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Cable service digitisation: Broadcast industry hails govt move
The broadcast industry has hailed the government’s go-ahead for mandatory digitisation of cable services, saying this will ensure more channels and enhanced viewing pleasure besides reducing irregularities confronting the sector. “The move will not only reduce underreporting (of subscriber base), generate subscription revenue and bring in transparency but will also provide scope for delivering value added services to viewers like broadband,” said CEO of Wire and Wireless Sudhir Agarwal. Echoing his view, COO of MediaPro Gurjeev Singh said, “It was really required at this »»»
Dish TV offers complete entertainment for your family
The country’s premier Direct to Home (DTH) service, Dish TV, in another first announced a new ‘Family Pack’ for its viewers offering them digital entertainment at cable TV prices. The break through pack, loaded with maximum entertainment for the complete family will include 186+ channels and services priced at just Rs. 176/-. ‘Family Pack’ will be available to all Dish TV new and existing customers, with an optimal mix of entertainment across genres. For all new connections, Dish TV has announced a special pricing of Rs. 1399/- which includes 2 months of the ‘Family Pack’ coupled »»»
Seven new Fox and Nat Geo channels for India’s Dish TV
The complete set of channels from Fox International and National Geographic (NG) are now available to the 11 million subscribers to India’s first direct to home (DTH) satellite TV platform, Dish TV. NG Wild, NG Wild HD, NG Adventure HD, NG Music, Baby TV, FX, and Fox Crime have been added to the previously available National Geographic Channel, Fox History and Traveller, and National Geographic Channel HD. The new additions bring the total number of channels available on Dish TV to 320. “We are delighted to collaborate with Dish TV to bring our exciting content in the highest standards of picture »»»
Dish TV offers new packs for South India
BANGALORE: DTH service provider Dish TV today announced new packs for the multilingual viewers in South India. The packs, priced at Rs 165 and Rs 185 per month, aims to offer the South Indian families a mix of entertainment according to their choice of languages and channels. Dish TV CEO Salil Kapoor said,”South India is a heterogeneous market where the entertainment consumption and preference vary not only from state to state but also within the state. The new packs launched specifically for South Indian viewers, will offer them the choice of regional content they would like to watch bundled »»»
Plan of acquiring about 3.5 mn subscribers current fiscal: Salil Kapoor, Dish TV
In an interview with ET Now, Salil Kapoor , COO, Dish TV, talks about his company’s performance during pre and post World Cup as well as the future of DTH. Excerpts: Let us start with the basic question I am wondering if the IPL has proved to be as bigger bonanza as the World Cup was because you guys were upbeat at the start of the World Cup for increase connections so on so forth did that indeed take place and has it continue through the IPL season? World Cup was better and it is very visible all across even the ratings are saying the same story. World Cup was much better than IPL. It was »»»
dishtv aligns with Aadhaar; accepts the UID number as KYC norms
New Delhi, February 3, 2011: The pioneers and leaders of the Direct-To-Home (DTH) industry in India, dishtv, today in a major move announced its alignment with ‘Aadhaar’ – a 12-digit unique number which the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is issuing to all residents of India. dishtv will now be accepting the UID as a Know Your Customer (KYC) validation for address and identity proof. In a first for the industry, the DTH operator will be acknowledging the UID numbers of all Aadhaar holders as an “officially valid document” for installation and subscription purposes of »»»
DTH firms may miss à la carte deadline
Customers seeking greater choice over what they watch and how much they pay for it may have to wait for some more time with mostdirect-to-home (DTH) and Internet protocol TV companies set to miss a 1 January deadline for offering an à la carte option. A July 2010 order by the regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said that all digital platforms must offer consumers the choice of paying only for channels that they wish to watch. Currently, companies offer bouquets or bundled channels priced as a package. DTH companies, which together serve around 29 million households, cite technical »»»
