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Cord-cutting low; OTT reaches scaling stage in India: BCG-CII report

Despite the noises being made that streaming is displacing linear TV in India, cord-cutting is in nascent stages, but, admittedly, digital consumption of video has shown growth to reach a stage where scaling up is possible --- and is also visible --- according to a BCG-CII report on the country’s media and entertainm...

IAMAI, CII, Producers Guild tell TRAI cable TV, OTT need different rules

Three powerful industry organisations, IAMAI, CII and Producers Guild, in a clear pushback to demands from the cable operators to bring in economic regulations for streamers, have said that cable TV and OTT services are not ‘interchangeable’ and would require differing com...

Indian media industry to grow at 10-12 CAGR by ’30: CII-BCG report

India’s media & entertainment (M&E) industry has revived to pre-COVID levels and is expected to grow to $55-70 billion by 2030 at 10-12 percent CAGR, driven mainly by strong growth in OTT, gaming, animation and VFX, a report from BCG-CII said.

The industry continues to showca...

Prasar Bharati exploring direct-to-mobile broadcasting

Stating that Prasar Bharati had entered into a collaboration with IIT-Kanpur, where a pilot project was underway to work out the feasibility of direct-to-mobile broadcasting, Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati has said that if this effort was successful, smartphones...

TRAI, MIB assure Indian M&E of collaborative, open approach

Both the policymaker and the regulator assured the Indian media and entertainment (M&E) sector of an open and collaborative approach as far as sector regulations were concerned.

Speaking yesterday at the opening of the CII Big Picture Summit, Ministry of Information and Broadcast...

Industry bodies to submit nominees for content oversight panel

Pending court cases notwithstanding, the Indian government is moving ahead with giving final touches to the full implementation of the country’s digital regulations that came into effect earlier this year in May.

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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!