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NBDA: B’cast Bill entrusts excessive powers to govt.; equating OTT with linear TV arbitrary

The News Broadcasters & Digital Association (NBDA), representing 28 leading news and digital broadcasters in India, has submitted critical comments on the Draft Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023, expressing strong ...

Parliamentary panel bats for comprehensive regulations for cable TV sector

A parliamentary panel has --- while acknowledging that cable TV subscriber base in India has been declining over the years --- suggested the government and sector regulator TRAI take various corrective measures through collaborat...

Govt. to soon announce digital ad policy: Anurag Thakur

The government is poised to come out with a comprehensive digital advertising policy soon that would help digital businesses financially, Minister for Information & Broadcasting Anurag Thakur yesterday said.

Speaking at Conclave, organised by Storyboard18 Digital News Publisher A...

IT Minister hints at rules to make Big Tech pay for news content

Two senior Ministers yesterday hinted that the Indian government could make regulatory interventions, if needed, to balance the revenue asymmetry between news content creators and those entities who monetise it.

In plain simple words it could mean that the Indian government could exp...

NCLT issues notice on Zee’s plea on Sony merger issue

The National Company Law Tribunal's Mumbai bench has issued a notice on Zee Entertainment's plea seeking the implementation of merger with Sony Pictures' India arm. The tribunal will take up the case on March 12, acc...

Singapore arbitration body refuses to rule on Zee-Sony merger issue

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd yesterday said the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) has denied Sony Group's plea seeking a restrain against the Indian media company's move to India’s NCLT (National Company Law Tribun...

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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!