Archive for June, 2010
What’s-On-India aims to venture into regional languages in the long run; gets a new layout
What’s-On-India, India’s first TV guidance channel, recently unveiled its new look. The channel now has a new layout playing promos and recommendations continuously, besides having a dedicated screen for recommendations as well for playing videos and exclusive broadcaster content at the same time. With the new layout, the channel has a much slicker look. The channel has signed exclusive content deals with top channels like Star Plus, Star Network, Zoom, Vh1, Warner Bros and Sony Pictures. Under this partnership, What’s-On-India will showcase exclusive excerpts from the upcoming shows and »»»
DTH Industry: Early lead on volume front to decide winners
Competition in the direct-to-home (DTH) industry is so severe that the existing players are finding it tough to break-even and then show profits. Two factors have contributed to this. First, the average revenue per user or ARPU — an amalgamation of subscription revenues plus activation charges of average subscribers in a specified period — has not shown linear growth for a long time. Especially, when one considers this in the light of the fact that subscriber acquisition costs for players have gone up. A case in point is Dish TV. In the past two years, even though the company’s subscriber »»»
DTH firms need 10 mn subs to cash break even
MUMBAI: Indian direct-to-home (DTH) operators have a long road to travel before they can start counting their profits. Dish TV and Tata Sky, the two leading companies, expect to achieve a full cash flow break even once they achieve 10 million subscribers. Dish TV hopes to reach that milestone by 2012 as it targets to add 2.5 million subscribers this fiscal, capitalising from a sports-heavy year that has the soccer and cricket World Cups. In FY’10, Dish TV mopped up 1.8 million subscribers amid price war and stiff competition from players like Sun Direct, Airtel Digital TV and Tata Sky. Tata Sky, »»»
Tune in to 94.3 Radio One classic hits of legendary R.D Burman
94.3 Radio One, the ‘Maximum Music, Maximum Choice’ station, in lieu of the birth anniversary of the legendary R.D. Burman, fondly known as ‘Pancham Da’, this June 27, revisited his musical journey exclusively for its listeners. The weekend was dedicated to the musical masterpieces’ of this legend with a grand finale this Monday, June 28, 2010. As part of the dedication and celebration 94.3 Radio One will invite music artists like Kailash Kher, Neeraj Sreedhar, Anand Raj Anand, Abhijeet Bhattaharya, Babul Supriyo, Vasundhara Das, Richa Sharma and many more to chat about their most loved »»»
RED FM 93.5′s Music NA Utsava on World Music Day
Bangalore 2010: India’s Largest Private FM Radio Network celebrated World Music Day where in they made merry of the very essence of music in every way possible. As RED FM 93.5 blooms on music every day, they tried out something new for all the music lovers. The Special Performance from Rajesh Ramnathan was held at the Ramnamaharshi Blind School between 4pm and 5pm on June 21. What is the most common among happy human being, what else can it be other than music! Red FM 93.5 plays super hit music constantly but this time it was for a special occasion. They were making merry of the ‘World »»»
DD Direct Plus plans to double capacity by March-end
NEW DELHI: The capacity of the country’s only free direct-to-home platform, DD Direct Plus, is expected to go up to 100 channels by 31 March 2011. According to Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni, the capacity will increase to 200 by 31 December 2011. The Minister was emphatic in an informal interaction with the media that DD Direct Plus will remain free-to-air. She also confirmed that DD Direct Plus will like other DTH players beam in high definition. However, she said the plan under the Eleventh Plan to augment the capacity of the platform was still awaiting clearance. Earlier, »»»
Cable operators gear up for legal wrangle over tariff
New Delhi: Fearing stringent tariff regime for television content, broadcasters, cable operators and DTH service providers are likely to take the legal route to fight back. The move comes after the lengthy tariff-fixing exercise undertaken by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) ended without much headway last week. Various stakeholders including broadcasters are against Trai’s proposal of capping monthly cable television charges at Rs 250 per month (Rs 100 for free-to-air channels and Rs 150 for pay channels). Several broadcasters said capping cable charges at Rs 250 means fixing »»»
