Geo TV launch details emerge

Geo TV launch details emerge
Apr 06, 2005 09:26 AM
Pakistani infotainment broadcaster Geo TV launched last week in the UK with a US feed and its not long before the localised feed goes live.

Geo TV, which launched unexpectedly on the Sky EPG last Wednesday had been running promos and adverts from the US and programming from Dubai at scattered times. According to the website IndianTelevision, the channel will be starting its UK feed soon. It is currently showing "test transmission" on its Sky EPG 838.

Currently free-to-air, the channel will be priced as a standalone channel. "As a standalone channel in the US, it is priced at $15 per subscriber per month, while the target is to price the channel at £15 in the UK when it makes an entry there."

In the UK, programming would be on the lines of the US feed. The effort will be to have localised content to cater to the South Asian viewers. The channel would also beam dramas, among other entertainment fare.

Geo TV airs programmes partly in Urdu and in English in the USA and has sizeable portion of local content The channel forayed into the Middle-East last year and airs there as a free-to-air channel on the Pehla bouquet.

Geo TV will also be turning its flagship channel into a news-only channel, to make way for Geo TV-Entertainment, which will primarily screen entertainment shows, which are currently aired on Geo TV. The new channel will debut in Pakistan, as well as its other Aag TV channel.

15 bob

I wudnt even give them a quid

£15?

what a bunch of &*()&()&()&()&)&!!!!!!!

I was hoping it would be free for at least a couple of months! They aint getting a penny from me let me tell you!

well maybe they show all pakistans cricket matches then i would think about getting it but right now NO CHANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if star news can be free why can't geo?

they wanna make money....lots of it....like all of us.

No harm in making money-they're not a charity...but £15/month is excessive. Considering that ARY is about £8/month; PTV Prime is about £9-£10/month.

I would have thought about £5/month is just right. I would pay that much no problem as I have really enjoyed watching GEO for the last 3-4 weeks.

i had a look today for 5 minutes, wasnt impressed. I think i'll spend my money elsewhere thankyou.

not worth 15 abit ott

!5 quid is tooo much. I'd pay upto 8, maybe even 10

i get it free on SKY

That was a initial freview Bilal! Soon it will go off and it'll be subscription only!

15 quid..phish

phish?

Is that all you have to say?

if the reaction on this board is reflected around the country, and I really hope it is, then not too many people will be subscribing! Will teach them a lesson when they have to make that price lowering later on! Still wont buy it.