The Shri Adhikari Brothers board is meeting on Monday to discuss the third quarter results of the current fiscal.
Another media company that is yet to announce its Q3 results, ETC Networks, will also convene a board meeting on 31 January before going public with its figures. ETC Networks that runs two channels, etc and etc Punjabi, claims to be available to 25 million cable and satellite households. The company claims that besides a strong presence in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, the Punjabi channel has also penetrated several other cities in the country.

ETC‘s profits in the second quarter of 2001 had slipped to Rs 3.8 million from Rs 13.3 million in the same period last year. Its half yearly profits stood at Rs 14.8 million.

Shri Adhikari Brothers has not fared much better in the last quarter either. It posted profits of Rs 7.4 million as against profits of Rs 50.8 million in the same period in 2000. Its half yearly profits as on 30 September 2001 stood at Rs 38.4 million.

Cartoon Network has announced a new initiative Cartoon Theatre to be launched from Sunday.
The programming block has been positioned as an optimum viewing destination for animated movies and cartoon series for the whole family. Cartoon Theatre will air from noon to 1:30 pm and again from 8 pm to 9:30 pm on 27 January. The block will air on the fourth Sunday of every month at the same time.

According to an official release, Cartoon Theatre will showcase Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones & Yogi Bear in Cartoon Theatre during the year. Titles include The Flintstones: On the Rocks, Scooby Meets the Boo Brothers and Yogi‘s Great Escape, among others.

Fans can look forward to Cartoon Network‘s tenth original half-hour animated series Samurai Jack, which will debut on the block. Created by Genndy Tartakovsky of Dexter‘s Laboratory fame, Samurai Jack: The Trilogy is a 90-minute animated action series. The channel is banking on the series‘ captivating backgrounds and stylish action scenes to draw in audiences. The story revolves around a great warrior displaced to the distant future by the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku. Samurai Jack travels this foreign landscape in search of the time portal to return home and encounters trademarks of modern urban landscapes such as flying cars, huge skyscrapers and even techno music.