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The government's decision to raise foreign direct investment (FDI) ceiling to 74 per cent from 49 per cent in broadcast carriage services will impart tremendous boost to India's cable TV sector. However, more would need to be done to attract the required investments into the sector. This column by Mr Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII, appeared in the Financial Express on 19 September 2012.
CII News Update
Minister of Information and Broadcasting Shri Manish Tewari asked the broadcast industry to “think aloud” to have a separate broadcast regulator at the 4th CII CEOs Roundtable on Broadcast. Addressing more than 70 top broadcast industry leaders, the minister once again mooted the idea of "techno-co.....
The demographic dividend and the opportunities related to skilling and healthcare requirements alongwith the potential large consumer market are critical factor in attracting investment said Prof Abhijit Sen, Member, Planning Commission, Government of India in the Panel Discussion on Enablers for I.....
The government is taking proactive steps for enhancing the broadband penetration in the country from the present level of 20 million to 600 million by 2020 so as to cover the entire breadth and length of the country.
While mentioning this at the CII-Media Entertainment Summit 2012 titled In.....
The government, corporations, media and civil society should come forward to support sports beyond cricket with a long term roadmap, according to Mr Atul Singh, CEO, Coco – Cola India.
He was speaking at the CII Media & entertainment Summit on India-The Big Picture today at the session on S.....
India’s Entertainment & Media sector is expected to grow steadily over the next five years as per CII-PwC’s latest report titled ‘India Entertainment & Media Outlook 2012’. The industry is expected to exceed INR 175,000 crores growing at a CAGR of 17%1 from 2012 to 2016. The CII-PwC report, ‘ Indi.....
The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry is actively considering steps to make India a teleport hub enabling the country to become an up-linking / downlinking centre like Hong Kong and Singapore. The Ministry will soon hold a consultations with industry to discuss, modalities, challenges a.....
New Paradigms in Media-Experts Concur and Differ
New vulnerability of power, its fragility and brittleness , new matrix of accountability and deficit of legitimacy are redefining traditional role and moorings of media. Speed of communication, expanding public information space and innume.....
India’s Entertainment & Media sector is expected to grow steadily over the next five years as per CII-PwC’s latest report titled ‘India Entertainment & Media Outlook 2012’. The industry is expected to exceed INR 175,000 crores growing at a CAGR of 17%1 from 2012 to 2016. The CII-PwC report, ‘ Indi.....
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