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Category:- Electronics | Industry:- Products and Service
2021-03-04 16:40:49
Tata Sky Limited is a joint venture between Tata Sons and TFCF Corporation (formerly known as Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.). Incorporated in 2001 and with services launched since 2006, Tata Sky is India's leading content distribution platform providing Pay TV and OTT services. With the objective of connecting to the best content in the world on any budget, any screen, anytime and anywhere. Tata Sky was the first to launch multiple products and services that redefined the subscribers’ viewing experience in the country.
Organization:- Tata Sky
Helpline No:- 1800 208 6633
Website:- https://www.tatasky.com/
Address:- Unit 301 to 305, 3rd Floor, Windsor Off, C.S.T. Road, Kalina, Santacruz (East), Mumbai 400098.
Tata Sky is an equity strategic alliance in the nature of a joint venture between the Tata Group and 21st Century Fox, which owned 70% and 30% stakes respectively until 2008, when Singapore-based Temasek Holdings picked up a 10% stake in Tata Sky from the Tata Group. Tata Sky was incorporated in 2001, but launched services on 8 August 2006.Sky's parent company, 21st Century Fox, formerly owned an international group of DTH businesses that include Sky Italia in Italy and Sky UK in United Kingdom. The company uses the Sky brand under a licence from Sky.Tata Sky has partnered with Ericsson to launch the first Video on Demand (VOD) Services ever in India in 2012On 9 January 2015, Tata Sky became the first Indian DTH operator to offer 4K set-top-boxes to its consumers.
On 20 March 2019, The Walt Disney Company completed acquisition of 30% stake from 21st Century Fox
Tata Sky was the second operator to launch DTH or direct-to-home services in 2006. At that time, the company decided to use an ISRO satellite. In 2005, Tata Sky signed a contract with ISRO for provision of satellite space on the INSAT-4A satellite. In 2007, one year after the launch of the DTH player, Tata Sky asked for more space to increase the number of channels they telecast. The extra space was promised in 2009 on the GSAT-10 satellite, a then to be launched satellite inducted into the INSAT system. The GSAT-10 was launched in September 2012, Tata Sky has started utilising those transponders in March 2015. After the mission of INSAT-4A was over on 21 October 2019 Tata Sky started using ISRO's GSAT-10 satellite which is a replacement satellite of INSAT-4A.