread it wings and is eyeing...
MUMBAI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) today announced the launch of an India chapter in what it said was a part of...
MUMBAI: The ad revenue in China has been growing at the rate of 12 per cent a year. It reached $ 3.4 billion in 2004. This...
NEW DELHI: Carriage fee (paid by TV channels to cable ops) is like the casting couch in the entertainment industry. It exists, but is not discussed...
Regulation, as opposed to the market, largely determined trends in India’s cable and satellite distribution business over the past 12 months. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of...
Regulation, as opposed to the market, largely determined trends in India’s cable and satellite distribution business over the past 12 months. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of...
MUMBAI: Transparency, a dirty word in the cable TV industry, is what the Telecom and Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is pressing for. Broadcasters and multi-service...
MUMBAI: Okay, all those broadcast and cable industry people who were apprehensive that Reliance would be steam-rolling its way into their territory, can now breathe easy...
MUMBAI: Multi system operators (MSOs) have expressed to the Telcom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) their support to the supply of content on a ‘must-provide’ and...
NEW DELHI: Zee Telefilms has always loved to set the cat amongst the pigeons. Over two years back, when conditional access was a relatively unknown word,...
For over a year, Essel Group additional vice chairman and head of Siticable Network Ltd. Jawahar Goel has been busy lobbying hard for a mandated form...
A slow deployment of set-top boxes (STBs) will suit a small cable network like Seven Star. Which is why Nadir Ali, one of the founder-promoters, is...
NEW DELHI: The Broadcast and cable regulator – Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) – will issue a draft of the interconnection agreements in a day...
What do you do when you are finding it hard to push your digital set-top boxes (STBs) and broadband Internet service? Bundle them. That is what...
It has been the worst period of inactivity in the cable TV industry. Since the price freeze on subscription rates imposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable sector regulator is giving the government various options to choose from in the case of conditional access system and pricing control....
