The Indian direct broadcast satellite service provider, Tata Sky, has rebranded itself as Tata Play as it plans to expand its television-cum-OTT (over-the-top) offerings in combined packages. The DTH company which was previously known as Tata Sky Limited will now be known as Tata Play Limited. T...
Category: DTH/Cable
Cable TV: It distributes the television signals using coaxial or fiber-optic wires.
DTH: Direct to Home Service that travels to the consumer directly through satellite transmission. In India, DTH was launched on 2 October 2003.
DTH players for inflation-linked NCF; digital MSOs side with LCOs on NTO 2.0
The DTH Association has suggested that there should be inflation-linked review of the network capacity fee (NCF) annually as one of the measures for smooth implementation of regulator TRAI’s tariff regime, while digital MSOs industry body AIDCF has sided with LCOs’ claim that unemployment will increase, among...
Prasar Bharati invites TV channels’ bid for FreeDish MPEG-4 slots
Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati has invited applications for allotment of MPEG-4 slots on Doordarshan’s FTA DTH platform Free Dish for the period of April 2022 to March 2023.
Bidding for the MPEG-4 slots will be open to all genre (language) TV channels at a reserve price of Rs. 50,00...
DirecTV drops Trump-friendly One America News
US’ DirecTV plans to drop One America News Network (OAN), significantly shrinking the reach of the right-wing TV channel friendly to Donald Trump and widely criticised for spreading misi...
GTPL Hathway 9-month FY22 revenue Rs. 18,288 mn
GTPL Hathway Limited (GTPL), India’s leading Digital Cable TV and Broadband Service provider, on Thursday announced the financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended on D...
Dish TV’s Amitabh Kumar says C-band spectrum reallocation would impact LCOs, b’casters
Broadcast and cable industry is at a great threat owing to the proposed C-band spectrum allocation to India’s telecom operators, as part of 5G auction plans, which has the potential to derail the businesses of the TV channels and cable operators owing to spectrum interfere...