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Esmail April 5th, 2015 8:40 PM 4 COMMENTS

Tata Sky subscribers face temporary disruption of services due to upgradation

Direct-to-Home operator TataSky today said its services to up to 30,000 subscribers have been temporarily disrupted as the company is carrying out a technology upgrade and the same would be restored in the next two days. The company is upgrading its compression technology at its network for the enhancement of its channel carrying capacity. “About 25,000 to 30,000 customers out of our 1 crore plus base have experienced the disturbance.... Read More

Ria Lakshman April 2nd, 2015 12:34 PM 5 COMMENTS

Airtel Digital TV crosses 10M subscriber mark in six years, adds 12 new channels

Airtel Digital TV, nation’s leading DTH service provider has reached a customer base of 10 million in a span of six years. With this new achievement, the provider has decided to add 12 new channels to its subscribers, which will raise its total number of channels and services to a new milestone of 500. Alongside, the company would also expand its HD portfolio to over 50 HD channels. The Number... Read More

Esmail April 2nd, 2015 10:40 AM 11 COMMENTS

TRAI issues tariff order for interoperability of DTH set top boxes

Under a 'Tariff Order,' (TO) issued today, TRAI prescribed for interoperability of Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) or Set Top Box (STB) offered by DTH operators to their subscribers. This will make it easier for consumers to migrate from one Direct-To-Home (DTH) service provider to another while also encouraging transparency in charges levied by operators. Currently, if a subscriber wishes to migrate from one DTH operator to another, he has to invest... Read More

Ria Lakshman April 1st, 2015 10:16 PM 7 COMMENTS

Multi Screen Media to launch new channel Sony Kix during IPL

IPL fans will have the privilege to watch the Season 8 match with Tamil, Telugu and Bengali commentary, in addition to Hindi and English, with Multi Screen Media (MSM) launching its new sports channel Sony Kix. The channel will launch on April 8th, the day when IPL Season 8 tournament begins. Multi Screen Media, the proud owner of Sony Entertainment television already owns Sony Six, which started airing in 2012.... Read More

Ria Lakshman April 1st, 2015 12:57 PM 0 COMMENTS

MSO license count rise to 158 in the country

Five new cable network operators are granted with multi-system operator (MSO) licenses that take the MSO license count to 158 in the country. Among those who received the licenses are Siti Maurya Cable Network, Sikkim Digital Network, International Cable Network, Sai Star Digital Media, and Maharaja Entertainment. Maharaja Entertainment acquired the license for pan India in all Phases of Digital Addressable Cable (DAS). With the license, Sikkim Digital Network covers... Read More

Esmail March 16th, 2015 2:59 PM 29 COMMENTS

Tata Sky to add 20 new channels including HD shortly

Tata Sky the leading DTH operator has announced that it will be adding 20 new channels to its offering shortly, these will include both SD as well as HD channels. As we had reported earlier Tata Sky had been upgrading its transmission standards in a shift from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 in a phased manner. The current upgradation has affected 17,000 out of its 1 crore subscribers across India with many... Read More

Esmail March 12th, 2015 7:44 PM 51 COMMENTS

Tata Sky subscribers facing service disruption due to upgradation

Tata Sky subscribers across the country had been facing loss of signal since 5PM. Most of the channels were appearing blank with ‘No signal’ message displaying. Channel number 100 shows a message “Dear customer we are upgrading to serve you better. If you are unable to view channels send NS to 56633 from your RMN and we will call back”. It seems Tata is upgrading its Satellite used for transmitting... Read More

Esmail March 2nd, 2015 7:29 PM 6 COMMENTS

TRAI issues consultation paper on interoperability of set top boxes

The set-top boxes (STB) that we have installed in our houses by our DTH operators play the role of decrypting the digital signals that are received by the dish and filtered and amplified by the LNB. These set-top boxes contribute to the major cost that we pay for buying a new DTH connection. But the major drawback of these STBs is that unlike GSM phones they are not interoperable, which... Read More

Esmail February 26th, 2015 6:24 PM 1 COMMENTS

Dish TV plans to introduce city specific pricing for its packages

Dish TV has been known to introduce many of the industry’s first of its kind offerings. Dish TV was the first to introduce standalone CAM cards which would allow a DTH subscriber to switch another provider while retaining his existing set top box. This concept didn’t take to the masses and was withdrawn soon after launch. Dish TV was the first operator to launch a sub brand of DTH in... Read More

VIshwa K February 26th, 2015 3:57 AM 16 COMMENTS

Tata Sky increases prices for most of the base packages

Tata Sky has been one of the most prominent DTH providers in India and they have an excellent track record when it comes to the quality of the service. I personally use a Tata Sky connection and was taken aback when I got a message saying that the prices for all the packs have been hiked. We need to understand that Tata Sky folks have added few extra channels in... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 15th, 2015 1:20 PM 1 COMMENTS

TAM releases latest ratings for regional channels

According to TAM (Television Audience Measurement) Sun TV continued its number one position with 222,062 GVTs in the Tamil general entertainment channel (GEC) space. It is followed by Star Vijay with 66,863 GVTs and Z Tamil ranked number three with 23,110 GVTs in the Tamil GEC space. Big Magic Ganga led the chart with 1,327 GVTs followed by Mahuaa with 846 GVTs and Anjan at the number third spot with... Read More

Esmail February 10th, 2015 12:36 PM 0 COMMENTS

ZEE HD league aims to cater to the taste of the affluent TV viewer population

ZEE entertainment enterprises LTD (ZEEL) offers the best in class digital content ranging from Hollywood and Bollywood movies to prime time sitcom and soap opera to international TV shows and Live sporting events. The high definition offering ranges across a bouquet of 5 channels namely Zee HD, Zee Cinema HD, & Pictures HD, Zee Studio HD and Ten sports HD together the bouquet is rebranded as ‘Zee HD league’- A... Read More