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  • WWE seeks to expand business with intl broadcasters

    WWE seeks to expand business with intl broadcasters

    MUMBAI: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has unveiled a major initiative intended to utilise its 75,000-hour programming library. The organisation is looking to build the business with its cable, satellite and other worldwide television partners.

    In India WWE action airs on Ten Sports.

    The first step is the launch of WWE 24/7. This is a subscription video-on-demand service that will feature pay-per-view, cable and syndicated broadcast content, best-selling home videos, new original productions and proprietary broadband, from the WWE and other acquired US wrestling brands. A recently launched in-house business development unit, WWE Enterprises, will work directly with MSOs, affiliates and satellite providers to create, customise and cross-promote these new revenue-generating services.

    WWE chairman Vince McMahon was quoted in a company release saying, “WWE is ready to move even more aggressively into the digital age by providing new services that will fit with the active lifestyles of our fans and meet their demand for new and innovative content. Our fans want more WWE and classic sports entertainment programming, and we have demonstrated our track record of providing content of the highest quality and value. I am confident we can move into this new distribution platform for television as successfully as we have for syndication, cable, broadcast and PPV.”

    WWE 24/7 has been positioned as ‘Wrestling Any Time, All the Time’. The release adds that over the past three years, WWE has aggregated its content by strategically acquiring the libraries of other national and regional promoters, including the now defunct WCW, ECW and AWA. This has resulted in an archive of more than 75,000 hours of programming content, 25,000 of which was previously aired or released as finished product.

    WWE 24/7 will make available approximately 20 hours of content per month. Customised broadband content will be created for MSOs websites and other distributors promoting the new offering. WWE also anticipates providing content on a free-on-demand promotional basis to spur the trial period and help its partners promote these new services. In addition, library content will be made available selectively for existing television partners worldwide.

  • B4U’s VP legal among AMA award finalists

    MUMBAI: Another women achiever has been recognised as first amongst equals! B4U Television Network vice president legal Rina Nameirakpam Barua has been selected as one of four finalists in the business woman of the year – corporate award, part of the prestigious Asian Women of Achievement (AWA) awards 2003. The final awards ceremony and dinner will be held on 8 May 2003 in London.
    As head of legal at B4U digital TV corporation, Nameirakpam manages and looks after all legal elements of the company including general business matters, documentation and legal audit of contracts and deals, carriage and digital platform issues, employment, trademarks, copyright infringement and other aspects of media law.
    Commenting on the occasion, a B4U spokesperson was quoted as saying: “Rina deserves to be recognized and rewarded for the invaluable contributions she has to the fabric of our organization and the corporate world, and we here at B4U are very proud of her being nominated for the awards.”
    A press release states that the Asian Women Achievement Awards have been set up to recognize the immense accomplishments of unsung heroines within the Asian community as well in the commercial, professional, artistic and humanitarian sectors. The awards are given to an individual thriving in corporate Britain who has made, and is making, a significant contribution to the success of their organisation.
    Now in their fourth year, the awards acknowledge individual effort; provide role models for, and give inspiration to, Asian women from all walks of life; and raise awareness outside the Asian community of the outstanding qualities of Asian women in this country. They acknowledge and celebrate the individual efforts of Asian women from all over the country and from all walks of life.
    Asian women achievers in Britain are eligible to enter any one of the following seven award categories: the arts and culture award; the social and humanitarian award; business woman of the year – corporate; entrepreneur of the year, media professional of the year, professional of the year, young achiever of the year and the chairman’s awards.
    The release adds that this year’s presentation ceremony will take place on Thursday, 8 May 2003 at the London Hilton on Park Lane and will be hosted by comedienne and actress Nina Wadia.
    The star-studded awards ceremony has historically attracted many well-known, high profile guests including Clive Anderson, Imran and Jemima Khan, Lisa Aziz, Lord and Lady Paul, Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber, Martin Bashir, Meera Syal MBE and Shakira Caine, adds the release.