Title: Inviting Entrepreneurs
1U-Like Media
2Introduction
- Objectives of U-Like Media.
- Proposed TV Channels
- Broadcasting
- Coverage
- Strengths and Opportunities
- Breakdown of revenue
- Contact
3 Objectives
- To establish Global TV Channels in Indian
languages, mainly Telugu and Tamil (Estimated
215M South Indians) - To provide authentic Indian content to India
origin residents and NRI - To provide reality based content to Indian
audience - To be a Bridge between West East
- To be a leader in Entertainment Business
- To provide various services worldwide
- To transmit Telugu/Tamil information to the
worldwide community
4Proposed TV Channels
- Channel 1 ManaTelugu TV for Telugu speaking
viewers based in UK/USA/Middle East/Far
East/South Africa/India - launched on 11th June
2007 in UK - IPTV for Telugu - launched on 11th June 2007
- Approx. 105M people can watch Telugu channel
- ManaTelugu means Our Telugu
- Channel 2 Channel Chola for Tamil speaking
viewers based in UK/USA/Europe/Middle East - Approx. 110M people can watch
- The name Chola reflects the great Chola Dynasty
5Mana Telugu TV (Telugu)
6Mana Telugu TV
- Planned 7 beams/TV Channels (7 satellites)
worldwide - 1 UK Ireland / 2 USA Canada / 3
Australia New Zealand / 4 South Africa / 5
Singapore Malaysia / 6 Middle East / 7
India - Content advertising depending on the content
rights - IPTV will be only one version and broadcasted
worldwide - Currently Mana Telugu TV is available on SKY UK
818 and worldwide via IPTV - Approx. viewership 40,000 a day
- Potential viewership - 105M worldwide
7 Channel Chola (Tamil)
- Planned 7 beams worldwide
- 1 UK Ireland / 2 USA Canada / 3
Australia New Zealand / 4 South Africa / 5
Singapore Malaysia / 6 Middle
East / 7 India - Content advertising depending on the content
rights - IPTV will be only one version and will
broadcasted worldwide - 110M watching worldwide
8 The Team
- The Board
- Kumar Vuppala Founder, Director ( Also
Founder to Instasap Limited - A IT Consulting
Company based in Harrow , UK). - Sridevi Aitha Director (Also Founder to Fast
DBA Limited - A IT Consulting Company in Wembley
, UK). - Sukbinder Heer (Non Executive Director) Ex
Robson Rhodes, chief operations officerSince
becoming a partner in 1994, Heer has been deeply
involved in the management of the firm and as
chief operating officer was the man chosen to
deliver Robson Rhodes' bold message that it would
grow to a 200m turnover by 2007. On current
figures, that would take the firm from twelfth to
around fifth or sixth in the country. - John Sanderson (Non Executive Director) John
has long experience in the creative sector. He
was a leading leisure and media investment
analyst for 10 years before becoming a director
of Hydra, partly owned by the marketing and
strategy consultancy SRU, focusing on business
development in the electronic media sector.
Clients included EMI, BSkyB, and Channel 4. John
is currently principal of JFWS Ltd, where he
combines advisory work with directorships and
investment. In addition he acts as an
independent consultant through MC Ventures,
through which he is registered with the FSA. He
is chairman of three AIM-listed companies and is
chairman and a non-executive director of several
others including Somethin' Else Sound Directions
(an independent radio production business) and
Audio Networks (a library of music for film and
TV). John is a member of the London Council of
the CBI. - Ami Sharma (Non Executive Director) A
well-known Media personality in Asian TV
Industry with 21 years Media Management
experience. Ex CEO to Vectone TV (Owns 9 TV
Channels) , RTV Group (owns 6 Asian TV
Channels). - Rammohan Rao Doppalapudi (Non Executive
Director) A Businessman Based in India. - Raman Subba Row (Non Executive Director) Fourth
cricketer of Indian origin to play for England.
Subba Row played 13 Tests for England, but became
more famous as a match referee.
9Goals and Objectives (Telugu Tamil)
- Expected Subscribers by 2012
- United Kingdom 10000
- USA 125000
- Australia 10000
- India 4.5M
- South Africa 50000
- UAE ME 20000
- Far East 20000
- Expand the services worldwide.
- Expected Revenue by 2012 4.2 Millions Per
Month.
10Broadcasting
- Proposed Satellites for Mana Telugu are
EuroBird, HotBird, IA5, Insat2E, PAS 10 or
Telstar 10 etc. - Proposed Satellites for Channel Chola are
EuroBird, HotBird, IA5, Insat2E, PAS 10 or
Telstar 10 etc. - Proposing own Play out from UK office work in
progress - Own TV studios in India, UK, USA, UAE, SA,
Australia etc. - Currently we have 1GB fibre connectivity. (More
than 45 TV channels can play out from UK HQ )
Invested about 5M on Fibre Equipment. - EPG UK Compliance recording will be done from
UK office. - India Compliance recording from India office.
- State-of-art infrastructure in UK office (HQ)
with Virtual Reality (VR) enabled studio, sets
latest TV camera technologies - India (Hyderabad office) is already operating
with more than 187 permanent staff and 319 Media
Artists producing 85 of content to UK.
11Content ( Software ) Planning.
