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  • Turner adds three channels on YuppTV’s platform in India

    Turner adds three channels on YuppTV’s platform in India

    NEW DELHI: Turner International India has joined hands with YuppTV to offer three of its channels namely CNN International, Cartoon Network and Pogo in India on the over the top (OTT) platform.

     

    Under the partnership, CNN International is available live to YuppTV viewers with the latest news bulletins from across the globe and the best of features content through award winning programs including CNN Newsroom, Connect the World, International Desk, World Business Today, Amanpour, Business Traveler, Talk Asia and Culinary Journeys. 

     

    YuppTV subscribers also get the best original productions from Turner’s kids’ channels, Cartoon Network and Pogo. While Cartoon Network will offer a four-hour programming block on YuppTV with popular shows such as Ben 10, Johnny Bravo, Adventure Time and Dexter’s Laboratory, Pogo will provide a two-hour programming block with shows like M.A.D. (Music Art Dance), C.I.A. (Cambala Investigation Agency), Sunaina and F.A.Q.

     

    YuppTV CEO Uday Reddy said, “The partnership with Turner and launch of the three popular channels on YuppTV takes us to a new level in providing highest satisfaction to our viewers in India and now, even adding to the delight of the younger generation. The kids’ channels Pogo and Cartoon Network in Hindi will reach out to an unimaginably wider audience than ever before. Launching CNN International on YuppTV is indeed a matter of pride. Our endeavour is to keep our viewers in India and across the globe, entertained, informed and thrilled; and our commitment to technology and innovation is always directed towards achieving this goal.”

     

    Turner International India MD Siddharth Jain added, “Turner has been the frontrunner in embracing content delivery innovations and we ensure that our popular brands are available wherever and whenever the consumer chooses to be entertained.We are happy to partner with YuppTV offering our world-class content to a wider audience in India.”

     

    As was reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, YuppTV, which recently launched its platform in India is planning to raise $50 million to fund its expansion plans.

  • Ditto TV partners with Turner International India

    Ditto TV partners with Turner International India

    Ditto TV, India’s first OTT (Over-The-Top) TV distribution platform from Zee New Media, the digital arm of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel), further strengthened its content offering, by partnering with Turner International India adding three of their globally renowned  channels – CNN International, Cartoon Network and Pogo to its bouquet.

    Ditto TV subscribers will have access to top news stories across the globe via a live feed of CNN International. CNN International’s coverage of news and current affairs will be available via news packages and programs such as Amanpour, Fareed Zakaria GPS and International Desk. Subscribers will also be able to get the latest updates and current trends in global economy, travel, environment, arts and entertainment in the expert voices of CNN anchors and special correspondents including Richard Quest, Philippe Cousteau and Anthony Bourdain.

    Ditto TV launches its kids’ genre with the addition of India’s leading kids’ channels, Cartoon Network and Pogo. Cartoon Network comes with a global legacy of being kids’ favourite cartoon channel and Pogo is currently the reigning kids’ channel in India. The looped feeds of Cartoon Network featuring hit series such as Ben 10, Dexter’s Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, etc. and Pogo featuring popular shows such as M.A.D., F.A.Q., CIA, etc., will treat Ditto TV subscribers to an exciting blend of the best of international and local shows.

    Speaking about the partnership, Ditto TV business head Manoj Padmanabhan said, “Our focus is to offer consumers access to the largest collection of premium content, spread across diverse genres, along with rich on-demand video capabilities. Kids’ programming is a growing genre, and Turner India enjoys a lion’s share of the market. There is an ever- growing appetite for international news amongst Indian consumers and live feed from CNN International will provide consumers instant access to the latest on the digital device of their choice. This partnership will further accentuate the experience of seamless video viewing and we are confident that our customers will enjoy the variety that it brings to the Ditto TV offering.”

    Since its inception in February 2012, Ditto TV has already partnered for content with Multi Screen Media (Sony Entertainment Television), TV Today Network, BBC, ZEE, BIG CBS Love and BIG CBS Prime. Today, Ditto TV offers 60 channels across leading genres and rich on-demand video content.

  • CNN International goes ‘beyond borders’, adorns new logo

    CNN International goes ‘beyond borders’, adorns new logo

    MUMBAI: As part of its two-year network expansion plan, CNN International has unveiled a new logo, backed with refreshed channel sound and graphics and a new tagline that says “go beyond borders”.

    This is for the first time that the network slogan has undergone a chnge since 2001. Formerly, the network’s slogan was “be the first to know”.

    It is pertinent to note here that the new brand positioning is launching simultaneous to the premiere of the network’s flagship property, Amanpour.

    According to the network, “go beyond borders” is an articulation of CNN International’s shared values and commitment to delivering intelligent news in a connected world. The tagline was put together by CNN’s in-house global marketing and creative teams in conjunction with the Boston-based agency Tooth+Nail.

    Said CNN International EVP and managing director Tony Maddox, “Our viewers go beyond borders every day, seeking out intelligent newsgathering on multiple platforms and this tagline will speak directly to their aspirations.”

    Meanwhile, as part of its repositioning spree, CNN International will launch a new programming slate with a total of eight new shows by year-end.

    “2009 has been a defining year for CNN International, with the introduction of an ambitious new programming line-up following on from an expansion of our newsgathering operation as we put original content and multiple perspectives at the heart of our output. A new tagline is the logical next step to cement our brand promise for today’s news consumers,” Maddox added.

  • CNN doc traces the footsteps of Osama bin Laden

    CNN doc traces the footsteps of Osama bin Laden

    MUMBAI: News broadcaster CNN will air a documentary In The Footsteps Of bin Laden on 23 August at 5:30 pm. The two-hour investigation paints a portrait of bin Laden and his transformation from child to man using first-hand accounts of the people who have known him throughout his life.

    From his peaceful teenage years to orchestrating the events on 9/11, viewers are taken on a global journey, tracing the path of bin Laden’s life from his childhood home and school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to his residence in Peshawar, Pakistan, where al-Qaeda was born, and to the mountains of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border where he is being hunted today.

    Using never-before-seen photographs, video and even the minutes of the meeting in which al-Qaeda was created, the special weaves a story of the world’s most notorious terrorist.

    CNN International senior VP Rena Golden says, “In The Footsteps Of bin Laden is a unique insight into the world of a man who is both feared and revered in equal measure around the world. For the first time his life, for so long cloaked in myth and mystery, has been documented by Christiane Amanpour for CNN’s international audience.”

    Filmed in 10 countries on four continents, the documentary features 21 first-person accounts of bin Laden from his relatives, childhood friends, former schoolteacher, co-jihadists, bodyguard and even the wife of an al-Qaeda suicide bomber — many of them breaking their silence for the first time on camera.

    The documentary ties the evolution of bin Laden’s philosophy to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism from the late 1970s through the unique personal perspective of Amanpour.

    “The story of militant Islamic fundamentalism did not begin with September 11,” said Amanpour. “The Islamic Revolution that swept Iran in 1979 and forced the pro-American Shah from power was the first sign that Fundamentalist Islam had awoken as a movement in the Middle East and the entire world continues feeling its shockwaves today.”

    The special is based on the book The Osama bin Laden I Know by CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen. His book offers numerous new details about bin Laden’s transformation from a quiet, well-bred boy to the Western world’s most wanted terrorist. Bergen, an author and a Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., was a CNN producer at the time of the interview with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in March 1997. Bergen, along with others, is featured in the CNN documentary and is credited as a co-producer.