| 'Spidey 3' trailer to hit TV, Web Thursday | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:45:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- "Spider-Man 3" will receive a TV and online blitz Thursday night when Columbia Pictures unveils a 2-1/2-minute trailer at 10 p.m. in a "road block" across Viacom's online brands and several TV channels, including the CBS network -- six months before the film's May 4 premiere. On CBS, the spot will air after "CSI" and before the James Woods legal drama "Shark." On Comedy Central, the trailer will run before a new "South Park" episode, while MTV will show the spot before a new "Real World/Road Rules Challenge." Other TV networks airing the trailer include BET, Logo, MTV2, Spike TV and VH1, with each supporting the event with custom promotions. In addition, 14 online destinations from Viacom's networks are supporting the airing, including AddictingGames.com, AddictingClips.com, BET.com, MTV.com, IFilm.com, Nick.com, ComedyCentral.com, GameTrailers.com, LogoOnline.com, Neopets.com, SpikeTV.com, The-N.com, VH1.com, and Xfire.com.... | |
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| | | Ofcom allows sponsorship of entire radio stations and TV channels | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:42:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ofcom has announced it will amend its Broadcasting Code to allow the sponsorship of entire commercial television channels and radio stations. The move comes following the responses the regulator received during its review of the Broadcasting Code. In February Ofcom carried out a consultation on the way in which channel sponsorship might be introduced. To date the code prohibits the sponsorship of news and television current affairs programmes, while specific products cannot sponsor certain programmes, such as alcohol companies being associated with children's shows. Following consultation, Ofcom intends to allow the sponsorship of any channel, so long as the amount of programming that cannot be sponsored, such as children's programmes, is limited within the channel. Specific safeguards will be put in place to preserve editorial integrity and protect children, including making viewers aware of the sponsorship arrangement, with the sponsor's credits made separate from all other editorial and advertising content on the channel.... | |
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| | | IOL Broadband ties up with Star TV | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 11:22:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | Mumbai, Oct 26: IOL Broadband Ltd today said it has signed an agreement with Star TV for broadcasting channels from the Star channel bouquet.The company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that it had signed the IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) deal with the country's leading broadcasting network Star TV yesterday.Under the tieup the subscribers of the company and those subscribing to the MTNL IPTV Service would be able to enjoy several premium broadcasting channels from the Star channel bouquet.The company said it also planned to offer hundreds of channels on IPTV in the near future."We are very pleased that Star TV has taken the lead in the IPTV revolution, which is set to sweep the country, by signing up with IOL Broadband Ltd. Star TV will be the first bouquet of channels to be made available on the IOL - MTNL Broadband Networks" IOL Broadband Director Oberai said.... | |
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| | | Iranian films shown on Indonesian TV channels | | Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:12:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | LONDON, October 15 (IranMania) - According to IRNA, Iranian movies have been shown on different Indonesian TV channels since the beginning of the holy month of Ramazan. Director of Media Department of Iran's Embassy to Jakarta Hamid Saleki said a TV series named," Angeles men" with Arabic and Indonesian languages subtitles is taken off the air every night after Iftar in Indonesian National Television (TVRI). He added private TV channel 'Lativi' has shown two Iranian movies since the beginning of Ramazan in Melayu language. Another Indonesian TV channel, Indosiar, displays an Iranian movie. Saleki said, ANTV, another Indonesian private TV channel has also shown several Iranian movies so far. .... | |
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| | | (AFX UK Focus) 2006-10-03 08:57 GMT: JumpTV signs deal to broadcast channels on Arab web portal | | Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 7:09:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | LONDON (AFX) - JumpTV Inc, a broadcaster of ethnic TV over the internet, said it has signed a deal to broadcast all of its channels on Maktoob.com, one of the largest Arabic web portals. JumpTV said the channels will be available to Maktoob's more than 4.5 mln customers on a subscription basis. newsdesk@afxnews.com wj COPYRIGHT Copyright AFX News Limited 2005. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of AFX News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of AFX News. AFX News and AFX Financial News Logo are registered trademarks of AFX News Limited .... | |
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| | | Hindi soaps set to hit New Zealand TV | | Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 3:09:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | Wellington, Sep 21: In what is sure to come as good news for Indians living in New Zealand, an Auckland-based technology company will soon begin broadcasting international TV channels, including popular Indian ones.Orcus has recently signed an exclusive redistribution contract with four overseas channels. It wants to cash in on the viewing habits of an increasingly diverse ethnic population in New Zealand. Viewers will need just a satellite dish and decoder to receive the signal. It is possible some channels will be a mix of pay-TV and free-to-air, business adviser Pavitra Roy is quoted as saying in New Zealand Herald newspaper.However, the company may face tough competition next year after Freeview, the free-to-air digital TV service led by a consortium including TVNZ and CanWest, is launched.... | |
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| | | BBC plans to launch two TV channels in India | | Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 1:30:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | INDIAN viewers will get a chance to watch programmes ranging from the Teletubbies to My Family when the BBC launches two new television channels on the sub-continent this year. The Times has learnt that BBC Worldwide, the Corporation?s commercial arm, is close to securing agreement to distribute the children?s channel CBeebies ? in Hindi and English ? and BBC Entertainment, featuring adult drama. .... | |
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| | | Verizon Expands FiOS TV Availability in Massachusetts | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:25:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | BOSTON, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon has introduced FiOS TV to consumers in four more communities north of Boston, making a broad range of programming choices and superior picture quality available to nearly 73,000 households in 10 Massachusetts communities. Hamilton, Stoneham, Wakefield and Wenham join Burlington, North Reading, Lynnfield, Reading, Winchester and Woburn as the first Bay State markets for the company's new fiber-optic Click for the lowest price on dmnobieblanktelevision');" onMouseOut="setTimeout('hideLayer()',500);" class=hotlink2>television service, delivered over the only all-digital, fiber network that is being made available, on a mass scale, to millions of individual homes and businesses. Also today, Verizon announced that the boards of selectmen in Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester unanimously approved Verizon's request for a 10-year cable-TV franchise license to provide FiOS TV in those communities, which have a total of 6,700 households.... | |
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| | | TV channels bound to obey December 2005 order: High Court | | Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 9:37:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | Mumbai, Aug 23: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday held that broadcasters, including TV channels and direct-to-home (DTH) service providers, are bound to obey a December 21, 2005 order banning the telecast of movies with `A` certificates. A division bench of Justice R M Lodha and Justice S A Bobde made it clear that the December 2005 order -- which came in response to PIL filed by Professor Pratibha Naithani -- is applicable to foreign-based channels, if they are being downlinked in India. In its August 16 order, the bench had lambasted the police for not taking action against cable operators who, continued to telecast movies with `A` certificates. However, today`s order made an important modification: after hearing the counsels of various parties involved in the case, the court held that films with U/A (universal/adult) certificates cannot be banned.... | |
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| | | Cable subscribers to get all parliamentary channels | | Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 3:13:02 AM by Blog57 Team | | New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) The government Friday approved a bill making it mandatory for cable TV operators to include all parliamentary channels in the bouquet they provide to subscribers. The Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill 2006 would be introduced to amend section 8 of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 to make it compulsory for every cable operator to re-transmit channels operated by or on behalf of parliament. 'The cabinet's decision will enable the consumers to view the parliamentary proceedings and other informative and educative programmes being transmitted by the channels operated by or on behalf of the parliament of India,' Parliamentary Affairs Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi told reporters after a cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.... | |
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