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M&E sector could be 5% of Indian GDP in 10 yrs: Viacom18 CEO Jyoti Deshpande

Viacom18 CEO and President of Jio Platforms Jyoti Deshpande is hopeful that in 10 years, with a little bit of help from the government, the Indian media and entertainment (M&E) sector could be contributing at least five percent to the GDP with the aim to be 2 percent of the GDP over the next three to five years.<...

As handset shipments rise, Xiaomi reports 21% rise in revenues

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp on Tuesday reported a bigger-than-expected 21.4 percent rise in fourth-quarter revenue, as industry shipments of handsets slowly tick up following a global chip shortage and the peak of the pandemic.

"In 2021 we experienced a very complex situatio...

Doordarshan set to take channels Down Under via SBS deal

Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s news channels are all set to expand its reach in Oz, along with other broad co-production deals, as it signed a partnership with Australian counterpart, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)

The partnership will enlarge the reach of DD (News) in

TV adverts up 25%; pay TV subscription down; print ad rates subdued: Ficci-EY-’22 report

The good news is that TV advertising grew 25 percent in 2021. The bad news: subscription revenues continued to lag to register a growth of a mere 2.4 percent on the back of loss of six million pay TV homes even as the Indian media and entertainment (M&E) sector is projecte...

BARC resumes audience ratings for TV news channels

BARC India has resumed the ratings for individual news channels with the release of data for Week 10, 2022. Following an industry-wide consultative process, the BARC Team, along with the BARC TechComm, developed the Augmented Data Reporting Standards for News and Special Interest genres, aligned with the Industry’s needs. As per these revi...

Comms minister admits RoW process hampered b’band rollout

The Indian government has admitted that the process of getting Rights of Way (RoW) permissions is one of the few impediments to ramping up broadband penetration in the country, but added corrective steps are being taken.

India’s junior Minister for Communications Devusinh Chauhan sai...

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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!