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Parliamentary panel bats for digital competition law & fair deal between Big Tech, news publishers

To curb anti-competitive practices in digital markets, a Parliamentary panel on Thursday proposed ex-ante regulations, category of systemically important digital intermediaries and a new digital competition law, apart from suggesting a more transparent deal-making process between tech companies and news publishers.

104 YouTube channels, 45 videos blocked over fake news: Minister

The Indian government has blocked 104 YouTube channels and 45 YouTube videos for disseminating false and misleading information.

The information was provided by India’s Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur in the Rajya Sabha (Upper...

Gippy Grewal’s ‘Maujaan Hi Maujaan’ to release Sept’23

The Punjabi romance comedy 'Maujaan Hi Maujaan' will be released in theatres on September 8, 2023, according to the producers on Thursday. The upcoming film, directed by Smeep Kang, stars Gippy Grewal, Binnu Dhillon, and Karamjit Anmol. Gippy Grewal announced the release date of...

Viacom18 Sports acquires Olympic Games 2024 rights

Viacom18 Sports has secured exclusive media rights in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to broadcast the Olympic Games Paris 2024, as well as non-exclusive rights to the Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024. Viacom18 will provide multi-p...

BARC 50th Week: Star Plus, Sun TV leads in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 50th Week (10th December – 16th December 2022) has released its report. In India, for the past few weeks, Sun TV who has been taking the first spot in all genres has led back from Star Plus 2526.01 with 2583.27 impressions (All India 2+), whereas Sun TV h...

Sony BBC Earth celebrates Christmas with ‘All Things Sweet’

Sony BBC Earth has planned special content line-ups featuring interesting shows throughout the year to keep viewers entertained and immersed. As a pleasant surprise for its viewers, the channel is running a Christmas special anthology titled 'All Things Sweet' to end 2022 on a sweet note. The ant...

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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!