Tata Sky eyes 8 mn subscribers

Tata Sky is eyeing a subscriber base of 8 million by 2011 as against 1.5 million now.

"We are targeting 8 million subscribers by 2011. We crossed 1.5 million subscriber base on Tuesday," Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Vikram Kaushik said .

He said the company has invested over Rs 1,000 crore in the business so far.

Direct-to-home television service provider Tata Sky is an 80:20 joint venture between the Tata group and STAR TV.