The owner of London Tamil Media Ltd., which is operating IBC Tamil media from UK, is soon going to launch a TV-station called "CineUlagam". In August IBC Tamil - Cineulagam office Inauguration was held in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in India. Already CineUlagam is existing as a website with news about the Tamil cinema world.
Recently CineUlagam stream name was added to the Live TV page on IBC Tamil app, where it is possible to watch all IBC Tamil TV channels (IBC Tamil TV UK, IBC Music, IBC Kids, IBC Comedy, IBC Bakthi and IBC Siluvai) for free and also listen to IBC Tamil Radio and LankaSri FM.
According to IBC Tamil management, the new CineUlagam channel will only telecast Tamil cinema related news and interviews operated from Chennai. It is still unclear if it is also going to telecast movies.
London Tamil Media Ltd. is working hard to expand its service - and has recently also launched a Canada version of its main entertainment channel, IBC Tamil TV. When IBC Tamil TV started, a lot of wellknown presenters from different Tamil medias joined the channel and good programmes were made in its studio in UK, but due to financial problems, IBC Tamil has lost many of the presenters and only few programmes are now produced in UK. The management is mainly focusing on quantity than quality of its service, which is generally going in a bad direction. For example the IBC Kids TV channel was started in the beginning of this year, but still the channel has not launched with its main schedule and is just repeating the same few movies and cartoons over and over again after so many months. It will be interesting to see how CineUlagam is going to run when the channel is launching soon.
- MEDIA ASIA