VIJAY TV SUPER SINGER JUNIOR 2 GOES LIVE! On June 17th, 2010

Airtel Super Singer Junior 2 finals will be telecast live by Vijay TV! The five finalists Alka, Nityasri, Shravan, Roshan and Srikanth will perform before 10,000 people and this will be aired live for the television viewers.

A press note from Vijay TV states, “The five contestants would compete in a three hour mega LIVE show which is to take place on June 17th, 2010 at St. George’s School Campus, Poonamalle High road, Chennai. The show would be graced by legendary music composers and popular musicians. The winner of Airtel Super Singer Junior 2 is entitled to win a beautiful villa worth Rs.25 lakhs.”

Grand Finale

VAijay TV's hunt for the best voice of Tamilnadu, the reality show that began in June 2009 is reaching its last leg. The FINALS of Airtel Super Singer Junior 2 goes LIVE!!!!

The chosen five finalists, Alka (SSJ 02), Nityasri (SSJ 11), Shravan (SSJ 15) Roshan (SSJ 19) and Srikanth (SSJ 20) battling to win the Airtel Super Singer Junior 2 title would be performing in front of a 10,000 audiences. Ardent fans of Super Singer Junior show, could sit before their Television sets and can watch their favorite perform LIVE.

Airtel Super Singer Junior show has so far showcased leading singers like Unni Menon, Unni Krishnan, Sadhana Sargam, Manicka Vinayagam, Sadhana Sargam, Harish Ragavendran, Pop Shalini, Madhu Balakrishnan, Suchitra, Naresh Iyer, Vijay Prakash, Tippu, Kuppuswamy, Anitha Kuppuswamy, Shwetha Mohan, Madhimutha, Charulatha Mani, Suvi Suresh; Carnatic vocalists like Padmavibhushan Balamurali Krishna, Nithyashree Mahadevan, Sowmya, Veeramani Raju; Legendary music composers and singers like M.S.Viswanathan, P.B.Srinivas, L.R.Easwari, P.Suseela, Jency and many others were all a part of this grand musical show.

The five contestants would compete in a three hour mega LIVE show which is to take place on June 17th, 2010 at St. George's School Campus, Poonamalle High road, Chennai. The show would be graced by legendary music composers and popular musicians. The winner of Airtel Super Singer Junior 2 is entitled to win a beautiful villa worth Rs.25 lakhs.

The stage is all set for these budding performers to redefine their dreams. Once again it is the viewers of Tamilnadu who would be choosing the most deserving singer of SSJR through SMS and online voting. Show Judges Singers Mano, Chithra and Malgudi Shubha also would be seen to encourage and judge the talented kids.

Voting mechanism: Viewers can SMS SSJ XX (XX – contestant no) to 57827 and cast their vote for the deserving and talented singer.
Apart from this, viewers can also login to www.vijay.indya.com and cast their vote. Viewers can continue to vote till the LIVE on June 17, 2010.

This excitement of music will be LIVE on Thursday, June 17th starting 7pm. Viewers do not miss to watch your favorite super singer perform for the coveted title one last time.

Are you ready to judge ?

Vijay TV's Azhagiya thamizh magan show organizer requires young married women and moms as judges for the show. The topic is more interesting for our round - it's where all a wife would like her husband to take her to after marriage!

The shoot will be at Mohan studio, vadapalani on this Saturday 12th June.

So it's gonna be a 60 chennai moms show with members! Interested moms,  please SMS your contact number, name to 9962586561 or email to admin@chennaimoms.com

DTH cos struggle to pick right signals

Recently it was reported that the six DTH players launched a marketing blitz costing Rs 1,000 crore. The idea is to hasten the adoption of digital TV in the country.

While its impact on the financial fortunes of the DTH operators — most of whom are bleeding — is still a mystery, the move has brought a smile on the faces of cable companies. They believe that a marketing push by DTH operators touting the benefits of digital services over analogue may convince local cable operators and make customers switch to digital cable services.

Den Networks, for instance, claims that the marketing campaign would help it increase its subscriber base by two times to 20 million in the next 12-18 months. So far so good, but the investors of stocks in cable companies remain disappointed.

With the exception of Den Networks, which has given around 23% returns in the past six months, stocks of all listed cable companies — Hathway Cable & Datacom and Wire & Wireless — have disappointed their investors. Even on the operations front, these companies — except Den Networks, thanks to its higher average revenue per user (ARPU) — are yet to make good profits. This is despite the fact that the combined subscriber base for all six DTH firms currently stands at 24 million while there are at least 85 million cable homes in the country.

The main hurdle for the cable companies is to convert their free-to-air viewers into pay-channel mode — which is a key revenue driver for the industry. This has resulted in lower ARPU for many cable companies. At the time of its initial public offering, Hathway Cable had an ARPU of around Rs 55.8 per month at an estimated subscriber base of 8.2 million while its immediate peer, Den Networks, had an ARPU of around Rs 150-160 per month at an estimated subscriber base of around 10 million.

Another concern for the industry is a slowdown in the growth of TV households. A report from one of the leading auditing firms predicts that the number of TV households would grow at just 2.7% annually over 2009-13 to 135 million.

The report also states that the number of cable households would grow from 71 million in 2008 at just 2.4% annually from 2009 to 80 million by 2013. Besides, this slow growth in their subscriber base, cable companies continue to invest in new equipment and technology to offer world-class experience to their subscribers at a competitive price.

This would be a major challenge for cable companies even as they acquire newer subscribers through local cable operators and digitise them.

Courtesy - Economic times

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