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Doordarshan to strengthen DTH platform
National broadcaster Doordarshan is seeking to strengthen its direct-to-home (DTH) platform – DD Direct Plus – and expects to have some 200 channels on its platform by end of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan or 2012. At present, DD Direct Plus has a bouquet of 57 Free-to-Air (FTA) channels.
Soon, watch 200 channels free
If you’re happy watching just the free to air (FTA) channels, you can indeed get them entirely free of cost by the end of the year. All you need do is install a set top box. Currently, the various direct to home (DTH) service providers — Tata Sky, Dish TV, Reliance Big TV among others — offer various ‘bouquets’ of free and paid channels, which cost between Rs 80 to Rs 1,200 per month.
Future of DTH
This refers to the article “The DTH Revolution” ( Business Line, January 18), where the author talks about the growth opportunities and challenges faced by the DTH industry in India. The article predicts that the next wave of DTH customers will be from rural India, highlighting the way mobile telephony has revolutionised the village lifestyle and explaining how can DTH change it further.
DD’s DTH may carry 200 free-to-air channels soon
New Delhi : In an important step to increase its reach and popularity, public broadcaster Doordarshan(DD) would give 200 free-to-air channels on its DTH platform. ”We are discussing the matter with the Prasar Bharati people, and I have asked them to try to increase the number of free-to-air channels to about 200,” Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni told reporters here after a function.
India to have 100-mn cable homes this year
The new year has brought good news for broadcasters, with the number of cable homes in the country set to cross the 100-million mark and reach 103 million, up from 90 million in 2009. This means, the number of cable homes in the country has doubled in less than six years — phenomenal growth of the Rs 24,000-crore television industry.
Media: The wonder decade
Couch surfing has become more than passive television viewing over the past decade. Indian TV sets now have DVD-like picture quality with loads of value add-ons thanks to new technologies like DTH, CAS and IPTV. The country has about 130 million television households, including 96 million Cable & Satellite (C&S) homes. As per TAM, average time spent watching television per day was 153 minutes in 2008
Cable-DTH-HITS: complementary and supplementary
The spotlight of the second day at Focus 2009 was on the Direct-to-Home (DTH) sector in a technical session with the representatives from the leading DTH players in the Indian market Dish TV and Airtel DTH on the same panel. The panel comprised of Mr Rajesh Khattar, President Dish TV; Ajai Puri, Director & CEO, Airtel DTH; Mr Alan Dishington, GM, NDS India and Mr. Mohit Ralhan, Head- Media Baring Private Equity Partners Ltd. The session was moderated by Ms Roop Sharma, President, Cable Operators Federation of India (COFI).
Cable unplugged: DTH subscribers set to double
The Indian DTH sector is expected to see a 100 per cent growth over the next two years as subscriber base is expected to more than double from the present 16 million to over 32 million DTH connections by 2011.
A key driver of this growth will be the shift from cable operator service to DTH [...]
DTH service is to expand – great competition with existing cable operators
Source: MediaMughals.com
The Direct to Home (DTH) has been in news from quite some time and according to information it is likely to expand it services. DTH subscriber base in India is expected to increase the number of connections from the current 16 million to over 32 million connections in two years.
But what other cable operators [...]
Plan panel wants Prasar Bharati to share platform
Source: Daily News & Analysis
New Delhi: The Planning Commission has recommended sharing public broadcaster Prasar Bharati’s infrastructure with private players in the terrestrial mode of telecasting. The proposal, if implemented, will break Prasar Bharati’s monopoly in rural areas, where masses have access to television mainly via Doordarshan (DD) on the terrestrial platform. Cable and satellite [...]
