Broadbandindia Magazine

Soaps & Serials Ka Tadka……..

                Kaali Ek Agnipariksha Monday – Friday 11.00 PM The much awaited Hindi serial ‘Kaali Ek Agnipariksha’ was launched on Star Plus with much fanfare. The serial deals with the plight of the womenfolk in India. The launch of the new serial was attended by all the prominent women of the entertainment industry like Renuka Choudhury, Indira Jaisingh, [...]

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IPL-IV puts broadcasters on a tight spot

With the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) cutting down 20 matches in IPL-4 from what was originally planned, broadcasters and franchise owners may lose a minimum of Rs 250 crore in revenue from advertisers, sponsors and gate receipts. Also, BCCI is doing away with the ‘home and away’ format for IPL-4 that [...]

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Now Zee Sports is being rebranded Ten Action

Dubai-based Taj Television Ltd, which runs the Ten Sports channel, is firming plans to expand its brand in India, along with part-owner Zee Telefilms Ltd.  Taj Television and Zee are working on launching a 24-hour cricket channel, likely to be named Ten cricket, two media buyers familiar with the development said. Now the firms will also [...]

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Kerala to get a dozen more TV channels

India’s most literate state just can’t get enough of the news. In the next few months, at least a dozen mostly news channels are going on air in a state that already boasts 18 free-to-air Malayalam-language services. Most of the new ventures are being launched by political parties and newspaper publishers. Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing Co. [...]

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The future of IPTV is bright Despite low levels of penetration

IPTV services in India were introduced some two years ago, but have so far failed to match the success of DTH or cable. Industry experts feel that this is due to the limited launch of the service and a lack of focused marketing efforts. Bharti and Reliance Communications have launched services only in Delhi and [...]

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Cable TV operators’ Plea to Government

With threat looming on their existence due to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)’s recommendation to close analog cable TV networks by 2013, the cable TV operators of Assam have sought the help of the State Government to bail them out of the situation.  A meeting of cable TV operators of Assam on 5th September [...]

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PWC, India’s Assocham Propose FDI hike in media

If a business entity in one country invests money into some other business entity in another country, it is known as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the recipient company. FDI is beneficial for the source as well as for the destination. India is an attractive destination for foreign companies because of availability of resources, large [...]

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Cable industry looks to adapt Video’s Streaming Technique

Adaptive video streaming is already commonplace within the wilds of Web video, but the cable industry is also interested in taming that technique as it chews on TV Everywhere strategies and ponders ways to deliver video to PCs, smartphones, and broadband-connected tablets. Cable’s not deploying adaptive streaming in a big way yet, but the concept [...]

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Push your inbox on to your Mobile

What is push email ? Push e-mail is used to describe e-mail systems that provide an always-on capability, in which new e-mail is actively transferred (pushed) as it arrives by the mail delivery agent (MDA) (commonly called mail server) to the mail user agent (MUA), also called the e-mail client. E-mail clients include smartphones and, less [...]

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DTH operators want Cheaper STBs

E ven as most DTH operators differ that a common Open Architecture based set-top box could ensure technical interoperability among different operators, they are unanimous that the government should take steps to reduce the cost of the STBs.Meanwhile, most operators have lauded the government’s efforts towards digitisation and expressed their willingness to support these measures.The [...]

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