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to launch an OTT service. The company is currently headquartered in

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History

Asianet announced the launch of the Asianet Mobile TV at the commencement of

Onam Onam ( ) is an annual Indian harvest festival celebrated predominantly by the Hindus of Kerala. A major annual event for Keralites, it is the official festival of the state and includes a spectrum of cultural events. Onam commemorates Vamana ...

celebrations in

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in 2015. Dubai based Eurostar Group and Asianet Satellite Communications Limited tied with

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based, devices and services company, Xperio Labs to launch the Asianet Mobile TV app in the Gulf states. With this launch, Asianet became the first

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in the country to launch an OTT service. Asianet Mobile TV was honoured with the Indian Broadcasters and CATV Industry National Ratna Award as the most popular regional app for content and maximum downloads at a glittering function held on 10 May 2017 at The LaLiT New Delhi. The award was received by their Executive Vice President, Satish Kumar Menon.

Content and viewership

Asianet Mobile TV + , live-streams over 100 TV channels and 100 radio stations including twenty two live

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TV channels including

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, Twentyfour news,

Kairali TV Kairali TV is an Indian Malayalam-language general entertainment television channel owned by Kairali TV Network (Malayalam Communications Limited). It is headquartered at Thiruvananthapuram. It was launched on 17 August 2000. The channel is ...

, People TV,

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Reporter TV Reporter TV is an Indian Malayalam language free to air news channel broadcasting in the Malayalam language. The channel is owned by Indo Asian News Channel Pvt Limited based at Kochi. The channel was launched on 13 May 2011. M. V. Nikesh K ...

Kappa TV Kappa TV is a Malayalam music channel from the Mathrubhumi group, the publisher of the widely circulated Mathrubhumi daily. The channel was named after Tapioca, a type of starch extracted from the root of Cassava plant, which is called "kappa" ...

, Rosebowl,

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and much more. It also streams twenty radio channels in Malayalam, English and Hindi languages. Asianet has a strong viewership base in the UAE and India including states of

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and

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. By the end of

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2016, Asianet had a broadband subscriber base of 167,000.Traditional Cable Companies Attract Subscribers with the Launch of OTT Services
''

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'' Retrieved on 22 September 2016 They have also two education channels that brings several education and certification courses to subscribers, anywhere, anytime

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