Sports - Indian Broadcasting World

Sony bags Roland Garros media rights for sub-continent

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has bagged the exclusive TV and digital rights to broadcast Roland Garros between 2022-24 in the Indian sub-continent regions. As part of the collaboration, SPN will broadcast the tennis tournament on its sports channels across India and the subcontinent including, Pakistan, Sri ...

Sports18 available on Tata Play, Jiotv+ and Airtel Digital

Viacom18, which launched its sports channel, Sports18, on April 15, around the time when various Indian new years are celebrated, is now available on most major distribution platforms. The pay channel is available in both SD and HD formats on Jiotv + (channel no: 261 HD & 262 SD), TATA PLAY (channel no. 488) and Airtel Digital TV (channel no...

DD Sports to air Khelo India Univ Games

As India awaits Khelo India University Games 2021, there is good news for sports enthusiasts. Doordarshan Sports will be bringing the event live on TV and mobile handsets. Introduced in 2020, as part of Khelo India Games to revive sports culture in India, the second edition of Khelo India University Games is being held from April 24 to May 3...

IPL’s TV viewership declines for the second week in a row

Television viewership of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has dipped for the second week in a row. According to the average Broadcast Audience Research Council of India’s TV ratings, viewership of matches in the second week is down by 12-17 percent compared to the first week of the tournament across different age groups. The viewership in ...

Cricket Australia touches base with Viacom18 for sports rights

A three-member team of Cricket Australia (CA), the cricket administering body Down Under, is in Mumbai to study the market situation in India and explore broadcasting partnership with Reliance Viacom Network.

The meeting is crucial as Reliance-Viacom is likely to

Vedantu announces broadcast association with IPL 2022

Vedantu, the LIVE online learning platform, has announced the broadcast association with IPL for the upcoming season of the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 starting on March 26, 2022. Vedantu will be one of the key advertisers on the Star Sports Network for the IPL 2022 this season as part of this deal. The second-largest K-12 brand ...

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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!