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Sony Entertainment Television Sells 32 Pc Stake To BK Modi For $320 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 11 May 2008 09:45 PM PST

Multi Screen Media, the company formerly known as Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television, has sold 32 percent stake to the BK Modi group for $320 million, report Variety and NDTV.…

Sony Ties Up With 13 Indian Developers For PS2 Games - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 23 Apr 2008 11:15 PM PST

Despite the advent of the powerful-but-expensive PS3, Sony (NYSE: SNE) appears to be keen on making the most of the success of the PS2 in India. There are around 325,000…

Pyramid Saimira Owned Aurona To Develop Game On Hanuman For PS2 - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 20 Apr 2008 10:39 PM PST

Pyramid Saimira has informed the BSE that Aurona Technologies, a company that they had acquired earlier this year, has entered into an agreement with Sony (NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment Europe…

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MSM To End FY08 With $50 Million Loss; Settles Dispute With Shareholders - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 01 Apr 2008 07:06 AM PST

The Cricket World Cup debacle appears to have Multi Screen Media (formerly, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television) hard: the company is going to end the fiscal year with a negative…

@FICCI Frames: BCCI And MSM Planning A Fantasy Cricket League Around IPL; Bearish On Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 25 Mar 2008 01:45 AM PST

This is big: responding to ContentSutra’s question about MultiScreen Media’s upcoming New Media Initiatives, CEO Kunal Dasgupta said that the company is working with the Board of Control for Cricket…

@FICCI Frames: Kunal Dasgupta, CEO of Multisceen Media Pitches E-Sports Coverage - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 24 Mar 2008 10:33 PM PST

Kunal Dasgupta, CEO of Multiscreen Media (formerly - Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television) spoke about an interesting change of strategy from the film Jab We Met, which helped reduce the…

Updated: Sony Denies Zapak Buying SOE - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sat 22 Dec 2007 10:55 PM PST

Updated: So much for this, and as we said below, our sources also denied a deal: Sony (NYSE: SNE) is denying any such sale: “Sony Online Entertainment is not for…

SET Renamed Multi-Screen Media; Dressing Up Before A Sale? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 21 Dec 2007 12:21 AM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television (SET) has been renamed Multi Screen Media (MSM), a move which CEO Kunal Dasgupta told IndianTelevison reflects a change in company’s strategy. SET intends to…

Sony Manufacturing Games In India To Bring Prices Down; Sells 8000 Consoles A Month - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 26 Nov 2007 09:16 PM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) sells around 8000 consoles a month in India, and the country has around 300,000 PS2 consoles, and 90,000 PSPs, reports Sify. The company has also started manufacturing…

PE Funds Apparently Eying 32 Percent Stake In Sony Entertainment Television - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 05 Nov 2007 10:54 PM PST

Warburg Pincus, Blackstone and Standard Chartered Private Equity are among the Private Equity players looking to buy the 32 percent stake in Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television reports ET. Sony…

Sony Launches Singstar Bollywood For PS2 - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 24 Oct 2007 11:35 PM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) appear to have synchronized their gaming console announcements for India: While MS announced the launch of xBox Live (details here), Sony announced the…

Zee Moots Concept Of Universal Broadcaster For Mobile TV In India; Wants MediaFLO Barred - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 23 Oct 2007 08:52 PM PST

The Zee group has come out all guns blazing on the issue of allocation of licenses and spectrum for Mobile TV in India. The group has told the TRAI in…

70 Million SMS’ And $5.25 Million For Indian Idol Final? - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 25 Sep 2007 02:28 AM PST

There’s no way of verifying these numbers, but Rediff (NSDQ: REDF) reports that in the final nine days of the show Indian Idol, the finalists received 70 Million SMS’, amounting…

Sony Co Provides Content For Digital Distribution To Proposed BPCL Theatres - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 20 Sep 2007 10:38 PM PST

Seems very strange, but Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) is setting up cinema halls at its highway fuel stations. Cinemata, a Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television company will be providing…

At Indian Idol, It’s A Volume Game
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 13 Sep 2007 12:29 AM PST

“The mountains are raging”, says Pradip Pradhan, secretary of Indian Idol contestant Prashant Tamang’s fan club. A businessman has offered Rs. 1 crore to the singers campaign. People are going…

Mobile TV Revenues Currently Weak, Costs High - Sony Pictures Entertainment - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 04 Sep 2007 01:57 AM PST

There’s not much money in the mobile TV business for now, according to Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) Networks Asia’s General Manager Ricky Ow. [via Indiantelevision.com] SPE’s AXN channel offers customised…

Sony Cuts PS2 Prices In India - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 27 Aug 2007 02:39 AM PST

Sony India has cut prices of its PlayStation 2 console, which will now retail at Rs. 6990, reports Techgadgets. This allows the company to target a segment that can’t yet…

Virgin Comics’ Ramayana 3392 AD To Be Made Into A Game By Sony Online Entertainment - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 09 Aug 2007 12:27 AM PST

Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has acquired rights for a videogame based on “Ramayan 3392 AD” from Virgin Comics, a company started by Deepak Chopra, Shekhar Kapur and Richard Branson, reports…

SET, STAR And Saregama Have All Sent Legal Notices To YouTube - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 16 Jul 2007 05:08 AM PST

So after T-Series, Sony Entertainment Television, STAR India and Saregama joins the ranks of those who’ve now publicly declared that they’ve sent legal notices to YouTube, asking the online video…