Yes, TVi did broadcast the funeral of Theesaththin Kural. I don’t know what other TV channels did as I do not subscribe to them. There is no Jaya TV in Canada. It is, I believe, Tamil TV broadcast the content of Jaya TV.

Anyhow, in my opinion, this event could have had exclusive rights. These are special events, yet is not an imperative nation building issue, as I have mentioned in my earlier reply.

Thanks again, for your visit and comment Suriyan.

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CAPitalZ

Did TVI also telecast the funeral live from London?

What is the opinion of ATN Tamil Channel/Jaya TV regaring Tamil Eelam issues?

/Suriyan

Yes – it’s true what you write. Our goal is Tamil Eelam, and let’s do what is best for Tamil Eelam.

Nice blog

Kindly regards
Suriyan

Thanks for your visit and comment.

I absolutely agree with you from the point of a commercial media channel. If you look at from the National interest, I think it is unfair.

There are other things you can have exclusive rights. Live broadcast of Dr. “theesaththin kural” Anton Balasingham’s cremation, recent fighting, recent speech by a prominent LTTE commanders, “pongu thamizh” event, some documentary of day to day life in Tamil Eelam, even maaveerar naal events from other countries are some of them.

I did not say LTTE being unfair. I know our leader’s speach is broadcasted free. It is the media channels that is putting a value on a priceless speach. Our leader’s speach is extremely important and expected not only by Tamil diaspora but international community. I think Maveerar naal will be much important than an independent day!

If you look at the National interest, it is our duty to take our leader’s message to everybody. Yes, of course TV channels can broadcast a good 45 minutes of speach just only audio. But that is not same as broadcasting the video as well. Even the other aspects of Maveerar naal; showing every thuyilum illams can create much impact.

Well, my point is that I once believed that another TV channel as anti-Tamil media when they did not broadcast our leader’s speach or Maveerar naal event from Tamil Eelam. It is later I realized that they were not given rights to broadcast. Imagine many people believe this and people try to alienate that TV channel. This will create a divide within ourself.

Finally, as a commercial TV channel, your point of view is right. But in National interest, it is best if the Maveerar naal, [independent day] events do not have any exclusive rights. Of course we can have exclusive rights, once Tamil Eelam becomes a stable country.

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CAPitalZ

I agree that it is not a good idea to give only 1 channel excusive rights for national event like Marvira Naal etc.

But let me tell you. I live here in Europe, and I subscribe to TTN Tamil TV. There are many Tamil channels in Europe (Deepam TV, Sun TV, KTV, Cee(I)TV, DAN TRT Tamil Ozhi – and last year there were even more Tamil TV-channels.

The competition is very big. For example Cee(I)TV and DAN TRT Tamil Ozhi are telecasting free-to-air, and Sun TV offers 2 channels on 1 subcription.
So TTN need this “exclusice rights”, so the channel can get more viewers and survive in the media market. But the LTTE is not unfair, because Marvira Naal is telecasted for free on TTN every year.
The other Tamil channels don’t have the rights for live video telecasting of the speech, but they are allowed to telecast the audioformat of the speech live. For example DAN TRT Tamil Ozhi last year telecasted the speech live on TV, but they had only a picture of our national leader from the previous Mavira Naal on the screen. TamilOne TV could have done the same.

TTN and TVI are using a lot of money to get these live feeds from the satellite, so it is absolutely unfair if others steal the live telecasting feed.

The owners of the other TV station can do the same as DAN TRT Tamil Ozhi did. Just put on the audio feed of the live speech. Problem is solved.

It is not easy to run a TV station… it costs a lot, and to survive in the media, you have to have something special to offer your subscribers

By the way – how did ATN Tamil Channel handle Marvira Naal?

Kindly regards
Suriyan
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