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    DTH firms need 10 mn subs to cash break even

    Indian direct-to-home (DTH) operators have a long road to travel before they can start counting their profits. Dish TV and Tata Sky, the two leading companies, expect to achieve a full cash flow break even once they achieve 10 million subscribers. Dish TV hopes to reach that milestone by 2012...
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    DD Direct Plus plans to double capacity by March-end

    NEW DELHI: The capacity of the country’s only free direct-to-home platform, DD Direct Plus, is expected to go up to 100 channels by 31 March 2011. According to Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni, the capacity will increase to 200 by 31 December 2011. The Minister was emphatic...
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    Colors, BCCI scrap IPL deal

    Colors and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have scrapped the three-year entertainment licensing deal, which the Viacom18 Hindi general entertainment channel had signed with the Indian Premier League (IPL). The deal included a payout of Rs 1 billion (to be paid over three...
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    Videocon d2h targets 1 million subs by June-end

    Videocon d2h, the direct-to-home (DTH) service provider, is targeting a subscriber base of one million by the end of this month. Launched in December 2009, Videocon d2h currently claims a base of 850,000 subscribers. "We have over 850,000 subscribers and will be reaching one million by June...
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    Tata Sky crosses 4 million subscribers

    MUMBAI: In the rapidly growing DTH sector, Tata Sky has crossed four million subscribers to stay in pursuit of market leader Dish TV. Tata Sky has added one million subscribers in just over seven months, but lags behind Dish TV’s 5.5 million. Tata Sky’s new milestone has been achieved in...
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    Asiasat-echostar jv for taiwan dth

    US DTH Major EchoStar Has Entered The Asian DTH Market With A 50:50 JV With AsiaSat EchoStar Corporation is the world's 2nd largest DTH provider. Its 'DISH Network' DTH service has been operational in the USA for more than 25 years. For several years, EchoStar has harbored plans to establish...
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    Reliance readies to list Big FM under Reliance Media World

    MUMBAI: Reliance ADAG's radio business Big FM, which recently got demerger approval from Adlabs Films Ltd (AFL), will be listed under Reliance Media World Ltd (RMWL). Big FM had earlier got the nod to demerge from Adlabs Films and would have moved to Reliance Unicom Ltd. But Reliance Unicom has...
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    Sun TV completes equity sale with Astro for radio subsidiary

    MUMBAI: Sun TV Network Ltd has announced the completion of stake transfer in its radio subsidiary South Asia FM Ltd (SAFL) to South Asia Multimedia Technologies Ltd (SAMT). SAMT, a subsidiary of Malysia-based Astro, already had 6.98 per cent stake in SAFL, which it has increased to 20 per...
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    BAG Films pares losses, TV broadcasting & radio biz up revenues

    MUMBAI: BAG Films and Media, which has diverse interests across broadcasting, television production and radio businesses, has managed to curtail its operating losses in TV broadcasting and radio businesses for the quarter ended 30 June. The operating loss in TV broadcasting segment, which...
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    Prasar Bharati under revenue pressure

    NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati posted a net commercial revenue of Rs 10 billion for the fiscal ended 31 March 2009 while expenditure stood at Rs 23.44 billion, leaving a yawning uncovered gap of Rs 13.43 billion. Sources say Prasar Bharati, in addition, has an unpaid liability of Rs 10.71 billion...
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    Star adds 9 channels on Indovision's DTH platform in Indonesia

    MUMBAI: News Corporation-owned Asian broadcaster Star is adding nine channels from its bouquet to Indovision's DTH platform in a bid to expand its footprint in Indonesia. Among the lot are five Hindi language services, two Mandarin language services and two international news channels...
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    Airtel Digital TV mops up one million subscribers

    MUMBAI: Airtel Digital TV, the fifth and latest entrant in India's highly competitive direct-to-home (DTH) sector, has joined the one million subscriber club. After a slow start, the DTH operator has seen a strong growth in subscribers for four consecutive months as it added channels, marketed...
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    Dish TV narrows Q1 loss to Rs 692 million

    MUMBAI: Essel Group's direct-to-home (DTH) company Dish TV has reduced its first-quarter loss as revenue and subscriber growth stayed upbeat despite a slowdown in the economy. Net loss at Rs 692.07 million was significantly lower than a loss of Rs 1.25 billion in the prior-year quarter...
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    Cabinet clears DD's HDTV plan

    NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday gave its nod for an ambitious Rs 165 crore plan to allow Doordarshan to upgrade its picture quality to high definition format (HDTV). This will pave the way for DD to telecast the Commonwealth Games 2010 in a superior format. The proposal was moved by...
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    Zeel to launch Zee Cinema on StarHub TV

    NEW DELHI: Zee Entertainment Enterprises (Zeel) is set to launch its Hindi movie channel Zee Cinema on Singaporean pay-TV platform, StarHub TV. The channel will go live on 1 August and will be available on channel 150. With an aim to give viewers a chance to sample the channel, StarHub will...
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    Airtel Digital TV adds 14 channels in bouquet

    MUMBAI: Airtel digital TV, the direct-to-home (DTH) service from Bharti Airtel, has added 14 channels to its bouquet of offerings. With this, the DTH operator has 164 channels in its menu spread across 11 languages in India. The new channels include news channels ET Now, DD Bangla, DD Oriya...
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    150 TV channels await uplinking clearance

    NEW DELHI: A total of 150 channels including 98 news and current affairs channels are pending uplinking clearance, Information and Broadcasting Ministry sources tell Indiantelevision.com. The applicants include 46 companies in news and current affairs and 35 in non-news channels. There are as...
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    How to setup newcamd server

    how to setup newcamd server on DM 500S , and where to put Ip log in password in DM 500S. thanks
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    Visat 75E

    For visat 75E unable to watch after enter the key showing green on screen but channel not opening, is any key.bin required for to see these channels ?
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    Viasat TV on ABS 75 East

    I have tested Visat History is opening and TV1000 (21) not opening please post key of Visat Tv1000 (21).
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