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SIA-India signs pact with TSDSI for sustainable development

SatCom Industry Association (SIA-India) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI). The pact heralds the beginning of a new collaboration between the two vibrant organisations and together they are expected to cooperate in development of standards in India and international ...

BARC Rating 15th Week: Sun TV maintains lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 15th Week (9th April – 15th April 2022) has re-leased its report. In India, Sun TV is continued to dominate the list of top 10 channels for the past two weeks across all genres (All India 2+), the channel registered 2643.56 impressions. Star Sports 1 Hindi is in the second spot with 2492.79 imp...

More policy changes related to ease of doing biz soon: MIB’s Thakur

India is working on policy changes in the media sector that would further add to the PM Narendra Modi government’s efforts towards ease of doing business (EODB) in the country.

Pointing out that the present government’s endeavour is to make things easy, Anurag Thakur, Minister for I...

Naomi Watts to lead ‘Feud’ S2

Actor Naomi Watts is set to star in the second season of FX network's series ‘Feud’. The new season of the Ryan Murphy anthology series will be based on the book ‘Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era’ by Laurence Leamer. According to PTI, Watts will essay the role of

Twitter explores co-author tweet feature

Social media giant Twitter has started testing the ‘co-author’ tweet feature, just as Instagram rolled out in 2021 on its platform. As per ANI, Twitter has confirmed it’s “exploring” a new feature that would allow two accounts to co-author a single tweet. App researcher Alessandro Paluzzi has been posting

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!