Sports - Indian Broadcasting World

Hotstar to stream kabaddi for free on mobile

Disney+ Hotstar, a leading streaming platform, has announced its decision to offer free streaming of the forthcoming season of the Pro Kabaddi League, set to kick off on December 2, 2023. This bold move reflects the rising popularity of the sport in India, which has become the second mos...

Midway WC23, TV viewing at 123.8 bn minutes; 6.64bn video views on ICC channels

The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 is setting record-breaking numbers as hundreds of millions of fans engage with the biggest Cricket World Cup ever on linear TV and digitally.

There has been 123.8 billion viewing minutes clocked on li...

Star Sports clocks 59bn minutes in WC-23 viewership

ICC Cricket World Cup 2023, broadcast by Star Sports, has witnessed a substantial 22 percent increase in viewership, amassing an astonishing 59 billion minutes of watch time within the first 11 matches. The surge has been notably driven by premium audiences. Star Sports, according to an Economic ...

India vs NZ match sets global streaming record on Disney+ Hotstar

Disney+ Hotstar set a global streaming viewership record on October 22, drawing around 43 million viewers during the India vs New Zealand cricket match in the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023. With this, the streaming platform has surpassed the previous record of 35 million concurrent vi...

Star Sports Select to premiere ‘Indian Baseball Dreams’

Major League Baseball (MLB) and Disney Star have joined forces with IMG and Amped Pictures to present 'Indian Baseball Dreams,' a captivating four-part docuseries that chronicles the incredible journey of Arjun Nimmala. Arjun made history when he was drafted in the first round of the MLB amateur draft by the...

India-Pak WC match creates viewership record on Hotstar

The India-Pakistan match of the ICC Cricket World Cup played on Saturday created a new streaming viewership record with the peak touching the 3.5 crore (35 million) mark, according to Disney.

The peak concurrency --- the highest number o...

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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!