| RS to provide sports content to spur growth | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:20:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | RS Plc, Thailand's second-largest entertainment group has diversified into sports content to achieve its goal of becoming a leading entertainment and sports-content provider. A new company will be officially opened later this month to focus on providing sport content and ''360-degree'' management, according to Surachai Chetchotisak, the chief executive officer, who declined to elaborate. But a source said the new company would likely seek exclusive rights to major international sporting events since its management team had joined hands with former staff of DhosPaak Communication Agency Co, the Thai holder of the World Cup broadcasting rights in 2002 and 2006. Mr Surachai said that out of the four categories in the content world _ games, news, entertainment and sports _ RS had expertise in only two: entertainment and sports.... | |
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| | | Singapore's Anytime to provide video-on-demand programming in ... | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:17:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | Singapore, Oct 26 (DPA) Singapore-based video-on-demand channel Anytime has secured a licensing deal to provide interactive entertainment via the Internet to television viewers in India, the company said Thursday.The five-year agreement with broadband provider India On Line (IOL) will provide a variety of new and classic titles from Fox, Sony, Warner and Universal and reach four million broadband homes in Mumbai and Delhi by March."This is an unprecedented deal for Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) in the region," Anytime chief executive officer Craig Zimbulis told The Business Times, adding the deal was worth tens of millions of US dollars.Anytime will be the sole source of Hollywood programming for IOL's IPTV offering, he noted.Unlike programmes on over-the-air or conventional cable television channels, which follow a fixed schedule, IPTV programmes can be viewed at the user's convenience.In addition to movies, he said Anytime will also provide an interactive games channel as part of the deal."On-demand delivery of video content is set to boom in India, and this is a country that clearly has a huge appetite for next-generation services," Zimbulis was quoted as saying.Formed in February last year, Anytime specialises in providing video content to Internet service providers, IPTV firms and cable networks in the Asia-Pacific region.IOL said it would incorporate Indian films, music, news and sports channels.Anytime has struck similar arrangements with Buddy Broadband in Thailand, Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan and Transact and RIA in Australia.... | |
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| | | MIKLASZ: Carp channels Gibby | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:10:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | On a cold Tuesday night in middle America, a rugged son of the Granite State took the mound and warmed up Busch Stadium by turning the Tigers' bats into a stack of firewood. Chris Carpenter was relentless. No, this wasn't Bob Gibson in Game 1 of the 1968 World Series, wiping out 17 Detroit Tigers with a vicious assault of strikeouts. Carpenter's performance in Game 3 of the World Series wouldn't qualify as epic, and the classic-sports TV channel won't be showing black-and-white replays of it 40 years from now. But Carpenter was virtually untouchable, charging through eight shutout innings and leading the Cardinals to a 5-0 victory. Gibson would be proud of Carpenter. And Carpenter, the Cardinals' most dominant righthanded starter since Gibby, did his best to live up to the glorious tradition, and the high standard, established by the one and only No.... | |
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| | | ROK U.S. Launches Free Mobile TV; IPTV Version Coming Soon | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 11:14:35 AM by Blog57 Team | | ROK Entertainment Group U.S. has followed in the footsteps of its UK-based parent and launched a free mobile TV service available globally. FreeBe TV, the U.S. market's first free mainstream mobile TV service, currently offers 13 channels of content, including live news, music and sports, with many more slated in the near future. Available at http://www.freebetv.com/ or from a link off of http://www.roktv.com/, FreeBe TV is carrier agnostic and can be accessed from 21 mobile phones with WAP-enabled capabilities. Users of FreeBe TV don't have to be on a high-speed, 3G network as the service was developed to deliver high quality video content over 2.5G GPRS. In addition to the mobile version of FreeBe TV, ROK announced today that the same service will soon be available for the PC, via the Internet, as well.... | |
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| | | Betting on poker | | Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 3:10:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | It was just two years ago that poker jumped from casinos and basements to cable channels including ESPN. Soon, a group of guys staring at cards and at each other was replacing traditional sports -- hockey, basketball and baseball -- on the tube. While it offered no crosschecks, slam dunks and home runs, more and more viewers were tuning in to Texas Hold 'Em poker and looking for ways to play and compete. "I picked it up to meet people and have fun," said the Rev. Nancy Mockros of Lafayette. "It's in Lafayette culture. It's a big thing in Lafayette. I knew so many people who played it in houses. I decided to bring it out." Mockros helped start a Texas Hold 'Em night at Hunter's Pub South, 3239 Daugherty Drive, one of several poker nights in Greater Lafayette bars and restaurants.... | |
