industry news - Indian Broadcasting World

HBO content’s loss would impact Disney+Hotstar paid subs

By Karan Taurani@Elara Caps

HBO content will stop streaming on Disney+Hotstar in FY’24 (from April 2023).

We believe the above will have a

EMVIE Awards 2023 to be held on March 10

The Advertising Club has announced the launch of the Emvies, presented by Google, co-powered by TV9 NETWORK and MiQ India Commercial, and in collaboration with The Times of India. With over 1469 entries received, the best minds i...

Havas Group India appoints Tarun Jha as CEO

Tarun Jha has been named Chief Executive Officer of Havas Creative India by Havas Group India, which includes agencies Havas Worldwide India (Mumbai/Gurgaon/Bangalore), Havas CX ...

Dream11 partners with Legends League Cricket Masters

For the upcoming season of LLC Masters, Dream11 has partnered with Legends League Cricket as its Official Fantasy Partner. The LLC Masters season will begin on March 10. Dream11 aims to support

Vi App partners with OTT platform Atrangii

The Telecom operator Vi has partnered with Atrangii to provide its users with free premium subscription regional content. Vi users can now binge on their favorite shows from genres such as thriller, mythology, crime, comedy, roma...

BCCI releases theme song for WPL

The theme song for the inaugural Women's Premier League, 'Ye Toh Bas Shuruat Hai,' has been released by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). WPL will begin on March 4, and the theme song was released just in time for the opening cer...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS

Quote-UnQuote

“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!