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CAS thriving in Asia

Going digital has enabled the Asian pay-TV market to continue growing at a satisfactory pace, and providing the muchneeded boost for conditional-access system (CAS) providers as they are now very much in demand by pay-TV operators to protect their premium content. With the growing strength of the Chinese digital cable TV market, providers of conditional-access [...]

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Will the FDI cap get revised?

Trai has amended the Broadcasting and Cable Tariff Order to allow for inflation-linked adjustments in the rates for Cable TV services. Come  January 2009, rates will jump by 7% and consumers will have to bear a part of this increase. Though Trai’s move, a step widely regarded as a populist move ahead of the May [...]

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EDITOR’S DESK

Broadband India and its entire team wishes its valuable readers, advertisers and content providers a very Happy and a   Prosperous New Year 2009. It has been quite an eventful year for us. Amidst all ups and downs, we have strived to serve you with the best of news, views, opinions and happenings in the Cable [...]

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Saurabh Singh

I am a Cable Operator from Ranchi, Jharkhand and a regular subscriber of your magazine. I have gone through the Dec. issue and was very much inspired by the `Editors Desk’. You have re-inforced my confidence to be a strong  competitor for DTH Players. There is no doubt about the strength of Cable Operators in [...]

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IGNOU to Start Science And Technology Channel

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has announced to introduce its own TV channel exclusively devoted to science and technology. During the initial period the channel will telecast programmes in English and Hindi, he added. In a statement to media, the IGNOU  said that the science programmes would be available on Gyan Darshan-2 which is [...]

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Spiritual music channel Divya launched

The 24-hour free-to-air spiritual music channel has been launched from Chandigarh by Divya Broadcasting Network Pvt Ltd. Divya claims to be the first and only spiritual music channel that has the look and feel of a mainline music channel. Talking about the channel content, Sandeep Bansal, Manging Director said that the uniqueness of the content lay in [...]

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Arun Kapoor joins Essel Group

After a short stint in Reliance ADAG’s DTH service company Big TV, Arun Kapoor has come back to Zee Group. His new designation: Essel Group director – distribution businesses. A newly created position, Kapoor will head the subscription and placement business for Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel), Wire & Wireless India Ltd (WWIL) and Zee [...]

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NGO to start community radio in Gulbarga

The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has given the nod to a local NGO to establish, maintain and operate a community radio station (CRS) in Gulbarga, Karnataka. As per the agreement, the CRS will become operational within three months from now, thereby increasing the number of CRS in India to 39.The new CRS in Gulbarga [...]

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Focus TV to launch in mid-January

Focus TV, a women-centric channel, plans to launch in mid-January. Focus TV will play the role of a socially conscious and responsible family news, current affairs and infotainment channel. M3 Media runs a clutch of channels under the ‘NE TV’ brand and FM radio stations for the north eastern region. With the launch of Focus [...]

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Star to launch Farsi GEC channel

Star TV has announced its plans to launch a free-to-air Farsi language general entertainment channel (GEC). The GEC, which is scheduled for launch in early 2009, aims at providing quality  television programming from across the world to the over 100 million strong Farsi speaking community in the region. Paul Aiello, CEO, Star TV, said, “We currently [...]

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