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AIDCF team meets Anurag Thakur; highlights industry concerns

A delegation of All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF), an industry body of MSOs, yesterday met Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur and highlighted its concerns in general, including the vexed is...

News channels likely to continue jostling for FreeDish berth

Even as auctions for Bucket D MPEG2 slots on Doordarshan FreeDish continued yesterday, some major TV news channels, who are yet to find a berth on the free to air DTH platform, are likely to bid when Bucket A+ is thrown open again to all genres.

Twitch CEO Emmett Shear to quit; prez Clancy to step up

Twitch CEO Emmett Shear has announced his intention to step down as CEO of the popular video streaming platform he co-founded over 16 years ago.

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YouTube hikes TV subscription price due to rising costs

Due to rising ‘content costs’, Google-owned YouTube has raised the price of its TV subscription from $64.99 per month to $72.99 per month.

On Thursday, the company announced the update on Twitter via i...

Microsoft releasing Minecraft on Chromebooks

Microsoft's "Minecraft: Bedrock Edition" game will be available in early access on Chromebooks. According to a Minecraft blog post published on Wednesday, the game includes cross-device play with friends, access to the Minecraft ...

JioCinema launches TATA IPL campaign with MS Dhoni, Suryakumar Yadav

JioCinema has launched its TATA IPL campaign, which stars MS Dhoni and Suryakumar Yadav. The pan-India campaign, titled Digital India Ka Digital TATA IPL, also stars popular actors Shweta Tripathi and Abhishek Banerjee and aims to generate excitement about

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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!