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Ten Sports live on Du mobile TV in the Middle East

  • United Arab Emirates: Wednesday, July 08 - 2009 at 11:21
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Ten Sports, The Indian Sub-continent's highest rating sports channel, has commenced the roll out of its international beam to mobile TV subscribers in the Middle East, thus enabling the fans to catch all of the best cricketing action even when they are on the move.

The agreement signed with UAE's Du is the first of many the broadcaster plans in the region and beyond.

Du's Mobile TV service is an initiative that allows Du's prepaid and postpaid customers the ability to view live selected television channels on their 3/3.5G enabled GSM handsets.

The channel is now live, which will enable cricket fans in the Middle East to watch live action from India's tour of West Indies in June/July and Pakistan's tour of Sri Lanka in July/September and many more live cricket events through the year.

Mark Denton, V.P. Ten Sports said:
"We are tremendously excited to be entering into partnership with Du (and Qtel media) who have demonstrated their strong level of commitment to bring this new generation of television services to subscribers. We have worked hard to make Ten Sports available to mobile subscribers across Europe , Asia and the Middle East and look forward to rolling out our mobile offering over the coming months."


Farid Faraidooni, EVP Commercial, Du, said, "We are in touch with our customers' priorities - they want their entertainment 'to-go' and they want a world of content to choose from. This is why we are focused on bringing a range of entertainment, from sports and movies to news and music, right to our customers' mobiles. The availability of live Cricket matches from Ten Sports on Mobile TV will further strengthen our existing value proposition."
 
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About Ten Sports:
Ten Sports is the highest rating sports channel in the sub-continent, available in more than 75 million homes in over 75 territories. Since its launch in 2001, Ten Sports has become one of the World's leading producers and distributors of live cricket and is the commercial rights holder for half of the world's cricket boards including the West Indies, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

Ten Sports also holds exclusive and long term broadcast rights to the UEFA Champions League, US Open Tennis, and WWE. As well as its three localized networks, Ten Sports offers turnkey channel solutions from its headquarters in Dubai Media City to a growing list of international clients including DirecTV, Yes TV, Starhub, ART and Rotana.

Ten Sports is owned and operated by Taj Television Ltd - a joint venture between Bukhatir Investments Limited and Zee Television.

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