MUMBAI :Cable ops, owing allegiance to different associations, have planned to hold a conference to discuss the issue of conditional access in the country.

The Karnataka Cable Television Operators Association and the Karnataka Cable Television Chamber of Commerce have called a conference later this month to discuss the need for CAS which is proposed to be implemented in India.
The conference is expected to be attended by representatives of the trade from Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The two bodies are also expected to submit a memorandum to the central government demanding the introduction of CAS in metros in the first phase of implmentation of the system, according to a report in the Hindu Business Line.

MUMBAI: Indiantelevision.com has tied up with the SportsBusiness Group (SBG) of the UK to market its clutch of products on the sports information business online to the Indian media, consulting, research, advertising, television and sports management trades. The deal covers popular international publications such as Sportsbusiness International, footballbusiness international, sportsbusinessTV, among others.
Additionally, Indian Television Dot Com will also be promoting the latest SBG report The Future of Sports Broadcasting Rights, which gives buyers a ringside view on sports such as football, tennis, etc. The report is priced at ?685 ($939).

MUMBAI: News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch and elder son Lachlan are being sued by shareholders in TV guide company Gemstar over the $30 billion fall in its value in the past two years.
News Corp, which owns 42 per cent of Gemstar, and the Murdochs, who sit on the US company‘s board, stand accused of helping defraud investors by "causing Gemstar to engage in unlawful conduct." The lawsuit claims Gemstar failed to issue reports showing the falling value of the business and threats to its major asset, patents for a system to record television programmes, the thisislondon.co.uk website has reported.

At a time when investors are scrutinizing US companies‘ accounting statements for numbers perceived as false or misleading, a judge‘s determination that Gemstar‘s patents haven‘t been infringed once again calls into question Gemstar‘s revenue recognition policies. Earlier this year, the company disclosed that it had recorded more than $100 million in licensing revenue from Scientific-Atlanta since 1999, even though Scientific-Atlanta had refused to pay up and then sued Gemstar in federal court to get a ruling that it wasn‘t infringing on Gemstar‘s patents.

News Corp has had to write off about $4 billion of its investment in Gemstar and is expected to write off another $1billion when it reports results later this month, says thisislondon.co.uk.