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  • Discovery World HD adds Hindi, Tamil, Telugu feeds

    Discovery World HD adds Hindi, Tamil, Telugu feeds

    MUMBAI: Discovery World HD is leaving no stone unturned to tap into India’s growing regional phenomenon. It has started Hindi, Tamil and Telugu language feeds for specific markets. Discovery seems to be targeting the mass audience with the three largely spoken languages in the country.

    Discovery Communications India vice-president and head premium and digital networks Zulfia Waris told Indiantelevision.com, “We are delighted to add three new feeds. The introduction of local languages is an attempt to further solidify our leadership position in key markets across the country.”

    The service has started on Intelsat20 @68.5 degree East satellite. The language feed will be available on all the cable and DTH platforms that have Discovery HD World in their bouquet of channels. The user the language feeds through the audio option button.

    At present, Discovery operates several factual entertainment channels in India, including Discovery HD World, Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Science, Discovery Turbo, Discovery Kids and Dsport. The network’s recently launched GEC, Discovery Jeet, has feeds in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu as well.

    There are over 270 regional channels out of 500 channels overall in BARC. The regional viewership is higher than the Hindi viewership and has a market share of 47 per cent.

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  • Scripps Network not to renew deal with Netflix

    Scripps Network not to renew deal with Netflix

    MUMBAI: Two popular channels are leaving the house of Netflix. Scripps Network Interactive has announced that it will not renew its deal with the streaming service which will expire by the end of this year.

    With this, HGTV and Food Network’s content shows like Fixer Upper, Chopped, House Hunters, Food Network Star, Worst Cooks in America, Flip or Flop, and Property Brothers will no longer be available on the streaming service.

    Additionally, shows from the Travel Channel, the DIY channel, and the Cooking Channel will also be removed from Netflix at the end of 2016. The two companies struck a licensing deal in October 2014 that allowed the streaming service to offer some of its shows such as Man Versus Food and Chopped.

    All these programs have been available on Netflix since October 2014, however, there will be no new episodes added to the streaming service and all the previous ones will be removed.

    According to reports, Scripps Network chief operating officer Buton Jablin, recently announced that the company would part ways with Netflix at the end of this year. After assessing and analyzing the SVOD space they have come to this decision of not expanding their agreement with Netflix past the end of this year. He opined that it is not the kind of dual revenue model that best monetizes their content over the long term.

    The company’s other COO executive Ken Lowe has also expressed her opinions on the same and has stated that Scripps Network Interactive is big enough, and does not want to shackle itself with the obligation of a streaming partnership with Netflix. She believes that Scripps has a lot of opportunities and with such a compelling content for advertisers; it certainly does not want to cut them off.

  • Scripps Network not to renew deal with Netflix

    Scripps Network not to renew deal with Netflix

    MUMBAI: Two popular channels are leaving the house of Netflix. Scripps Network Interactive has announced that it will not renew its deal with the streaming service which will expire by the end of this year.

    With this, HGTV and Food Network’s content shows like Fixer Upper, Chopped, House Hunters, Food Network Star, Worst Cooks in America, Flip or Flop, and Property Brothers will no longer be available on the streaming service.

    Additionally, shows from the Travel Channel, the DIY channel, and the Cooking Channel will also be removed from Netflix at the end of 2016. The two companies struck a licensing deal in October 2014 that allowed the streaming service to offer some of its shows such as Man Versus Food and Chopped.

    All these programs have been available on Netflix since October 2014, however, there will be no new episodes added to the streaming service and all the previous ones will be removed.

    According to reports, Scripps Network chief operating officer Buton Jablin, recently announced that the company would part ways with Netflix at the end of this year. After assessing and analyzing the SVOD space they have come to this decision of not expanding their agreement with Netflix past the end of this year. He opined that it is not the kind of dual revenue model that best monetizes their content over the long term.

    The company’s other COO executive Ken Lowe has also expressed her opinions on the same and has stated that Scripps Network Interactive is big enough, and does not want to shackle itself with the obligation of a streaming partnership with Netflix. She believes that Scripps has a lot of opportunities and with such a compelling content for advertisers; it certainly does not want to cut them off.