Vijay TV proudly launches the fourth edition of Jodi

Jodi, the popular dance show on Vijay TV launched during 2006 had changed the face of Television viewing altogether. Soaps and tear jerker, that ruled the Tamilnadu audiences, went through a revolution with the inception of Jodi No.1 on Vijay TV. The dance show involving celebrities has had three successful seasons so far roping in some of the most popular silver screen celebrities as judges like Ramya Krishnan, Prashanth, Silambarasan, Sundaram Master, Kala Master, Sangeetha, Aishwarya Dhanush and Jeeva

– ‘Gokul Secret Garden Jodi No.1 Season 4’ is all set to launch this time with nine celebrity couples who are to enthrall the audiences again.

The list of Celebrity Jodis

Sathish-Divyadarshini, Sherif-Saipromodhitha, Manikandan-Rajini, Premgopal-Premili, Suresh-Jayalakshmi, Wong-Sunita Gogai, Geethan Britto-Divya, Arun-Priya and Sai Karthik-Priya are the nine sizzling Jodi’s who would be burn the dance floor this time around.

The dancers on view are not only talented but also would bring in innovative dance styles that this market has not seen. Dance Styles from across the globe mixed with the regional forms would be on fare. The themes and mise-en-scènes week on week and would decide the crowning of the ‘Best Jodi’ and the elimination of the weakest pair.

Interspersed with the set rounds, Jodi would also travel around the State as ‘Mini events’ as the dancers would perform in front of audiences in various districts of Tamilnadu like Coimbatore, Tiruchy, Madurai and Chennai. The live audience would decide the fate of the performing pairs by voting.

The Grand Finale of the fourth edition would be a star studded “Mega Event” teaming with celebrities from tinsel-town. The event would witness celebrity performances; non-stop dance numbers as the final 3 Jodi’s would battle it out for the ultimate title of the ‘Best Jodi of Season 4’.

Apart form gaining the title of Season 4, the winning Jodi would be entitled to take home loads of surprise gifts too! ‘Gokul Secret Garden Jodi No.1 Season 4’ is all set to take off on Jan29th, 2010, 10pm. The show would air every Fri/Sat 2200 hrs.

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IT raids Surya & co

The Income Tax department has cracked down on actor Suriya and his close associates. The raids started early in the morning from 7 am and went on till afternoon 2pm. IT officials conducted the raid at various offices and residences of the star and those closely associated with him. Among those from Kollywood who were raided are Suriya, KS Ravikumar (Aadhavan director), AR Murgadoss (Ghajini director), Gjnavel Raja the actor's cousin and producer of his next film Singam.

The offices of Agaram Foundation, a charity trust and foundation floated by the actor and a business man associated with the foundation have come under the IT scanner. The raids have come four days after Vijay TV and Suriya’s Agaram Foundation came together for a movement called ‘Vidhai’ to generate the pool corpus to help students to achieve their academic goals. Suriya and a few businessmen raised Rs 1 crore for the “noble cause”. On Pongal day Vijay TV showed a special programme anchored by Suriya titled Oru Koodi, Oru Thodakkam , where Agaram Foundation’s efforts were highlighted.

Suriya in an interview before the programme had said: “Agaram acts as bridge to connect the deserving students and those who are willing to provide money for the students. Agaram Foundation would choose the deserving students at the end of this academic year and the students would be funded completely for their higher education - be it Engineering or Medicine or any course of the student’s choice from the fund that is collected”.

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Jodi No.1 Season 4

Fridays and Saturdays, 10 p.m

Gokul Secret Garden Jodi No.1 Season 4 is all set to take off from today (February 29). The nine jodis to participate this season are Sathish-Divyadarshini, Sherif-Saipromodhitha, Manikandan-Rajini, Premgopal-Premili, Suresh-Jayalakshmi, Wong-Sunita Gogoi, Geethan Britto-Divya, Arun-Priya and Sai Karthik-Priya. Besides showcasing different dance styles from across the globe, the participants will travel across the State and perform live for an audience, which will vote their favourite dancing jodi. The grand finale promises to be a star studded event. Of course, an amazing range of gifts awaits the winning Jodi.

Updates..

