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    New Consumer centric Digital Cable TV regulations released by TRAI

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    Telecom Regulatory Authority of India yesterday released regulations for Digital Cable & Broadcasting services – and it should put smile of Television viewers. It also addresses many disputes between Cable Operators & Channel Broadcasters. The regulations called “Telecommunication (Broadcasting and Cable Services) Interconnection (Digital Addressable Cable Television Systems) Regulations,

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    Indian TV Channels- market share Vs profit?

    by rabigupta

    There is a race. A race with no real goal. A race where anyone can compete as they are fed with ample food to get started, and then they are asked to RUN! But there is no direction and no ultimate goal, do you think the race will do

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    DTH doing well, but 80% households still on Cable TV

    by Viral Dholakia

    It perfectly fits the agenda for a healthy debate as to who is leading race in the current era of Digital TV – the wide spread Cable operators or the fast emerging DTH players? Personally, I still remain a Cable subscriber, content with the digital clarity of STB connection.

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    Media Monday: Social media suicide, free to home TV Channels..

    by rabigupta

    Do You need a Social Media Suicide? There are occasions when you’re fed up of living alone, doing your own things and living in a confined society. But then there are those occasions too when you’re fed up of your public life- No, I’m not talking about celebrities here.

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    No more new TV Channels – Thanks to lack of Spectrum availability

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    There has been explosive growth in the number of TV channels that are beamed in Indian Homes. In the earlier part of this decade we had no more than 100 channels – which by the end of it has ballooned to over 500 TV Channels. Yes, that’s true we

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    Media Monday: Pay TV- A silver lining for Broadcasters?

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    This year has been bad for Broadcasters with most of them making losses (TV18, NDTV to name a few). But most of them still remain optimistic as markets are returning back to normal and DTH services are adding more and more numbers to their subscriber’s list.But can

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    DishTV will pay attention to online forums and blogs

    by Sriram Vadlamani

    DishTV will be watching the online space for comments on sites like mouthshut.com and blogs. This is like a U-turn from what we have seen so far. Companies usually don’t like blogs. There were few companies, which employed online companies to re-build their brand. Posting content to confuse the

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    3 things I was waiting for: Number portability, broadcasters not controlling distribution, ban on cheque drop boxes

    by Sriram Vadlamani

    Something like this has happened few days ago where I had 3 WTF moments in the business world. One of them was the $10 laptop (oops electronic brick)  Today’s 3 things are little different and are actually useful. All in a day’s work. Mobile number portability could soon be

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    1 million subscribers and 15% market share for BigTV in 90 days

    by Sriram Vadlamani

    It’s only 3 months since BigTV was launched and it already has 1 million subscribers. From using a very good ad initiative to leveraging Airtel DTH’s teaser ads, BigTV has done it all. 1 million subscribers in 90 days is no small feat. To put things in to perspective

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    Dish TV crosses 4 million subscribers, controls 53% market share

    by Sriram Vadlamani

    Dish TV one of the pioneers of DTH services in India, has crossed 4 million subscribers. It has 4.4 million subscribers. That would be a 53% market share of 8 million total DTH subscribers. Dish TV, part of media conglomerate Zee group has added 4.3 lakh subscribers in

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