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AVIA appoints Matthew Cheetham as anti-piracy GM

The Asia Video Industry Association has appointed Matthew Cheetham as General Manager of the Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) with immediate effect. As the General Manager of CAP, Cheetham will take over from Aaron Herps and build on the accomplishments achieved by CAP to create a stronger and healthier environment in which the video industry c...

Vivek Srivastava joins Amazon as head of partnerships

Former Times Network President - Strategy & Operations, Digital & Broadcast Vivek Srivastava has joined Prime Video Channels, India as head of partnerships, according to his LinkedIn profile. Amazon had launched Prime Video Channels in India on September 24. Srivastava had quit the broadcast network after a seven-year stint. In ...

BARC India to resume news channels’ ratings after 17 months

India’s TV ratings body Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India on Monday said it will be restarting issuing data on news channels from mid-March, over 17 months after suspending it.

In a statement, BARC India said the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has given a dir...

AIR digital listenership up by 2 mn. for 2nd consecutive month

In what’s indicative of ever increasing popularity of the All India Radio, live streams of the radio pubcaster have seen a jump in listenership of two million from 16 million in November 2021 to 18 million in December 2021. In January 2022, the number jumped by another couple of million.

End of an era: tributes pour in after Lata Mangeshkar’s death

"The end of an era", "an artist born but once in centuries" and a "void that cannot be fulfilled", is how prominent personalities, led by India’s President Ram Nath Kovind and PM Narendra Modi, mourned the passing away of singing icon Lata Mangeshkar on Sunday.

The 92-year-old singer...

Govt. not looking to consolidate its holdings in various telcos: Minister

The Indian government at present is not looking to consolidate its holdings in various telecom companies, including the stake in VodafoneIdea, MTNL and BSNL, to create a synergy.

“There is no such proposal under consideration,” junior Communications Minister Devusinh Chauhan said 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!