February 2005

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 -- The Delhi High Court dismissed petitions filed by three private radio FM operators Radio Today Broadcasting Ltd (Red FM), Music Broadcast Pvt Ltd (Radio City) and Entertainment India Network India Ltd (Radio Mirchi) seeking a direction to the government to take a decision on Telecom Regulatory Authority of India recommendations dated 11 August, 2004 The FM Operators also sought setting aside of a 17 November, 2004, order of TDSAT by which they were ordered to deposit one third of the licence fee for the year within two months.

Saturday, February 28, 2005	Sahara India Entertainment & Media (SIME) launches 24-hour free-to-air news channels exclusively for the state of Rajasthan and Delhi.
Saturday, February 27, 2005	Star India which was looking after the content and advertising sales of Radio City quit completely from the FM Radiao venture. Mr. Pramod Mittal who owned 100 % of millennium Broadcast Pvt.Ltd. the licence holder for Radio City sold 75% of his holding to GW Capital.
Saturday, February 26, 2005	Rail Tel Corporation, the Indian Railway’s telecom venture, plans to get into the business of broadband and long distance telephony segment in a big way by increasing its optic fibre cable netwok from 26,000- route Km to 40,000 Km by 2008. It was also increasing its capacity to 2.5 giga bits per second to offer high speed broadband and Internet services.
Saturday, February 26, 2005	Media company Hamara Samay TV News Network Pvt. Limited launched a new music channel called “Jhankar TV” for people living in the National Capital Region (NCR).
Saturday, February 25, 2005	TV Asia, US announced the launch of a new channel called CT BUZZ under the banner of Kallz Entertainment Pvt. Ltd in city of Mumbai.
Monday, February 21, 2005	It was announced by Suresh Narayanan of Amrita TV that Yata Amritanandmayi was launching a news Cultural channel called ‘ Amrita’ Channel. Initially the programmes will be in Malayalam and later in English and Hindi. The Channel will be available in INTELSAT, APR-1,83 degree east, C-Band.
Monday, February 21, 2005	UTV Software Communications opened its public issue from 21st February to 25th February, was oversubscribed by 26.35 times.
Thursday, February 17, 2005	SET Discovery filed a complaint with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRI) against Hathway Bhawani Cabletel & Datacom for switching off Sony TV on February 11th without prior notice.
Thursday, February 10, 2005	Sony Discovery filed a petition in the Delhi High Court questioning the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRI) directive to restore signals to a defaulting cable operator without proper notice, saying the directive violated their contractual right.
Tuesday, February 8, 2005	The Assam Cable TV Operators Confederation sent a letter of appeal to the I&B minister shri Jaipal Reddy protesting the 7% hike in cable rates and demanding that the subscriber base should also be enhanced in a controlled manner similar to price hike controls.
Monday, February 7, 2005	Hathway Internet, one of the largest broadband cable ISP in India introduce on February 07th , new broadband packages, providing high speed Internet.
Friday, February 4, 2005	DD’s DTH Garners strength with sale of 700000 STB’s.
Thursday, February 3, 2005	Jagran TV Pvt Limited was granted the uplinking license by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India to broadcast its new channel Channel 7’ . The Channel to be launched in March 2005 will be distributed by Jagran TV itself and will be beamed from INSAT II E.
Tuesday, February 1, 2005	The Delhi High Court dismissed petitions filed by three private radio FM operators Radio Today Broadcasting Ltd (Red FM), Music Broadcast Pvt Ltd (Radio City) and Entertainment India Network India Ltd (Radio Mirchi) seeking a direction to the government to take a decision on Telecom Regulatory Authority of India recommendations dated 11 August, 2004 The FM Operators also sought setting aside of a 17 November, 2004, order of TDSAT by which they were ordered to deposit one third of the licence fee for the year within two months.

Source:  http://cablequest.org/important-information/important-events/item/2377-february-2005.html