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April 29th, 2019 7:09 PM 1 COMMENTS

Tata Sky Will Now Make Customised Show Recommendations Based on Viewing Patterns of Users

The major DTH provider, Tata Sky has come up with a new feature for its subscribers providing personalised content recommendations on the Tata Sky Mobile app and the official watch.tatasky.com website. To enable this feature, the DTH provider is using personalised content discovery and recommendation from ThinkAnalytics. It is worth noting that this new feature will help the subscribers in getting relevant recommendations based on their previous viewing patterns to... Read More

April 27th, 2019 5:31 PM 4 COMMENTS

FTA Channels Likely to Get More Viewership Than Paid Regional Channels Under New Trai Mandate

Over the last few years in India, regional content viewership has seen a massive rise with consumers attracted to their televisions. Broadcasters are also upping the ante with every passing day to air the content which will attract the users and glue them to their TVs. There are some popular channels across all the regional channels, but it's said that the new tariff regime introduced by Trai will deliver a... Read More

April 26th, 2019 8:01 AM 0 COMMENTS

Dish TV Mobile App Comes With Infrared Remote and Also Allows Users to Track Show Timings: Features Detailed

The DTH service providers in India had to go through the ordeal of migrating their subscribers to the new Trai based channel packs and plans after the sector regulator introduced the new pricing regime. Without a robust network, it would have been almost impossible for the service providers to accomplish such a large-scale migration in such a short period. However, the self-care applications of these providers came in very handy... Read More

April 25th, 2019 7:04 AM 3 COMMENTS

Trai Now Issues Notice to Dish TV For Violation of Norms After Bringing Airtel Digital TV Under Scrutiny

With almost a month into the new Trai tariff regime, we have definitely come to know that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is not slacking off with the implementation of its latest pricing framework. The sector regulator has been stringent about the new rules since day one and is continuously keeping track of the DTH players under strict scrutiny to find any violation of the quality of service... Read More

April 24th, 2019 7:25 PM 0 COMMENTS

Cable TV Market Share Dominated By Top 15 MSOs, Only 22% Share Occupied by Rest 1,100 Players: Trai

In its new white paper released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), the regulator noted that around 15 big MSOs (Multi System Operators) control 78% of the cable TV market in India, as opposed to the other small MSOs which occupy only 22% of the market share. Trai also noted that there are around total 1100 MSOs in the country, out of which the top 15 make up... Read More

April 24th, 2019 9:42 AM 0 COMMENTS

Trai Warns Airtel Digital TV to Comply With New Regulatory Framework Rules

Sector regulator Trai on Tuesday directed Airtel Digital TV to comply with the provision of the new regulatory framework for broadcasting and cable TV services, as it took serious note of consumer complaints pertaining to the DTH operators' specific offering and grievance redressal helpline. "The said DTH operator is forcefully offering a bouquet of free-to-air channels with no choice to subscribers, without their consent and with no additional NCF (Network... Read More

April 23rd, 2019 2:30 PM 3 COMMENTS

Dish TV Now Allows Subscribers to Activate or Deactivate Channels Without Any Lock-in Period

One of the key points in the new Trai tariff mandate is operators should not restrict subscribers from changing channel packs in a timeframe. But to users surprise, some DTH operators are still locking-in subscribers for a certain period of time. D2h has introduced two-month lock-in period on sports channels, and later on, Dish TV has announced 30-day lock-in period for all the pay channels which disappointed a lot of... Read More

April 23rd, 2019 1:16 PM 0 COMMENTS

Airtel Digital TV Launches Spotlight Video on Demand Channel in Partnership With Zee Theatre

In its latest move, Airtel Digital TV, the Digital TV arm of Bharti Airtel today announced a new 'Spotlight' channel to its subscribers. Basically, Spotlight is a Video on Demand channel that will air the best of Indian plays by popular theatre groups from across the country. Airtel Digital TV introduced this new channel in collaboration with Zee Theatre which is the theatre segment of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited. The... Read More

April 23rd, 2019 9:48 AM 14 COMMENTS

DTH Operators Should Not Force Subscribers to Choose Bouquets or Curated Packs: Trai

When Trai announced the new broadcasting framework back in 2017, it promised transparency and complete rights of choosing channels would be with the customer. However, the new tariff mandate is fully effective and several customers are still facing issues related to channel selection and other issues which the service providers are unable to solve. Last week, it was reported that Trai had issued showcause notices to six Cable TV operators... Read More

April 23rd, 2019 7:24 AM 0 COMMENTS

Tata Sky Mobile App Features Detailed: Live TV, On-Demand, Watchlist, Profile and More

After the introduction of the new tariff regime by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), the broadcasting and the DTH industry went through a lot of changes. The most massive impact of the new tariff regime was the subscribers' migration to upgrade their old channel selections to the new channels and channel packs which were Trai new rule-compliant. However, the DTH subscribers faced multiple problems during this phase and... Read More

April 22nd, 2019 7:54 PM 1 COMMENTS

D2h Subscribers Bound by Two Month Lock-in Period on Sports Channels Due to Cricket Season

Ever since the beginning of the cricket season, the DTH industry was brewing with new offers, packs and discounts which were aimed at luring the cricket fans. During the Indian Premier League matches, the DTH companies witness a bump in their viewership thanks to the cricket fanatics. However, every DTH company is vying for the most share during this period and wants to retain its subscribers on the screens. As... Read More

April 22nd, 2019 7:29 AM 0 COMMENTS

What is DTH and How it Differs from Standard Cable TV Service?

Only a few months back, the regulatory authority of India which governs the broadcasting industry flipped the sector over with the new rules. The latest pricing framework introduced by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) brought significant changes to the way how TV services were being priced and distributed. Although there was an apparent change in the prices and subscriptions costs, some significant changes took over on the business... Read More

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