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Cricket Australia touches base with Viacom18 for sports rights

A three-member team of Cricket Australia (CA), the cricket administering body Down Under, is in Mumbai to study the market situation in India and explore broadcasting partnership with Reliance Viacom Network.

The meeting is crucial as Reliance-Viacom is likely to

APAC OTT revenues to be $ 52 bn by ’27; India share to double

OTT TV episodes and movies revenues for 22 Asia Pacific countries will reach $52 billion in 2027, up by 62 percent from the $32 billion recorded in 2021, according to forecasts made by Digital TV Research.

From the $20 billion additional revenues, China will add $3 billion, India $3 ...

Ullu founder Vibhu Agarwal to launch Hindi GEC

On the heels of the success of his homegrown OTT app Ullu, founder Vibhu Agarwal is now set to enter the broadcasting space with the launch of a new Hindi GEC with a new name, which will be soon unveiled.

Agarwal had entered the nascent OTT space after establishing his prowess in the metal industry. Ullu was ...

Lionsgate Play announces new show ‘Gamer Log’

Streaming service Lionsgate Play on Wednesday announced ‘Gamer Log’, a coming-of-age sitcom set against the backdrop of competitive electronic sports popularly called esports.

Created by Karmanya Ahuja, the series will follow the adventures and misadventures of a team of pro...

Media Concepts’ 8pmnews.com to launch today

Media Conceptshas announced the launch of the 8 PM news portal, an online portal covering a whole gamut of news. It’s supported by Radico Khaitan Limited.

The English language portal promises to bring round the clock credible news and fill in the gap created by the absence of portals...

Sony extends NTO 1.0 distribution agreements till May-end

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI), an Indian unit of Japan’s Sony Corp, has sent an advisory to distributors of TV channels that the Reference Interconnection Offer (RIO) that was issued under TRAI’s NTO1 regime has been extended till May 31, 2022 as the new tariff regime would come into effect in June.

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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!