{"id":948845,"date":"2025-07-23T07:28:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948845"},"modified":"2025-07-23T07:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:09:41","slug":"dth-signals-fade-but-fm-radio-turns-up-the-volume-for-mib-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/23\/dth-signals-fade-but-fm-radio-turns-up-the-volume-for-mib-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DTH signals fade, but FM radio turns up the volume for MIB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) earned lower revenues from the Direct-to-Home (DTH) television services market in FY25, reflecting a shrinking user base for pay TV services. Earnings from the FM radio sector however rose during the year, according to the ministry\u2019s latest annual accounts. <\/p>\n<p>In FY25, the MIB earned \u20b9648.73 crore from private DTH operators, declining from \u20b9692 crore in FY24 and \u20b9859.96 crore in FY23, a nearly 25% drop over two years. In contrast, revenue from private FM radio rose to \u20b9196.28 crore last fiscal from \u20b9186.80 crore in FY24 and \u20b9178.99 crore in FY23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) earned lower revenues from the Direct-to-Home (DTH) television services market in FY25, reflecting a shrinking user base for pay TV services. Earnings from the FM radio sector however rose during the year, according to the ministry\u2019s latest annual accounts. In FY25, the MIB earned \u20b9648.73 crore from private DTH operators, declining from \u20b9692 crore in FY24 and \u20b9859.96 crore in FY23, a nearly 25% drop over two years. In contrast, revenue from private FM radio rose to \u20b9196.28 crore last fiscal from \u20b9186.80 crore in FY24 and \u20b9178.99 crore in FY23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}