For cable and DTH operators, migration of price-sensitive households to Free Dish reduces the pool of paying subscribers, directly impacting revenues, share stakeholders

She joined animation boss Bill Damaschke at an open house, where the studio's Daffy Duck-focused 'Daffy Season' was among the projects teased.

After more than two decades broadcasting the FIFA World Cup in Malaysia, pay-TV operator Astro has lost the rights to the tournament. The company says that "rampant piracy" reduced the value of the rights, noting that the 2018 and 2022 tournaments were "extensively pirated" in the country. The admission comes amidst licensing challenges in countries such as China and India, which could severely impact pirate demand too.

PILs raise questions on data protection law, government exemptions, surveillance powers and impact on transparency framework.

The stakeholders maintained that internet-delivered television should not be treated like spectrum-based broadcasting infrastructure and warned that excessive regulation could stifle India’s emerging connected TV ecosystem

The paper has exposed a growing battle between traditional pay-TV players and the rapidly expanding connected TV and OTT ecosystem

“The petitioner has selectively targeted Waves while the same channels are freely streaming on various other digital platforms, including YouTube,” Prasar Bharati said

Micro-drama platforms, from Tadka to Story TV and audio-first players like Pocket FM, have introduced a production model that resembles a continuous pipeline

When the Robbie Williams biopic “Better Man” needed to recreate Stoke-on-Trent – a gritty English industrial city with little obvious resemblance to the Pacific – the production simply decamped to Queensland. “Nothing looked like Australia and we were able to execute that,” says Craig McMahon, CEO of Forte Corp Holdings, which co-financed the film. “And that was still an Australian film, and it was made here. We have the capabilities to do that here.”