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BARC Rating 38th Week: Star Plus back on first spot in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 30th Week (18th September – 24th September 2021) has released its report. In India, Star Plus who gets the second spot from the past five weeks has backed again to take their seat of the first spot in the list of top 10 channels across genres

Jyoti Deshpande made Viacom18 CEO

Viacom18, Thursday, has announced the appointment of Jyoti Deshpande as chief executive officer (CEO) with immediate effect. She is already serving on the boards of Network18 and investee companies Balaji Telefilms and Saavn Media. In...

UK broadcasters facing diverse talent drain: regulator Ofcom

UK media and telecom regulator Ofcom’s five-year look at diversit...

Zee admits in regulatory filing top shareholders want EGM

Zee Entertainment Enterprises said on Wednesday the company's top shareholders have called for an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of the company.

Invesco Developing Markets Fund and OFI Global C...

BCCI invites state units officials for IPL final

The BCCI has invited the Presidents and the secretaries of its affiliated units to watch the Qualifier 2 and the summit clash of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the UAE. BCCI secretary Jay Shah wrote to the officials that “this is an ideal time to catch up” as the domestic season is getting underway...

Amazon, Disney partners to bring voice assistant for Echo devices in 2022

Online retail and tech giant Amazon, Tuesday, announced their partnership with The Walt Disney Co. to launch a custom voice assistant called ‘Hey Disney’ for Echo devices at home and Disney Resort hotels. As per Amazon’s press release, ‘Hey Disney’ is ult...

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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!