New Delhi: The process of full digitisation of cable TV systems in the country is expected to be over well before the end of the current fiscal given a sharp surge in the installation of set-top boxes by large distributors, a report has said.
The large cable TV distributors, known as MSOs (Multi Service Operators), gained higher market share than Direct-to- Home (DTH) players in the second phase of digitisation that saw 78 per cent of households going digital by March 31, 2012, investment banking major Morgan Stanley said in a report.
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04:10 PM, Apr 14, 2013
New Delhi: The government will not extend the deadline for the second phase of digitisation of TV set-top boxes, Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said on Wednesday. "We are not going to relax the deadline. We want digitisation to go through," Tewari told reporters. He added that transition from analogue to digital cable will be implemented in a sensitive manner. Thirty-eight cities across 15 states were required to switch...
01:05 AM, Apr 04, 2013
About one-fourth of 1.6 crore households missed the deadline of television digitisation on Monday in 38 cities. But they may get a short transition period for switchover to Set Top Boxes depending on local conditions. ...
12:36 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the Central government to ensure that analog channels are not switched off in the state till April 5, 2013. Justice Abdul Nazeer granted time to the Union government to file its objections to a petition seeking extension of the March 31, 2013 deadline for installing Set Top Boxes (STB) filed by Mysore District Cable Operators' Association. ...
12:40 AM, Apr 02, 2013
The deadline set by the government for Cable TV digitisation in 38 cities across 14 states ends on Monday. Television sets without set top boxes would go blank. These cities are part of the second phase of digitisation as government claimed 67 per cent digitisation had been achieved in these places. ...
08:50 AM, Apr 01, 2013
The deadline set by Government for Cable TV digitisation in 38 cities across fourteen states will end on Monday and television sets without set top boxes would go blank. ...
11:13 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Hundreds of telegrams have been sent to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa by cable TV operators here, protesting against the online system of payment of subscription. The Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable Television Corporation, a government entity, recently issued a notification extending to the subscribers the facility of online payment of monthly subscription of Rs 70. ...
10:46 AM, Feb 26, 2013
Security has been tightened and curfew imposed in several areas of Kashmir Valley including Srinagar, Baramulla and Anantnag following the hanging of Parliament attacker Afzal Guru in Delhi's Tihar Jail on Saturday morning. Cable TV services have also been shut down in the Kashmir Valley. ...
10:39 AM, Feb 09, 2013
New Delhi: Television sets without set top boxes (STBs) in hundreds of households across Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata went blank as the deadline for switch over to cable TV digitisation ended on October 31 midnight. People watching various programmes faced a TV blackout when the clock struck 12. However, in some areas of Kolkata, the television sets without STBs were found to be working. In Mumbai, nearly 20 per cent...
10:09 AM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: The deadline for cable operators to switch to digital TV ends on Wednesday in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. What it essentially means is that if you don't have a set top box, then you can't watch TV starting Wednesday. This is the first of the three-stage process where cable TVs across the country must migrate to digital signals to be distributed through set top boxes. Official data...
10:22 AM, Oct 31, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday threatened to launch an agitation if television transmission was blacked out after the October 31 deadline for digitisation and accused the Centre of trying to adopt a path of "confrontation" with the states on the issue. "When set top boxes are not in hand, analog system should be allowed to continue and the Centre has no right to blackout television. We...
05:06 PM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: Over 80 per cent cable TV digitisation has been achieved in the four metros, with Mumbai accounting for almost 100 per cent, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Friday said. In a statement, the ministry claimed that this figure rises up to 87 per cent if the progress made by Direct-To-Home (DTH) is also taken into account. DTH operators have informed that 27 lakh boxes have been installed...
07:25 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: Ruling out extension of deadline for digitisation of cable television beyond October 31, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni on Friday said Delhi was lagging behind other metros in this process. Soni met Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and asked her to ensure that all households having cable TV connection installed digital set top box (STB) before the deadline. "Only 70 per cent people in Delhi have installed...
08:23 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Mumbai: A government review has revealed that in Mumbai, 50 per cent of cable TV homes have already been installed with set top boxes. In Mumbai, there is an estimated requirement of 34.85 lakh set top boxes and so far 17.07 lakh set top boxes have been installed. The Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2011 has made it mandatory for switchover of the existing analogue Cable TV networks to...
09:30 PM, Aug 03, 2012
New Delhi: The much-trumpeted digitalisation of cable TV services in four metros will now have to wait for four months beyond July 1, when it was originally scheduled to be introduced. The decision to defer the plan for switchover from analogue to digitised signals was announced by the government on Wednesday as it was found that the metros of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata were not ready for it. "The...
08:41 AM, Jun 21, 2012
New Delhi: Television viewers will soon get to choose a minimum of hundred Free to Air (FTA) channels at a maximum retail price of Rs 100, as per new tariff rules for Cable TV announced by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday. According to the regulatory framework for Digitalised Cable TV brought out by TRAI to safeguard consumers' interests, cable operators will have to mandatorily offer a Basic...
09:46 AM, May 01, 2012
Come July 1 and it will mandatory for all viewers to get a digital set top box, and for operators to offer channels in a digital and addressable format. The move will spell a big relief for TV broadcasters as well as the government, both of whom have been losing out on revenues because of the massive under-reporting of subscribers by local cable operators. According to a report in The...
04:54 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Mumbai: Home after a hard day's work you plonk on the couch and switch on the TV with a fancy direct-to-home (DTH) connection to watch that game you'll dexterously accommodate in all office conversations tomorrow. Too bad! The picture is hazy. You slap the idiot box around a bit, and then pick up the phone wishing to dish out similar treatment to the DTH operator. But maybe, you are after...
01:53 PM, Mar 22, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan s cable television operators on Tuesday blocked BBC World News, accusing the channel of broadcasting what they described as "anti-Pakistan" content in the wake of a cross-border NATO attack that killed 24 soldiers. Some operators said the channel was blocked for airing the two-part documentary "Secret Pakistan", which highlighted links between the Inter-Services Intelligence agency and Taliban fighters. While the documentary was broadcast in other parts of the...
04:41 AM, Nov 30, 2011
New Delhi: President Prathibha Patil has given her nod to an ordinance, which would make digitisation of cable services mandatory by 2014. The presidential assent marks the coming in to force of the government ordinance, which is set to bring the analog era in the Indian television to an end, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting officials said. The shift would mean all customers must have a set top box whether...
10:13 AM, Oct 29, 2011
