The payment is overdue for the past 10 months, says Zee Turner.
Taking serious note of non-compliance of its order, broadcast regulator TRAI said on Friday said it will take legal action against cable distributors, Zee-Turner and Set-Discovery, for not restoring signals of one of their sub-distributors.
The Supreme Court refused to give any interim relief to Zee-Turner on Wednesday.
In a landmark deal announced in Mumbai, Star Den Media Services Pvt Ltd and Zee Turner Ltd will form a joint venture to combine distribution of their respective channel bouquets in India.
"Respondent (Zee-Turner) would supply all its 32 channels from all bouquets to the petitioner (Tata Sky) within 48 hours," said TDSAT chairman Justice Arun Kumar, admitting the prayer of Tata Sky, an 80:20 Tata-Star venture, in this regard.\n\n
Dierct-to-home operator TataSky objected on Monday to a plea by broadcaster Turner International (India) to excuse it from a case involving its partner Zee and the Tata-Star joint venture.
DTH viewers subscribing to the Tata Sky platform may not be able to watch the channels from the Zee TV bouquet after July 28. The reason is that Tata Sky has an outstanding bill of Rs 9 crore (Rs 90 million).
Sunil Khanna, the chief executive officer of Zee Turner, has been named as the new president of Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms Ltd.
Broadcast tribunal TDSAT on Monday came down heavily on Zee-Turner for not providing its channels to Tata Sky, a direct-to-home service provider and ordered that the channels should be made available by this evening.
Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee group on Friday said it would launch a full-fledged Hindi business news channel from November 30.
Zee Telefilms has maintained its bouquet pricing at Rs 55 for post conditional access system regime - becoming the first company to announce its price structure.
In separate petitions filed at the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal, ESPN Software India, MSM Discovery, Zee Turner and Star Den Media Services said the tariff suggested by the sectoral regulator was not commercially viable.
Bollywood has a history of making heads turn -- theirs and everybody else's -- in shiny hair accessory.
Television buffs in India are in for another bout of thrills on the small screen when Reality Television starts beaming its programmes from February one.\n\n\n\n
Tata Sky gets Zee bouquet, not to charge extra.
Leading broadcasters Zee-Turner and Set Discovery have challenged in TDSAT sectoral regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's guidelines on pricing of cable TV charges in non-conditional access system areas. Trai regulation directs them to provide their channels on a 'la carte' basis.
A day after reprimanding Zee-Turner for switching off TV channel signals to a subscriber without proper notice
India's biggest listed media firm, Zee Telefilms Ltd., is considering launching a sports channel with Time Warner Inc.'s Turner International to take on ESPN and Star Sports.
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If you thought television channels in India have been hurt by a slowdown in companies' spend on advertisements, consider this: In three months, Indian viewers have seen the addition of four new channels and two-three channels are expected to debut later this year.
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As returns from fiction fall, broadcasters are experimenting with high-cost programming and new genres to grab more eyeballs. But can production houses rise to the challenge?
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