Swayamvaram

This reality show to be telecast on Vijay TV soon, aims to find the ‘Perfect Bachelor' in the State. Eligible candidates must be in the age group of 22 to 28 and submit proof of financial stability, bio-data and age and qualification proofs to Vijay TV's office along with the reason stating why you want to be chosen as Tamil Nadu's most eligible bachelor. Auditions will take place in Coimbatore, Tiruchi and Chennai. The short-listed candidates will have to go through various rounds where their performance will be monitored by a panel of judges. Those interested can send in their applications to Executive Producer, Vijay TV, Post Box No. 8484, Chennai – 600034.

Super Mom

Here's another reality show on Vijay TV. ‘Super Mom' is for young mothers who have children in the age group of 6 to 10. All you need to do is write why you think you deserve to win the title, and send your bio-data and a recent photograph taken with your child to Executive Producer, Vijay TV, Post Box No. 8484, Chennai – 600034.

The chosen few will have to face different situations that will test their parenting skill to emerge winner. Lots of gifts await the winning mother-child pair. The fun-filled game show will be launched soon on television.

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Govt to invite bids for mobile TV licence

Licences will be given State-wise and each player will get 8 Mhz spectrum in 585 Mhz and 806 Mhz frequency bands. The Government has accepted the recommendations made by the telecom regulator to hold a bidding process for issuing licences for offering mobile TV services. It has also been decided to allow operators to decide on the technology to be deployed for offering the service. Mobile TV will enable consumers get live TV channels on a handheld device. Service providers will be permitted to have foreign direct investments of up to 74 per cent.

“The methodology for grant of licence through closed tender system on the basis of one-time entry fee quoted by the bidders should be broadly based on the bidding process followed for licensing of private FM radio stations. However, the reserve entry fee for a particular licence area should be 50 per cent of the highest financial bid submitted for the particular area,” stated a Government document.

Sharing infrastructure

Licences will be given State-wise and each player will get 8 Mhz spectrum in 585 Mhz and 806 Mhz frequency bands. The Government has also decided that Doordarshan, which is the only player to start mobile TV services, should be permitted to share infrastructure with private players on mutual agreement basis. “Wherever a mobile television service provider has installed its own infrastructure, it should be made available for sharing with other such service providers,” said the document. In addition to the entry fee, operators will have to pay annually 4 per cent of their revenues as licence fee to the Government. While existing telecom operators with unified access licence will not have to bid for a Mobile TV licence, they will have to pay all the levies. The modalities of issuing the licence will be worked out by the Information and Broadcasting whereas the spectrum will be made available by the Department of Telecom.

Two ways

Technically, there are two main ways of delivering television content to mobile devices. The television content could be provided via mobile telecommunications networks through 3G technologies or by using broadcasting platform such as Qualcomm's Media-Flo and Nokia's DVBH technologies. Currently, only Doordarshan has commercially launched the service on the DVBH platform. Telecom companies are also planning to foray into this segment owing to its huge revenue earning potential. However, broadcasting platform has an advantage when it comes to mobile TV services because the spectrum is dedicated only for transmitting TV channels. 3G technologies is used for voice, data and video and, therefore, operators may not be able to offer as many number of channels or quality as a Mobile TV player.

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Jodi No 1 season 4 from January 29

Vijay TV, Star India's Tamil channel, will kick off the fourth edition of Gokul Secret Garden Jodi No.1 from 29 January. The show, which will air at 10 pm, will have nine celebrity couples taking part. The dance show involving celebrities has had three successful seasons so far, roping in some of the most popular silver screen celebrities as judges like Ramya Krishnan, Prashanth, Silambarasan, Sundaram Master, Kala Master, Sangeetha, Aishwarya Dhanush and Jeeva.

The celebrity ‘jodi’s for ‘Gokul Secret Garden Jodi No.1 Season 4’ include

Sathish-Divyadarshini
Sherif-Saipromodhitha
Manikandan-Rajini
Premgopal-Premili
Suresh-Jayalakshmi
Wong-Sunita Gogai
Geethan Britto-Divya
Arun-Priya
Sai Karthik-Priya

It is to be noted that the ‘jodis’ for this season will bring in innovative dance styles that this market has not seen, including dance styles from across the globe mixed with the regional forms. Get ready for the action !!!