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BARC Rating 19th Week: Sun TV maintains the lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 18th Week (7th May – 13th May 2022) has released its report. In India, Sun TV is continued to dominate the list of top 10 channels for the past three weeks across all genres (All India 2+), the channel registered 2373.16 impressions. Star Maa is in the second spot with 2240.67 impressions, and ...

Marvel Studios signs 20-year deal with Stan Lee Universe

Marvel Studios and Stan Lee Universe have entered into a 20-year agreement to license the name and likeness of Stan Lee so that the late comic legend will continue to be part of pop culture. Lee, the beloved co-creator of Marvel characters Spider-Man, Avengers, and Hulk who died in 2018 at the age of 95 became a fan favorite of new-age fans w...

LTI expands its global partnership with Google Cloud

Larsen & Toubro Infotech, the global technology consulting and digital solutions company is expanding its global partnership with Google Cloud. LTI is setting up a dedicated Business Unit for Google Cloud’s six key solution pillars: Application Modernization, Data Management, Infrastructure Modernization, Smart Analytics, Artificial Intel...

Disney Plus sets August premiere for ‘She-Hulk’

Comedy series ‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’ will start streaming on Disney Plus from August 17. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige made the announcement at the Disney's Upfront event on Tuesday, PTI reported from Los Angeles quoting local media. The streaming platform also dropped the trailer of the upcoming series, starring Tatiana Maslan...

Guest Column: 5G roll out in India: Assessment and recommendations for Cable Headends.

By Rajiv Khattar The C-band (3400-4200 MHz) has been historically used for satellite receivers and as such the FSS Earth station equipment, namely the LNB, often operate in the entire 3400-4200 MHz even though the operating signal might only be received in portions of the band often above 3.6 GHz. The TRAI recommendatio...

Take guard against 5G signal interference: MIB tells DPOs

As the countdown begins to the auctioning process of spectrums for 5G IMT services, which will include reallocation of certain bandwidths used by broadcasting services to telcos, India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has advised the TV distribution platforms to take measures to reduce interferences i...

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“This initiative will empower subscribers to pay online and subscribe to the channels they want to watch and get it activated on their TV sets in real-time without any delay. Without needing to undertake any software development, LMOs can approach Mobiezy for their pre-built and pre-integrated solution that uses NXTDigital’s news APIs and can be up and running with their own mobile apps within just a few days.”

RU Ediriwira, Group CTO, NXTDigital Limited

“With the launch of Partnership for Growth 3.0 we intend to expand our network with 40 new NXTHUBs, each offering up to 650 live TV channels and broadband. Our efforts are focused on harnessing the convergence of technologies, developing robust apps and creating new business models that will help the overall ecosystem, delivering the best experience to our subscribers. We hope to achieve a stronger foothold in the rural regions of the country and grow our subscriber base.”

N.K. Rouse, COO, NXT Digital Ltd

“One of the key principles of the Hinduja Group is ‘Partnership for Growth’. After 2.0 saw the launch of HITS to connect LMOs in even the most remote locations through the only satellite-based cable TV platform in India; 3.0 focuses not just on strengthening the overall ecosystem we have built, but harnessing the convergence of technologies – to be delivered through a national network of NXTHUBs. Video and broadband are only the beginning of the digital highway of services that we have developed for roll-out backed by a robust suite of innovative apps developed by service providers exclusively for our LMOs and subscribers.”

Vynsley Fernandes, MD & CEO, NXTDigital Limited

“Wireline broadband is becoming ever more important not only in connecting homes across the country but also small to large enterprises-to the digital economy. The NXTHUBs will be the perfect point-of-presence to offer broadband services to cater to these consumer needs.”

Yugal Kishore Sharma CEO, ONEOTT Intertainment Limited

Amazing and grim battle for survival. Guess it will end up in Supreme Court. All that NCLT asked Zee to do was to file a reply to Invesco petition for a EGM. Now this is getting too serious. So far Invesco has been hammered for demanding an EGM. What is Zee upto? Ofcourse my lawyer community knows better!