Dish TV India posted a consolidated net loss of \u20b995 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2025, compared to a loss of \u20b92 crore in the same period last year. The bigger loss was driven by a sharp fall in revenue and continued challenges in the direct-to-home (DTH) television business.<\/p>\n
The company’s EBITDA fell 56% to \u20b973 crore, with margins under pressure from competition, inflation, and rupee depreciation. Revenue from operations dropped 28% year-on-year to \u20b9329 crore, as subscription income slid 11% to \u20b9273 crore.<\/p>\n
To address this, the company plans to focus on hybrid offerings, connected devices, and value-added products such as content bundling with TV manufacturers, partnerships, and alliances. <\/p>\n
Dish TV has taken measures to improve the quality of subscriber acquisitions, reduce churn, and limit recurring set-top box capital expenditure. Savings from these steps are being redirected to newer business areas such as the Watcho and FLIQS platforms, with plans to fund similar initiatives internally. <\/p>\n
The Watcho OTT Super App had more than 96 million downloads and 11 million paid subscribers by June 2025. It offers over 24 apps with a range of entertainment content at competitive prices. FLIQS provides a curated platform with exclusive, original, and premium digital content in multiple languages, including films, web series, and short-form videos. <\/p>\n
Dish TV and its subsidiary Dish Infra Services reassessed the value of key assets, including the Watcho streaming platform and those acquired from Videocon d2h. Independent valuations showed a steep decline due to fewer subscribers and changing business conditions. <\/p>\n
Dish Infra wrote down \u20b9798 crore in intangible assets under development, \u20b9202 crore in capital advances, and \u20b9120 crore in other advances, all related to new-age technologies, including the Watcho OTT platform. It also reduced the value of Videocon d2h assets in its books by \u20b92,364 crore in goodwill, \u20b970 crore in customer relationships, and \u20b9401 crore in property and equipment. <\/p>\n
In Dish TV\u2019s own books, Videocon d2h-related assets were reduced by \u20b93,911 crore (goodwill), \u20b91,029 crore (brand), \u20b9498 crore (customer relationships), and \u20b928 crore (property and equipment). <\/p>\n
The company remains in a long-running legal dispute with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting over DTH licence fees. The case has been in the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court since 2015, with interim relief still in place. Similar cases involving other DTH players are in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
Dish TV has set aside \u20b94,680 crore as of June 2025 to cover potential interest liabilities, up from \u20b94,613 crore in March. In April, the ministry demanded \u20b96,736 crore in licence fees and interest from the time the company first received its licences up to FY24, a demand the company has disputed.<\/p>\n
The company also challenged a proposed audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in 2023 and obtained a court stay, which remains in effect.<\/p>\n
As of June 2025, Dish TV\u2019s accumulated losses exceeded its equity capital, resulting in a negative net worth. Management says this is mainly due to the licence fee dispute and warns that an unfavourable outcome could raise doubts about its ability to continue.<\/p>\n
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Dish TV India posted a consolidated net loss of \u20b995 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2025, compared to a loss of \u20b92 crore in the same period last year. The bigger loss was driven by a sharp fall in revenue and continued challenges in the direct-to-home (DTH) television business. The company’s EBITDA fell 56% to \u20b973 crore, with margins under pressure from competition, inflation, and rupee depreciation. Revenue from operations dropped 28% year-on-year to \u20b9329 crore, as subscription income slid 11% to \u20b9273 crore. To address this, the company plans to focus on hybrid offerings, connected devices, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954786","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}