Category: Broadcasting

The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party complained to the Election Commission on Monday against the launch of a new television channel named “NaMo TV” that allegedly violates the poll code. Launched on Sunday, the channel is available on most DTH platforms. Its ownership is unknown, and even the registration of its web portal is […]

Direct-to-home (DTH) TV subscribers on yearly plans have started receiving text messages to choose their packs or channels with just a week left for the March 31 deadline set by the national telecom regulator to transit to the new payment regime. The subscribers who will not register their choice will be automatically allotted a package […]

Direct-to-home (DTH) subscribers in the city are a harried lot with their chosen packages taking long to get activated and channels disappearing suddenly in the new tariff regime over the last month or so. A large number of cable TV subscribers had faced similar problems during the transition to the new regime. Many DTH subscribers […]

A few city subscribers have started to shift from local cable operators to DTH platforms, saying their preferred channels had gone off TV sets. Their contention: channels chosen in the new cable tariff regime are not activated on their connections. Almost every cable operator in Bengal has lost subscribers to DTH platforms in the past […]

Pay channels have started disappearing from the television screens of some cable subscribers despite complying with the Trai order that requires them to list what they want to watch from an a-la-carte list. In some homes, two set-top boxes subscribed to the same pack are getting different combinations of channels, reflecting the cable TV industry’s […]

Multi-system operator Hathway started blanking out pay channels late on Monday for subscribers who till then had not submitted their viewing choices as mandated by telecom regulator Trai, which earlier in the day stopped another service provider from doing likewise.

A multi-system operator (MSO) with almost a 50 per cent share of the city’s cable television pie has decided to switch off pay channels from Monday to get non-compliant subscribers to transition to the new tariff system well before the grace period given by the high court ends.

A multi-system operator (MSO) that had planned to start switching off pay channels in phases to get subscribers to switch to the new tariff system was on Monday forced to postpone the decision after telecom regulator Trai directed its officials to ensure that nobody was inconvenienced during the transition.

The new TV channel billing regime set by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) that rolls out from Friday has left both cable operators and viewers in Jharkhand confused.

The national telecom regulator has allowed time till January 31 for the cable industry to complete the transition to the new payment regime.

The national telecom regulator has put on hold the new cable television tariff model that was to take effect at midnight on Friday amid confusion and conspiracy theories surrounding the process of migrating to the a-la-carte system.

New Delhi, Aug. 1 (PTI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday extended till September 28 the interim protection from arrest granted to senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on his pleas seeking anticipatory bail in the INX Media case.