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  • Playboy TV Intl, Private Media Group merge to form Private Spice

    Playboy TV Intl, Private Media Group merge to form Private Spice

    MUMBAI: Private Media Group and adult entertainment firm Playboy TV International have signed a five-year agreement in Europe to form a new channel called Private Spice.

    The two parties will merge their two adult pay TV channels, Private Gold and Spice Platinum in order to consolidating their market position in Europe.

    Playboy TV International will operate, distribute and market the new channel. Private will provide content, brand and marketing support. Currently, there is little overlap between the two channels and subsequently the new channel will significantly increase the distribution in the region.

    The new channel will offer flexible language tailoring and market localisation. Platforms will now be able to offer their viewers a unique channel developed and serviced by the world’s leading adult television brands, while ensuring professional reliability and continuity.
     

  • Playboy TV eyeing India?

    NEW DELHI: Playboy TV, which generates excitement in people’s minds despite more raunchy stuff easily available in the Indian market, is not only looking at the South East Asian market, but India too, if exploratory talks held with MSOs here are to be believed.

    What’s more, government officials have already been sounded out at a very informal level over whether laws in India would ever permit adult content on television.
     

    A senior government official did admit that “some representative of an adult channel” had inquired a few months ago about the regulatory framework in India relating to such programming and had been informed that, if such things were to be allowed, it “would take time” as “no official file” has been created in the government on allowing adult content on TV yet.

    What could have warmed the cockles of managers of Playboy TV and other such channels is a level of acknowledgement within the Indian government that if the broadcast sector behaves properly, the feasibility of allowing adult content in late hours on TV could be examined. Of course, whether Playboy TV would be ever allowed entry into India in an encrypted or some other form is the stuff of which fancies (and fantasies) are made.
     
     
     

    Considering the lack of political will on such sensitive issues would weaken the resolve of any coalition government, it’s a laudable effort on the part of Playboy TV to even think of bringing to India a diluted version of its channel, which the Indians partly snacked on some years back when a branded blockused to air on a freely distributed Russian channel (TB6) whose distribution in India has been banned since then.

    What Playboy TV is looking at making available is a much diluted form of the channel that is available in other parts of the world. If it were to be granted “Indian entry”, it would be in an encrypted form on a DTH platform or in a regime where it could be monitored from accessibility and content points.

    For starters, no DTH operator in India would risk the business by agreeing to have a Playboy channel on its platform, a CAS regime looks like the only option for Playboy Inc. But this too would be a very limited option as even in an addressable system, existence of Playboy-type channels would be frowned upon here.

    The policy-makers’ resistance in India notwithstanding, Playboy TV is exploring launching a feed for the South East Asian market later this year.

    The feed, of course, would be an ‘edited’ and diluted version of what is available in parts of Europe and the US.
     
  • Playboy TV fined £25,000 in UK for airing porn movie

    Playboy TV fined £25,000 in UK for airing porn movie

    MUMBAI: British media regulator Ofcom has slapped a £25,000 fine on Benelux, owners of Playboy TV, for telecasting a R18 film just after midnight on 1 May, 2004. Ofcom has classified the most explicit of sexual content as R18.

    Commenting on the incident, Ofcom said it was the first time R18 content had been shown on British television. R18 rated content is ruled as “not to be transmitted at any time” under the 1.4 of the programme code of Ofcom.

    Playboy, in its apology, conceded that it broadcast the movie Sandy Babe Abroad which is only allowed to be sold in X-rated cinemas or sex shops. It acknowledged that the action breached Ofcom’s Programme Code.

    Playboy TV UK managing director Jeremy Yates has been quoted as saying, “We accept Ofcom’s decision. It was an error that occurred when we were updating our broadcast facility and that placed a strain on us.”

    The Ofcom investigation was overseen by a board member Kip Meek.

  • Playboy TV brings doc on Hollywood star to Mipcom

    Playboy TV brings doc on Hollywood star to Mipcom

    MUMBAI: Playboy TV International will showcase Rita, a documentary on the life of Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth, at Mipcom 2004. 

    Mipcom, the world’s television and entertainment market, will hold its 20th edition from 4 October to 8 October in Cannes, Paris.
     
     
    Rita unfolds Hollywood sex symbol Hayworth’s turbulent life – personal as well as professional. The documentary is of one-hour duration.
     
     
    The documentary features interviews with Hayworth’s youngest daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, friend Ann Miller and co-stars Tab Hunter and Marc Platt. Rita is produced, written and directed by Elaina Archer.