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North-East India powers Prasar Bharati’s digital growth

India’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati on Tuesday said its digital network focused more on “inclusive growth, instead of just revenue driven growth” and that the country’s North-eastern States have contributed to the digital uptake.

India DTH platforms petition TRAI on unfair advantage of DD Free Dish

If the continued face-off between sector regulator TRAI and broadcasters is a worrying element in these difficult times, another front seems to be simmering that could throw up some more regulatory challenges.

Direct to home (DTH) service providers, including Tata Sky, have asked TR...

From DD to OTT via Bollywood: Shefali Shah’s rising career

Her recent script choices have helped directors see her in a different light, says actor Shefali Shah who believes the industry has now started trusting her with headlining projects, which wasn't the case earlier.

After a lull around the mid 2010s, Shah, a powerhouse performer whose ...

Pubcaster Prasar Bharati goes paperless with e-office

Use of technology has turned the operations at India’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati around, the government said yesterday.

It’s no more business as usual. In less than two years, 577 centers and 22,348 employees of Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR) have embraced e-offic...

DD Free Dish, free TV continued to grow in 2020

Year 2020 has been a different year in many ways. During a period when the entire India media space showed a de-growth of 24 per cent, free television reversed the trend with growth, according to an industry report.

According to Ficci-E&Y 2020 media and entertainment report, rele...

डीडी फ्री डिश के साथ जुड़े यह तीन नए मूवी चैनल

पब्लिक ब्रॉडकास्टर प्रसार भारती ने डीडी फ्री डिश पर एमपीईजी -2 स्लॉट के लिए 50वीं ई-नीलामी के परिणाम घोषित किए हैं। इसके तहत डीडी फ्री डिश पर तीन नए मूवी चैनल जुड़े हैं, जिसमें स्टार उत्सव मूवीज, सोनी वाह और भोजपुरी मूवी चैनल फिल्मची शामिल है। बता दें कि फ्री डिश ने अपने आधिकारिक ट्विटर हैंडल से इस जानकारी को साझा किया ह...

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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!