April 15th, 2022 6:51 PM 1 COMMENTS

Star India is Now Disney Star

Star India, one of the biggest broadcasters in India for a very long time now, has rebranded to Disney Star. It is worth noting that three years back, Disney had completed the acquisition process of Star India and its several other assets from 21st Century Fox. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to the industry people aware of the developments as Disney Star was the name that was unofficially used... Read More

August 23rd, 2021 3:40 PM 0 COMMENTS

Star India And Viacom18 Get New TV Channel Licences

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has granted TV channel licences to Star India owned by Disney and Viacom18 Media. Going by the same, both companies have four TV channel licences each now. Even Goldmine Telefilms received three new licences in the non-news category on July 22. To date, the MIB has granted 915 news and non-news licences to 357 companies. Also, it has revoked the licences of 347... Read More

August 3rd, 2021 8:05 PM 2 COMMENTS

Star India to Launch New Gold Romance Channel For Romance Movies Soon

On Monday, we saw the arrival of the latest news channel by one of the biggest news broadcasters of the country, Times Now. The channel was the first of its kind in the Hindi language from the Times Group. With the coming of Tuesday, we are seeing the launch of yet another channel by another big broadcaster of the country, Star India. The Star Gold Romance channel will add to... Read More

April 9th, 2020 3:46 PM 0 COMMENTS

Star India Postpones Launch of Five Channels Including Disney Channel HD and Star Sports 3 HD

Star India on Monday announced that it is pushing back the launch of five channels including Disney Channel HD, Star Sports 3 HD, Vijay Music, Star Movies Select and Star Gold 2 HD. The company initially announced these channels on January 1 in its modified Reference Interconnect Offer (RIO). The majority of the channels in the group were said to be launched on February 1 while Disney Channel HD was... Read More

January 3rd, 2020 7:29 PM 1 COMMENTS

New DTH Rules Effect: Star India Announces Change in Prices of Popular Channels

The latest change in the DTH industry right now comes from the changes made to the Trai tariff regime which has been made by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) itself. In the changes, the telecom regulator has accepted that the prices have gone up for the subscribers of the DTH industry and then the authority has gone on to introduce some major rule changes which primarily concern the... Read More

January 2nd, 2020 7:33 PM 11 COMMENTS

Star India to Increase Prices of 16 A-la-Carte Channels on January 9

Star India Private Limited today announced that it would increase the prices of 16 a-la-carte channels on January 9. For the unaware, Star India and several other broadcasters introduced festive offer on October 11, 2019, as part of which several popular a-la-carte channels were offered at discounted prices. Everyone expected the broadcasters to increase the prices right after the end of the festive season, however, that did not happen. Star... Read More

September 9th, 2019 12:58 PM 0 COMMENTS

Dish TV Directed by TDSAT to Pay Up Star India Dues in Three Parts by November End

The Telecom Disputes Settlements and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has directed the largest Direct-to-Home service provider, Dish TV to clear the pending dues to Star India in three equal instalments by the end of November. The TDSAT order noted that “Having considered the earlier order and the stand of the parties, we are of the view that in addition to the liability to clear the current invoice as indicated above, petitioner... Read More

June 1st, 2019 7:17 PM 5 COMMENTS

As Trai Tariff Regime Shows Effect, Star India Reduces Prices of English Channel Packs

We have already seen the new tariff regime by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) change the viewership of the channels. There has been a significant change in the number of viewership for specific channels as a lot of channels have been dropped by the subscribers of DTH and cable TV services in a bid to reduce their monthly bill. Now to bring these viewership levels back to what... Read More

February 22nd, 2019 11:56 AM 4 COMMENTS

Star India Mini and Premium Packs With English and Sports Channels Introduced, Prices Start at Rs 20

Star India has introduced new channels packs in its portfolio for the subscribers who would like to watch its Sports and English movies channels. As compared to its previous channel packs, these new packs come at a 30% lower price thus giving more affordable options to the viewers to have access to English movies or sports channels. It is worth noting that Star India was reluctant up till now to... Read More

November 26th, 2018 6:04 PM 7 COMMENTS

After Tata Sky, Dish TV Users to Suffer the Loss of Star India Channels Very Soon

Star India has been aggressively discontinuing its partnerships with Direct-to-Home service providers. After getting into a spat with popular DTH provider Tata Sky, Star has now issued disconnection notice to Dish TV as well. Dish TV, which has over 23.5 million subscribers in the country has received a notice from Star based on the grounds of breach of the subscription agreement, non-payment of the subscription fee and non-signing of the... Read More

September 21st, 2018 6:03 PM 11 COMMENTS

Jio Inks Five-Year Partnership With Star India, To Stream All Cricket Matches of Indian Team on JioTV

Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio today announced a five-year deal with Star India. As part of the partnership, Jio and Star India will make all the televised Indian Cricket matches available to users of JioTV and Hotstar in India. This partnership will cover all the T20, ODI (One Day Internationals), International Test Cricket and Premier Domestic Competitions of the BCCI. Reliance Jio wants to lure all the cricket lovers out there... Read More

March 25th, 2018 4:00 PM 39 COMMENTS

Airtel Digital TV Makes Bold Statements Against STAR TV, Calls their Tactics as ‘Arm Twisting’

As the time comes closer for the IPL 2018, we see that there’s a serious sword-swinging going on between Airtel Digital TV and Star India. For a while now, Airtel Digital TV subscribers are getting notified that their Star channels streaming will be disrupted and turned off if they do not transition to other DTH providers. The actual notification which has been flashing as a banner and for which Star... Read More

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