Turner International Sends Pair of Channels to Tata Sky

SINGAPORE: Turner International India has placed the premium subscription services HBO Defined HD and HBO Hits HD on Tata Sky, a DTH platform in India.

HBO Defined and HBO Hits will offer advertising-free Hollywood and Bollywood content as well as HBO originals through high-definition feeds on Tata Sky. Titles will include G.I. Joe Retaliation, Jack Reacher, Wake Up Sid, My Name is Khan, True Detective, The Newsroom, Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire.

Select Hollywood films will be available in both English and Hindi, including The Dark Knight Rises, Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol and Paranormal Activity 4, to name a few.

Siddharth Jain, the managing director of Turner International India, stated: "Turner is committed to continue bringing compelling content inside homes of consumers in India and on any device they own. HBO DEFINED HD and HBO HITS HD signify a new era of commercial-free television viewing for the growing number of discerning high definition subscribers. We have received a very enthusiastic response from all platforms and are happy to have, Tata Sky, one of India's leading DTH platforms partner with us."

"Tata Sky is committed to offering the best picture quality, sound and digital viewing experience to its subscribers and HBO DEFINED and HBO HITS are great examples of this," added Paolo Agostinelli, the chief content and business development officer for Tata Sky. "We're pleased to provide an experience of accessing a wide variety of world class movies with the prestigious HBO original series in pure high definition which is delightfully ad-free for our subscribers. This is truly a movie and TV series fan's dream come true."