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GoTV announces IPTV coverage of Primetime Emmy Awards
MUMBAI: Underscoring the growing importance of mobile entertainment in the world of event coverage, the US-based IPTV player GoTV Networks has announced its made-for-mobile news coverage of the 2006 Primetime Emmy awards and related events.
GoTV Networks’ coverage will be created exclusively for mobile viewers’ consumption on the GoTV Networks suite of channels, and it will feature full access to a variety of glamorous events that culminate in television’s biggest night, state an official release.
GoTV Networks entertainment host Athenia Veliz-Dunn will chat with television’s biggest stars as they make their way up the red carpet into the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, 27 August. Additional coverage will include in-person reports from such A-list events and destinations as the Governor’s Ball Press Reception, The Hearts on Fire Emmy Diamond Indulgence Lounge, the pre-Emmy Golf Tournament at Trump National Golf Club, and the Emmy Performers’ Reception.
A team of GoTV Networks hosts including Possum, Yana Kay, Stephanie Stanton, and Courtney Friel will contribute reports from each of these Emmy Week events, exclusively for GoTV Networks subscribers, the release adds.
“GoTV Networks programming is always fresh and hip,” says GoTV Studios executive vice president Daniel Tibbets. “Our Primetime Emmy coverage will be all that and more. Fans can expect all of the glamour and excitement of TV’s biggest night to be delivered with our trademark attitude and style.”
GoTV Networks’ Emmy Awards coverage is available throughout the week and will be featured on GoTV and Diva, two of GoTV Networks’ on-demand premium subscription channels.
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Subscription income softened to Rs.98 crore, slipping 3 per cent sequentially and 14 per cent from last year, while placement and marketing income offered some cheer, rising 15 per cent quarter-on-quarter to Rs.148 crore. Total costs climbed faster than revenue, up 7 per cent QoQ to Rs.238 crore, driven largely by higher content costs and operating expenses. As a result, EBITDA dropped sharply to Rs.13 crore from Rs.19 crore in Q2 and Rs.28 crore a year ago, pulling margins down to 5 per cent.
Yet, the bottom line refused to blink. Profit after tax stood at Rs.40 crore, up 15 per cent sequentially and only marginally lower than last year’s Rs.42 crore. A healthy Rs.57 crore in other income helped cushion operating pressure, keeping profit before tax at Rs.48 crore, broadly stable quarter-on-quarter despite the tougher cost environment.
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