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  • Century Communication launches 2nd post production studio Pixion II in Mumbai

    Century Communication launches 2nd post production studio Pixion II in Mumbai

    MUMBAI: Century Communication Limited (CCL), an integrated media & entertainment company surges ahead with its launch of its second state-of–the-art post production studio, ‘Pixion II’ in Mumbai.

    The Pixion brand of CCL has established itself as a clear market leader in the video space and is one of the dominant industry players in the film post production market.

    The existing Pixion’s state-of-the-art post production facilities provide end to end digital post production solutions to film and video production houses. It provides complete solutions ranging from offline to online Processing, graphics and digital sound.

    With the new launch, Pixion boasts of being the biggest post production facilitator in Mumbai market. It has added two more grading facilities, four more online smokes, one IQ, two EQ, 4-5 offline suites and more than forty visual effects & animation stations. Pixion studios introduces IQ in India making it the holder of the largest concentration of Quantel systems in India.

    Quantel’s generationQ is a radical, all-encompassing, new concept that offers total scalability in both hardware and software across post production, graphics and broadcast for multiple resolutions, team-working production environments.

    Commenting on the launch of Pixion II, CEO Pixion Naresh Malik said, “The post production industry is rapidly growing and the demand for post production, DI and visual effects is increasing at an enormous rate. With the second facility in Mumbai we ensure to meet this demand and also provide world class infrastructure and talent to Indian and international film makers.”

    “With advance technology, state of art infrastructure and a commitment to create international benchmarks Pixion offers the best in both talent and technology “, said Director CCL Anand Tewari.

    “We are very optimistic about the Pixion brand and plan to set up studios in other markets like Hyderabad and Chennai too”, he further added.

  • Century Communication buys out ex-UTV Mishra’s 30% stake in Pearl Media

    Century Communication buys out ex-UTV Mishra’s 30% stake in Pearl Media

    MUMBAI: Delhi-based Century Communication Limited (CCL) has bought out ex-UTV Anil Mishra’s 30 per cent stake in Pearl Media for an undisclosed amount.

    Pearl Media will now become a division of the company. “Earlier Pearl Media was functioning as a subsidiary of CCL. We have bought out Mishra’s stake,” CCL chairman PK Tewari tells Indiantelevision.com. CCL will consolidate its air-time sales, TV software, outdoor media and radio ad sales businesses under the umbrella of Pearl Media.

    CCL had joined hands with Mishra in 2004 after he quit UTV as COO of air-time sales and syndication. Pearl Media was formed to start the ad sales business with particular focus on Sun TV’s group of channels. Pearl Media since then has grown to a turnover of Rs 700 million, handling 15 shows on Sun Network and two on Doordarshan.

    “I have sold my stake and parted ways with CCL,” says Mishra who functioned as CEO of Pearl Media.

    A new team is now being put in place with Sanjay Reddy roped in from Walt Disney to head Pearl Media.

    CCL, which posted a turnover of Rs 1.5 billion for the fiscal 2005-06, has recently ventured into the FM sector and has bagged nine radio licenses in various cities across India. The company is targeting Rs 2 billion this fiscal. Apart from ad sales business through Pearl Media, CCL is into post production under the brand name of Pixion.