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Sony Pictures Digital, AT&T Wireless hatch alliance
CALIFORNIA : Sony Pictures Digital and AT&T Wireless have announced that content from the library of Sony Pictures Entertainment is now available to AT&T Wireless mMode customers.
An official release informs that AT&T Wireless is the first US carrier to launch a comprehensive array of content from Sony Pictures Digital, including screensavers, ring tones, games, news and reviews, and more.
AT&T Wireless mMode customers are now able to access the Sony Pictures Mobile channel where they can view information and updates on current and future Sony Pictures Entertainment feature films, television programs and DVD releases. The Sony Pictures Mobile channel also features a PhoneCandy section where customers can download items such as wallpaper, screensavers and ring tones based on a wide array of properties from Sony Pictures Entertainment, including XXX, Stuart Little 2, the award-winning animated short film The ChubbChubbs, game shows Wheel of Fortune, JEOPARDY!, the recently launched Pyramid, as well as current and upcoming features such as I-Spy and Adam Sandler’s 8 Crazy Nights.
Content from SoapCity, Sony Pictures Digital’s premiere soap opera web destination which logs over 2.9 million unique users a month, is now available to mMode customers, providing daily updates and information on their favorite characters and shows, including Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, As the World Turns, Guiding Light, and The Bold and the Beautiful.
With the hit show Dawson’s Creek entering its sixth season, mMode fans of the show are able to subscribe to weekly updates on the show, trivia and fun facts about their favourite characters and exclusive, inside information.
AT&T Wireless claims to be the largest independently traded wireless carrier in the United States. AT&T Wireless now operates the largest GSM/GPRS network in the Western Hemisphere.
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Sameer Nair shares heartfelt note as he exits Applause Entertainment
After nine years building the streamer’s content engine, one of India’s best-known TV men is moving on
MUMBAI: Sameer Nair is out. The chief executive of Applause Entertainment, the content studio backed by Kumar Mangalam Birla’s media empire, has announced his departure after nearly nine years at the helm, closing the chapter on one of Indian entertainment’s more quietly consequential careers.
Nair, who built Applause from the ground up in its current avatar, oversaw a slate that spanned Indian originals and international adaptations, threading together a hub-and-spoke business model that partnered with streaming platforms, broadcasters and production houses alike. The results were uneven, as they always are in content, but the ambition was not.
In a post on LinkedIn, Nair was generous to his outgoing patron. He thanked Birla for being an “inspirational boss and a great patron of the arts,” and signed off with a cheerful “Au Revoir” and a promise to remain Applause’s biggest cheerleader. Whether that sentiment survives the next chapter remains to be seen.
No successor has been named. Applause Entertainment did not immediately comment.
Nair built the machine. Now someone else has to run it — and in a streaming market that is simultaneously consolidating and convulsing, that is no small ask.
