DAS (digital addressable system) is here to stay. Despite the shortcomings, the hiccups in the implementation of the first two phases, the government has announced that...
MUMBAI: Sports broadcaster and media and entertainment company Nimbus Communications has won its second arbitration against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) regarding...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide India has appointed Akhauri Sinha as the COO of Content and Production. Based in Mumbai, Akhauri will report to Myleeta Aga, SVP and General...
MUMBAI: In an early morning announcement, former COO of Neo Sports Broadcast Prasana Krishnan has been brought into MSM’s sports channel Sony Six as their new...
Star India CEO Uday Shankar, conqueror of TV news and entertainment business, is ready to wage a new battle in sports broadcasting. When the BCCI rights...
MUMBAI: Nimbus Sport, the marketing partner of Indian Hockey Federation promoted World Series Hockey, has roped in Vodafone and Imperial Blue as associate sponsors for the...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) today adjourned its hearing in the case by sports broadcaster Nimbus challenging the Telecom Regulatory Authority...
NEW DELHI: Following an assurance that it was prepared to give live feed to Prasar Bharati and action against it was unwarranted, Nimbus was today directed...
NEW DELHI: Following the issuance of a showcause notice by the information and broadcasting ministry to Nimbus Communications for failing to give live feed of cricket...
NEW DELHI: The information & broadcasting ministry has issued a notice to Nimbus Communications to show cause why Neo Sports owned by it has failed to...
MUMBAI: The information & broadcasting ministry has constituted a joint group of experts to identify the technical parameters and propose a course of action for suitably...
NEW DELHI: Television channels that fail to comply by the ordinance promulgated late last week for compulsory sharing of live feeds with the national broadcaster Prasar...
NEW DELHI: Even as the government today said it would challenge any court order favouring Nimbus on deferred telecast, the Delhi High Court questioned the Centre’s...
NEW DELHI: The Union cabinet today approved the promulgation of an ordinance making it compulsory for private broadcasters to share the feed of sporting events of...
MUMBAI: The Tata Sky DTH platform has reached an agreement with Neo Sports, the channel that has rights to telecast India cricket. An immediate fallout of...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry is likely to issue an ordinance by the end of the week, making it mandatory for Neo Sports to...
MUMBAI: Nimbus Communications Ltd. has attracted an investment of Rs 5.52 billion (approx $125 million) from 3i, Cisco and Oman Investment Fund (OIF). This marks 3i’s...
MUMBAI: In what is a first on Indian Television, a home cricket series kicked off today without the telecast being available on national broadcaster Doordarshan and...
NEW DELHI: The talks between rights holder Nimbus Sports and Prasar Bharati over sharing of telecast signals of the upcoming India-West Indies cricket series have broken...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate Tribunal today asked Trai to explain by 7 February the basis of its decision to slash the bouquet prices...
2006 has been a rocky year for sports broadcasters. Cricket properties were acquired at humungous prices, SET India decided to walk out of bidding wars, Harish...
MUMBAI: Nimbus Sport has signed a six-year TV rights deal with Kenya Cricket for the management of commercial and television rights. In addition to the huge...
MUMBAI: The bidding for the audio-visual rights for International Cricket Council (ICC) conducted events from late 2007 to 2015 is certainly not going according to the...
MUMBAI: About the only consistent aspect of bidding for cricket rights is that no one seems to have a fix on just how high the numbers...
MUMBAI: Your Gateway to the best sporting action! This is the tagline that Nimbus is using to push its second channel Neo Sports Plus. The channel,...
MUMBAI: Your Gateway to the best sporting action! This is the tagline that Nimbus is using to push its second channel Neo Sports Plus. The channel,...
MUMBAI: With the Conditional Access System (CAS) controversy continuing unabated at the broadcasters’ level, Nimbus Sports Broadcast has quoted a premium price for two of its...
MUMBAI: For many years domestic cricket in India suffered from neglect by the administration (read Board of Control for Cricket in India – BCCI). However, the...
MUMBAI: Neo Sports the upcoming cricket channel from Nimbus has appointed Arvind Agarwal as senior VP – finance. Agarwal will oversee the finance, accounting and secretarial...
MUMBAI: Nimbus has appointed Shashi Kalathil as Chief Executive Officer of its sports broadcasting business Neo Sports. This will be effective from October this year. Kalathil...
MUMBAI: Nimbus Sports Broadcast, the Nimbus Communications subsidiary operating its sports broadcasting business, has entered into a deal with Star India wherein the News Corp network...
Some like it; some don’t. But there’s no denying that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai)-mandated pay channel prices in CAS areas (Rs 5 for...
MUMBAI: Percept has bagged three tenders floated by the BCCI totaling a deal that’s around Rs 750 million. BCCI had earlier invited tenders for the official...
MUMBAI: Harish Thawani’s Nimbus Communications Limited appears to be on track as regards its stated aim to launch three sports channels between October 2006 and September...
MUMBAI: ETC Music has promoted its general manager programming and promos Ravindra Acharya to the position of creative head and VP programming with immediate affect. Acharya...
MUMBAI: Harish Thawani’s Nimbus Communications Limited today announced that it would be launching three sports channels between October 2006 and September 2007. Nimbus also announced that...
MUMBAI: Standing by its commitment to strive for the welfare of the entertainment industry at large, the Film & Television Producers Guild of India Ltd. recently...
NEW DELHI: Zee Sports, the youngest of the sports channel beaming into Indian cable homes, could breakeven within 12 to 18 months time, according to a...
MUMBAI: Nimbus Communications Limited, the global media rights partner of the BCCI, has entered into TV licensing agreement for terrestrial broadcast of Indian cricket in Kenya,...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: It’s match on in Nagpur for the first Test between Indian and England and the deals are still being done. India cricket...
MUMBAI: One big international territory has already been accounted for – Sky Sports in the UK. Now the US territory is taken as well. Nimbus Sport...
MUMBAI: Nimbus Communications, the global media rights owner of Indian cricket up to March 2010, last evening reached agreement with national terrestrial broadcaster Doordarshan for the...
MUMBAI: The third and most critical piece of the India cricket telecast pie for the upcoming India-England series has now been settled with the unveiling of...
MUMBAI: After all the talk of a shutout, some good news for English cricket fans wishing to follow their team’s progress. Sky Sports has won the...
MUMBAI: Five days after Nimbus Communications clinched a $612.18 million (Rs 27.24 billion) global media rights deal for cricket to be played in India for the...
MUMBAI: The James Murdoch-led BSkyB DTH operator in the UK has become the first broadcast platform to take a hit after Nimbus Communications won the telecast...
MUMBAI: A day after Nimbus Communications clinched a $612.18 million (Rs 27.24 billion) global media rights deal for cricket to be played in India for the...
MUMBAI: The Indian cricket board announced today that Nimbus Communications Ltd has won the telecast rights to India cricket for the next four years after putting...
MUMBAI: In what finally came down to a race between two contestants, Nimbus Sport bested TWI to secure the BCCI contract for television productions of all...
Nimbus chairman Harish Thawani holds forth on the current sports scenario in India and throws light on what 2006 may have in store for the sports...