Updated with graphs from a company presentation On its way to profitability, Essel Group owned DTH company Dish TV lost momentum and yielded to rising expenditure in the quarter ended December ... Continue_Reading

The Indian government has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting on policy guidelines issued for Headend In The Sky (HITS) operators . This decision comes after ... Continue_Reading

DTH Service provider Dish TV and Indiatimes 58888 have partnered to offer previews of the latter’s VAS services on DTH, though a service called Mobile Active. The cross-media integration allows ... Continue_Reading

DTH company Dish TV by the Essel Group added 440,790 subscribers during the first quarter of fiscal 2010, compared to 0.35 million added last quarter. In FY2008-09, Dish TV added ... Continue_Reading

TV, Digital distribution and New Media helped AIM listed film company Eros International PLC record a 38.7 percent increase to $156.7 million in turnover for FY09. EBITDA was up 41% from ... Continue_Reading

Updated with COAI’s pre-budget memorandum. The General Budget for the year ahead 2009-10 will be announced on July 6th, and prior to the announcement, demands are pouring in to help the ... Continue_Reading

Telecom regulatory authority of India, TRAI, is planning to introduce portability to DTH set top boxes, DNA reports. If its suggestion goes through, competition will heighten amongst players as consumers ... Continue_Reading

In the first part of this post-FY09 results interview with MediaNama, Aksh Optifibre MD Dr. Kailash Choudhuri spoke of the state of the companys IPTV rollouts, challenges, plans to raise money, ... Continue_Reading

In March, TRAI came up with a consultation paper that would initiate discussion with DTH and IPTV operators on issues related to the sectors. We had picked out points that ... Continue_Reading

Smart Digivision will launch BSNL’s IPTV in Delhi soon and in Kolkata by mid-May, Kapil Dev Kumar, Chief Operating Officer, Smart Digivision, told MediaNama. The company, one of the ... Continue_Reading

(By Preethi J & Nikhil Pahwa) Reliance ADAG has launched a television production house Big Productions, which will join its sister company BIG Synergy in adapting the movie 13 B into ... Continue_Reading

In what appears to be a step towards focusing more on value added services, Bharti Airtel has announced the setting up of two new divisions – M-Commerce and M-Entertainment, which ... Continue_Reading