Archive | June, 2009
Wishlists for New Ministers
The I & B ministry has a new boss in Ambika Soni. For the next five years—a crucial period when the country’s Rs50,000 crore media and entertainment industry is poised to take a quantum leap—Soni will be at the helm of critical policy decision making that can make or mar the prospects of a sector [...]
Continue reading...New search engine Bing
20. June 2009
Microsoft is finally making progress in its quest to challenge Google in the Internet search business.Bing, the name Microsoft gave to the new search service, is its answer to Google — a noun that once meant little but has become part of the language as a verb that is a synonym for executing a Web [...]
Continue reading...J. S. Sarma takes on as new chairman, TRAI
19. June 2009
Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) member J S Sarma has been named chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). Sarma was the chairman of Telecom Commission from June 2005 to July 2006. He was later appointed as TDSAT member on July 28, 2008. The Appointment Committee of Cabinet (ACC) has already given order of [...]
Continue reading...Dot mulls fee modification for Telecom
19. June 2009
Merger and acquisition in the Indian telecom space could become expensive. A mobile operator acquiring spectrum from another pan-Indian mobile player will have to pay as much as Rs 570 crore per Mhz to the Government as spectrum transfer fee. Spectrum transfer fee The committee, set up by the Department of Telecommunications to review of spectrum allocation [...]
Continue reading...Zee Turner Biggest Widest Best
19. June 2009
Distribution of channels has evolved way beyond a mere service of delivering channels, to a full-blown enterprise determining the success of many channels in this dynamic world of media entertainment. As the pioneers of the industry and currently the number 1 distribution company, Zee Turner has traveled this long coast through the waves of change [...]
Continue reading...BSNL, MTNL do it MyWay IPTV
19. June 2009
The state-owned telecom duo will shortly be rolling out the country’s largest IPTV service. Can they really take on private DTH competitors? State-owned telecom companies Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) are not generally considered formidable competitors to private sector players. But a new offering franchised to a Delhi-based company could [...]
Continue reading...Tax signals Crisscross Broadcasting
19. June 2009
Many transactions in the media and entertainment space face the cascading impact of taxes. The GST regime, to come into force from April 1, 2010, would possibly address this issue. Consider these examples of cascading effect of indirect taxation: A television channel company acquires satellite rights of a blockbuster movie from an Indian company, such rights [...]
Continue reading...EDITOR’S DESK
19. June 2009
The excitement of DLF IPL season 2 is over. Hydrabad, A.P. However, the excitement of Twenty20 cricket has just begun. After the IPL extravaganza in South Africa, cricket fans have now geared up for ICC Twenty20 World Cup to begin from 5th June in England. Many people have spoken of the ‘fatigue’ factor affecting [...]
Continue reading...Jamil Ansari
19. June 2009
“Sun Direct introduces India’s first HD television experience”-I hardly feel that sun’s claim is correct. HD content is hardly a decade old and not many programs are being made in the world. It is found to be expensive and there are not many takers for it. In India there is no HD content .HD movies [...]
Continue reading...Sanjeev Nayak
19. June 2009
The cable TV war on Ahmedabad streets reminds me of the cable turf war of Chennai which affected several thousand consumers spread over different residential hubs in the city. As miscreants went about snapping the overhead cables of Hathway and its operators in Koyambedu, Arumbakkam, Anna Nagar, Nungambakkam, Choolaimedu, Palavakkam and Neelankarai, more than 25,000 households [...]
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30. June 2009
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