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US telenovela dubbing market on an upswing: tec provider
MUMBAI: The Kitchen, the US-based language customisation company, has observed that the demand for dubbed formats of telenovelas is presently on the rise globally.
Unlike the good old days, when only English speaking audiences were spoken to, today’s Telenovela reaches the Spanish households, the Portuguese families, West Africa, Hungary and Estonia, the company observes in an official release.
“The demand,” according to president & CEO Ken Lorber, is remarkable. “On a monthly basis we may have as many as 40 to 50 episodes in some form of production. Actors come in and out. A different language is heard in every studio. music & effect’s (M&E) are often re-created. Graphics are completed, when necessary, in each language,” he states.
The Kitchen’s Emmy award winning language localization software technology, offers language transcription, translation, dubbing, subtitling, graphics customization, closed captioning and traffic services, in all languages.
The company, owned by TM Systems, claims that, it completed four entire episodic Telenovela’s in 2005, including its first Spanish to French sale to the Western African marketplace.
Telenovela’s are now in demand globally. Old ’60’s and ’70’s television series are being dubbed into every language. The creation of voice, sound and graphics localisation for video game releases is becoming truly international. And of course, there is the snow ball effect of worldwide sales of current American programs, the company release says about the trends.
The Kitchen offers the distributor, the network and the producer, the ability to be fully in control of his international production for the very first time. The Kitchen’s international language facilities offer a complete menu of services and provides those services in all languages, the release adds.
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CNN-News18 to air live counting day coverage for five state election results on May 4
The channel is rolling out its biggest election coverage machinery yet for results day on 4th May
NOIDA: The votes have been cast. Now comes the reckoning. CNN-News18 is pulling out all the stops for results day on 4th May, when counting begins across five battleground states — West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Puducherry — in what promises to be one of the most closely watched electoral verdicts in recent memory.
The channel’s coverage, titled Battle for the States: The Verdict, kicks off at 7am and runs through the day across linear TV, connected television and YouTube. It is the culmination of CNN-News18’s multi-format editorial initiative, Battle for the States, which has tracked the polls from the beginning under the theme Road to Power.
At the operational heart of the coverage will be the Live Results Hub, the channel’s central command centre built to collate, verify and process real-time data flowing in from reporters stationed at counting centres across constituencies. The hub combines newsroom intelligence, analytics and on-the-ground reporting to deliver what the channel promises will be the fastest and most accurate results coverage in English news.
Leading the on-air charge will be primetime anchors Rahul Shivshankar, Anand Narasimhan, Aman Sharma, Nabila Jamal and Shivani Gupta. They will be joined by a wide panel of commentators including author Chetan Bhagat; GVL Narasimha Rao, senior leader of the BJP; Smita Prakash, editor of ANI; activist Saira Shah Halim; political analyst Sumanth C Raman; Abhijit Iyer Mitra, senior fellow at IPCS; Amitabh Tiwari, founder of VoteVibe; columnist Abhijit Majumdar; Nalin Mehta, managing editor of MoneyControl; political analyst Tehseen Poonawalla; senior journalist Subir Bhaumik; and political analyst Manojit Mandal.
Shivshankar, who serves as editorial affairs director at CNN-News18, set out the stakes plainly. “Counting day is one of the most watched events in the electoral cycle, where speed and credibility are tested in real time,” he said. “Battle for the States: The Verdict is built on that promise, combining ground reporting, sharp analysis and cutting-edge election technology to give viewers the clearest and fastest route to the verdict. On May 4, CNN-News18 will once again be the nation’s most trusted channel to witness democracy in action.”
Smriti Mehra, chief executive of English and Business News at Network18, framed the coverage in broader terms. “Elections are defining national events, and audiences turn to brands they trust in moments that matter,” she said. “CNN-News18 has consistently led from the front in every election coverage, and this special programming reflects the scale of our ambition and editorial strength.”
The channel has form here. It claims to have been India’s most preferred English news destination for election results for the past 20 years, covering everything from the 2024 general elections to the Delhi, Maharashtra, Bihar and BMC polls on the back of what it calls an “Always First, Always Right” record. Five states, one day, and a nation waiting for answers. The clock starts at 7am on 4th May.
