Direct to Home (DTH) provider, Dish TV, has jumped on the boat to provide bundled traditional and digital services to garner subscriber churn with platform- agnostic content consumption as on-demand viewing getting more prevalent.The DTH company on Tuesday announced the launch of ‘Dish TV Smart+’ to provide customers with access to both TV and Over-the-Top …
TV broadcast distribution companies are bundling traditional and digital services to arrest subscriber churn with platform-agnostic content consumption and on-demand viewing getting more prevalent, say industry executives.Having lost customers to over-the-top (OTT) platforms, traditional TV distribution platforms are looking at bundled services to retain customers. In 2023, the domestic pay TV industry lost two million …
Direct-to-home operator Dish TV has called an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on March 21 to secure shareholder approval for the appointment of three directors to the company’s board. In a regulatory filing to the stock exchanges on Tuesday, the company said it has proposed the names of Sunil Khanna and Sonal Bankim Parekh as independent …
The third quarter saw mixed results for pay DTH platforms, with strong subscriber additions during the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup in October and November countered by losses in December as subscribers shifted to alternative platforms like OTT and DD Free Dish, industry officials said. The pay DTH industry gained an estimated 1 million+ subscribers …
Direct-to-home (DTH) operator Dish TV India has approved the appointment of Sunil Khanna as an independent director and Ravi Bhushan Puri as executive director. The company said the approval of the shareholders will be sought in terms of applicable regulatory provisions. It added that the appointment will be valid from the effective date until September …
Tata Play on Monday rolled out addressable ads for linear television, a ‘breakthrough’ in the Indian industry for unconnected boxes and a move that should propel revenues of the dish tv provider who never had access to advertising revenue. Addressable Ads will allow brands to target segmented audiences with same TV ad spots, the company …
The four pay direct-to-home (DTH) service providers added 250,000 customers to their total base in the April-June quarter, reversing the trend of declining subscribers. According to the performance indicator report of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the total active subscriber base of the four pay DTH operators – Tata Play, Dish TV, Airtel …
Watcho, Dish TV’s OTT aggregation platform, has added 1 million new subscribers in the last few months to cross the 3 million paid subscriber milestone. In August, Watcho had crossed the 2 million paid subscriber mark. Watcho has amassed 90 million users since its launch in 2022. The platform offers bundled packages of leading OTT …
The combined operating revenue of the four private direct-to-home (DTH) companies—Tata Play, Bharti Airtel-owned Bharti Telemedia, Dish TV, and Sun Direct—declined nearly 10% to Rs 11,072 crore in FY23, compared to Rs 12,284 crore the previous fiscal year, according to data obtained from the four firms’ regulatory filings. Furthermore, the four DTH companies have incurred …
Mumbai: TV broadcasters and streaming platforms are concerned about the potential impact on their creative freedom from the ministry of information and broadcasting’s (MIB) proposed legislation that would require them to get content certified by an evaluation committee before broadcasting it. As part of its three-tier regulatory mechanism to regulate broadcasting content, the ministry has …