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Fri, 5th. Dec, 2008.

Mon 8th December
-New episodes of soaps on ZEE TV UK

Thu 25th December
-Film: Jodha Akbar
on ZEE Cinema

Thu 25th December
-Film: Om Shanti Om
on B4U Movies

Sat 27th December
-Film: Goal
on ZEE Cinema

Sun 28th December
-Film: Singh Is Kinng
on Sony TV

Thu 1st January
-Film: Tare Zameen Par
on ZEE Cinema

Also in December
-Chotti Bahu*
Starts on ZEE TV

-Tujh Sang Preet*
Starts on STAR Plus

*Subject to change due to TV strike in India

Postponed due to Mumbai
-Champions League
on Geo UK

Mon 5th January
-Schedule changes
on BBC A. Network

Awaiting confirmation of Sky launch
-ZEE Radio
-Channel [V]
-Asian Glamour
-New ZEE channel
-New STAR channel


9X makes official UK launch on Sky Digital

9X launches on Sky Digital UKINX Media's Hindi entertainment channel 9X has made its soft launch on Sky Digital today.

9X has been planning a UK launch for the past few months with negotiations with several broadcasters over EPG slots on the Sky Digital platform.

BizAsia.co.uk was first to exclusively confirm 9X's UK plans in early-April and later revealed that it was to takeover DD News' EPG slot channel 832.

9X will be showing a looped 4-hour tape of programmes over a 24-hour period for the next few weeks until it has all the logistics in place to broadcast officially.

In an exclusive interview with Indrani Mukerjea, founder and CEO, INX Media Pvt Ltd, confirmed that the UK feed will incorporate some programmes from its hugely successful music channel 9XM as fillers. There are also plans to launch 9XM and the news channel NewsX in the UK later this year.

9X is available free-to-air on Sky Digital channel 832.

Yesterday we reported the latest success for 9X - According to TV audience measuring body aMap's data in India for week 17 C&S 4+, 9X is giving other channels a run for their money by staying put at number three in all Hindi General Entertainment Channels (GECs). Whilst STAR Plus remains the market leader with 291 GRP points, ZEE TV is second with 182 points, 9X follows with 88, NDTV Imagine in fourth with 80. STAR One (67), Sony Entertainment Television Asia (66) and Sahara One (54) were holding their own in distance places.

Related links:
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with 9X on UK launch
UK launch for 9X to take place on Monday?
EXCLUSIVE: 9X to take DD News EPG slot
EXCLUSIVE: 9X UK launch imminent
9X surges to fourth position in India
EXCLUSIVE: 9X UK launch imminent
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Bolly stars lead panel on new 9X reality show
Music channel establishes lead position in India
9X & Bindaas begin eating into popular channels
New channel 9X opens to a mixed response
INX Network to launch channel in India this month
STAR India's legal head quits network
It's official! Top bosses quit STAR India
Siddhartha Basu turns producer for ZEE TV soap

Editor: Lucky Nijjar Source: INX Media

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