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5 films refused certification over five years: Anurag Thakur

The Indian government, while stating that a decision is still pending on a controversial amendment related to powers given to officials to recertify films already passed by the film certification board, admitted that about five films were refused certification over the last five years.

TV adverts up 25%; pay TV subscription down; print ad rates subdued: Ficci-EY-’22 report

The good news is that TV advertising grew 25 percent in 2021. The bad news: subscription revenues continued to lag to register a growth of a mere 2.4 percent on the back of loss of six million pay TV homes even as the Indian media and entertainment (M&E) sector is projecte...

Zoom acquires broadcast tools for pro virtual events

American video teleconferencing software company Zoom has acquired the Zoom-based broadcast tools created by the startup Liminal, along with two of the company’s co-founders. As per a blog post by Zoom, Liminal’s add-ons, ZoomO...

Dwindling consumer interest in news worry US media outlets

The presidential election, pandemic and racial reckoning were stories that drove intense interest and engagement to news outlets in 2020 in the US. To a large degree, 2021 represented the inevitable hangover....

AT&T to sell ad solutions company Xandr to Microsoft

After having announced that it’s selling its TV business assets to Discovery, which incidentally got clearance from the European Commission antitrust body earlier this week, AT&T now has said it is shed...

Pakistan tops in viewership of Prasar Bharati YouTube channels

Pakistan, with 1,24,99,952 views, tops the list of countries where Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati’s 170+ YouTube channels have been very popular in 2021 till November-end.

The United States occupies the No. 2 sport for such viewership of ...

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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!