Dish TV

Dish TV India Limited (BSE: 532839) is an Indian company engaged in the business of providing direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television service, which includes teleport service, customer support and transponder space leasing. Dishtv is a division of Zee Network Enterprise (Essel Group Venture). It uses MPEG-2 digital compression technology, transmitting using NSS-6 Satellite at 95.0. Dish Tv's managing director and Head Of Business is Jawahar Goel who is also the promoter of Essel Group and is also the President of Indian Broadcasting Foundation.^[1] Zee Network incorporated dishtv to modernize television (TV) viewing. It provides features, such as Electronic Programme Guide (EPG), parental lock, games, 400 channels, interactive TV and movie on demand. dishtv also brings national and international channels in India.

Its primary competitors are cable television and other DTH service providers—Airtel digital TV, Reliance Big TV, DD Direct+, Tata Sky, Sun Direct, and Videocon D2H.

Slogan

"Ghar Aayi Zindagi" (bring home life)

History

DTH service was launched back in 2004 by launching of Dish TV by Essel Group's Zee Entertainment Enterprises. Dish TV is on the same satellite where DD Direct+ was, DD Direct+ shifted to Insat 4B which is adjacent to NSS-6.

Dish TV was only DTH operator in India to carry the two Turner channels Turner Classic Movies and Boomerang. Both the channels were removed from the platform due to unknown reasons in March 2009. In October 2010 Dish tv added the long awaited Neo Sports and Neo Cricket on its platform

Satellite link

Dish TV uses NSS-6 to broadcast its programmes. NSS-6 was launched on 17 December 2002 by European-based satellite provider, NewSkies. Dish TV hopped on to NSS-6 from an INSAT satellite in July 2004. The change in the satellite was to increase the channel offering as NSS 6 offered more transponder capacity. However, Dish TV booked additional transponders on the new Asiasat 5 satellite for starting its MPEG-4 based HD services. Dish TV is currently using 5 transponders on Asiasat 5.

DTH on Wheels

Dish TV also provides mobile satellite TV on vehicles, trains and aircrafts.^[2]

Subscriber Base

Dish TV had about 11.2 million customers as of 30 June 2011.^[3]

There are about 35.5 million DTH subscribers in India as of June 2011.^[4]

Dish truHD

Dish TV recently launched its high definition service called Dish truHD. Its major competitors are SUN Direct HD , Tata Sky HD, Airtel Digital TV HD and the Reliance Digital TV. It supports 1080i HD quality. Currently there are 43 HD Services and DISHTV plans to give more HD content to its customers.

Website

On 16th September 2011, Dish TV's website was hacked. Even after hours after being reported in the news and forums the site was not restored. There were worries expressed on various forum sites that critical data like the Subscriber Viewing Card numbers, Addresses, Contact Numbers would be leaked.

Channel List

The following is the list of channels provided by Dish TV as of October 2011.^[5]

TV Channels

|1000 |What's On India |- |1110 |Aastha Bhajna |- |1113 |Sanskar |- |1705 |Firangi |- |1301 |Enterr 10 Movies |- |3780 |Gyanvani

See also

• Airtel digital TV
• DD Direct+
• Reliance Digital TV
• Sun Direct
• TATA Sky
• Videocon D2H

References

External links

• Official website
• Dish TV Customer Support