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MUMBAI: It was some kind of an anticlimax considering the number of people who had assembled at the Mumbai High Court today! A division bench of...
NEW DELHI: The industry had been referring to it as the day when the CAS (conditional access system) rollout picture would become clearer. What transpired though...
MUMBAI: The JP Morgan report states that states that MSOs (multi-system operators) have already started making moves to gear up to the challenge offered by the...
MUMBAI: A JP Morgan report points out that the monthly financial charge (depending on the price of the set top box) will be a key determinant...
MUMBAI: The JP Morgan report concludes the final price of the FTA (free-to-air) bouquet will be around Rs 70-80 per subscriber per month. The JP Morgan...
MUMBAI: Post-CAS, will bundled bouquets become a no-no? That is what what the future holds, at least in the big cities, say some industry veterans. Negotiation-based...
The Indian cable industry goes through another churning. Revenue collections fall, defiant consumers get strident as CAS plods towards a deadline. A clutch of 35-odd representatives...
MUMBAI: The Consumer Electronics Traders and Manufacturers Association wants basic customs duty on set top boxes to stay at 10 per cent which will prevent fly...
MUMBAI: BJP member of parliament (MP) Kirit Somaiya is gunning for the television trade. Somaiya today announced that he is going to file a criminal, cognizable,...
NEW DELHI: Even as broadcasters and cable operators disagreed over pricing of the basic tier of free to air channels in a post-conditional access regime at...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is expected to finalise today the composition of the task force that will decide the price for the basic tier of...
MUMBAI: An ICICI Securities report released in December 2002 states that HITS (headend in the sky) will be preferred to the ground head-end system. The HITS...
MUMBAI: In a meeting with all the major Multi System Operators (MSOs) and independent cable operators today, information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj has set a...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj today asserted that the rollout of conditional access in the first phase should be done by 14...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Even as Siti Cable pushes aggressively for implementing conditional access through its headend in the sky (HITS) plan, India’s information and broadcasting...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Showtime’s been overtaken by sabre rattling between cable ops and broadcasters in the western state of Gujarat. Cable operators, who have not...
MUMBAI: JP Morgan India’s report on the Indian cable industry titled: “CAS: The Medicine for a chronic ailment” points out that the consumer opting for pay...
MUMBAI: JP Morgan India’s report on the Indian cable industry titled: “CAS: The Medicine for a chronic ailment” states that the location where the signal would...
MUMBAI: JP Morgan India’s report on the Indian cable industry titled: “CAS: The Medicine for a chronic ailment” believes that the full implementation of the...
MUMBAI:Merrill Lynch’s India Media and Entertainment Industry report on the media sector post the conditional access (CAS) legislation, produced in conjunction with DSP Merrill Lynch Limited...
NEW DELHI : The path has been paved and the first hurdle crossed as far as bringing addressability in Indian cable homes is concerned. But before...
INTRODUCTION The National Readership Survey 2001 reveals that cable is currently available in 33 million homes. The reach of television in urban areas is 84.7 %...
MUMBAI: Given below are relevant excerpts of a document prepared by Zee Telefilms and put out earlier (before the passage of the Bill in the Rajya...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Cable Operators United Front – a newly created body consisting of MSOs, franchisees, and independents based in the Capital- has decided to...
The Center for Advocacy and Research (CFAR) is organising a discussion on ‘The Cable Industry and the Viewers: Setting New Norms and Standards’ tomorrow, 30 April....
The pay TV debate is seriously hotting up in India. Even as channels slug it out over subscriber bases and rate hikes, the cable industry is...
AOL Time Warner’s China Entertainment TV (CETV) has become the first foreign TV channel to be granted cable carriage rights in mainland China. According to the...
Broadband may be a while coming to Indian shores but the big MSOs are all readying the backend for it. Rajan Raheja-promoted Hathway Cable & Datacom,...
MUMBAI: In a reflection of the deep divisions among cable operators and control room owners, a call for a shutdown in Mumbai to protest against the...
