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Prasar Bharati scouts for ad vendors to monetise real estate

With prime properties all over India, country’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati presents an unique opportunity to advertisers to promote their products. And, in the process, the organisation earns revenues.

The Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL) has invited exp...

TV Today Network: Digital growth intact

By Elara Caps Digital growth intact Miss on revenue growth; digital performance strong TV Today Network’s (TVTN IN) Q1 revenue grew 7 perc...

Amazon appoints Vineet Nair as head of media

Amazon announced roping in Vineet Nair from Mindshare as head of media. Nair shared about this move on his LinkedIn profile and wrote, “Excited to share that I have joined Amazon India as Media Head. It's been a week now and everyone has been so welcoming. As ...

Havas Worldwide India announces three senior appointments

Havas Worldwide India, the creative arm of Havas Group India, continues to strengthen its strategy and account planning teams across Mumbai and Delhi offices with three key appointments. The appoints come on the heels of the tremendous growth it has witnessed over the last two years. Govind Agarwal has joined

Govt aware of news publishers’ concerns vis-à-vis Big Tech: IT minister

Though the Indian government didn’t commit in parliament on a law mandating news publishers to be paid by big tech companies that earn ad revenues riding their content, it did, however, admit that regular meetings with stakeholders are held to explore whether existing rules need amendments.

DD shows popular; AIR FM bests many pvt. stations: Minister

Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said on Thursday that pubcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio were faring well vis-à-vis competition from private sector broadcasting, with AIR’s FM channels having larger listenership compared to private sector FM stations.

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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!