'People want to know the life led by those living in Pakistan.'
With the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) extended deadline coming to an end, there will be no automatic recurring payment for various services including recharge and utility bill as the additional factor of authentication (AFA) will become mandatory from Friday. On December 4, RBI had directed all banks including RRBs, NBFCs, and payment gateways that the processing of recurring transactions (domestic or cross-border) using cards or Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPIs) or Unified Payments Interface (UPI) under arrangements/practices not compliant with AFA would not be continued beyond March 31, 2021. As part of risk mitigation measures, RBI announced this step to bolster safety and security of card transactions.
Greycells 18 will launch an interactive channel called Topper to assist students in their class 10 and class 12 board exams.
When, recently, Bharti Airtel announced a Rs 21,000 crore rights issue, analysts pointed out that its structure was similar to that of Reliance's issue in June 2020. One similarity is that shareholders in both companies have to pay only 25 per cent of the money on application. The rest is to be paid in two tranches. In Bharti Airtel's case, it is within 36 months; in Reliance Jio's, it is within 17 months.
With the Central Government making it mandatory for consumers to switch to CAS in select parts of major metros, Onida is planning to launch LCD televisions that have an embedded technology to encrypt digital signals.
Facing a growing threat from direct-to-home service providers, which are fast acquiring subscribers in non-conditional access system areas, the cable industry wants the implementation of the system in all the areas of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.
The government on Thursday gave its nod to a foreign direct investment of $150 million (Rs 675 crore) in Maran family-run Sun TV's ambitious direct to home service project.
Dish TV and Tata Sky, the two major DTH companies, have sought compensation from the government for the upgrade of the existing DTH set-top boxes due to the mandatory upgrade proposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
Kamal Haasan has filed a complaint with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against the Tamil Nadu Theatre Owners Association wifor restricting the release of his film Vishwaroopam in theatres last year.
Service was launched in Mumbai in July and it will be expanded across the country in a phased manner
Essel Group-promoted Dish TV on Wednesday said it was looking for a tie-up with the Indian Railways to implement DTH services in trains, which would enable travelers to watch Live TV while on the move.
China with a growth rate of 25 per cent and India at 18 per cent, are among the fastest growing markets fueling the boom in entertainment
There are presently around 20 million DTH subscribers in the country and Sun has managed to capture more than 25 per cent of the pie with a customer base of 5.3 million.
In what is amongst the first focused fund in the space, India Media Entertainment Fund (IMEF) is raising Rs 500 crore, which will provide both equity as well as instruments like non-convertible debentures (NCD) to companies in the content, distribution platform and services areas. The private equity fund has appointed a high-profile advisory body which includes ad guru Prahlad Kakkar, managing director of Red Chillies Entertainment and cricket team KKR Sports, actress and entrepreneur Raadhika Sarathkumar, who has starred in Malayalam, Hindi and Kannada films and runs Radaan Mediaworks. It also includes Ramnath Pradeep, former chairman and managing director of Corporation Bank, and Rajesh Gupta, senior partner of law firm SNG Partners.
Currently, STB of a particular operator cannot be used by a consumer to receive signals of another operator
NDTV operates news channels, including NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India.
Industry sources indicate DD Direct Plus has a subscriber base of around nine million. The DTH operator's reach is second largest after Dish TV, which has a gross subscriber base of 10.9 million.
Competitive price will face stiff challenge from incumbents such as DD Free Dish
President, Telemedia Services, Bharti Airtel, Atul Bindal, said unlike DTH, IPTV services would be available only in few major cities. The company had recently introduced DTH service in the country.
Bharti Airtel is rolling out last-mile connectivity with a target of reaching over 20 mn addressable households in 90-100 cities in the next 3 years
The impact of the Union Budget 2012-13 on the Media & Entertainment sector is neutral. The Budget did not address the issues of digitization, as the country shift from analog cable TV to digital. The budget has nothing to say for the Industry in general.
"Every Cricket enthusiast would like to watch the matches in the best quality format. Hence it is obvious that players are hoping for a good sales year. But this will also mean plethora of schemes for the users to chose from," said a market expert.
The company, which has filed its documents with the market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India, is also looking to raise up to Rs 50 crore (Rs 500 million) by pre-IPO placement of up to 10 million shares.
The ministry is also said that NaMo TV is not a regular channel and it does not figure in the official list of approved channels, a source said.
The film will releases both in theatres and digitally, reveals Subhash K Jha.
At a time when key economic indicators are pointing to a slowdown, market leaders in three sectors have been raising prices to maintain margins.
The Indian Space Research Organisation is set to rake in a revenue of about Rs 1,250 crore (Rs 12.5 billion) with the launch of INSAT-4B satellite as transponders are fully booked on the back of booming demand for Direct-To-Home services.
The DTH industry in India is likely to witness a price cut in its services in near future, with the government proposing a cut customs duty to zero per cent from the existing 7.5 per cent on specified parts of set top boxes.
Union budget was mildly for cable broadcasting industry and DTH.
According to government sources, the ministry is likely to take a line that it is an advertisement channel which does not require a prior permission and it is run on certain DTH channels on payment made by the BJP.
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Cable and DTH companies cannot hold more than 20 per cent stake in each other.
'It's not a sequel to Wanted, it's just that the character's name is Radhe.'
Infosys already works with a communication services provider major in Western Europe in the digital TV space. The company has a solution called modular content accelerator which serves as an interface between stakeholders of consumer marketing and IT. The solution provides an operator the means to efficiently manage content catalogue, bundled offers and pricing, apart from providing interactive services through multi-media content storefront.
Reliance BIG TV, the DTH arm of Reliance Communications, is planning to introduce 60 more channels including its own entertainment channels in the next three months, a top company official said.
The much-hyped joint venture between Tatas and Rupert Murdoch controlled Star group is understood to have got all the government clearances for starting the Rs 1,600 crore (Rs 16 billion) direct-to-home venture in India.
