Murdoch Jr comes a-visiting; what's cooking?

(posted on 22 November, 3:00 am )

They are calling it a courtesy call. But Star TV chairman James Murdoch's visit to the Capital to bow-wow with the powers that be comes at a time when lobbying is taking place thick and fast to decide what shape Indian broadcasting and convergence legislation should take.

Murdoch met up with a galaxy of politicians right from I&B minister Sushma Swaraj to old Star TV man Pramod Mahajan. He is also scheudled to get into a huddle with law minister Arun Jaitley and finance minister Yashwant Sinha over the next couple of days.

Sources indicate he is pretty gung-ho on India now, especially since noises about creating legislation are being made.

Star TV officials point out that one of the major decisions that has been taken is to once again to surf the DTH waves, and there are possibilities that its old relationship with old ally, the P.K. Mittal group, may once again be revived even though the DTH MoU has since lapsed between the two.

Star TV is also expected to announce a major initiative within the next fortnight.





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