MUMBAI: IndiaCast Media Distribution, a joint venture between TV18 and Viacom18, has appointed Amit Dhanuka as senior vice president for their international business division.

Based in Mumbai, Dhanuka will oversee Asia Pacific business, international syndication, outbound ad sales as well as content and commercial affairs.

Prior to joining IndiaCast, Dhanuka was with Videocon D2H where he drove the content strategy, packaging and VAS. He comes with over 12 years of experience in media and entertainment. He has also worked with Sony Pictures Television International, E- City and the Zee Group.

IndiaCast COO Gaurav Gandhi said, “We are delighted to have Amit on board with us. Given his diverse experience both on the content and commercial side in media and broadcast, we are confident that he will play a very key role as we take our international business to the next level.”

Dhanuka said, “IndiaCast has made a tremendous mark since its launch and I hope to build on that. I look forward to working with the team and bring in a new perspective for the growth of this fast growing organisation.”

BENGALURU: Zee TV, despite a slide in its ranking, was ahead of all Hindi GECs in the third edition of The Brand Trust Report India Study 2013, a study of India’s most trusted brands by the Trust Research Advisory (TRA).

Zee TV fell six notches to 231 from last year’s 225. Star Plus saw a huge gain in ranking at 287 from 584 last year, but was still behind Zee TV.

Tata Sky (DTH) moved up 156 places to rank 51 from last year’s ranking of 207. DISH TV (DTH) was ranked within the top 500 for the first time in 2013 with a ranking of 180.

In entertainment, the most trusted brands are PVR (Cinema-Display) and Eros (Cinema-Other). The Times of India followed by DNA leads the Media – Print category.

TRA says it expanded the scope of its study to 16 cities for the 2013 report with more than 13,000 hours of fieldwork which resulted in 3 million data points and 19,000 unique brands of which about 1,100 brands across 211 categories find mention.

The top two contenders for Media-TV are Aaj Tak and ABP News (Hindi). Aaj Tak moved up 47 places to 121 in 2013 from 168 in 2012. ABP News (Hindi) entered the 500 most trusted brands list at 214. NDTV saw a fall of 41 places to 221 as compared to last year’s rank of 180. Discovery too saw a steep fall of 73 places to 278 as compared to last year’s 205 rank.

For last year’s edition, TRA claims a readership of around 10,000 from about 400 copies of the 1000 copies published, each priced at Rs 10,000. This year TRA expects a readership of around 25,000, with the number of copies to be published undecided as of now. The price for the 2013 report has been enhanced by 40 percent to Rs 14,000 each. The target audience for the report is the brands who use the report in various ways, including improving upon the 61 attributes divided across 10 brand behaviors, the foundation of which lies on three fundamental layers of trust says TRA.

This, after he received threats that the movie will be pirated, power supply to theatres screening it would be suspended

Kamal Haasan has sought help from the police and government after receiving threats that his new movie Viswaroopam, which is to be released in DTH on January 10th, would be pirated and the power supply to the cinemas screening it will be suspended.

Haasan called on Additional Director General of Police T K Rajendran and Home Secretary R Rajagopal and submitted a petition seeking protection for theatres, which will be screening Viswaroopam – his Pongal release – across the State.

“I have been receiving threats that the film (Viswaroopam) will be pirated and electricity supply to the theatres (which have decided to show the movie) will be suspended. Since these are against the law, I decided to lodge a complaint with ADGP (Law and Order)”, Haasan told reporters.

The 58-year-old actor, also sought the State government’s help by meeting State Home Secretary R Rajagopal.

It may be noted, the controversy on releasing the Rs 90 crore film started after the actor decided to release it on Direct-To-Home (DTH) platform on January 10, a day ahead of its release in cinemas. Exhibitors and theatre owners started protesting on this decision and the Tamil Nadu Theatre Owners Association (TNTOA) announced that they would not release the film in theatres.

Haasan continued his stand and said it is a new business model and it will not affect theatre owners in any way.

“It’s as an evolutionary growth and this is the way to go forward”, he said.

He was hopeful that he can rope in 400 theatres to screen his movie.

Haasan has already tied up with six operators — Tata Sky, DishTV, Sun Direct, Airtel DTH, Videocon DTH and Reliance Big TV — for the premiere. Subscribers will need to pay Rs 1,000 for the Tamil version and Rs 500 for the Hindi one.

One of two Tata Sky employees against whom the Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai Police is filing charges of cheating the DTH provider of close to Rs 7.5 crore, has spent about Rs 30 lakh of the pilfered money on bar girls over the span of one year, investigations have revealed.

Zafar Hussain Bootwala, accounts manager at one of Tata Sky’s offices, who was arrested in the cheating case, has told police in his statement that he spent the money on bars in south Mumbai which he often visited.

The EOW has arrested Bootwala along with his accomplice Nitesh Barbhaiya, an executive. EOW alleges that after the two siphoned off Rs 7.5 crore from Tata Sky by encashing fake and forged vendor bills in 2011, they distributed the money among themselves, with each pocketing close to Rs 3.5 crore.

