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Streamers meet MIB Minister Anurag Thakur, discuss various issues

At a time when the OTT platforms in India are being subjected to increased scrutiny for content and regulations --- not necessarily from the nodal ministry of Information and Broadcasting --- executives from streaming companies yesterday met

MIB Secy Chandra bats for kids’ early exposure to AVGC skills

Information and Broadcasting Secretary Apurva Chandra yesterday made a strong pitch for introducing students to the opportunities in the audio-visual, gaming and comics (AVGC) sector to allow them to hone their creative skills to make a career in the emerging area.

MIB issues fresh warning on carriage of betting, gambling ads

The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) yesterday advised media entities and online advertisement intermediaries to refrain from carrying advertisements and promotional content of betting p...

MIB names MSOs who are TRAI regulation compliant

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has published the names of multi-system operators (MSOs) based on their compliance with the TRAI's interconnection legislation. The Ministry has also urged broadcasters to enter into new interconnection or renewal

News channels’ FDI rules don’t apply to host OTT platform: MIB

Even as some OTT services like Disney+Hotstar had taken off third-party news channels from their platforms sometime in 2021, owing to ambiguity relating to news channels’ FDI restrictions applying to streamers or n...

MIB: Action taken in 178 TV content-related complaints since 2018

The Indian government yesterday said since 2018 it has taken action in 178 cases related to breach of content or programming code by TV channels.

“Since 2018, the government has tak...

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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!