January 2006

Sunday, January 01, 2006 -- A new educational cum entertainment channel for north eastern region namely ‘Skool Television’ launched from January 1.

Tuesday, January 31, 2006	Times Now, a Times group and Reuters service, started beaming its 24 hour English news channel.
Monday, January 30, 2006	Delhi High Court denies more time to government on CAS.
Monday, January 30, 2006	DD reaches an agreement with Ten Sports to telecast India-Pak ODI matches.
Friday, January 27, 2006	Star Group, COO, Samir Nair condemning India TV report on KBC-2, warns of legal action.
Friday, January 27, 2006	The Sun TV network-backed South Asian FM led the fourth leg of bidding for FM by bagging stations in 18 out of 21 cities in Western Zone at an estimated investments of over Rs. 16 crore.
Friday, January 27, 2006	Tamilnadu Assembly adopts the bill enabling the Government to take over private cable television networks in the state including MSOs.
Thursday, January 26, 2006	India TV exposes Kaun Benega Crorepati programme irregularities.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006	Sahra One Entertainment CEO Shatanu Aditya, announces launch of its Channel ‘Filmy’ from February 12.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006	TRAI held open house discussion on consultation paper on proposal for amendments to the tariff order on broadcasting and Cable TV services in Kolkata. Earlier it also held three sessions in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengalore on Jan 18,19 and 23 respectively.
Monday, January 23, 2006	Delhi High Court issues summon to I&B secretary Sh. S.K. Arora, in CAS case asking him to appear on 30 Jan 2006.
Monday, January 23, 2006	Times Now, a 24 hour English news channel jointly promoted by the Times group and Reuters went live on Reliance India Mobile. Times Now is the first channel to be rolled out on mobile before it is available for television viewers.
Saturday, January 21, 2006	Aroon Purie of Aaj Tak and Dr. Prannoy Roy of NDTV have received special awards for outstanding contribution to the Indian Television news industry by the Apsara Film and Television Producers Guild.
Saturday, January 21, 2006	Cable operators in Nepal ban Aaj Tak and Star TV telecast.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006	Jain Studio Ltd announces to start new channels under the umbrella brand-360 TV
Wednesday, January 18, 2006	ETV 1 and ETV 2 Telugu commence trials to go ‘pay’ from 01 Feb, 2006.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006	Government permits 26 % FDI in news channels.
Monday, January 16, 2006	Meeting of the Committee for reviewing Programme and Advertising Code prescribed under the Cable Television Network (Regulation) Act, 1995 and rules frame there under and the guidelines for certification of films prescribed under Cinematograph Act, 1952 held in Ministry of Information and Broadcasting .
Friday, January 13, 2006	Yash Satellite Industries Pvt Ltd. launched a music channel, Yo Music.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006	Prasar Bharti dropped before the Supreme Court its demand to share live feed with Ten Sports and settles for 90 minute highlights of each day’s play.
Wednesday, January 04, 2006	NDTV News, a subsidiary of NDTV, in a joint venture with associate companies of Value Labs and AST have announced to acquire Radio Today (Mumbai) Broadcasting Limited, Radio Today (Delhi), Broadcasting Ltd and Radio Today (Kolkata) Broadcasting Ltd.
Monday, January 02, 2006	TRAI brought out a consultation paper on ‘Issue relating to convergence and Competition in Broadcasting and Telecommunications.’
Sunday, January 01, 2006	A new educational cum entertainment channel for north eastern region namely ‘Skool Television’ launched from January 1. Source: http://cablequest.org/important-information/important-events/item/2366-january-2006.html

Source: http://cablequest.org/important-information/important-events/item/2366-january-2006.html