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  • Zee cries foul over game show ‘HouZee’

    Zee cries foul over game show ‘HouZee’

    MUMBAI: Zee TVs mobile interactive game show HouZee debuted on 7 Agust (Sunday) in a controversial manner with the channel alleging that vested interest tried “sabotaging” the programme by hitting the all-important communication lines.

    “Just ahead of the show around mid-day today, we got a call from Tata Indicom (a telecom service prover that has leased ISDN lines for the Zee show) informing us that the cable connecting the Mumbai studio to the telecom company’s facility in Lower Parel area had been physically chopped off,” Zee Telefilms vice-president Ashish Kaul said.

    A police complaint has been filed in Mumbai by the telecom company that owns the communication cable.

    Thankfully, Zee had a backup ready at its facility on the outskirts of Delhi and the show continued being on air with viewer participation.

    The HouZee format has viewers participating in the game show via SMS through mobile phones sitting in their homes. The show is hosted by Jaaved Jafferi.

    Pointing out that it was a “clear case of sabotage” by competition (that was not specified), Kaul said that from 8 am to 2 pm on Sunday people were unable to send SMS through any of the telecom partners’ services to Zee’s universal access code of 7575.

    “Whenever people tried to send an SMS, all the cellular services showed a technical error continuously for about six hours,” Kaul added.

    The telecom partners for HouZee are Spice Telecom, AirTel, Reliance and Hutch. The show is also simultaneously telecast on Play TV, another Zee group venture that went on air early this year.

    Zee, however, has not named anybody specifically in its complaint, but is still assessing the damage that the hacked cable has caused to the game show today.

    Interestingly, Star Plus had alleged that its signals from Asisat 3 had got blacked out for some time last month on a day when Zee TV’s much-hyped thriller Time Bomb had debuted.

    Telecast every Sunday at noon on Zee TV and Play TV, HouZee is a show where viewers too can play live a numbers game along with the host by sending SMS.

    Viewers participate and play for the various prize levels like Jaldi 5, Jaldi7, Any line, Any two lines and the Full House where big money could be won.

    The show is a skill based game wherein the viewer has to answer a general knowledge question before and after winning a prize level. Jaaferi engages the audiences and announces the numbers. Winners are also invited to appear in future shows.

  • Beehive Systems receives first sales order from Middle East

    Beehive Systems receives first sales order from Middle East

    MUMBAI: Beehive Systems, a software and solutions company focusing on the broadcast industry, has set its foot in the Middle East. The multi-national company, which has a development center in India, has received its first sales order from Procast FZ LLC, a Dubai-based broadcasting company.

    The order includes Beehive’s digital newsgathering solutions – vid’link and vid’linkMOBILE; a complete graphics creation and data automation solution called isle’wiz and an interactive SMS-TV custom solution called mobile2TV.

    The customer will be using vid’link for newsgathering from across bureaus. The system will enable the channel to send live as well as store and forward video clips over leased line networks.

    The laptop-based mobile newsgathering equipment, vid’linkMOBILE will be deployed by the client at remote locations for store and forward video transfer over non-conventional mediums like ISDN, dial up internet connections, etc. The advanced code used in the system compresses the video almost 70 per cent more efficiently than other compression standards without compromising on the quality.

    The graphics content creation and automation solution, isle’wiz, will be used to automatically create, manage and play out graphics in Arabic. This tool also enables real-time integration of the graphics with data sources and display across multiple zones on the screen without the need for any programming.

    Mobile2TV, the fourth application, will allow the broadcaster to build in interactivity in television programmes by integrating viewers’ mobile messages with video display. This allows viewers the benefits of on-air chat.

  • Broadcast software solution provider Beehive Systems enters Middle East

    MUMBAI: Noida headquartered software solutions and services company Beehive Systems, which caters to the broadcast industry worldwide, has received its first sales order from the Middle East from Procast FZ LLC, a Dubai-based broadcasting company.

    The order includes Beehive’s digital newsgathering solutions – vid’linkT and vid’linkMOBILET; a complete graphics creation and data automation solution called isle’wizT and an interactive SMS-TV custom solution called mobile2TVT.

    The customer will be using vid’linkT for newsgathering from across bureaus. The system will enable the channel to send live as well as store and forward video clips over leased line networks, said an official release.

    The laptop-based mobile newsgathering equipment, vid’linkMOBILET will be deployed by the client at remote locations for store and forward video transfer over non conventional mediums like ISDN, dial up internet connections, etc. The advanced codec used in vid’link mobileT compresses the video almost 70% more efficiently than other compression standards without compromising on the quality, added the release.

    The graphics content creation and automation solution, isle’wiz, will be used to automatically create, manage and play out graphics in Arabic. This tool also enables real-time integration of the graphics with data sources and display across multiple zones on the screen without the need for any programming.

    Other features of isle’wiz include generation of live multilingual tickers (including Arabic), creation of libraries of elements (text, images and animations) to drag and drop into the scene, sequencing the display of graphics based on timelines. The fourth application – mobile2TV – will permit the broadcaster to build in interactivity in television programmes by integrating viewers’ mobile messages with video display. This allows viewers the benefits of on-air chat.