Dish TV Limited (BSE: 532839) is an Indian company engaged in the business of providing direct-to-home (DTH) service, which includes teleport service, customer support and transponder space leasing. Dishtv is a division of Zee Network Enterprise ( 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 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 and other DTH service providers—Airtel digital TV, Reliance Big TV, DD Direct+, Tata Sky, Sun Direct, and Videocon .

History

DTH service was launched back in 2004 by launching of Dish TV by Essel Group's Zee 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

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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.

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DTH on Wheels

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

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Subscriber Base

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

There are about 30 million DTH subscribers in India as of February 2011.[4]

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Dish truHD

The logo of Dish truHD.

Dish TV recently launched its high definition service called Dish truHD. Its major competitors are 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.

Date of Establishment 1992

Revenue US $ 4.4 billion (year ended March, 2007)

Market Cap Not Available

Headquarter Address HCL Comnet Ltd., A-10/11, Sector 3, Noida- 201 301, UP, India

Branches USA, UK, Poland, Singapore and India

Management Team Sanjeev Nikore - Chief Operating Officer

Overview

HCL Comnet Ltd. is a leading global IT services, solutions and product engineering company. A subsidiary of HCL Technologies, it caters to more than 100 organizations globally from American and European Fortune 500 firms. It provides end user computing services, datacenter services, networking services, managed security services, application operations services and process and tool consultancy.

The company was adjudged as one of the best IT infrastructure service providers in the world and received Global Services 100 Awards. It invested Rs. 20 crore to establish a network operation centre in and in cooperation with Hewlett Packard.

It offers energetic and enthusiastic where every team, work and move ahead together. The company ensures employee satisfaction and retention of competent high performing manpower. It undertakes measures to fulfill the expectations of employees and facilitate a healthy work place.

The site was established in 1997 by Info Edge (India) Ltd. Info Edge is a listed company on the and National Stock Exchange. It went public in November 2006.[3] As of March 31, 2009 Naukri.com had a database of about 17 million registered job seekers, and over 70,000 live job listings from Corporate Customers. During the Fiscal year 2008-09 Naukri.com serviced approximately 34,000 Corporate Customers, respectively. An average of over 14,000 resumes were added per day to the Naukri.com database in Fiscal year 2009.

The Company was incorporated on May 1, 1995 under the Companies Act, 1956 as Info Edge (India) Private Limited. and converted into a Public Limited on April 27, 2006.

Info Edge (India) Limited (Info Edge) is India’s premier on-line classifieds company in recruitment, matrimony, real estate, education and related services. Our businesses comprise the following:

Businesses

Recruitment – This comprises online recruitment classifieds (www.naukri.com, India’s leading job site and www.naukrigulf.com a job site focused at the Middle East job market) and offline executive search (www.quadranglesearch.com). Related sites in this business are a professional networking site (www.brijj.com) and a fresher hiring site (www.firstnaukri.com).

Matrimony – This comprises online matrimony classifieds (www.jeevansathi.com) and 14 offline Jeevansathi Match Points.

Real Estate – This comprises online real estate classifieds (www.99acres.com), a real estate brokerage business (www.allcheckdeals.com, housed in a subsidiary named (www.allcheckdeals.com) India Private Limited).

Education - This comprises online education classifieds (www.shiksha.com).

The company, with a view to tap into the growing Indian internet market, undertakes investments in early stage companies / start-up ventures. As of March 31, 2011, the company had invested in Applect Learning Systems Pvt Limited (www.meritnation.com); Etechaces Consulting and Marketing Pvt Limited (www.policybazaar.com); DC Foodiebay Online Services Private Limited (www.zomato.com) and Nogle Technologies Pvt Limited. In April, 2011, the company invested in Kinobeo Software Private Limited (www.mydala.com) and Ninety Nine Labels Pvt Ltd. (www.99labels.com).

Info Edge has established and currently maintains a network of 48 offices located in 31 cities throughout India. These offices primarily engage in sales, marketing and payment collection activities for our businesses. To cater to the Gulf market we have 2 offices in Dubai and 1 each in Bahrain, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. As on March 31, 2011, our employee strength was about 1,900 persons.

As of March 31, 2011, in terms of accounting standards, we had six subsidiary companies - Naukri Internet Services Private Limited and Jeevansathi Internet Services Private Limited, both of which own internet domain names and related trademarks used in our business; Allcheckdeals.com India Pvt Limited (www.allcheckdeal.com) which provides brokerage services in the Indian real estate sector; Applect Learning Systems Private Limited which owns and operates the site www.meritnation.com; Etechaces Consulting and Marketing Pvt Limited which owns and runs the site www.policybazaar.com and Info Edge (India) Mauritius Limited.