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  • Zee Lamhe is the third most viewed Asian Channel in UK

    Zee Lamhe is the third most viewed Asian Channel in UK

    MUMBAI: Lamhe proves its popularity as it comes in as third most viewed Asian channel in the UK in the latest round of BARB ratings.

     

    The channel that was launched in the UK market in the mid-2013 has made its own place among viewers with its unique offerings. And the recent BARB rating just affirms that. Lamhe beat many other longer standing channels and programmes and even boasted the top most viewed slots across various times of the day amongst all channels.

     

    The channel reaches an audience of over half a million each week, showcasing only the best of South-Asian entertainment, free, with classic Dramas, Bollywood Classics, lifestyle, travel, cookery and more. This offering is popular across a broad range of the audiences, with many of its slots topping amongst a young audience aged 16-34 years. The channel’s top show on 6 Jan was Astitva, attracting almost 50,000 viewers per minute at prime time 9:30pm, with over 25 per cent of these viewers being from the young age band.

     

    Free-To-Air Channels business head Archana Kanade said in a release: “Lamhe has been successful in offering to today’s audience a viewing experience that they do not find elsewhere. For Lamhe to consistently come out top at certain time slots week on week is a tough feat in today’s saturated TV market. Many channels today have one-off properties that help them to gather their audience numbers, whereas Lamhe’s schedule draws in viewers throughout the day and across various shows.”

     

    The line-up of the month includes critically-acclaimed shows including Amanat, Hasratein and Malgudi Days as well as classics celebrating the all-time sizzling actresses of Bollywood – such as Babita, Madhuri Dixit, Dimple Kapadia, Sridevi – on weekend movies at 7:30pm. Viewers can also watch out for new additions to the channel.

     

    Lamhe is free to enjoy on Sky 798 and is also available on Virgin Media 811. It has also recently launched on Freeview channel 53 in the Manchester region.

  • Big B is the undisputed king on Twitter among Bwood celebs

    Big B is the undisputed king on Twitter among Bwood celebs

    MUMBAI: In his career spanning more than four decades, no actor has been able to surpass the craze of Amitabh Bachchan. And now the shehansha of Bollywood seems to be ruling the social-media space as well. According to the “Bollywood Twitter Index”, a social media analytics report released by To The New, a leading digital services ecosystem in India, AB has been crowned the undisputed king of Twitter among his Bollywood counterparts.

    The report is based on a research by ThoughtBuzz, the social media analytics’ arm of To The New. The Bollywood Twitter Index reveals that Amitabh Bachchan continued to reign over the micro-blogging site with the highest number of followers, clocking a growth of 87 per cent over the last year, followed by the Khan-brigade – Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan. Making an appearance at number five, Priyanka Chopra is the only actress in the top five Indian movie celebrities’ list.

    Despite gaining the maximum number of followers over the last one year with 151 per cent increase, Bollywood’s Dhak-Dhak girl, Madhuri Dixit narrowly missed making it to the list this year. She was nudged out by B-town fashionista, Sonam Kapoor, who hung on to the number 10 position with an 87 per cent increase in followers since last year.

    Other significant gainers include Akshay Kumar with a 99 per cent increase and Deepika Padukone with an 82 per cent increase in the number of followers over the last year.

    One of the most interesting things to note is that despite being virtually inactive, Aamir Khan has continued to attract fans, having amassed nearly two lakh new followers in the last two months. Aamir’s only tweets in the current year are about narration of his experience of meeting David Cameron, Prime Minister of United Kingdom and #ThankYouSachin during the cricketer’s last test match in Mumbai.

    Other revelations that the study makes: Around 27 percent conversations that Bollywood celebrities indulge in on Twitter are about promoting their work or films; around 24 per cent of the tweets are about their personal experiences or general interactions with their fans; the rest of the Twitterverse discussions are based around promoting their own brands (9 per cent), favourite quotes (7 per cent), opinions about specific issues (6 per cent) and social causes (4 per cent).

  • Star TV UK debuts on Sky’s on demand service

    Star TV UK debuts on Sky’s on demand service

    MUMBAI: The News Corp owned Star TV UK has got all its channels onto Sky Digital’s on demand service and has become the first Asian broadcaster to do so. With this, Star’s programmes will be available ‘on demand’ to Sky customers at no additional cost.

    More than 3.4 million homes have their set top boxes connected to the broadband to enjoy this catch up service.

     

    Four channels are available in the Star TV pack- Star Plus, Star Gold, Life Ok and Star Jalsha.