“Both Bootwala and Barbhaiya are married and hence they spent a major portion of the money on buying houses. Bootwala purchased three luxury apartments in Nashik, while Barbhaiya purchased two apartments and one shop in Gujarat,” said Inspector Ramchandra Lotlikar who is investigating the case.

The properties in which the two invested money are now being sealed. Besides properties, the two allegedly spent money to live a luxurious life. “During interrogation Zafar claimed he developed the habit of visiting bars in south Mumbai and bagged the privilege of paying good luck money to bar girls,” said a source.

Good luck money is the first tip customers pay to bar girls and as a good omen bar owners prefer a hefty tip from the first customer. Bootwala claimed he spent close to Rs 30 lakh on bar girls, and even developed friendships with some. Barbhaiya, on the other hand, spent a significant amount to fly across tourist destinations in the country.

None spent much on their family members. “We are taking from them the account of the money they spent from the pilfered money. We will chargesheet them soon,” Additional Commissioner of Police (EOW) Rajvardhan told Mumbai Mirror.

The two were booked on the suspicion that they floated a fake company by the name Master Graphics and submitted fake and forged bills, and encashed them by faking signatures. The cheating came to light during the internal audit of Tata Sky.

MUMBAI–Indian direct-to-home television-service provider Tata Sky Ltd. is likely to apply soon for an initial public offering to raise 25 billion rupees ($466.2 million), according to a person involved in the process.

The company recently selected investment banks Kotak Mahindra Capital Co.,500247.BY +0.64% Morgan Stanley MS -1.35% and Citigroup Inc. C +0.57% to manage the offering, this person said.

Tata Sky–a 70:30 joint venture between India’s Tata group and Star Group–declined to comment. Star is a television unit of News Corp NWSA +0.88% ., which owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

The company is likely to file a draft prospectus with capital-market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India as early as February, the person said. It plans to use the proceeds to pay off its debt and to fund expansion within India, the person added.

Tata Sky competes with state-run DD Direct, Bharti Airtel Ltd., 532454.BY -1.82%Reliance Communications Ltd., 532712.BY -3.86% Dish TV India Ltd.,532839.BY -1.01% Sun Direct TV Ltd. and Videocon Group 511389.BY -1.50% in India’s direct-to-home TV-service market.

Last month Videocon Group’s Bharat Business Channel Ltd., which provides services under the brand name Videocon D2H, filed a draft prospectus for an IPO to raise up to 7.0 billion rupees ($130 million). Of this, it would consider raising up to 500 million rupees by selling shares to certain investors before the issue opens for public subscription, according to the draft prospectus.

Bharat Business Channel’s company secretary, Amruta Karkare, didn’t immediately comment on its IPO plan Thursday.

Subject to regulatory approvals, Bharat Business Channel expects to list in March, one person involved in the process said recently.

India’s TV market was estimated to be $6 billion in 2011, according to a report last year by KPMG and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

But India’s nascent direct-to-home TV-distribution companies get a relatively small piece of this pie, say analysts. Most of these companies have been bleeding because of heavy debt and lower-than-expected sales amid high competition.

Bharat Business Channel, which commenced commercial operations in July 2009, said in its prospectus that it had incurred losses every year between 2009 and September 2012, adding up to around $260 million in losses. This was despite massive growth in its subscriber base and revenue, according to the filing. The company had around $350 million in debt as of Oct. 31.

But the prospects look better, thanks partly to India’s push for greater digitization.

The federal government has set a deadline of December 2013 for all cable-TV networks to convert their transmission signals to the digital format from analog. This may lead more people to sign up for direct-to-home TV services as they are already digital.

Bharat Business Channel, like Tata Sky, plans to use its IPO proceeds to expand the company’s business as well as to retire some debt.

The Bharat Business Channel IPO is being managed by five banks, including Axis Bank Ltd.’s 532215.BY +0.07% Enam Securities Pvt. Ltd., UBS Securities India Pvt. Ltd. and IDBI Capital Market Services Ltd., according to the prospectus.

Edelweiss Securities sustained ‘Purchase’ on Dish TV along with target price of 88 rupees as next to current price of market of 74 rupees in the report dated 23rd Jan, 2013.

Subscription revenues of the Dish TV raised total 16.2% to 4.9 billion rupees. Consequently of quarterly 14.6% boost, costs of the content as the proportion of subscription revenues shoot to 32.9% as evaluated to 30% in the 2nd quarter of financial year 2013.

There was a 260 million rupees incremental impact of cost content, with the impact of 140 million rupees of the investment in the infrastructure of sales and distribution. This impact of 400 million even leads to the negative free money of 160 million rupees in the 3rd quarter of financial year 2013. On the other hand, financial year 2013 direction of 12% boost in the costs of content is preserved.

