Sun Direct, the DTH arm of Sun TV Network, could soon emerge as the No. 1 provider of HD TV channels in India, according to a distributor privy to the company’s plans. The DTH operator has recently acquired several transponders on a new satellite owned by the ISRO, the Indian space agency, next to its primary […]
Sun Direct, the DTH operator from the Sun TV group, has added several new High Definition channels over the last several days, and has now overtaken rivals Dish TV and Videocon D2h in terms of the number of English movie channels on its HD platform. The move comes more than a year after ISRO launched the […]
It’s an idea that India’s most popular news anchor Arnab Goswami never tires of plugging, but it is Times group’s local rival Zee News which has beaten Goswami to launch the first Indian origin global news channel. The channel, christened WION, will cover global news events from a ‘South Asian perspective’, which should be a […]
A report by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has revealed that NDTV 24×7 has the highest number of peak-hour advertisements among English news channels in India, followed by Times Now, India Today and CNN-IBN. According to the report, NDTV showed an average of 22.66 minutes of advertisements per hour during the period under survey. […]
The central government is awaiting feedback from the Supreme Court before expanding digitization of court proceedings by introducing audio and video recordings of proceedings. The ministry of law and justice said that it has been getting suggestions that following the digitization of court documents, a move should be made to digitize and record entire proceedings. […]
Spats over prices are an inescapable phenomenon in the broadcasting industry and by the looks of it Sony and Hathway Cable and Datacom are gearing up for yet another battle. Hathway said Sony, via its distributor MSM Media, has been demanding exorbitant prices for its channels for letting it renew its distribution agreement. “The Subscription […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked all broadcasting companies in India to roll-back the recent hikes that they introduced in their pay channel rates. Pay channel rates had been hiked by around 27% over the past one year after the TRAI allowed such a move to adjust for inflation. However, the move was […]
Rupert Murdoch-owned Start India – one of India’s biggest broadcasting companies – has come out strongly against the Indian telecom regulator’s move to let telecom operators side-step the so-called net neutrality principles in the country. UPDATE: Airtel Digital has removed all Star channels from all its packs. https://ultra.news/s-e/38651/bhartis-airtel-digital-removes-all-star-india-channels-from-its-packs Star India, formerly Start TV, wondered why […]
India Today Group will sell its seven FM radio stations to the Times of India Group’s Entertainment Network India Ltd, which runs the Radio Mirchi chain of stations. TV Today Network entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Entertainment Network for the sale of the seven radio stations. TV Today runs the seven FM […]
BBC World News will shift its operating base to India in April as the world’s most populous democracy goes to the polls to elect its new Parliament, said Jim Egan, CEO of BBC Global News said today. “We will also be bringing BBC trending from India,” said Egan, talking at the annual FICCI Frames conference. […]
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has dismissed the “fabrications and concoctions” being circulated on social media about the new tariff rules that will come into effect on December 29. In a statement, the regulator countered two broad concerns on the upcoming tariff scheme — that consumers will have to pay far more to watch their […]
