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BARC Rating 34th Week: Sun TV maintains lead position across all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 34th Week (21st August – 27th August 2021) has released its report.

In India, Sun TV is continued to dominate the list of top 10 channels ...

Gaurav Thaney joins ZEE5 as senior veep digital biz

Gaurav Thaney has joined Zee group’s ZEE5 as senior vice-president of digital business.

OTT is a critical business of the Zee group and, therefore, significant le...

The Advertising Club elects Partha Sinha as president

The Advertising Club, an industry body of advertising, marketing and media services, Friday announced Partha Sinha, President, Response, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., has been elected the organisation’s president.

It also annou...

AIR Tamil popular in SE Asia; NZ claims Germany’s position in Top 10

In major changes in rankings of top AIR streams globally (excluding India), AIR Kodaikanal has made a comeback, after displacing AIR Ananthapuri from Top 10.

While AIR Chennai Rainbow and AIR News 24*7 have climbed up the ladder t...

Amazon to moderate content on cloud service

Is a global tech company’s internal policies related to content better and stronger than those legislated by a sovereign government? Or, vice versa? And, how will such moves impact freedom of speech --- or lack of it? Well, the debate could take another turn in th...

Amazon planning to launch Alexa-powered TV in October

American tech giant Amazon may release Amazon-branded TVs as soon as October. The company has previously launched smart displays, smart speakers, and Fire TV sticks. As per ANI, Amazon will release Amazon-branded TVs in the US. The TVs will have Ale...

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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!