February 2006

Wednesday, February 01, 2006 -- Enadu Television ETV has turned its two Telugu channels ETV and ETV-2 in pay channels from Feb 1.

Saturday, February 25, 2006	TDSAT (Telecom Dispute Settlement & Appellate Tribunal) held a seminar on 25 February 2006 at Cochin, Justice Santosh Hegde, Justice Vinod Vaish and Justice D.P. Sehgal were present.
Saturday, February 25, 2006	TRAI held an open house session on the issue of Next Generation Network on 21 Bangalore and 23 in Delhi.
Friday, February 24, 2006	Debojit Saha from Assam was voted India’s voice on Zee TV’s music talent hunt Sa-Re-Ga-Ma-Pa Challenge 2005.
Saturday, February 18, 2006	Three popular satellite TV news channels Zee News, Aaj Tak & Star News have been blocked out by cable service providers because channels did not cover the recent public protest in Eastern Assam over the death of a villager allegedly in army custody and subsequent police firing in which nine people were killed.
Friday, February 17, 2006	Nimbus Communications are the new global media rights holder of the BCCI. Nimbus bid the highest amount of $ 612.18 million to acquire the rights for a period from March 1, 2006 to March 31, 2010.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006	Zee TV has sent legal notice to Star TV for allegedly copying its program “ Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’ to make its programme ‘Vijay’.
Sunday, February 12, 2006	Sahra One launched its Hindi Movie Channel ‘FILMY’.
Friday, February 10, 2006	Global Broadcast News (GBN), a Television 18 group company and owner of CNN-IBN will now have an equal ownership in Jagaran TV.
Thursday, February 09, 2006	Model cum actress, Kuljeet Randhawa committed suicide in her flat in Mumbai. Kuljeet started her carrier with TV serial “Hip Hip Hurrey” on Zee TV, also played the lead role in special squad and “Kohinoor” on Sahara One channel.
Thursday, February 09, 2006	Actor Nadira, The legendary vamp of Hindi Cinema of the yesteryears died in Mumbai. She is known for her roles in blockbusters like “Shree 420 and Dil Apna aur Preet Parai”.
Thursday, February 09, 2006	Three day long, 12th Broadcast Engineering Society (BES) Expo,2006 was held in New Delhi. The Director General of All India Radio, Mr. Brijeshwar Singh, has been appointed the Vice President of Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) & Mr. Abu Bakar Jijiwa, Director General, Voice of Nigeria has been elected the president of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006	Supreme Court asked Doordarshan not to insert its programme ‘Fourth Umpire’ during the lunch breaks of on going India-Pakistan one day international matches and instead carry the “uninterrupted feed”.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006	Shiv Sainiks attacked Zee TV’s Mumbai office over telecast of a political satire “Kaka Mala Vaachva (Uncle save Me)” which depicted the estranged relationship between Shiv Sena Suprewmo Bal Thackrey and his nephew Raj Thackrey.
Thursday, February 02, 2006	Sahara India Mass Communication Ltd. has entered into an agreement with Aastha Broadcasting Network Ltd. for handling their ad sales business.
Thursday, February 02, 2006	Dish TV has launched its “Movie-on-Demand Service”. that will feature latest Bollywood block buster where two movies are made available for a week.
Thursday, February 02, 2006	Sun Network wins the maximum number of FM Radio licenses in the second round of FM frequency biddings. Out of 338 frequencies, they were able to procure 67.
Wednesday, February 01, 2006	Enadu Television ETV has turned its two Telugu channels ETV and ETV-2 in pay channels from Feb 1.

Source: http://cablequest.org/important-information/important-events/item/2365-february-2006.html
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Source: http://cablequest.org/important-information/important-events/item/2365-february-2006.html