DTH
Dish TV partners with Mogi IO for image optimisation solution
Mumbai: DishTV has joined hands with Mogi IO to deliver to its customers highly optimised image quality that enables faster website download speeds. The cooperation between the two entertainment solution providers will help with superior user engagement and better economics of scale, said the statement.
The partnership between DishTV and Mogi Solutions will optimise the images by 80 per cent implying an 80 per cent reduction in bandwidth usage and data transfer cost. This results in reducing the bounce rate and increasing the footfall of the website. Faster downloads will ensure customer satisfaction and improved monetisation.
“It is a very prestigious tie-up for us when one of the leading media brands, DishTV joins hands for our solution. This proves the scalability of our solutions and demonstrates to the market our technology strength,” said Mogi IO co-founder and chief executive officer Vikrant Khanna.
“Faster website download speeds would result in enhanced SEO ranking on Google algorithms. Organic ranking is good for organic footfalls, thus making a great economical breakthrough,” he added.
The pandemic has bolstered content consumption. Millennial and Gen Z consumers are drivers of this consumption and prefer to consume online videos. Globally, the trend is similar with video consumption constituting 80 per cent of internet traffic. At the same time, the global content distribution network (CDN) infrastructure, on which content streaming happens, is falling short of the demand.
Mogi’s has built a patented streaming engine that uses a multi-CDN technology to ensure a buffer-free experience that leads to faster content delivery. It also creates automatic redundancies in case of CDN failures so that the viewer experience remains seamless.
“Following the pandemic, we witnessed an upsurge in visitors to our website. Dish TV is a mass brand and has customers spread across all town classes and uses various devices. Network speeds also vary across the country. Keeping this in mind, we decided to get Mogi IO’s help to make our website more accessible and optimized for this set of customers, by implementing their image optimisation services,” said Dish TV India head of marketing for DishTV and Watcho Sukhpreet Singh. “We are hopeful this will help us improve our customers’ digital experiences, which is something that DishTV as a brand is always striving for.”
DTH
Free Dish serves fresh slots as Prasar Bharati rings in e Auction 97
MPEG 4 slots for 2026–27 open with bids from March 16 and applications due March 9.
MUMBAI- When the Free Dish menu changes, broadcasters sharpen their forks. Prasar Bharati has formally opened applications for vacant MPEG-4 slots on its DD Free Dish direct to home platform, setting the stage for the 97th e-auction, scheduled to begin on March 16, 2026. The allotment will cover the broadcast period from April 1, 2026, to March 31, 2027, continuing the public broadcaster’s annual auction cycle.
The notice, issued on February 9, 2026, lays out a familiar but finely sliced structure, with channels grouped into genre and language based “buckets”, each carrying its own reserve price and bidding dynamics. The aim is simple: widen content choice on DD Free Dish while keeping the playing field regulated and competitive.
At the premium end of the table, HD channels (Bucket H) will open with a reserve price of Rs 80 lakh, with bid increments of Rs 1 lakh.
Regional language channels are split across multiple rounds. Bucket R1, covering South Indian languages, and Bucket R2, which includes Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali, will both start at Rs 5 lakh in round one, moving up to Rs 15 lakh in the second round.
News and current affairs channels under Bucket G1 will begin at Rs 30 lakh, escalating to Rs 50 lakh in the next round, while the General Open round (GO) meant to mop up unfilled slots across categories carries a reserve price of Rs 70 lakh.
Eligibility remains tightly controlled. Participation is limited to satellite television channels licensed by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, with international public broadcasters holding valid MIB licences also allowed to bid. Prasar Bharati has also reiterated strict content compliance norms, making genre and language declarations more than just paperwork.
To qualify as “predominant”, at least 75 percent of non advertising content must align with the declared genre and language. In overall terms, this means such content cannot fall below 60 percent of a channel’s total monthly telecast. Complaints will trigger a review by a designated committee, and persistent violations could result in the channel being taken off the platform.
Applications must be submitted online via the Prasar Bharati portal by 9 March, 2026, at 15:00 hours. Broadcasters will need to pay a non refundable processing fee of Rs 25,000 and a participation fee of Rs 3 lakh, along with submitting mandatory documents such as MIB permissions, channel logos and proof of carriage on other DTH or MSO platforms.
Successful bidders will be required to stick to a strict payment calendar. Delays will attract interest at 14.5 percent per annum, and repeated defaults could lead to forfeiture of the participation fee and removal from DD Free Dish.
As India’s only free to air DTH platform with massive reach, DD Free Dish continues to be a crucial gateway, especially in regional markets. With e-Auction 97, Prasar Bharati is once again reshuffling the platter and the industry is watching closely to see who gets served next.
