News Broadcasting
Aylus sets up facility for mobile b’cast TV-video & multimedia services
MUMBAI: Aylus Networks (ANW) a US based company today announced setting up its global R&D center in Bangalore. The engineers in the Bangalore center and Massachusetts, USA, will work in tandem to build Mobility Management switch solutions that will enable service providers to deliver mobile broadcast T V/Video and multimedia services across multiple access networks.
ANW is confident that the product will be available for deployment early October next year.
ANW has raised $10 million from two premier venture capital firms, Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners during the first round. The money raised will be utilised for technology development in India as well as the US.
“Wireless operators as well as cable operators are looking into providing mobile TV and content over dedicated mobile TV broadcast networks and over 3G networks to hand held devices. At the same time, convergence between wireless, wireline and cable operators is demanding technology that can span across various access networks, e.g., 2.5G/3G, Cable networks, DSL networks, WiFI , WiMax and mobile broadcast TV networks, to provide uniform multimedia services. Aylus Mobility management switch will enable the providers to offer high definition TV, content and multimedia services across all networks,” said ANW president and CEO Mahesh Ganmukhi.
Mobile content is the next technology wave. Some examples of the mobile contents are video clips of sports events, news, TV shows and movies. There are three screens available for content to subscribers today – TV, PC and mobile hand held devices. So far the content was available over TV and PC. Now the demand for content on the “Third Screen”, the screen of a mobile hand held device, is growing rapidly by the mobile subscribers.
As per ANW, there are over 1.8 billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide today and this number is expected to grow to three billion by 2010. These subscribers would like to have mobile content along with current voice service.
ANW estimates put the world wide market size for services providers in Broadcast TV and Video over hand held devices is estimated to grow to 250 million subscribers by 2010 to generate over $27 billion and market of mobile virtual network operators is pegged to grow to 76 million subscribers to generate $25 billion.
News Broadcasting
Times Network to air JVC Exit Poll across 5 regions on April 29
Four-hour broadcast spans states and Puducherry with data-led analysis
MUMBAI: Times Network is set to roll out what it calls one of its most expansive election programming efforts yet, culminating in the JVC Exit Poll on 29 April, with a multi-hour broadcast spanning key poll-bound regions.
The exit poll will air across Times Now and Times Now Navbharat, beginning at 5pm and 4pm respectively. Co-powered by Vedanta and Jindal Stainless, the programming aims to combine on-ground reportage with data-driven projections across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry.
The network has deployed over 50 journalists across these regions, gathering voter sentiment and local insights in the run-up to polling. The effort builds on its ongoing election formats such as Election Yatra and Election Premier League, which have tracked campaign narratives and community-level issues.
In parallel, Times Now Navbharat has focused on constituency-level reporting in West Bengal through its Jan Gan ka Mann series, capturing voter opinions across diverse segments.
The coverage has also featured interviews with prominent political leaders. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress leaders Ramesh Chennithala and V D Satheesan have appeared on the network’s election specials. From Tamil Nadu, voices including deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran, BJP leader K Annamalai and NTK’s Seeman have also featured in discussions.
On the day of the exit poll, the network’s primetime anchors, including Navika Kumar, Zakka Jacob and Sumit Awasthi, will lead the coverage. They will be joined by a panel of political analysts, psephologists and senior journalists offering real-time insights and interpretation of trends.
The programming will integrate grassroots reportage with analytics from the JVC Exit Poll, aiming to give viewers an early sense of electoral outcomes ahead of the official results on 4 May.
With its combined English and Hindi broadcast reach, Times Network is positioning this effort as a comprehensive look at voter sentiment, blending field reporting, data and debate to decode what could lie ahead when the final mandate is revealed.
