MUMBAI: Sony Six, the sports and entertainment channel from MSM stable, will exclusively televise The Race of Champions (ROC) for the first time on Indian television screens.

The race will air live on 15 and 16 December at 6.30 pm on Six.

The Race of Champions is an annual international racing event that features as a knockout tournament. The championship will happen in Bangkok this year.

This will be the first time in the history of the race where an Indian racing team comprising Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandhok will be participating in the event.

The two will feature together as team-mates after almost eight years making history at the event representing India against fellow international drivers like multiple Formula 1 World Champions Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher and Moto GP multiple World Champion Jorge Lorenzo.

The event starts with a group stage to ensure that fans get to see plenty of action from every driver. The racers face up against all the other drivers in their group, with cars swapped round between heats so they all have to prove themselves in a variety of machinery. The most successful drivers move on to the quarter finals.

Multi Screen Media COO NP Singh said, ?We are extremely thrilled to bring The Race of champions for the Indian audience exclusively on SONY SIX, it is an absolute moment of pride that this is also the first time a team from India will be represented in the race along with racing champions from across the world, we wish them all the best.?

MUMBAI: Sony Six, the sports and entertainment channel from the MSM stable, will exclusively televise The Race of Champions (ROC) for the first time on Indian television screens.

The race will air live on 15 and 16 December at 6.30 pm on Six.

The Race of Champions is an annual international racing event that features as a knockout tournament. The championship will happen in Bangkok.

This will be the first time in the history of the race where an Indian racing team comprising Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandhok will be participating in the event.

The two will feature together as team-mates after almost eight years making history at the event representing India against fellow international drivers like multiple Formula 1 World Champions Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher and Moto GP multiple World Champion Jorge Lorenzo.

The event starts with a group stage to ensure that fans get to see plenty of action from every driver. The racers face up against all the other drivers in their group, with cars swapped round between heats so they all have to prove themselves in a variety of machinery. The most successful drivers move on to the quarter-finals.

MSM COO NP Singh said, ?We are extremely thrilled to bring The Race of champions for the Indian audience exclusively on SONY SIX, it is an absolute moment of pride that this is also the first time a team from India will be represented in the race along with racing champions from across the world, we wish them all the best.?

NEW DELHI: The Finance Ministry has deferred any decision on a proposal by Multi Screen Media for induction of foreign equity to carry out the business of production of television programmes in India languages.

The proposal was primarily for export, sale and distribution of Indian language audio visual production and downlinking of certain TV channels.

On the advice of the Foreign Investments Promotions Board (FIPB), the Government also deferred a proposal by Wire and Wireless (India) Limited (now known as Siti Cable) to issue warrants to carry out the business of cable network business.

MUMBAI: Multi Screen Media (MSM) has poached Saurabh Yagnik to head its English movie channel Pix.

Yagnik was heading rival network Star India?s English channels portfolio, including Star Movies, for over two years.

Yagnik replaces Sunder Aaron, who left Pix earlier this year. Aaron had helped launch Pix in 2006.

Rasika Tyagi has replaced Yagnik at Star. Hitherto, Tyagi was senior VP - English programming.

Yagnik?s task is to help Pix move ahead of its rivals - Star Movies and Movies Now. Pix got its parent Sony?s library last year and moved from a library-based to a contemporary movie channel.

Yagnik?s challenge will be to sustain Pix?s upward climb in a dynamic market. Pix, which has even reached the second position in the English movie channel ratings ladder, plans to step up its persistent campaign to oust the market leader.

MUMBAI: Leading broadcast network Multi Screen Media has chosen Paladion Networks for implementing cloud-based mobile device management solution to offer real-time integration with existing enterprise resources.

The cloud service provides visibility into data and provides Information technology and end users secure their data without compromising privacy.

Paladion?s expert team ensured seamless integration of the solution in the customer?s existing environment to ensure that the customer achieves the key objectives. It offers specialized consulting to help design BYOD strategy, Rich Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution, Certified consultants for design and deployment and Helpdesk security monitoring.

Paladion Networks Head of Consulting Sushil Kumar Nahar said, "Multi Screen Media Pvt. Ltd is a leading corporation of the world. Helping them design their mobile BYOD was a great privilege for us. Our team helped the client achieve data security by implementing Cloud based Mobile Device management."

Kiran B from MSM said, "Corporate Data Security on the mobile devices was of paramount importance to us. This included various applications including corporate e-mail. We were looking at solutions which support multiple devices, operating systems without hampering the user experience. Paladion proposed cloud based MDM solution meeting the earlier requirements and it suited our needs. I appreciate the efforts of Paladion team during the evaluation and implementation phase."

MUMBAI: Multi Screen Media?s English movie channel Pix?s business head Sunder Aaron has put in his papers and is serving his notice period.

An industry source confirming the news said that Aaron was the one who spearheaded the channel which started out in 2006 by showing library content.

Pix moved on to telecast premieres last year after it got the Sony library which was earlier with HBO.

Aaron joined MSM in 2002. He was earlier in Los Angeles with Sony Pictures Television International.