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TV ad volumes post double digit growth in 2021: BARC report

The year 2020 was subdued for television advertising, leading to a decline in total ad volumes across the year despite the record stay-at-home rise in viewership. But 2021 has bounced back with a substantial double-digit spike, delivering an all-time high of 1824 million seconds of ad volumes during the year, Broadca...

DD India joins YuppTV platform; widens reach in 7 countries

With a clear aim to widen global reach and spread India’s perspectives on international developments, Doordarshan (DD) India has hopped on to the YuppTV platform.

The agreement with the Atlanta-headquartered OTT platform will get DD India, pubcaster Doordarshan’s international TV cha...

SC to hear MediasOne channel plea against ban on Mar 11

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on March 11 a plea of Malayalam news channel MediaOne against the Kerala High Court order upholding the federal government’s decision to ban its telecast on security grounds. A bench, comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices A S Bopanna, took note of the submissio...

Radha Ramamurthy moves to Amazon from Viacom18

Radha Ramamurthy has recently moved to Amazon from Viacom18 after four years of working as a head of marketing and digital content. In Amazon, Radha will be the senior launch marketing manager, where she will be responsible for handling the regional content. The news was shared on her LinkedIn post, where she wrote a note to her team, “Say...

EORTV appoints Falguni Shah as MD

OTT platform EORTV has appointed Falguni Shah as the managing director (MD) of its OTT Business. In her new role, Shah will be responsible for the rollout and management of EORTV’s content and revenue. She will also be handling the brand to create

AIDCF for tech transfer, subsidies to boost local hardware manufacture

The All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF), an industry body representing the interest of MSOs, has suggested foreign technology transfer and a slew of government financial incentives, amongst other measures, to boost local manufacturing in the broadcasting and cable television sector.

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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!