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WWIL targets townships for HITS expansion
With a clear strategy of targeting the 20 million-plus television consumers residing in townships and residential campuses of various government and public sector undertakings, Wire & Wireless India Ltd (WWIL), the country’s first Headend-in-the-Sky (HITS) operator, aims to add up to two million subscribers in the next 12 months, while competing with existing direct-to-home (DTH) operators. WWIL, which has around 10 million cable subscribers (both analogue and digital), expects to invest Rs 300-400 crore over next year to expand its HITS operation across the country under the brand name “SITI »»»
Focus 2009: DTH players seek rationalisation of taxes
The DTH (direct to home) industry is seeking tax rationalisation from the government for the industry to grow and to speed up the digitisation process. The industry captains say that the taxation on the sector in India is possibly the highest across the globe. “When the licenses were issued by the government, there was no tax and we rolled out the product at a particular price. Today, we pay service tax, entertainment tax and VAT. We haven’t passed it on to the consumers,” said Rajiv Khattar, president, projects, Dish TV. He was speaking at the session on ‘Spotlight DTH’ »»»
DTH operators feel HITS will expand the digital market
NEW DELHI: Direct-to-home operators said they did not treat the cable operator as their competitor and felt DTH was simply one other way for the country to get digitised. They were also unanimous that Headend-in-the-Sky (HITS) would not hit them adversely as that would also help expedite the march towards digitisation. In any case, they felt that the country was large enough to accommodate different kinds of technologies. The operators were speaking during a session on ‘Spotlight: DTH’ on the final day at the Focus 2009, the third Global Summit on Entertainment and Media, organised by Assocham. Airtel »»»
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). The session revolved around the growth of the DTH market in India, the »»»
Modified TV channels norms to include HITS operators
The Government on Thursday said in an official statement that it had approved a modification of policy guidelines for downlinking of television channels to enable broadcasters to provide content to Headend-In-The-Sky (HITS) operators. Earlier in November, the Cabinet had cleared the proposal of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to issue policy guidelines for HITS operators to provide services in the country. The amended guidelines state, “The applicant company shall provide satellite TV channel signal reception decoders only to MSOs/cable operators registered under the Cable Television »»»
Government approves modified HITS guidelines
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The government Thursday approved modification of policy guidelines for downlinking of television channels to enable broadcasters to provide their content to satellite-based Headend-In-the-Sky (HITS) service providers. The HITS, a technology that enables satellite transmission of digital broadcasting signals, will enable cable operators to digitalise their analogue system. It can potentially eliminate carriage fees. Under HITS, the cable operator downloads the signals and distributes them in cable homes. After approval of the government, the existing clause 5.6 of the downlinking »»»
Govt gets tough on DD carriage by MSOs & DTH services
NEW DELHI: Indian Cable TV MSOs operators had better watch out. The Government has once again reminded all state governments and union territories to ensure strict compliance with its mandate for carrying Doordarshan and Parliament channels on cable TV networks and DTH services. Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting C M Jatua told Parliament today that a fresh letter was sent to all states and UTs on 8 December in view of complaints of non-carriage by some DTH and cable TV operators. The Ministry said compliance should be ensured through authorized officers such as the sub-divisional »»»
