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NBF fires another salvo at BARC India

The News Broadcasters Federation (NBF), an Indian TV news industry body, has shot off another missive to audience ratings organization BARC India, accusing the latter of nepotism, obfuscating issues and defying directives of the government.

“History is being wiped out in total disreg...

‘Love, Victor’ to end with S3

American streaming service Hulu has announced that the popular young adult series ‘Love, Victor’ will end with its upcoming third season.

According to PTI, Hulu shared the news during its Television Critics Association (TCA) presentation on Tuesday.

Apple announces new tap to pay feature

American tech company Apple announced a new tap to pay feature on the iPhone which will allow merchants to use their iPhones as a point of sales terminal. According to ANI, the new service will come to the US first later this year with an iOS software...

Hansal Mehta to direct Netflix drama series

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta is set to collaborate for the upcoming Netflix character drama series 'Scoop'. Inspired by Jigna Vora's biographical book 'Behind The Bars In Byculla: My Days in Prison', 'Scoop' is created by Mehta and Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul,

Trump’s media venture trying to keep Big Tech on its side

With just weeks to go before an expected launch, Donald Trump’s new media venture is trying to strike a delicate balance with its app: giving Trump's base the freedom to express themselves, without running afoul of Apple and Google’s app store policies.

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BARC India to resume news channels’ ratings after 17 months

India’s TV ratings body Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India on Monday said it will be restarting issuing data on news channels from mid-March, over 17 months after suspending it.

In a statement, BARC India said the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has given a dir...

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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!