June 29th, 2008
Britannia Industries Limited is an Indian company based in Kolkata that is famous for its Britannia and Tiger brands of biscuit, which is highly recognised throughout the country. Britannia is India’s largest biscuit firm, with an estimated 38% market share. The Company’s principal activity is the manufacture and sale of biscuits, bread, rusk, cakes and dairy products like cheese, butter and milk.The Britannia’s fame is largely acknowledged through the colourful Britannia logos that Indian cricketers such as Virender Sehwag, and Rahul Dravid wear on their bats.
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June 11th, 2008
Sun TV channels went off the air in most places in the Temple City following an instant migration of local cable operators from Maran-owned Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV) to Azhagiri-owned Royal Cable Vision (RCV) launched on Monday.Caught in the cable tiff were housewives who passionately watch the mega serials telecast on Sun TV.They choked the phone lines and flooded the local cable operators with angry queries about the sudden blackout of the Sun Network since Tuesday morning.Only those who had installed Sun Direct (Directto-Home Service) could watch the Sun channels without any interruption. A prolonged blackout could see more of cable connected homes switch over to Sun’s DTH, which is yet to take off among the middle and low income groups. A few localities like K.K.Nagar, however, did not suffer any interruption in the network’s telecast as the operators chose to remain with SCV.
Madurai Cable TV Operators Association A.M. Kannan told this newspaper, “With the presence of 30 MSOs, a total of 450 cable operators function in the city. While only 100 of them are with SCV, the major chunk of operators shifted their loyalty to RCV.Moreover, the dealers of pay channels like Raj, Vijay, Jetix and Discovery have inked pact with RCV to relay their channels. We do not have any problem in telecasting Jaya TV programmes too.” Sensing stiff competition, SCV jumped the guns a week ago by giving cable operators 50 percent concession in the charges towards every cable connection. But Azhagiri, according to an insider in his camp, had told a meeting of cable operators after the launch of RCV on Monday that he was aware of their difficulties assured them a share in the profits.
Meanwhile, a scroll announcing that Sun TV firm has been delaying its telecast service to RCV despite the latter’s appeal, is on in areas where Sun channels have been blacked out. RCV is very hopeful of getting Sun package. “This is only a business. When we have the network, they have no other alternative but to come to us in near future,” Mr Kannan said.
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April 16th, 2008
The Hindu, morning English daily is the leader in South India. The Hindu for a single-edition has the second largest circulation newspaper in India, and the largest circulation for a single-edition English-language newspaper in the country. With a circulation of 1.17 million copies, The Hindu and has its largest base of circulation in South India, especially Tamil Nadu. Begun in 1878, it was founded on the principles of fairness justice. Headquartered at Chennai, The Hindu was published weekly when it was launched and started publishing daily in 1889. The Hindu became, in 1995, the first Indian newspaper to offer an online edition. Now, after the launch of TIMES of INDIA, the worlds largest selling English daily, the Hindu has slashed their rates from Rs. 3.25 to Rs. 2.50 per copy from Monday to Saturday and Rs. 3/- per copy on Sunday, previously it was Rs. 4/- copy. The other competitors in Tamil Nadu are Deccan Chronicle and The New Indian Express. Recently, the The new Indian Express too has made some change to their paper quality, which looks good now. The question is everyones mind is that, Will The Hindu continues to be the Leader or not??
>> Snap shot of The ‘new’ New Indian Express
>> Deccan Chronicle Logo
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April 14th, 2008
The Times of INDIA, Chennai edition launched today in Chennai. The Times of India (TOI) is a leading English-language broadsheet daily newspaper in India. It is owned and managed by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (The Times Group). The newspaper has the widest circulation among all English-language broadsheets in India. The daily editions of the paper were started from 1850 as the Bombay Times and by 1861, the Bombay Times was renamed The Times of India. To celebrate the launch of their daily in Chennai, they were planned to co-sponsor A R Rahman Live in Chennai Concert on April 20th 2008. The Chennai edition of the daily costs Rs. 2/- per copy.
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January 26th, 2008
Sun Network launched Sun Direct, DTH service, few months ago which resulted in agitation from local cable operators from all over Tamil Nadu. Doing with this matter, Tamil Nadu Government promised to launch Arasu Cable vision. Government officials reported that cable connections all over tamil nadu will be undertaken by government itself by acting as a MSO(Multi system operator). But now Central government delays to take give a license to ACV, making it to act as a MSO and so ACV has already post-ponded for another three months. In the mean time, it is said that if ACV fails to get the status as MSO then the government will support Hathway by giving the tender to them, allowing to continue their service all over Chennai. In present, Hathway has only 10% of the chennai cable tv customers while remaining 90% of the traffic is controlled by Sun network owned SCV(Sumangali Cable Vision).
Offer[Fraud] Game :
Few days back SCV started to distribute their STBs(Set top box) at a price of Rs. 500 + Rs. 400 for smart card. In the mean time, Hathway started to distribute their STB at a free of cost including smart card and charging Rs. 100 + Rs. 5 per pay channels as a monthly charges. In reply to this now SCV also started to distribute the STBs for free of cost. Fraud game starts now, SCV ads are not clear to the customers like Hathway ad. Customers rushed to the local cable operators and realized later that SCV STBs is not free of cost that they are demanding Rs. 400 as a deposit amount, which is refundable(warning : Don’t get scammed!!!). This game was started in the middle of the last year between DMK and Maran brothers, and it continues still in various directions in various means. Anyhow, I hereby request the people of Tamil Nadu to be very careful regarding these cable issue, don’t be in hurry while getting STBs. If your area doesn’t have an Hathway distribution, don’t get disappointed, sources say that they are expanding they’re network, Hathway might reach your area anytime. Most of the cable operators are ready to switch to Hathway from SCV(SCAM Cable Vision). In present Hathway is available to areas like Velachery, K.K.Nagar, etc., and the official sources from Hathway said that it would reach Kodambakkam, Vadapalani, Saligramam and Virugambakkam within a month of time. In the mean time Tata SKY, dth service provider, has slashed their rates pricing at Rs. 2500 including installation charges. I’m repeating, don’t be in hurry while selecting between the service. Keep checking to my blog to get the updates on the Greater Chennai Cable Game.
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December 7th, 2007
Happy news to everyone, who are all looking forward for the launch of the SUN Direct. Sun Direct launched in Chennai on 5th Dec., 2007. The customers who have applied for SUN Direct before couple of months started to receive calls from the distributors requesting them to come and collect the boxes and necessary accessories from them. It is unofficially confirmed that SUN Direct would be launched in other places in Tamil Nadu by this weekend or next week. Obviously, they should rush to make their launch since the Arasu Cable Vision, owned by Govt. of Tamil Nadu, is on the way to knock the cable door of Tamil Nadu.
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