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  • Sony shifts Sab to PAS 10 as part of 2nd pay bouquet

    MUMBAI: After acquiring Sab TV, SET-Discovery’s One Alliance has made the humour-centric channel a part of the platform’s second pay bouquet.

    As part of this move, the channel has been shifted to PanAmSat 10, the satellite from which all Sony’s channels are broadcast, and is beaming as an encrypted feed. Currently, Sab is also available on its old position at AsiaSat 3 as a free-to-air channel, the dual feed will stop once Sab TV’s contract with AsiaSat expires in early June.
     

    “Sab TV has already joined the pay bouquet of One Alliance. It will strengthen our second bouquet. The decoder boxes are currently being seeded in the market,” says SET India chief operating officer NP Singh.

    One Alliance’s second bouquet, priced at Rs 38 a month, will have an upward rate revision, says a source. The price is not decided yet but an announcement is expected before May-end. Singh, however, did not wish to comment on whether the rate of the second bouquet will go up.
     
     

    One Alliance’s second bouquet includes Ten Sports, MTV, Nick, Discovery Travel & Living, Animax and the NDTV channels. It will be up against Zee-Turner’s new bouquet of Pogo, HBO, Vh1, Zee Business and Awaaz priced at Rs 25 (retail price to the consumer is Rs 40) and Star India’s offerings at Rs 22 for the two Disney channels, Star One and Hungama TV.

    Already showing movies on weekends, Sony plans to position Sab TV as a “humour and light entertainment” channel without deviating from its male skew audience base. Reality and game shows are also being lined up, though a complete fix on the channel’s programming will be finalised in the next few months.

    “We will have a variety of entertainment shows. Our initial programming focus will be on the 8-10 pm band. Gradually, we will expand it to 11 pm,” says Singh.
     

  • Sony elated as DD agrees to stop beaming off PAS-10

    MUMBAI: DD Sports will stop beaming the Indo-Pakistan series via PAS-10 satellite from midnight, following strong protests from Sony.

    As the footprint of PAS-10 spreads across Europe and the Middle East, Sony argued that the DD Sports spillover as an unencrypted free to air channel would affect its commercial interests as it had paid $11.5 to acquire the international telecast rights.
     

    Instead, DD Sports will beam from Insat 2E so that the coverage of the cricket matches do not reach markets outside India. “We made a request to the BCCI.. DD Sports has agreed not to beam from PAS-10,” says SET India CEO Kunal Dasgupta.

    Sony had sold to Ten Sports the satellite telecast rights for the Middle East and Pakistan territories for $2.5 million.
     
     

    Prasar Bharati CEO KS Sarma admitted that cable operators had been informed to receive signals from Insat 2E. “BCCI made a request yesterday that we remove DD Sports from the PAS-10 satellite as the footprint of the channel spreads across 146 countries. We have agreed to do this but it will take time for the cable operators to react,” he says.

    Cable operators admitted that they have been intimated by DD Sports to make the necessary switchover. “We have been told that the channel would be available on Insat and not PAS-10,” says a source in Hathway Cable & Datacom.

  • CMM Broadcasting posts slim profits for JQ 2002-3, shifts to PAS-10, reaches the UK

    CMM Broadcasting posts slim profits for JQ 2002-3, shifts to PAS-10, reaches the UK

    MUMBAI: CMM Broadcasting Network, the company that runs the CMM music channel and faith channel Aastha, has declared a net profit of Rs 2,97,000 for the JQ 2002-3, up a whopping 37 per cent from the figure of Rs 2,17,000 for the corresponding period last year.

    Net sales from operations have increased 8 per cent to Rs 12.57 million up from Rs 11.58 million, total income has gone up marginally by 1 per cent from Rs 18.07 million to Rs 17.88 million. The company’s staff costs have risen considerably, from Rs 4,62,000 last year to Rs 7,73,000 in the quarter just ended. But tight control over other expenditure has enabled it to show a rise in its net.

    CMM, the company’s digital free to air music channel and Aastha have recently shifted to PAS 10, says the company. Earlier available in 156 countries globally, Aastha and CMM are now available in an additional four countries, the important addition being UK, home probably the largest Indian diaspora. 

    The changeover will enable CMM Broadcasting Network to fulfill the longstanding demands of Indian-descent UK residents, says the management. Though available as a free-to-air channel there currently, it is slated to become a pay service over time. 

    PanAmSat’s fleet of spacecraft will also enable Aastha reach viewers in the USA too shortly, says the channel.