New Delhi: The UPA government listed ushering the process of digitisation of the cable sector as one of its leading achievements in its report card that was presented to the people on Wednesday. The government said it had implemented digitisation in the Phase I cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata along with 38 cities which come under the second phase.
It said that by choosing digital cable, the country would join the league of advanced countries which are already enjoying the benefits of digitisation. The government also tried to highlight that it had cleared the decks for expansion of FM radio with 839 new channels on the anvil. The government also brought forth that it had encouraged the community radio movement by granting nearly 400 permissions.
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01:04 AM, May 23, 2013
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...
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
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has requested the Centre to extend the digitisation deadline for his state by six months. In a letter to Minister of State (Independent Charge) for I&B Manish Tewari, Akhilesh said seven UP cities have been chosen in the second phase of digitisation. ...
10:14 PM, Mar 30, 2013
The digitisation change in the Indian TV landscape brings to fore Darwin's theory of natural evolution by natural selection. Natural selection is a gradual, non-random process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their bearers. ...
12:34 PM, Jan 11, 2013
TV sets go black in Delhi and Mumbai homes as the deadline for digitisation ended on Wednesday, but Kolkata and Chennai get a reprieve. ...
07:52 PM, Nov 01, 2012
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: Aiming to eliminate bogus ration cards and ensure that food subsidy reaches the genuine beneficiaries, the government on Thursday approved a Rs 884 crore plan for end-to-end computerisation of the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in the 12th Five-Year Plan on a cost-sharing basis with states. Around 18 crore households, including above poverty line and below poverty line, get subsidised ration under the TPDS. The cabinet committee on...
10:53 AM, Oct 05, 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
Bangalore: Ramesh Yadav, convicted of various misdemeanors, bears a rather morose expression on his face. Another notorious criminal who was dressed in an attire, fit for the stars, has no qualms about his deed. As they stare into the camera with befuddled expressions, one cannot help but notice defiance in their eyes. While some photographs may portray a picture of innocence, the gallery is in fact a collection of criminals....
12:57 PM, Jun 30, 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
TRAI Chairman JS Sarma has said that moderating carriage fees will be part of the rules being framed as part of the ongoing process of mandatory digitisation. ...
08:52 AM, May 05, 2012
Mumbai: From July 1, it will become mandatory for all TV viewers across the four metros to get digital set top boxes. But even as the process of mandatory conversion of analog cable signals to digital continues across the metros, industry experts have flagged off the need for introducing and implementing some critical steps to ensure the revival of the television industry, which has come under steep financial strain despite...
08:58 AM, May 01, 2012
