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NEW DELHI: Bureaucratic language used for government communication can trip anybody. And, it happened when the media put out incorrect news yesterday (indiantelevision.com included) that the...
BANGALORE: With the one-month time given to MSOs to implement design guidelines issued by the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation (KPTC) about to expire, the Multi System...
NEW DELHI: Hungama TV, the proposed kids’ channel from the UTV stable, which would be distributed by Star, will be priced at Rs. 6 per subscriber...
NEW DELHI: The cable industry, especially the multi-system operators (MSOs) have not taken very well to a budgetary announcement relating to service tax and would be...
NEW DELHI: It may be a bit surprising, but two big multi-system operators (MSOs), Siti Cable and Hathway Datacom, are among 32 applicants who have sought...
NEW DELHI: Star India, part of Rupert Murdoch’s pan-Asian venture, is going in for a flanking strategy to couch its bottomline – healthy though it looks...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi government met up with the multi-system operators (MSO) of the city in a bid to enhance revenue collections in the form of...
MUMBAI:The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is now mulling if it should make it mandatory for broadcasters to have open access of their contents on non-discriminatory...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The much-hyped multi-system operators’ (MSOs) meet in Delhi today failed to come up with concrete conclusions, though various issues arising out of postponement of...
MUMBAI: Multi systems operators – the hardest hit by the government notification yesterday putting the rollout of conditional access into indefinite deep freeze – have scheduled...
MUMBAI: The regulator today bowled a beamer that is bound to send the votaries of conditional access into a spin. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
MUMBAI: Even as the broadcasters scramble to respond to the latest missive from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), operators from the country’s most cable...
MUMBAI: Below is a presentation made by InCableNet to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce clearing up the air on “Some myths propagated on CAS”....
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today set the cat among the pigeons by stating in the Parliament’s Upper House (Rajya Sabha)...
NEW DELHI: What has come as a surprise to the cable industry is the response to conditional access system (CAS) from the people of South Delhi....
Surajeet Dasgupta, living in the Chittaranjan Park area of South Delhi, is not unduly perturbed that at the stroke of midnight (or so the cable operators...
NEW DELHI: On the eve of a meeting of the information and broadcasting ministry and the multi-system operators (MSOs) on conditional access system’s (CAS) implementation in...
NEW DELHI: The government is not sure about the future of conditional access system (CAS) in either Delhi or in Mumbai and Kolkata. It is also...
MUMBAI: The Who’s who of the cable and satellite industry will be attending the FICCI SCaT conference on the Indian Cable & Satellite sector as part...
With reference to the article dated 30 September, “MSOs now look to push set tops as Premium Offering,” on Indiantelevision where Hathway’s name is featured, we’d...
MUMBAI: Hindu Hridaysamrat (emperor of Hindu hearts) Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray might not have been able to make it to the CODA (Cable Operators and...
MUMBAI: Even as the implementation of CAS in Mumbai remains in limbo, with a grace period till the Ganesh festival acting as the buffer zone, West...
NEW DELHI: An air of uncertainty hangs over the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry as the cities, where conditional access system (CAS) is to be introduced...
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Communications and IT has raised the issue of interoperability of set-top boxes (STBs) to be used in the implementation of conditional...
NEW DELHI: Even as the government is preparing to issue another notification related to conditional access system (CAS), pay broadcasters have conveyed to the government that...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s avowed statement that price levels would be held at Rs 72 for all pay channels until the...
MUMBAI: “Mission ‘CAS’hmir”! This rather quaint turn of phrase about sums up the concerted effort the major MSOs will be making in the coming month to...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad got off comparatively lightly in the Lok Sabha today when the Opposition’s bid to corner the government...
NEW DELHI: Stepping up pressure on the government to review the free-to-air package rates fixed at Rs. 72, over 100 cable operators belonging to the Cable...
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...
NEW DELHI: It is not just the pay broadcasters that the government sees as at fault over the mess that is CAS. The government is miffed...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Information Technology, which also looks into issues related to broadcasting and convergence, in its latest report, has made...
NEW DELHI: Maybe it’s the lull before another storm. While the Indian broadcasters meeting with Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit, today, was cancelled and rescheduled to...
NEW DELHI: Political uncertainty over conditional access systems (CAS) notwithstanding, the government today made the right noises and, reportedly, conveyed to broadcasters and multi-system operators (MSOs)...
NEW DELHI: Current uncertainty over conditional access system notwithstanding, all stakeholders of the game, barring the local cable operators (LCOs), will financially benefit (details later in...
MUMBAI: The ministry of communications and information technology’s Electronics Regional Test Laboratory (ERTL) has quality tested the digital set top box of Celetron, which will be...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Even as the Indian government today continued its efforts to convince the media and critics that everything is hunky-dory on the conditional access front,...
MUMBAI: They were referred to as the “unsung heroes” — a term used by CMCG managing director Samir Kale for cable channels — but several MSO...
NEW DELHI: A suitable CASe for deferment seems to have been drummed up. The Indian government has seemingly blinked first. After maintaining all these days there...
NEW DELHI: Close on the heels of a meeting that the PMO officials had with broadcasters yesterday, leading MSOs today agreed that if there is an...
NEW DELHI: The confusion over the alternative and seemingly unviable options being mooted by the information and broadcasting ministry have forced broadcasters to approach PMO officials....
NEW DELHI: Fifteen days away from the implementation of CAS, decisions still remain to be taken; discussions are still to be had to iron out glitches...
MUMBAI: He came, he saw, he was not happy with what he saw. That reportedly sums up what was the feeling that information and broadcasting joint...
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...
MUMBAI: The implementation of the conditional access system (CAS) rollout could have created several opportunities for the cable trade and made life easier for the consumers....
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The government today offered a significant concession to the pay broadcasters on the issue of their channel pricing by giving them some...
NEW DELHI: The government has made it clear that it will tolerate no nonsense from any stakeholder of the industry where conditional access is concerned. In...
MUMBAI: A report titled “Conditional Access or Catch 22 – Who Will Blink First?” compiled by the Citigroup Smith Barney (CSB) report (dated 15 May 2003)...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Indian government in a much-awaited notification finalised the price of the basic tier of cable service comprising free to air channels,...
MUMBAI: The disconnection virus seems to be spreading in Mumbai. Following ESPN-Star Sports, SET-Discovery One Alliance bouquet of channels has switched off its service to Hinduja’s...
