Zee goes into HITS, DTH overdrive
By ANJAN MITRAPosted on : 30 May 2003 05:48 pm
NEW DELHI: Since 29 May, the smile on Jawahar Goel's face has broadened and the additional vice-chairman of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms just cannot hide his excitement. Sitting in a second floor room of a yet-to-be-given-finishing-touches building in Noida, on the outskirts of Delhi, which houses Zee's state-of-the art facility for headend in the sky (HITS) project for CAS as also the proposed DTH service, Goel gleefully rubs his hands and quips, "Ab aayega mazaa (the excitement will begin now)."
He has reasons to feel elated. A strong supporter of conditional access system, which aims to bring addressability in Indian cable homes from 14 July, 2003, Zee and some other Chandra companies have got a shot in the arm with the Indian government’s announcement yesterday that there would be a hefty reduction in the customs duty on import of set-top boxes, albeit only till 31 July.
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Indian Television Dot Com | Zee goes into HITS, DTH overdrive
By ANJAN MITRAPosted on : 30 May 2003 05:48 pm
NEW DELHI: Since 29 May, the smile on Jawahar Goel's face has broadened and the additional vice-chairman of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms just cannot hide his excitement. Sitting in a second floor room of a yet-to-be-given-finishing-touches building in Noida, on the outskirts of Delhi, which houses Zee's state-of-the art facility for headend in the sky (HITS) project for CAS as also the proposed DTH service, Goel gleefully rubs his hands and quips, "Ab aayega mazaa (the excitement will begin now)."
He has reasons to feel elated. A strong supporter of conditional access system, which aims to bring addressability in Indian cable homes from 14 July, 2003, Zee and some other Chandra companies have got a shot in the arm with the Indian government’s announcement yesterday that there would be a hefty reduction in the customs duty on import of set-top boxes, albeit only till 31 July.
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Indian Television Dot Com | Zee goes into HITS, DTH overdrive
