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BARC Rating 6th Week: Star Maa regains top spot in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 6th Week (5th February – 11th February 2022) has released its report. In India, Star Maa who gets the third spot from the past five weeks has backed again to take their seat of the fir...

Google to retain ad tracking tool till ’24; exploring options

Alphabet Inc.'s Google on Wednesday said it would keep alive for at least two years a tracking technology on its Android phones that is relied upon by advertisers, easing speculation about its plans after Apple Inc. frustrated the ad industry by restricting a similar tool.

Google sa...

3k FullyFaltoo NFTs sold in 48 hours of launch’: Viacom18

06The range of 3,000 tokens from the ‘loot’ category from the maiden NFT drop from the FullyFaltoo collection, curated by Viacom18’s Youth, Music and English (YME) Entertainment Cluster, was sold out in less than 48 hours of its launch.

As per the company’s press release, 40 percent ...

India holds hopes as US, Europe plateau off for Netflix: GlobalData

The US and Europe are ‘Neflix’d out’ and Netflix needs to turn to ‘emerging’ markets such as India if it wants to stop its falling new subscriber numbers and plummeting share price, according to leading data and analytics company GlobalData.

Netflix is expected to spend an eye-wateri...

Republic CEO Khanchandani to review options after quitting

Republic Media Network CEO Vikas Khanchandani, who has put in his papers, is likely to use some of the free time to re-evaluate options, given the fast changing technology and the media landscape.

In the meanwhile, the Arnab Goswami-founded news network announced some leadership chan...

Zee Telugu announces new season of ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’

Zee Telugu from the ZEEL family is all set to bring back the new season of ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa – The Singing Superstar’.

The new season promises to discover and nurture the mo...

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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!