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TRAI extends deadline on media ownership paper

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) extended the deadline on its recently floated discussion paper related to media ownership till June 28. TRAI said the deadline for written comments, which was earlier set for June 7, 2022, has been extended after requests from stakeholders for more time. “TRAI had released a consultation paper o...

Media Quick View (TV) – B’casters push for no implementation of NTO 2.0

By Karan Taurani/Elara Caps Our view NTO 2.0, if implemented will have a negative impact on subs revenue over the medium term with little scope for ARPU growth; in terms of subscriber addition too, there are challenges as consumer moves away from TV(lower time spent or reduced Channel subscription) which in turn wil...

Govt. transfers 10 in-orbit comms satellites to NSIL

India’s federal cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the transfer of 10 in-orbit communication satellites from Government of India to NewSpace India Ltd. (NSIL), a wholly owned public sector enterprise under the administrative control of the Department of Space.

Shemaroo appoints Mohan Gopinath as biz head, Bollywood

Shemaroo Entertainment on Wednesday announced the appointment of Mohan Gopinath as its Business Head, Bollywood.

In his new role, Mohan will be responsible for driving the Bollywood business of Shemaroo, which is celebrating 60 years of entertaining India. Mohan comes with 25 years of rich experience in the m...

India to lead adspend growth with 21% expansion in ’22: Zenith

Even as global advertising expenditure is forecast to grow 8.0 percent in 2022, according to Zenith’s latest Advertising Expenditure Forecasts report, India is projected to be the fastest-growing market in percentage terms, expanding by 20.8 percent.

Global adspend is foreca...

TV9 Bangla honours Bengal’s leading real estate players

TV9 Bangla, a part of the TV9 Group, the undisputed number one news organization in the country, organized Real Estate Excellence Award 2022 titled ‘Bhalo Basa’ at ITC Sonar wh...

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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!