All Entries Tagged With: "Anil Ambani"
Reliance Digital TV moves SC against TDSAT order
The Anil Ambani group’s broadcast arm Reliance Big TV today moved the Supreme Court against the TDSAT’s order, overturning the sector regulator TRAI’s directive to broadcasters to charge DTH service providers only 35% of the rates paid by cable operators. A bench comprising Justice R V Raveendran and Justice A K Patnaik admitted Reliance Big TV’s plea and tagged it along with the other petitions filed by Trai and other DTH operators. Earlier, the apex court in its interim order on April 18, had stayed the TDSAT order as a temporary measure, besides fixing the fees from DTH »»»
Adag DTH to create synergy among financial arms
Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Adag is now working on strategic synergies among group companies to leverage each other’s strengths. For starter, the Big-TV, the DTH platform of the group, will soon be used by Reliance Capital, Reliance Life Insurance, Reliance Mutual Fund to offer round the clock training modules to its agents, distributors, staff, other stakeholders and eventually build awareness among customers and potential customer base. A core group of 25 officials handpicked from various group companies to prepare the blueprint for this. The core team is also working on common payment gateway »»»
Reliance Broadcast plans big push in FM radio
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd (RBNL) plans to tap the private FM radio segment, which is expected take a leap when the third phase of licensing for stations kicks off. “The radio industry is poised for exponential growth with phase III and the opening up of around 700-odd new licences… We are already the largest player in the country with a 45 station penetration and would like to take radio deeper into the country,” RBNL CEO Tarun Katial told PTI. Asked how many new radio stations could the company add as and when the third phase of licensing is rolled out, he »»»
Rel-Comm may hive off DTH, IPTV biz into new co
Anil Ambani promoted Reliance Communication is likely to hive off its direct-to-home (DTH) and IPTV business into a separate company Reliance Digital Works, reports CNBC-TV18 quoting sources. It is learnt that the new company Reliance Digital Works may offer 25% to some unnamed overseas investors and 10% stake to digital cable subscription of multi-system operator (MSOs). Sources also add that its DTH arm under the brand name Big TV, which already has 23 crore subscribers is likely to acquire 60 crore digital cable and TV subscribers from North India MSOs. However, Rel-Comm officials have declined »»»
DTH companies use World Cup to score points with subscribers
Mumbai: India’s direct-to-home (DTH) television companies are using the popularity of the forthcoming football World Cup to woo subscribers by offering free access to ESPN and Star Sports, which will show matches live, apart from which they’re widening their array of channels and showing more film titles. Sun Direct Pvt. Ltd, which claims to be the second largest DTH service provider after Dish TV India Ltd, is offering ESPN and Star Sports free to new subscribers in markets such as Kerala and West Bengal. Its existing subscribers can view the channels at a special price of Rs40 (plus taxes) »»»
Dish, Big TV wrestle over trademark
New Delhi: It’s not a fight for subscribers alone; the intense rivalry in the direct-to-home (DTH) space has now spilled over to the trade mark arena. Subhash Chandra’s DTH arm Dish TV has objected to Anil Ambani’s Reliance-ADAG applying for trademark registration of its DTH service (Big TV) as “Big Dish TV” and “Reliance Dish TV”. According to sources, recently ADAG applied for the registration of “Big Dish TV” to the office of the trade mark registry in Mumbai. To this, Dish TV has made a strong objection, stating that such a move clearly establishes the mala fide intention »»»
Big TV ties-up with real estate firms to market DTH services
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company Reliance Big TV today said it has reached deals with real estate developers to market its Direct-To-Home television services in their residential building projects. The company has signed multi-dwelling units (MDU) agreements worth about Rs 20 crore with developers, including Kalpataru, Super Tech, Arihant Builders and Elysium Builders, to target residential and commercial clusters, Reliance Big TV (RBTV) said in a statement. “The MDU strategy will be an integral part of RBTV’s focus to achieve leadership position in the Indian DTH sector… Such »»»
