Another worry: the government's decision in November to allow Cantonese-language broadcasts by STAR TV.
's Star TV in Asia will lose big money for another three to four years.
International and pan-Asian broadcasters are based in Hong Kong, including News Corp's STAR TV.
Launched DishTV, a direct-to-home service, which competes with Tata Sky, Tata Group's joint venture with Star TV.
It will be shown in Asia after Fremantle Media Enterprises secured a pan-regional deal with Star TV.
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" Says Sameer Nair, a STAR TV vice president: "Nothing this grand has ever happened on Indian TV.
Star TV operates several satellite TV channels in India, in English and Hindi.
He also took on Hong-Kong based Star TV, helping it to become one of the first foreign-owned broadcasters in Asia.
"The race for viewers became a race for local programming, " says James, who has worked for TVB and STAR TV.
Remember, it was Richard who founded STAR TV years ago, and sold it to Rupert Murdoch for a billion dollars.
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In 2003, Star TV was keen to renew NDTV's contract but was no longer willing to give it full editorial control.
By 2000 Murdoch was in charge of News Corp's Asian satellite business, Star TV, where he appeared to find his feet.
Mr Murdoch's News Corp is represented in India through News Television India, an arm of Star TV, and has offices in Bombay.
He predicts News Corp. stock will double within two years and that Star TV will coin money as China and India open up.
What's more, as foreign broadcasters such as the BBC and Star TV looked to expand their India offerings, they turned to NDTV for content.
The Roys' big moment came in 1998, when they inked a five-year contract to produce all the programming for Star News, Star TV's new 24-hour news channel.
The STAR TV chief executive and son of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch moved to Hong Kong permanently with his wife, Kathryn, after their wedding in June.
Answer: If you are the India operation of the STAR TV network, you ask questions like the first three on a show such as Kaun Banega Crorepati.
They immediately rushed to call STAR TV's 300, 000 phone lines.
James Murdoch, the CEO of News Corp who oversees STAR TV in Asia, has been in the news talking media strategy with top officials in Gujarat state this week.
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The new company will include News Corp's Asian star TV company, its 37.5% stake in Britain's BSkyB, its south American assets and its stake in US interactive TV company GemStar.
Unlike many readers of Mr Murdoch's other publications, or the viewers of his Star TV, serious consumers of business reporting have too much money at stake to have their news interfered with.
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Richard Li needs HKT for its half-a million ISP customers, for its fiber optic cables that circle every narrow Hong Kong alley and for some of its broadband ventures, like Star TV.
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It also has one of Hong Kong's largest ISPs with over half a million customers, as well as a broadband joint venture with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and its Hong Kong affiliate Star TV.
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Satellite TV gave the government its first dose of competition, allowing Indian players, such as Zee TV, owned by billionaire Subhash Chandra, and then foreign entries, such as Rupert Murdoch's Star TV, to go after viewers.
Portas - star of TV shows such as Mary Queen of Shops - will make a programme about the 12.
Kirk in the Star Trek TV series and movies, is attracting a mainstream audience with his new app that goes well beyond Trekkers.
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Even many working in Hollywood don't realize a live-action Star Wars TV series has been sitting on the shelf the past few years.
Portas - star of TV shows such as Mary Queen of Shops - would meet all the winning bidders and, along with his department, offer advice, Mr Shapps added.
The company also announced that TCL products, including the HD China Star 3D TV, will be featured in the upcoming film, Marvel's "Iron Man 3, " and introduced new smartphones, tablets and a WiFi device they'll sell in the U.S. under their Alcatel ONE TOUCH brand.
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