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News18 Network’s counting day TV viewership surpasses IPL finale

News18 Network has outperformed the television viewership of the 2024 IPL finale on the counting day of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. According to the latest data released by the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), News18 network reached an unprecedented audience of 16.20 crore, surpassing the IPL Finale’s reach of 10.90 crore. Acc...

Paramount Global calls off merger talks with Skydance

National Amusements, which owns a majority voting stake in embattled entertainment giant Paramount Global, said Tuesday that it has ended talks on a possible merger of Paramount with movie production company Skydance Media.

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Shezray Husain joins ‘Gunaah’ on Disney+ Hotstar

South Asian American actress Shezray Husain has been cast in Bodhi Tree Multimedia’s latest crime thriller series, ‘Gunaah’, now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar. The series, available to watch for free on mobile devices, releases new episodes every weekday, from Mo...

IPL value up 6.5% to $ 16 bn; CSK most valued franchise

The value of the Indian Premier League (IPL) went up 6.5 per cent to $16.4 billion (approx. Rs 134,858 crore) in 2024, helped much by an increase in title sponsorship fee from the Tata group, according to a report by American inves...

Tata Comms, World Athletics sign 5-year broadcast services deal

Tata Communications and World Athletics have announced a five-year host broadcasting services deal wherein the former will provide services to cover World Athletics Series events, including the World Championships in Tokyo in 2025, and support World Athletics' vision of encouraging the sport through strategic initiat...

COAI shares key priorities for telecom sector growth

The Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI) yesterday shared key priorities for the telecom industry that it wishes the government to address and help the sector achieve its goals. According to the industry body, the availability of 6 GHz mid-band spectrum is crucial to expand the 5G networks, especially the IMT (mobility services) in...

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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!