While the battle for supremacy in the direct to home (DTH) broadcasting segment continues among the 6 private operators, we take a look at what one platform provides, that all others lack. When deciding upon a Live TV service for your home, you pick between a local cable operator or a DTH provider based on multiple factors, cost of services being one and availability of channels being the other to... Read More
Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), today said that it has appointed Sunil Taldar as CEO & Director - DTH. Sunil will be a member of the Airtel Management Board and report to Gopal Vittal, MD & CEO (India & South Asia), Bharti Airtel. He takes over from Shashi Arora who after a successful stint of appx. five years as CEO – DTH has moved as MD & CEO, Airtel Payments Bank. In... Read More
Asia’s largest DTH service provider DishTV has added three new regional HD channels to its portfolio. Zee Marathi HD, Zee Bangla HD, and Colors Marathi HD are the newly added channels. With these additions, the total HD channels of DishTV rose to 59 from 56. Commenting on the launch of new HD channels, Mr. Arun Kapoor, Chief executive Officer, DishTV India said, “DishTV has always taken the lead in enhancing... Read More
In what will be a first of its kind merger in the DTH sector in India, two leading DTH operators are all set to merge their operations to form a single largest DTH operator. The new entity which will be named Dish Tv Videocon will have a strong subscriber base of 28 Million. The Board of Directors of Dish TV and Videocon d2h Limited on Friday approved a scheme of... Read More
In a recent order passed by honorable Delhi High court, Dish TV had been asked to stop illegally operating in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The region includes counties such as Afghanistan, Bahrain, Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and Yemen. This irregularity resulted from the spillover signals from Dish TV's beam emerging from Asiasat 5 which the operator uses to Broadcast... Read More
Following in the footsteps of Tata Sky, Bharti Airtel has now hiked DTH tariffs for its Digital TV services across India. The Mittal owned telecom giant hiked DTH tariffs up to 10 percent in entry level monthly packs which are subscribed by almost 80 percent of total active Digital TV users. Airtel's DTH business which expanded sharply during last few quarters, thanks to cable TV digitisation process has now more... Read More
TataSky which recently hiked its tariffs is all set to make Diwali festivities sweeter for its regional subscribers with the mass addition of 10 new channels including Tamil, Gujarati and Hindi regional channels. TataSky currently has a lot of vacant transponders which it is gradually using to add new channels on its platform. The Direct-to-Home service provider is currently showcasing a handpicked array of critically acclaimed films from recent editions of... Read More
Tata Son's DTH arm, TataSky which has recently rebranded its logo and launched a new TVC campaign with Amitabh Bachchan to attract new cable TV customers from tier 2 and tier 3 cities; has hiked rentals for almost all packages across India by upto 10 percent. Depending on the monthly subscription package rate, prices have increased in the range of Rs. 10-30 per month. The company which has nearly 13... Read More
In a bargain to make the festive season sweeter, the smallest DTH operator by subscriber base Reliance Digital TV has launched a promotional offer where it is allowing free access to all HD channels to its subscribers who have an HD set top box but are not subscribed to an HD channel pack. RDTV currently provides 288 SD channels, 12 HD channels and 10 radio channels totalling to 310 channels... Read More
TataSky has established its name in the DTH sector as being the most innovative operator which has constantly kept innovating and transforming itself to keep in sync with the changing demands of the TV viewer. In its series of industry firsts, TataSky has become the first DTH operator to launch web apps on its set top boxes. Web apps are similar to the apps you have on your smartphone and... Read More
Reliance Digital TV, the direct-to-home (DTH) arm of Reliance Communications, neither saw any subscriber growth nor any churn for the second consecutive quarter. Its subscriber base remained static at 5 million as of 30 June 2016, with less than 6% share of the DTH market in India, reported TelevisionPost. Reliance Digital TV had touched the milestone of 5 million subscribers in the quarter ended 31 December 2015. Since then, the... Read More
TataSky has chosen the Ericsson AVP 4000 compression platform which offers superior quality system encoding for IPTV, Cable, Satellite and Broadcast and delivers greater reliability and flexibility with lower transmission delay to ensure media organizations use bandwidth more efficiently and ensure consumers receive a high quality viewing experience. TataSky which currently has the highest number of HD channels and services in the DTH market will be benefited by this move... Read More
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