What’s-On-India launches TV Street Maps.

To Monitor TV Channel Distribution & Connectivity.

What’s-On-India, India’s Premier TV Guidance Company has launched a new business vertical – ‘Television Street Maps’ to monitor day-to-day changes to TV Channel availability and placement across Cable and Satellite households. The service has already gone LIVE and has attracted a host of large customers from the TV sector.

The move to launch ‘TV Street Maps’ by What’s-On-India is considered very strategic especially in the context of dramatic changes expected in the distribution side of the TV business over the next couple of years due to the digitalization regime being introduced by the government. What’s-On-India has already expanded this system nationwide to cover 700+ Analogue and Digital head ends across almost 300 towns and citiesmaking it the largest ground coverage in the business.

“Our plans are to expand the system to 1000+ head ends over the next 3 months besides providing insightful value added services in this space to stakeholders,” says Joydip Kapadia, Executive Vice President, What’s-On-India.This new vertical inside What’s-On-India has started with a bang adding a series of new customers which include One-Alliance, MSM Network, UTV Network, Viacom-18 among a host of others.

Atul Phadnis, Chief Executive, What’s-On-India said, “We are very excited to enter this space. Over the next few quarters, What’s-On-India will be investing in this vertical to expand its scope across the country as well as to bring in newer technologies and automation for faster information from the ground. We are also integrating TV Street Maps with our EPG Systems for certain breakthrough solutions within the Indian market!”

What's-On-India Media Private Limited is India's Premier TV Guidance and EPG Company. The company's Technology vertical powers EPG Metadata content from 500+ TV channels into more than 35 million Set-Top-Boxes and devices across Cable, Direct-To-Home, IPTV, MobileTV, Smart-TVs and Tablets.  For more information on What’s-On-India, visit www.WhatsOnIndia.com.

What's-On-India Launches Android & iOS TV Guide APP

What’s-On-India, the country's Premier TV Guidance & EPG Company, has recently announced the launch of their official Indian TV Guide Android & iOS application for its users featuring all the programming action across more than 500 TV channels! 

Of the 500+ TV channels in India, we have more than one hundred news channels, over fifty movie channels, over fifty general entertainment channels, music channels, sports, infotainments, kids channels, not to mention ultra specialist channels in genres such as Food, Crime, Education. This explosion of channel choice poses a serious challenge for consumers to find programs that match their tastes, interests and choices.

These Android & iOS TV guide application puts the power of TV content search-&-discovery in the viewers fingertips with views into which are the best programs right now, today & weekend. Viewers have the option to sift through program details across different languages, genres as well as search by date, time and star cast. A viewer can also set his or her favorite programs and set reminder alerts for a future airing. The Apps have had a great response within the first few weeks of their launch - with thousands of downloads and high ratings from early users. The free application allows users to search all the action that's happening on Television across their favorite channels, programs and TV genres. The app has a cool feature where by favoriting a show you can follow a show and track which channels are running it on regular basis.  So you can create your own lists and share it across all your devices, all it requires a user is to log in.

“More and more, TV consumption is becoming a two-screen experience, where viewers are engaging with another device while watching TV.  What’s-On-India, through its Mobile Apps is making it easier for TV addicts to decide which shows to watch across hundreds of thousands of TV shows, movies, matches, events and programs happening on Television every week. If you have a phone with Android OS 2.1 or iOS 3.1 and higher then you can download this FREE APP directly from the Android Market or iTunes App store.” said Abrar Shaikh, General Manager, What's-On-India. 

                                       

The FREE iOS APP can be downloaded at this link   : http://itunes.apple.com/app/whats-on-india-tv-guide-app/id479214849?mt=8 The FREE Android APP can be downloaded at this link : https://market.android.com/details?id=com.whatsonindia The key features of the What’s-On-India Android & iOS Apps are summarized below: - More than 500 Channels are available on the APP - 7 days forward schedules for all channels - Get program details and synopsis - Powerful cloud-powered search - Trending Programs - Latest Videos - Programs and Premier information - You can set reminders & alerts for future airing - Set your favorites channels & programs - What's-On-India's proprietary WOI-Ratings - Classifications include genres, actors, subgenres, language - Editor's Picks - Movie Wall - Exclusive sections directly powered by major TV channels and networks Set Reminders or mark your Favorite programs, track the weeks special airings or go with the Editor’s Pick, covering all major languages like English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada, etc.