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BARC Rating 31st Week: Star Plus maintains lead position across genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 31st Week (31st July – 6th August 2021) has released its report. In India, Star Plus is continued to dominate the list of top 10 channels across genres (All India 2+), the channel registered...

TV Monthly Monitor – July’21 – STAR leads GECs; Zee posts MoM gains, regionally

Listed broadcasters: Overall performance

Zee Group: Regional plays strong, GECs continue to struggle with Zee Anmol the only hope

The Zee Group’s performance was mixed in July 2021, as flagship GECs – i.e. Zee Anmol and Zee TV – failed to feature in the top-10 channel list. However, Zee Telugu entered the top...

HBO Max renews S2 of ‘The White Lotus’

Steaming service from AT& T’s WarnerMedia, HBO Max has ordered another season of Mike White’s ‘The White Lotus’, a vicious, buzzy satire set in an ornate Hawaiian resort. According to Variety, its second installment will leave Hawai...

WhatsApp adds a new feature

Popular instant messaging platform WhatsApp has now added a new feature that will allow users to transfer chat history, including all voice notes, photos, and conversations when switching from iOS to Android. According to ANI, this long-rumored feat...

Guest Column: India’s 1st rural GEC, Azaad, promises more originals

‘Azaad’, claiming to be India’s first premium Hindi television entertainment platform featuring content exclusively for the ‘rural mindset’, has been launched with select hand-picked syndicated family entertainment that’s localized in Hindi language.

Viacom18 appoints Viraj Raje as Head of Programming for Colors Marathi

Viacom18 on Wednesday announced the appointment of Viraj Raje as the Head of Programming for Colors Marathi. He will be responsible for managing the channel’s content strategy and creative framework. As per the company’s press release, ...

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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!