| |
South Indian Television Group
Debuts New Broadband TV Network in North America; Best of Malayalam
Chooses NeuLion as End-to-End Service Provider
Other Topics:
IP-VPN Network, Global IPTV
STB Milestone
NeuLion
February 4, 2008
Plainview, NY -- Best of Malayalam TV (BoMTV) announces the launch
of a new broadcast service throughout the United States and Canada.
This is the first and only broadband TV service from Malayalam
available to audiences in North America. BoMTV offers seven channels
of top-rated Malayalam entertainment and brings viewers the latest
Malayalam movies, events and variety programming on a pay-per-view
basis. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
BoMTV offers a full range of high
quality South Indian entertainment made possible through NeuLion
(TSX: JTV), an iPTV service provider and NeuLion's proprietary set
top box solution. Viewers will be able to watch live Malayalam
content directly on the television.
"We chose NeuLion to deliver Southern India's most popular TV
channels because the company has more Broadband TV/IPTV world
experience than anyone in the world," commented Christopher John,
CEO of BoMTV.
"BoMTV
offers a choice that Malayalam speakers never had. We are delighted
to offer the turnkey infrastructure to fulfill this need," Richard
N. Yelen, vice president and managing director of NeuLion.
BoMTV offers a complete
entertainment experience with programs such as: news, fashion,
movies, gaming, travel, variety, family entertainment, cultural
programs, prayer, music, and more.
BoMTV channels include: Asianet,
Asianet Plus, Asianet News, Jaihind TV, Jeevan TV, Powervision and
Shalom Television.
To subscribe to BoMTV call Toll Free 1-888-201-7999 or visit
www.bomtv.us.
About NeuLion and JumpTV
Based in Plainview, NY, Sanford, Florida and Toronto, Ontario,
NeuLion and JumpTV (TSX: JTV) work with content partners to develop
end-to-end solutions for multimedia IPTV services. The NeuLion iPTV
Platform encodes, delivers, stores and manages an unlimited range of
multimedia content and the Operational Support System (OSS)
maintains all billing and customer support services. Content
partners are responsible for content aggregation and the sales and
marketing for the individual IPTV service. The Company ranks as a
world leader in customer/partner relationships with sports and
international television content partners including, in sports, the
NHL, the NFL, NCAA Division I schools and conferences and, in
respect to international television aggregators and networks,
KyLinTV (Chinese), ABS-CBN (Filipino), Talfazat (Arabic), TV-Desi
(South Asian) and Sky Angel (Christian). Customer/partner content
can be viewed by way of Internet on PCs and on the television
through the Company's proprietary IPTV set top box. Through the
Company's consumer websites: JumpTV.com, Cycling.TV and
SportsYa.com, as well as its collegiate and sports partner websites,
the Company streamed over 15,000 live sporting events in the past 12
months and ranks consistently as one of the top ten ranked US sports
web sites as measured by minutes viewed.
About BoMTV
BoMTV, the entertainment gateway
for the South Indian diaspora including the Malayalee community in
the US, Canada and Europe, is a registered company in Pennsylvania,
USA. It is the first and the only Broadband TV service in Malayalam
providing a range of high quality South Indian entertainment and
news channels, movies on demand and soap operas.
It is piloted by the tech-savvy media entrepreneur, Christopher
John, who set his footprints in the entertainment industry with the
ever-popular 'Best of Malayalam' service in 2006.
BoMTV's Broadband TV service
caters to the 'International Malayalee,' who lives and works abroad
but prefers to watch the news and entertainment channels in
Malayalam, such as Asianet, Asianet Plus, Asianet News, Jaihind,
Jeevan, Shalom and Powervision. The company now runs 'BoMTV'
Broadband TV Service and Bestofmalayalam.com and has plans for more
media ventures.
|
|
|
|
