Zee Group chairman Subhash Chandra today dismissed industry speculation that the government was about to ease the restrictions on DTH broadcast in India.

Speaking on the sidelines of a media briefing announcing the go-ahead of his Agrani satellite project, Chandra said he did not see DTH happening anytime soon.

There has been some speculation that the information & broadcasting ministry, in conjunction with the communications and IT ministry and the Prime Minister's Office, is likely to soon raise the FDI bar to 49 per cent from the current 20 per cent in DTH ventures. Other anomalies in the DTH policy announced last year like cross media restrictions were also supposed to go.