- UK 80 from India rest 20 from local
(Live/Interactive Shows, Events Coverage's,
Interviews of NRIs, Local News, Locally Produced
Movies or Tele Films). - USA 60 from India rest 40 from local
(Live/Interactive Shows, Events Coverage's,
Interviews of NRIs, Local News, Locally Produced
Movies or Tele Films). - Middle East 95 from India rest 5 from local
(Live / Interactive Shows, Events Coverage's,
Interviews of NRIs, Local News (is allowed) ). - Australia NZ 90 from India rest 10 from
local (Live/Interactive Shows , Events
Coverage's, Interviews of NRIs). - South Africa 90 from India rest 10 from local
(Live/Interactive Shows, Events Coverage's,
Interviews of NRIs). - Far East 90 from India rest 10 from local
(Live/Interactive Shows, Events Coverage's,
Interviews of NRIs). - India 60 from India , 40 from Abroad.
(Viewers will view a Serial or episode with a
well known overseas location or Costumes or
mannerisms or culture or life style or all in one
this concept is no doubt a driving factor
to force common viewers to watch spend no of
hours in-front of TV.) - East to West West to East. (Unique business
model).
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13Unique Business strategyMobile TV Studios
- Planning to introduce Mobile (Walk-In-
TV-Studio) TV Studio in Bus Stations, Train
Stations. This will be a part of digital signage
a new concept which will bring a lot of revenue
to promoters.
14Unique Business strategyMobile Interactive TV.
15Unique Business strategy IPTV
- Mana Telugu TV first IPTV in Telugu Media . Mana
Telugu IPTV launched on 11th June 2007 as
world first Telugu IPTV. As on today
Approximately 3,00,000 Viewers are watching the
TV channel as FTA ( Free to Access ). Adopting
the new technologies in initial stage of the
project naturally protects capital invested by
promoters. - IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is a system
where a digital television service is delivered
by using Internet Protocol over a network
infrastructure, which may include delivery by a
broadband connection. A general definition of
IPTV is television content that, instead of being
delivered through traditional broadcast and cable
formats, is received by the viewer through the
technologies used for computer networks.
16Unique Content strategy
- Serials based on Science Fiction Based on
Ancient Indian Technologies, UFOs, Aliens . - Based on Fantasy Back to Future aka Time
Machine. - Based on IT Comedy Tracks for Targeted IT
community. - Game Shows Not in India but in North America to
show to India. - Kids Learn Telugu with Telugu Balashiksha.
- Live Shows targeting youth and families.
- Kids Game show like Kids Kitchen.
- Also Serials Targeting Large House wifes.
- Devotional Programmes with daily astrology based
on UK/USA Longitude / Latitude . - Live Puja.
17Unique TV Launching strategy.
Idea is to initiate Telugu Chariots from 8 Places
with horses/elephants'/ poets/ Artists / film
personalities / Telugu Samskrithi contributors
etc. All the way they will preach the usage of
telugu and culture and finally reaches to Hyd
then TV channel will start.
18 Coverage HotBird
- Located 13 Degrees East
- Over 1000 TV and Radio Channels
- 100 Million Viewers Estimated
- Channels include B4U, Zee, ARY,
- Sony, Sun TV, etc.
- Covers Most Of Europe / Middle East
19 Coverage EuroBird
- Euro bird satellite at 28.5E
- delivering Mana Telugu Channel on
- the BSkyB platform.
- Advantage There is no Telugu
- channel on SKY.
- 10M homes in UK / EU.
20 Coverage IA25/AMC 4
- Located 97 Degrees West
- Popular Ethnic programming
- 5 million DTH homes
- USA Canada
21 Coverage INSAT 2E
- MPEG-2 DVB Compression
- Statistical Multiplexing
- QPSK Modulation
- C-band Uplink to MCPC platform on Insat-2E
- satellite at 83.0 east
- 2Mbps Space segment for Manatelugu TV on
- Insat-2E satellite
22Strengths and Opportunities
- Strengths
- Cost effective production through India Centre
- Innovative and highly entertaining Content
- Over 40 localised content (India, UK and USA)
- Strong Media background and experience.
- Huge workforce of skilled Technicians and Artists
with rich experience - Build-once-distribute-many Model means reduce in
cost - Centralized content distribution from London as
HQ - Proven successful with UK Launch
- Multi channel telecast capabilities
- State of the Art Studios in India and UK
- Planned studios in USA and Middle East
- Opportunities
- Worldwide Market opportunity of 210M people
- Estimated revenue - 50.4M per annum
- Wider reach of worldwide population and markets
- Untapped markets UK (Cable and DTH), Canada
(Cable), USA (Cable) and Middle East (Cable) and
Australasia (Cable and DTH) - Assured and rapid growth due to huge gap in
market - Large Non Resident Indian community of Telugu and
Tamil people with higher income earnings - Big scope for scaling up the operations
23Notes
- Required Investment - 40M (20M)
- Promoters Investment as in June 2008 - 20M /
10M - Successful project model of global channels (Ex
Sony, B4U and Astha earlier). - Expected Revenue by 2010 4.2M per month,
approx. 50.4M per annum - Substantial scope for increase in Net profits on
long term due to Movie Rights, Distribution and
Marketing - IPO proposed in India / USA / UK Stock markets.
- Exit Strategy possible with 200 to 300 within
next 6-8 years through IPO model - High growth prospects in Media Industry
worldwide. - HQ in London non political background and
conveniently located
24 Breakdown of 4.2M
25Contact for further information Kumar
Vuppalakumar_at_u-like.co.ukUK 0044 7764985202UK
00442084228330India 00919908524700www.manatel
ugu.tv ANNA P PA to Kumar Vuppala44 (0)208
426 5359annap_at_u-like.co.ukCorporate Office
U-Like Media Communications Limited, 2nd
Floor , Ambassador House,Cavendish Avenue,
Sudbury Hill, Harrow HA1 3RW, UK.