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Cumulative AIR stations’ listenership Q1-22 56 mn

The listenership of All India Radio live streams on the NewsOnAir App has seen a jump of 2 Million over a period of just one month. Listenership of All India Radio streams witnessed a rise from 17 Million in February 2022 to 19 Million in March 2022. The cumulative listenership for the first quarter of 2022 stood at 56 Million. For the first...

Spotify adds live audio programmes

Music streaming platform Spotify has announced that it is changing the name of Greenroom to Spotify Live and bringing its live capabilities directly onto the Spotify app. Spotify Live can now be found both as the stand-alone app listeners and hosts know and love, and as a livestream function in the Spotify app alongside your favourite music ...

Colors Bangla lines up Bengali New Year shows

Colors Bangla known as ETV Bangla has unveiled an ace lineup of programming for 2022. Continuing to satiate the diverse entertainment needs of its audience, the channel has planned an extravagant line-up of programs to celebrate the Bengali New Year from April 15 to April 18, 2022. The channel is all set to unravel an interesting mix of sh...

SonyLiv to premiere ‘James’ on April 14

Streaming platform SonyLiv has exclusively acquired the rights to stream late actor Puneeth Rajkumar’s last film, ‘James’, on April 14. The late actor, who enjoyed a pan-India appeal as one of the most prolific Kannada actors, makes a posthumous appearance in the film, which is still running in theatres. The film will inaugurate S...

Glance launches live content platform in India

Google and Reliance-backed consumer internet company Glance has launched Glance TV - a live, interactive content platform for the home screen or ‘screen zero’ of Android smart TVs. With live content and real-time on-screen interactions for users, Glance TV is aiming to completely transform the way peop...

Govt to seed 150k FreeDish connections in border areas of J&K

In a move to counter cross border propaganda from neighbours, the Indian government will provide free Doordarshan DTH connections to residents of far flung areas of Jammu and Kashmir, especially in villages in the border areas, according to a senior government official. To achieve the goal of reaching out to people

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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!