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MUMBAI: That TRAI boss Rahul Khullar means business; that he does not mince any words; that he can make you squirm when he wants to is...
MUMBAI:India‘s pay TV operators are coming of age. And they are bursting on to the global pay TV scene, if one goes by data released by...
MUMBAI: The team at media and ad sales repping company Aidem Ventures is saying Jai Maharashtra these days. No, no they are not becoming fundamental Maharashtrians;...
NEW DELHI: Cable TV operators in Kolkata have launched an agitation against the multi-system operators (MSOs) and broadcasters for failing to set proper rates and bouquets...
Mumbai: There’s tremendous promise and potential in Indian cable TV. No one knows this better than Essel group and Zee TV chairman Subhash Chandra who floated...
MUMBAI: Big RTL Thrill, the action entertainment channel targeted at male audiences, has launched on digital distribution platforms in Mumbai and Delhi. In Mumbai and Delhi,...
MUMBAI: Zee Group-promoted multi-system operator (MSO) Siti Cable continues to be in the red with the fiscal third quarter consolidated net loss widening 47 per cent...
MUMBAI: Kolkata‘s cable television will go completely digital from 28 December. The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) ministry has cracked the whip for switching off of all...
NEW DELHI: Essel Group-promoted Siti Cable has filled up its chief executive position after a year to keep pace with its digital cable TV expansion plans....
NEW DELHI: MSOs are divided on the issue whether carriage fee is retained by them and the basic tier fee of cable channels by local cable...
NEW DELHI: Two companies related to the consumer service business of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel Group’s DTH platform are poised to be merged with ASC Enterprise...
MUMBAI: One part of the process set in motion late last month by the Subhash Chandra promoted Zee Telefilms board to split its broadcasting business into...
NEW DELHI: Even as Siti Cable today made a presentation on conditional access system to stakeholders during a government-sponsored meeting, the broadcasters said the issue of...
NEW DELHI: The game of ping-pong being played in the name of Conditional Access System (CAS) took another turn today with the broadcasters and cable fraternity...
MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) is buying out broadband services provider Broadband Pacenet, which is promoted by Jagjit Singh Kohli, Yogesh Shah and Yogesh Radhakrishnan. Kohli,...
NEW DELHI: Subhash Chandra, chairman of the approximately Rs. 13 billion Zee Telefilms, feels that after the restructuring announced Wednesday, the company’s bottomline would be “healthier”,...
NEW DELHI: The Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms, which is planning a restructuring of its businesses, is toying hiving off its distribution activities as a separate company....
With a nearly seven-million strong subscriber base, Siti Cable should have been ideally sitting pretty with a permanent smile pasted on the faces of the executives...
MUMBAI: In a move that is likely to surprise many in the cable & satellite television industry, the Zee Telefilms controlled Siti Cable has concluded a...
MUMBAI: Essel Group’s 24-hour interactive and gaming channel PlayTV, managed by Dakshin Media Solutions, is now on air. The channel, which was soft-launched on 1 April,...
MUMBAI: This time round Sahara is not taking any chances with a new product. In a bid to have its distribution strategy in place before launch,...
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...
NEW DELHI: The Subrata Roy promoted Sahara group is all geared up to effect another restructuring to its media business. This time around the thrust is...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to further extend its brand equity, multi-system operator Siti Cable has decided to hold city specific social and cultural festival fair...
MUMBAI: Siti Cable vice president operations Tapas Roy has put in his papers and is all set to join Sahara as vice president operations (North and...
NEW DELHI: Evan as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) rides roughshod over the broadcast sector, the protagonists (read broadcasters vs the cable fraternity) are...
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...
NEW DELHI: Siti Cable’s franchisee cable operators in Delhi have expressed their initial inability to cough up additional subscription money for new channels and have sought...
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,...
NEW DELHI: The broadcast and cable regulator, which was slated to issue an order on inter-connect agreements late this week, has held it back owing to...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today issued notices to the Government of India and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on a petition filed by...
NEW DELHI: The All India Cable Operators Forum, today said it is “suspending” (not calling off) its indefinite agitation against imposition of service tax “in the...
NEW DELHI: The cable fraternity has threatened that from tomorrow (17 August), TV screens would go on the blink, as all cable services will be stopped,...
MUMBAI: Computer peripherals manufacturer TVS Electronics Limited (TVS-E) launched the first Indian made set top box (STB) today, which have been manufactured at its newly commissioned...
NEW DELHI: Proposing that any new TV channel seeking to beam into India ought to be mandated through a set-top box in a digital mode, multi-system...
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/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...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: A fresh Telecom Regulatory Authority (Trai) order on interconnect agreements, issued on a day when the nation is grappling with the interim Budget, can...
NEW DELHI: Siti Cable and Trinity Platco (formerly known as Spectranet) have announced a strategic marketing alliance in ground distribution and content management for the Delhi...
NEW DELHI: As an effigy of information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was burnt by National Akali Dal (NAD) activists on 7 January, demanding a...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Pogo, the new kids channel from the Turner stable, seems to have become a victim of the ongoing CAS controversy. At least in North...
NEW DELHI: The federal government has thrown the CAS ball back into the state’s court by saying, it would be unwarranted to conclude that the Union...
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system, like Banquo’s ghost, just refuses to go away. Just when everybody, including the government, thought it has been given a quiet...
NEW DELHI: The dead on its feet rollout of conditional access system (CAS) has just had a dose of oxygen pumped into it. In a ruling...
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...
NEW DELHI: Zee News may be lagging behind Aaj Tak, which seems to be living up to its image of ‘subse tez’ channel till now, but...
NEW DELHI: The woes of the Hindujas-owned INCablenet continue as also internal churning. Close on the heels of company COO Rajiv Vyas quitting the organisation,...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court today reserved its judgement on a clutch of petitions on conditional access system (CAS) where the Central government is a...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court hearing on a clutch of petitions on conditional access system (CAS) was inconclusive today, and it was decided that the...
NEW DELHI: Multi-system operators (MSOs) are meeting the information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad around 3.30 pm today on conditional access system (CAS). One...
