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Guest Column: The interoperability puzzle

Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati, which manages Doordarshan and Akashvani, is faced with a Hamletian choice after broadcast regulator TRAI’s recent recommendations on FreeDish: to have interoperability or not?

Guest Column: Will DD FreeDish go encrypted?

Despite a public broadcaster’s noble and laudable goals, maybe it’s not always feasible to give such a service free run; especially when it commercially competes with similar private sector services and still remains outside the stringent regulatory regimen laid out for others.

So, w...

Trai Needs To Restore Level Playing Field As Broadcast And Tv Distribution Regulator

A. Two Decades of Broadcast Regulation

Over twenty years ago, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) was nominated by the Government on 09.01.2004 as the Broadcast and TV...

Guest Column: Will new Broadcast Bill ’23 tighten controls on communication media?

Indian Media Scenario 2023 From a single-channel Doordarshan channel in 1982 to 900 TV channels in 2023, Indian media has seen an enormous explosion of multi-language content, with 200 million TV homes. There are

Guest Column: Three Decades of Unfinished Communication Media Rules

While it is a truism that the march of technology outstrips regulation, India has been particularly tardy in framing technology-neutral regulations to ensure a level playing field for competing modes of communication media focusing on consumer needs.

Guest Column: All about consolidation, partnership-led growth in M&E

Calendar year 2023 was a mixed bag for the media and entertainment (M&E) industry as linear TV reported below par growth (decline of 1-2 percent YoY – ex sports) due to i) lower spends by e-commerce/gaming companies ii) diversion of festive spends towards Cricket World Cup negatively impacting growth for other ge...

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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!