Radio One & TV 2 to launch

Radio One & TV 2 are expected to launch over the weekend. Radio One is already carrying out transmissions whereas TV 2 which has been off air for several weeks now is expected to commence over the weekend.

The channels are being operated by People's Media Network owned by the East West Group. This is East West Group's second foray into media the first being ETV 1 anf ETV 2 several years ago which was eventually sold to EAP Group and was rebranded as Swarnavahini & ETV.

Fox History & Entertainment to replace "The History Channel" on Nov 22nd

"Fox History & Entertainment" will replace "The History Channel India" from Nov 22nd 2008. This is the first channel in this region to carry the Fox name and is seen as a precursor to the launch of other channels such as Fox Crime, etc.

The newly relaunched channel will focus mainly on educational and entertaining programmes and is expected to be similar to the History Channel. Hopefully their is no shift to dub the programmes in Hindi which means dual language feeds should be available.

Website : www.foxhistory.com

New channel testing on FM 107.9

A new radio channel is said to be testing on the FM 107.9 band. This was previous allocated to Hiru FM and the testing is said to be carried out using English, Sinhala & Tamil music. We are unable to confirm who is operating this channel but it could be an ABC Radio Network channel.

If so they will either be planning to launch Sun FM or Hiru FM over this frequency.

Please keep us updated as when information becomes available about this channel.

"History Channel" to be rebranded as "Fox History & Entertainment"?

It looks like pay television channel "The History Channel" will be rebranding on Nov 22nd. Recent adverts running on the channel indicate the launch of a channel called "Fox History & Entertainment".

Since History Channel has been moving into showing historical movies and some entertainment based ones while also telecasting educational programming over the last year or so, it looks highly likely that the this will likely be a rebranding of the present History Channel.

Some Indian forums indicate that this may be a new channel but we do not believe so? The new channel would be operated by Star which also operates History Channel in this region.

Star World to unveil new on air look

Pay Entertainment channel Star World has started sporting a new on air look in the Singapore and East Asia region. This look will be introduced onto Star World South Asia from next month. The new look implemented yesterday sports a new logo, new on air graphics, etc.

New Star World Logo

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