0.83 Million gross subscribers added by the Dish TV as well as 0.5 million net subscribers in the 3rd quarter financial year 2013 owing to joyful push and striking schemes all around the deadline of 1st Phase. The entire base of the gross subscriber is now stands at 14.7 million and overall base of the net subscriber, at approx 10.5 million.

They continue to stay positive on the Dish TV and suppose this to be only of the receivers of the process of digitization and the current admiration. Dish TV would benefit throughout the process of digitization owing to its massive brand, scale and innovation, supposed by Edelweiss Securities.

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Saveondish.com has launched it’s forum back, after about 1.5 months.

Due to some hosting issues, we needed to take down the forum, and the forum has been cleaned from the useless and outdated posts. Link:-

http://www.saveondish.com/forum

Have a nice stay in the forum.

Technical analyst, Mudit Goyal, SMC Global Research has chosen following five stocks as the intra-day technical picks for the 18th Jan, 2013.

1. Term – Long, Stock – Bharti Airtel

Purchase this stock and the target point is Rs 363 to 368 with Rs 348 stop loss.

Later than providing a decent advantage from the levels of 260 to 340, stock has been observed a healthy alteration up to 300 levels as well as started shifting higher for finishing the pattern ”Inverted Head and Shoulder” on the weekly charts that is optimistic in the nature. On the Thursday, stock finished approx gains of 3% and afterward given the breakout of its mold with superior volume. One can start long for the benefit target of 363 to 368 rupees with Stop Loss of 348 rupees.

2. Term – Long, Stock – BPCL

Purchase this stock and the target point is Rs 405 to 410 with Rs 391 stop loss.

Stock is constantly shifting higher even as trading in upper highs and upper lows kind of ”Rising wedge” on the everyday charts that is measured to be optimistic. On the Thursday, stock goes up by approx 3% and convincingly registered its week 52 high escorted by the record volume from June, 2010 therefore they expect that purchasing momentum can persist for the coming days that suggest the advantage target of 405 to 410 rupees with Stop Loss of 391 rupees.

3. Term – Long, Stock – Dish TV

Purchase this stock and the target point is 82 to 83 with Rs 77 stop loss.

Later than registering high of 52 week of 85 levels, the stock trade in the rigid range of levels 73 to 82 with affirmative bias forming the higher lows and lower highs kind of “Pennant” model on the everyday charts that is optimistic in the nature. There is not any kind of pattern breakout but the association from previous some days show that there would be tough spurt for close term. Purchase this stock for the Stop Loss of Rs 77 and benefit target of Rs 82to 83.

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Tate Music Group and Tate Publishing recently publicized an exclusive latest partnership for the TV publicity with the Dish Network. Along with over 14 million subscribers, the Dish Network is only of the leader satellite TV providers of the nation.

They are very happy to be partnering along with Dish Network to offer high class, far attainment, and national publicity campaigns for the authors of Tate Publishing and artists of Tate Music Group artists, supposed by Tate’s director of marketing, Mark Mingle,. By marketing exclusively with the Dish Network, they are capable to contact target viewers with music and books which provide their artists and authors the best possible visibility.

The advertising campaigns of Tate Publishing are utilized to brand artists and authors and their valuable products, offering national TV advertising and exposure for the whole line of Tate of products.

Enterprises and Tate Publishing is the base of Christian, family, major lines publishing group with the task to find out unknown artists and authors. As their starting in year 2002, they have been chosen as only of the greatest places to work in the Oklahoma in equally year 2008 and year 2009. Further information regarding the organization can be found at the website www.tatepublishing.com.

Identical to their parent organization, Tate Publishing, the Tate Music Group is the children owned, Company of Christian which is excited to partner along with artists to create market and allocate their music.

Flagship Southern Oregon FOX associate KMVU, and FOX stations in the New York and Washington State, would be recurring to the line-up of DISH TV later than settling an ancient retransmission dispute.

Owner of KMVU and the 2nd largest satellite operator of US had been at the stalemate from 26th November, disputing the stage of fees retransmission that the operator of satellite must pay.

Andrew LeCuyer the Vice president of DISH Network of programming supposed that at the time Northwest was challenging an unparalleled and extraordinary retroactive expense from the DISH stretching back numerous years. That requirement is beyond and above what DISH has
previously remunerated for the right to take Northwest Broadcasting throughout this period.
For this part, Northwest supposed that DISH go back on the deal to pay the similar sum for the carriage as the DirecTV.

Subscribers of the DISH TV missed the previous half of the season NFL but the reinstatement of signals defines that viewers would catch the rest of the contest. The station has placed a new sign on its site to aware the viewers.

This is the 2nd disagreement Northwest Broadcasting had in the year 2012; in the August, KMVU was blacked out on the DirecTV as well as that argue took approx ten weeks to resolution, defining that viewers let passed the World Series.

This is very difficult for their small organization to stand up to the company of 14 billion dollars such as DISH, but in case they don’t, they would not be capable to stay alive in this financial
environment, supposed by Jon Rand the COO of Northwest.