Asianet ropes in three sponsors for Christmas Day
BENGALURU: The Star Network’s Malayalam GEC Asianet has roped in Josco Jewellers as Christmas Day sponsor with Malaba
MUMBAI: Malayalam entertainment channel Asianet will kick-off its special programming for the Christmas festival with Christmas choir Gloria on 25 December at 6.30 am.
Gloria will be followed by Christmas Sandesham at 7 am and Vellithirayile Nithyavasantham, a chat show with veteran actress Sheela, at 7.30 am.
A special programme, Happy Christmas Daa Thadiya, is at 8 am while Comedy skit Pappiyude Happy Christmas is at 8.30 am.
A special rogramme on movie Kammath & Kammath, Kammath Kudumbathile Kalyana Viseshangal, will be shown at 9 am. The broadcaster will have a chat show with megastar Mammootty and director Ranjith 5.30 pm. A Christmas special, Comedy Express, is at 10 pm.
Asianet is also all set to telecast world movie premieres such as Usthad Hotel (starring: Dulkar Salman, Thilakan, Nithya Menon) at 9.30 am, The King & The Commissioner (starring: Mammootty, Suresh Gopi, Samvritha Sunil) at 1.30pm, and Mayamohini (starring: Dilip, Biju Menon, Babu Raj , Lakshmi Rai) at 6 pm.
BANGALORE: Asianet will air a three-hour grand finale of Season 3 of ?Nammude Swantham Mammookka? (Mammootty: The Best Actor Award) in India on December 8 and 9 at 6 pm.
The show will be aired a couple of days earlier in the Gulf, on December 6 and 7 at the 9 PM (Gulf Time) slot on Asianet Middle East. Nammude Swantham Mammookka is a reality show by Asianet to unearth talented budding actors.
The award ceremony was held on 16 November at Abu Dhabi and reportedly witnessed by an audience of 20,000 which included film stars from the Malayalam and Tamil film industries, claims an Asianet press release.
Anandu from Idukki was declared the winner of Best Actor Award for Season 3 , Rajeev from Thrissur the first runner-up, Vinay from Kannur was the second runner-up and Parvathy from Palakkad secured the third runners-up spot.
The title and only sponsor and advertiser for the 7 episode plus the Grand Finale reality show that ran every Friday between the 10-11 pm slot is rice and rice products brand ?Double Horse? from Kerala-based Manjilas, says a company source.
NEW DELHI: Star India-owned Malayalam television outfit Asianet has received a go-ahead from the Competition Commission of India for its merger with Tamil channel Vijay TV.
Both had approached the Commission for its approval on 22 October as a CCI nod is mandatory for mergers happening under Section 5 of the Competition Act. Both the companies are part of the Star Group.
"The Commission is of the opinion that the proposed combination is not likely to have an adverse impact on competition in India," CCI said.
Star India and Jupiter Entertainment Ventures, Rajeev Chandrasekhar?s media and entertainment development company, had formed a new joint venture called Star Jupiter in 2008. Under the agreement, Star India became the majority shareholder of Asianet Communications Ltd (ACL), which currently broadcasts channels in Kannada (Suvarna), Telugu (Sitara) and Malayalam (Asianet, Asianet Plus).
Vijay TV, the Tamil language general entertainment channel currently operated and owned by Star India, will also come under Star Jupiter.
Indiantelevision.com had earlier reported that Chandrasekhar would also have equity stake in Vijay TV. The clearance of CCI, thus, clears this regulatory hurdle.
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MUMBAI: Star Network?s Malayalam general entertainment channel Asianet is going to air a music and dance event named Ponnonam 2012 on 16 September.
The mega event, which was held earlier in Dubai, will telecast on the channel at 5 pm.
The event had music, dance and comedy performances. Music personalities who performed were Suresh Gopi, Unni Menon, Gayathri, Ann Kathrina, Vivekanandan and Teenu Tellance. The dance performances were by actress Navya Nair and Meera Nandan and comedy recipes by Ramesh Pisharady, Darmajan, Jayan and Krishna Prabha.
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