Spark Punjabi Comes to Reliance Digital TV
Its going to be Bhangra time on Reliance Digital TV, with the launch of Spark Punjabi on 15th June.
Spark Punjabi, owned by Big CBS, is the first regional channel that will offer CBS's content dubbed in Punjabi. The channel will be available in Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh (PHCHP) regions.
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Discovery Turbo Now on Reliance Digital TV
Reliance Digital TV has now added the Discovery Turbo channel, whose main focus is vehicles. The channel showcases a wide range of motoring from Formula One cars, aircraft shows, motocross and much more. Although this channel has been available on other dth platforms and local cable its now made its apperance on Big TV.
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Digital TV to offer Star India's Asli HD Channels
Reliance Digital TV (formerly known as Big TV) has tied up with Star India to show its bouquet of 5 Asli HD channels like Star Plus, Star Movies HD, Movies Now HD, Nat Geo HD and iConcerts HD. This is an addition to its existing bouquet of 250 channels available in full high-definition quality.
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Big TV to Have More HD Content
Big TV plans on give its subscribers a variety of new international HD content and is working with international media houses on the same. The company plans on investing more than Rs 400 crores to bring in fresh media on its DTH Network.
Reliance Digital TV in advanced talks with comedy central, BBC and CNN for non film HD content. Watch the video interview for more details.
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Big TV Launches DD Sports HD and 7 More Channels
After recently launching 13 channels during the festive season of Ganesha, Big TV has launched 7 new channels yet again.
This time with the Common Wealth Games on, the company has chosen to launch DD Sports HD ( an HD version of DD Sports), Saakshi TV channel (a Telugu News channel), Subhavartha TV ( a Telugu Religious channel), Aaseervatham TV ( a Malayalam Religious channel), Ruposhi Bangla (a Bangla Entertainment Channel) and DY 365 (a North East News channel).
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Big TV Gears up for Ganesh, Adds 13 New Channels
Expanding its offering, Reliance BIG TV has added 13 new channels to its bouquet to take the total number to 245.
Big TV has added channels like Star Plus HD (high definition), NGC Wild, NGC Adventure, NGC Music, UFX, HM TV, Mahaa TV, Day & Night News, ETV Bihar, Polimer TV, Saam TV, Chardikla Time and Nepal One.
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Big TV Launches High Definition STB with DVR
Reliance Big TV has introduced its high-definition set-top box (STB) integrated with digital live TV recording feature, across 100 cities in the country.
Priced between Rs 5990 to Rs 7990, this HD DVR set-top box offers five times clearer and sharper image quality with two million pixel resolution and digital surround sound effect.
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Big TV Adds 14 Regional Channels for South
Stepping up it focus in the South India market, Big TV has added 13 new regional channels to its bouquet. Subscribers in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu can view eight Tamil channels namely Jaya Plus, Makkal TV, Mega TV, Zee Tamizh, Aditya TV, Seithigal, Sripoli and Vasant TV and five Telugu channels like Sri Venkateshwara Bhakti, Bhakti TV, Sakshi TV, TV5 Telugu News and GCV.
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Big TV Slated to Launch New Channels
In a bid to give their subscribers more variety and channels Big Tv is in talks with international music labels like Sony, BMG and Universal according to industry sources. Reliance ADAG is supposedly preparing to start broadcasting a lifestyle channel focused on fitness as well as an English music channel.
Recently the company sold telecast rights of 25 Hindi Movies to UTV Movies, hence a Hindi movie channel is not their foremost priority. Some sources claim that Reliance has had talks with Sahara One Media & Entertainment Ltd. to acquire, Filmy, its Hindi movie channel, but they could not agree on the cost.
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Big TV to Tie-up with Warner Bros, Fox Channels
Big TV is certainly going global. Reliance is slated to finalise deals with
Fox, Warner Brothers and Korean Broadcasting. This move is in line with Big TV's strategy to increase the number of channels from 200 to 400.
Once the agreement is inked, Big TV will introduce five global channels of Fox and one global channel each of Warner Brothers and Korean Broadcasting. The channels include are Fox Adventure, Fox Crime, Fox FX, Fox History, Nat Geo Music, Warners WB Movies and KBS World.
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Latest Hindi Films on Big TV's Pay-Per-View Channels
Big TV has rolled out slew of latest Bollywood films on their pay per view (PPV) channels for the month of March. Reliance is in talks with several producers for DTH rights and are also exploring the option of exclusive rights for some films.
Lined up for this month are latest flicks like Gauri – The Unborn and Love Story 2050, the films will be shown back-to-back throughout the day on dedicated channels and subscribers will have to pay a nominal fee of Rs 65 for Gauri-The Unborn and Rs 75 for Love Story 2050.
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Big TV Delays Launch of New Channels
Reliance Big TV has postponed its plans to foray into broadcasting, due to economic slowdown. The company had announced in May last year to launch and operate a bouquet of 20 channels under two new entities — Reliance Big TV Entertainment and Reliance Big TV News.
"There is no change in the business plan. Since it is tough time around, we will decide the timing of the launch later. Currently, the company is proceeding with studies and analysis," said a company executive.
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Big TV Expected to Hike DTH Price
The global economic crisis is expected to hit DTH segment, with all DTH operators, including Reliance Big TV, planning to hike their prices. The South market will be the first to witness the price rise, since the change in price is expected to have little impact on the spiralling demand.
South is a major market for Big TV, as nearly 50% of the subscribers are based there, and overall South accounts for 35% of the DTH market. The weakening rupee is increasing the cost of importing set-top boxes.
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Big TV to Increase Number of Channels
Citing fierce competition, Reliance Big TV, which offers more channels than any other DTH operator at present, is planning on increasing its bouquet of channels from 200 to 400 soon.
Currently, other DTH operators are offering about 175 channels to their subscribers, and with one more player, Bharti Airtel launching its services this month, DTH market is certainly gaining momentum.
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Big TV Entertainment and News
Reliance Entertainment from the ADAG group has split itself into two branches namely the Reliance Big TV Entertainment and Reliance Big TV News to foray into the broadcast business.
The reason for this is due to the governments restrictions on foreign direct investment in the news media sector. The group is proposing two general news and two business news channels in Hindi and English and wants to remain open to the idea of roping in an international player in the entertainment TV segment.
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Big TV Updated Channel List
The updated channel list of Big TV. There are total of 250 channels now.
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