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| | | AOL begins video service | | Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:27:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | AOL, Time Warner Inc.'s Internet unit, and Intel Corp. started an online video-on-demand service yesterday that lets users watch films, concerts and sports programs on their television sets. The service allows users to search for videos available on AOL with a TV remote control, said Kevin Conroy, executive vice president at AOL. Personal computers based on Intel's Viiv semiconductors and software will make it easier to search, record and watch music and video files. "The partnership with Intel enabled us to bring this experience to the living room," Conroy said in an interview, referring to watching videos online. AOL is seeking to add revenue from online advertising and other sources to compensate for a decline in subscribers to its Web access service.... | |
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| | | Double team! ... Powerful Fox Channel joins with SportsMax | | Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 5:37:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | Fox Soccer Channel and the International Media Content Limited (IMC), the parent company of SportsMax, yesterday announced the signing of an agreement which gives SportsMax the broadcast and distribution rights in Jamaica for the rebranded Fox Soccer Channel Jamaica, effective October 1, 2006. The agreement gives SportsMax the right to place local and regional content and commercial inventory on Fox Soccer Channel Jamaica, as well as for SportsMax to market and distribute Fox Soccer Channel Jamaica to cable operators via SportsMax's satellite network. "... This is both a unique and historical occasion," remarked the Hon Pat Rousseau, OJ, chairman of SportsMax Limited. "This is the classical case of the whales not swallowing the minnows, but joining the minnows. We are a very small, new company and Fox Soccer Channel is part of a very big and powerful organisation and I think the alliance means a lot to both of us," he added.... | |
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| | | Sony Pictures Television International's AXN Channel Begins Broadcasting New Action Channels to Central Europe Through | | Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:19:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | Eutelsat announced today that AXN, the high-energy general entertainment television network from Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI), has begun broadcasting two new thematic channels to cable networks in central Europe using Eutelsat's W2 satellite. The two new channels, AXN Crime and AXN Sci-Fi, have begun broadcasting in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. The selection of W2 enables AXN to expand its broadcast reach. AXN Crime and AXN Sci-Fi, broadcast 18 hours a day with soundtracks available in Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian and Polish. The channels are encrypted in PowerVu and uplinked to W2 by Eutelsat from its teleport in Rambouillet near Paris. "Efficient, flexible, and cost-effective distribution is one of the key parts of our European growth strategy," said Robert Billeci, SPTI's senior vice president, Technical Operations, International Networks.... | |
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| | | AOL Video Launches Digital Movie Downloads | | Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:20:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | AOL, a leader in live and on-demand entertainment videoprogramming and video search, today announced partnerships with 20thCentury Fox, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures, andWarner Bros. Home Entertainment Group that will offer consumersdownloadable movies through the AOL Video portal. These newpartnerships complement the more than 17 video content partnershipsand more than 45 on-demand channels that AOL Video announced in July.Available to anyone on the Web at http://www.aolvideo.com, the AOLVideo portal is a one-stop, high-quality entertainment destination tofind, watch and share millions of free streaming and pay-to-downloadvideo content from across the Web, broadcast and cable television, andmovies. "We're very excited to add digital movie downloads and additionalTV content to the already wide-variety of content that we offerthrough the AOL Video portal," said Kevin Conroy, Executive VicePresident of AOL.... | |
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| | | Colonial makes profit; at what cost? | | Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 11:14:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | This past Sunday while flipping through the channels on TV, I caught a glimpse of one of the Sunday morning church services from an area church. The Midnight SpecialH-P Sports Editor Local businesses golf for a good causeGolf Tournament Raises $52,000 for Education Ashland High team to be honoredH-P Sports Editor Virginia Sports Complex thinks out of the boxVirginia Sports Complex Baseball Camp recently held the the THRILL AND DRILL CAMP. Randolph-Macon adds a pair of football assistants in Marquis and McCormickRandolph-Macon College Head Football Coach Football Pedro Arruza announced Tuesday the additions of Sean McCormick and David Marquis to his coaching staff. McCormick will serve as the Yellow Jackets' defensive ends coach while Marquis will lead the team's tight-ends.... | |
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