  • Zee Lamhe launches on Freeview in UK

    Zee Lamhe launches on Freeview in UK

    MUMBAI: Zee’s entertainment channel, Lamhe, has found a place on Freeview in the Greater Manchester area as a part of the basic digital terrestrial service. Estimates put the reach of the channel at 1.2 million and increasing the reach of Zee Lamhe to 13 million homes in UK.

    Lamhe was launched earlier this year to showcase good quality south Asian entertainment such as drama, classics and Bollywood, lifestyle, cookery and travel. The FTA channel is also available on Sky Digital.

     

    Speaking to media247, Zee FTA channels business head Archana Kanade said, “Lamhe has been going from strength to strength in a short period of time since it started broadcasting earlier this year in June. The channel offers a distinct viewing experience by offering content that is not available anywhere else and it is outperforming other GEC channels that have been in the market for longer and beating them at certain slots since being BARB rated. Over 10% of Manchester’s population is South Asian, with Freeview being a popular platform here. It is great that an even wider audience will now be able to enjoy the unique offerings of Lamhe.”

    Lamhe broadcasts old shows that it feels is of quality that can engage UK viewers.  Freeview is UK’s only FTA digital terrestrial TV service.

  • India fourth in phishing attacks

    India fourth in phishing attacks

    NEW DELHI: India has ranked fourth in phishing attacks in the third quarter of 2013, said RSA, a division of EMC.

    India received three per cent of the total attack volume, said  RSA  in a statement.

    Other countries targeted by phishing attacks were US (53 per cent), Germany (17 per cent), UK (eight per cent) and South Africa (three per cent). In top countries by attacked brands’ India ranked third with seven per cent of the total phishing volume worldwide. The US with 27 per cent and UK with 12 per cent topped the chart.

    RSA identified 46,119 phishing attacks in September globally with a rise in 36 per cent increase as compared to the month of August (33, 861). Phishing attacks in the month of September also mark the highest number of attacks in this quarter while July 2013 saw 45,232 numbers of attacks. Top countries to host these phishing attacks include US (42 per cent), Canada (nine per cent), Germany (five per cent) and UK (four per cent).

    The total amount of losses incurred in third Quarter of 2013 was $1.66 billion.
    Brands in the US, UK, India, and Australia were targeted by almost 50 per cent of phishing attacks in Q3 2013.

    US remained the top country on the chart, targeted with 53 per cent of the total phishing volume in Q3 2013.

    US incurred a loss of over $882 million followed by Germany with $294 million and UK with $133 million.

    Meanwhile, cyber attack is likely to cost the average home user $418 in multimedia files, but a lot of this loss could be prevented if users purchase digital content after checking that the content is secure.

    Kaspersky Lab in a statement that users can lose files in a number of different ways: losing a device, having a device stolen, or falling victim to malicious users.

    According to the B2B International survey, 27 per cent of respondents encountered a cyber attack in the last one year. At the same time, over 60 per cent of users who were victims of malware that either damaged or destroyed data admitted that they had not been able to fully restore their files. During the same period, approximately 14 per cent of users dealt with the loss, theft or crash of their device.

    Respondents in the 16-24 age group would face an average loss of $670, while those in the 25-34 group would incur an average loss of $455; users aged 45 and older would lose an average of $227.

    Residents of China and Russia were likely to incur the highest average losses at $816 and $807 per user, respectively. This figure is considerably lower in Europe ($378) and North America ($342).

    In order to protect digital assets, users not only need to back up their data on a regular basis – they also need to secure their personal devices against malicious attacks designed to steal or extort data. Smartphones and tablets should also have additional tools to help locate a lost device or to mitigate the potential damages of device theft.

  • Hinduja Brothers receive ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’

    Hinduja Brothers receive ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’

    MUMBAI: Promoters of Hinduja Group, Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja, were presented with a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for their contributions to the United Kingdom’s Asian community.

    “This is a great honour and makes our responsibility more difficult and harder. Our dharma and duty is to serve the Asian community in Britain as best as we can,” said Hinduja Group co-chairman Gopichand Hinduja in his acceptance speech.

    Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja were nominated alongside another NRI businessman Anil Agarwal, Chairman, Vedanta Resources, former England cricket captain Nasser Hussain and Indian-born 102-year-old marathon runner Fauja Singh.

    “This government sincerely values the immense contribution of Britain’s Asian community and as Prime Minister I am extremely proud to lead a truly diverse nation where people of all backgrounds live and work so well together,” said British Prime Minister David Cameron in a special message sent for the awards night.

