Dish TV India Limited
Media & Entertainment sector is expected to generate Rs. 4 lakh crore (US$ 48 billion) annually by 2025 and reach Rs. 7.5 lakh crore (US$ 91 billion) by 2030.
Dish TV India Limited is engaged in the business of direct to home (DTH) and teleport services. The company's segments include DTH and teleport service, and infra support services. It is also engaged in the business of broadcasting of other satellite telecommunications activities. Its products include DishHD+ with Recorder, Dish+, DishFlix and dish on wheels. It provides many kinds of set top boxes such as DISH HD+ with recorder, which provides hi-definition signals for picture quality along with the power to pause, record and rewind live television, and digital set-top-box, which allows customers to record programs of their choice. Its services include active services, movie on demand, multilingual services and miniplex. Its active services include music active, games active and jobs active. Its multilingual services allow customers to watch their programs in various languages, such as Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali and Urdu. It also offers do-it-yourself services.
- 600+ channels and services
- 100 million viewers
- Largest direct to home (DTH) provider
- Total revenue stood at Rs. 125,627 lakh (US$ 152.7 million) in FY23.
Dish TV India Limited
| Year | Milestone |
|---|---|
| 2021 |
In August 2021, Dish TV India Ltd. introduced its ‘Scan QR and Pay’ feature, a QR scan feature for D2H subscribers and a 'Scan To Pay' feature for DishTV subscribers. In April 2021, the company announced that its OTT platform, WATCHO, recently surpassed 25 million users. |
| 2020 |
D2H, a brand of Dish TV India, expanded its footprint and initiated services in Upper Assam and rest of the northeast region. Dish TV India shifted manufacturing of Set-top boxes to India and gives a boost to 'Make in India' initiative Dish TV partnered with MX Player and added one more app in its Android-based connected devices for its DishTV and d2h users, named Dish SMRT Hub and d2h stream, respectively Launched a complete range of smart devices, an internet enabled Android based HD Set Top Box and voice enabled Alexa Built-in smart kit Dish TV India adds Hungama Play, a VoD platform owned by Hungama Digital Media |
| 2019 |
Dish TV India launched 'Telugu Active' service VAS service aimed at Telugu viewers |
| 2018 |
Dish TV India and Videocon d2h merger was concluded |
| 2013 |
Asia's largest direct-to-home company announced Dish TV as the Best Managed Company in Asia in the Media sector. Dish TV offered maximum high-definition (HD) content with 25 HD channels and 17 HD services, unlimited recording facility in both HD and secure digital (SD) set top boxes. Dish TV added a new channel, "Sobhagya Mithila", in Maithili for Bihar and Jharkhand. Dish TV announced the launch of "Zing", an exciting new brand which was specially conceptualized and customized keeping in mind new regional viewers that were moving over to the digital platform |
| 2012 |
Dish TV launched Dish truHD Plus with unlimited recording capacity |
| 2010 |
Dish TV crossed nine million subscribers. Dish TV launched Tru High Definition (HD) Ser. Dish TV became Asia’s largest direct-to-home (DTH) service |
| 2008 |
Dish TV joined hands with Sony Pictures |
| 2007 |
Dish TV India Ltd informed that the board of directors of the company at its meeting held on October 22, 2007, the appointment of Mr. Eric Zinterhofer as an Additional Non-Executive Independent Director on the board of the company. |
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