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SPNI bags English cricket TV, digital rights for till ’28

Sony Pictures Networks India and England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) extend their broadcast partnership until 2028, which includes television and digital rights for all men’s international, women’s internationals as well as county competitions played in England.

The rights are for ...

Eurosport acquires broadcast rights for Grand Prix Badminton League

Eurosport, Discovery Network's premium

DD Sports to air live C’wealth Games 2022

As the much-celebrated Commonwealth Games begin, Doordarshan Sports is bringing all the action live from the ground, starting from the opening ceremony till the end of the 2022 edition of the Commonwealth Games on August 8, 2022.

DD Sports began its broadcast from July 28, 2022, with...

Disney bags India, Asia b’cast rights for Aussie cricket

The Australian cricket chief said Sunday they had agreed to sell broadcasting rights in India to Disney Star in a seven-year deal, reportedly worth hundreds of millions of dollars, which includes the popular men’s and women’s Big Bash T20 leagues.

The Walt Disney-owned media group is...

Disney plans to raise ESPN+ subscription fee 43%

Walt Disney Co. plans to raise the monthly subscription fee for its sports streaming platform ESPN+ by $3 a month, a 43% hike, the company has announced.

The price of an ESPN+ subscription in the US will rise to $9.99 per month starting August 23, while the cost of an annual subscrip...

SPNI acquires rights for Athletics Championships

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has acquired the media rights for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, which is scheduled from July 15 – 24, 2022, in Eugene, Oregon, United States. As per the company, this deal will give SPN rights to broadcast the upcoming edition of the World Athletics Championships on its sports channels across Indi...

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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!