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MUMBAI: Intel Corporation and NDS Group plc., have announced a trial system to demonstrate the TV and video services for fixed WiMax technology. Using the WiMax...
MUMBAI: The English Premier League (EPL) has awarded three live television rights packages to British pay television service BSkyB in the first sale of broadcasting contracts...
MUMBAI: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has released its annual report indicating that the revenues and profits for Canada’s specialty and pay TV services...
MUMBAI: B4U Group has acquired overseas TV telecast rights to around 35 movies from Sahara One Media and Entertainment Ltd. for Rs 15 million. The movies...
MUMBAI: Star Movies has secured the exclusive pay-TV rights to the Star Wars and James Bond franchises for India, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. The channel launched...
MUMBAI: This is a piece of news that should put a word of caution on telecom firms like Reliance Infocomm and Bharti who are keen on...
MUMBAI: The California headquartered SCM Microsystems, which provides solutions that open the digital world has sold its digital TV solutions business to the Swiss based Kudelski...
MUMBAI: Mark Burnett Productions (MBP) which specialises in reality shows has signed an output deal with Australian pay TV platform Foxtel. Foxtel will be able to...
MUMBAI: French media group Lagardere agreed to pay $624 million to Vivendi and transfer its 34% stake in CanalSat to get a 20% stake of Canal+...
MUMBAI: Turner Network Television (TNT) has announced that it has entered into an agreement with US pay TV platform DirecTV. DirecTV will provide customers with the...
MUMBAI: US media regulatory body the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a Further Report on the packaging and sale of video programming services to the...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster MTV’s ethnic offering MTV World has announced plans to produce a live performance special featuring Korean popstar Rain on 3 February at MTV’s...
MUMBAI: The Seychelles based Triple-play operator Intelvision Ltd has selected MQSubscribe, the Convergent Customer Management & Billing (CMB) solution by MagnaQuest, to handle its requirements of...
MUMBAI: Malaysia’s Direct-To-Home (DTH) and pay TV operator Astro All Asia Networks plc is planning to introduce 50 new channels in the next 12-month period with...
MUMBAI: SCM Microsystems, Inc. has been selected by Korea Digital Cable Media Center Co (KDMC), South Korea’s digital cable service provider, to supply OpenCable compliant CableCard...
MUMBAI: Level 3 Communications which provides broadband network services has announced that it has been selected by US pay TV platform DirecTV to help provide the...
MUMBAI: UK pay TV platform BSkyB has announced results for the first quarter ended 30 September 2005. Revenue increased by eight per cent to £1,023 million...
MUMBAI: Pay-TV piracy is on the rise in the Asia Pacific region. A study released by The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) and...
MUMBAI: NDS, the prominent provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV together with Blockbuster Digital Entertainment, set-top box (STB) supplier ADB and VOD (Video on Demand)...
MUMBAI: Asia Pacific’s pay revenues stood at $25 billion in 2004 with heavyweights Japan, India and China accounting for 65 per cent of the total earnings...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced a new initiative to encourage practical, high-end solutions to the challenges of the new...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has appointed John Medeiros as vice president for government relations and regulatory affairs. Medeiros will be...
MUMBAI: As New Zealand celebrated 45 years of television broadcasting, industry leaders in the country met in Auckland a few days ago. The forum was an...
MUMBAI: NDTV, which launched the business channel NDTV Profit along with the 24-hour news channel NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India, has decided to go the pay...
MUMBAI: As Sony prepares to seal the deal on its $4.8 billion acquisition of MGM, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has realigned its domestic and international television...
MUMBAI: West Asian pay TV platform management company Arab Digital Distribution (ADD) and Dubai-based Ten Sports have announced that they are working together to create a...
MUMBAI: News Corp owned digital pay-TV technology encryption specialist NDS reported a 17 per cent increase in second quarter net profit (to 31 December) at $30.3...
NEW DELHI: Rapid changes in the competitive environment for video and broadband services, the development of new technologies and the emergence of new forms of content...
MUMBAI: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has signed a new agreement with Viasat Broadcasting. The deal will see WWE launch throughout Scandinavia for the first time in...
MUMBAI: Ten Sports has temporarily suspended its transmission on Pehla Europe to stop illegal re-distribution of signals on some cable networks in Pakistan. Arab Digital Distribution,...
MUMBAI: The Hong Kong-based Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has endorsed the conclusion of a treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations currently...
MUMBAI: The UK pay TV market is currently at a crossroads. It was worth 4.41bn pounds in 2003. The market grew by 80.8 per cent since...
MUMBAI: European cable and satellite companies will have to convince nearly 232 million households that TV is worth paying for if they are to lure audiences...
MUMBAI: Canal, the French broadcaster has lincensed the new US network drama series Desperate Housewives and Kevin Hill on pay TV from Buena Vista International Television...
MUMBAI: “Telemart isn’t like any other conference. The focus here is on actual trade and not just company plugs. In fact, the two-hour conference held every...
MUMBAI: The US-based communications & networking research and consulting firm Yankee Group has predicted that pay-TV subscriptions in the Asia Pacific region will increase to $22.1...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa), today took new steps to stamp out pay-TV piracy in Hong Kong, issuing “cease and desist...
MUMBAI: The Rupert Murodch broadcaster Star has announced the appointment of Wayne Chou as the GM of Star Taiwan. Chou will head Stars broadcasting operations in...
MUMBAI: The Thai government has outlined a ten point plan to improve the pay TV piracy environment within Thailand, including commitments by cable ops to respect...
MUMBAI: BBC has received a shot in the arm regarding its uncertainty concerning yesterday’s Broadcasting Policy Group (BPG) report. There were fears that the government might...
LONDON: BSkyB, the satellite television group, is set to put through its fourth successive inflation-busting price rise to customers. The increase – more than many analysts...
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...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) has launched a new pay-TV service. The endeavour is aimed at realising the “triple-play” strategy, thus bringing a significant...
MUMBAI: IndusInd Media & Communications Ltd (IMCL), has announced the soft launch of its Digital TV Services, using the set-top-box in Mumbai city. Sources reveal that...
LOS ANGELES : MGM Networks has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement for an MGM-branded movie network in Hong Kong. The MGM Channel will...
MUMBAI: A success story in the war against the cable pirate. Only it is far removed from Indian shores. The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of...
MUMBAI: MGM Networks, a unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has signed a distribution agreement covering an MGM-branded, movie-driven network in Indonesia. Under the agreement, the MGM...
BRUSSELS: The European Union has given Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp the go ahead for buying Italian pay-TV firm Telepiu from Vivendi Universal. A new entity Sky...
There is a lot of talk within the CATV industry currently on Analogue and Digital and different perceptions floating around as to the advantages and disadvantages...
The road to a digital future ought to be paved with good intentions! Or so the powers that be would have liked to have it! But...
