MUMBAI: Factual entertainment channel History TV18 is launching a new show titled ?Around the World in 80 Ways?.

Starting 18 September, the show will air every Tuesday at 9 pm.

In the show Rob Boston and Dennis Anderson will take a challenging voyage to go around the globe by uncovering 80 unique modes of transportation, without repeating any vehicle.

The 10 part series explores new countries across the globe. The hosts navigate through Brazil, Peru, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Tanzania, Dubai, India, Thailand, and the United States.

The show is produced by Original Productions, a Fremantle Media Company. Thom Beers and Philip D. Segal are executive producers and Jeff Conroy is co-executive producer for Original Productions. Julian P. Hobbs is executive producer for History.

Boston and Anderson?s expedition will also bring them to India. In Mumbai, the two hosts are greeted with "swarming" and "busy" lanes. They score some Tuk Tuks and race their way out on the busy streets. Elephants, ox-carts and other new forms of transportation will eventually take them to their destination - the beautiful Lake Pichola, the statement read.

MUMBAI: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced the nominees for the 2012 Current Affairs and News categories.

The Academy will present the nominees with their medals and certificates, at a breakfast event on October 1, in New York City, featuring guest speaker David Westin, who was ABC News president of and author of ‘Exit Interview‘. Winners will be announced that night at a Ceremony at the Frederick P. Rose Hall of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

The international winners will be honored alongside their American news and documentary counterparts. The eight nominees span seven countries: Brazil (two), Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Qatar and Russia.

IATAS president & CEO Bruce L. Paisner said, "The 2012 nominees present a powerful showcase of the human, political and socio-economic drama unfolding daily around the world. The Academy congratulates the men and women behind these programs for their outstanding journalism."

The 2012 International Emmy Awards Current Affairs & News Nominees:

Current Affairs:

Profession: Reporter - Children and Drugs: A Childhood Overtaken by Addiction
TV Globo
Brazil
‘Profession: Reporter‘ explores the reality of childhood drug addiction in urban areas of Brazil. In the city of Rio de Janeiro local authorities have created mandatory treatment programs to help underage crack addicts.

Haiti‘s Orphans: One Year After the Earthquake
CBC Television
Canada
After the earthquake in Haiti, thousands of children were orphaned and left behind to unknown fates. The special follow the hope and heartache of three of those children and the caring adults in Canada and Haiti determined to help them.

China Dolls - Fragile Bodies, Strong Minds
Phoenix Satellite Television Co. Ltd.
Hong Kong, China
In May 2011 reporter Ren Ren spent a month filming two families affected by Brittle Bone Disease in China. The survival rates of children with the rare disease and their daily struggles are revealed.

Extra: The RTL Magazine - The Merciless Traffic in the Flight From Africa infoNetwork GmbH
Germany
There are an estimated 180,000 refugees crowded into the areas between Tunisia and Egypt, attempting to reach Europe by sea.

RTL ‘Extra‘ reporter Jenke von Wilmsdorff has become the first TV journalist to accompany hundreds of refugees aboard a smuggler‘s boat to Lampedusa.

News:
Jornal Nacional - Rains in the Mountain Region of Rio
TV Globo
Brazil
In January 2011 heavy rains in the mountain region of Rio de Janeiro state caused the worst natural disaster in Brazilian history. TV Globo‘s crews took to the road soon after the first landslides began. The crews followed rescue teams as they struggled to reach families stranded in extreme conditions.

Great East Japan Earthquake Emergency News
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.)
Japan
On 11 March, 2011 the largest earthquake in the country‘s history struck Japan, generating a devastatingly destructive tsunami. NHK was immediately on the scene, covering the first moments of the disaster as it happened and providing continuous coverage to keep the public informed.

Newshour - Fall of Tripoli
Al Jazeera Network / Al Jazeera English
Qatar
Al Jazeera journalists provide extensive coverage of the uprising in Libya. As fighters advanced towards Tripoli from Zlitan to the Western mountains, Al Jazeera tells the stories of the people of Libya and the battle to free them from years of tyranny.

Occupy Wall Street - Occupy Movement
RT Channel
Russia
On October 15, 2011 the Occupy movement went global. It started in New York City when protesters, unhappy with the way their government was handling the economy, pitched tents outside the stock exchange. RT brings the protesters‘ message worldwide.

MUMBAI: National Basketball Association (NBA) and German multinational software corporation SAP have entered into a new multiyear marketing partnership that will make SAP the Official Business Analytics Software Partner of the NBA.

The partnership includes the Women?s National Basketball Association and the NBA Development League and will allow SAP to connect with the passionate fan bases of all three leagues. Along with the U.S, the partnership extends to several international markets, including Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India and Russia.

As part of the marketing partnership, SAP will serve as an associate partner of NBA All-Star, the NBA Draft and the NBA Cares All-Star Day of Service.

Additionally, SAP will be a partner of NBA China Games 2012, which includes two games between the Miami Heat and Los Angeles Clippers in Beijing (11 October) and Shanghai (14 October), and NBA Europe Live 2012 presented by BBVA game in Berlin between the Dallas Mavericks and Alba Berlin (6 October).

