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E-Vision ties up with Rotana Broadcast International to boost entertainment levels

  • United Arab Emirates: Thursday, November 17 - 2005 at 12:03
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Emirates Cable TV and Multimedia (E-Vision) signed an agreement with Rotana Broadcast International - the largest producer and distributor of Arabic music and songs world wide, to add each of Rotana Cinema, Rotana Music, and Rotana Khaleejia to E-Vision's line-up of prime channels.

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  • Humaid Rashid Sahoo, Chief Executive Officer - E-Vision and Basem Jameel, General Manager - Rotana Broadcast International during the MoU signing.
    Humaid Rashid Sahoo, Chief Executive Officer - E-Vision and Basem Jameel, General Manager - Rotana Broadcast International during the MoU signing.
Mr. Humaid Rashid Sahoo, Chief Executive Officer - E-Vision, shortly after signing the agreement with one of the major channel providers in the Arab World, assured that E-Vision is definitely living up to the promise of providing its customers all the best in TV entertainment through just one cable. "The addition is part of E-Vision's commitment to all its subscribers. It purely reflects our determination to constantly provide new channel offerings that are mainly determined through our subscribers' comments and feedback."

"The signing with Rotana is not limited to the addition of these three popular channels. A variety of well known and popular programmes broadcasted by Rotana will be added to E-Vision's list of offerings in the near future,"


he added.

Rotana Cinema's exclusive offering, draws on one of the biggest libraries of Arabic movies in the Middle East. It includes more than 70 per cent of all the movies that have been made in Arabic. Moreover, both Rotana Music and Rotana Khaleejia include over 100 top artists from the Arab world.

Commenting on the availability of Rotana on E-vision's network, Mr. Basem Jameel, General Manager, Rotana Broadcast International, said: "Rotana has witnessed a continuous increase in the demand for its programmes from the free to air subscribers in general and the Cable TV subscribers in specific. Moreover, the increase in demand is not limited to the Arab region, as a matter of fact it extended to the global level."

"We, at Rotana Broadcast International, provide a wide set of entertainment programmes in the aim of satisfying all our fans' entertainment needs. Thus, with the addition of Rotana to the well established E-Vision platform, we satisfy our objective of reaching out to all our enthusiasts in the UAE and all of which enjoy the spectacular music video clips along with the most popular movies from across the Arab world."
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For Further information, please contact:

Khaled Abdulla
Asda'a Public Relation Consultancy,
Executive Affliate of Edelman PR Worldwide in
Middle East and North Africa
P.O. Box 28063
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tel: 971-4-3344550
Fax: 971-4-3344556
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Website: www.asdaa.com

E-Vision:
E-Vision was established in April 2000 as the UAE's only cable provider, and is a subsidiary of the Emirates Telecommunication's corporation.

With an initial coverage of 20,000 homes, E-Vision's services currently reach 300,000 homes across five emirates: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Al Ain and Ajman, with a solid 500,000 viewers.

E-Vision has partnerships with major entertainment providers such as Arab Digital Distribution (ADD), Showtime and Orbit, in addition to four channels of its own in e-junior, the kids channel; e-View, the Pay Per View service; e-Games, the interactive channel; and the Information Channel.

Rotana Broadcast International
Rotana Audiovisual was established in 1987 and immediately began producing and distributing Arabic music and songs all over the world.

During the past 17 years Rotana has grown rapidly to become the largest producer and distributor of Arabic music and songs world wide, with over 100 of the top artists of the Arabic world and with a distribution network that covers the globe.

Rotana has become synonyms with Arabic music and movies. Recently, Rotana added many channels under its name and launched them in the Middle East and Europe , thus adding to its wide and rapidly expanding distribution network.

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