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Jio Platforms Ltd and SES Announce Joint Venture to Deliver High-Performance Satellite-Based Broadband Services Across India – Positive for gaming, internet, ad tech and media OTT cos

By Karan Taurani @ Elara Capital - This will speed up the process of high speed internet in the smaller towns/cities and also help ramp up broadband penetration in areas where there is little or no LCO support due to local broadband companies; satellite internet cannot offer speed as per the FTTH at peak (10 GBPS) , however i...

Tanvi Shukla, former Mirror NOW anchor, joins India Ahead

Tanvi Shukla, former main anchor and editor for Mirror Now has moved on from to join the Bhupendra Chaubey-led India Ahead News Group.

Tanvi will be hosting a prime time show on the ...

Lightning International to handle Britain’s GB News global distribution

Lightning International has been appointed to handle the international rollout of GB News as global distributor for the new channel.

GB News is Britain’s News Channel providing news, debate, and opinion 24x7 with internationally-renowned hosts and commentators such as Eamonn Holmes, ...

IPL player auction throws up surprises; focus now on b’cast, digital rights

The cricket Indian Premier League (IPL) auctions threw up many surprises as some stalwarts and short format performers found no takers, while youngsters saw the 10 franchisees bidding aggressively for them.

No wonder that wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan saw

TV Today Q3FY22 Result Update – Maintain BUY with a higher TP of INR 610

By Karan Taurani @ Elara Capital Broad-based profitable growth Revenue growth –Strong digital performance TV Today Network’s (TVTN) Q3 revenues grew 15.4% YoY (up 16% versus pre-COVID levels and 14.2% QoQ) to INR 2,580mn (Elara E: INR 2,498mn), better than estimated. This was largely le...

Anil Kotian joins Zee5 after Publiscis

Anil Kotian has moved to Zee5 as senior vice president after a one-year stint as the senior vice president at Publicis Emil. The news was shared by Anil on his LinkedIn profile, where he shared the position...

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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!