In addition, NBA has selected SAP HANA platform to develop a statistical experience for its fans on NBA.com. The real-time data platform will enable the league to bring official NBA statistical information directly to fans? fingertips on the league?s official website.

?We are constantly researching new and emerging technologies in an effort to provide our fans with new ways to connect with our game,? said NBA Commissioner David Stern. ?SAP is a leader in providing innovative software solutions and an ideal partner to provide a dynamic and comprehensive statistical offering as fans interact with NBA basketball on a global basis.?

?SAP is honored to partner with the NBA, one of the world?s most respected sports organizations,? said SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott. ?Through SAP HANA, fans will be able to experience the NBA as never before. This is a slam dunk for SAP, the NBA and the many fans who will now have access to unprecedented insight and analysis.?

The NBA statistics team will implement SAP HANA to run the league?s enhanced statistical offering on NBA.com, which previously was accessible only to NBA employees and select media members. NBA fans will be able to access large volumes of statistical information and analysis tools on the SAP HANA platform, which will enhance their overall experience.

Furthermore, the NBA has also selected SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) solutions for advanced analysis with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer software and SAP Data Services software.

By utilising SAP HANA to power official NBA statistics on NBA.com, and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and SAP Data Services to enhance data quality, the NBA will provide fans with access to an innovative and easy-to-use statistical platform for their desktop, tablet or mobile device. The project is scheduled to launch during the 2012-13 season.

Throughout the year SAP solutions will deliver real-time data across the NBA?s entire global operations, encompassing media, special events, mobility, social media, player and team statistics, technology and fan interactions.

MUMBAI; The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has launched the tender process for the sale of the broadcast and exhibition rights for the UK for the XXII Olympic Winter Games (2014) in Sochi, Russia, and the Games of the XXXI Olympiad (2016) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The tender also provides the opportunity to make a bid for the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (2018) in PyeongChang, South Korea, and the Games of the XXXII Olympiad (2020) in a city to be selected by the IOC.

The tender issued by the IOC provides organisations interested in acquiring the rights with specific guidelines relating to bid submissions. The IOC has asked for bids to be submitted by 29 June 2012.

The IOC will assess bids on their ability to meet the highest standards in broadcast quality, their capacity to reach the broadest possible audience, their commitment to promoting the Olympic Games and the values of the Olympic Movement, as well as on the financial offer.

MUMBAI: Manchester United is the world?s most popular club with 659 million global followers.

Kantar, which carried out a survey, found that football remains the world?s most popular sport, with 1.6 billion followers globally, reinforcing the results of a recent Fifa survey. For the survey, Kantar gathered 54,000 respondents from 39 countries.

The club?s commercial director Richard Arnold commented on the long-term strategy that has made Manchester United the number one club in the world?s number one sport: "Manchester United has built on a tradition of iconic players, iconic teams and iconic achievements -- Beckham, Busby, Benfica ?68. Now our games are broadcast to 1.15 billion households globally, to an audience of over four billion a year."

Since 2007, Manchester United has rolled out new approaches to reach fans. The connections to the club has grown exponentially: from the increase in TV viewership from two to four billion last season, to the demand from millions of media subscribers in 72 countries through media partnerships and to the way the footage of Wayne?s overhead kick echoed around the world on social media.

"With the DHL Champions Trophy tour we have seen that passion from our community of followers face to face in 38 cities across the globe, and there does not seem to be a beach or street in the world where you do not see the Aon and Nike shirt. This survey shows that our family of followers is going from strength to strength," Arnold said.

Manchester United has 71 million followers in Americas, 90 million in Europe 73 million in Middle East and Africa, 325 million in Asia-Pacific an 108 million in China.

The number of Manchester United followers globally has grown by 98 per cent since the previous survey in 2007. Manchester United?s family of followers is larger than the combined population of the US, Brazil and Mexico.

MUMBAI: The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has announced a record-breaking collection of rights holding broadcasters to screen the Paralympic Games across the globe this summer.

Combining with the previous announcements of exposure in the UK through Channel 4 and China?s largest national broadcasting network CCTV, the total worldwide broadcast deals will see a record ?10 million in revenue generated from the sale of broadcast rights to the Paralympic Games - greater than for any previous Games.

The local organising committee has stitched deals with European Broadcasting Union (EBU), NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Globo TV in Brazil, Australia?s public broadcaster ABC, Italian digital subscription channel Sky Italia, Korea public service broadcaster KBS (Korean roadcasting System) and Thailand Pool TV representing a pool of well established broadcasters in Thailand.

Host broadcaster services are being provided by OBS, providing viewers around the world with unbiased live action in high definition. Minimum broadcast commitments have been matched or exceeded in all cases with hundreds of hours of Paralympic sport to be broadcast right across the world.

LOCOG chair Sebastian Coe said: ?As the world?s second biggest multi-sport event, all eyes will be focussed on the Paralympic Games in London in 2012. Beyond how the commercial value of this package has raised the bar financially for the Paralympic movement, the fantastic broadcast coverage we have agreed will help us take advantage of this opportunity to inspire disabled people of all ages to take up sport and be a catalyst for continued change in public attitudes towards disability.?