New Channel Video-on-demand service & Catch-up TV on Tata Sky soon

Direct-to-home satellite television service provider Tata Sky is set to launch two services that none of its competitors is offering in the country, allowing its subscribers to watch content on demand and to download TV shows after they have been broadcast.

Tata Sky aims to double its private recorder base over the next two years following this initiative, says chief executive officer Harit Nagpal.

While the company has a total subscriber base of about eight million, market sources peg the number of those with private recorder at about 400,000.

Video-on-demand (VoD) service, aimed at subscribers of both its regular and high-definition services, will allow users to choose from nearly 1,000 titles comprising Bollywood and foreign flicks, among other content across languagesThe next recession will likely come two years into President Donald Trump's tenure, according to market strategist Ed Yardeni.

In a new note, Yardeni wrote that he is now more certain about his call, originally published after Election Day.

It's based upon a five-decade analysis of economic recoveries. He argues that since 1965, the past five cycles of economic expansion have averaged 65 months — about 5½ years. The current expansion began in November 2013, and will find its end 65 months later, in March 2019. Such analysis came from coincident economic indicators; in this case, Yardeni isolated recoveries and expansions.

The president of Yardeni Research concedes that he is in fact looking at this timeline as a benchmark, rather than a forecast, based on the evidence from the past five