Pyramid Saimira ties up with Spize TV

Pyramid Saimira Entertainment, a subsidiary of Pyramid Saimira Theatre, has tied up with the UK-based Spize TV, a direct-to-home (DTH) platform to offer the complete suite of the ARY Network channels (ARY Digital, ARY One World, QTV, and The Musik) and also the two B4U Network channels (B4U Movies & B4U Music) in the UK.

Pyramid Saimira Entertainment will provide content on Spize TV, a pan-European direct-to-home (DTH) TV platform offering Asian and niche content to viewers in Europe.

While Spize TV’s North bouquet has have channels in Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Bangla and Gujarati. The South bouquet has channels in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Sinhalese. Since the soft launch of the bouquet, the channels are available, and the formal commercial launch for viewers will be in April 2008.

SpizeTV is a pan-European direct-to-home TV platform offering Asian and niche content to viewers in Europe. Spize TV is available on the EuroBird-9 (EB9) satellite, which allows viewers to benefit from the 500+ free-to-air channels on the HotBird satellite. Ajoy Khandheria, CEO of SpizeTV (Managing Director, ORG Informatics Ltd.) says “SpizeTV is a very exciting project for our Group to offer niche content on a pan-European basis and are proud to work with Eutelsat to create the EB-9 as a new hot location for the region, and with Pyramid Saimira to capitalize on their extensive content expertise.”

Salman Iqbal, MD of ARY Group says “we are proud to be the anchor tenant on the SpizeTV platform to progress the European distribution of ARY.”

Via ET