    The Asian Achievers Awards (AAA), in its 13th year now, are organised by the ABPL Group, publishers of ‘Asian Voice’ and ‘Gujarat Samachar’ newspapers in the UK, to celebrate the achievements of south Asians based in Britain.

    This year’s awards were dedicated towards highlighting the achievements of Asian women and all the money raised from a charity auction was earmarked for the Lily Foundation, a charity working against human trafficking in India and the UK.

    “Large countries have lots of problems and these take time to solve. But I love the idea of India and I am confident that the time for India has come,” said Indian high commissioner to the UK Jaimini Bhagwati, a special guest at the event along with sari-clad Cherie Blair who described herself as ‘an honorary member of the Asian community’.

  • Salman’s UK visa gets rejected, Kick on hold

    Salman’s UK visa gets rejected, Kick on hold

    MUMBAI: While Sajid Nadiadwala’s new film Kick is underway in Glasgow, United Kingdom has rejected Salman Khan’s visa without giving any reason for the denial. Salman was supposed to shoot there last week but was unable to fly to UK because of the cancellation.

    Eleven years after he allegedly killed one person in a hit and run case, Khan was formally charged against homicide not amounting to murder. Khan had appeared in court on 24 July but the final verdict was not taken and the charges and adjourned the case till August 19.

    There are speculations that the reasons are the cases against Khan. Who has two cases against him and is still awaiting a verdict.

  • Hakuhodo Percept walks away with Costa Coffee’s creative duties

    MUMBAI: Hakuhodo Percept has bagged the creative duties of Costa Coffee, following a multi-agency pitch that took place in December-January.

    The account is being serviced out of the agency’s Delhi office.

    Hakuhodo Percept Executive Director Elvis Sequeira is heading the team handling the account. He told indiantelevision.com that the agency has already started working on the account. They have worked on a campaign titled ‘India’s Best Cappuccino’ which they will be rolling out soon.

    The agency will also be doing other activities in order to engage with the consumers.

    Costa Coffee is a British multinational coffee house company with headquarters in Dunstable, United Kingdom, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Whitbread PLC.

  • Abu Dhabi fest to screen five Indian films

    Abu Dhabi fest to screen five Indian films

    MUMBAI: In its 5th year, the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF) will screen more than 200 feature and short films by established and emerging filmmakers representing 43 countries. Among them are featured five films from India.

    The films include Gurvindar Singh’s Anhey Ghore Da Daan, Umesh Kulkarni‘s upcoming film Deool, Gemma Atwal’s documentary Marathon Boy (a co-production between India, United Kingdom and USA) along with Neeraj Ghaywan’s short film Shor (Noise).

    As a tribute to Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray’s Charulata will be screened.

    Formerly known as the Middle East International Film Festival, the Abu Dhabi Film Festival was established in 2007.

    This year’s edition is scheduled to be held from 13 to 22 October.

  • Reliability issues turn off mobile TV users in Europe

    Reliability issues turn off mobile TV users in Europe

    MUMBAI: A survey of 22,000 European mobile users commissioned by Tellabs has revealed that a high percentage of early adopters of mobile TV and video services are snubbing a second helping. The research, conducted by M:Metrics in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France and Spain, brought up an interesting issue: on average, former users of mobile TV and video outnumber current users by more than 19%. Users cited price, quality and reliability issues as the main reasons why they do not come back for more.

    “At 3GSM we will be treated to a feast of new mobile TV launches with millions of dollars being spent on developing, marketing and distributing mobile TV services. But if services fall short of user expectations on quality and reliability, it could be money wasted,” said Pat Dolan, Tellabs vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa. “So while we share our industry’s enthusiasm for mobile TV, the detailed results of this survey provide important food for thought for the global operator community, who want to address network backhaul issues to improve mobile TV and video services.”

    Forty-five percent of European mobile video and TV users cited pricing issues as a factor causing them to switch off the services. And nearly a quarter (24%) of users who tried mobile video and TV stopped using the services due to concerns about service quality and reliability.

    The split between perception and reality was most pronounced in the United Kingdom. Only 6% of those who had never used mobile video and TV cited quality and reliability as reasons not to try such services, but 29% of users had stopped using services because of quality and reliability.

    “Pricing has already been highlighted as a stumbling block for recurrent use of mobile video and TV services, but we were surprised by just how much value users place on quality and reliability,” said Paul Goode, senior analyst, M:Metrics. “Once the basic requirements of quality and reliability are good enough, the focus will rightly shift to issues of programming, brands and marketing in addition to price. This research highlights the need to address quality and reliability so the industry can retain viewers, which is a key part of growing audience numbers.”