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All in one XBox Live

Microsoft Corp is all set to unveil the new Xbox Live that will bring Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm services to its gaming device to be launched sometime in November this year. Microsoft is ready to start letting the Xbox Live community get its hands on the Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm features, and to begin  streaming [...]

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Political parties can start TV channels

Virtually rejecting the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai’s) recommendation that disallowed political parties from entering the field of public broadcasting, the government has said there is no such ban on anybody, as long as the stipulated rules are followed. Top official in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said: “There is no ban on anybody… [...]

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Zee Turner appoints Chetan Maniar as digital sales head

Zee Turner, India’s biggest channel distribution company has appointed Chetan Maniar as the Sales Head for its Digital Business. He would lead the CAS, DTH and IP TV verticals. With DTH business set to grow over 20% (CAGR) and the consolidated efforts of cable industry to expand CAS rapidly, digital business is leading the industry growth [...]

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Dedicated TV channel for Railways

Indian Railways could soon have its own dedicated television channel, broadcasting passenger related information and highlighting various other facets of the PSU behemoth, if the suggestion of a railway committee is accepted. “The channel could be run on the lines of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha channels and content developed to bring out various facets of [...]

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Nimbus Bags BCCI TV Rights for another 4 Years

Existing rights holders Nimbus Communications, which owns Neo Cricket and Neo Sports channels, bagged the television rights from the Cricket Board for four more years for a whopping Rs 2000 crore. The decision to award the rights to Nimbus, who will pay the BCCI Rs 31.5 crore per international match – whether it’s a T20 [...]

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Travel Channel Int. gets FIPB nod

The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has given its approval to Travel Channel International (TIC) UK, to set up a wholly-owned Indian subsidiary. The FIPB has allowed the US-based Cox Communications owned channel to undertake downlinking of non news channel with initial foreign investments of Rs 42 million. Meanwhile, as per media reports, Cox is [...]

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Disney-ABC in content deal with Zee

Disney-ABC International Television (DAIT) has for the first time entered into a multi-year deal with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) for first-run content. The multi-year volume deal with The Walt Disney Company’s international distribution arm will provide Zee access to some of the top-rated live action series. Some of the titles from the ABC Studios [...]

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Vijay Mallya plans to combine sports interests into single entity

Vijay Mallya, chairman, United Breweries (UB) Group, plans to combine his sports interests into a single entity and explore a possible listing on the stock exchanges. The proposed entity will combine assets like the Force India Formula-1 team, Royal Challengers Indian Premier League (IPL) team and ownership of football clubs East Bengal and Mohun Bagan. Currently, these [...]

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Ravi Menon quits Star One

Ravi Menon, executive vice-president and general manager, Star One, has called it a day at the Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC). Currently, serving his notice period. Menon has spent almost a decade at Star India, overseeing various channels. One of his primary responsibilities was overseeing the launch of Star One few years back. In 1996, [...]

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Sahara Samay deploys Omneon Platform

As an upgrade exercise for its infrastructure, Sahara Samay TV, the 24-hour multichannel, multilingual news and current affairs broadcaster based in India has  deployed the Omneon platform supporting ingest, production, and playout. Sahara Samay TV, a division of the Sahara group of companies has recently shifted its broadcast operation to Mumbai. For this purpose, the [...]

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