MTV's gains include India, traditionally Channel V's strongest market, and Taiwan, where the once-dominant Channel V was recently dropped by the largest cable operator in Taipei.
But Hindi news channel NDTV India trails market leader Aaj Tak, owned by the Living Media Group.
Latif, regarded as the original whistle-blower in the match-fixing scandal which hit cricket in 2000, made the controversial remarks while working on the local Indus television channel in India.
For India though ASEAN provides another channel to North East Asia, particularly China.
Billionaire Kumar Birla recently bought a stake in the Living Media Group that publishes newsweekly India Today and owns TV channel Headlines Today.
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He dropped out in his final year at King's College in London in 2001, where he was studying chemistry and business management, because he won a contest to be a veejay on Channel V in India for a year.
"The trend globally is that TV is becoming more ethnocentric, " says Amit Khanna, managing director of Plus Channel, one of India's biggest TV production companies.
India's stock markets have helped channel millions in capital to deserving entrepreneurs and have produced a huge pool of investors, both large and small.
But before that, he switches on the television to watch himself on a private channel viciously attacking the Communist Party of India (Marxist), commonly known as the CPM, which has ruled West Bengal for so long that its ways have seeped into the genetic code of the state.
Three nights a week, Prannoy Roy anchors the main, 9 o'clock news on India's top-rated English-language news channel, NDTV 24x7.
The company bought Bollywood music channel Imagine Showbiz this year from Turner General Entertainment India, a division of Turner Broadcasting.
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In an interview to news channel CNN-IBN, Mr Abdullah said India would have to prove to the world that Guru's hanging was not "a selective execution".
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, STR makes up 2.73% of the India Small Cap ETF ( AMEX: SCIN )which is trading higher by about 0.1% on the day Wednesday.
Even India's once-dull and still state-run network Doordarshan last year took its International Channel to some 40 countries.
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