Malaysia-based Astro has added more Tamil HD content on the platform including Zee Tamil HD, Star Vijay HD, Colors Tamil HD. The Chakravarthy Pack will be offering premium content to over 300,000 Tamil households in Malaysia.
Astro Indian channel business vice president Marc Lourdes said, “As we continue to offer customers relevant, high-quality entertainment, we are excited to introduce more HD content from 1 June. Astro Vaanavil HD (CH 201) will offer Astro and NJOI customers a better viewing experience along with new series – Tamiletchumy and Nalam Ariya Aaval, as well as more local Tamil movies, telemovies, short films, and, local Malayalam and Telugu dramas are in the pipeline.”
Zee South Cluster, part of the Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd, has cumulatively donated Rs 1.35 crore to support more than 1,000 pandemic-hit daily-wage workers in the television industry across Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Kerala. The aid has been directly sent to their bank accounts, thus avoiding delays.
TRT Tamil Olli radio from Paris, France - which is the first 24 H Tamil radio station in Europe started on Pongal day in 1997, ended its normal schedule of programmes in April due to the corona (COVID-19) crisis in France. The web- and satellite transmission was replaced by non-stop music and main news broadcast and some recorded programmes. 
In the crowed free-to-view live Tamil TV channels space online and through IPTV, some new channels have launched and more are to come. Here is an overview of some of the channels that we are aware of:
The channel has started airing popular shows from 1 June.
The Kerala State Government has recently announced online classes for Class 1 to Class 12 (except Class 11) which will be accessible to students through the Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) Victers channel. The online classes will be available through live stream on the official KITE Victers channel that falls under the State General Education Department. The sessions have been organised to make sure that students in Kerala do not miss out on the classes due to the current lockdown situation in the country.
After a two-month break, the serials of ZEE Keralam are starting afresh with new content. The seven serials that were already running successfully in the channel will start its telecast from 1 June onwards.
ITR France programmes is going to be broadcasted through Yugam Radio in Canada from 10.02.2020 daily from 11.00 to 13.00 CET (5 to 7 AM Canadian time). The new change is coming after the change in ITR Canada, which is now broadcasting in Canada as "Time FM". ITR France is a web based online radio broadcasting from Paris in France. 
Lyca TV has merged with Yupp TV last week. Both are IPTV providers of channels in different languages from different countries. Yupp TV is a major player in the IPTV market in different parts of the world and in 2018 it took over Lebara Play, which was a competitor to Lyca TV. 
IBC Tamil is looking for RJs in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, who would like to work for them from their office/studio in Jaffna. IBC Tamil Radio is an UK-based 24H Tamil radio station broadcasting on DAB in Greater London and worldwide through various sources like their website, Yupp TV IPTV provider etc. IBC Tamil Radio is currently broadcasting programmes live from their studio in both UK and Sri Lanka. 
