Dish
TV India Limited is an Indian company that provides direct-to-home
(DTH) satellite television. Dish TV is a division of Zee Network
Enterprise (Essel Group Venture). Dish TV India Limited is ranked # 437
and #5 in the list of media companies in the Fortune India 500 roster of
India’s largest corporations in 2011.[2] 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.[3] Zee Network incorporated dishtv to modernize
television (TV) viewing. It provides features such as Electronic
Programme Guide (EPG), parental lock, games, 400+ channels and
services,[4] interactive TV and movies on demand. 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.
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 4 transponders on Asiasat 5.