Operating
revenues were at Rs 892.86 million while expenditure stood at a whopping Rs 1.38
billion. Dish TV's main expenses are towards content, selling and distribution,
employees and administrative.
Operating loss was Rs 488 million as the
company says it has been investing on growth.
Commenting on the performance,
Dish TV chairman Subhash Chandra said: "The standalone revenue has increased
to Rs 893.37 million up by 35 per cent as compared to the last quarter of the
last fiscal year. This quarter we have consolidated our efforts in capturing more
market share and due to this Dish TV continues to be a dominant market leader.
The strength arises not just from numbers of subscribers, but also through Dish
TV's commitment of 'providing wholesome entertainment to every Indian', that translates
into an unbeatable basket of content and value added services and a robust infrastructure
of sales and service to take it to market." Added
Dish TV MD Jawahar Goel: "A strong regional content is one of our strongest
muscles. To ensure the bandwidhth for this width of content, we have recently
acquired two additional satellite transponders. Also, we have adequate capacity
expansion planned for the future."
Dish TV has enhanced its infrastructure
and services in the quarter. "A dealer universe of 30,000 outlets today caters
to consumers across 4300 towns. There are over 10,000 service personnel in the
market, delivering installations and service support to our subscribers. The service
organisation is also supported by 1000 call centre agents speaking 10 different
languages from 7 different locations. Moreover there are service centers across
the country, all in an effort to reach the consumer in the shortest possible time,
if the need arises," the company said in a statement. Dishtv
has content strength of 170 channels, adding eight channels in the quarter.
Dish TV CEO Arun Kapoor said, "We are poised for an explosive growth;
and we will set the rules that will define the category in the country. The last
quarter has been driven by consumer offers that helped us acquire 180,000 new
subscribers helping us to retain dominant market leadership. This reinforces our
connect with the consumers in terms of brand preference. This also supports our
belief that increasingly large parts of the country are choosing to go digital
on the Dish platform. These offers that we have rolled out over the past quarter
have enthralled consumers with their great value for money proposition as well
as helped us build awareness and usage of our unique services like sports active,
movie on demand and regional content. Further, we have also enhanced our ground
presence through substantial aggregation of company warehouses, distributors and
dealers across markets, thereby increasing our speed to market." | 
