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Viacom18 let go of IPL TV rights in favour of digital

Mukesh Ambani’s group ultimately dropped the pursuit of television broadcast rights to India’s top cricket league that Walt Disney Co. secured for $3 billion as the Indian conglomerate saw limited opportunity for long-term profit from the legacy platform.

Viacom18, the joint venture ...

Prasar Bharati unveils procurement policy to streamline processes

In the spirit of ease of doing business at India’s Prasar Bharati, for the first time a procurement policy has been etched out that was released by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Secretary Apurva Chandra.

The pubcaster’s procurement policy is a directive to all procur...

DD, AIR News score high on consumer trust, authenticity

That India trusts its good old public broadcaster has been corroborated again by a recent report of the Reuters Institute, which revealed the news network of Doordarshan and All India Radio enjoys highest trust, the public broadcaster said Wednesday. “India registered a small increase in news trust, improving its overall position among the 46...

India TV elevates Amit Sinha as president-strategy & research

India TV has elevated Amit Sinha as president of strategy and research. He has been associated with the company since January 2021. Sinha updated his LinkedIn profile. Sinha has 17 years of experience in providing insight-led (quantitative and qualitative) inputs that have informed brands, content, promo communications, marketing, scheduling,...

An anchor who stands up for journalistic fairness

At a time when India is witnessing slme severe criticism of TV news media for partisanship, there are exceptions like Preeti Choudhry, Senior Editor of India Today channel. Choudhry, who kick starts prime time on the India Today news channel with To The Point show, which is cutting edge debate providing an in-depth analysis of the day’s bigge...

Former MIB Secy Varma urges TRAI to have a broad tariff structure

Uday Varma, former Secretary at the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, whose tenure had seen some major push towards digitisation, has advocated that regulator TRAI ought to take a more pragmatic view of the Indian broadcast and cable sectors and lay down a ‘broad tariff structure’ that will benefit all stakeh...

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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!