Dish TV has received a demand notice from the government for payment of Rs 4,164.05 crore, which includes licence fee and interest. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) through a letter dated December 24, 2020 asked the Essel group firm to pay the said sum towards licence fee from the period from the date of issuance of DTH licence till the financial year 2018-19.
Dish TV is India's largest Direct to Home television operator using MPEG 4 DVB S2 and MPEG 2 digital compression technology.