MUMBAI: If all goes according to schedule, INX Media's general entertainment channel 9X will start beaming into Indian homes from Monday, 5 November, 2007.
"INX is ready to launch 9X on 5 November. All the shows and programme have been finalised," confirms an industry source.
However, when contacted, INX Media promoter and group executive director Indrani Mukherjea refused comment on the matter. Mukerjea would only confirm that 9X would be the first of the three channels that her company would be launching before the end this fiscal. The second channel in the INX pipeline is music channel 9XM while the third is English news channel NewsX.
As reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, INX Media has roped in 11 production houses for creating content for the 9X. The production houses are Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms, Siddharth Basu's Synergy Adlabs, Dheeraj Kumar's Creative Eye, Endemol India headed by Rajesh Kamat, Anuradha Prasad's BAG Films and Media Ltd, JD Majithia's Hats Off Productions, Nikhil and Niret Alva's Miditech, Sabbas Joseph's Wizcraft International, Binaifer Kohli's Edit II Productions, Smriti Irani's Ugreya Entertainment and Yash Patnaik's Beyond Dreams Entertainment.
Source: http://www.indiantelevision.com/headline...sep360.php
"INX is ready to launch 9X on 5 November. All the shows and programme have been finalised," confirms an industry source.
However, when contacted, INX Media promoter and group executive director Indrani Mukherjea refused comment on the matter. Mukerjea would only confirm that 9X would be the first of the three channels that her company would be launching before the end this fiscal. The second channel in the INX pipeline is music channel 9XM while the third is English news channel NewsX.
As reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, INX Media has roped in 11 production houses for creating content for the 9X. The production houses are Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms, Siddharth Basu's Synergy Adlabs, Dheeraj Kumar's Creative Eye, Endemol India headed by Rajesh Kamat, Anuradha Prasad's BAG Films and Media Ltd, JD Majithia's Hats Off Productions, Nikhil and Niret Alva's Miditech, Sabbas Joseph's Wizcraft International, Binaifer Kohli's Edit II Productions, Smriti Irani's Ugreya Entertainment and Yash Patnaik's Beyond Dreams Entertainment.
Source: http://www.indiantelevision.com/headline...sep360.php
