Pentamedia arm gets license for earth station

MUMBAI: The wholly-owned subsidiary of Pentamedia Graphics, Intelivision Ltd has received a license from the information and broadcasting ministry to set up its own earth station.

Pentamedia Graphics chairman Dr V Chandrasekaran has been quoted in The Hindu Business Line, saying that beside the earth station the company has also obtained a teleport license for uplinking five channels by hiring transponder space.

According to the media report, Chandrasekhran volunteered the information at a press conference announcing a new line up of programming on the company’s channel Splash.

The teleport will be up and running by the end of the year. The channel is currently being web cast on Numtv.com, a web casting portal.