Murdoch tightens grip on Indian TV...

Rupert Murdoch's Star TV has become the first foreign broadcaster to apply to transmit from Indian soil, part of wider plan to tighten its focus on the market. 

Star, which broadcasts throughout Asia and beyond, currently "uplinks" to India from Hong Kong - in other words, its Indian signal is bounced in from outside, a common way of bypassing broadcasting regulations. 

But the firm has now cancelled its arrangement with NDTV, its current content provider, and has asked for a licence to shift the uplink to India. 

As part of the package, Star is to launch its own directly-controlled news channel, Star News, on 31 March next year. 

The new arrangement, Star hopes, will give the firm the edge in the Indian market, seen as arguably the most promising in Asia. More...

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