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BARC Rating 31st Week: Sun TV tops all genres; Star Plus leads in HSM

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 31st Week (30th July – 5th August 2022) has released its report. Sun TV continues to dominate the list of top 10 channels for the past few weeks across all genres (All India 2+), the channel registered 2473. 53...

Sun TV: core business valuation play

By Elara Caps Sun TV (SUNTV IN) posted strong revenue growth including IPL of 47.4 percent YoY, up 43.3 percent QoQ and up 8 percent vs pre-COVID levels to INR 11,393mn, better than our estimates of INR 9,977mn, led by healthy advertising revenue, which grew 40.8 percent YoY to INR 3,432mn, up 2 percent QoQ & dow...

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...

Naga Chaitanya’s ‘Thank You’ to stream on Prime Video

Prime Video announced the exclusive streaming premiere of the Telugu romantic drama ‘Thank You’. Produced by Vikram K Kumar and Sireesh of Sri Venkateswara Creations, the film stars Naga Chaitanya and Raashii Khanna in the lead with Malavika Nair and Avika Go...

Tata Play launches new super saver packs

The Indian direct broadcast satellite service provider, Tata Play, has rolled out new affordable packs for its subscribers. The new bouquet and prices are available to all existing and new customers across India. Subscribers can avail the new Super Saver Packs by visiting their nearest

ABP Desam celebrates first anniversary

Telugu news channel ABP Desam celebrated its first anniversary on August 6, 2022 with an event in Hyderabad. ABP Desam made a grand entry into the Telugu news publishing market with considerable fanfare, garnering more than 100 million views on its YouTube channel and 250 million pageviews on its website. Quoting Comscore data, an ABP pres...

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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!