WatchIndia.TV Announces 8 New TV Channels

August 27, 2010 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
Leading Indian IPTV provider WatchIndiaTV launches 8 new premium TV channels for new and existing clients:
Bolly Movies Telugu, ET Now, NDTV Hindu, DD Sports, DD India, DD Sahyadri, DD Bangla and DD Punjabi.
WatchIndia also proudly re-launched Bollywood Movies Hindi (instead of Shemaroo).

These channels and all other channels provided by WatchIndia.TV are also available via the recently launched wireless TV Box. The WatchIndia TV Box is a plug-and-watch device allowing viewers from all over the world to watch Indian TV channels directly on their TV sets. All you need to do is connect the TV-Box to your television set and start watching the channels that you are subscribed to - Live & On Demand.

Bolly Movies Hindi
Bolly Movies Hindi (re-launch instead of Shemaroo): Bolly Movies Hindi is a Bollywood movie channel on WatchIndia, showing new hits as well as classic movies. The channel was first launch under the name of Shemaroo, and re-launched on August 2010 as Bolly Movies Hindi. This channel includes movies in Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi and Bengali.
Shemaroo is an integrated film production, post production distribution and animation player company in India. With an excellent library of films, WatchIndia naturally partnered Shemaroo to offer to the Indians outside of India the best of Bollywood movies and to expand their access to their choice of Hindi movies outside of India.
Bolly Movies Hindi Online and On Demand: Watch whatever you want, whenever you are: Manorama Six Feet Under, Dhamaal, Dekh Re Dekh, Jaaneman, Naya Daur, Jewel Thief, Yatra, Satte Pe Satta, Gujjubhai Gam Gajaviyo, MP3…

Bolly Movies Telugu
Bolly Movies Telugu is a new Tollywood movie channel on WatchIndia.tv, owned by Shemaroo Entertainment. Shemaroo is an integrated film production, post production distribution and animation player company in India. The channel showcases new hits as well as classic movies, Comedies, Dramas, Actions and Romances, live and VOD.

ET Now
ET Now is a business news channel in India, owned and operated by the Times Group. It is produced in collaboration with 'The Economic Times', a leading financial daily in India, and It marks the entry of the business newspaper into the medium of television. ET Now offers live news, breaking stories, tips to trade in share market and special reports.
The channel prides itself with the top television professionals and has access to the expertise and depth of knowledge of the editorial team of India's biggest and most respected business paper.
Among ET Now's top editors are Andy Mukherjee, the award-winning columnist from Bloomberg, who heads the channel's morning programming focused on the stock, currency and commodities markets, and R Sridharan, who joined the channel from `Business Today', looks after the evening programming, with a greater focus on news and analysis.

NDTV Hindu
NDTV Hindu is Chennai's first and only city-specific English news and entertainment channel, owned by The Hindu Group. The channel covers events, views and affairs that concern the city and its people in an authentic and credible way.
The unique news programs cover everything that's exciting about Chennai, the hottest eat-outs, the most happening films, shopping, sports, hi-tech gadgetry, etc. presented in a unique style by a team of young and daring news journalists and anchors.

DD Sports
DD Sports is a state owned 24x7 sports channel telecasting from Doordarshan Kendra Delhi.
DD Sports offers its viewers a variety of sports programs and matches of: football, athletics, cricket, swimming, tennis, badminton, archery, wrestling, as well as: Olympic Build up, Adventure, International, Magazine shows, News based shows, Sports quiz and personality oriented shows.
In addition, the channel provides coverage to live international sporting events as: cricket, football, tennis, important national tournaments of hockey, and showcases Indian sports as: Kabaddi, Kho-kho and more.
Enjoy all the sports you can get and feel the adrenaline moving through your veins only on DD Sports!

DD India
DD India is an Indian satellite television channel which is marketed towards Indian audiences living abroad.
The channel, owned by Doordarshan Network and its international channel (earlier known as DD World, and was renamed DD India in 2002). DD India's programs showcase a day-to-day update on the Indian social, cultural, political and economic scene. The channel also brings news bulletins, features on topical events, entertainment programs, feature films, music and dance, children programs, events and tourism. DD India offers a variety of programs and news in Regional languages, in addition to Hindi and English, as: Urdu, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati and Marathi.

DD Sahyadri
DD Sahyadri is a state owned Marathi language channel telecasting from Doordarshan Kendra Mumbai.
DD Sahyadri is a household name in Maharashtra, largely because of its programs with high production values. The channel offers to its viewers: entertainment programs, local news, acclaimed serials, informative programs, public debates and Marathi films.
DD Sahyadri offers about six to eight event properties a year with the big ones being the annual DD Awards, Hirkhani Awards (felicitating women achievers) and the Navaratan Awards.

DD Bangla
DD Bangla is a state owned Bengali language channel telecasting from Doordarshan Kendra Kolkata.
DD Bangla offers to its viewers entertainment serials, infotainment programs, news & current affairs, social programs and film based shows as its major content. The channel also showcases soaps in the regional language.

DD Punjabi
DD Punjabi is a state owned Punjabi channel telecasting from Doordarshan Kendra Jalandhar.
The cultural programs broadcast on DD Punjabi are watched with interest across the state and by lakhs of Punjabi viewers residing in different parts of India. Doordarshan Kendra, Jalandhar is the hub of DD Punjabi productions.