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Zee: Merger with Sony to drive valuation upgrade

By Elara Caps Zee Entertainment (Z IN) reported revenue of INR 18,457mn, up 4 percent YoY, on low base, and down 20.5 percent QoQ, down 8 percent vs pre-COVID levels to INR 18.5bn, in line with our estimates, affected by FTA withdrawal (Zee Anmol) and lower ad spend by brands due to weak macroeconomic conditions. ...

BBC C’wealth Games coverage gets record online viewership

BBC Sport’s coverage of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games was streamed a record-breaking 57.1 million times during the 11-day event. This was over six times the amount of streams seen in previous years, with a total of 9 million for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and 8.2 million for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. According ...

Anurag Thakur launches Bharat24; channel goes live Aug.15

Minister for Information & Broadcasting Anurag Thakur officially launched on Sunday Bharat 24, a new Hindi news channel, which went live on August 15. “I congratulate Dr Jagdeesh Chandra and the entire team of Bharat24 on this new venture. The media is the fourth pillar of democracy and should work as a bridge between the government and t...

Tarun Rathi to host ‘The Chair’ S2 on OMTV

OMTV, the only OTT network to exclusively showcase content about Indian Sanatan culture, announced that it has collaborated with Tarun Rathi for ‘The Chair’ S2. OMTV was launched during the pandemic and strives to be synonymous with quality content related to Indian cultur...

Airtel’s Wynk Music launches new feature to promote independent artists

To bolster engagement on its music streaming platform Wynk Music, Airtel Digital has launched a new feature, Wynk Studio, to curate independent artists on its platform. Independent artists ...

SPNI shifts to 100% renewable electricity for their Mumbai office

As part of the company’s carbon footprint reduction agenda under the global 'Sony Greener World' initiative, the Mumbai office of Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI), is switching to 100 percent renewable electricity effective o...

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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!