Monday 1 January 2007

January 2007


Monday, January 1, 2007 -- A cable operator was hacked to death on broad daylight at Nandanavanam Road in L.B. Nagar. Three assailants armed with knives and swords attacked and killed him in full view of the shocked public.


Monday, January 29, 2007The Delhi High Court asked Nimbus Communications to reply by February 9 to public Information Prasar Bharati’s petition challenging an interim order that the India-West Indies cricket series be telecast on Doordarshan seven minutes late.
 
Thursday, January 25, 2007Broadcast tribunal TDSAT has issued a notice to Direct-to-Home (DTH) operator TataSky for not including two news channels–India TV and Total TV–on its platform despite promises made to its customers.
 
Tuesday, January 23, 2007AXN—part of the Sony Entertainment channels bouquet issued a formal apology to the Government of India for its alleged violations of Indian content restrictions.
 
Tuesday, January 23, 2007The Delhi High Court has passed an interim order directing Prasar Bharati, the holding company of national broadcaster Doordarshan (DD), to telecast with a seven-minute delay the remaining three one-day matches between India and West Indies.
 
Monday, January 22, 2007NDTV entered into a distribution partnership with Vision Asia, through which its English news channel NDTV 24x7 would be available to viewers in Australia and New Zealand.
 
Wednesday, January 17, 2007Broadcast tribunal TDSAT asked major channel distributors such as Star and Zee to follow regulator TRAI’s norms, which include giving a 21-day prior notice, before disconnecting signals to hotels.
 
Wednesday, January 17, 2007Having sold its 20% stake in the Ispat Group promoted FM radio venture Music Broadcast Pvt Ltd (MBPL), which owns the Radio City brand, in early 2005 to India Value Fund (IVF),
Rupert Murdoch controlled Star is now buying back the stake, subject to approval from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB).

 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007BBC has decided to go local with its communication strategy. It has decided to go for an ad ampaign that has been developed for the first time in its history, outside London. This is the
first time that such a thing is being done outside of BBC’s London office, BBC World India head, marketing and communications, Vaishali Sharma, says.
 
Monday, January 15, 2007The Government ordered a ban to the transmission of AXN Channel . The I&B Ministry initiated this action because of showing the obscene content on the Television on both Cable TV Networks and DTH throughout the country. This will continue till 15 March 07.
 
Monday, January 15, 2007Fever 104 FM, a new FM Radio Station launched in Mumbai.
Sunday, January 14, 2007BBC World will launch its first-ever India-specific advertising campaign with the aim of spreading its reach among the country’s growing television viewers.
 
Sunday, January 14, 2007Broadcast tribunal TDSAT allowed regulator TRAI to revise prices of cable TV channels for 2007, while dismissing a petition filed by a Pune-based consumer group against any hike.
 
Wednesday, January 10, 2007First time four satellites launched on a single PSLV-C7 rocket, including one that will return to earth to set stage for India’s manned space mission.
 
Sunday, January 7, 2007Work has appointed NDTV Media , the advertising sales company of NDTV, to sell advertising space on its online venture Indya.com for the cricket World Cup event.
 
Wednesday, January 3, 2007The Supreme Court deferred the hearing of an appeal moved by some private broadcasters challenging a TDSAT order which had held that the multi broadcaster bouquets offered by TV channels was illegal.
 
Wednesday, January 3, 2007The ESPN-Star Sports moved the Supreme Court seeking to restrain Prasar Bharti from taking any coercive action against it for sharing of the feed of the cricket series and other sports telecast with Doordarshan.
 
Monday, January 1, 2007A cable operator was hacked to death on broad daylight at Nandanavanam Road in L.B. Nagar. Three assailants armed with knives and swords attacked and killed him in full view of the shocked public.
Source: http://cablequest.org/important-information/important-events/item/2354-january-2007.html


Source: http://cablequest.org/important-information/important-events/item/2354-january-2007.html

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