April 20 2016, 18.44 PM IST || Pocket News Alert
New Delhi, April 20, 2016: YuppTV, the world’s largest Over-The-Top (OTT) provider for South Asian content, expands its offering with the launch of 18 Sri Lankan TV channels across a variety of genres such as general entertainment, news, music, spiritual etc. As a part of the association, prominent Sinhala, Tamil and English channels such as Siyatha TV, Derana TV, Dan TV, Channel C, Nethra TV and Prime TV will be made available on YuppTV platform, worldwide.
Approximately 3 million Sri Lankan expats are estimated to be spread across the globe, with the majority concentrated around Europe, Middle East & Canada. Sri Lankan expats can now enjoy their favourite programs anytime, anywhere on multiple internet enabled devices. Two of Sri Lanka's most popular TV channels from Capital Maharaja Organization, Shakthi TV and Sirasa TV, were already available on YuppTV.
Speaking on the partnership, Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO, YuppTV, said, “At YuppTV, we have always sought to enable the best, most preferred entertainment options for our users across the globe. We have constantly enhanced our content offerings to appeal to the sensibilities of our diverse consumer base. Allowing access to these channels through our platform will add to the delight of our Sri Lankan expat viewers as they will be able to watch their favourite programmes from anywhere in the world.”
With the partnership, YuppTV became the first OTT service provider in the world to provide Live TV access of such an exquisite bouquet of Sri Lankan channels, which will be made available to subscribers at a very affordable price. These new channels will be part of Sri Lankan TV packages and can be accessed through the YuppTV website, www.yupptv.com, or via its app on Smart TVs, Smart blu-ray players, streaming media players, gaming consoles, smartphones and tablets.
YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 200+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 12 languages. YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added to the YuppTV platform every day. YuppTV offers Live TV and Catch-Up TV technology. YuppTV has its presence in more than 50 countries. It has recently launched YuppFlix, a movie on demand streaming service for Expat Market and YuppTV Bazaar an online marketplace for the premium content curator. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad and also the largest Internet TV platform from premium content availability in India. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 8 million mobile downloads with 4.0 user rating.
For more information: http://www.yupptv.com/