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Rajshri Media Launches Tamil Content - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 21 Jan 2008 10:04 PM PST

Video content portal Rajshri Media has added Tamil films and TV shows to its bouquet of content. The service was launched on Jan 14th, around the festive season of Pongal.…

Dish TV In Talks For DTH Services With Indian Railways - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 20 Jan 2008 08:38 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] There appears to be competition for Mobile TV, from DTH. According to this ET report, Essel Group owned Dish TV is in talks with the Indian Railways…

Kreeda Ties Up With NDTV Imagine For Nachle Ve
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 20 Jan 2008 07:56 PM PST

Can’t say we didn’t see this coming: Kreeda Games has tied up with NDTV Imagine for their dance show ‘Nachle Ve’, reports exchange4media. This is for their massively multiplayer online…

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World Sport Group Pays $1 Billion For IPL Rights - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 15 Jan 2008 12:58 AM PST

The Indian Premier League (IPL), the Twenty20 league being formulated by the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI), has sold media rights to the World Sport Group (WSG)…

Star India In Distribution JV With Digital Entertainment Networks - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 14 Jan 2008 09:24 PM PST

STAR India and Digital Entertainment Networks (DEN) have formed a 50:50 joint venture to distribute television content using IPTV, MMDS (Wireless Cable), DTH and HITS, reports Television Point. Variety adds…

Endemol Plans More Interactive Shows For TV In India - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 08 Jan 2008 10:37 PM PST

Well, looks like Canaan funded Cellcast has competition: TV production company Endemol is set to introduce Call TV that uses text messaging and phone calls for revenue generation, reports Mint.…

Power Grid In Talks For Entertainment And Internet Services - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 08 Jan 2008 04:34 AM PST

This is interesting: The state-run Power Grid Corporation of India has said that it is in talks with a consortium of Cable Operators to provide TV, Internet and entertainment services…

YOU Telecom Acquires Bangalore Based Cable Operator To Enter Cable TV Business
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 07 Jan 2008 01:22 AM PST

YOU Telecom, a Internet Service Provider in which Citigroup Venture Capital has majority stake, is entering the Cable TV business by acquiring 50 percent stake in Digital Infotainment, a Banglore…

VSNL Partners With Marshall Media For VOD - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 19 Dec 2007 02:54 AM PST

While several video content firms are busy tying up with local content providers, our very own VSNL has gone one step ahead and decided to deliver HD quality ‘American Infotainment’.…

Shemaroo And B4U Provide Content To Tinselvision; Non-Exclusive Content As A Differentiator - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 25 Nov 2007 09:16 PM PST

After a tie-up with Yash Raj Films, video-on-demand startup Tinselvision has inked a distribution deal with Shemaroo Entertainment. The deal gives Tinselvision non-exclusive rights to distribute around 100 films (including…

Tinselvision Gets Second Round Funding Of Over $3 Million - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 19 Nov 2007 09:08 PM PST

A fresh influx of more than $3 million in funding for Tinselvision, a video-on-demand (VoD) service targeting South Asian communities in the US, UK and Canada, has been led by…

Report: PE Players Looking To Exit Nimbus - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 06 Nov 2007 03:53 AM PST

Investors in Nimbus Communications, including private equity players like 3i and some of its promoters are planning to exit the company, reports Economic Times. Nimbus Chairman Harish Thawani has told…

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…

NDTV Provides Content For SingTel’s mioTV service - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 02 Nov 2007 11:26 PM PST

NDTV has struck a deal to provide their news channels - NDTV 24X7 and NDTV Profit - to Singapore based telco SingTel for their pay TV platform ”mio TV”, reports…

Canada’s Super Channel To Showcase Bollywood Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 28 Oct 2007 05:50 PM PST

Canadian viewers will be treated to Bollywood via a new national pay-TV service Super Channel that will hits the airwaves in November with over six channels, including two in high…

Eros To Provide Movies And Music Videos To Joost - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 09 Oct 2007 09:20 PM PST

AIM listed Bollywood producer Eros International has signed a deal to provide over 200 movies and 600 music videos from its catalog to Joost, reports Business of Cinema. Joost had…

Indian Content Sold Overseas Valued At $200 Mln - E&Y - 2 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 09 Oct 2007 08:14 PM PST

The total value of Indian content sold outside India is about $200 million and it could grow over 20 percent every year, according to Ernst & Young’s latest report titled…

TV Roundup:Zodiak TV Eyes 35% Stake In Sol, BBC To Launch Web Site For Intl Consumers, Zoom Revamps - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 09 Oct 2007 08:03 PM PST

-- Indiantelevision.com reports Denmark-based Zodiak Television has agreed to acquire 35 per cent stake in Indian production house Sol. Under the agreement, Zodiak Television World, the distribution arm of Zodiak…

ESS India Eying Acquisitions In TV, Internet, Broadband, Mobile Areas - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Mon 08 Oct 2007 06:36 PM PST

After more than a decade of operations in India, ESPN Start Sports (ESS) now sees acquisitions as key to further growth, reports the Economic Times. The financial daily quotes ESS’s…

Eros Strikes Content Licensing Deals With South-East-Asian Companies - 2 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 07 Oct 2007 07:00 PM PST

London-listed Bollywood film producer Eros International Plc.’s new media unit has signed content licensing deals with leading telecom and on-demand service providers in South East Asia. [via glamsham.com] The company…

DoorDarshan Plans Website For E-Tailing Digitized Content; VoD In The Works - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 03 Oct 2007 09:33 PM PST

Public broadcaster DoorDarshan (DD), which has been in the process of digitizing its archives intends to create a website to sell DVDs of its archival content online. However, they may…

Neo Sports To Webcast India-Australia Series - 9 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 27 Sep 2007 09:45 PM PST

Neo Sports has announced that it will provide video on demand (VoD) and live streaming services on their website Neosports.tv, reports Business Standard. They intend to begin with the India-Australia…

Monsoon Multimedia Sued In US Over GPL Violation; Already In Talks To Settle Out Of Court - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 25 Sep 2007 10:25 AM PST

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has filed a copyright infringement suit in the US against Noida headquartered Monsoon Multimedia, alleging a violation of the GNU General Public Licence version…

Qualcomm Eyes 2010 For Launch Of Mobile TV Service - 3 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 19 Sep 2007 06:57 PM PST

Nikhil’s written quite a bit on Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) MediaFLO versus Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) DVB-H mobile TV technologies, with readers offering insightful comments on the two rival technologies. Just adding…

UT Starcom To Offer IPTV Solution To Bharti Airtel - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Mon 17 Sep 2007 05:52 PM PST

Networking services provider UT Starcom is set provide its IPTV solution to telecom major Bharti Airtel. [via Economic Times] The RollingStream solutions—an end-to-end Internet Protocol Television solution—will allow Bharti to…