Archive for February, 2010

PM to inaugurate new SUN TV Building on March 13

It seems new building for SUN TV is ready and The prime minister will inaugurate new SUN TV Building on March 13.

Source : Junior Vikatan Magazine.

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Turner completes acquisition, NDTV Imagine becomes Imagine TV

MUMBAI: The ownership of NDTV Imagine Ltd. has changed hands, leading to a name change of the three channels.
The ‘NDTV’ brand will drop out and the channels will be labeled Imagine TV, Lumiere Movies and Imagine Showbiz, following the completion of the acquisition of NDTV Imagine Ltd. by Turner International.

The three channels will be under [...]

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UTV Action associates with Red Bull to kick off Street Style Football in India

MUMBAI: Following the worldwide success of the Red Bull Street Style Football initiative, UTV Action partners with Red Bull to get the same adrenaline rush for India. Keeping the freestyle masterminds on their toes, its time to get up, get back on it and get practicing; as the Red Bull Street Style is back to [...]

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telangana tv channel launched

NEW TELANGANA TV CHANNEL
Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief K Chandrasekhar Rao launched his new TV channel – Telangana TV on January 28.
The aim of the channel is to “Create an awareness among Telangana people on the injustice being meted out to the people here in every field.”
“We have tried to do it with the [...]

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TEN SPORTS acquired by Zee,ZEE SPORTS to be renamed Zee Action?

Hi friends,Ten sports has been acquired by Zee and it will henceforth be the Cricket channel from Zee’s stable.ZEE SPORTS has been planned to rebranded to Zee Action,concentrating on Adventure sports and/or other sports like football and tennis.It is also likely that Ten sports will be rebranded as Ten Cricket.There are also plans to launch [...]

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Bollywood takes on IPL to bat for tv channels

Entertainment channels see a 10 to 30 per cent drop in viewership during prime time because of the cricket mania With the third season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) slated from March, a big chunk of the television audience is expected to tune in to the matches that would take up most of March [...]

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INDIAN DTH

February 2010

INDIAN DTH – 2009

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Indian DTH platforms are currently in their ‘growth phase.’ Their prime focus is to grow the number of subscribers, rather than sell their service at a price that will turn a profit. Clearly, they are all digging deep into their pockets, and their balance sheets are washed in red.
2 Million DTH [...]

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Kalaignar launches their 5th channel

Kalaignar chithiram” new thamil channel from kalaignar group starts transmission!
this is the 5th channel from kalaingnar group

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Raj TV Network to launch Hindi entertainment channel

Chennai: A Hindi entertainment channel by a Tamil Nadu-based satellite channel operator is on the anvil here. Raj Television Network Ltd has started work on launching Hindi channel Raj Parivaar in a couple of months.
“We have started the dry run beaming Hindi movie songs. We are in the process of finalising the kind of programmes [...]

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DTH companies see big money in ad innovation

Meena Pande, a 28-year-old marketing professional, is back from a hard day’s work. A direct-to-home (DTH) subscriber, she switches on her TV set to watch her favourite channel. What greets her, instead, is an advertise

She gets up for some water, and when she comes back, realises that not only is the ad being repeated [...]

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