kirukkal.com

Pun intended.

New York Times announced yesterday that they are opening up the entire site and will stop charging for premium content/archives.

What changed, The Times said, was that many more readers started coming to the site from search engines and links on other sites instead of coming directly to NYtimes.com. These indirect readers, unable to gain access to articles behind the pay wall and less likely to pay subscription fees than the more loyal direct users, were seen as opportunities for more page views and increased advertising revenue.

“What wasn’t anticipated was the explosion in how much of our traffic would be generated by Google, by Yahoo and some others,” Ms. Schiller said.

15/09/2007 Special Programmes

06.30am – 07.00am – Sudha Raghunathan
07.30am – 08.00am – News
08.00am – 08.30am – Interview With Actor Kamalhassan
08.30am – 09.00am – Interview With Maestro Ilayaraja
09.00am – 09.30am – Interview With Director K.Shankar
09.30am – 10.30am – Leoni Pattimandram
10.30am – 01.00pm – Pokkiri Movie 100Th Day Function
01.00pm – 01.30pm – News
01.30pm – 04.30pm – Block Buster Movie “Mozhi”
04.30pm – 05.00pm – Ungal Choice (Dial In) Jeyam Ravi
05.00pm – 05.30pm – Interview With Comedian Vadivel
05.30pm – 07:30pm – Super Hit Movie “Imsai Arasan 23Rd Pulikesi”
07.30pm – 08.00pm – News
08.00pm – 08.30pm – Interview With Actor Surya
08.30pm – 09.00pm – Pudhu Padangal – New Movies Review
09.00pm – 09.30pm – Interview With Actor Vivek
09.30pm – 10.30pm – Mannada Mayilada
10.30pm – 11.00pm – Interview With Director / Actor Cheran
11.00pm – 11.30pm – Magic Show

16/09/2007 Special Programmes

06.30am – 07.00am – Nityashree
07.30am – 08.00am – News
08.00am – 08.30am – Interview With Actress Asin
08.30am – 09.00am – Interview With Actor Vishal
09.00am – 09.30am – Interview With Actress Sneha
09.30am – 10.00am – Interview With Actor Arjun
10.00am – 10.30am – Interview With Actress Sandhya
10.30pm – 11.00pm – Interview With Actor Bharath
11.00am – 11.30am – Logic Illai Magic
11.30pm – Block Buster Movie “Ayudha Ezuthu”
01.00pm – 01.30pm – News
03.00pm – 04.30pm – Chandramuki 100Th Day Function
04.30pm – 07.30pm – Movie “Periyar”
07.30pm – 08.00pm – News
08.00pm – 08.30pm – Mannada Mayilada – Curtain Raiser
08.30pm – 09.30pm – Ellamae Siripputhan
09.30pm – 10.30pm – Comedy Skit By Yuhi Sethu
10.30pm – 11.00pm – Interview With Actor Madhavan.

Keerthi forwardded me this proposed opening schedule of Kalaignar TV. While this is not the finalised schedule for the opening weekend, the who’s who of kollywood can be spotted already and I am skeptical if there will be any entertainment left for the coming days/weeks.

By the way(everyone writes BTW these days so this is just for a change), Kalaignar.tv, KalaignarTV.com, KalaignarTV.in and KalaignarTV.co.in are all already booked by cybersquatters. They are the most obvious names for the Kalaignar TV domain and I dont think the management is making attempts to book them.

Also Raj TV has no news about Kalaignar TV on their site. Makes me think if the media houses in Tamil Nadu are just too engrossed in entertaining people that they forget a huge business market exists for them outside of the country.