{"id":990705,"date":"2026-02-09T08:26:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990705"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:05:32","slug":"dish-tv-discloses-%e2%82%b97203-crore-dth-licence-fee-claim-as-regulatory-overhang-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/09\/dish-tv-discloses-%e2%82%b97203-crore-dth-licence-fee-claim-as-regulatory-overhang-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"Dish TV discloses \u20b97,203 crore DTH licence fee claim as regulatory overhang deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Direct-to-home operator Dish TV India Limited has disclosed a fresh \u20b97,203 crore licence fee demand from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB), adding to a long-running regulatory dispute that remains sub-judice. <\/p>\n<p>In a communication dated December 30, 2025, the MIB directed Dish TV to pay the fee, including interest, up to the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025. The ministry noted that the amount is subject to reconciliation based on the outcome of a Comptroller and Auditor General audit and cases pending before TDSAT, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court and the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct-to-home operator Dish TV India Limited has disclosed a fresh \u20b97,203 crore licence fee demand from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB), adding to a long-running regulatory dispute that remains sub-judice. In a communication dated December 30, 2025, the MIB directed Dish TV to pay the fee, including interest, up to the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025. The ministry noted that the amount is subject to reconciliation based on the outcome of a Comptroller and Auditor General audit and cases pending before TDSAT, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court and the Supreme Court.<\/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-990705","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\/990705","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=990705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}