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NEW DELHI: The Government notified on Wednesday changes in the print media guidelines, approved by the Cabinet in mid-June, that seek to facilitate greater foreign presence in print media through printing of facsimile editions of foreign newspapers and periodicals, and enhancement of the syndication limits in Indian newspapers. Also, greater flexibility has been allowed in the foreign investment...

The Government notified on Wednesday changes in the print media guidelines, approved by the Cabinet in mid-June, that seek to facilitate greater foreign presence in print media through printing of facsimile editions of foreign newspapers and periodicals, and enhancement of the syndication limits in Indian newspapers. Also, greater flexibility has been allowed in the foreign direct investment (FDI)...

Seoul - In South Korea, print newspapers used to be the "media king" that once held society together, but the rise of the Internet has undermined the role of the dailies as the major opinion leaders and is cutting into their ad revenue, industry sources say. Up until 2000, almost six in every 10 adults started the day with reading a newspaper. Politically, the major papers had earned their stars...

Newspapers are cockroaches. No matter what is introduced into the media ecosystem, the oldest of the Big Media survives. Despite decades of doomsayers, newspapers prospered through radio, through TV and cable, through video games, through the Internet.... Not so fast. Suddenly, even sober Wall Street analysts think something new is afoot. What looms now "is different from all other threats," says...

Internet service providers have urged the government to de-license spectrum in order to popularise WiMax services. WiMax (Worldwide Inter-operability of Microwave Access) is a standards-based wireless technology that provides high-throughput broadband connections over long distances, with typical cell sizes of two to ten kilo meters. "Since most of the WiMax developments are being done in the 2.3...

Regulatory fee outflow to decline 50%. In a decision that comes as sweet music to private FM radio companies, the government today allowed 20 per cent foreign direct investment in the sector and ushered in a revenue share regime of 4 per cent a year to replace licence fees. However, the Cabinet, which met in New Delhi to thrash out the policy for the second phase of FM radio licensing, decided to...

The Japanese are spending more time scanning the Internet than reading newspapers as their way to learn news, a survey showed Wednesday. The people here took an average of 37 minutes a day surfing on the Web, up five minutes from the previous year, while the time spent on newspapers was two minutes lower to 31 minutes, according the annual survey in March by the National Institute of Information...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) favours 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services and is against imposing any entry fee unless there is excess demand for available spectrum space. Should there be such a demand, the TRAI in its recommendations to the Government on issues relating to satellite radio services has suggested that tenders be floated as is the case with...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), today gave the green signal for 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services with no entry and licence fee for the time being. In the recommendations, Trai said that it would desirable to provide a licensing framework now itself so that there is no uncertainty in the future. The regulatory body also recommended that there shouldn't be...

MUMBAI: Indian media companies are heading towards vertical models, spread across television and print businesses. A case in point: Sun Network snapping up Dinakaran to mark an entry into the newspaper market. And, Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra is in the process of launching DNA English daily in Mumbai, with Dainik Bhaskar as the joint venture partner. It really is a two-way traffic...