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SPNI acquires rights for Athletics Championships

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has acquired the media rights for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, which is scheduled from July 15 – 24, 2022, in Eugene, Oregon, United States. As per the company, this deal will give SPN rights to broadcast the upcoming edition of the World Athletics Championships on its sports channels across Indi...

ABP Live News app leads on Apple TV

India’s fastest-growing digital network, ABP Live is leading the way in Apple TV news app rankings, acquiring space in the Top 20 list. It is far ahead of the competition in the news app market space of Apple TV. It is the sole multi-lingual news app in the Top 20 to deliver content in 8 different languages including - Hindi, English, Marath...

Sony Sports to air India tour of Ireland, England

Sony Sports Network is all set to provide Indian fans with non-stop cricketing action. Starting June 26, 2022, the broadcaster will Live telecast two bilateral series with an India tour of Ireland and an India tour of England in succession. Team India returns to the shores of Ireland for two T20i matches after their last series there in 2018....

Spotify’s failure to renew security cert causes outage

Due to an outage on the podcast hosting platform owned by Spotify, and Megaphone, podcast listeners could not access many of their shows for more than eight hours this week. According to IANS, the outage stemmed from the company's failure to renew Megaphone's security certificate. "Megaphone experienced a platform outage due to an issue re...

Colors launches new show ‘Muskuraane Ki Vajah Tum Ho’

The Indian pay television GEC channel Colors TV is all set to launch its new family drama show, ‘Muskuraane Ki Vajah Tum Ho’. The story of one strong-willed woman – Katha, who takes a bold step of embracing motherhood while dissuading all social norms. Backed by Satori Media, the show will feature debutant Tanvi Malhara as the pro...

Urban tele subscriptions dip; rural subs up in March ’22: Trai data

India’s total broadband subscribers inched up from 783.37 million at the end of February-22 to 788.30 million at the end of March-22 with a monthly growth rate of 0.63 percent, according to data oput out by telecom and broadcast regulator TRAI on Thursday.

As on March 31, 2022, the ...

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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!